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  1. EVERYONE does this! on Bats Can Jam Each Other's Ultrasonic Signals · · Score: 1

    What planet are these scientists from? My two dogs and one cat are always scheming to take treats from each other.

  2. serious options on Ask Slashdot: Minimizing Oil and Gas Dependency In a Central European City? · · Score: 1

    You really need to move. If you had your own land, you could have a large tank of heating oil or propane. Either one will heat a building and run a generator. There really is nothing else that can store enough energy to do what you want except maybe coal, but a coal operated generator is not an easy thing to DIY. As for where you live right now, you could see how much weight your floors will tolerate and get as many batteries as you can to be charged from the AC mains power and solar on the roof. You could see if it possible for you to have a small generator on the roof. Some of the new camping generators are very quiet. You could maybe have a coal heat stove and store enough coal for a week or two. Do think about how many OTHER problems you will be having if no one else has electricity or heat.

  3. Re:No thank you on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 1

    Besides for that, it wasn't even in space. IIRC they were causing mayhem in dowtown San Francisco.

  4. Re:No thank you on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 0

    I *HATED* Into Darkness. It was a Bruce Willis Diehard type movie with bad guys trying to fly aircraft/spacecraft into buidlings. It could have been retitled Into 9-11 or something.

  5. illegal crabs on Undersized Grouper Case Lands In Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Old Maryland Joke: The marine police catch a guy with a bushel of crabs out of season. They tell him he will get a ticket and he tells them he is not catching crabs, but training his pet crabs. He says he lets them loose and then calls them back and they swim back to the boat to go home. The police officer, being no dummy, does not believe a word of it. He demands to see these pet crabs in action. The crabber dumps them overboard and they swim away. The police officer then demands the crabs be called back. The old times looks at the police officer and says "What crabs"

  6. Re:shift inter-locks on SpaceShipTwo's Rocket Engine Did Not Cause Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    Commercial pilot here: There is a LONG tradition of blaming dead pilots for systemic flaws, so it may well be something happened other than pilot error. Having done a few test flights myself, having a copilot jsut randomly push buttons without asking would be fairly unusual to say the least.

  7. Re:Key or keyless, all the same on Car Thieves and Insurers Vote On Keyless Car Security · · Score: 2

    When I had my BMW the most common ways for them to be stolen was either a mole in the dealership making extra keys or the thieves break into your house and steal the key sitting there on a hook in the kitchen.

  8. Re:Boys are naturally curious... on Solving the Mystery of Declining Female CS Enrollment · · Score: 2

    My MOTHER was a programmer on a lot of high level government projects in the 1950s and she taught her SONS that math and computers were cool.

  9. Re:Boys are naturally curious... on Solving the Mystery of Declining Female CS Enrollment · · Score: 0

    When women are girls or young women or whatever, aren't the BOYS that are into CS the ones that they would either go celibate or go lesbian rather than date? Does that have any influence? I really have no idea.

  10. Re:Semantics on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: 1

    W-T-F !!!!! What you are talking about is VERY far beyond sexual harassment where human resources tells the horn-dog to cool it or get fired. This stuff is criminal behaviour that should be landing the offending party in jail. Good thing that guy didn't grab my wife. She doesn't know martial arts, so there would have been no judo joint locking. More like he would have got kicked in the balls and his eyes clawed out and then have to move to another state and change his name while me and alll her brothers hunt him down.

  11. Re:Semantics on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The women I work with, know, and the one that married me all have a pretty cool definition of sexual harassment: You get one free try, but if we tell you to stop and you don't, THAT is harassment because we freaking told you it was and you kept doing it.

  12. Re:Just keep it off the servers.... on The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone · · Score: 1

    Ah........no. NT>2000>2003>2008 was all good. 2012 sucks balls bigtime. I put classic shell on every 2012 machine I am forced to use and that doesn't even account for the drop in performance when you go from 8 to 12 on the same hardware.

  13. Re:A hearty meh on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 1

    I think you have NO IDEA how many consumer USB devices have these things. I too love my genuine FTDI products, but I predict a vast amount of collateral damge to a shit-ton of devices.

  14. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Around here we have had Washington DC put a speed camera in MARYLAND, we have had miscalibrated units giving speeding tickets to people not speeding, red light timers turned down, a stop light put on a major road where there USED TO BE A CROSS STREET but no longer was - so the light was totally ignored, and several cameras have been destroyed with no witnesses coming forward LOL. We even had a criminal SHOOTING at a car that was a mobile speed camera and chasing the operator off and that apparently delighted all the 100s of witnesses LOL.

  15. Re:I thought they loved it! on Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I am a commercial pilot. You are an utter moron. I have fllown through weather that would crack your skull open if you wre not belted in tight. You are also a danger to everyone around you when your dumb fat ass lands on them.

  16. German illegal? on How English Beat German As the Language of Science · · Score: 4, Insightful

    German was *illegal*?? WF? All the current "this politician has totally undermined the constitution in ways never seem before" crap must come from people with short memories.

  17. *LIE* on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 0

    The FBI does not want people to LIE to them. I can understand that - they need to trust their agents. Anyone who has been through the process for any agency knows they may let you slide on a few things as long as YOU tell them and they don't find out about it later.

  18. Re:Polygraph on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 1

    My IQ is lower and my income is higher (thought not by much in either case). Do I win a prize?

  19. Re:Increased public vigilance?? on The CDC Is Carefully Controlling How Scared You Are About Ebola · · Score: 1

    Ever think frequent fire drills condition this behaviour? In high school we would HIDE during fire drills so we didn't have to stand around in the cold/rain/heat/whatever.

  20. Re:Mint on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1

    I use it. It is easy to install, works fine, and looks just like Windows 7. For my non-techie inlaws there is no learning curve to speak of.

  21. I decided to explore the world of Apple on the cheap. I got a used Mac for low $$ to see what we could do with it. It went in the dumpster in short order because it could NOT be upgraded enough to even work on a modern web site.

  22. Re: What's so hard about using the time-honored on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 2

    They forgot Mike Hunt, General MalFunktion, Hugh G. Rection, E. Normous Johnson, Ben Dover, I.P. Daily, Richard Cranium, and a few others...

  23. Re:Striking air traffic controllers fired on Nearly 2,000 Chicago Flights Canceled After Worker Sets Fire At Radar Center · · Score: 1

    Like all other federal employees, the FAA ATC staff are legally barred from going on strike.

  24. Re:How about giving Tibet back to the Tibetans? on China Eager To Send Its Own Mission To Mars In the Wake of Mangalyaan · · Score: 1

    Someone is trying to kill them?

  25. Re:I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In my experience CFLs last about 1/3 as long as incandescents at best.