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Comment superhero fatigue (Score 1) 137

by Thud457 on Monday June 15, 2015 @12:39PM (#49914665) Attached to: How to improve recent Jurassic Park reboot?

hey at least it isn't another of innumerable Marvel superhero movies.

Posted logged in so I can fully enjoy the toasty flamage...

Comment dear me, I have corrupted the Borg (Score 2) 134

by Thud457 on Monday June 15, 2015 @10:56AM (#49913927) Attached to: Police Scanning Every Face At UK Download Festival

Just make a monthly T-shirt drop of with the FBI's 10 most wanted poster a thing.

Congress Decides To Delay US-Launched Astronauts, Keep Using Russian Services 173

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:25PM from the washington,-we've-had-a-problem dept.

New submitter surfdaddy writes: In order to protect the entrenched big aerospace companies, the Congress has increased NASA's budget for FY2016 but has cut funding for "commercial crew." Commercial crew is the funding used by SpaceX for the planned initial manned launches in the first half of 2017. With this cut, the launch of U.S. astronauts from U.S. soil using U.S. rockets will be delayed two years, and we will continue to send millions of dollars to Russia for launch services. "Senate appropriators suggested that NASA’s plans announced earlier this year to procure Soyuz seats for missions in 2018 indicated that the agency was not confident at even this early stage that the two companies with commercial crew contracts, Boeing and SpaceX, could remain on schedule to begin flights in 2017. ...

Comment Re:Ant tentacle porn? (Score 1) 49

by Thud457 on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:59AM (#49898175) Attached to: Soft Robot Tentacle Can Lasso an Ant Without Harming It

Ooooohhhhhh, missed it by >< that much!

What is this? Tentacle porn for ants?

Comment No. (Score 3, Funny) 110

by Thud457 on Friday June 12, 2015 @09:45AM (#49897729) Attached to: Face Recognition Tech Pushes Legal Boundaries

In meatspace nobody recognizes Rorschach.

Comment RELAX everybody... (Score 1) 231

by Thud457 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:28PM (#49893197) Attached to: Microsoft Research Paper Considers Serving Web-ads From Localhost

hint--
They still have to download those ads to your computer from somewhere...

APK solution STILL relevant

Comment fuckin' George Lucas (Score 1) 73

by Thud457 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @10:30AM (#49891105) Attached to: Kaspersky Lab Reveals Cyberattack On Its Corporate Network

This comes out and Christopher Lee kicks it?
Mighty suspicimous...

Comment Because Jean Simmons never had a comupter as a kid (Score 4, Funny) 558

by Thud457 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @12:33PM (#49883823) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer?

Banana Junior 6000

Comment I got it cheap from Slartibartfast (Score 3, Interesting) 558

by Thud457 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @12:27PM (#49883753) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer?

Earth Mark II
I bet you didn't even notice the failover, did you?

Comment Homer was a victim of blatent disinformation. (Score 1) 98

by Thud457 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:59AM (#49883515) Attached to: SpaceX Wants Permission To Test Satellite Internet

Only if he calls it the Alan Parsons Project.

Comment Re:.pst? (Score 1) 203

by Thud457 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @02:43PM (#49877813) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Turn an Email Stash Into Knowledge For My Successor?

pshaw!
Just barf it out to multiple .PSTs (because who doesn't have a mailbox > 2GB?) and crap it out on the Sharepoint(tm) server.
Done and done.
HARUMPH!

Comment KODOS 2016! (Score 1) 71

by Thud457 on Monday June 08, 2015 @05:15PM (#49870899) Attached to: Microsoft Will Help Iowa Caucuses Go High-Tech

Don't blame me, I voted for Kang!

Comment Re:Who Cares? (Score 1) 216

by Thud457 on Friday June 05, 2015 @04:44PM (#49851827) Attached to: How Does Musk's Government Funding Compare To Competitors?

They're all just hopping he's gonna finally bag Dagny Taggart.

Comment WHY IS IT... (Score 4, Insightful) 221

by Thud457 on Thursday June 04, 2015 @05:49PM (#49843053) Attached to: Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die!

Why is it that law enforcement seems to be so goddamned unprofessional and lazy these days?

"ohh no, encryption is terrism"
"clearing your browser history is destroying evimadence"
"don't video me while I'm beating this black man"
"the fourth amendment is a obsolete holdover from the 19th century"

Put on your big girl pants and do you fucking job by the book you shifty slackers.

Comment HAHA! 'Murkins are the DUMBF! (Score 4, Informative) 830

by Thud457 on Thursday June 04, 2015 @02:53PM (#49841173) Attached to: Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric

Even going just partial metric can also lead to big problems.

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