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  1. Re:Not sure if a good idea on NASA Visualizes Asteroid Grab Mission · · Score: 1

    RUN [Anonymous] COWARD, RUN!

  2. Re:They must have been stone tablets on Students At Lynn University Get iPad Minis Instead of Textbooks · · Score: 2

    Maybe 201,0 is a vector year.

  3. Re:Zuck, pay up on Security Community Raises $12k For Researcher Snubbed By Facebook · · Score: 1

    More likely Winklevöss or Winklevossen

  4. Re:Don't fly. on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    I don't fly... for personal trips. I haven't visited my siblings (4,400 mile roundtrip) in 8 years; I see my parents (2,000 mile roundtrip) every couple years, when I have the time to make a driving trip.

    But refusing to fly for work when required would be equivalent to quitting. Fortunately I have not had too many trips required though others in my group fly several times a month.

    This is what others mean by "no choice". It's choose to fly or choose to work in a different field, if such work can be found.

  5. Re:3 pillars... on Motorola Uses NFC To Enable Touch-to-Unlock For Smartphones · · Score: 1

    On the bright side though, the muggers won't beat your face up (at least not until they unlock the phone).

  6. Re:No water processing plant on Fukushima Actually "Much Worse" Than So Far Disclosed, Say Experts · · Score: 1

    Chicago and Detroit have plants exceeding 1 billion gallons per day, but I have a feeling activated sludge is not going to be the treatment method of choice for the cooling water at fukushima.

  7. Re:screw the spin on Fukushima Actually "Much Worse" Than So Far Disclosed, Say Experts · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Incinerators on US States Banned From Exporting Trash To China Are Drowning In Plastic · · Score: 1

    Why is the US so allergic to incinerators?

    It's not that we're allergic (although they're more often called waste-to-energy plants these days).

    It's that the public solid-waste agencencies don't have the money to build them, and the private industries that would build them as "turnkey" enterprises can't be expected to respect the public health and safety interests.

  9. Free copies? on Half of All Research Papers Published In 2011 Already Free To Read · · Score: 1

    Now how many of the "free" copies crawled by Google are actually free, and how many are just "pirated", e.g. posted by an instructor as reading material for a class, without permission from publishers?

    Will this finding lead to some DMCA takedown notices?

  10. Evolution on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    Maybe the change is just good old evolution. Though it seems adverse to the survival of individuals, maybe it's benefiting the survival of these affected species.

  11. Re:This news is already out of date: on San Francisco Fire Chief Bans Helmet-Mounted Cameras For Firefighters · · Score: 1

    Good. A sensible decision.

    Now the best way to handle the case of Ye Meng Yuan, if SF first responders did in fact accidentaly run her over, is with some kind of restorative justice: Apologize to her family for the accident that happened while working to rescue others. Offer restitution and acknowledge that it is not meant to replace the young woman who is now gone.

  12. Roku? on Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via 'Pipelight' · · Score: 1

    I don't use Netflix, but I'm curious if anyone here knows: How does the (Linux-based IIRC) Roku player accomplish Netflix playback if Silverlight is required?

  13. Re:Already exists? on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    What's more interesting than the fact that wikipedians are up on this proposal is that Microsoft already uses the same status code in Exchange Active Sync.

  14. Re:Out of Body? on Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experiences · · Score: 1

    Makes it a bit harder to refute.

    I think it's easy to refute. Selection bias.

    In the cases where the "floater" reports something different from the living eyewitnesses it gets dismissed as an hallucination and no one makes a big deal about it.

  15. Re:Not like Thomas Edison on Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    Yes: lightbulb. Also: Phonograph (or proto-iPod if you prefer)!

    The comparison to Apple in the summary also breaks down when you consider the fact that some of the companies started by Thom Edison are still in existence in some form (GE, various Edison power companies, etc.) Not a good example for "lose the visionary and the company will fail."

  16. In Soviet Russia... on AI Is Funny - a Generative Joke Model · · Score: 1

    ...Turing Test passes YOU!

  17. Re:Time Lord on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    ...and Mary Tamm.

  18. "Should" is not the question on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    I think the gender issue is really a non-issue. Good writers could make a plausible explanation (though some fans will still complain) and a compelling character.

    Considering that both Colin Baker and Peter Capaldi played supporting characters on the show before taking The Doctor role, I'm sure we could find some past supporting female actors up to the task. My suggestions in order of preference:

    1. Raquel Cassidy (Miranda Cleaves in "The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People")
    2. Helen McCrory (Rosanna Calvierri in "Vampires of Venice")
    3. Sophie Okonedo (Liz 10 in "The Beast Below")
    4. Amara Karan (Rita in "The God Complex")

    BTW, does anyone remember the campaign for a female Boba Fett? The site is gone, but here it is on the Wayback Machine.

  19. Re:Screw You Obama on Snowden Gave 15,000 Documents to Glenn Greenwald; Obama Cancels Russia Summit · · Score: 1

    So you're saying Mr. Slugworth works for US?

  20. Re:I yell my name all day on Dolphin Memories Span At Least 20 Years · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I'm not the only one posting LL to /.

  21. Re:Costs more to do less = Dead at the start on Repurposed: Ground Circuit Board Waste Can Clean Up Toxic Metals · · Score: 2

    From the article:

    ...method for making the materials may not be as energy efficient and cost effective as for other adsorbents...

    Conclusion - its dead before its even starts.

    Right, because no one has ever figured out how to make a chemical process more energy efficient or cost effective before.

  22. Re:GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 1

    Score:1, Troll? Man, the mods have no sense of humor today.

  23. n-grams on Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? · · Score: 1

    I am not a computational linguist, but I do think one could help.

  24. Re:Amateur Hobbyists on The Old Reader To Close Public Site In Two Weeks (Unless It Doesn't) · · Score: 1

    ...I wasn't really a fan of the "Old" Google Reader. I liked the "New" Google Reader better, so when I found InoReader http://www.inoreader.com/ - I was thrilled.

    Thanks for the tip. I was in the same boat. It took me about 10 seconds to transfer the OPML file from my account on TheOldReader. (Much smoother than the transition from Google Reader to tOR).

  25. slashdot book reviews on Book Review: Present Yourself - Using SlideShare To Grow Your Business · · Score: 1

    The average rating of the last 5 book reviews is 8.4 out of 10. I think we need to see a review of something bad for a change.