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  1. What they left out on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NASA didn't decide to build that; a Republican senator from Mississippi forced through the budget amendment even though it was pointless. Apparently stimulating the economy down there with some completely useless waste of resources is more important than actual space research.

    Blaming NASA for it is just adding insult to injury - what an asshole reporter.

  2. CAPTCHAs on Facebook Offers Solution To End Drunken Posts · · Score: 1

    Instead of fancy breathalizer equipment, making people read a bunch of letters and numbers is probably enough.

  3. Life-size on Julian Assange Trying To Raise Nearly $200k For a Statue of Himself · · Score: 1

    That's supposed to mean the size of his body, or the size of his ego?

  4. Re:obviously they should track the sun on You're Doing It All Wrong: Solar Panels Should Face West, Not South · · Score: 2

    All you need is a small black hole to bend the light towards you...

  5. Re:HIV, now friendlier than ever! on Study: HIV Becoming Less Deadly, Less Infectious · · Score: 1

    Ebola and ISIS both still have fairly bad raps, so fat chance for Comcast.

  6. Re:One letter? on Attack of the One-Letter Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Unary representation of your program's Gödel number. You can code in one letter, but your program may get pretty long.

  7. Re:Web Searches For These Suck on Attack of the One-Letter Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    (which Google, btw, finally realized can be more than two words to be omitted from a search because they're too common)

    Yeah, in the early days multiple words were just an AND keyword search. I think that changed over 6-7 years ago, though.

  8. Re:sooo.... on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 2

    In the time between these bursts, maybe a few species got lucky and made it almost to space colonization before getting scrubbed.

    Maybe we're one of them.

  9. Shit, that means the Earth is hatching. on Millions of Spiders Seen In Mass Dispersal Event In Nova Scotia · · Score: 1

    I saw that episode.

  10. Re:Elevator in the sky with diamonds on Scientists Discover Diamond Nanothreads · · Score: 1

    Wow! That sure is an unexpected application of a new super-tensile material. :P

  11. Would've ended US administration of root zone on No, You Can't Seize Country TLDs, US Court Rules · · Score: 1

    No government would want to trust their TLD (on which relies the entire country's infrastructure and economy) to a foreign country that interferes with it. Once that can of worms is opened, you'd probably end up with each country hosting their own alternative root and mandating their ISPs either default to using it or being able to fail over to it quickly when necessary.

  12. Re:That's quite a warranty! on New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping · · Score: 1

    But for one simple payment or $100,000, you can pre-purchase your batteries for the next 500 billion years!

  13. Re:"not so much as a default wallpaper" on Ubuntu 14.10 Released With Ambitious Name, But Small Changes · · Score: 1

    Unity's equivalent to Metro tiles

    I don't know if this is a joke, because when I install Ubuntu these days I kill Unity and replace it with Gnome before doing anything else. But I sure hope so.

  14. Anonymize your connection through tor... on Facebook Sets Up Shop On Tor · · Score: 1

    ... then log into Facebook with your real name and post your data from that connection.

  15. Re:Why at a place of learning? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 1

    There is, but they're not content to do it there because they want to fool other people into thinking it's not bullshit.

  16. JMP Considered Harmful on Computer Scientist Parachutes From 135,908 Feet, Breaking Record · · Score: 1

    (...)

  17. Re:And three weeks to think it over. on German Publishers Capitulate, Let Google Post News Snippets · · Score: 2

    That would be overreaching, since Google now has actual competition. Trying to apply pressure too widely would drive industries to use and endorse Bing instead.

    (I don't think "anti-trust violation" means what you think it means, by the way.)

  18. "not so much as a default wallpaper" on Ubuntu 14.10 Released With Ambitious Name, But Small Changes · · Score: 4, Funny

    WHAT?

    I'm not installing such a crap update. Why would they leave out the most important thing?

  19. Next FOIA Request on NSA To Scientists: We Won't Tell You What We've Told You; That's Classified · · Score: 4, Funny

    - "Please list the FOIA requests you have complied with in the past twelve months"

    - "That information is classified."

    - "Please state whether or not you will comply with this FOIA request"

    - "That information is... " *headexplode*

  20. Re:Authenticator on Gmail Security Is a Problem For Tor Users In Repressive Countries · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but if you're using a smartphone at all, you'd need expert knowledge to protect your anonymity from it (rooting, etc.). The authenticator app doesn't require network access though (it's basically a time-synchronized security token, afaik), so it might be possible to port it to some non-connected device.

  21. Re:Whales? on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 5, Funny

    [cetacean needed]

  22. Re:funny that.... on Ebola Vaccine Trials Forcing Tough Choices · · Score: 1

    Funny that ebola has been in existence in the modern world since the 70s, yet only now this is coming to light. Oddly enough, this is perfectly timed with someone in the US getting infected.

    "Shit, this is on OUR turf now!??! Better do something about it!"

    This is not "only now coming to light"; it's just that you couldn't be bothered to read about it until it was spelled out in a Slashdot headline. People didn't start working on this last week. I'm not sure how fast you think medical research works.

  23. Re:well done mods. on German Court: Google Must Stop Ignoring Customer E-mails · · Score: 5, Funny

    I shall be referring this matter to the German police.

    Go do that; their contact address is support@polizei.de

  24. Re:yet if we did it on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 3, Funny

    > sued

    *prosecuted, even.

  25. 4.4 trillion FPS on World's Fastest Camera Captures 4.4 Trillion Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    1 second / 4.4 trillion * 3E8 m/s = 68 microns.

    That's the distance light covers between frames. Wow.