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  1. I'm more interested in knowing how any modern human squeezed through a 25cm and 20cm pathway to the cave. Wearing headlamps and helmets or not, unless they had contortionist scientists?

  2. Re:Cost is not the issue on Ask Slashdot: If Public Transport Was Free, Would You Leave Your Car At Home? · · Score: 1

    This is flawed. A car usually costs you several hundred dollars/euros per month /whether you use it or not/
    The gas cost of a car is way less than public transport. So you end up spending less using a car.

  3. Re:Sounds like upper middle class housing developm on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    Around $1m each to build+land value. So the market value of each would be closer to $2m.
    Must be some hollywood accounting going there.

  4. Re:Deflection on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    Why do kids need free ipads or any other mobile device at school?

  5. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    The big assumption is that incidents will occur and reoccur at the same school enough to make a 100k system worthwhile.
    And that makes me sad.

  6. Re:umm.. what? on Researchers At Brown University Shattered a Quantum Wave Function · · Score: 1

    You can't get 2 kitties out of one. They cut Schrodinger's box in half, and pulled /half/ a dead kitty out of one and /half/ a live kitty out of the other.

  7. Re:Rolling roadblocks on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    In Australia, about 80% of people on the roads drive 10-20km/h UNDER the speed limit. They also block all the lanes and leave huge gaps in front at traffic lights - gaps where I could drive another small car into.
    Police don't do anything about blockers, one even drove 10min right behind a car going 30km/h in a 60km/h one lane street. Then he put on his sirens. I thought he was going to do something, but as soon as the car pulled over he just drove on!

  8. Re:Why didn't they just listen to users? on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 1

    Because the last time they listened to users we got MS Bob.
    Users are stupid.

  9. Re:Security on Microsoft Rumored To Integrate Android Apps · · Score: 0

    Apple invented jailbreaking. The first thing most Apple fanboys do with their iPhone is to break out of the walled garden.
    MS is probably dumb enough to try to wall in their few users.

  10. I want to hear why you are allowed to open and use an item, then return it as new in the US.
    Certainly can't do that any other country I"ve heard.

  11. Re:2 kilometers isn't very far away. on Watch a Lockheed Martin Laser Destroy a Missile In Flight · · Score: 1

    Given that usually missles you want to destroy are aimed AT you and not flying OVERHEAD, esp when just 2km away, I wonder how useful this system is.
    Maybe we can ask our enemies to put them next to their launching pads?

  12. Re:People still use common credentials? on Former Demonoid Members Receive Email Claiming Resurrection, Get Malware Instead · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, a keepass that holds keys to other keepass databases. Seeded with fake logins.

  13. Re:I could be wrong but.... on Utility Box Exposed As Spy Cabinet In the Netherlands · · Score: 1

    OK so they mixed 1984 with Brave New World.

  14. Re:Uh.. bandwidth? on Home Server Or VPS? One Family's Math · · Score: 1

    Actually, the word is uptime.
    If ur all on holidays and the server crashes, who fixes it for you?

  15. Re:stopped using it? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    And it's lucky that you only have 9 programs installed!

  16. Re:12 billion finger prints? on World's Largest Biometric Database · · Score: 1

    This was covered before. IIRC every 6000 or so prints you'd get one match. Or some really low number.

  17. Re:Except on More Malicious Apps Found On Google Play · · Score: 1

    Does anyone send premium-rate SMSs on purpose anyway? They are never covered in any plan, and are always stupid things.
    WHy not just ban them all?

  18. Re:Chinese Subsidies on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 1

    The US has always subsidized their own and tarriffed others without reason. They do so even with trading partners with whom they've signed free trade agreements.
    The US doesn't need an excuse to impose tarriffs. They just need to tell you they've done so.

  19. Re:And just think... on Camera Gun Would Let Hunters Get Killer Wildlife Shots · · Score: 1

    Police are already frequently called out because "there's someone with a camera!" in public "acting suspicious" (taking photos). Do we really want to change those cameras to look like a rifle now?

  20. Re:Nice, but... on Town Turns Off the Lights To See the Stars · · Score: 1

    1800 meters high is pretty high. It's higher than many skyscrapers

  21. Re:News? on Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund · · Score: 1

    because even if you had uncut footage of this right to the post office, paypal doesn't care and doesn't want to see it.

  22. Re:Make it send data to you on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? · · Score: 1

    Sending descriptive and/or meaningful reports is not the issue. The problem is that in most outfits there is NO way for anyone to reach the devs. As a dev I have seen obvious out-by-1 errors, chat with 'support' and give detailed info, etc, but the idiot on the other end doesn't pass anything on, instead just filed it as 'unknown crash'.

    And that's assuming you have a way to reach any support at all. Most 'contact' pages are actually 'search faq' pages, you get pointed to forums that require registration AND are admin/mod by volunteers AND no company reps ever read the forums.
    In another If you spend 30min to file a report that checks you filled in every single field after finding the correct links, you just get a very long form email that if you read really carefully tells you a DIFFERENT link where you can file the report again. Sorry the stuff you typed last time was completely ignored/deleted.

  23. Re:Why not just wait for version 7? on Mozilla Firefox 6 Released Ahead of Schedule · · Score: 4, Informative

    So now I only have 2 plugins left not supported by FF4, should I upgrade to FF6? My bank also keeps saying FF4 is unsupported (only supports IE6+ and NS and FF3). Hmm, at this rate FF is going to lose users.

  24. Re:Butters knows this one on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    Are they saying that any bomb dropped from any drone is not 'hostile', or merely that my bomb dropped from my drone is not 'hostile'?

  25. Re:I can kind of understand on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    Thing is with dentists is they either:

    1) make you hurt and fix your teeth
    2) do nothing and let ur teeth rot

    Problem is most stupid americans would rate the 2nd type better.