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  1. Re:Occam's Razor on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1

    Occam's Razor doesn't apply to human behavior. It's a science theory thang.

  2. A nuclear bitch slap... on Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz · · Score: 1

    Think for a second.
    Three anonymous tactical nukes, one each, Mecca, Vatican, Jerusalem.
    What would happen? Can you not think clearly about this?
    Then maybe you're not ready for Prime Time Politics.

  3. Re:Easy is easy on Using Crowdsourcing To Design More Accessible Elections · · Score: 1

    Your objections are to a strawman, in that ID was already postulated to be free, and in the land of Visa cards, it shouldn't take more than a day to check records. I'm surprised you're even posting here, with your level of understanding. Think of it as a negative no=fly list.

  4. Re:Easy is easy on Using Crowdsourcing To Design More Accessible Elections · · Score: 1

    Every one of your (frequently specious) objections can easily be handled by a paralegal with a Prius, at state expense.

  5. Re:Easy is easy on Using Crowdsourcing To Design More Accessible Elections · · Score: 1

    Well put. There's no real excuse for not having ID. Poor people, homeless people, any excuse will do. This society requires ID, and it should. Free, with help available for free, including transportation to offices, and document searches.

  6. Re:Certified Microsoft Professional on Programming Prodigy Arfa Karim Passes Away At 16 · · Score: 1

    I'm currently raising a 19 month old, and a 25 month old. They pick out their own programs from the TV guide online, and nuke their own food. Pushing buttons, and pairing numbers isn't that hard. I don't find them oddly proficient.

  7. Re:STOP!! Do Not Continue on Chinese Government Ramps Up Weather Control Efforts · · Score: 2

    I can think of a dozen places easily where they'd love for you to tamper with the weather, intelligently. Texas, for starters.

  8. Re:wrong on Google Founder Offer $33M For Use of NASA Airship Hangar · · Score: 1

    I call fake. How many jobs can you supply at 200k?

  9. Re: Wetback on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that the term refers to swimming the RioGrande...

  10. Re:Great hack. on Making a Privacy Monitor From an Old LCD · · Score: 1

    Any reason why polarized sunglasses worn by the guy behind you wouldn't translate the screen?

  11. Re:Touchscreen? on Ask Slashdot: Touchscreen Device For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    Likely the staff will steal it and buy crack. I used to deliver expensive rental medical devices to nursing homes. Not a real lower limit on who they'll hire. If you buy one, get the anti-theft app, altho I think it will do no good. iGadget theft is rampant now, and craigslist enables the market.

  12. Re:import timeline on StreetScooter: The $7000 Open-Source Modular Electric Vehicle · · Score: 1

    You hit a tree at 100 mph you deserve to be dead. You want thrills, learn to kiteboard.

  13. Re:I'm surprised it's such a problem on FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing · · Score: 1

    Bullets already have identifiers in them. Where have you been? Lasers can effectively blind pilots. Proven fact. The rest of you just shut up.

  14. Papers, please! on TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers · · Score: 1

    In this world, papers please is a necessary condition for the survival of democracy, especially. Don't confuse civil rights with defense. They're separate. Privacy ain't that important.

  15. Re:House plus site, services, foundation, etc. on MIT's $1,000 House Challenge Yields Results · · Score: 1

    Actually, assuming bunks for the kids and a queen size bed for the couple, I designed a 400 square foot house back in 1975. It's still occupied by the couple. The kids are gone. My current palatial home is 550.

  16. Re:Slippery slope? on Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates · · Score: 1

    Don't get yer jewels in a jangle, bubba. Richmond california is a much better place due to LPRs (license plate readers) which can read at fifteen miles per hour, and give instant readout of invalid plates due to insurance, theft, or mismatch to car. It requires some car recognition by the driver, since the software doesn't recognize cars yet, but we hear that's also coming. Car theft has dropped dramatically, along with related crimes. We love it. Our area used to be used as a stolen car drop-off area, but now it has gone way down. I understand that the two LPR equipped cruisers can do 20,000 cars a night. I'm sure some geek will point out that's impossible.

  17. Re:please stand up on Google Launches Identity Verification Badge Scheme · · Score: 0

    I have no problem with this, since it should have been the case since the internet started. What have you got to hide. Been a bad person or something?

  18. Re:What about cannabis inidica? on Sequencing the Weed Genome · · Score: 1

    I await the /. article on the new Sativa and/or Indica THC e-cigarettes, which are running fifty cents a hit, 100 hits for fifty bucks. Propylene glycol fog with pure condensed THC vapor in the cartridge. (for the technically minded, a suck-it valve opens and turns on a filament which heats a tiny tube of juice). It stops instantly when you stop sucking. No waste and precise titration: take a toke. Wait two minutes, quit if you're satisfied with the effects. I can't imagine a better delivery system. It looks exactly like an e-cigarette, which does the same thing for nicotine.

  19. Re:BMW 325d on CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US · · Score: 1

    And my 2000 Echo pops 40 mpg regularly on 300 mile trips up 101 through the hills. Of course, it weighs 2100#, has a lockup automatic, and a 108 hp variable valve timing engine of 1.5 liters. Runs 75 all day, with four people on board. 150k miles so far. Tires and brakes, twice. Get a life, hot rods. Speed is over. The climate is changing. Take up something thrilling that depends on your own skills, other than bashing a gas pedal and sliding around corners. That's so 2000's

  20. Re:BMW 325d on CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US · · Score: 1

    Rightwing horsecrap. Corporations own legislators.

  21. Re:Diesel MPG on CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US · · Score: 1

    You don't know shit.

  22. Re:Diesel MPG on CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US · · Score: 1

    Your problems aren't diesel related. You want a "sports" sedan? Take up kitesurfing. Cars are transportation, and the climate is frying, and all you wanna do is dance.

  23. Re:Any USEFUL information? on CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US · · Score: 1

    So your total objection on the engine is the EGR valve? Who's paying you?

  24. Torque BS on CEO Confirms Chevy To Sell Diesel Cruze In US · · Score: 1

    The two commonest dumb driving statements are 1) More rubber on the road gives more traction and 2) Torque is more important than horsepower. I won't even tell you why. You know or you don't.

  25. Re:Wow, that's worse than the Canadian UBB thing! on British ISPs Could 'Charge Per Device' · · Score: 1

    How about an honest cost-based model?