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  1. Re:Aeroelastic flutter on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The external force needs to DRIVE the motion at a specific frequency.

    I never realised I needed to blow on and off 256 times a second to get a middle C. Maybe that's why I can't play the flute.

  2. Re:This is so ridiculous on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Is everything people said 100 years ago now automatically false? How about perpetual motion machines?

  3. Re:Terrible name on Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online (itworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Almost as dumb as calling a company "alphabet".

  4. Quite. It's good writing and common courtesy, both of which are in short supply round here due to cunts like the GP.

  5. Re:Police breaking laws on 21-Year-Old British Man Arrested In Connection With VTech Hack (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So how exactly do they know the web history of teens?

    From reading posts like "dudez check out www.haxor.ro/sickit2theman.vba" on the twitbooks.

  6. Re:is ebay sellers union next??? on Seattle Passes First Uber Drivers' Union Into Law (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, Captain Freemarkets comes swooping in.

    You contract mainly in the private sector, right? Where you're exposed to competition from H1Bs and offshoring like everyone else, right?

  7. Re:Truck traded in USA ends up in Syria how? on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. I live in Carlisle, you insensitive clod!

  8. For maximum confusion, put Trump on one door & Clinton on the other.

  9. Pls grue's give codes, is URGENT on Bangladesh Extends Social Media Ban, Blocking Twitter and Skype (thestack.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    My facebooks are not able to be doing the needful!

  10. Re:Frist amagrand on WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms · · Score: 1

    I can't work out whether it's a coincidence or not. I'm too shocked about seeing a post from you that isn't about how hard you had it because you left school without a GED.

  11. There was a similar thing in London about a month ago. The real London, not the one near Detroit.

  12. Re:to much military on Looking Back At Apollo 17, and Why We Stopped Going To the Moon (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine if they'd found oil...

  13. They do roll alarmingly - the suspension is soft - but I'm told the centre of gravity is quite low so it's actually hard to turn one over. I thought better of performing an experiment, but it seems plausible as it's a ladder chassis construction & the shell weighs bugger all because it's made of kitchen foil.

  14. It seems to have a bit of a limitation - it can only do people wearing hijabs.

  15. Re:Failed Actors on Create Your Favorite Actor From Nothing But Photos (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    But it would be interesting to see how Roger would have done that film.

    Like a car in the rain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  16. Re:Looks like we have a... on Google Hosts Special Demo Day For Female Entrepreneurs (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Very slow, it arrived three days late.

  17. Re:Lateral aerodynamics on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Try a Citroen 2CV. You have to brace your elbows against your body when a bike passes you.

  18. Re: Get an anti bark device on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 1

    Just give the dog a stick of xylene sweetened chewing gum.

    I doubt such a thing exists. Xylene smells sweet but it tastes like diesel.

  19. Re:Failed Actors on Create Your Favorite Actor From Nothing But Photos (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    An actor who I 'recognize' is an actor who has failed at their job.

    Huh? I'm not saying the LoTR films are the bestest thing evaaaah. But I can clearly see that Gandalf is, in his spare time, Sir Ian McKellen - even if I'm not going "crikey, that's Sir Ian McKellen!" every time he pops up.

    So I recognised him. Does that mean he's failed?

  20. Re:Requirements on Gigster Wants To Be the Uber of Software Development (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Not so sure about that. OBS is pretty powerful. Take the concept of internal customers (who often aren't being charged, at least not directly in real actual money) and add it to the mantra that "the customer is always right" (usually said loudest by those who don't have to deal with the bastards) and you have a culture where the devs act like ten dollar whores and don't say "no" to anything, big picture be damned.

    Agile is a technique. You can learn techniques. Doing the right thing - rather than the easy, or popular one - a matter of character, and that's to a certain extent innate.

  21. Re:We can only detect planets they pass their star on Looking For Jupiter-Class Planets Indicates Solar Systems Like Ours Are Rare (theconversation.com) · · Score: 0

    And there's no reason to think that some bizarre unknown force causes systems with only one luminous member to align their ecliptics in a way that systems with multiple luminous members don't.

    Where did I suggest there was, you pompous cunt?

    If you can't give a civil reply to a question then FUCK OFF.

  22. Re:Frist amagrand on WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms · · Score: 1

    What do the letters stand for? Nothing, it's an abbreviation of "Metropolitans".

    Why write it in caps, then?

  23. Re:So, in other words on Ask Slashdot: Security Monitoring Company That Accepts VPN Video Feeds? · · Score: 1

    Why does "over a VPN" mean "indeterminate location"?

    I used to connect to work via a VPN and it never happened that I was going "like, what's all this shit?". Well, the one time...

  24. What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks. on Create Your Favorite Actor From Nothing But Photos (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks.

    Is it the really long neck?

    I was watching "Band Of Brothers" the other day. If anything, his son looks even weirder.

  25. Re:The UK is regressing to Victorian times... on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ultimately she has veto power, can dissolve the Government forcing an election for a new Parliament

    Bollocks.