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  1. Re:A better idea on NSA Director Keith Alexander Is Reportedly Stepping Down · · Score: 1

    It didn't work out for Anakin Skywalker and it hasn't worked out for us. Will we ever learn?

  2. Re:How hard can it be? on Yeti Bears Up Under Scrutiny · · Score: 1
  3. I like it on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Looks good, keep up the good work. Most of the ones complaining are just used to what they've had and don't like change. I mean it's not like you went all v.4 Digg.

  4. Section 31 on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 1

    I bet they love this part of Starfleet.

  5. WTF on Disney Closes LucasArts · · Score: 1

    All I asked for was an undated to today's standard in graphics Tie Fighter. And you can't even do that. One of the richest trove of made for video games universes in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones and somehow you fuck it up and can't stay in business. I don't understand. They should be a juggernaut in the Video Game world.

  6. Two Words: on Why All the Higgs Hate? It's a 'Vanilla' Boson · · Score: 1

    Primer Fields

  7. John Titor on You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows · · Score: 1

    Didn't John Titor warn us about this?

  8. MIT STUDENTS SHOULD PROTEST THIS WAY on MIT Warned of a JSTOR Death Sentence Due To Swartz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Every student at MIT should download and article from JSTOR and post it online. Everyone. Let's see the system deal with that.

  9. Try this out on Exposure to Backlit Displays Reduces Melatonin Production · · Score: 1
  10. They should reinvestigate this.... on How To Line a Thermonuclear Reactor · · Score: 2
  11. Re:That's good news on Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Mr. Mom

  12. Re:Completely inexplicable... on Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer · · Score: 1

    you mean the *fact* of La Nina and arctic oscillation on top of each other, which has happened many, many times in history? This isn't global warming/climate change, sorry pal

    Who you calling pal, dude?

  13. Aneutronic Fusion on Ask MIT Researchers About Fusion Power · · Score: 1

    So was/is there anything to Bogdan Malich's Aneutronic Fusion Migma that can be applied to any of the current projects?

  14. Formula to for Threat Determination on Measuring China's Cyberwar Threat · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure you can determine China's Cyberwar Threat level by determining the ratio of Shrute Bucks to Stanley Nickels and multiply by 3.

  15. Re:Don't waste your time worrying on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    Beta has the added risk of beaming out an x-ray if passing through lead.

  16. Re:If true... on Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet May Use US Technology · · Score: 1

    The only people reporting that the Chinese Stealth Fighter is even match for the Raptor are the Chinese and even they can't keep a straight face when they say it. Its bigger, heavier, slower, its radar capabilities are at least 15 years behind the Raptors and they aren't stealthy at all to the Raptors.

  17. Re:GDI NOOOO! on King's Dark Tower Series To Be Adapted For Film, TV · · Score: 1

    Josh Holloway will do just fine in Eastwood's place. Don't misunderstand me, Eastwood at 30 for this, there is no better casting choice for this role. Since that isn't going to be possible, Holloway will do.

  18. Thank God on New Optomechanical Crystal Allows Confinement of Light and Sound · · Score: 1

    We finally have the technology to destroy PinHead forever. Amen.

  19. Re:Or you could just breed your dog on Get the Family Dog Cloned · · Score: 1

    I wasn't relating this to intelligence, just to the comment, "why would anyone want a dog?". My dog can turn off the lights(lightswitches, open doors(doors with doorknobs) and knows what switch to hit to put the garage door so she can go out. I'll take that kind of intelligence any day over a cats intelligence of just lying around all day.

  20. Re:Or you could just breed your dog on Get the Family Dog Cloned · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because my dog, and everyone I've ever had in my lifetime(9), will risk her life for me and my family defending us. She will not stop, until she is dead, if she feels we are threatened. No cat will/would do this. With dogs there is a true bond, with cats only an agreement.

  21. This is what happens... on Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when you mess around with "Omega" particles.

  22. I've got the perfect replacement on Wisdom From The Last Ninja · · Score: 1

    Sho Kosugi URL:http://www.acidlogic.com/im_shokosugi.htm

  23. Re:Silly Americans Again on Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls · · Score: 1

    I think it's you who need to bone up on your history. The reason there was very little German resistance after the war was due to my previous post. That and the fact that every citizen had to register under the Allied command.

    Also, I think you forget the kind of Generals America had at that time, people like Patton(who was dead by the end of the war) who stated, "Kill them all, let God sort them out". Back then, the military did what needed to be done without the fear of being prosecuted like today.

    You also forget General Curtis Lemay, who basically firebombed Japan back into the stone age and who stated that if the Americans had lost he would have been prosecuted as a war criminal.

    War is dirty business, but the object is to win, no matter what. All the people who disagree with that either have never or will never face death at the hands of another.

  24. Re:Silly Americans Again on Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls · · Score: 0

    If we fought in Iraq like we did in WWII when we occupied Germany we wouldn't have these problems of insurgency. Back then if someone exploded a car bomb or shot our soldiers, we just pulled out of the city, shelled it for 24 hours(all of it) then came back in and basically said, "anyone else want to take us on, because we can do this until none of you are left".

    By making it a living hell for everyone, if the enemy attacks our soldiers, then the people stop hiding these insurgents or supporting them.

    We've just let political correctness make it harder to put these kind of things down.

  25. Here is some info that you might find interesting on Women's Institute Consulted on Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    Saudi Arabia isn't running out of oil! Posted: November 1, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Matthew Simmons, author of "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy," is one of the oil industry's chief proponents of the "Peak Oil Theory." Essentially, Simmons argues that Saudi Arabia's oil production "peaked" during the 1978-1982 Iranian oil crisis, reaching only briefly an unsustainable production level exceeding 10 million barrels of oil per day. At the core of his analysis are some 200 technical reports which examine Saudi oil wells and production figures, arguing in nearly every case that the oil field under examination is limited and doomed to become depleted. Craig Smith and I wrote "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil" to debate the contentions of Matthew Simmons and other "Peak Production" oil analysts. Central to the argument that oil is fossil fuel is that we are bound to run out of oil. After all, only a finite number of dinosaurs and ancient forests were available to rot into oil. So, inevitably we must run out of oil, so goes the tautology that is at the heart of fossil-fuel thinking. Mr. Smith and I disagree, arguing instead that oil is an "a-biotic" product that is naturally produced by the Earth on an ongoing basis, such that the world should never run out of oil, despite increasing worldwide consumption of oil. Our thinking agrees with that of Cornell astronomer Thomas Gold, who in his 1998 book, "The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels," argued that hydrocarbons are formed naturally in our planetary system and beyond. Dr. Gold noted that Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have large admixtures of hydrocarbons in their atmospheres, chiefly in the form of hydrocarbons, mainly methane. He commented that Titan, a moon of Saturn, has clouds formed of methane and ethane. Dr. Gold doubted that there ever were "stagnant swamps" or dinosaurs on Titan. If hydrocarbons could be formed naturally on other planets, Dr. Gold argued we should assume the Earth also is capable of generating hydrocarbons without the need for the debris of photosynthesized life to decay into oil. Oil industry experts, like Matthew Simmons, hold to their "Peak Production" views even when evidence contradicts their arguments. The Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy, currently estimates that Saudi Arabia will maintain current production levels of 10.5 to 11.0 million barrels per day and are "easily capable of producing up to 15 million barrels per day in the future and maintaining that level for 50 years," despite Simmons contention that the Saudis have only been able to exceed 10 million barrels per day for brief periods of time. The EIA also quotes Khalid al-Falih, Aramco's senior vice president of gas operations, as stating that by 2006, Saudi Arabia would have 90 drilling rigs in the kingdom, more than double the number of rigs operating in 2004. This is in direct contrast to the pessimistic view painted by Simmons, who sees only depleting Saudi wells and increasing difficulty exploring new oil fields. Aramco estimates that the total depletion for Saudi oil fields is 28 percent, with the giant Ghawar field having produced 48 percent of its proved reserves. Still, Aramco insists that Saudi oil reserves are underestimated, not overestimated, as outside experts such as Simmons contend. Simmons typically sees more rapid depletion rates and a higher "water cut" than the Saudis report. Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi now maintains that the kingdom's proven oil reserves are more properly estimated at 1.2 trillion barrels, hugely more than the 261 billion barrels of reserves previously estimated. "Saudi Arabia now has 1.2 trillion barrels of estimated reserve," Al-Naimi told an international conference in April 2004. "This estimate is very conservative. Our analysis gives us reason to be very optimistic. We are continuing to discover new resources, and we are using new technologies to e