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  1. that tunneling through earthquake zones is never cheap nor easy.

  2. If Slashdot fellated Elon Musk at every possible opportunity, then half of the comments wouldn't be (rightly) mocking and debunking his "plans".

  3. Re:Gouge the middle class to make them poor on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 1

    I made the mistake of forgetting to write that they did not have stainless steel, iPhones, etc, etc.

    Sorry.

  4. Re:MAGA on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 1, Funny

    MAGA? Make Americans Grope Again?

    Monica Lewinsky called. She wants her blue dress back.

  5. Re:Gouge the middle class to make them poor on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 1

    That's much of why a nuclear family in the '50s got along fine on a single income and a two-parent family now involves both parents working and the kids in child care,

    Of course, the nuclear family of the 1950s had:
    a 1200 (not 2200) sqft house,
    formica (not granite) counters,
    stainless steel appliances,
    automatic dishwasher,
    automatic dryer,
    *might* have had a TV (not a 54" LCD),
    car without multiple built-in DVD player, infotainment center, ABS brakes, half a dozen air bags, computer controlled *everything*, 2000W stereos,
    computers,
    smartphones,
    game consoles,
    etc,
    etc,
    ad nauseum.

  6. Also, is it even poasibkentonmake one that maintanes privacy?

    "Possible to make"?

  7. "We can't build a kernel in a reasonable amount of time, so instead we'll take on projects that meld AI, natural language and voice recognition!!"

  8. Re:Don't you mean... on NASA Astronaut Gene Cernan, Last Man To Walk On the Moon, Dies At 82 (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Buzz Aldrin is still around to punch out "brave" people who tell the "hard truth".

  9. Re:Great strides on SpaceX Returns To Flight, And Nails Another Drone Landing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Rebuilding the SSMEs is what I was thinking of.

  10. Re:CNN video sucks.. here's the link on Youtube on SpaceX Returns To Flight, And Nails Another Drone Landing (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    To skip over the music, https://youtu.be/tTmbSur4fcs?t...

  11. Re:Great strides on SpaceX Returns To Flight, And Nails Another Drone Landing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    without extensive refurbishing

    Exactly, since you certainly know that's what dooms the Space Shuttle.

  12. Re:More likely he'll be assasinated on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There's only 5 more days in his term of office, so if he's going to pull this fantasy attack of yours (sneaking a sniper into Russia to assassinate a public figure? you've got to be kidding!), he'd better get cracking!!

  13. Re:I signed the petition. on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you actually sign the petition, writing down also your address so that it could be verified that you are a citizen and didn't double-sign?

    Or did you click a button labeled "Sign" along with a bunch of non-US citizens?

  14. Re:No steam = just about useless on Microsoft's New Windows 10 Game Mode Will Maximize Gaming Performance (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft does!!! :)

  15. Re:What in the hell is "Slooh"? on An Asteroid Passed By Earth At About Half the Distance Between Our Planet and Moon (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't encourage me very much... :(

  16. Re:Hmm on Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    As I wrote earlier this morning, we only have common sense about stuff we care about.

  17. Re:Hmm on Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Luclily I live in a country that believe in innocent until proven guilty and to protect that innocence and does not make mug shots public.

    Scandinavians and those of other small Northern European countries believed they lived in a happy, tolerant, socially cradle-to-grave protected society, and regularly mocked the US for being cruel and hard-hearted to the down-trodden. Until waves of immigrants flooded in, and now they're cutting programs.

    Point being that maybe your country isn't as perfect as you think it is.

  18. Re:Hmm on Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Your comment and mine are not mutually exclusive.

    Having said that... get over the fact that child porn is pretty high up there on the public revulsion scale, and prosecutors salivate at the prospect of convicting such a person. People remember the perp walk and the mug shot, not the dismissal.

  19. Re:Hmm on Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    We have common sense in the areas we care about. Not so much in areas we haven't given much thought to.

  20. Re:Hmm on Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not a "field", it's common sense.

    For at least 250 years, it's been known that, "common sense is not so common."

  21. Re:Hmm on Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    or just someone who downloaded some file expecting it to be something else and deleted it immediately... hence it being in the trash.
    Stories of people downloading stuff, either by direct download or P2P and ending up with something different aren't all that rare.

    Which is why if you do accidentally download something like that, you must clear your cache, empty the recycle bin and repeatedly overwrite all the free space on your disk.

    would a person smart enough to be a surgeon be dumb enough to send the computer for repair with a third party knowing it had child pornography inside?

    Emphatically YES! Smarts in one narrow field doesn't guarantee smarts in every field: John Podesta is a Smart Guy, but he was stupid enough to fall for a phishing attack.

  22. Only if you're stupid enough to give them access to your email address book.

  23. "$5 million from the Knight Foundation" on LinkedIn's and eBay's Founders Are Donating $20 Million To Protect Us From AI (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I thought they solved that problem 35 years ago.

  24. Re:These are easy to spot. on How A Massive India Call Center Swindled 15,000 Americans (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    do you really think that you can tell someone's skin colour from their phone accent?

    Sometimes.