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  1. Re:Too Late To Stop It on NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress · · Score: 1

    "It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose -- his purpose." -- Barack Obama

  2. Re:That happened when ... on NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress · · Score: 1

    But did he do it under oath and to subvert a law that he, himself, signed?

  3. Re:Detective story on Neil Gaiman, Amber Benson and the Blood Kiss Crew Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Actually, I wasn't even thinking of "vampire as detective" when I mentioned "The Night Stalker". However, for a *very* relevant example of that genre, I present Angel (1999).

  4. Detective story on Neil Gaiman, Amber Benson and the Blood Kiss Crew Answer Your Questions · · Score: 2

    Blood Kiss is as much detective story as vampire tale and that is new.

    The Night Stalker (1972)

  5. Re:Why no real specs? on Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 · · Score: 1

    Count me as another N900 owner with the SIM problem. I tried putting springs and/or bits of heavy paper over mine, and it helped at first. But the problem would always come back, until I couldn't fix it anymore.

  6. Re:I approve on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    ... that levels of alcohol in the system decrease the reaction time and such as they get higher and higher.

    Not if you're Dr. Johhny Fever. http://www.hulu.com/watch/290

  7. Re:Changing street address on OpenStreetMap Launches a New Easy To Use HTML5 Editor · · Score: 1

    When I searched for my street address again, the marker still showed up in the wrong place.

  8. Changing street address on OpenStreetMap Launches a New Easy To Use HTML5 Editor · · Score: 1
    Because of this story, I signed up as an editor. First thing that I wanted to fix was my street address (the location was off by quite a bit). Apparently, this is a tougher problem than I thought it would be. Didn't see any obvious way to do this with the new editor, so searched and found a thread that indicated that adding a building and providing the address might help the interpolator. So, I did (using Potlatch), but the result doesn't change. Also, with my house set back so far from the road, I'm not sure that would work, anyways. Does anyone have experience with that.

    It seems like I should just be able to grab the street address marker and drag it to the edge of the street in front of my house.

  9. Re:Are they safe? on New Flying Car Design Unveiled · · Score: 1

    What happens when flying cars collide with buildings or other infrastructure?

    Same thing that happens to everything else. [dramatic turn and walk away]

  10. Re: Google glasses on Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Recursive insult!

  11. Re:Interesting comparissons on Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They paid the most because their market is undeserved for high end games.

    I'm hoping that you meant "underserved".

  12. Re:Neat idea... on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    It sounds like it would be a useful plant to put along the edge of my sidewalk!

  13. Gob? on Netflix: 'Arrested Development' Won't Crash Our Service · · Score: 4, Funny

    'No one piece of content can have that kind of impact given the size of what we are serving up at any given time,' a spokesperson (Gob Bluth) wrote in an email to Slashdot.

    to be soon followed by "I've made a huge mistake."

  14. Germany Schaefer on Baseball Software Can't Score What Jean Segura Did Friday · · Score: 1
    I'm surprised that this was allowed. Germany Schaefer was famous for stealing first base (from second base) and a rule was passed to prevent it.

    Although it was not passed until 1920, after Schaefer's death, rule 7.08i states that a player is out if "After he has acquired legal possession of a base, he runs the bases in reverse order for the purpose of confusing the defense or making a travesty of the game. The umpire shall immediately call “Time” and declare the runner out." It is often said that it was passed because of Schaefer's thefts.

  15. Simulation on European Researchers Propose Quantum Network Between Earth and ISS · · Score: 1

    Hasn't entanglement and "spooky action at a distance" been proposed as evidence of the universe as simulation? In other words, the simulation doesn't resolve an observation until it is needed?

  16. Re:Gravitational time dilation on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There was an SF short story in which an interstellar alien being was psychically-linked with a human and was helping her team study a black hole. The alien is unable to escape the gravity well and is quickly destroyed. Unfortunately, for the human, the alien's time frame is different, so the human will experience its psychic scream for her entire life.

  17. Re:Yuh huh on Fusion Rocket Could Take Us To Mars · · Score: 1

    Neutrinos? That doesn't sound right. Did you mean "neutrons" (and I honestly don't know)?

  18. Re:Netcraft confirms: on New Advance In 3D TV Technology · · Score: 2

    But what does HP Lovecraft have to say?

  19. Re:Longevity. on Voyager 1 Officially Exits Our Solar System · · Score: 5, Funny

    Precisely. Nothing that we've built in the last 5 years has lasted 10 years, much less 36!

  20. Re:what could go wrong? on Berkeley Scientists Plan To 'Jurassic Park' Some Extinct Pigeons Back To Life · · Score: 3, Funny

    Small typo there - it should be "Passendger pidgeons".

  21. Re:Do not open until Xmas on 10 Ways To Celebrate International Pi Day · · Score: 1

    Only two birthdays are ever mentioned in the Bible, and in both cases, the birthday boy had someone put to death as his gift.--Genesis 40:16-23; Mark 6:14-29.

    At first, I couldn't figure out what you were talking about -- I'd imagine that several birthdays are mentioned in the Bible (Moses and Jesus come to mind). Then I realized that you were talking about birthday anniversaries.

  22. Re:First strike! on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    Very clever -- should be modded up.

  23. Re:Funding isn't automatic now on How the U.S. Sequester Will Hurt Science and Tech · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it is not lying with facts. I appreciate your adding context, but to pretend that the Democrats are resolved of their responsibility to put forth a budget proposal because of the possibility of being filibustered is propagandizing. It also ignores the fact that they didn't propose a budget when they controlled the Presidency, both houses of Congress, and had a virtual filibuster-proof majority. If they could get ObamaCare passed, then they could have passed a budget.

  24. Re:Funding isn't automatic now on How the U.S. Sequester Will Hurt Science and Tech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is such a load of crap. The Democrats are using the excuse that unless they have a filibuster-proof majority, then they can't even think about passing a budget. They haven't even proposed a budget to see if it would be filibustered. How did all of the Senates before this Senate operate without filibuster-proof majorities? The Republicans would be glad for the Democrats to vote on a budget, as it would expose them (the Democrats). There is no reason to filibuster.

  25. Re:Funding isn't automatic now on How the U.S. Sequester Will Hurt Science and Tech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... and they should establish budgets. The Democratic-controlled Senate has not approved a budget in 4 years.