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  1. Re: NOT posted as AC. on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 1

    you think about it. the TSA's union is comprised of TSA employees.

  2. Re:what a load of crap - nobody is buying it on 4 Prominent Scientists Say Renewables Aren't Enough, Urge Support For Nuclear · · Score: 1

    you are very funny. Fission works. No fusion reactor even puts out one hundredth the energy by fusion of the electrical energy put into it. And more news for you, the heavy hydrogen and tritium fusing *do* release neutron radiation. Only the unobtainable fusion (needing even more energy input) invovling boron or lithium would produce no neutrons.

  3. Re:And there's a whole series of comments at Ars.. on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 1

    No, that was the Clabber Girl, with her trayful of the Rectangular Parallelpipeds of Head-Bursting Death

  4. Re:Normal for PhD students on Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders · · Score: 5, Funny

    and in the business world, with salesmen selling product that hasn't been completed yet, let alone QA'd, there's no difference

  5. Re:edlin on Debian To Replace SysVinit, Switch To Systemd Or Upstart · · Score: 1

    good news, you can call your roomate up and have the last laugh. edlin is still in 32 bit windows 7 and Vista, but not the 64 bit version (they don't have the 16 bit emulation libraries)

  6. Re:Carbon is carbon on U.S. Will Not Provide Financing For New International Coal-Fired Power Plants · · Score: 1

    the hypothetical village can't afford an $800 200W panel, 500 W-Hour battery, 3 AC outlet system (that's a real system) per house or hut (with a battery that will die in a few years anyway). The most cost-effective thing to roll out per house won't be solar. Something else is rolled out instead, and I've been to third world countries to know what that is and watch it being rolled out. Generators and very raggy wiring are what is rolled out, and it's used for lights and radios and small TVs and fans.

  7. Re:Carbon is carbon on U.S. Will Not Provide Financing For New International Coal-Fired Power Plants · · Score: 1

    you invented a straw man and expect me to support it? support your own flimsy straw man

  8. Re:More junk. on Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit · · Score: 1

    if we only talk about USA, what happens when we include our share of China's pollution that comes from making the exports to USA?

  9. Re:And there's a whole series of comments at Ars.. on Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound · · Score: 2

    I've seen her! I've seen that little minx with her yellow dress and using umbrella and rain for cover, with the canister of unspeakable evil under her arm spreading the infection everywhere.

  10. Re:More junk. on Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit · · Score: 1

    human race as a whole

  11. Re:More junk. on Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit · · Score: 1

    yes the human race does. most the human race does not live in the USA

    the USA is 6.6% of the planet's land mass, and 4.5% of the population.

  12. Re:More junk. on Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit · · Score: 1

    was speaking of planet earth as a whole

  13. Re:Keep the phone ban on FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights · · Score: 2

    not true. sporadic short connections can sometimes be made, I've done it in past from foreign-owned airlines that didn't care at over 25,000 feet.

    you might also be interested to know the maximum theoretical distance is much farther than that for stationary phone, over 22 miles.

  14. Re:More junk. on Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit · · Score: 1

    no, we pollute more now, including radioacitve pollution. your rosey view of the world is cute though

  15. Re:Won't work with FOSS. on Does Software Need a Siskel and Ebert? · · Score: 1

    yeah, the Windoze and Mac Fanboiz never do that

  16. that's an incredibly ignorant point of view that would keep people perpeturally in poverty and misery. it doesn't matter what their energy source is because their carbon output will be neglibile compared to first and second world countries. if they can have a chance at a better life with coal or natural gas, so be it.

  17. Re:Carbon is carbon on U.S. Will Not Provide Financing For New International Coal-Fired Power Plants · · Score: 1

    you aren't an engineer are you? that is the most expensive way to roll out a power infrastructure possible

  18. Re:One day battery life. on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 1

    yes, those have been around for 20 years but funny the rotating pendulum, pinion and large gear are identical to the decades (since late 40s) old mechanical self-winders.

  19. Re:Pissed off customers on Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine · · Score: 4, Funny

    and I thought only IBM sold a Pee-series

  20. Re:OK, Dell on Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine · · Score: 1

    when I was a kid we had our cat fixed, but the liter box area still smelled like urine

  21. Re:Feline brains too on Did Snakes Help Build the Primate Brain? · · Score: 1

    never owned a cat I see. cats' are just as afraid of uprights with no hose. I think you have a large-penis fetish

  22. Re:One day battery life. on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 1

    meanwhile, some mechanical watches of decades ago *never* needed anything because they were self-winding from wrist movement. ah progress...

  23. Re:Best Buy? on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 0

    they wish. Best Buy is for "try something that might be cool, so I see if I even like it".

  24. Re:Really? on Debian To Replace SysVinit, Switch To Systemd Or Upstart · · Score: 1

    phillistines. ms-dos edit and then dos2unix when done

  25. Re:I will not utter it here on GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 · · Score: 1

    so true, except Java isn't even new