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  1. Re:Idea for a new game on Game On War In Syria Explores Ongoing Conflict · · Score: 0

    Too soon?

    Too easy. It is a well-known fact that only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun. For a challenging game, the janitor should be armed with a broomstick, a toothpick, a nail file and harsh language.

  2. Re:Apple on Reexamination Request Filed Against Another Apple Patent · · Score: 1

    The size of your smartphone may matter to your girlfriend, but it doesn't matter to my women at all. Maybe you should try satisfying yours with your dick, not smartphone? Oh, I see...

  3. Re:Apple on Reexamination Request Filed Against Another Apple Patent · · Score: 1

    The size doesn't matter, as long as its corners are not round.

  4. Re:This is good news on USAF Taps ESPN To Compile Drone "Highlight" Video · · Score: 0

    Yep, turning extrajudicial murder into entertainment is just swell. I'm off to start a gambling site to be ready for the moment they start releasing live footage.

  5. Re:Three cents on Mini-Tornadoes For Generating Electricity · · Score: 1

    Five brazillian, give or take an odd Gcal.

  6. Re:Three cents on Mini-Tornadoes For Generating Electricity · · Score: 1

    Of course. And you don't even need this kind of equipment, there are easier ways. I, for one, have a prototype that can harvest electricity directly from the clouds. All you need is a good kite and some wire. The electricity is plentiful and really cheap, maybe at $0.0004 per kwh, if that.

  7. Re:Data Retention, Bush and Blair on European Data Retention Rule Could Violate Fundamental EU Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is also worth noting that some of the shakier democracies in Eastern Europe tried to use these provisions to introduce large-scale spying systems. I have a friend from Bulgaria who told me how the threat from blanket legal monitoring of internet communications by the government was narrowly averted by protests, and how the police beat up some of the protesters during one or two demonstrations a couple of years ago. I think there were similar measures elsewhere.

    The directive was bad in form and in spirit, and to my eye caused more harm and damage than good overall. Which happens often if the full implications of a law are not discussed and taken seriously. But we and the children are safe, I suppose.

  8. Re:Gillard already disowned him on Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia · · Score: 1

    Great stuff. LMAO, so to speak.

  9. Re:Gillard already disowned him on Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia · · Score: 1

    Hehe, now I have my reading for the half of the Saturday morning set.

  10. Re:Although amusing on "Jedi" Religion Most Popular Alternative Faith In England · · Score: 1

    What is this wookipedia, some new kind of sexual perversion?

  11. Re:Although amusing on "Jedi" Religion Most Popular Alternative Faith In England · · Score: 1

    Then it was the Reaganite Senate, not the Republican.

  12. Re:Gillard already disowned him on Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia · · Score: 1

    Very interesting, thanks. I still don't see how the opposition would choose to pick Assange as a battle symbol, especially if the US presses them in private, but I see why the attitude could soften if there is a government change as you describe it.

  13. Re:Gillard already disowned him on Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia · · Score: 1

    I don't know a lot about Australian politics, so I can't tell if that will make a lot of difference. Why would Gillard's opponents be better disposed towards Assange?

  14. Re:Best of luck on Julian Assange Runs For Office In Australia · · Score: 1

    He's not being elected to serve as a diplomat. Just being a member of the Australian parliament doesn't give him immunity, it is a bit more involved than that. For diplomatic immunity, he'll have to be accepted by the UK as an Australian diplomat there, and for that to happen, he'll have to be appointed as such by Australia first. Something's telling me neither of these is happening even if he wins a seat.

  15. Re:Although amusing on "Jedi" Religion Most Popular Alternative Faith In England · · Score: 1

    Isn't the Senate Democratic now?

  16. Re:Dear Leader's Satellite is So Advanced... on North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control · · Score: 2

    Last time I tried to launch a satellite via Google, I got a 403 not authorized error and a 500 internal server while fetching the error page. Maybe they hit the same bug.

  17. Re:Dear Leader's Satellite is So Advanced... on North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control · · Score: 2

    On the other hand, pig yankee capitalist and pig red commie swine had more than one fiery death terror satellite wobbling in many orbits in the past before they forgot the art and became incapable of maintaining more than one orbit per satellite.

  18. Re:Why would they stop developing weaponry? on North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket · · Score: 1

    You display a massive misunderstanding of how the world works. nuclear weapons increase the stakes not because of what they do in the battlefield. Nukes aren't designed to be used there, they are meant to be used the way they were used in the last war - to inflict cheaply massive civilian casualties. A small nuke aimed at Seoul or Tokyo will practically block any US military action against dprk at the least because both SK and Japan will not allow it for fear of nuclear retaliation.

  19. Re:Why would they stop developing weaponry? on North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is helping them a lot, the fighting with their most serious enemy practically stopped after both countries developed nukes.

  20. Re:Why would they stop developing weaponry? on North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On the contrary, nukes raise the expected cost of any military action significantly. US would accrue huge negatives even if it was only perceived to have provoked NK to use one of their own. Besides, it is unlikely the US will use military force without approval from at least SK and Japan, which isn't happening in the next decade. In 10 years from now things may well be different, as both Japan and SK seem to be growing hawkish, but even such developments are far from certain, as the stances of both SK and Japan will depend much more on the position of China then.

    A US leader will find it much, much harder to cobble up a "coalition of the willing" against anyone in Asia similar to the one W whipped up in Eastern Europe for the Eye-rack invasion.

  21. Re:WikiLeaks link in the summary? on F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base · · Score: 1

    Wikileaks is as much a "news source" as any other blog or website that is usually linked to here, idiot.

  22. Re:WikiLeaks link in the summary? on F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base · · Score: 1

    Who the fuck cares that you think you may lose your job because you clicked a link? Fuck off, suck it up and spend the time you bitch about your stupidity to actually check links.

  23. Re:Mr. Fusion ... on F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base · · Score: 1

    You should upgrade. Mr. Lowenr replaced Mr. Fusion a couple years ago. Jet propulsion is now part of the package and it works much better than anything based on chemical fuel.

  24. Re:No Risk on Elite Creator David Braben: Games Like Elite 'Too Risky' For Publishers · · Score: 2

    Actually, it is even worse -- bad prediction models (because past performance does not guarantee future returns, as the disclaimer customarily goes) reward mediocrity, and not only in games. Anything from music to clothing to computer devices is affected. The larger the market, the fewer the players, the more obvious the effects.

  25. Re:anti-science slashdot? Get a clue, guys. on DOE Wants 5X Improvement In Batteries In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    This is not "like science", man, this is like Marxism. Remember, Marx said and Lenin confirmed it - quantitative accumulations transform into qualitative changes. I say this is a badly covered plot to leak Communism out of these batteries and into our freedoms. We should kill it with fire before it self-combusts.