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  1. Re:Result on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 1

    This seems to be a looping problem. All the government can think about is the last attempt, only backwards.

    Even more of note is they appear to be looking at the last attempts which _didn't_ work and make changes to try and prevent it occurring again.

  2. Re:Result on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the USA airplanes flights are almost waterproof

    Huh?

    Aquaman would have been no help.

  3. Re:TFA is full of flaws itself on The Science of Avatar · · Score: 1

    It appears the mountains float due to having the unobtainum inside them and the area having a strong magnetic field (hence the screwed up avionics). Whereas the location of the tree has just the former so no floating.

    P.S. The firefox dictionary seems to lack 'unobtainium'.

  4. Re:php is bad for the environment on The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It probably is a valid excuse if you have 20,000 client machines connecting locally via ethernet from a B class subnet such that the arp tables on the server keep overflowing.

    Of course if you, as a system administrator ever let such an environment be setup you probably are really good at excuses anyway.

  5. Re:Applies elsewhere too? on Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver · · Score: 1

    Actually I thought it was a simulation of a free market economy. Maybe its better training for Wall Street (pirates and all).

  6. Applies elsewhere too? on Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver · · Score: 1

    So if I want a job with NASA I just need to get really good at Eve?

  7. Re:Newest entry in Google's index: on Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately its not a googlewhack: Results 1 - 10 of about 2,550 for dompressed

  8. Re:Usefulness on Laser Weapon Shoots Down Airplanes In Test · · Score: 1

    It could be detected on radar before striking hence automatic systems could do something about it.

  9. Re:August on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    the one I cant stand.... WTF is it with all the fricking pillows on the bed? we need 2... TWO!!!! not 60 of them!!!!!

    How can you build a proper fort with just two pillows?

  10. Re:VR was more hype than reality on Where Are the High-Res Head-Mounted Displays? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The VR of the 90's is dead. Long live augmented realtiy.

    Augmented reality != Isolated VR rooms as you have described above.

    Augmented reality requires transparent HMDs or something similar so that visual reality can be augmented with extra information and not hugeass displays in a room somewhere.

  11. Re:Foxfire! on The Hard Drive Is Inside the Computer · · Score: 1

    It seems somewhat ironic your post having a complaint about peoples mis ordering of words then having a sig on the end with a quote from Yoda.

  12. Re:In other news... on Calling BS On the BSA Global Piracy Report · · Score: 1

    MPAA products are used by %99.95* of the people who are responsible for climate change.
    * (the remainder are both deaf and blind)

  13. Re:Real Age doesn't "sell" your details. on The Hidden Secrets of Online Quizzes · · Score: 3, Informative

    You might want to give the greasmonkey script Facebook Purity a go, it hides all those useless quizes.

  14. Re:The main rule on Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I worked for a company that built label printers. They conveniently placed an automatic label printer at every fridge. You pressed a button, and a label would print out with an expiration date. Anything past expiration or without a label was tossed daily.

    How did the printer know what the expiry date should be? Or was it always just one week hence or the like?

  15. Re:Paaaleeese on Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital · · Score: 1

    But the simple truth is that chemicals even from different perfumes can combine into potentially hazardous compounds

    We already learnt that one from The Joker...

  16. Too much to lose on The Grid, Our Cars, and the Net · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Big ISPs and phone companies have too much to lose to allow this to ever happen.

    It would be too hard to be tapped by various 3 letter government agencies so they wouldn't like it either.

  17. Re:How much is your time worth on Handmade vs. Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But are they exactly the right length to pull from A to B, or do you have some coiled up uglies?

    A forward thinking IT professional knows to leave some slack in the cables, otherwise plate tectonics makes fools of us all.

  18. Asia isn't a country. on Vatican To Build 100 Megawatt Solar Power Plant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that we've dealt with that...

  19. Re:Whoop de doo on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Speaking of chemtrails, what's the explanation for the "contrails" cutting off as the plane continues to climb? Anyone? It's not covered in the FAA's brochure on contrail formation that they brought out to try to kill the chemtrail conspiracy theory.

    Different levels of the atmosphere are at different temperatures,pressures and humidity which all have different contrail forming tendancies. These layers can sometimes be very sharply defined so as a plane rising up through a layer where a contrail is easily formed hits a layer where the ability to form a visible contrail is sharply diminished so the (visible) contrail abruptly cuts off.

  20. Re:have your own domain-get universal forwarding on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 1

    Then you setup that account to only accept an email with + in the address its sending to. Anyone who strips the + would be attempting to spam you anyway.

  21. Missing Achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 4, Funny

    * UID is a prime number. (no wouldn't get it myself, i'm a couple of digits off)
    * Has been moderated (-1 troll) more than 5 times
    * " " Flamebait " " etc

    Any others?

  22. Re:Oh sure... on US Nuclear Sub Crashes Into US Navy Amphibious Vessel · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm guessing the above should probably be modded -1 (Spoiler).

  23. Re:Count me... on Is Flash Really On 99% of Net Devices? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I run flashblock and it works great most of the time. If there is some flash I want to see I can just click on it and let it run.

    However there are a percentage of sites that appear to have some script running to check if I can run flash and wont show the flash properly at all even if I have flash allowed for the entire site.

  24. How to use in stealth mode? on Casinos Warn iPhone Card-Counting App is Illegal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the screen is off its all well and good to input card appearances with it hidden in your pocket, but how do you get its current odds output? Vibration or something like that?

  25. Re:Encryption? on New Tool Promises To Passively ldentify BitTorrent Files · · Score: 1

    I don't see how monitoring assumes all users are criminals. Do police speed traps assume all drivers are speeders?

    Wrong analogy, this is more like searching every car on the road as its leaving or entering a driveway.