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  1. Re:Where will all the helium come from? on Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    Jupiter would probably be easier. 8-12% Helium by volume in the upper atmosphere, and the rest is Hydrogen.

    Sounds like Hydrogen would be cheaper as it's more plentiful. What could possibly go wrong?

  2. Re:Already have Safari, kbyethnx on Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux Dev Builds · · Score: 2, Funny

    <Steve Erwin impression>...and here we have one of the rarest of all specimens: the +1 Flamebait </Steve Erwin impression>

  3. Re:Playing Catch-up on How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages · · Score: 1

    I know, thou shalt not ignore the preview when being a wise ass. Yeah, yeah.

    To be clear, I'm saying the system as a whole should be patentable (infrared), but not the software used to decode it.

    That's where the copyright takes over.

    (ducks, runs for cover)

  4. Re:Playing Catch-up on How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages · · Score: 1

    To be clear, I'm saying the system as a whole should be patentable (infrared), but not the software used to decode it.

    That's were the copyright takes over.

    (ducks, runs for cover)

  5. Re:Chicken or the egghead? on Google Unveils Search Options and Google Squared · · Score: 1

    And we'll be able tell that Wolfram has truly made it when "Wolfram" surpasses "Yahoo" as the most googled word.

  6. Re:Louis CK would be pleased. on Virgin American In-Flight Internet Review, From In-Flight · · Score: 1

    We'll be taking your kingdom now. Thanks for stopping by.

  7. Great investment... on NASA Running Low On Fuel For Space Exploration · · Score: 0, Troll

    Plutonium-238 for 2015 delivery now trading at $852,272.73 per ounce.

  8. Re:pirate repellents on Mariners Develop High Tech Pirate Repellents · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh give me a fucking break. "Global inequality" doesn't give you the right to start holding human beings hostage for ransom money.

    No. It doesn't. It does, however, explain why it happens. A person grows up in abject poverty, and thanks to mass media's portrayal of the western world, he realizes just how much poverty he's got to deal with. He sees that there's not really anything that separates him from people in wealthier parts of the world other than what's effectively birth right. He begins to resent that relative wealth, and he begins to develop a sense of entitlement. Why shouldn't he have the same wealth that the rich have?

    That sense of entitlement is what, he feels, gives him the right to hold a person hostage demanding ransom.

    I believe the phenomenon you refer to is more commonly know as 'liberalism'.

  9. Re:huh? on Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage? · · Score: 1

    What's an OP?

  10. Re:Am I missing something? on Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage? · · Score: 4, Funny

    It can't, that's why I use Live Search. It doesn't understand the query, the data, or the result. Unfortunately, for the OP, it doesn't support encryption.

  11. Re:I got that beat on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    You brought a 12" laptop to a porn shoot and they didn't offer you a part?

    Oh, come on, you know you were all thinking it!

  12. Re:Can they not use... on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Still on dial-up here. You wouldn't believe the savings from using HTTP://3626153261.

  13. Re:Were nerds here... use the f'ing metric system on The 100 Degree Data Center · · Score: 1

    Good point. So I can get my cheat sheet up to date, how many cubits of papyrus per Library of Congress?

  14. Re:Were nerds here... use the f'ing metric system on The 100 Degree Data Center · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sew their!

  15. Re:No need for missiles on US Pentagon Plans For a Spy Blimp · · Score: 1

    That'll go over like a lead balloon.

  16. Re:Unlimited stem cells on Advance In Making Stem Cells From Skin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dupes are the left over stem cells that refused to differentiate.

  17. Re:Whoops on Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean' · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is correct - a nuclear missile submarine's whole purpose is to hide. According to this writeup, the Admiralty and the US Navy compare notes on the subs' planned courses to avoid such incidents; we can only assume that the French are not privy to these planning sessions.

    We keep the French out of the loop to prevent a breach of operational security next time they surrender.

  18. Re:Old news... on Automation May Make Toll Roads More Common · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Our government should not be in the business of making it more expensive for me to go see my family 100 miles away.

    But I assume that you agree they should make it /possible/ to see your family 100 miles away?

    Thereby making it more expensive for me for you to see your family 100 miles away.

  19. Teacher says... on Sacrificing Accuracy For Speed and Efficiency In Processors · · Score: 1

    As long as little Johnny feels good about himself it's okay if he thinks 2 + 2 = 5. In the real world he'll have computers and calculators to depend on for math anyway.

    -National Education Association Handbook

  20. Re:777-200LR is best because of range on USAF Seeks Air Force One Replacement · · Score: 1

    I thinks it's more a safety concern than a logistics issue. Despite how often the maneuver is performed by military pilots, midair refueling is still an inherently dangerous operation. AFAIK it has never been done with the president on board.

  21. Re:Air Force One replacement on USAF Seeks Air Force One Replacement · · Score: 1

    I am a slashdot reader. I have no fucking idea what POTUS or SCOTUS means, not because I am stupid, but because I am not American.

    "...but I repeat myself." -Mark Twain

    <runs for cover>

  22. Re:Air Force One replacement on USAF Seeks Air Force One Replacement · · Score: 1

    Does the average layperson know what AFB stands for?

  23. Re:Don't hold your breath on Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS · · Score: 1

    They certainly do!

  24. Re:Yeah... on US House Limits Constituent Emails · · Score: 1

    Seems to me we've had this problem before:

    In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

    Hopefully, this government gets it act straight.

  25. Re:Crashed servers send their own message on US House Limits Constituent Emails · · Score: 1

    Glad they aren't expected to handle anything really important... oh, wait...