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  1. Re:I've lost count on Russia Says Next-Gen Spacecraft Design Ready · · Score: 1

    $100 per barrel after 2005 or so: those claims are backed up with money for the first time since the end of the the Soviet Union.

    Claims backed by money that will be embezzled quicker than it can be put to use.

  2. Re:wow on Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics · · Score: 2

    And also available online.

    One can also usually call for customer support, even with cars.

  3. Re:No thanks! on Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics · · Score: 1

    Funny, the doors on my car can be unlocked by my phone and it is an economy car from Hyundai.

  4. Re:towed to the dealer? on Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics · · Score: 1

    I have an economy car from Hyundai and I can open the doors to my car with an app on my phone.

    I have the base model, but the tech package allows you to also start your car with the phone app.

    This would not be effected by the pirate station since those signals are sent via the Bluelink system.

  5. Re:Deep Pockets Theory on Polio Eradication Program Suspended In Pakistan After Aid Workers Shot · · Score: 1

    Who is talking about damages?

    You think this is about a lawsuit?

    People are being killed.

  6. Re:Good and bad on Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes · · Score: 1

    Googled "power requirements for an artificial magnetosphere for mars" and came up with nothing useful.

    Most of the threads that I found of people talking about an artificial magnetosphere were talking about making it cover the entire planet, but wouldn't on only have to put basically a large magnetic shield between the Sun and Mars?

  7. Re:You call that "editing?" on Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines · · Score: 1

    That may actually prove to be a good tactic to get them to do better.

    In the past most people just call them names, actually posting a corrected version of the submission shows the "editors" what they need to be doing.

    Personally bad grammar doesn't faze me, but for the grammar nazis out there this is better than just calling the editors names.

  8. Re:At some point on Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes · · Score: 2

    The next big step for mankind will be getting off this rock.

    What will motivate us to get off this rock is a lack of terrestrial resources.

    So once society gets to the point that it isn't economical to just rape our own planet then we will leave it, but not before that point.

  9. Re:Not that unpopular on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 1

    If I shoot something without looking I can be extremely accurate, but I am more likely to completely miss the target.

  10. Re:You're a Moron on Polio Eradication Program Suspended In Pakistan After Aid Workers Shot · · Score: 1

    I am not fuckiing a goddamn moron.

    I am a goddamn fucking moron.

    Get it straight will ya?

  11. Re:More info on Polio Eradication Program Suspended In Pakistan After Aid Workers Shot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No.

    Very stupid bad people used a very paranoid conspiracy theory for the justification of killing people.

    The CIA went and made that conspiracy theory true.

    You can't see how that is a very wrong thing to do?

  12. Re:More info on Polio Eradication Program Suspended In Pakistan After Aid Workers Shot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually I will blame the CIA.

    They went and took an urban legend and made it true.

    Now when the Taliban says "We killed aid workers because they were spying on us." we can't say they are full of shit anymore.

  13. Re:Mississippi River and empire on 2012 Another Record-Setter For Weather, Fits Climate Forecasts · · Score: 2

    The good news bad news thing about that is we'll just pump more water out of the ancient aquifers that will never be replenished.

  14. Re:Not that unpopular on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 1

    Hey! I have not seen a single tiger since I bought that rock.

    Then again I have never seen a tiger.

    It's hard to say their procedures are not effective if there hasn't been another successful attack.

  15. Re:Not that unpopular on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can see why the answers are favorable, they don't ask the right questions.

    Do you think that the TSA has gone overboard and needs to scale back some of their policies?

    Do you approve of having a nude image of yourself displayed for complete strangers?

    Do you think that the TSA's policies on liquids is irrational?

    etc...

    You ask

    How effective do you think the TSA's procedures are at preventing acts of terrorism on U.S. airplanes?

    Well, they are effective, but that is not the issue. The procedures that the Israeli use are more effective, but less intrusive.

    It's like there is a complaint about bullshit in McDonald's burgers, so they put out a poll that asks about how fast you get your burger, and since no one can complain about the speed they get their burger the poll results are positive.

    The issue is we need to get the bullshit out of the TSA, what they scored positively in the polls doesn't need to change, what needs to change is what was not asked in the polls.

  16. Re:Not that unpopular on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 1

    There's some good poll data on this.

    You can get a poll to show anything depending on whom you ask.

  17. Re:System drive encryption? on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    He most likely has absolutely no use for firewire and can simply disable it in the bios.

  18. Re:With a huge exception on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    That can be easily disabled in the bios and no one will miss the functionality since no one uses firewire.

    Ok, some niche professions use firewire, so probably under 2% of those who have firewire use it.

  19. Re:same thing I always tell others on Ask Slashdot: Gifts For a 90-Year-Old, Tech-Savvy Dad? · · Score: 2

    That is probably the best advice.

  20. Re:What's-his-name's Law on Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The title of your post asks a question, that question is What's-his-name law.

    Since the law in question is "If the title asks a question, then the answer is no."

    Therefor it is No's Law.

  21. Re:The 51st State? on Property Rights In Space? · · Score: 1

    I am there right now, so there.

    Don't think so? Then you come up to the moon and prove me wrong.

  22. Re:how many years in prison on Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years · · Score: 1

    It makes a bit of sense that if you pay the police to give you access to the accounts that you probably will not be arrested for it.

    So yes, if Rupert Mudoch was sitting at his PC guessing, passwords instead of paying the police to, he could very well be in jail.

  23. Re:Godwining it here on New Call For Turing Pardon · · Score: 0

    Why do you think that god was the source of anything?

    All that you attribute to god is within you.

  24. Re:it tells you one thing, at least on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 2

    So prepare for "Voices from the Hellmouth Part 2"

  25. Re:Why physically damage the drive? on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A gun in hand is quicker than a couple passes with DBAN.