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  1. Re:until someone hacks it on Rolls Royce Developing Drone Cargo Ships · · Score: 1

    Or just gas anyone who comes on board the moment they set off an internal PIR.

  2. Re: Why would it be infeasable? on Report: Space Elevators Are Feasible · · Score: 1

    The planet's lovely, but there're all these shitty people to contend with...

  3. Re:Flying pigs on Report: Space Elevators Are Feasible · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Protective polymer coating, topped up every time the car passes over it?

  4. Re:Manipulative headline on Study Finds Methane Leaks Negate Benefits of Natural Gas-Powered Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Orbital solar with microwave downlinks. "Oops, it lost geosync!" -> population crisis solved!

  5. Re:Manipulative headline on Study Finds Methane Leaks Negate Benefits of Natural Gas-Powered Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I didn't say become a freegan micromanaging communist, I said solve the energy problem. I'm pretty sure you'd be better off in 200 years with the technological benefits 180+ years of free energy would unlock. The environmental stuff is pure bonus.

  6. Re:Manipulative headline on Study Finds Methane Leaks Negate Benefits of Natural Gas-Powered Vehicles · · Score: 2

    Those are both aspects of making it practicable. The main method I'd recommend for solving that issue is to ignore the drooling masses, and just get the fuckers built. They'll soon shut up once they're addicted to the delicious delicious energy, now with free clean air!

  7. Re:Manipulative headline on Study Finds Methane Leaks Negate Benefits of Natural Gas-Powered Vehicles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or, you know, get a little perspective, realise that those imaginary shiny pennies are inconsequential compared to the long term survival of our species, and just do what it takes to make fission/fusion/solar a practicable, virtually endless, virtually free supply, and just make this whole energy scarcity issue vanish in a puff of science.

    But then they wouldn't be able to rinse us common folk for every penny we've got through fuel costs and associated taxes, would they?

  8. Re:...but if you want free software to improve... on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    Because LLVM trusted the license, rather than making the compiler internals so opaque and baroque that no one could isolate, say, the parser.

  9. Re:Easy fix on Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU · · Score: 4, Funny

    Read Slashdot at -1.

  10. You what? on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It really took Americans 16 years to work this out? To me, the satire was brazenly obvious the moment I watched it for the first time all those years ago.

  11. Re:It's a shame homophobephobes won't see it on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 0

    I'm not going to lose much sleep over being intolerant to bellends. They don't *have* to be dickheads.

  12. Re:T2K Fix on TxK, Tempest 2000 Remake for PS Vita Demoed · · Score: 1

    Or just download Dio's Jag emulator, and the freely legally available T2K ROM.

  13. Re:That article was fucking awful. on Crossing the Divide From Software Dev To Hardware Dev · · Score: 1

    Apparently someone can't operate Google Images.

  14. Re:Silly on Full Screen Mario: Making the Case For Shorter Copyrights · · Score: 2

    Replace Mario with a self portrait, and the enemies with lizard-lawyers, and they'll be golden!

  15. Re:The alternative on New Drug Mimics the Beneficial Effects of Exercise · · Score: 1

    It's called 5-HTP - it's pretty safe as long as you're not an idiot.

  16. Re:Exciting Times on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    THEY'RE FLUORIDATING OUR AVGAS!
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  17. Re:If hacking is outlawed on Judge Rules In Favor of Volkswagen and Silences Scientist · · Score: 2

    Not to mention Skoda and Seat, both selling cars aimed at the cheaper end.

  18. Arithmetic and mathematics are different on College Students Hijack $80 Million Yacht With GPS Signal Spoofing · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not really, you can get quite far by learning to multiply by 2 and 10, divide by 2, and add and subtract. Learning the squares is quite useful, too. Not quite as quick as rote memorisation, but not everyone's suited to being a conformist drone. I got the highest grade going in my mathematics exams right up until college with such basic techniques.

    I don't know about you, but I don't get many people stopping me on the street to demand I perform simple multiplication. Even if I did, I'd tell them to JFGI.

    Being a computer scientist was probably half the problem - when you've been programming from age 5, it becomes abundantly clear that the how and why of mathematics are important, and not the mere implementation detail of arithmetic.

  19. Re:Well no shit. on Breaking Up With MakerBot · · Score: 1

    Probably some outrageously sexy SGI machine, like a Crimson, or an Onyx. You can probably pick one up today second hand for a fraction of the cost of an Amiga 3000 toy.

  20. Re:Pardon my ignorance on Scientists Work To Produce 'Star Trek' Deflector Shields · · Score: 1

    One Zone of Absolute Fortune, coming right up!

  21. Re:Small runtime? on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points, this is a lovely explanation of the concept.

  22. Re:Small runtime? on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    And how to you get to main?

    "main" is not the entry point, some variant of "start" typically is. The C runtime is the exceptionally thin veneer of code that constructs the first activation record for main and calls it through it.

  23. Re:Small runtime? on Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime · · Score: 1

    The problem is you keep using the phrase "virtual machine", and an exceptionally pedantic and niche definition of it that is not commonly understood. Most people will think system virtual machines or managed system emulators - setting a few registers, calling a few init/constructor routines, and jumping to main will hardly conform to that concept.

    If you just said the C runtime consists of startup/shutdown code and a few utility functions, I'm sure you'd find fewer people arguing with you.

  24. Re:Cooking on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 2

    You mean the metric cup of 250ml, the metric tbsp of 15ml, and the metric tsp of 5ml?

  25. Re:3 Million Sigantures?! on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1

    Syrup of dandelion flowers tastes quite similar to honey.