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  1. Re:The size of a euro coin? on Billion Star Surveyor 'Gaia' Lifts Off · · Score: 1

    Given how close the moon is, this doesn't sound very accurate at all. Luckily, Gaia is still very confident. Good girl.

  2. Re:Note to wife: on Virtuix Omni is a Step Toward True Virtual Reality Gaming (Video) · · Score: 1

    Oh, she's been "sewing" in that room all right... (Don't cha just love quote signs?)

  3. Re:What will Cameron do then? on UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know if you've seen any porn lately, but it has nothing to do with love (I'll grant you biology). Though I disagree with the UK and with censorship at large, I'm beginning to really hate this "boohoo violence is okay but love is taboo" whining. Besides, when videogames come up again after some high-school shooting, we're all up-ins too.

  4. Re:What happened to you Sweden? on Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality · · Score: 1

    Pippi Longstocking. 'nuff said.

  5. You can't even get an animated gif in 4K, let alone a whole movie!

  6. Re:Reverse Santa? on Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers · · Score: 1

    You think they'll throw the wrapping paper in *your* garbage can? Talk about a sense of entitlement!

  7. Re:Pick your favourite outcome! on Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It · · Score: 2

    A Ron Jeremy world!

  8. Re:Previous art from 1985 on Create Your Own Bullet Time Camera Rig With Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Please, point me to some of his 'bullet time' work.

  9. Re:Previous art from 1985 on Create Your Own Bullet Time Camera Rig With Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Well, meh. I like the Underwater Love video from Smoke City (1997) way better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dY1gqTLvhA (some nice shots at 1:51)

  10. Re:Pacemaker safe, really? on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    Huge tits.

  11. Re:Pros vs Cons on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    But that means that trying to outrun the police is a viable option, since they won't chase you, probably.

    No, the problem is that minor offenders turn to outrunning too easily because they're scared. That is the real problem, IMO. If you knew that everything would be okay when you just pulled over and talked with the cop, maybe get a ticket, maybe a warning if you're lucky. But IRL cops are too macho / power hungry and offenders too easily scared.

  12. Re:Here's a theory on Online Shopping: Hazardous To Junk Food's Health · · Score: 2

    That's why I've set up dozens of PCs in my house. One for each isle in the supermarket. That way I get the exercise AND the home shopping!

  13. Re:will it help against impluse eating? on Online Shopping: Hazardous To Junk Food's Health · · Score: 1

    Please ask yourself the question WHY the sugar is addictive. Because evolution has hard-wired our brains. So, erhm, thanks for supporting his point?

  14. Augmented reality porn! on A 'Smart' Bathroom Mirror Powered by Android (Video) · · Score: 1

    'nuff said.

  15. Re:Human Relatives on Mystery Humans Spiced Up Ancients' Sex Lives · · Score: 5, Funny

    Butt sex doesn't you pregnant. What are they teaching in school these days?

    Not enough English?

  16. Re:FB2K FTW on Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Winamp had plugins for formats not anticipated by the operating system. I once (LONG ago) wrote a simple plugin that executed .bat files, so I could queue OS commands in my playlist (shutdown at the end of the list, etc.). Pretty cool (if I might say so myself :) ).

  17. Re:FB2K FTW on Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pft, that's NOTHING! I listen to 28 weeks of music for breakfast!

  18. Re: Mod This Up! on Ask Slashdot: Cheap Second Calculators For Tests? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the first result is this post!!!

  19. Re: Casual slashdot racism in 3... on India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup · · Score: 1

    That is actually quite interesting. So, do they still have pitch for "yes" as well?
    How about a positive answer to a negative question? As in "doch" in German (or "jo" in Danish, "jawel" in Dutch", "si" in French). English is "yes" or "yes I am" or something to remove the ambiguity.

  20. Re:Noooooo on NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    I think it's not NAT per se that people want, but the upstream security you mention. I like having one box doing my security so the box I work on doesn't have to spend CPU cycles worrying about that. That the upstream box does NAT too, is just a means to an end in a still predominantly IPv4 world. But because that box is the NAT box, and because that box provides security, NAT = security, in most people's minds.

  21. Re:RTFA - Not an Infowar on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    No, but a Christian book store specializes in Christian books. A store that specializes in non-christian books isn't specializing but censoring. I get Hatta's point. It's a very thin line to walk.

  22. Re:RTFA - Not an Infowar on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    I think a store can differentiate on the things they sell without it being censorship. For example, a toy store probably won't sell cough drops. An erotica store (sex shop) might sell erotic literature that a normal book store might not. Amazon has some of the same policies in place and that is their right. If someone finds a way around the toy store's policy by selling cough drops in playful packages, then the toy store might consider not selling them anymore after finding out.

    If, however, the toy store starts removing anything that kinda looks like a cough drop in a frenzy. Then, yes, that would be censorship.

  23. Re:One great benefit of Weaponized robots on Weaponized Robots Could Take Point In Future Military Ops · · Score: 1

    First of all, why small? If you're going to kamikaze anyway, then do it well. Secondly, srsly? It's not like these things are made from paper maché, they're expensive you know.

  24. Steam Controller on Disney Engineers Develop Touch Screens That Mimic Tactile Sensations · · Score: 1

    So how does this compare to the haptic feedback of the Steam Controller. Same idea? Completely different?

  25. Re:Don't jellyfishes refrigerate? on Unmanned 'Terminator' Robots Kill Jellyfish · · Score: 1

    Maybe create bouncy castles out of them. Just destroying them seems so wasteful... :)