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  1. Re:Doesn't seem too bad on Bully Trailer Hits the Web · · Score: 3, Funny

    They forgot to mention the working title of Grand Theft Classroom; many of the bullies can be run over during driver's ed.

  2. Re:The Joy of Spintronics on 18th Century Pigment to Revolutionize Chip Design? · · Score: 1
    Artists did not favor cobalt green although it could safely be mixed with all other pigments and was a fast drier in oil. The poor tinting strength and high cost of cobalt green kept it in limited use. Field called it, "chemically good and artistically bad"


    We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents...
  3. GalCiv and piracy on Piracy Killing PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    You're right on this count - in fact, that's exactly how I got the game in the first place. After playing it for about a week (and collecting a paycheck in the interim) I went and bought it myself.

    People will pay money for the games that they enjoy. The problem is that the market has a glut of games that simply aren't fun, and ones that try to capitalize on the name tend to screw them up even worse.

  4. Much as I hate to admit 4chan is right... on Electronic Art Changes to Suit Mood of Viewer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Every day is repost day.

    Or well, every repost is repost repost.

  5. Re:More uses? on U.S. Military Developing Ultrasonic Tourniquet · · Score: 1

    Now THAT'S a smart idea.

  6. Worst. Idea. EVER. on U.S. Military Developing Ultrasonic Tourniquet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because the first thing that's going to happen when your clot's not big enough is that it's going to go to your lung. Or heart. Or brain.

    You can expect the statistics of soldiers having strokes for no apparent reason to go WAY up.

  7. This is about perfect for my aircar... on Another Pass at the Personal Jetpack · · Score: 1

    I'll just throw one of these in the trunk of my flying car in case it runs out of gas!...

  8. It's called gallows humor. on Pentagon Monitors War Videos Online · · Score: 1

    It's a common coping mechanism for people who deal with things in their lives that most people don't even consider for the most part. It's not just the military that has it - so do police officers, firefighters, EMTs...

    And without it you'd see a lot more people going nuts. This is one of the little things that keeps people sane.

  9. Re:Old? on The Benefits of Hybrid Drives · · Score: 1

    Windows creates an immense swapfile anyway - why not just get the system to do it on either a designated part of the hard drive, or on a USB 2.0 flash drive?

    Actually, has anyone tried that? I expect you could see a decent increase in performance that way.

  10. Re:Lessons from Northern Irish IRA on Cyberwar on NASA Websites · · Score: 1

    You didn't have bordering countries full of more than a half billion Irish sympathyzers giving them bombs and rockets to launch at London either.

  11. Re:Way to go ... on Cyberwar on NASA Websites · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The last guy who hacked it was looking for UFOs and was on dial-up, after all. The other stuff is likely to have far better security. This probably had about as much security as my high school's webpage.

  12. Re:Yes. It's Certainly Closing ;) on Cheyenne Mountain Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    You realize, of course, that Cheyenne was about the biggest target on the radar for anyone with multi-megaton nukes - i.e. in the event of a global holocaust you're going to see about a hundred falling on it and wiping it out. Nukes were once considered for the very task of wiping mountains out, after all. Though they reconsidered that due to most people not wanting their new homes to glow in the dark.

    So clearly they've got a facility a mile or two underground that nobody's going to disclose. Doing it from Peterson AFB is clearly just a cover -- that or one of the access points is inside the base. I expect there are plenty of other ones. Just look at the complexes they built for Atlas missiles, it's entirely probable that they did something just like it deeper beneath the surface.

  13. What amuses me about that possibility... on Photograph the Police, Get Arrested · · Score: 1

    ...is that the worse the US gets in terms of being a police state with concentrated power, the more they'll meddle in international affairs, because they'll have a freer hand in that regard. The best thing they could have done is ignore the US, because in the end if this scenario continues you're going to end up with solutions right out of that Dead Zone movie with Christopher Walken.

    "Sir, we have a diplomatic solution!" "The missiles are already flying. God bless America."

  14. Re:secret agent man! they've given you a number... on Army to Require Trusted Platform Module in PCs · · Score: 1

    If only I were so lucky; my dealings with the public are a lot more limited. I'm more of a logistics type of person, but then I deal with strictly domestic issues in the midwest, particularly in the medical field.

    Translation: I dispatch ambulances in Ohio and deal with nursing homes on the phone.

    Obfuscation is fun!

  15. mod parent down. on Army to Require Trusted Platform Module in PCs · · Score: 1

    unless iran is trying to force DRM on us too.

  16. Re:Slashdotted already? on Leopard Fake Screenshot Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean standard operating system?

  17. Re:Wow on Turning Network Free-Riders' Lives Upside Down · · Score: 2

    Actually, the best part of this is that your network is still usable by the random joe in the apartment two buildings over. It may be frustrating, granted, but it is better than nothing when the guy has no choice. If you're trying to read the news or get your mail, that's no big deal; if you're browsing imageboards and all your pictures are screwed up, well, it's a subtle hint to invest in your own connection.

  18. Re:Hybrid? on The Hybrid Scooter · · Score: 1

    Electric? Not a peep in the headlines, nobody cares about something that's just electric.
    Hybrid? Headlines everywhere! Tax reimbursements! Eco-crazies buying your product up!

    From a PR man's viewpoint, which would YOU choose?

  19. Morale equals food? on CIA Blogger Fired for Criticizing Torture Policy · · Score: 2, Funny
    Writing as Covert Communications, CC for short, she opined in her online journal on such national security conundrums as stagflation, the war of ideas in the Middle East and -- in her most popular post -- bad food in the CIA cafeteria.
    This is what happens when you tick off the CIA lunchlady. Next thing you know she'll have a mysterious heart attack, all because the world now knows the food tastes like cardboard.