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  1. Re:HUH? on US Air Force Overstepped In SpaceX Certification · · Score: 1

    But why should I expect my private business to incurr costs to make some future militarization easier?

  2. Re:Easy fix on Modern Cockpits: Harder To Invade But Easier To Lock Up · · Score: 1

    Actually, not a bad idea (sort of). Add a door just aft of the front restroom and galley. Close and lock it and the cockpit door unlocks and remains unlocked. Flight crew have access to restroom and front galley. Crew returns to the flight deck and the outer door unlocks so passengers and cabin crew can access facilities.

    Some work will have to be done to ensure no-one can hide in this area during the locking procedure.

  3. Girlfriend on Modern Cockpits: Harder To Invade But Easier To Lock Up · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Slashdot. People arguing over topics for which they have no practical experience.

  4. Good? on Ask Slashdot: What Makes Some Code Particularly Good? · · Score: 1

    Spaghetti code is good.

    With lots of meatballs.

  5. Militarization of Space on US Air Force Overstepped In SpaceX Certification · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If it can't be seized and placed under control of the military during times of war*, its not going into space. Gotta make sure we know the key people and which pieces we'll need to grab should we need to mount weapons on it and send it up.

    *That means pretty much any time. As we are always conducting a War Against Something.

  6. Re:Same Thing Almost Happened to Me on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 1

    It cost them almost nothing.

    By including various regulators in your correspondence, you might not get a remedy for your particular problem. But given enough complaints, the regulator might realize that there's a problem with a particular utility and act. Or some public interest group can obtain such correspondence through a FOIA and use it to support legal or legislative action.

    Corporations know that most people can be disuaded by the argument that your individual complaint will get you nowhere. And on a case by case basis they are probably correct. But if they percieve it as one piece of evidence that builds up to some sort of class action, they might be more motivated to fix problems early.

  7. Facebook pokes ... on Facebook Successfully Tests Laser Internet Drones · · Score: 1

    ... are back. And now you can't ignore them.

  8. I'm sure ... on NJ School District Hit With Ransomware-For-Bitcoins Scheme · · Score: 1

    ... Matthew Broderick could still find a way to log in to the system.

  9. And please ... on Russian Official Proposes Road That Could Connect London To NYC · · Score: 1

    ... for to make roads fitting T-90 Russian tank.

  10. Re:Same Thing Almost Happened to Me on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I went down to the Comcast office to confirm

    Your mistake. They have no problem lying to a customer's face. Conduct all correspondence by e-mail. And make sure the CCs to the state utilities commission, attorney general and FCC are clearly visible.

  11. Re:the AARP-files on The X-Files To Return · · Score: 1

    Ayy LMAO!

  12. Re:Fad over? on The X-Files To Return · · Score: 2

    Real dystopian world domination by corporations

    Corporations run by the lizard people.

  13. What is ... on Hack Air-Gapped Computers Using Heat · · Score: 1

    ... the signal to noise ratio in an office full of coffee cups?

  14. [Sigh] Here I am, ... on Bring On the Boring Robots · · Score: 2

    .... brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to bring you drinks. Call that job satisfaction? Cause I don't.

  15. Re:Airplane vs Satellite on Finland To Fly "Open Skies" Surveillance Flight Over Russia · · Score: 1

    I don't know. Does Finland have a lot of spy satellites?

    Apparantly not

  16. Re:Pretty neat pictures on NASA's Abandoned Launch Facilities · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Progress but... on Child Psychotherapist: Easy and Constant Access To the Internet Is Harming Kids · · Score: 2

    And also learn new skills for coping.

    But this is what gets the conservatives panties in a bunch. They don't want to teach kids critical thinking skills. They just want times to go back to the way they were when a small town's culture was taught by the local preacher. And they could control the populations belief systems by instilling a sense of fear of 'outsiders'.

    That Interweb is nothing but a bunch of outsiders.

  18. Re:Progress but... on Child Psychotherapist: Easy and Constant Access To the Internet Is Harming Kids · · Score: 1

    And the 1/3 of us that live out in the woods don't come in to town all that often to carry off potential brides

  19. Re:And now why this can not be done in the USofA on Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Powering Itself Using Only Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Wind and Solar. All other energy generation is blasphemy to the environmentalist religion.

    Not really. Look at some of the offshore wind farm projects in Massachusetts and New York that were shut down by "environmentalists" who just didn't want their million dollar views disturbed. That "religion" is for sale.

    And the habitat restoration originally envisioned with the dismantling of the Elwha Dam is getting environmentalists' panties in a bunch as well. The speed at which migratory fish are repopulating the new habitat is undermining the theory that unique species or families of salmon must return to their own spawning grounds. And so every piece of habitat deserves its own protection. It turns out that the fish are perfectly happy to swim up any convenient river. This also means that one of the major arguments against fisheries; that they reduce genetic variability and thereby increase susceptibility to disease, can easily be mitigated by swapping stock between fisheries.

  20. Re:How comforting on Android's Smart Lock Won't Ask You For a Password Until You Set Your Phone Down · · Score: 1

    "Was this the face that launched a thousand apps?"

  21. Jurisdiction on UK Government Admits Intelligence Services Allowed To Break Into Any System · · Score: 1

    claims they are legally justified to hack anyone, anywhere in the world,

    GCHQ/FBI personnel had better not travel abroad anywhere. If some country takes issue with their servers being hacked, the prison sentence could be rather long.

  22. Re:Kill dogs, why not people??? on WHO Report Links Weed Killer Ingredient To Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    Anything that kills a living organism is potentially a problem for humans.

    Chocolate (cocoa) can kill dogs.

  23. Re:Doesn't smoke or drink or have tattoos on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There appears to be something really wrong with this kid if he doesn't engage in normal peer behavior.

  24. Re:The perps on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    The perps get such a kick out of watching this unfold on streaming video. I hope they put a webcam on their prison cell so we can all watch them for the next 5 years. Those that live by the sword ....

  25. Re:List culled from public sources, and here it is on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1

    Please, not Private Gomer Pyle.