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  1. Re:Get used to it on Precision Espionage MiniFlame Malware Tied To Flame · · Score: 1

    No, it arrived a long, long time ago. Ordinary folk only started to take notice now though.

  2. Re:Church and Einstein on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 0

    "Man will only be free, once the last King has been strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Heinlain.

  3. Yellow, Red, Green? on A Supercomputer On the Moon To Direct Deep Space Traffic · · Score: 1

    OK, so the moon is yellow now and all satellites will have to stop when it turns red?

  4. Re:Coal mining? on Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling On College Campuses · · Score: 1

    Would that perchance be Soylent Black?

  5. Re:...Why? on Galileo: Europe's Version of GPS Reaches Key Phase · · Score: 1

    There are also navigation systems that use geostationary satellites, e.g. Egnos and Inmarsat.

  6. Re:How do they navigate now? on Galileo: Europe's Version of GPS Reaches Key Phase · · Score: 1

    and there are also systems that use geo stationary satellite data, for example Egnos.

  7. Re:Developers love USDP on Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Long live Edlin.

  8. Re:Not scared on U.S. Defense Secretary Warns of a Possible 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor' · · Score: 1

    You are more likely to get killed or injured by hopping into bed, than by a terrorist attack.

  9. Wear a seat belt on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 0

    The bags are redundant and a waste of money.

  10. AOL, Myspace, Facebook... on Once Valued at $1.8B, OnLive Was Sold For Only $5M · · Score: 1

    All these useless overpriced IT companies will go the way of the dodo.

  11. MS Mouse on Steve Ballmer: We're a Devices and Services Company · · Score: 1

    The only excellent product MS ever made is the Microsoft Mouse. I have used many different rodents, but my MS Mouse is perfect and it works beautifully on my Fedora Linux laptop computer.

  12. Re:how about on Replacing Windows 8's Missing Start Menu · · Score: 1

    What about the lyrics of 'Pigs'? 'OINK, Oink, oink...' Truly inspiring, that.

  13. Only in America and Japan on 802.11ad Will Knock Your Socks Off, Says Interop Panel · · Score: 1

    It will only work where buildings are made of recycled toilet paper. A 60GHz signal will not pass through real walls.

  14. No shit Sherlock... on Electric Car Environmental Impact: Power Source Matters · · Score: 1

    EVs are mostly the same as any other car, so producing the one over the other cannot be a major concern. Regarding the electric power source - well duh...

  15. Mohole and Kola on $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle · · Score: 1

    This has been done before, donkeys years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

  16. Re:Extra E on The Explosive Growth of 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    Viva la difference. Ol'Bill of the Shaky Speare would also beg to differ with you.

  17. Re:ideas of what a robot is on African Robotics Network Challenge Spurs Rash of $10 Robots · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The main problem is that each time you dump free food on them, they produce more children.

  18. Re:Trolling? on The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes absolutely. A good beating will modify the behaviour of anyone dramatically. If it is a true sociopath, you just have to beat more agressively. Medieval crowd control methods as practised by the Catholic Church and Vlad the Impaler, still work just as efficiently today, as it did back then.

  19. Re:are the windows.. on Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise? · · Score: 1

    Pulse Audio should do the trick. Then he can control the sound level of each window separately.

  20. Re:are the windows.. on Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like he upgraded his windows, so he must now be on version 3.1. No wonder.

  21. Double glazing on Ask Slashdot: Hacking Urban Noise? · · Score: 1

    ...and if double glazing doesn't work, quadruple glazing and if that doesn't work, brick the front windows up...

  22. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    That may be a problem in the lawsuit happy USA, but in the rest of the world, self driving cars will improve by leaps and bounds. Anyhoo, a self driving car crashing, is an industrial accident, there are already laws for that.

  23. Re:Thats no way to be a good citizen on Woz Applying For Australian Citizenship Because of the NBN · · Score: 2

    It is 'Hear, hear!" you bogan...

  24. Re:H! on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 1

    As a teenager I made many hot air balloons, until one day when I put the mountain on fire...

  25. Re:H! on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 1

    It is just a fad really. They can just as well use dry air, but it is too cheap and doesn't sound sexy.