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  1. " and its yield can be dialed up or down depending on the target, to minimize collateral damage."
    But... does it go to 11?

  2. Re:Grease can be used as fuel. Why would you dump on ATF Puts Up Surveillance Cameras Around Seattle ... To Catch Illegal Grease Dump (muckrock.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yup, when asked why they were there, someone thought fast..." Yes, it's to catch.......grease dumpers..... Ya thats what they're for...grease dumpers......Because there are not laws against catching grease dumpers are there.....

  3. Re:distribution of wealth and on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 2

    yup, but because things are damn cheap now, it doesnt matter, TV's were a high dollar item up until 1980's, computers.. forget about it, cars have remained pretty much the same accounting for inflation, but insuranse is outarageous, now housing..... THATS where the big jump has been, we are looking at generations that will never own a house now.

  4. From the synopsis on The Mystery of the Naked Black Hole (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    "The object could be an extremely rare medium-sized black hole",
    I like my black holes extra medium please.....

  5. Re: PPK on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 2

    Ya, dark matter grows hair around Uranus kinda grabs a headline...

  6. Re:The real worry should be Kessler Syndrome on Satellite Wars (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe if we used one of the mini black holes from the LHC, placed in orbit to hoover up all the debris, hey, what could possible go wrong :)

  7. Re:It's a Playstation world. on Hands-On With the Nintendo PlayStation (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Nintendo never kept up hardware or gamewise, they bet the whole farm on Mario, and lost.

  8. Re:10 years was a decent rest on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Neelix, the Jar Jar Binks of the trek universe...

  9. Re:hymenologist's lament; monkeys missing hymens on Mother of All Apes May Have Been Surprisingly Small (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Prolly a protective sheath for immature females? Help in keeping out bacteria and other nasties?

  10. makes sense on Mother of All Apes May Have Been Surprisingly Small (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Small, light and agile would have been the advantage back then, once the evolutionary niche was carved out and your species started to flourish, then the competetive size differences would start to evolve.

  11. Attack the Block quote on Engineers Create the Blackest Material Yet (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    - Too black to see.

    - That's the blackest black ever, fam.

    - That's blacker than my cousin Femi.

  12. Re: Fiber on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 0

    Why limit your response, WiFi, LiFi, IR or any wireless connection would do the same....

  13. Re: This will do WONDERS for Yahoo's image! on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 2

    Try getting anything from download (aka cnet) its all bundled crapware now

  14. Re:So how are they on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 1

    They are doing a great job maintaining TOS "feel", Vic does a great job as Kirk, Spock is so-so, Bones is well.... a tad limp. Overall they do pretty well being crowd funded and free,(as in BEER), I have looked at the other ones including the Farragut spinoff, most of the others as not quite to par, Hell call me an old fogey, I grew up TOS and enjoy seeing what could have been.

  15. Re: Intersex and time travel on Heinlein's 'All You Zombies' Now a Sci-Fi Movie Head Trip · · Score: 1

    Somehow this little gem slipped past me in my youth, I was occasionally frustrated by it, wanting "but,but"... Until the end, it was twisty and thought provoking and in some measure after running the permutations for a few days, it was ok in a world of shitty scifi releases

  16. Re: Why does this need a sequel? on Blade Runner 2 Script Done, Harrison Ford Says "the Best Ever" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yup, if all replicants had a red glow to their eyes, then why the pain in ass psych eval to determine if someone is a replicant. It would be much easier to look for the red glow, wouldn't it?

  17. Some things on Ask Slashdot: Best Software To Revive PocketPCs With Windows Mobile 5-6? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    are best left dead, WM, WinCE are 2 of them. Set them on fire, piss on them to put them out, then have fun by throwing them 1 by 1 into a wood chipper and get a good nights sleep knowing you just did the world a solid.

    the only possible use i could see for them is for a cheap satnav, assuming they even have a GPS module.

  18. Re:programming on AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us · · Score: 5, Insightful

    until it becomes self aware, then what?

  19. most western states on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    Had relaxed limits for years, at the most, you got pulled over for doing over 85 , this was considered wasting a natural resource,yes gasoline is a resource!
    The upper western states have straight roads that go forever, unfortunately they sometimes have a 4 way stop at some point, this is where the court decision came limiting the speed to 80'ish after a few accidents at these crossroads.

  20. Say what now?? on Study: Space Rock Impacts Not Random · · Score: 1

    I would have thought this was common sense.
      Instead of believing The Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster likes to randomly through rocks at us from up on high, we instead correlate that higher meteor activity is linked to Earths passing through debris fields from existing comet trails, the SAME trails every X amount of years.
    Sounds like a story from the 1800's

  21. So in other words... on We Are All Confident Idiots · · Score: 1

    A definitive explanation for Beta??

  22. Re:Wait... on MAVEN Spies Mars' Atmosphere Leaching Out Into Space · · Score: 1

    well, that and the fact that the moon is constantly "Kneading" the earths crust back and forth, causing friction heat to build up in the crust/core.
    I have always wondered if we started parking asteroids near enough to Diemos and let gravity do its thing, would a moon 1/6 the mass of of Mars restart the core, thus creating a magnetic field that holds in the atmosphere.

  23. MS qubits on Microsoft's Quantum Mechanics · · Score: 5, Funny

    The chair is both thrown/not thrown at the same time, only the Balmer super computer can tell.

  24. Re:1 month away.. on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 1

    the arctic ice has actually increased, the antarctic has abated, but again, within geologic norms.

  25. 1 month away.. on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 0

    Even the scientist that support AGW say a 15 year hiatus would cause a re think of their models supporting AGW, gues what... We are now one month away from a full 15 years of no significant rise in temps.
    Tues they better get back to the drawing boards...