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  1. Re:nice try buddy on Prototyping 50 Games in One Semester · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Every game is unique but as you increase the tolerance for considering two games similar you reduce the number of unique games. Colloquially a game is "very unique" when the tolerance required to consider it similar to another game is very large.

  2. Re:1984.... on ACLU Warns of Next Pass At Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    Because some people don't mind if corporations do wrong, they only care about the govt.

  3. Re:A letter worth signing. on ACLU Warns of Next Pass At Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    IMO there's nothing less important in politics than party politics. I don't care what the people who govern put next to their name, their individual performance matters and hiding behind a party as an excuse to not perform to their best is unacceptable. There are more than two political oppinions in the world and the govt should reflect that!

  4. Re:Still a long way to go on Stealth Paint From German Inventor Werner Nickel · · Score: 1

    Presumably they had other methods of travel but spice-fueled travel is the most efficient way.

  5. Still a long way to go on Stealth Paint From German Inventor Werner Nickel · · Score: 5, Funny

    he had bred a worm whose excrement made it possible to grow radishes in the dry desert sand.

    But can that excrement allow humans to see the future and travel faster than light?
  6. Re:Abuse of what trademarks are for... on Google To Be Sued in UK For Trademark-Linked Ads · · Score: 1

    It's about ads, not search results. The results can be what they want, they're facts Google cannot change but ads are something Google has actively allowed and specifically placed there. If the first search result is for a competitor, meh, guess that competitor beat you. If the ads point to your competitor that means the competitor spent money specifically on appearing there and that Google okayed it.

  7. Re:American business/citizens to get in trouble? on Cuba Lifts Ban on Home Computers · · Score: 1

    "This product is licensed, not sold." I don't think the licensing happens between the distributor and the user...

  8. Re:$20 per month??? on Cuba Lifts Ban on Home Computers · · Score: 1

    I doubt that's it, on 20$ equivalent you couldn't survive. However 20$ unadjusted will probably work in quite a few countries.

  9. Re:So.... on Bill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    Yeah but if that's what you put the exception in for it means someone could post the info on a plant in another country on a US website and if that country demanded the website to remove those plans the website would be damned if they do, damned if they don't.

  10. Re:Doesn't matter if it's ads. on Virginia Top Court to Re-Hear Spammer's Conviction · · Score: 1

    And they're ramming a whole bundle of them into each mailbox, stufing some so much that legitimate mail cannot enter and all that despite a big label saying "no ads".

  11. Re:First Amendment covers ads? on Virginia Top Court to Re-Hear Spammer's Conviction · · Score: 1

    The spammers use botnets, they use other people's bandwidth.

  12. Re:First Amendment covers ads? on Virginia Top Court to Re-Hear Spammer's Conviction · · Score: 1

    Meh, this is covered about as much as using a hammer and some letters to ram your message into someone's forehead. It's a damaging act, that it's also speech is secondary to the damage it does IMO.

  13. Re:Primary Exoskeleton Problem on Raytheon Exoskeleton Brings "Iron Man" to Life · · Score: 1

    I believe these things would fill a role of very light armored vehicles that are better at taking cover and hopefully some day cheaper to make and easier to deploy. Maybe one or two per squad to carry heavy weapons. They are most likely more useful in close quarters where a tank is just too unwieldy. They might also be useful for police jobs, allowing the user to enter buildings and withstand small arms fire.

  14. Re:Raytheon likes to solve the wrong problems on Raytheon Exoskeleton Brings "Iron Man" to Life · · Score: 1

    We already have nukes, what we're trying to make is a way to get the guy without levelling the city.

  15. Re:Another movie slashvertisment on Raytheon Exoskeleton Brings "Iron Man" to Life · · Score: 1

    Especially considering Iron Man is probably the last thing a slashdotter would think of when they see powerarmor. We're the kind that thinks of Starship Troopers and Fallout first.

  16. Re:Wow... on MADD Targets GTA IV Over Drunk Driving Scene · · Score: 1

    It's rated M, what more do you want?

  17. Re:The refrain of fascists in every age.... on Early Contenders for the Automotive X-Prize · · Score: 1

    Easier said than done. The limits may be in your head but so is Alzheimer. Many people just are not suitable for bigger jobs than they have. You can't expect some 45 year old IQ 80 guy to get a degree anymore. Hell, at 45 he'll probably not get hired even if he does get one.

  18. Re:Love the snark... not on Early Contenders for the Automotive X-Prize · · Score: 1

    VW made a ~240 mpg car once (back in 2002 it seems), I guess that's why only Detroit and Japan were listed...

  19. Re:Though is some places? on Nevada Governor to Bill Fossett Widow For Search · · Score: 1

    Declaration of human rights (or bill of rights or what your country has), the right to life. Basically requires the govt to help you if you are in a life threatening situation.

  20. Re:Though is some places? on Nevada Governor to Bill Fossett Widow For Search · · Score: 1

    That's a bit different from a search mission though, to call the heli you'd need a cellphone (if that gets reception at the GC) or a radio, those are signals that help them find you without spending days or weeks looking for you with lots of search parties.

    Besides, that's not much different from "hey, I can't afford treatment for that gunshot wound, let's just put a bandaid over it and hope it heals by itself".

  21. Re:Though is some places? on Nevada Governor to Bill Fossett Widow For Search · · Score: 1

    You mean they'd get bought out and if business is slow they might decide to just close the emergency service.

  22. Re:Ignores possibility of the Singularity on Why Life On Mars May Foretell Our Doom · · Score: 1

    What if lightspeed is really a hard barrier no amount of science can get you past? Also what if they've been nearby but never in this system since travelling takes a lot of time so random hopping for no reason is silly and our emissions travel at lightspeed only so they'd have to get within a 100 ly or so sphere (now, of course larger the longer we wait) and start looking for intelligent signals to even know we're here and only then even start moving towards us, taking a long time to get here? Being inside our emissions' radius at the right time isn't too likely unless they have a big point of interest nearby so who knows how often a ship would even travel through our emission sphere?

    Intelligent life may be out there and may be older than us but that doesn't necessitate that they'd have an easy time finding and meeting us.

  23. Re:Ignores possibility of the Singularity on Why Life On Mars May Foretell Our Doom · · Score: 1

    Even IF those civilizations can travel faster than light, our emissions don't so they'd need to be within the range our emissions (don't feel like looking up since when humans have used EM waves but it's around 100 lightyears I think) have expanded to and look for emissions that signify intelligent life.

  24. Re:Ignores possibility of the Singularity on Why Life On Mars May Foretell Our Doom · · Score: 1

    I'd wager that poster learned about the tiny dimensions from one of Hawking's books in first place.

  25. Re:Stopped Reading TFA here.... on Why Life On Mars May Foretell Our Doom · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't those still show up in mass calculations?