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  1. Re:"Musical" career on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 1

    I would give most of the credit for Has Been's greatness to Ben Folds

    So does he.

    Quote from the liner notes from Has Been. "I would like to thank Ben for allowing me to glimpse a part of musical life that I've never seen before. I want to visit it again."

  2. Re:"Musical" career, seconding Has Been on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 1

    Would just like to second that Has Been is actually a very good album.

  3. Re:Typecasting: boon or bane? on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 2

    Have you listened to his album "Has Been"?

    He does talk quite a bit about his personal life in it, and oddly enough it is actually a very good album. Not like the Rocket Man bullshit, but a good honest album.

    I prefer his rendition of "Common People" rather than the original.

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

  4. Re:Typecasting: boon or bane? on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 1

    He has, plenty of times.

    Just because you only remember him for Trek, doesn't mean he hasn't have a wide and varied career outside of Trek.

  5. Damn you are old! on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 0

    How old did you expect to get?

    How old do you hope to get?

  6. Re:Need more details on HTC Android Backdoor Leaks Private User Data · · Score: 1

    My phone got updated to 2.3.4 via an automatic update from T-Mobile. Running an HTC G2.

  7. Re:Better question... on Analyzing Data Retention By Wireless Carriers · · Score: 2

    If they are keeping track of people they have probably been keeping track of me since 2005 when I posted this beauty.

    If I was forming a militia assault weapons and an M1A1 would be right at the top of my list, I just wouldn't want the militia to be publicly known especially by the government since they are the ones that the militia would be there to keep in check.

    I think the militia argument is abit off. The first militia's afaik were not truly orginized, but more of hunter bob and hunter fred knocking off a couple red coats. As things progressed they got more of their buddies to help out, then got orginized as they went up against larger targets. The right to bear arms imo is the right to keep a gun around in case you want to help shoot members of the government, oh and um also home defense and hunting of course.

  8. Re:Better question... on Analyzing Data Retention By Wireless Carriers · · Score: 2

    I would figure that due the massive amounts of data collected that they do not store all of the data, but instead just data meets a certain requirements.

    Such as calls that the word Allah may have been used, or internet posts that mention infidel or ammonia nitrate. Stuff along those lines.

  9. Re:Why is this even posted? on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    Why it is time for everyone's favorite reality show.

    It's

    Five Minutes of Hate!!

    Where you can hurl hate for fun and prizes!

    Remember, it's not just fun, it makes you a better citizen.

  10. Re:Holy crap! on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    I install it on peoples computers who are incapable of re-registering Avast.

    Not the best solution, but it doesn't require user intervention unless something really goes wrong. Good for people who have no fucking clue what they are doing.

  11. Re:Will it need a reboot like politicians? on An Operating System For Cities · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried doing a Google search for "Whoosh"? You might find it instructive.

    Well I thought what Whoosh meant, but now that I've Googled it I am not quite so sure.

    First result.
    http://whoosh.org/

  12. Re:Thermite on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    They don't just sell the ingredients, they sell straight thermite.

  13. Re:Liquid Water on A Third of Sun-Like Stars May Have Warm Earth Analogs · · Score: 1

    Yes, but do you really believe that those bacteria were formed with that ability or developed that ability over the years?

    I say that liquid is necessary because otherwise it is really hard to move around resources internally. Although I guess it could occur within a gas also, but a solid is very unlikely.

  14. Re:Debris-Reduction Incentive on China Launches Space Station Laboratory Module · · Score: 1

    Thanks. You've given me something to think on.

  15. Re:Debris-Reduction Incentive on China Launches Space Station Laboratory Module · · Score: 1

    I am not talking Zeus levels of laser power here.

    I am talking Wicked Laser levels of laser power. This isn't going to knock stuff straight out of the sky, just nudge it, and nudge it, and nudge it some more.

  16. Re:Debris-Reduction Incentive on China Launches Space Station Laboratory Module · · Score: 1

    I would figure that targeting would occur using a mirror so it's not like you would have to maneuver the complete craft, and one would hit the junk each time it came around till it no longer comes around.

    Also the further away from the junk you are the easier it would be for the mirror to target the junk.

    I'm mainly looking at the really small space junk for this, not like knocking satellites out of the sky. Paint chips, nuts, and bolts. Little nudges.

  17. Re:Debris-Reduction Incentive on China Launches Space Station Laboratory Module · · Score: 1

    Ok, so help me understand or respect how the relative velocities will make it so that they cannot be nudged with a little uneven heating.

    I would figure that the faster it's going the less of a nudge it would need.

  18. Re:Liquid Water on A Third of Sun-Like Stars May Have Warm Earth Analogs · · Score: 1

    Thinking real small here, what is inside cells? Liquid.

    Ok smaller, I guess would be viruses, but are they technically life?

  19. Re:Debris-Reduction Incentive on China Launches Space Station Laboratory Module · · Score: 1

    I still think a small satellite with a couple solid state lasers could effectively nudge space junk into the atmosphere without being a threat to other space fairing nations.

  20. Re:Liquid Water on A Third of Sun-Like Stars May Have Warm Earth Analogs · · Score: 1

    Water or not, I believe that life will still require a liquid of some sort to form in.

     

  21. Re:Graphene - the smartest material known to Man! on Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics · · Score: 1

    The inanimate carbon rod was robbed!!

  22. Re:I refuse to pay Microsoft for an Android phone on Samsung Joins Ranks of Android Vendors Licensing Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    If you found out that your favorite restaurant was being extorted on a regular basis would you quit going to it?

    Because that is what is going on here, HTC and Samsung are getting extorted and people are saying they won't buy from HTC and Samsung even though they are the victims here.

  23. Re:I refuse to pay Microsoft for an Android phone on Samsung Joins Ranks of Android Vendors Licensing Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    I made more than $5 sitting here and thinking about this topic.

    Yes, it is idiotic for HTC/Samsung to pay $5 per phone to Microsoft, but it is just $5, get over it.

    Wars may be noble, but battles are ugly, pick your battles to win the war. If HTC or Samsung had fought to the bitter end on this you would either have to pay a lot more, or you would not have even had the choice.

  24. Re:I refuse to pay Microsoft for an Android phone on Samsung Joins Ranks of Android Vendors Licensing Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    Your idealism is idiotic.

    Get the best phone that meets your needs.

    Yes HTC does pay MS $5 for every Android phone they produce, but it is only $5, get over it.

    Without Android you are forced to go with Apple who is suing the crap out of everyone. Or a MS mobile based phone which well you hate MS so why would you do that? Then there is Nokia with Symbian for a little while longer before they go full on MS, so you can guess that getting support for Symbian is going to suck down the road.

    Or, you could go without a smartphone.

  25. Re:Interesting on Tokyo Subway Gets Lightsaber Handrails · · Score: 1

    Not many, from the picture it looks like the handles are going to be at knee level.