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  1. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I voted for Hillary in 2008. I won't vote for her again.

    Yeah, you've said that about a hundred times in this thread already. We've got it. Give it a rest.

  2. Re:Linux - forced updates?? on Ask Slashdot: Make Windows Update Install Only Security Updates Automatically? · · Score: 1

    Obviously not running testing...

  3. Re:Galaxies Moving Away? Really? on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 2

    Because they are really close together (on a cosmological scale). Gravity rules at this scale.

  4. Re:What's it good for? on Russia May Be Planning National Space Station To Replace ISS · · Score: 2

    Consider Philae - if it had landed a few meters in another direction it would still be working. If it had been a manned expedition, that wouldn't have been an issue.

    Uh, yeah but how would you have kept the skinbags alive for the 10-year trip to the comet?

  5. Re:astronomers might not like this. on Elon Musk's Next Mission: Internet Satellites · · Score: 1

    Kappa-sigma stacking is your friend...

  6. Re:Ring Spacing Reason? on Revolutionary New View of Baby Planets Forming Around a Star · · Score: 1

    Resonance.

  7. The sound of on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1, Troll

    *crickets*

    If you can't say something nice...

  8. In terms of manned flight... on Antares Rocket Explodes On Launch · · Score: 1

    This incident got me to thinking about manned flight and the designs for crew escape options. I wonder if the designs/specs for crew escape mechanisms would work for a failure of this type (catastrophic system failure in the first seconds of flight), or if it's game over if the launch fails early.

  9. Re:I'm starting to wonder... on Taking the Ice Bucket Challenge With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1
  10. I wonder how hard it would be to do a browser plug-in for that...

  11. It's... on Is Earth Weighed Down By Dark Matter? · · Score: 2

    Yo mama!

  12. Re:Not ... exactly. on Engineering the Perfect Coffee Mug · · Score: 1

    Based on my (admittedly non-scientific) testing, between 140F and 150F is the sweet spot where the coffee flavor is the most intense while still being reasonably hot. Hotter than 150, I don't taste the flavors of the coffee as much. Cooler than 140, it doesn't feel like a hot cup of coffee. YMMV...

  13. FTFY on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: 1

    If a private sector insurance salesman promised that, it would be called business as usual.

  14. Re:Grocery Store Secrets on Researchers Discover Way To Spot Crappy Coffee · · Score: 1

    Fascinating. Does your dog like the leftover bits/essence of coffee that winds up in his bowl? Does it make him/her hyper? Do you like the dog food essence in your coffee? I wonder if I'm missing out on something here.

    #:-)

    No, its more like this.

  15. Re:Grocery Store Secrets on Researchers Discover Way To Spot Crappy Coffee · · Score: 1

    I do two week's worth at a time using a dog bowl and a hot-air gun. It's dead easy, takes minimal, off-the-shelf equipment and about a half hour of heating/stirring (I do a batch each of two varieties to blend).

    I used to treat it like a hobby (specialized roaster, monitoring/graphing temps with a thermocouple, etc.) but that got old. I decided to simplify and now for me it's just another household task - that yields an excellent brew every morning...

  16. Re:Hey... on Court Upholds Ruling On Dish Network's 'Hopper' · · Score: 2

    Hmmm, sounds a lot like the NSA's approach....

  17. Re:All Jokes Aside... Still No. on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 2

    The jokers are the ones who didn't read TFA. So sad. Especially when TFA is such a good read and is actually "News For Nerds"!

  18. Re:10 moon masses sounds awfully small.... on Colliding, Exploding Stars May Have Created All the Gold On Earth · · Score: 1

    Lead is a special case because it is an especially stable nucleus, and can be created by the s-process in asymptotic giant branch stars (ie., no supernova required). Not that your ratios are wrong, but extrapolation from the r-process alone (ie., supernova or something similar required) would be inaccurate.

  19. Re:It's the only way to kill him on Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    He ... didn't kill law enforcement officials, etc. Thus this is the only charge that the federal government can bring against him that could result in the death penalty. It's not about being politically charged - it's about them desiring to be able to kill him, and not having another way to go about it.

    I'm pretty sure they (allegedly) killed a cop in the days after the marathon attack...

  20. Re:Why? on Quantum-Tunneling Electrons Could Make Semiconductors Obsolete · · Score: 1

    Should? Who says? The subatomic world is not a prison where things should be held back by barriers.The fact of tunneling has been known about for some time and "shoulds and shouldn'ts" have nothing to do with it. It's like saying things "want" to fall because of gravity. Just utterly cretinous.

    Nature hates being anthropomorphized...

  21. Re:NSA, are you supised we caught you? Really? on NSA Surveillance May Have Dealt Major Blow To Global Internet Freedom Efforts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    2nd amendment - sacred
    4th amendment - meh...

  22. Re:We will again set an example for the world on NSA Surveillance May Have Dealt Major Blow To Global Internet Freedom Efforts · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sure but then why didn't the US citizens throw out Obama or Bush after the 1st presidential term ? He didn't go to the White House for the second time of his own free will. Lazy, morally corrupt, couch potatoes american citizens voted this lier for a second term. So who the fuck is to blame eh ? A 2 party system is no better than a 1 party system especially when the 2 sides agree on almost everything that has to do with fucking the american citizen.

    FTFY....

  23. Re:Which amendment would you like to lose today? on Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

    I see comments everywhere decrying this. Where is the lack of concern, or are you just making shit up because you hate the 2nd?

    QED

  24. Which amendment would you like to lose today? on Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Funny how there's such a huge passionate uproar about supposed loss of second amendement rights, but comparitively little concern about actual loss of fourth amendment rights...

  25. Re:Nanny Politics on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 1

    That's not a real citation, it's an article in the New York Daily News (not exactly a scientific journal - not really even much of a newspaper) which doesn't link to the study they reference.

    You make some pretty unambiguous statements listing several things are more dangerous than talking on a cell phone. Unless you are prepared to back them up with anything resembling scientific evidence, you need to STFU and get back under the bridge with the rest of the trolls.

    I'm not making any claims other than the claim that you are talking out your ass.