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  1. Re:Better fund water wells than flame throwers on Commercial Flamethrower Successfully Crowdfunded · · Score: 4, Funny

    Says you.
    I've been itching to whole roast a deer mid jump.

  2. Re:It depends on What Makes the Perfect Gaming Mouse? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I prefer using a trackball. But the only decent form factor (thumb ball, 3+button and scroll wheel) I can find is the logitech mx570, which has horrible life expectancy for the buttons.
    My experiences have mirrored the reviews. 6 month average before the left or middle button stops clicking normally and starts going off randomly. The little springs in the buttons crap out and don't push the button back properly.

  3. Re:Thats it? on New 3D Printing Process Claimed To Be 25X Faster Than Current Technology · · Score: 0

    I'm pretty sure the resin will lose structural integrity well before 10,000rpm.

  4. Re:Defense? on Laser Takes Out Truck Engine From a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    Right...

    *bad mobster accent" "No sir officer, nothing illegal here. We're just three guys going for an afternoon drive in our truck.
    Oh, the trailer? The one with the 30kw laser assembly and diesel generator to power it? The 30 foot long double wide trailer that weighs 20 tons? Oh, that's my grandma's. We're just delivering it for her. Why, is a tail light out?"

  5. Re:Like everything else M$... on What Would Minecraft 2 Look Like Under Microsoft? · · Score: 2

    Yeah. A year ago the idea of recoding minecraft in C# would have been a bad joke.
    But with microsoft open sourcing the .NET framework it does sound like a good idea. Both as a sound business decision (a killer app for the newly cross platform .NET) and a technical decision.

  6. Re:One Word ... on As Big As Net Neutrality? FCC Kills State-Imposed Internet Monopolies · · Score: 1

    Now begins the stall tactics. "Grass roots" opposition on the basis of the project would be a huge waste. Officials who support the projects finding themselves target by cookie cutter *insert politician name here* attack ads on cable.
    All so their lobby drones have more time to rewrite the laws and make it illegal again.

  7. Re:not fit for human consumption on Banned Weight-loss Drug Could Combat Liver Disease, Diabetes · · Score: 1

    Is that like a Sex on the Beach but with seltzer added?
    Or do you just drink it prematurely?

  8. Re:Is that really a lot? on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 2

    So you honestly believe that employers who currently treat their workers like disposible slaves wouldn't keep doing the same thing if they could start paying them 1/10th what they currently do?
    You have gone completely off the libertarian deep end. Dear god i hope you aren't in a position of educational authority.

  9. Re:Is that really a lot? on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bullshit. Minimum wage is supposed to keep employers from abusing the desperate by making sure someone working full time or more can afford to survive without working themselves to death.
    When people have to work 18 hours a day, 7 days a week just to afford a roof and food they find crime becomes an attractive alternative.

  10. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Watch Videos in Synch with Fellow iOS Users (Video) · · Score: 2

    Google hangouts has a youtube option that syncs youtube across the hangout.

  11. Re:Three-month-old Continuum screenshot on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 2

    Different but not horrible. Kinda like when they changed the classic 9x/2000 start menu with XP.
    10 is looking decent enough to give a shot.

  12. Re: It's a little early on Americans Support Mandatory Labeling of Food That Contains DNA · · Score: 1

    This product contains DNA modified for safe human consumption. Courtesy of your friendly GMO.

  13. Re:Bullshit on At Oxford, a Battery That's Lasted 175 Years -- So Far · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, we americans would never keep under performing, outdated electrical appliances around for the historic factor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
    And we have no attachment whatsoever to historical figures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

  14. Re:parachutes? on Lost Beagle2 Probe Found 'Intact' On Mars · · Score: 5, Informative

    Really? Well shit, good thing you figured it out.
    Better tell all those PHDs and other people who do that for a living before they blindly chuck any more multi-billion dollar probes at Mars without any effective means of slowing down.

  15. Re:The Dangers of the World on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 4, Funny

    CPS was Hydra's fallback in case SHIELD was a bust.

  16. Re:Expectations of privacy on FBI Says Search Warrants Not Needed To Use "Stingrays" In Public Places · · Score: 1

    Silly citizen. It only took a decade of engineering work with industry help to lift the veil of privacy on those conversations. You can't seriously expect privacy when circumventing it is so easy.

    If you want privacy, don't use a method of communication so easily tapped into by multi-million dollar custom hardware and and 24x7 team of highly trained agents.
    I mean, you might as well be yelling it for all to hear.

  17. Re:They could've done even better on Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' · · Score: 2

    This way they can double dip.
    First they get to sell off outdated hardware they already manufactured.
    Then they get to sell the new kit to replace the old stuff.

  18. Re:One word on Should Video Games Be In the Olympics? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it would be clowns doing the announcing for that. "And xXx_L33T_MSTR_PWNS_UR_M0M_xXx finishes his final round of Duck Hunt with a 360 Noscope Eyes Closed Backflip, downing the last duck and sticking the landing! Now we go to the judges.... PWN, PWN, L33T, PWN, and a Tryhard. One L33T, 3 PWNs, and one Tryhard for an average score of PWN. Which is enough for xXx_L33T_MSTR_PWNS_UR_M0M_xXx to take the gold for Canada, edging ==KILLA_KLOWN_KENNY== from USA down to silver and Sven96 from France to bronze."

  19. Re:Mobile police stations on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 1

    The NYPD has more than 34,000 uniforms and 8,800 cars across 77 precincts. Shifting even 1/3rd of a precinct into a mobile base would take a wee bit more than a couple RVs and some street side parking. Then you add in increased utility bills since RVs have a fraction of the insulation and much less thermal mass inside. And RV replacement bills from broken walls and whatnot (even the external walls are thin, and not exactly easy to repair).

    No, I think structural anchors, massive ballons, and fusion powered thrusters to lift a building and move it would be cheaper than making the NYPD nomads.

  20. Re:Mobile police stations on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 2

    How? Huge balloons anchored to the station building?
    Lift off like a terran barracks and plunk down where needed to churn out cops?

  21. Re:I wonder who bought him on UK MP Says ISPs Must Take Responsibility For Movie Leaks, Sony Eyes North Korea · · Score: 2

    ISPs should take partial responsibility if Mr. MP adviser takes partial responsibility for all the crime facilitated by the public roads and sidewalks.
    1% responsibility for movie hosting vs 1% responsibility for 600+ murders a year.

  22. Re:We'll build our own station on Russia May Be Planning National Space Station To Replace ISS · · Score: 1

    Spain and portugal better get to work on central and south america. Heck of a lot of countries they need to annex while russia and england only have a couple.

  23. Re:OMG! on "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon · · Score: 1

    A boss?

  24. Re:Don't you know? on Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund · · Score: 1

    $8 USB stick doesn't fix email problems.
    Or record keeping/attendance.
    Or video calls.

    Or spur of the moment media needs for that matter. Being able to go off on a tangent to answer good questions posed by your students is an effective teaching tool. Or are you one of those that believes the cold, rigid bootcamp style of reading directly from a pre-prepared lesson plan and squashing all unexpected/unapproved curiosity is the most effective means to teach children?

  25. Someday I will discover their secrets.
    I tried gold plating my own fiber optic cables but they just stopped working.