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  1. Re:Dubious on Scientists Develop Nutritious Seaweed That Tastes Like Bacon · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind seaweed is mostly water and weighs virtually nothing when dried; a pound of it would probably fill a large carry-on bag.

    Rehydrated and possibly mixed with a filler for texture, dulse would be competitive with other meat alternative products.

  2. Hackable! on Keyboardio is a Hackable 'Artisanal Keyboard' That's Already Kickstarted (Video) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I see they're trying to encourage DIY by leaving the space bar as an exercise for the buyer.

  3. Not really getting it. on The Uber Economy Needs a New Category of Worker · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain contingent work existed before Uber.

    Why do we need to reinvent this, unless we're simply looking for a new way to reclassify full time employees as contractors?

  4. Re:kessel run on Han Solo To Get His Own Star Wars Movie Prequel · · Score: 1

    For once he was cleverer than we give him credit for:

    http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/S...

    HAN
    Fast ship? You've never heard of the
    Millennium Falcon?

    BEN
    Should I have?

    HAN
    It's the ship that made the Kessel
    run in less than twelve parsecs!

    Ben reacts to Solo's stupid attempt to impress them with
    obvious misinformation.

  5. I love Sphero! on Learning Simple Robot Programming With a 'Non-Threatening' Robot Ball (Video) · · Score: 1

    It's happy! It's fun!

  6. Re:"Musk" "Elon Musk" "Minky Musky Sly Stoaty Stoa on "Jobs" vs. "Steve Jobs": Hollywood Takes Another Stab At Telling the Steve Jobs Story · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping it opens with a young Elon watching as his parents are brutally hunted for their scent glands.

  7. Useful once, now kind of redundant on To Learn (Or Not Learn) JQuery · · Score: 3, Informative
  8. Wow! on Samsung Nanotech Breakthrough Nearly Doubles Li-Ion Battery Capacity · · Score: 2, Informative

    And battery capacity just doubled last week! It's amazing that they can keep releasing breakthrough after breakthrough!

  9. This sounds like a bad plot on Triggering a Mouse's Happy Memories With Lasers Gives It the Will To Struggle On · · Score: 1

    This tail-suspension test was developed to screen potential antidepressant drugs: If a rodent struggles longer before giving up, it's considered less depressed.

    Yes. This will definitely end in zombies.

  10. ...and the obligatory Onion

  11. Re:Uh oh...Batman becomes real? on UW Researchers Prototype Sonar-Based Contactless Sleep Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Unless you're sleeping in a dormitory they don't need directionality; the phone can assume any fluctuation (doppler/impluse response/etc) comes from your movement.

    The phone's tiny speaker and mic can probably reach 20-24khz, which is *barely* ultrasonic but outside most human hearing. Your pets may no longer want to sleep with you, however.

  12. Re:I guess I'm the only one on 210 Degree VR Headset With 5K Display Revealed By 'Payday' Developer Starbreeze · · Score: 1

    I'll be interested when the resolution is good enough for productivity apps—Photoshop, IDEs/editors, etc. A virtual room full of monitors for the price/energy/materials of a couple smartphone displays and lenses...

  13. Not the whole story on Surface Pro 3 Handily Outperforms iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Geekbench's own numbers put the iPad Air at 4528, only 10% off the i5. Which is astounding, because five years ago Intel's ULV CPUs were hitting 2000-2500 on the same benchmark while Apple's new A4 was 200.

    The flagship ARM CPUs cost a tenth as much as Intel's chips, consume a fraction of the power, and have been roughly doubling performance every year while Intel has virtually plateaued*. If that trend continues, by the end of this year they'll have surpassed Intel on virtually every metric.

    Of course, AMD reached pole position a decade ago until Intel's Core 2 decisively took back the lead. Intel may repeat history with Skylake; if not, the computer world could get a lot more interesting over the next few years.

    (*on clock speed and IPC they're been scarcely improving 10% a year; IPW is increasing somewhat faster but still well behind ARM designs)

  14. Sigh. on An AI Learned Magic: the Gathering, Now Creates Thousands of New Cards · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is exactly why we need a moral framework for AI development.

  15. No, it's only one boy, the one on the poster.

  16. Please please... on Astrobotic To Take Mexican Payload To the Moon · · Score: 1

    ... please tell me that payload will include a Jeb doll

  17. Re:I Got It All, Baby! on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    Came to find this, was not disappointed.

  18. Re:I can hardly wait! on Internet Explorer 11 Gains HTTP Strict Transport Security In Windows 7 and 8.1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To be fair, a web browser download would be a great opportunity for a MITM attack.

  19. Re:WoW? on First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    All the games on the list were played by tens (if not hundreds) of millions of people...and even if you ask someone who's never played a video game in their life, they'll probably know of those six. They've also greatly influenced a huge number of other games, and more or less defined the mechanics in their particular genre.

    Whether you 'like' them or think of them as 'classics' or not is a far more subjective criteria.

    (Also, the ratio of good to bad music hasn't changed since you were young. It just meant more to you then. Sorry.)

  20. Finally! on Chinese Doctor Performs Head Transplants On Mice · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'll be able to give our decrepit MPs and congressmen new, healthy brains!

  21. Remember, kids... on American Pharoah Overcomes Biology To Win Triple Crown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...cruelty is OK so long as it's an old tradition!

  22. Re:ZOMG on Apple Music and the Terrible Return of DRM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but its existence denies me the right to not want it.

  23. I think you should direct complaints here.

  24. Yes! on Amazon Hiring Devs For Its First PC Game · · Score: 1

    Finally, the video game adaptation of Foodfight!

  25. Re:All code ever written wins on 2014 Underhanded C Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 2

    All except my code, which is virtuous, perfect and infallible.

    I cannot take credit for this wonder, however, for I am simply a humble receiver. The code is given unto me in complete form from Stack—um, stake..er, sta-states beyond your comprehension. A State.