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  1. Re:I wish they would do the obvious on How X-Ray Scanners Became Mandatory In US Airports · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the tens of thousands we'll kill in return for them killing hundreds!

    Perfectly symmetrical warfare never solved anything ;)

  2. Re:Support them from your own money on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 1

    There are parts of RedHat that CentOS doesn't include as they are not F/OSS licensed.

    As far as I know, RedHat only produces GPL software and always have.

  3. We will survive the same way we have been.... on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    With the help of people like Norman Borlaug.

  4. Re:If that doesn't put it in perspective on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 1

    No, that's 40% of the wealth of the network of 43,060 TNCs.

  5. Re:Amazing on Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years · · Score: 1

    Scientists have been fairly unanimous in predicting warming since the mid 1970's, and so far they've been right.

    As I recall, it was global cooling in the 70's, we were are all going to die from UV due to the ozone hole in the 80's, and global warming didn't hit until the 90's.

  6. Re:I for one.. on First Complete Lizard Genome Sequenced · · Score: 1

    er overlords. Doh!

  7. I for one.. on First Complete Lizard Genome Sequenced · · Score: 1

    ..welcome our new genetically sequenced lizard overloads!

  8. Re:Simple maths: on WiFi 802.22 Can Cover 12,000 Square Miles · · Score: 1

    If you take into account that the height needed to get a 62 mile line of sight, I bet your going to find that the tower will need to be about 1200' above average terrain. That is my SWAG. I don't feel like calculating it.

  9. Re:Godspeed Atlantis on Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches On Final Flight · · Score: 1

    But the SRBs didn't need to be reusable! It costs more to have "reusable" SRBs than one time use SRBs. It made no sense for the SRBs to be "reusable".

  10. Re:Godspeed Atlantis on Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches On Final Flight · · Score: 1

    I watched the first shuttle launch on a 13" black and white TV. I took Polaroid pictures of the screen. I still have them tucked away somewhere. I watched this launch on my cellphone. What a difference 30 years makes.

  11. The Crossbow Project on New Approach For Laser Weapons · · Score: 1

    The Crossbow Project: There's no defense like a good offense.

  12. Re:and in other news on Climate Skeptic Funded By Oil and Coal Companies · · Score: 1

    Because the government receives more in revenue by taxing things like gasoline than the profits realized by the oil companies. It is in their interest to find good reasons to tax energy sources.

  13. Re:only a few years after, it came to home PCs on A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982 · · Score: 1

    OS-9 was a realtime multi-user, multi-tasking OS. Microware referred to it as "Multiprogramming".

  14. Re:only a few years after, it came to home PCs on A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982 · · Score: 1

    And who doesn't love opening new windows using display 1b 24 :)

  15. Re:Air clearance? on Low Budget Air Space Photography · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Our group has never submitted a NOTAM, because we are exempt. I have audio recorded of a "near miss" with one of our group's balloons. Never saw the jet, but it sure sounded close. I think we will be filing NOTAMs from now on, even though we are not required to.

  16. Re:unexplained?? on UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message · · Score: 1

    They did that already ;)

  17. Re: How does on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Thank you for posting this reply. I could not have expressed my thoughts on the "Collateral Murder" video and it's supporters better than you have. After seeing the video, and thinking I would have made the same choices those guys made, I questioned myself. I was surprised that my conclusion was very different than what others had come to.

    War is hell. It is ugly, people die, or worse, people survive with physical or mental damage.

  18. Re:That's the point on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1

    You say that like it's a bad thing. I want my employer to make lots of money off my work. That makes me valuable employee.

  19. Re:That's the point on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1

    Exactly who is the "exploitative class"? Is that a code word for "people that make more money than I do"?

  20. Re:Coal miners are unhappy with their salaries... on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 2, Insightful

    they point out that they get paid only $60,000 a year, whereas the coal

    Fixed it for ya.

  21. Boo Effin Hoo on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 0, Troll

    How can the guy survive on 150K a year? I bet he had to settle for a little cuddy instead of getting the large custom houseboat. Cry me a river.

  22. 16 kilowatt hours on Electric Cars Won't Strain the Power Grid · · Score: 1

    I think the people that believe 16 Kilowatt hours of energy is enough to let them drive to work and back are going to be a little bit disappointed. (Unless they live within 5 miles of their work)

  23. Re:Not just Google on At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40 · · Score: 1

    So what your saying is people like Bill Gates, Chip Gracey, and Jeri Ellsworth would never even show up on your radar.

  24. Re:Propeller Chip on Parallel Programming For the Arduino · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just shift the HID devices into one cog? I am pretty sure that @ 20 MIPS you can read a lot of joystick information and copy it into hub RAM. Same with your AI players.

    I wrote a 16 channel DMX light dimmer that uses only 3 cogs. I could squeeze that into 2 cogs if I weren't so lazy. Doing away with interrupts made this a relatively easy project.

  25. Re:Ring of fat around the beltway on J. P. Barlow — Internet Has Broken the Political System · · Score: 1

    Let government dictate a few large things (international trade, military/defense, interstate commerce/disputes) and leave everything else up to the states.

    Fixed it for ya :)