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  1. Jaded Old Guy on 'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a jaded old guy repeating all the excuses given to him throughout his life for why he couldn't go back to space.

    We're doing it because it's there and because we want to!

  2. A sim is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a race car, driving to the track, racing your car, potentially losing your car, fixing your car, getting new tires and brakes, etc.

  3. And where exactly do these "magnets" go? Do you have to clamp those instead to your table? You are still clamping something down at the end of the day.

  4. Re:Bombs in the US? on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 2

    By fart of course, you mean, Fucking Art.

  5. Re:Dice is selling out Slashdot with the Beta on Is Intel Selling Bay Trail Chips Below Cost? · · Score: 0

    slashdot has been dead for a while.

  6. Re:For Sale on MakerBot Merging With Stratasys · · Score: 1

    I'll trade you my Prusa i3 for it!

  7. Re:confused on The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered · · Score: 1

    The problem with a carrier like MetroPCS is the lack of reliable and fast data connections.

  8. Don't believe the FUD on The Empire In Decline? · · Score: 1

    /. this is Charlie Demerjian, one of the biggest tech trolls out there. He has a personal vendetta against Nvidia, Microsoft, and Intel. Ignore the troll. They're called SEMIAccurate for a reason.

  9. Re:Is this really a market leader? on Bungled Mobile Bet Will Be Ballmer's Swan Song · · Score: 1

    ha ha ha, now is the time for linux on the desktop!

  10. Re:Time for Apple to go for the jugular on Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse · · Score: 1

    Apple pretty much already manages Foxconn... All the processes are designed and supervised by Apple.

  11. Re:We NEED Processor Competition on Is Qualcomm the New AMD? · · Score: 1

    You mean like how a new FX-8150 just keeps up with an i7 920 that was released 4 years ago?

  12. Re:Different market. Not scret sause. on Apple Is Giving Away Its Secrets By Litigating · · Score: 1

    Yes, people are stupid for not liking things for the same reason I do.

  13. Re:Australian govt bans huawei from national netwo on Former Pentagon Analyst: China Has Backdoors To 80% of Telecoms · · Score: 1

    Rivals? Hah, try exceeds by a significant margin. China as a whole is incredibly corrupt on a level beyond the western world.

  14. Re:Jesus, stop being pathetic! on Linux Users Banned From Diablo III Servers · · Score: 1

    Hey, guess what, they were banning users who were actually cheating, not just users who were using Linux.

    But go on with your pathetic analogy.

  15. Re:I keep reading but... on DARPA Pays $3.5 Million For New TechShops and Secret Reconfigurable Factories · · Score: 1

    I know how these things work, I'm a manufacturing engineer and program 5 axis machines on a daily basis. The work has to have significant constraints placed on it for it to work easily with a robotic system however. Frequently this is not possible.

  16. Re:Precision manufacturing assembly lines... on DARPA Pays $3.5 Million For New TechShops and Secret Reconfigurable Factories · · Score: 1

    The amount of capital outlay required to do something like that is immense. It's simply not cost effective except for certain product lines.

  17. Re:I keep reading but... on DARPA Pays $3.5 Million For New TechShops and Secret Reconfigurable Factories · · Score: 1

    It's not so easy to move parts from one machine to the other with robotic arms.

  18. Re:One thing is for certain... on Russia To Establish Bases On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Their latest jet, the Sukhoi Super Jet 100 just crashed into a mountain in Indonesia while being demonstrated to reporters and potential clients.

  19. Re:near unlimited range thanks to in-air refueling on America's Next Bomber: Unmanned, Unlimited Range, Aimed At China · · Score: 1

    The F-22 is a bit different than the F-15E considering the method of weapon deployment.

  20. Re:near unlimited range thanks to in-air refueling on America's Next Bomber: Unmanned, Unlimited Range, Aimed At China · · Score: 2

    You can't turn an F-22 Airframe into an effective Bomber, it wasn't designed for it from the beginning. The requirements of a bomber and an air superiority fighter are vastly different.

  21. Re:goodluckwiththat on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    It's beyond China's as well for the time being.

  22. Re:$575? Seriously? on Google Earns $2 Per Handset; Apple, $575 · · Score: 1

    They do it for market segmentation. There are people willing to pay $40/$70 for that cover and there are people that aren't. For the people that aren't, you can buy 3rd party stuff for much cheaper. It's a smart business decision and works well for them, also allowing a thriving third party market to exist.

  23. Re:Who are all these people who need 4G? on Huawei Claims 30Gbps Wireless 'Beyond LTE' · · Score: 1

    He probably made the same claim when 3G was being released.

    "What do we need 3G for, I'm just happy on my 2G connection!"

  24. Re:It's simple, really. on Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside · · Score: 1

    Stellar 9/11, that's what happens. The founding of the Galactic Empire and the war against the Outer Rim separatists.

  25. Re:Difference to now? on Eric Schmidt: UN Treaty a 'Disaster' For the Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At least I can complain to my own government and vote out politicians. Where do I go to complain against the UNs policies?