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  1. Re:Damage? on "Severe Abnormalities" Found In Fukushima Butterflies · · Score: 1

    Butterflies lay offspring by the hundreds, have short enough lifespans that selection will take place soon after the event, lack the socializing effects of modern healthcare in humans, etc.

    There's no doubt that there were millions of stillborn and otherwise irreparably genetically damaged butterflies already. The question is has it affected the long-term survivability of the species.

  2. Re:why are american corporations so incompetent? on Carriers Blame the iPhone For Data Caps and Increased Upgrade Fees · · Score: 1

    If you let all the companies compete for use of the same spectrum, you end up with the problems that lead to the creation of these regulations in the 1920s-- 50kW transmitters and interference for all.

  3. Re:Forced Upgrades? on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    Adblock for chrome doesn't block ads in Flash, doesn't stop ads from downloading (just hides them) and doesn't stop certain javascript-based ad sites (IIRC).

  4. Re:take one apart? on Ask Slashdot: Understanding the SNES? · · Score: 2

    Monitoring high-speed digital signals takes special (expensive) test equipment, which even a university lab might not have lying around for open use.

    The SNES does not have high-speed digital signals. The whole thing is clocked at 3.58MHz. This isn't like trying to probe a SATA connection.

  5. Re:awesome publicity for public awareness on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1

    Youtube doesn't require an actual takedown notice, just a few clicks in ContentID.

  6. Re:NYT paywall hack fits inside twitter on New York Times Paywall Goes Live, Loopholes Abound · · Score: 1

    Assumes jQuery is built into your browser. That's a stretch.

  7. then they're software engineers on CS Profs Debate Role of Math In CS Education · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Software engineering and computer science are two entirely different fields. I don't know why they're combined so often.

  8. Duh? on Going Faster Than the Wind In a Wind-Powered Cart · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If sailboats can travel faster than the wind, of course wind-powered carts can.

  9. Re:Already happened before on Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe) · · Score: 0

    Protons don't move at the speed of light.

  10. Re:Bummer on Burning Man Goes Open Source For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    You can still get satellite there though. To Mars!

  11. Re:Are these available in the states? on Hot Sales In China For Wi-Fi Key-Cracking Kits · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By sniffing traffic to determine the existence of your network?

  12. Re:Title is nonsense on Court Allows Unmasking of P2P Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Most ISPs have a clause saying that you are responsible for all traffic using your internet connection.

  13. Re:HTML5 Video on Wikipedia's Assault On Patent-Encumbered Codecs · · Score: 1

    The MPEG is charging no royalties on web based video.

  14. Re:Freedom of speech .. on A Second Lessig Fair-Use Video Is Suppressed By WMG · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, but Google can avoid the hassle of evaluating on its own whether each video is fair use by just removing the videos WMG claims violate copyright without a double-check.

  15. Re:Freedom of speech .. on A Second Lessig Fair-Use Video Is Suppressed By WMG · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. Google is still allowed to take down any videos they want on YouTube, regardless of their status as fair use.

  16. Re:CSI on Recovering Data From Noise · · Score: 1

    Has anyone actually written a practical implementation of this in something other than MatLab?

  17. Re:damned faintly praising? on Schooling Microsoft On Random Browser Selection · · Score: 1

    It would take a very unrandom Math.random() for this to happen.

  18. Re:Photoshop without patent problems! on Photoshop 1.0 Recreated On iPhone · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you RTFA, it says that the app was commissioned by Adobe.

  19. Re:It's on the internet on White House Press Secretary's Tweets Archived · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't be enough.

    Only the stuff that Management is breathing down your back about is put above "fixing the cute intern's laptop"

  20. Re:Chip and Chip security... wait a second! on European Credit and Debit Card Security Broken · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of modern cryptographic systems that could provide offline security, perhaps in the form of a chip.

    Unfortunately, credit and debit card systems are not modern.

  21. Re:You're probably not that special.. on Keep SSH Sessions Active, Or Reconnect? · · Score: 1

    Windows machines behind hardware firewalls, unfortunately.

  22. Re:web servers to app servers on The Final Release of Apache HTTP Server 1.3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The PIII means you set it up recently enough that you could've had it running 2.0. Why do you do these things...

  23. Re:Useless. on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 1

    No dc? What kind of Linux is this guy smoking?

  24. TFA says it's true! on GSM Decryption Published · · Score: 1

    Guess what, kids!
    A 128-bit code has twice as many ones and zeroes as a 64-bit code. Wow!

  25. Re:So the bindings make a difference? on The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook · · Score: 1

    The problem there is that you're using CGI (which runs a new instance of PHP for each request) rather than FastCGI (which keeps a pool of processes active).

    Also you're comparing Apache to a custom written, purpose-built web server. You could probably write said web server in PHP and it would be faster than the Apache/PHP combo.