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  1. By the way, also undermining the value of this test was the fact that a test chamber is a grounded metal tube. Running in free space is utterly difference, as hs been discovered the hard way

  2. Huh? on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What the heck does this have to do with civil rights? Is some governmental agency preventing him from voting or serving on a jury?

  3. Re:Wi-Fi toothpick on Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon · · Score: 1

    Wi-Fi toilet paper. Finally, mankind's eternal dream of wiping from the keyboard cones true!

  4. Re:Do not understand this. on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you don't want that, then don't turn yourself into a circus attraction. These people are mentally disturbed. Not only are we not getting them the assistance they need, we are absolutely encouraging them to mutilate themselves based on their delusions, and trying to force everyone else to think it's a genetic imperative and indulge them in every way possible.

  5. Re:Oddly specific denial on Confirmed: CBS News Reporter's Computer Compromised · · Score: 0

    Why is the justice department denial so specific:

        Because it wasn't the Justice Department? I would have assumed it was someone associated with the Obama campaign. I am sure there would be no shortage of volunteers.

  6. Re:Call is for new fuels for existing engines on FAA Wants All Aircraft Flying On Unleaded Fuel By 2018 · · Score: 1

    No, they are not asking for workable new fuels, because there is no substitute for lead for the older engines. This is exactly as the GP suggests, this will put these people either out of business due to excess replacement cost or ground the airplanes that have not be cleared by the FAA for using pump gas.

          I also presume that this is part of the intent, no one care if general aviation is put out of business when worshipping at the alter of bogus environmentalism.

  7. In other news on Lizard Named For Jim Morrison · · Score: 2

    Legions of Doors fans flocked to the lizard's gravesite, although many believed the lizard was not really dead.

  8. Re:Why? on Repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act Rejected · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh, the OP is hoping for abuses. They have no problem with abusing the system, as long as they get to do the abusing.

  9. Re:Producing Credit: Bender B. Rodriguez on Futurama Cancelled (Again) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And the blackjack

  10. Sociobiology on Terrible Advice From a Great Scientist · · Score: 2

    This is not a science.

  11. Odd British libel law on British Woman's Twitter Comments Spark Expensive Libel Claims · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why is the truth not considered a valid defense in British courts? Doing otherwise would seem to invite these sorts of suits.

          Brett

  12. Re:Make him run the Marathon on Police Capture Second Marathon Bombing Suspect in Watertown, Mass. · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fuck you. Messes to clean up, you say? What mess have you ever cleaned up. You let the mess fester until the grown-ups have to come in and clean it up for you. Then you go right back to what you were doing before, and let it build up again.

      What Europeans tend to do is ignore problems, study them, wring their hands, wait around for some savior. And never actually do anything or solve any problem. Right now you are cowering in fear while a bunch of jihadist parasites overrun your countries and allow globalists to destroy your economies. While panhandling around the world for money to stave off the inevitable. Wonder where that comes from...

          I am glad you mentioned WWII. I won't bother to note the obvious fact of your continued existence, at the expense of several hundred thousand American lives. After the war, and to this day, you have had to do virtually nothing to defend yourselves from the Soviets or any other threat, by attaching yourselves to the belly of the United States like sucker-fish on a shark, or leeches. The only reason you were not overrun by the Soviets from 1945 to 1990, and the Russians from 2000 till now is because of the US nuclear umbrella. The only reason your wimpy and worthless cultures have managed to stave off economic disaster this long is because you have negligible defense requirements because you know we will take care if it for you.

          This entire time you have, as a group, acted like a bunch of whiny effete children and your current attitude to the US is a deeply-held resentment because YOU KNOW all this, even though you won't admit it to yourselves. Just like all coddled children. You create "International" and "World" organizations to make it seem like you are players on the world stage, and to insulate yourselves from actually backing a wheelbarrow up to the US Treasury and taking the money directly. But make no mistake, all the IMF, the UN, the World Bank does is provide cover for you sucking the US Taxpayer, and the US economy, dry. You're still at it, the EU was begging from IMF money just last week.

        You will read this, mod it to hell, point out all the "obvious" errors like any pseudo-intellectual poser, and move on. I have no illusions that you are capable of realizing how incredibly pathetic your entire misbegotten continent has gotten since cowardice has become so fashionable.

          So again, fuck you.

  13. Re:All about corporate users now on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    They haven't ceded the market, they were blown out of it by superior competition. No one using a computer casually for email or surfing ever needed Windows. It was just the only practical option, "practical" being a debatable term. It was and always has been tortuously inefficient and ill-suited for consumer use, basically junk but the only junk most people had.

          As soon as you could get something like a properly-designed system with decent user interface and interaction like a Mac, for a price that was affordable, the game was up. It took a few years for people to realize it but it was essentially inevitable.

          BTW, CmdrTaco aside, this all started with the *iPod*. People got them, they worked remarkably well, and people started realizing how junky Windows was.

        Brett

  14. Re:Awesome on Solar Electric Spacecraft Propulsion Could Get NASA To an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    TFA also treats this as some new development. It might be new to NASA, but it is also used on Advanced EHF (which I happen to work on) where we used it to raise the orbit after an apogee kick engine failure, Also, the Russians have been using it for something like 20 years.

      Brett

  15. OK - possibly on Classic BBC Sci-fi Series Blake's 7 To Return On Syfy Channel · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a great idea, and I have high confidence that the people responsible for such gems as "Crocosaurus VS. Robo Pirhana" will be able to do the original Blake's 7 justice.

  16. Re:It's easy! on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Because it breaks a bunch of stuff.

  17. Re:Cell Towers on FCC To Update 1996 Cell Phone Radiation Standard · · Score: 1

    None of it is a threat.

  18. Re:I love working with PV cells on Bosch Finds Solar Business Unprofitable, Exits · · Score: 1

    That's some good thinking! Shows you have your priorities straight.

  19. Perfect solution on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google could just purchase Italy outright. I hear it will be rather a bargain. Problem solved!

  20. Re:I thought features were passe? on Google Keep Labelled "Delete" · · Score: 2

    I don't features should be removed, unless removing them makes the programmers *make the features that are there work properly*. Maybe I am also a relic (ok, not maybe, definitely), but I get rather irritated when Word (or any other similar crap application) adds some more features or changes the UI just for the sake of doing it, and the same f*cking bug that sometimes for some unknown reason corrupts the document and won't let me save it still existing pretty much exactly like it worked in 1997.

    Wasting time adding features while serious bugs are left untouched is what p*sses people off. Of course it's a lot easier to ad copy saying "n Exciting New Features" than it is "Word 2007, 45% fewer fatal bugs"

          Brett

  21. Re:Turbine? on Bezos Expeditions Recovers Pieces of Apollo 11 Rockets · · Score: 2

    Well, one of them burns some sort of fuel to drive an impeller wheel connected to another impeller wheel to compress a working fluid, and the other, er, never mind...

  22. Wrong application on FCC Guidance On Radio For Commercial Space Operations Falls Short · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Call it an airplane, get an aircraft RT license and license the pilots. It *is* an airplane, it's not really a spacecraft since it's at most, a hop.

            In any case, no one is coming close to doing multiple flights A MONTH, much less multiple flights a day.

  23. MOD PARENT UP! on Berkeley Scientists Plan To 'Jurassic Park' Some Extinct Pigeons Back To Life · · Score: 1

    Thread over, you win!

  24. Re:Oracle sucks. on Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime · · Score: 1

    We have VAXes that have been up for at least that long and the only downtimes I can recall since the late 80s were from power failures of those machines not attached to UPSs. And before anybody drones on about "patches", its not connected to the external world.

  25. Re:This is pissing me off on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    How is it not a solution, oh indignant one? It's the one and only solution that has any chance of working. A bunch of self-professed "gamers" still buy the thing, you are going to keep getting it.