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  1. Re:end panic driven hyperbole on Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but hurricane strength can be inferred over a longer timescale than your 20th century measurements. The deadliest hurricane season in recorded history was the 1780 Atlantic hurricane season, which even included one in New Jersey.

  2. Re:just my opinion on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 1

    The power plants of a single 787 with its two 6700 newton-meters thrust engines cruising at 250 m/s makes (multiple them together) 3.4 mega-watts of power.

    The reasons the airlines don't pursue your ridiculous idea are right there, it has nothing to do with wanting war or profits for defense contractors. It's merely the reality of physics, which contrast sharply with the idle dreams of those ignorant of basic science.

  3. wrong, populary called HMS Bounty by millions on Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites · · Score: 1

    it was a replica of the HMS Bounty, and is popularly called as such. the world doesn't care about royal navy registration and can put HMS in front of anything they please.

  4. end panic driven hyperbole on Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites · · Score: 1

    storms such as these are recurring phenomenon. in fact we were overdue for one like Sandy.

    it has nothing to do with "climate change" nor anything to do with fossil fuel. It has to do with the star known as Sol....

  5. Re:On the one hand... on Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet · · Score: 1

    that would be part of the Taliban Control Protocol/Insurgency Protocol? I myself would like to focus on higher level things like Structured Qu'ran Language and Heretic Torture Markup Lashes

  6. Re:Where was Jonathan Ive? on Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed · · Score: 1

    hmmmm, it's really just the front of that thing that throws the whole look off, it's like a 50's kitchen appliance. some kind of angular shape is need there and no reflective surfaces at all....

  7. Re:School Time Management on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    The fundamentals of science are part of the basics, ignorance of them causes muchdeath, maiming, and loss of wealth in the United States.

  8. Re:Do nothing on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Finding a Security Breach On Shared Hosting? · · Score: 1

    nonsense, there are plenty of bargin shared hosting companies that are great even for people with knowledge. For $7/month (with static IP address, $4 a month if you don't need that), I'm on a server where the load average is 5%, I can ssh to my account, I can run ruby, perl, python scripts and have cron jobs. Great for personal domain at a remote location from home.

  9. Re:Probability and magnitude are both relevant on Paintball Pellets As a Tool To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    while technically correct I must point out those numbers won already. please provide next week's numbers

  10. Re:What the hell on The Internet Archive Has Saved Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web · · Score: 2

    more disks, and they send a copy to euroarchive and the Library of Alexandria. in 2006, that copy & verify process to remote site took two weeks.

    http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/features/article.php/3633256/The-Wayback-Machine-From-Petabytes-to-PetaBoxes.htm

  11. Re:lawsuit time? on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    nonsense, don't waste your breath. if someone asks you to delete photos, if you speak at all refuse and tell them to get fucked.

  12. Re:national insecurity on China Telco Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns · · Score: 1

    nonsense, the problems we had in 2008 were decades in the making.

  13. Re:In other news 2 years later... on China Telco Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns · · Score: 1

    no, the really high end high traffic routers run proprietary algorithms. iptables won't scale to continental size, sorry.

  14. Re:Who Cares? on China Telco Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns · · Score: 1

    get your head screwed on, what's your problem?

    1. yes hurricanes hit New York regularly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_hurricanes
    2. The U.S. economy grew 2% during last quarter, quit your whining.
    3. What war in middle east? just some congerssional actions against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, and some civil riots in syria, etc.

  15. Re:chrome is version 2something on Microsoft Releases Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    no, the ribbon wastes over 50% of the space it occupies because needed functions aren't on it. and look and how HUGE the settings list is under "File" because the stupid ribbon can't handle the job. The ribbon is called "pandering to morons with moron UI developers".

  16. Re:Dear Windows 7 users. on Microsoft Releases Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    but with Ubuntu Unity you can have the look and feel of a giant touch tablet with an elderly person's walker as your stylus

  17. Re:First post! on Microsoft Releases Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    clippy is newfangled, immature, and neurotic, I find solstice and comfort in the wisdom of Microsoft Bob.

  18. Re:I know my least favorite He-Man Toy on Interviews: Director Daniel Knight On Troll Bridge, Color Correction, and He-man · · Score: 1

    was it salty?, that's a dead giveaway right there....

  19. Re:factoring indistinguishable from division by 3 on New Quantum Computing Record Set By Recycled Photons · · Score: 3, Funny

    the number 35 is standing out back with a tire iron and would like to have a word with you....

  20. Re:Isn't the game long enough already? on 5000 fps Camera Reveals the Physics of Baseball · · Score: 1

    he's a golf fucker

  21. Re:Isn't the game long enough already? on 5000 fps Camera Reveals the Physics of Baseball · · Score: 1

    it is not televised. also, it is very difficult to walk with a sand-wedge embedded in one's poop-chute.

  22. Re:Antennas on DARPA Funds a $300 Software-Defined Radio For Hackers · · Score: 1

    actually, they're in most cell phones now, that's where the antenna went! all manner of interesting patterns are employed, some look like snowflakes, some triangles within triangles, some like insects.

  23. Re:Sounds like a plan! on System Admins Should Know How To Code · · Score: 1

    no, typically the pay will stay the same and any improvements won't be appreciated anyway. pissing up a rope.....

  24. Re:Antennas on DARPA Funds a $300 Software-Defined Radio For Hackers · · Score: 1

    yes, that is the reply my University education in the early 80s taught. But something exciting happened in the late 1988, Nathan Cohen of Boston University made elements of a category of antenna called "fractal antennas". Certain fractal antenna radiate equally well over all frequences, at least theoretically. It was then realized that log periodic was a fractal antenna design.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_antenna

  25. Re:Isn't the game long enough already? on 5000 fps Camera Reveals the Physics of Baseball · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    you miss the point, subjectively a baseball games seems like SIX days, to a victim in the stands entrapped in a baseball game of reference.

    baseball, even more boring than fucking golf.