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  1. Had to happen sooner or later on Navy Wants Cyber Weapons That Shoot Data Beams · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great. It's a spam gun. Way to go Uncle Sam. This thing has to contravene the Geneva Convention for inhumane weapons.

  2. Re:To be fair on School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre · · Score: 1

    It's also a matter for the police, but it is still a matter for the school. The school is charged with maintaining a safe environment for the students. I am not condoning what the school has done but they should be looking out for illegal activities that could harm other students. Where they went wrong is with the invasion of privacy that occurred when looking for illegal activities.

    I agree. Children often make mistakes. They need to be protected from their inexperience. The school is merely filling the role of a big brother, who naturally wants to guide and protect his younger siblings from the dangers of the modern world.

  3. Re:Floating in space on NASA Astronauts To Open New Space Station Windows · · Score: 1

    Yo dawg, we heard you like space stations, so we put a space station on your space station, so you can work in space while you work in space!

  4. panel native resolution? on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    anyone see a spec for the panel they're using in this thing? type/resolution/depth/response etc...

  5. Re:Germany still censored on Google.cn Has Already Lifted Censorship · · Score: 1

    Wish I had a funny mod point for you, Bob. That made my morning. :D

  6. Re:Great Example of IP Abuse on The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace *NSFW* · · Score: 1

    So after the hobbit, Tolkien should not have been allowed to write the lord of the rings books?

    I think he meant that one should be able to watch the first three films as they were originally shot, i.e. with Han shooting Greedo just for the hell of it, Leia's nipple, etc.

    There's nothing wrong with editing your own work because you think it would be better if you changed a couple of things. Hell, after LOTR, Tolkien went back and edited The Hobbit, so the Gollum scenes worked better in the context of LOTR. Nothing wrong with that. I can still go find a copy of the original, if I really want to read it that way.

    And that's the kicker. You can't go out and purchase a nice remastered BluRay copy of ANH as it was originally filmed. If you want to see it that way, you might be able to snag an old copy on VHS. Best you can do, I believe, is analog laser disc from the 80s. That, IMHO is a loss to the art world.

  7. Re:Every film is flawed on The Definitive Evisceration of The Phantom Menace *NSFW* · · Score: 1

    The same person who wrote this probably sat through Transformers 2 without having an aneurysm. Really, which film was worse?

    If TPM had a scene of Natalie Portman, smudged with grease, working on her hoverbike, then I'd be willing to swap the two films' relative positions in a list.

  8. Re:Summary wrong on what constitutes Net Neutralit on AT&T's Net Neutrality Doublethink · · Score: 1

    Yes, I believe you are correct. I'm kind of surprised I had to read the whole page to the bottom before someone commented on this. Everyone is discussing the pros and cons of traffic shaping, not network neutrality.

  9. robbery? on EA Flip-Flops On Battlefield: Heroes Pricing, Fans Angry · · Score: 1

    Too bad you can't just get a bunch of other noobs together and gang mug some player for his shiny new toys. That would be hilarious to watch play out in a real world courtroom.

  10. Waves hand... on CIA Manual Thought Lost In 1973 Available On Amazon · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is not the book you are looking for.....move along.....

  11. Re:1,000 years? on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    While water is the purest of analog formats, I don't believe the technology would be applicable to digital media.

  12. Re:Mind what you wish for on Auto Warranty Robocall Scammers Busted · · Score: 3, Funny

    What I know about Obama, is that I had a job, when Bush was President.

    Dick Cheney, is that you?

  13. zero position on Pulsar Signals Could Provide Galactic GPS · · Score: 1

    If we're going to do this, could we please make the origin at 00:00 Jan 1. 1970? I'd hate to have to write yet another date conversion function.

  14. Re:Pi string on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 1

    We Greeks already did that. We used a letter from our alphabet, to completely represent the glory that is Pi.

  15. single point of failure? on NASA Contest To Name ISS Module · · Score: 1

    First thing that occurred to me when I read the summary was that they are taking a bunch of vital life support systems, whose current distribution makes it unlikely that failure in one will affect the others, and putting them all together in a single detachable module. Seems, at first glance, to be less robust this way, unless they have a couple of swappable spare modules handy.

  16. Re:Battletoad? on NASA Contest To Name ISS Module · · Score: 2

    Come on guys, let's show the world the true, raw power of Slashdot. Vote Battletoad today!

  17. Re:Double Slit Experiment..... on Physics Experiments To Inspire Undergraduates? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that works for me. It's a cool experiment, but the theory side of it isn't exactly a cakewalk. It's still undergrad but nowhere near freshman.

  18. Re:Math? on Mars Winds Clean Spirit's Solar Panels Again · · Score: 2, Informative

    oven light

  19. Re:There is actually on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 1

    An AC says before if these marks are still on the records for the kids. Well why wouldn't they be? Just because the sentencing was wrong doesn't mean the crime wasn't committed.

    Doesn't mean the crime was committed either. Since the judge didn't get paid unless the kids got sentenced to PA Child Care, the judge's rulings on the cases are suspect. He had a personal motivation to find them guilty. At the very least, the rulings should be discarded and the kids should be given new trials with a new judge. IANAL; can a lawyer sharpen this argument up for me?

  20. Re:Double Slit Experiment..... on Physics Experiments To Inspire Undergraduates? · · Score: 1

    Nothing is cooler, and nothing is such a opening to the amazing magic of physics

    with an electron gun, slowed down to emit a single electron every couple of seconds or so, aimed at a photographic plate, so they can see the interference pattern form, one dot at a time.

  21. Re:Why? on Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec · · Score: 1

    Why do we need USB 3? The reason for my question is e-SATA. Why not pump more into development of devices that run on that interface instead of USB?

    I think it would be cool to have a video card that output to a USB connector. 1080P@60Hz,24bit depth only uses ~2.78Gib/s.

    In fact, now that I think of it, a 2560x1600 panel uses ~5.5Gib/s, so this bus could almost handle that.

    Just a thought.

  22. Re:Gnome on Trolltech Adopts GPL 3 for Qt · · Score: 1

    The differences come in only if you are a proprietary developer looking for ways to embrace, extend and close up somebody elses code. Thats really all there is to the additional "freedoms" you have with the LGPL. Freedom to make code unfree. A way to sue people who copy code closed up which once was free distributable. LGPL Doesn't let you close up code that was once free. LGPL lets you close up your own code, while linking against code that is still free. You don't have to distribute your own code under the LGPL if you link against an LGPL library. If the linked-in library was GPL, then you would have to distribute your own code under the GPL. The LGPL was created specifically to avoid this GPL situation.
  23. general relativity on Universe May Be Running Out of Time · · Score: 1
    I thought that was already understood from general relativity. Being in a big galaxy, which is itself within a cluster of galaxies, which all add up to a lot of local mass, implies that we're pretty far down a gravity well relative to the far out space.

    Also, due to the finite propagation of light (and presumably gravity), that far out space is effectively from a much younger period of the universe, when the mass was more evenly distributed, before it all congealed into these gravity wells.

    Since time passes slower, the farther down a well you go, relative to higher points, it stands to reason that you will see far off events happening at an accelerated pace, relative to your clocks.

  24. too easy to abuse on The New Facebook Ads - Another Privacy Debacle? · · Score: 1
    This looks way too easy to abuse, assuming they have automated the profile selection process to some degree.

    I mean, if I wanted to be a dick about it, I'd create a profile, let's call him "Big Dick", with a picture of a large penis, or some other equally commercially inappropriate image stuck to it. I would then proceed to comment loudly, publicly and favourably on just about everything I saw being prominently advertised on Facebook. I would be especially gushy over any kind of enterprisey Microsoft ad.

    I just don't see how this can end well for Facebook.

  25. newton joke on Newton II - Does The Rumor Have Legs This Time? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ah, the Apple Newton - ahead of it's time in the field of handwriting recognition. Reminds me of a good joke:

    Q: How many Newtons does it take to change a lightbulb?

    A: Foux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup.