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  1. Thanks, but no thanks. on Visual Guide – the Making of a DIY Space Capsule · · Score: 1

    I knew all about making my own space vehicle back in 1985 when the docu-drama "Explorers" came out. An expert tale crafted by the 'Gremlins' director Joe Dante, and staring a young Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix. It explains how a dream of a circuit board can manifest into "ThunderRoad" and I can make smoochie faces at extra terrestrial life.

    Movie poster

  2. Does it count...? on 'Pushback': Resisting the Life of Constant Connectivity · · Score: 1

    Does it count that I still rock a katana flip phone (much to the annoyance of my carrier)? I mean that seems to cut down on the majority of bloops and beeps when I am not on a PC.. I think I am pushing back!

  3. It is obvious what is going on here.. on FEMA Grounds Private Drones That Were Helping To Map Boulder Floods · · Score: 1

    FEMA came in waving their ray guns, deploying their blackest of black ops, and flashing their cryptozoology psyops all around to cover up a surfacing of the lavamen/magmen from deep in the planet. Clearly they don't want private citizens getting footage of the government men trying to contain, understand, and quell the uprising.

    Duh.

    http://i.imgur.com/fVgoIGN.jpg
    http://i.imgur.com/UbkOHXN.gif
    http://i.imgur.com/FbgR7Kl.jpg

  4. Re:Bye Bye on Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2: Now With New Kickstand! · · Score: 1

    Agreed! The ol' laptop is aged and I really don't want to drop an even larger wad for Wacom's Cintiq Companion!

    Though I hope they hint at releasing game specific cases.. like their Halo skinned one.

  5. Duh - Hidden Valley! on Huge Canyon Discovered Under Greenland Ice · · Score: 1

    So that's where sublime creamy sauce I coat my hot wings comes from! The Hidden Valley Ranch production site has been found!

  6. Riddle me this.. plain-Jane DVR? on TV Show Piracy Soars After CBS Blackout · · Score: 1

    Are there recommendations just a plain-Jane DVR? Something sans subscriptions, sans rentals from my cable company, and just records a show like an old VCR? I don't need fancy HD quality, but something to just get a show or two recorded when I am at the gym or out?

    I've seen some positive reviews of a "Magnavox HDD, DVR" via Wally World, but the three hundo price tag is a bit crazy to roll the dice on.

  7. Oculus Rift + Fundawear = ? on Oculus Rift Guillotine Simulation · · Score: 1

    So I can be put into a visually stunning VR environment with the Oculus, and Durex's Fundawear let's me remotely control another person's under garments? Next you'll tell me about "the three sea shells"!

    What a time we live in!

  8. Thank you Katanna Eclipse X! on Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device By 2017 · · Score: 1

    I was starting to think this 'smart phone fad' was taking traction! If this is the work place of the future then I have a right idea to keep the ol' flip phone functioning. Bwahahaha..

  9. Re:On TV now on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 2

    As a person living in Nebraska I would be staunchly opposed to this.

    So would StratCom.

  10. Re:"I can't just listen to music..." on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 1

    Though I would recommend avoiding the brown noise and/or note.

  11. Derp - we haven't reached post-Awakening Earth! on Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? · · Score: 1

    Duh.. the crash of 2029 hasn't happened yet. That and a nasty patch of BlackIce fried my cyberdeck when I was doing a run against the Lone Star Security Services to free this rigger I need for another run.

    Chummer.

    Source book

  12. Re:Step Two on Handheld Black Hornet Nano Drones Issued To UK Soldiers · · Score: 1

    Naw - step two is making the tracking bullet from Tom Selleck's classic 1984 movie: Runaway.

    Image

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heMboVN12r0

    Step three will be the spiders!

  13. Re:Finally on WotC Releases Old Dungeons & Dragons Catalog As PDFs · · Score: 1

    Aight.. sent.

  14. Re:Finally on WotC Releases Old Dungeons & Dragons Catalog As PDFs · · Score: 1

    Agreed.. Unsure how to 'pm' but I would be interested in the list.

  15. Re:But... But... on WotC Releases Old Dungeons & Dragons Catalog As PDFs · · Score: 1

    Amen to that. Their new 'hack master basic' is free to download.

    HackMaster Basic

  16. Uni-ball Signos - 0.18mm and 0.28mm on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    I picked up a box of both the 0.18 and the 0.28 gel pens... wow! I was taking notes in between the lines of a single spaced page. Great stuff! A bit rough on super fibrous paper, but worth a shot.

    That reminds me - I should look about getting a refill order.

    Uni-ball Signo Bit UM-201 Gel Ink Pen - 0.18 mm - Black

    Uni-ball Signo (DX) UM-151 Gel Ink Pen - 0.28 mm - Black

  17. Finally some Windows phones? on Japan's Softbank Buying Sprint, Creating Third-Largest Global Carrier · · Score: 1

    Will this finally get Sprint on board with Windows8 phones, or do I need to keep getting refurbed flip-phones?

  18. Killing it with fire! on Researchers Say Flame and Stuxnet Share Common Authors · · Score: 1

    Man... how awesome was this picture for the meme world? He's going all "Prometheus" on that side of a dock!

    Thank you to the news staffers who decided to insert that image!

  19. Give 'em hell Johnathon Brisby! on Trained Rats Map Minefields With GPS · · Score: 1

    See! See! I told my parents that the Secret of NIMH wasn't just a fictional piece! Trained smart rats with backpacks CAN help us humans... even after we took their rosebush fort!

  20. Here's my money - take it! on John Carmack Is Building a Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 1

    I'll have my $500 dollars and the cursed Teach Yourself Vrml 2 in 21 Days book in hand waiting to fulfill a young kid's dream! I don't think you'll disappoint Mr. Carmack!

  21. Sad... I won't be able to do it my way.. on Bethesda Announces Elder Scrolls MMO · · Score: 1

    That was always they joy of the last few Elder Scrolls games - I could make a character *MY* way. So I was a thunder bolt wielding master thief that was crazy proficient with his greater enchanted long sword who didn't know blocking was an option until level 24 and didn't pick up a blacksmith hammer until level 51. I go through phases while playing the game to find a character with a skill balance that *I* make work... not some damn tree to pick from or idealized party of tank/healer/ranged classes. Maybe the DLC will keep me going!

  22. Re:42U - Go Big or Go Home on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    Beowulf anyone?

    Ha.. I prefer Windows HPC Server... A little more hobbyist orientated and it provides such easy entry!

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/hpc/cc453771

  23. Someone's math is off! on 'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany · · Score: 1

    Copyright restrictions stop at the end of 2015, 70 years after Hitler's death.

    Since when did it become vogue to think Hitler died almost 70 years ago? Oh.. I see - the Bunker-Believers are finally swaying the public opinion that the oh-so pat closure to the war was done with Hitler taking a cyanide pill. Pffsst... yeah that's a little too neat.. too gift wrapped for the historical shelves if you asked me. It is pretty clear he escaped on a u-boat and went to South America where he spent the rest of his live puttering around small villages searching for clues on various modern mysteries: the Fountain of Youth, amassing crystal skulls, and finding the lost outpost of Gorilla City. Come on people - this is common knowledge!

    Assuming he didn't find the fountain of youth he had another good twenty years on him - which means those patents are pushed back that far as well! Problem solved!

  24. A few options from long ago.. on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising Sequence".
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Is_Rising_Sequence

    John Christopher's "The Tripod" series..
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tripods

  25. Re:Jennicam 2.0? on Startup Wants To Peek Through Your Home's Wired Cameras · · Score: 1

    Wait, wait. Could we go back and cover the part [...]

    I am certain this is *NOT* what they want you to do. As R.J. Madison would say, " *NO* going back.. *NO* covering up!".