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  1. Re:Stupid question on How An Astronaut Nearly Drowned During a Space Walk · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't expect water to create a film over any surface

    If you are reader: Look up hydrophilic vs hydrophobic, Contact Angle or Wetting Angle, and "surface energy / surface tensions, and young's relation

    If you like videos: video

    In short antifog coatings create the very surface you don't believe exists.

  2. Re:Risk? on Blood Test of 4 Biomarkers Predicts Death Within 5 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is wrong with death panels? Seriously. Aside from the name. When medical science advances so that with enough money we could keep someone alive indefinitely. Then the question is, is it worth it? Years ago, and mostly today, this question didn't exist, because we didn't have technology and know how to do it. But eventually we will, and it will be a hard question. Also, I agree about the name- It is "health care" not "health insurance". I just don't get hung up on it.

  3. Re:It's just a tool I guess on Doctors Say New Pain Pill Is "Genuinely Frightening" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As other people have noted there is a difference between detox in confinement and putting them in jail as a criminal. Getting out of prison is not like getting out of detox. You are a criminal now, and can't get a job, and in some places can't vote, get certain types of public assistance... basically, you get fucked.

  4. Re:Not a problem on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 2

    well that escalated quickly.

  5. Re:HAH!! I use IE6! on IE Vulnerability Exposing Banking Logins, Spreading Rapidly · · Score: 1

    Maybe-- I'm immune to that horrible apple SSL bug because I didn't update to maverick

  6. Re:Can someone please explain on Astronomers Catch Asteroid Striking Moon On Video · · Score: 1
    And then I'll pick another: on fire

    in flames; burning. synonyms: burning, alight, ablaze, blazing, aflame, in flames;

    I think you'd be hard pressed to tell me that the sun isn't alight or ablaze.

  7. Stealth. The Prius is super quiet, I'll sneak up on him.

  8. Re:Part of the answer... on Crowded US Airwaves Desperately In Search of Spectrum Breathing Room · · Score: 1

    Sounds good. But what if they are creative? I could make a bs use case for spectrum. Compared to the cost of the spectrum itself, underutilizing it (or using it for a BS purpose) would be cheap.

  9. Re:Value on Blizzard To Sell Level 90 WoW Characters For $60 · · Score: 1

    All truth. It tooke me a while to learn that that hard way, as some addictive parts of my personality got some fake reward from leveling itself (damn you disgaea). Now it is all about game play. Currently I'm playing Planet Side 2.

  10. Re:Can someone please explain on Astronomers Catch Asteroid Striking Moon On Video · · Score: 1

    The sun isn't on fire

    I feel like you are [attempting] to split some weird pedantic hair with this one. Just because it isn't and oxygen reaction doesn't mean it isn't a giant fucking ball of flames. Or are you trying to say it isn't "on fire" because it "is fire"?

  11. Re:Mt.Gox has a long history of problems, Bitcoin on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    At least this place would be ok: http://brewexchangeaustin.com/

  12. Re: Vive le Galt! on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    HSBC is British

    Ahhh yes, the famous Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of East Putney.

    Actually, of london.

    The Gods of wikipedia say: "HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest banks. It was founded in London in 1991 by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation to act as a new group holding company

    So say we all.

  13. I'm with you on any new age bashing you can think up. But if you bash my prius, I'll run you over, and then run you over another 99,000 times with all the extra gas I have.

  14. Re:Ain't no body got time for that on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    I've lived in DC. Are you talking about the metro? it only goes in and out of the center of the city. So, all spokes and no wheels. If you are unfortunate enough to want to move in the angular direction and not directly towards or away from the middle, you are fucked.

  15. Re:Company computers, company network ... on Microsoft Lync Server Gathers Employee Data Just Like NSA · · Score: 1

    Or he really had to go.

  16. Re:Odd on Why Nissan Is Talking To Tesla Model S Owners · · Score: 1

    I've never been able to get over the damage done to my bicycle. Between sand/salt/dirt/snow/ice in the road in the winter here, you better be using a bike you don't mind throwing away.

  17. Re:Is anyone surprised? on Complete Microsoft EMET Bypass Developed · · Score: 1
    This is not true for me:

    sudo su - test
    [test@localhost ~]$ ssh coolsnowmen@localhost
    Permission denied (publickey).
    [test@localhost ~]$ telnet localhost 22
    Trying ::1...
    Connected to localhost.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2

  18. Re:The key here is "Conference Proceedings" on Publishers Withdraw More Than 120 Fake Papers · · Score: 1

    2 years? jesus. Perhaps you should start a competing journal. Both other scientific fields I'm familiar with take a few months to get the first round of reviews back.

  19. Re:How can the situation be improved? on Why Is US Broadband So Slow? · · Score: 1

    You are getting the teaser rate, you will have to call and complain every 6 months to keep it, or it will end and jump 10-20$ /month.

  20. Re:if you want a trusted proxy.. on Most Alarming: IETF Draft Proposes "Trusted Proxy" In HTTP/2.0 · · Score: 1

    If the argument is, "trust me, I'm a popular authority" then sure, that isn't convincing.

    If the argument is, "Here is my argument _page_of_text_, oh, COUPLED WITH I'm an authority on the subject because thousands of other people have a history of listening to me, (aka 'this is not my first rodeo')" then perhaps your should at least listen.

    This is the core of "who do you trust". You trust people because of their history that got them to their current position of authority, not just because they are currently in a certain position.

  21. Re:non-issue on Slashdot Asks: Do You Label Your Tech Gear, and If So, How? · · Score: 1

    and now eye protection.

  22. Re:Company computers, company network ... on Microsoft Lync Server Gathers Employee Data Just Like NSA · · Score: 1

    I get your point, but what you do on the company internet can definitly cause them problems ( virus's /malware /illegal activity). The same is not true (except in the comedic sense) about what you do in the bathroom.

  23. Re:Hippo's tasty, but I couldn't eat a whole one on Naming All Lifeforms On Earth With Hash Functions · · Score: 1

    In reply to your subject: did you know about the hippo farming plan? Apparently it was a big deal like a hundred years ago when we had a "meat problem" in the united states.

    Random link: http://www.wired.com/wiredscie...

  24. Re:Call me paranoid... on Why Your Phone Gets OTA Updates But Your Car Doesn't · · Score: 1

    It will in the future. Your computer will 3d print a thumb driver :-)

  25. Re:Trivializing the Holocaust on YouTube Threatens To Remove Scientist's Account Over AIDS Deniers' DMCA Claims · · Score: 1

    please explain. Because I'm offended that because of the color of my skin I might not be able to even learn and analyze a historical situation to learn from it and make better decision in the future.

    Or is this some comedy rule where one would have to be a black-German to even comment on the subject?