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

    Or at least a viable nutrient for the Korean population.

  2. Re:Pounds? on Dutch Police Recruit Rats To Sniff Out Crime · · Score: 1

    It should read "Detective Derrick and his rat partners cost just eight pounds on the head each and are capable of being trained to...". Because while rats don't care about money, they dislike being pounded on the head a lot.

  3. Re:Still better than sensors on Dutch Police Recruit Rats To Sniff Out Crime · · Score: 2

    we'd just be better at identifying molecules flying around in the air

    Which is the goal, ultimately. At least when used to detect drugs, explosives or other illegal substances. So even if it were easier to identify molecules flying around in the air than it is to build a smelling machine, it's easier still to use smelling animals.

  4. Re:Apparently, applets only on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 1

    +1 informative

  5. Re:Europe on Steve Jobs Video Kills Apple Patent In Germany · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the same reason you shouldn't pay a programmer by lines of code.

  6. Re:More importantly on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder what you mean by the "care" part of "child production/care". Genitalia are rarely needed in child care.

  7. Re:Multi-Monitor Gaming Just Sucks on Multi-Display Gaming Artifacts Shown With AMD, 4K Affected Too · · Score: 1

    I heard you like monitors, so I've rendered some monitors on your monitors so you can monitor while you monitor.

  8. Re:Guess that's why Valve is so behind Linux on Gabe Newell Talks Linux As the Future of Games at LinuxCon NA · · Score: 1

    Wait. Let me think. If you have a wife to dump and you're homosexual, doesn't that make you a lesbian? But then... Natalie Portman!
    I sure wish I was lesbian... Alas, 7-digit SlashID (but *almost* 6-digit...)

  9. Great idea! on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 2

    I'm going to to this as well, but I'll wait for my kids to become adolescents first. It's just more fun that way!

  10. Re:You can switch it off. on UK Mobile ISP Blocks VPN, Citing Access To Porn · · Score: 1

    No, for being rude. Idiot.

  11. Re:No on Making a Case For Cyberwar Against Syria · · Score: 2

    America didn't overthrow the German government. They just helped kicking them out of the countries they invaded. Entirely different. And they were actively dragged into WW2 (Pearl Harbor). So please quit childishly replacing words. It doesn't make you look smarter.

  12. Re:No on Making a Case For Cyberwar Against Syria · · Score: 1

    You're completely right. Obviously we should beat up the bickering children so that, at least, they'll have a common enemy. Having something in common is always nice.

  13. Re:Uncanny valley on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 1

    And why is everyone looking up in the pictures? Who has the camera below their monitor?

    Yes, I noticed that too. I guess they're exaggerating the problem to make their solution look better?

  14. Re:Wireless sucks on How Africa Will 'Leapfrog' Wired Networks · · Score: 1

    most people when they say "wireless" means not attached to a power cable

    This article is about wired vs wireless *networking*. But I suspect power cabling is an issue as well. Otherwise they could just do Ethernet over Power (EoP, aka Power line communication).

  15. Re:Philantropy on Lenovo CEO Shares $3 Million Bonus With Workers · · Score: 1

    True. True.

  16. Philantropy on Lenovo CEO Shares $3 Million Bonus With Workers · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's easy to be a philanthropist when you're rich. Just sayin'

  17. Re:I miss Scroogle :( on Google Patents "Scroogling" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Okay, so you like interest-based ads. I can see that, I really can. What I'm afraid of, though, is that you with your interest and I with mine get presented a different internet. Google probably sorts your search results differently than mine, so you'll visit different sites than I do, even though our search terms are the same.
    Maybe this isn't a big deal. Your perception of the world is different than mine, so why wouldn't you visit a different internet than I do? But where do you draw the line? (right back at ya :) )
    Also, my interests are shaped based on what I see and read on the internet (as well as IRL of course), but if only pages/search results based on my current interests are ever presented, can I ever widen my horizon? I'm not a static set of properties.

    Okay, so it probably isn't this bad yet, but I'm a little worried about where this is going.
    Thanks in any case for your view on this.

  18. Re: Correlation != Causality on Soda Makes Five-Year-Olds Break Your Stuff, Science Finds · · Score: 0

    Hmm, I take it back. Given a proper random test and control groups, causality could be proved or disproved. I wasn't thinking when I wrote my previous post.

  19. Re: Correlation != Causality on Soda Makes Five-Year-Olds Break Your Stuff, Science Finds · · Score: 1

    Even double blind studies only find correlations. That is, even if this had been double blind and the same results been found, no conclusion whatsoever could have been drawn.

  20. Re:Not me but friends on Ask Slashdot: Experiences Working At a High-Profile Game Studio? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure he meant DirectX. But still funny :)

  21. Re:Make a deadline for additions on Ask Slashdot: Development Requirements Change But Deadlines Do Not? · · Score: 2

    Being responsive to customer needs doesn't mean you have to do everything they say. Most of the time, though, a customer doesn't really 'need' as much as they pretend they do. And most of the time, if your increments are small enough, this isn't a big problem.

  22. Just getting through these steps is already going to delay the release?

  23. Re:Make a deadline for additions on Ask Slashdot: Development Requirements Change But Deadlines Do Not? · · Score: 1

    Precisely. That way, you can still live up to being 'agile' (which doesn't mean you can jump through hoops). Bits of work (sprint, iteration, whatever) being worked on cannot be changed in mid-air.

  24. Re:what? on City-Sized Ice Shelf Breaks Free Of Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Umm.. isn't it impossible to have land that isn't deeper than sea level?

    Lets cancel out some negatives here: Is it possible to have land that isn't deeper than sea level? Is it possible to have land that is higher than sea level? Why yes, that's entirely possible!

  25. Re:They should just... on Apple and Amazon End Lawsuit Over the Term 'App Store' · · Score: 1

    Just the iAlphabet: iA, iB, iC, iD, iEtc...