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  1. Re:You can't manage to build a level tank? on Fukushima Leak Traced To Overflow Tank Built On a Slope · · Score: 1

    The Japanese always know best.

  2. Re:NOT News For Nerds on Pentagon Spent $5 Billion For Weapons On Day Before Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Ironically, I think it's both.

    Or maybe that's just sad.

  3. Re:NOT News For Nerds on Pentagon Spent $5 Billion For Weapons On Day Before Shutdown · · Score: 0

    Except that the NSA has laws that it's supposed to be adhering to. Constitutional thingys.

    Slashdot doesn't. It's whatever matters to the editors.

    Deal with it & move on.

  4. Re: Bill Gates' response: on Microsoft Investors Call For Bill Gates To Step Down As Chairman · · Score: 2

    He holds billions of stakes.

  5. Re:Doomed to failure on Japanese Start-up Plans Hydrogen Fuel Cell For 2014 · · Score: 2

    Can you imagine their product lines?

    This is our princess line.
    These tiny ones are our oompa loompa models.
    This special one is our queenie.

  6. Re:And with that ... on German NSA Critic Denied Entry To the US · · Score: 1

    I misphrased what I said.

    I meant to say that free speech WAS only for American citizens, and never was for anyone else.

  7. Re:And with that ... on German NSA Critic Denied Entry To the US · · Score: 1

    You do realize that free speech is only for American citizens, right?

    There is no free speech in America for non-Americans. Never has been.

  8. Re:Remember all those times Bush blocked... on German NSA Critic Denied Entry To the US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, it's really horrible that he doesn't want his own country spied on.

    A real bad actor, this guy.

  9. Re:Nice! on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here are a few key areas we are still working on:

    ALL OF THEM!

  10. Re:TL;DR Version on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    Your parsing is different than mine then.

    pilots who tested ipads

    fought

    IT who wanted Surface2

  11. Re:Huh on Bypassing US GPS Limits For Active Guided Rockets · · Score: 1

    How is the GPS accuracy any different for either?

    You're talking about flight characteristics.

  12. Re:TL;DR Version on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    They outsourced that part.

  13. Re:TL;DR Version on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 0

    And here's a story saying the pilots, who tested out iPads, fought against IT, who wanted to use the Surface2.

    http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/09/30/delta-pilots-fought-against-deal-to-replace-ipad-flight-bags-with-microsoft-surface

    Basically, a CIO saying 'I don't give a fuck what the users want, we'll tell them what the get'.

  14. Re:TL;DR Version on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    It worked spectacularly for them once upon a time, so they now assume it will work every time.

  15. Re:Huh on Bypassing US GPS Limits For Active Guided Rockets · · Score: 1

    Do you really need precision strikes for high speed missiles?

    I found my wife's phone that she dropped in a park by using Find Your iPhone app.

    That's probably close enough for any missile.

  16. Re:This solves nothing on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 1

    That's a 15x improvement.

    Good, but still 1/4 of gasoline.

    And obviously not out of the lab yet. Even years later.

  17. Re:^This on Students Hack School-Issued iPads Within One Week · · Score: 1

    Now it's 'serious tech work'? Those goal posts shifted awful quickly.

    Lots of actual companies use them as the future. From commercial airlines to medical facilities.

  18. Re:Worst idea ever on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 1

    By using the virtually unlimited amounts already present in the atmosphere.

    Why do people keep not getting this idea?

  19. Re:Mixed Blessing on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 2

    Or mine rare earth minerals required in modern batteries?

  20. Re:This solves nothing on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's some pretty good delusion there.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densities_of_common_energy_storage_materials

    Let us know when batteries get a 60x improvement in energy density.

  21. Re:Mixed Blessing on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 1

    Gasoline that added CO2/CO/other gasses to the environment by the tons per day is bad.

    This isn't that.

  22. Re:Where to start with this one...? on Saudi Cleric Pummeled On Twitter For Claiming Driving Damages Women's Ovaries · · Score: 1

    Heh, to be fair, countries with relatively few cars for the population have higher birth rates.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_birth_rate

    But I'm pretty sure it's not the lack of cars that skews those results.

  23. Re:That popping sound on Central New York Nuclear Plants Struggle To Avoid Financial Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Estimation of a currently unknown problem with a currently unknown scope isn't fucking close to actual science, or mathematics.

    It's called guessing.

  24. Re:That popping sound on Central New York Nuclear Plants Struggle To Avoid Financial Meltdown · · Score: 1

    And reduce the efficacy of the poison in puffer fish!

  25. Re:Please come to my neighborhood on Saudi Cleric Pummeled On Twitter For Claiming Driving Damages Women's Ovaries · · Score: 2

    Can we all agree that old people in helicopters are the worst for driving too slow and over the line?