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  1. Re:Indeed on Voyager and the Coming Great Hiatus In Deep Space · · Score: 1

    you are incredibly ignorant, there have been huge discoveries from the space program in the past year. but you ignore it because you think unless a person is in a tin can in a vacuum it doesn't count.

  2. correction to meaning of red bar on Pentagon Orders Dual-Focus Contact Lens Prototypes · · Score: 1

    the government could put a red bar above anyone it wishes to be treated as rapist, molester, paedophile.....huge difference there

  3. Re:Is that all? on Intel Launches Z77 Motherboards, Preparing For Ivy Bridge · · Score: 1

    the Radio Shack by me has knowledgeable staff, they're actual electronic geeks

  4. Re:They're on their way out anyways on Best Buy Scans Drivers License For Returns — No More Allowed For 90 Days · · Score: 1

    they get annoyed when geeks who work out slam their bodies out of the way, but again, what can they do but go "oooof!"

  5. Re:Grandma's rig on Intel Launches Z77 Motherboards, Preparing For Ivy Bridge · · Score: 2

    get real, the multimedia channels aren't up to recommended specs for her Ultraporn.

  6. Re:Is that all? on Intel Launches Z77 Motherboards, Preparing For Ivy Bridge · · Score: 1

    oh come on, you surely have a Radio Shack too.

  7. Re:Z80 on Intel Launches Z77 Motherboards, Preparing For Ivy Bridge · · Score: 2

    get with the times, man. the Z80 can do banked memory! under CP/M 3 systems you could have 16 banks *64kb = 1024kb of memory! A megabyte is more than enough for anyone.

  8. Re:Seems rather limited to Intel. on CPU DB: Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements · · Score: 2

    Yes, the head writer / executive producer of Futurama, David Cohen, with two other friends wrote a compiler in MOS Tech 6502 assembly language for an invented language FLEET in high school. http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/the-truth-about-benders-brain

  9. Re:Disruptive innovation always shakes thing sup on Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    dream on, mostly that stuff does NOT work, the high end / big corporations set the agenda and drive technology, economy, consumption, etc.

  10. Re:Danger Google on Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 2

    does DuckDuckGo even have a sustainable and scalable business model? I think not.....it's a flash in the pan that will soon be gone

  11. Re:I used to carry stuff like this on airplanes... on TSA Shuts Down Airport, Detains 11 After "Science Project" Found · · Score: 1

    people used to be able to carry guns onto planes, nothing was checked. maybe we should go back to those days, as despite the hollywood hooey a bullet hole in the hull or even a blown out window will not take down a jet nor even depressurize it (the cabin pressure inlet valve is huge)

  12. Re:Number of actual terrorists blocked by TSA on TSA Shuts Down Airport, Detains 11 After "Science Project" Found · · Score: 1

    yes, and the yagi television antenna your neighbor has is very effective at keeping away the flying pink elephants. we know this because you haven't seen any. The western banking cartel, with our federal reserve system as a huge percentage, is of course one of the bigger megacorporations with our government in their pockets, and our march toward a police state is part of the megacorporate agenda. it increases shareholder value.

  13. Re:Seems rather limited to Intel. on CPU DB: Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements · · Score: 1

    don't worry, it'll be used in the future, MOS Technology 6502 instructions were shown scrolling down the view of the Series 800 Model T 101.

  14. Re:monkeys throwing darts... on 1981 Paper's Predictions for Global Temperatures Spot-On · · Score: -1, Troll

    in the past 15 years thousand of climate models have been generated, then after the fact certain ones cherry picked that appear to be useful this is actually a useful endeavor that should be continued, however it is not strictly speaking science.

  15. Re:monkeys throwing darts... on 1981 Paper's Predictions for Global Temperatures Spot-On · · Score: 0

    if you knew anything about science or the scientific method you would know it is impossible to predict climate within the realm of either one

  16. meaningless as "the cloud" or "web 2.0" on GreenSQL is a Database Security Solution, says CTO David Maman (Video) · · Score: 1

    "Green" is another meaningless buzzword, anyone who uses it should be beaten with a carbon-neutral recyclable tapered cylinder, e.g. wooden club. Might mean something uses less energy than another thing, might mean economical to a person but with heavy government subsidies, might mean could be recyclable if ground into powder and used as cheap filler to cut a good mix. fuck green.

  17. Re:Too easy to defend against this on Navy Planning To Build Laser Cannon In Four Years · · Score: 1

    wood cutting is normally done with focused beams, though, so not a good gauge of unfocused applications. cutting 1" wood from both sides with 1300 W focused lasers proceeds at about 200 inches / minute. You can find engraving machines of 1/8 to 1/4" hardwoods, again focused, with tens of watts.

  18. Re:Use Your Biggest Sex Organ on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences? · · Score: 1

    your biggest sex organ is your skin =~ 9 lbs. male human brain =~ 3 lbs.

  19. Re:I'll own up to it...I throw them away on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    nonsense, what you call "copper" is always an alloy. For example, there are dozens of allowed types of "electrical copper". throw the metal from one extension cord in the mix and no one would be able to tell the origin

  20. Re:Too easy to defend against this on Navy Planning To Build Laser Cannon In Four Years · · Score: 1

    and, coming from CAE/CAM background that happened to include laser cutting, I can tell you lasers in the mere hundreds of watts range eat wood like candy, totally different situation than heating missile shield by unit area by orders of magnitude.

  21. Re:Too easy to defend against this on Navy Planning To Build Laser Cannon In Four Years · · Score: 1

    wrong, the gas jet ejects merely molten material, much less total energy required than to vaporize the mass of iron. also, since this is near range weapon, we just won't target any Edmond Scientific corner cube reflector the enemy happens to be holding or mounted

  22. Re:I'll own up to it...I throw them away on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    so what if it's illegal to melt them? no one will know where the ingot came from...

  23. Re:history disagrees on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 1

    we do not measure all energy from the sun the earth receives. we have satellites with aging sensors that measure certain parts of the total energy, that go in set orbits. we have sensors on the ground of varying ages some of them by man-made heat sources for which guestimate corrections are made by unscientific means. I can assure you in the 1970s people of science were not totally ignorant of science.

  24. history disagrees on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 1

    Extreme weather goes in cycles, usually a rough multiple of solar cycle. this was taught in universities decades ago because it is true. what we have is urban sprawl and overdevelopment putting more real estate and people in harms way from weather (and earthquakes too). As for these "island natives threatened by rising seas", the sea has been rising since the last ice age, these lands that are essentially at sea level or an inch above are doomed anyway, whether now or in the next couple hundred years, they might as well move now because their population will only grow with modern benefits. Those half a century old and older see the patterns, while the young think they are living in some new era.

  25. handle rudely, maybe get the job anyway on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 1

    I had HR choad at national lab ask about religion. I always answer questions that are none of their business by telling them it's none of their business. I got the job, btw and was there for a decade