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  1. Re:Welcome to reality on Ask Slashdot: IT Spending In Engineering? · · Score: 1

    I find your combination of hate of MBA's and your Ayn Rand signature hilarious on a deep and cosmic level. Thank you.

  2. Re:SITTING DUCK on Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship · · Score: 1

    Oh he was a Lt. in 92. Now it's LtCol Obvious.

  3. Re:Value, revisited ... on BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS · · Score: 1

    You can't turn a bit coin directly back into clock cycles. Those cycles are lost, not held in abayence for the holder of the bit coin to claim. This is where it differs from the gold standard.

  4. Re:He's right on How Google Fiber Could Do Some National Good, Or At Least Scare the Carriers · · Score: 1

    What's up with the Anglo bashing, seems to me he is most likely an American.

  5. Re:My theory on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    I beleive the free program Classic Shell, works for both Win8 and Server2012.

  6. Re:good. on Sequester Grounds Blue Angels · · Score: 1

    Intresting point is that the practice is the opposite. Due to the price of labor falling, more and better raw recruits become available. In order to force shape and keep the top thin, the practice is to hire a larger number of cheaper E-1's keep them for a few years and only promote and retain the best of the best. This way you can replace more expensive vested talent.

  7. Re:Required electricity on Fusion Rocket Could Take Us To Mars · · Score: 1

    Metric Tons?

  8. Re:Ustream claims capacity for 3.3 million viewers on Asteroid 2012 DA14 Approaches · · Score: 1

    If the watching of large rocks becomes a world-wide pastime, observatories are going to start wanting budgets to add a high speed camera.

    Sadly, I doubt there is much reason to fear that.

  9. Re:But they are heroes! Right? on New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers · · Score: 1

    And yet, here you sit. Free.

  10. Re:Unprecidented control over US mind-share on Comcast Buys Out GE's Remaining 49% Stake In NBC · · Score: 1

    So, you are saying the ability of people or groups to intentionally influence others in the mannor of their choosing, is linked to the idea of video games incidentally influencing individuals in one way that is against the will of industry, bad for bussiness and grounds for lots of expensive lawsuits..

    It can just as well be argued, that that video games reduce violence by providing a vicarious outlet for violence, so people don't actually go around doing it for real. Sorry to break your false association/link there.

  11. Re:Problem? on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Really, Fox News? Everything Fox News says is a lie. Even true things, once said on Fox News, become lies." - Lois Griffin

  12. Re:Nice! on HP Software Update Cancels Food Stamps · · Score: 1

    I think he is somehow using the fact that there wages have decreased in real terms, even more so as a share of GDP/per worker, as an excuse to show that he would have been in a much lower bracket 30 years ago then today. This can be easily illustrated by the minimum wage. When tracked by productivity per worker hour minimum wage should be about $21 an hour today in the US and instead it is less than $8. Luckily we decoupled that relationship in the 70's, so most people don't realize that the average American would be considered earning less than the minimum wage ( http://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html ), if it continued to mirror worker productivity. So, if he could make as much today as he would have commanded in 1980, before we really pushed trickledown, then yes he would pay more in taxes today. Conversely as he seems to posit, if his labor was as worthless in 1980 as it is today he would have pay far less by the 1980 tax code.

  13. Re:Can't America get its acts together ? on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 1

    ... or attempt to capture the negative externalities on society. ... or find a way to support a 1st World Society. ... or a regessive tax to prevent more progressive taxation on those with more money and power then you.

  14. Re:Freezy Freakies on Futuristic Highway Will Glow In the Dark For Icy Conditions · · Score: 1

    Let me rephrase. All of the comments last time were that this is old tech, or a waste of money. You can read them for yourself, it was almost 30 days ago.
    http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/10/30/2055259/glow-in-the-dark-smart-highways-coming-to-the-netherlands-in-2013

    I personally don't care how the Netherlands spends their transportation budget.

  15. Re:Freezy Freakies on Futuristic Highway Will Glow In the Dark For Icy Conditions · · Score: 1

    Let me rephrase. All of the comments last time were that this is old tech, or a waste of money. You can read them for yourself, it was almost 30 days ago.
    http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/10/30/2055259/glow-in-the-dark-smart-highways-coming-to-the-netherlands-in-2013

  16. Re:Freezy Freakies on Futuristic Highway Will Glow In the Dark For Icy Conditions · · Score: 0

    This is very similar to the comments the last time this exact story was on slashdot. Also, it is a waste of money.

  17. Re:Why? on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    Motion Blur isn't desirable. It is mearly a imperfection that we can easily process away. You don't need motion blur to follow that path of a real ball in flight. However if you try to animate images of a ball in flight you will need to add blur to trick the mind into seeing those still images as a seemless. If you can put enough images in there your mind won't have infer from motion blur how motion is occuring relative to it. Now how do you handle rapid motion that's relative to the camera, as the camera is rapidly moving without making your audience get seasick? That's the real question.

  18. Re:Why? on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    That's like 50% off, sooooo worth it!

  19. Re:It was there non-apologetic... on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 2

    No, he was proactively copied in look and feel of his first post by TWX. TWX then just made is post less cool, so that it would be differentiated. Look at all those extra words.. is that an adverb?! It's a mockery of the simplicity of AC's post.

  20. Re:Do what with daily records? on Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar · · Score: 1

    This sentence no verb.

  21. Re:Age of Slashdot Accounts on Get Your 15 Years of Slashdot Shirt (For free, Depending) · · Score: 1

    /golf clap

  22. Re:Hmm... on Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware · · Score: 1

    This is even funnier to me when you add in the concept of our Germans being better then their Germans, al la cold war missle development. After every catastrophioc failure or political snafu the catch phrase could be, "Well, at least we all hate the Jews!"

  23. Re:If the odds are against you on What The Apollo 11 Crew Did For Life Insurance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know feeding a troll is always a bad idea, but please tell me, are you high or 16? Seems like your a huge fan of the neo-con revisionism. Note how those poor little rich folks have had tax cut after tax cut for 50 years. The top rate has fallen from over 90% to... what did Mitt pay, 12%? There is no such thing as a rich man who got there with out our wonderfully fubar federal government. The environment for that wealth creation came from all of us, schools, roads, labor, et al. If you think a progressive tax is a pox upon long term viability, look at Somalia. Does our system blow, hell yes. Is a progressive federal system the best we have seen on this planet, by far.

  24. Re:Liquid water? on NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars · · Score: 1

    Sorry, was text only from work, I do see the graphic your
    referencing. And low and behold it seems to vary pretty much fromVenus to Mars, so I feel vindicated all the same.

  25. Liquid water? on NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars · · Score: 1

    From TFA:
    "The outer planet, Kepler-47c, orbits its host pair every 303 days, placing it in the so-called "habitable zone," the region in a planetary system where liquid water might exist on the surface of a planet. While not a world hospitable for life, Kepler-47c is thought to be a gaseous giant slightly larger than Neptune, where an atmosphere of thick bright water-vapor clouds might exist."

    Wouldn't this cause some bizarre tidal forces too? IANAP, but seems that the relative masses of these bodies might lead to a excentric orbit that would push Kepler-47c into and out of the habitable zone.