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  1. Re:Now think in American. on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    They did that it starred that dumb kid in what's eating gilbert grape.

    You know the really stupid one.

  2. Re:Want a great example? on NHTSA Suggestion Would Cripple In-Car GPS Displays · · Score: 1

    um Analog displays give something digital displays don't you idiot.

    FEEDBACK!!!. You can glance and see your accelerating or decelerating quickly and easily. The changes also are applied smoother and quicker than with digital readouts.

    Same concept but easier to understand. E-ink. Taking 20miliseconds to update is a distraction and when you need a dozen updates a second you aren't going to get a smooth response out of it. Pure digital text displays can't handle it. However you put a bar with a slider that can move that same display can handle it and you get trending information. You also can glance at the display quicker and know the speed as you only have to look for location and not location and text.

  3. Re:Completely inexplicable... on Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer · · Score: 1

    only when you look at earth's past and know that it used to be lots and lots warmer, and that the earth goes through regular periods of being warmer and colder by amounts several times that of current trends.

  4. Re:Completely inexplicable... on Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ah but those on both side of global warming think 100 years of data most of it not very accurate is enough to plot trends.

    What i want to know is not what the the records are but how the rest of the year faired. If 1910 and 1945 were close were their summers hotter or colder than normal? dry or wet? past behaviour isn't a prediction of the future but you do need data points to start with.

  5. Re:Kind of shady? on Meet the Hackers Who Get Rich Selling Spies Zero-Day Exploits · · Score: -1, Troll

    As a Soldier your not smart enough to know that not every country obeys the same laws or has the same military traditions. The USA is noted for giving it's military field commanders more power to change orders in order to achieve the objective.

  6. Re:No thanks ... on Nokia Applies For Vibrating Tattoo Patent · · Score: 1

    You missed part of it. The design doesn't matter. You can choose the design, it gets tattoo'd on you, you magentise it, then you use your phone and have sensors in the phone scan the magentic field. To make it vibrate the phone produces amodified magnetic field tbat when it interacts with your tattoo vibrates slightly, and in different patterns.

    You choose design and vibration patterns. Like picking out a tattoo, or ring tone.

  7. Re:Scary on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 1

    um those loyalty cards usually come with decent discounts(or you pay real price instead of inflated price).

    For example for BJ's where you need the card to shop just one item I buy every year saves me enough to pay for the damn membership. Same is true for the grocery store. it is faster than clipping coupons and you can still clip coupons to save more.

    So you can spend money that is easily saved by tracking.

    Of course if you want purchases that aren't tracked you can still shop there.

  8. Re:Scary on Sweden Moving Towards Cashless Economy · · Score: 2

    At my previous employer we had digital live records of every transaction of every item our customers bought since 1989 when the system first went online.

    I could track the entire history of your purchases of that item how much the price changed, etc.

    My new company doesn't keep the active records that long only 5 years worth. but right now I have a P2 HP notebook from the previous company with the Netware networked database on it.

    if you want scary look at your amazon account sometime. you can see your entire purchasing history that you ever made through amazon.com. I literally have 12 years worth of data there.

  9. Re:don't buy the fucking thing then on iFixit's Kyle Wiens On the War On DIY Electronics · · Score: 1

    The problem is apple is the least expensive tablet and smartphone manufacturer on the market. No onecan get close to Apples price/profitnumbers. They couldnt get close when applewhen the uphone and ipad were first introduced 4 years ago. And it is even worse now.

    Sorry about the spellling my andriod tablet diesnt have spell check or easy text modifing or xopy/paste, or software updates, or all sideloading, etc,etc, etc. It is typical andriod user experenice

  10. Re:Would be nice if they get it working on Futuristic Biplane Design Eliminates Sonic Boom · · Score: 2

    part of that though was afterburners. newer jet engines are supersonic capable without afterburners.

    See F-22 raptor.

    The concord used afterburners to get up to speed and then could use it's regular engines to maintain it.

    The F-22 dones't need afterburners to get to mach 2.

  11. Re:Solving the worng problem on Futuristic Biplane Design Eliminates Sonic Boom · · Score: 1

    if your going to fly through the ground you might as well,
    Dig a tunnel,
    setup a maglev train with self contained atmosphere,
    Seal the tunnel and vacuum all the air out of it,
    travel at ridiculously high speeds without air friction slowing you down

  12. Re:Good luck with that. on Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do you go from two women scorned to US government involvement being transparent?

    Read this carefully. The US government can not take him out of Sweden PERIOD. He is required by extradition to be return to the UK FIRST.

    It also shows just how little slashdotters know about pissing off women. They will stab you in the back if you scorn them by sleeping with other women and lying to them about it.

    Also Sweden's Laws on rape are very very much in favor of Women. She can change her mind after the fact lie about it and still have you found guilty.

  13. Re:Wow on Baumgartner Completes 13.5-Mile Free-Fall Jump, Aims For Record · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only if they push a lawyer out in front of them to act as a cushion

  14. Re:Who is responsible? Irrelevant... on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 0

    Nope all sides spy and pull dirty tricks.

    Conservatives are stupid enough to get caught.

  15. Re:SOUNDS SEXY !! on Space Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis Meet One Last Time · · Score: 1

    no hot grits but plenty of tight straps.

  16. Re:Finally on Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica — Encarta Did · · Score: 1

    My father bought a full set of britannica, and the junior editions comptons in 1990 for us kids.

    By 1996 when i was using it for high school it was hopelessly out of date on all current stuff.

    The section on computers was at best convered 1980 technology.(It didn't even cover improvements made past 1980. )

    Britanica was good for old facts of a bygone era anything done within the decade before it was published was considered too new to be included.

  17. Re:Facebook is secure against hackers? on Chinese Spies Used Fake Facebook Profile To Friend NATO Officials · · Score: 3, Informative

    The trick does he seperate work from personal. The current trend in OS's is to combine everything into one. See windows 8, iOS, andriod etc.

    So if you can hack one you have easy access to another. Also realize youhack a personal network. Then wait for a secure machine to join it( NATO laptop) and hack it, or at least monitor the VPN connection.

    You use ones personal life to inflintrate secure work networks.

    It is why i dont use facebook, etc.

  18. Re:Not to take anything away from the Big E... on USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage · · Score: 2

    Actually the constitution still has a bunch of surviving bulkhead pieces from the original. Yes Huge chucks have been replaced, but wood left in water and well cared for will last for decades and decades between replacements.

    it is the well cared for part that is always causing problems.

  19. Re:Why not just have sex? on Profile of a Real-Life Jedi Academy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Considering the 3 of the main religions on earth(christianity, islam, and judaism) all treat women as second class citizens, give them no real role in said religion and force them to be ashamed of themselves for even existing it is indeed amazing at all the religion even allows sex.

    seriously the only difference in their treatment of women is how much "modesty" they expect women to show.

  20. Re:Who can blame them? on Battleheart Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    developers need 100's of different pieces of hardware to sort out android issues. or one new apple model a year.

    Every android vendor is releasing 6-12 new models a YEAR. each one with different OS, hardware, and generic software configurations.

    Those vendors charge each developer for every phone they buy. Why? because 99% of the developers don't have the reputation to earn free hardware.

  21. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN... yeah, it's me again on Rep. Darrell Issa Requests Public Comments On ACTA · · Score: 3, Informative

    Democrats. -- entertainment industry

    Republicans military industrial complex

    Wall street both

    The other 95% of Americans well someone has to pay all the above people.

  22. Re:Great..... on Apple Wins Patent For "iWallet" · · Score: 1

    phone pins are 4 characters long so cracking them isn't hard.

    if your need a passcode to use the NFC device then it will take longer than swiping a credit card and signing. not to mention you have to enter you pin on your phone in line as well.

  23. Re:Cell phone call on the bus on Cell Phone Jamming Devices Enjoy an Increase In Popularity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thaat depends
    Are you talking loud enough to be clearly heard the length of said bus. It is about volume more thann anything. Talk softly and no one is likely to care.

    For me i would put a jammer with a momentary switch so it only jams while being depressed. 5 seconds is enough to cut a call. And it looks like the provider dropped it.

  24. Re:He's going to be chief youth jargonist on Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) Joins the Washington Post · · Score: 4, Funny

    um haven't you read the Washington Post. He will probably be an improvement in editing, grammar, and summaries.

    Besides all newspapers repeat yesterdays stories by default. they are always a day behind. Now he has an excuse.

  25. Re:Welcome to our world on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    The only real reason to reject cycling is because it is unfair to your co workers to smell that bad all day long. If i could shower at or atleast close to work then i would be all for it. Smelling bad may be acceptable in some places but not most offices