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  1. Re:rain on How To See Through an Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    extremely difficult to defeat radar + infared + visible + UV all at the same time

    Would it even make sense to become invisible to electromagnetic radiation at so many wavelengths? If someone creates the perfect cloak, how can the person on the inside see whats around them? How do you communicate with anything that is cloaked?

  2. Re:Is it really that necessary? on US Air Force Confirms New Stealth Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Well thanks to president obama, our most advanced fighter ever, the F22 Raptor is being discontinued

  3. Re:this means nothing on Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver · · Score: 1

    Video games have high scores. Simulators are there to provide an environment for evaluation (usually by a very experienced human, not a computer.)

    How can you evaluate someone if you don't have a base set of marks to compare them to? Translating how well someone does on certain exercises into numbers is a score and it would definitely be required if the Army wants to separate the men from the boys. Its even more important for training programs if they want to see how their recruits are improving or not.

  4. Re:Better Google than your ISP on Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · · Score: 1

    but what I don't get is that DNS entries are cached. So even if Google is datamining this stuff, what good is it other than telling Google how many seconds after a DNS entry has expired did we re-request it. Even then, if a DNS server is using Google's sevice, they might override the default TTL. It just seems to me like datamining DNS requests would give a completely inaccurate concept what actual web usage is like.

  5. Re:Tasteless on Scientists Create Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    As a cook, I can tell you that you're absolutely wrong. Although flavor does come from the fat of a cow, such as in a prime rib, that is not true of a tenderloin. If you've ever cooked a PSMO, you'd see how lean the meat is. In fact, in preparing a PSMO, you remove a lot of fat from the meat.

  6. Re:Un-exercised meat on Scientists Create Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    I don't think foie gras would be the same as synthetic meat. For one, its a different type of tissue. Secondly, foie gras is a very specific type of liver from a duck thats been force fed to the point that it swells. They'd somehow need to create not just a liver, but a fatty overfed liver. That seems to me more like a process that requires a live animal than can be done with an artificial system.

  7. Re:Adapt or else on Google Attack On the Mobile Market Rumored · · Score: 1

    Google will be facing up real giants this time

    when google released gmail, they were going up against msn hotmail and yahoo. i don't know about you, but those are some pretty damn big companies.... unless you're talking about some other time

  8. Re:Buyer Beware! on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1
    Uhh... you said..

    I don't know how "sushi chef" compares to "executive chef" in terms of preparation difficulty

    If you prefer to remain ignorant, thats all you have to say.

  9. Re:Buyer Beware! on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1
    good thing i wasn't responding to your point, i was responding to this...

    I don't know how "sushi chef" compares to "executive chef" in terms of preparation difficulty

  10. Re:Buyer Beware! on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    ok, maybe saying preparing rice and cutting fish is oversimplifying the art of preparing sushi. but my point was that the skill set required to prepare sushi is much smaller than is necessary to become an executive chef of a restaurant that has a cuisine of various types of food to serve on the menu

  11. Re:Buyer Beware! on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    I don't know how "sushi chef" compares to "executive chef" in terms of preparation difficulty

    Sushi and sushi chef's are way too overrated. Sushi is merely preparing rice and cutting fish. Besides an occasional blow torch, there is absolutely no cooking involved. Let me also point out that sushi is not really a cuisine. It is just a little piece of the entire Japanese cuisine. Thats like saying... I don't know how a "pasta chef" compares to "executive chef"...

  12. Re:Possible none issue soon on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    But aquaculture involves raising fish at incredibly high densities in order to be profitable

    Or ridiculously expensive fish

  13. Re:Yuck! Sushi! on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm certain you're joking about the salmonella in common chicken. However, chicken sashimi does exist and is safe, if you get it from the right chicken

  14. Re:parent != troll on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    Needing money and needing a drink are two entirely different things

  15. Misinterpreting the issue... on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    The issue is that there is a breach of contract going on, not that apple hates smokers. Thats fine if you want to the void the warranty due to the damage caused by smoking. However, if you're going to do that, it better damn well be in your contract, which it doesn't appear to be in this case.

  16. Re:Who'd have thunk it? on Some Claim Android App Store Worse Than iPhone's · · Score: 1

    I believe in the face of piracy like this, the developers will eventually innovate to figure out ways to generate additional streams of revenue that don't come from application sales. Perhaps ad revenue, or pulling additional features from a server side request, etc. Unfortunately for me, I don't know anything about the android platform so I'm not even certain that this is possible.

  17. Re:Kevlar on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    I could see them using it in area's affected by hurricane's, typhon's, and maybe tornados. Seems like it'd be good to protect houses from debris flying at 100+ mph.

  18. Re:This is part of NASA's purvey. on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    Ignorance is the lack of knowledge. The inability to differentiate between hollywood fiction and reality isn't a lack of knowledge. Thats just plain stupidity.

  19. Re:A better alternative on NIF Aims For the Ultimate Green Energy Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perhaps you'd like to give up your 40 hours work weeks, week ends, OSHA regulations, retirement and disability insurance

    First of all, you don't need a union to enforce OSHA regulations. There are plenty of other ways employees can get their employers to enforce OSHA regulations. Secondly, whats this nonsense about 40 hour work weeks and week ends and insurance? There are plenty of industries in the united states right now that don't offer any of those to their employees AND those employees make way less than their uneducated counterparts working in the unions. So please, get a reality check. UAW workers demand stuff they don't deserve. The fact that they get it is what pisses off the rest of us.

  20. Re:RUN AWAY FROM VERIZON WIRELESS! on Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You say this as if there is some other cell provider to run to

  21. Re:Certified on Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close · · Score: 1

    It really is as simple as filling out a form. You fill out your profile, agree to sell MS product, wait a few days for 'Approval' and boom your a MCP for a year, at the end of the year, you update your profile and you're renewed for a year.

    Oh sure, because all of us have established businesses that sell Microsoft products and services, sales histories, established customer bases, other MCP's to partner with, and federal tax id's to prove that we qualify for their requirements.

    I realize you didn't bother to look into it anymore once you saw the treeview in your browser

    Actually, my brother headed the project to get his company MCP certified and they sell RAID arrays. He went through a lot more than just filling out some forms. His hardware had to go through a lot of tests to get certified. So yes, I did look into it more than just seeing a treeview

    but this is slashdot and a halfassed look at a web page and ignorance has never stopped anyone from making a complete ass out of themselves so why should you be any different

    And this being slashdot, its not surprising that a pretentious ass like yourself would troll like this

    You can go be anti-MS and turn down sales potential all you want. Enjoy standing in line at the unemployment office.

    I never said I was anti-MS. In fact, I'm posting this from a computer running windows XP and I look forward to upgrading to Windows 7. But then again, this is slashdot so its not surprising to find people posting presumptuous stuff like this.

  22. Re:Certified on Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close · · Score: 5, Informative

    You didn't mention how to become an MCP though. Its not just a matter of filling out a form and sending it to Microsoft. These companies go through a rigorous set of evaluations based specifically around Microsoft products in order to become MCP. So although Microsoft might not control them, their pocket books do and they sure as hell invested a lot of money to become MCP's.

  23. Re:For everyone who is going WTF who is Glenn Beck on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    There's this great new invention called Google. You should try it out sometime.

  24. Re:Exactly on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    Franky, I don't see Beck in that same category.

    Are we talking about the same Beck here?!?!?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI_0Kt_e3Go

  25. Re:Oh yeah? on Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously. They're obviously not as l337 as we are. They don't know how hard it is to PvP in OpenOffice. Those damn characters come from everywhere using all kinds of punctuation weapons. Go troll elsewhere you n00bs