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  1. Re:Public service announcement on An Engineer's Eureka Moment With a GM Flaw · · Score: 1

    I think you should point out that this advice is for automatic gearbox cars. In a manual the engine will keep turning while in gear and will keep the power assist to the brakes and steering going.

  2. Re:New dimension for beer on Synthetic Chromosomes Successfully Integrated Into Brewer's Yeast · · Score: 1

    I'd like to volunteer for the testing process. Two pints a day for ten years should give you a good idea if it is harmful. Please deliver to my local.

  3. Re:Sadistic on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 2

    It's not a level playing filed if you carry a knife. Vladimir Putin strangles them with his bare hands and Chuck Norris just kills them with a single punch.

  4. Re:So all the crap stays in the US? on BP Finds Way To Bypass US Crude Export Ban · · Score: 1

    Since most of the crap ends up in the atmosphere or ocean it really doesn't matter where you refine in the long term.

  5. Finally on It's True: Some People Just Don't Like Music · · Score: 1

    Someone has taken the trouble to study Simply Red fans.

  6. Financial Times on Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For? · · Score: 1

    Not afraid to print numbers and graphs.

  7. Re:Comparison: Bitcoin is like 'Abortion' in the U on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 1

    s/purtuguese/greek/

  8. Re:Comparison: Bitcoin is like 'Abortion' in the U on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the Portuguese default?

  9. Re:Checksums? on Ask Slashdot: Practical Bitrot Detection For Backups? · · Score: 1

    I run a weekly cron job that calculates md5sums for all the files on the media drive. Then it compares it to the previous weeks and emails the diff. If anything goes wrong I restore the file from one of my backups and check the MD5 again. I did have one drive that was slowly losing data. Turned out to be a dodgy sata port/cable but I've not lost a file yet.

  10. Re:Nature is amazing on "Ballooning" Spiders Use Electrostatic Forces To Generate Lift · · Score: 1

    > but I don't see why anyone would want to believe that

    Maybe that's because you aren't as smart as the creator. Not saying that's the case but if I can't figure out why someone is doing something it's usually because I don't know as much as they do. I don't just assume it's because they're crazy.

  11. Wankers the lot of them on FOI Request Reveals UK Houses of Parliament Workers' Passion For Adult Content · · Score: 1

    nuff said

  12. Not evil but dangerous on Scottish Academic: Mining the Moon For Helium 3 Is Evil · · Score: 1

    Seriously guys, he's a philosopher. I'm surprised no-one here has pointed out that it's the Helium that is keeping the moon floating way up there. Take the Helium away and it will sink back down to earth and we do not want that to happen. You think global warming is bad, just imagine how bad it would be with the Moon orbiting at 10000m. I guess we could try to time it so it touches down in the Sahara but if it overshoots it's goodbye Panama.

  13. Re: You know on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 1

    Agreed. It doesn't matter where the material get put together, the value added is reflected in the fact it is a US corporation and the value added is subject to US taxes.

    Oh, wait...

  14. Re:Private browsing on Surveillance Story Turns Into a Warning About Employer Monitoring · · Score: 2

    You should run an ssh tunnel through the corporate proxy to your own installation of an apache proxy running on your home server. Then use that as your proxy for firefox. At least then you'll be spared the embarrassment of a SWAT team turning up at work.

  15. Sidebars are for you on Early Surface Sales Pitiful · · Score: 2

    Shove the taskbar to the side and stretch it out to 128 pixels wide. You can easily get 40 quick launch icons on the taskbar and you can add a toolbar folder and have launchers for all your favourite docs right there.

  16. Re:But why? on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Non-Obnoxious Outdoor Lighting? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I find burning a faggot* best and quite safe with the modern faggot burners that became available around the time of the Jubilee. There were thousands of faggots burnt that night on all the hilltops around England.

    * Bundle of dried sticks and twigs.

  17. Re:So far, it sucks. on Launch of India's First Navigation Satellite Successful · · Score: 1

    That's actually amazing. One satellite and your device can tell how far away it is.

  18. Re:seems like a waste of money on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 1

    Not sure how I managed to piss you off but I was just pointing out that the police cannot stop this situation. Nor can the UK government without being accused of political interference in judicial/police operations. The only people who can get Mr Assange out of the embassy are the Swedes, the Equadorians and Mr Assange. Of course, once he's out of the embassy he will be arrested by the UK police and charged with jumping bail (and he won't be getting bailed again). After that who knows. Time is not on his side, governments don't die of old age and there is no statute of limitations in the UK.

  19. Re:seems like a waste of money on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 1

    Well since most, if not all, of the taxpayers money is going in to the wage slips of the police guarding him it's not really a waste. It's not great but at least the money isn't going to some corporate tax haven.

    The police cannot just let him go, there's an extradition request from Sweden, and those things are taken seriously mostly because of the quid pro quo.

  20. Re:Not Possible. on New Advance In 3D TV Technology · · Score: 1

    Now imagine the bandwidth.

  21. Try this little program on WIndows 7 or 8 on Ask Slashdot: Best Tools For Dealing With Glare Sensitivity? · · Score: 1

    It's called NegativeScreen and it's at http://arcanesanctum.net/negativescreen

    It uses the graphics card to transform the colour space and has a number of different effects. Simple inversion works well even with Cleartype text and it sits in the notification area. Video works with it and it works across hibernate/sleep.

  22. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: Best Tools For Dealing With Glare Sensitivity? · · Score: 1

    I love you, mod parent up please. How come I can never find programs like these?

  23. You need reverse video on Ask Slashdot: Best Tools For Dealing With Glare Sensitivity? · · Score: 1

    The world seems to be fixated on computer screens looking like paper and some of us really do get on better with light text and dark backgrounds. It's a bit like being left-handed only with headaches.

    I have in the past used a hacked VNC viewer that flips the bits in each pixel and it works wonderfully but requires a Linux box just to do that and it won't handle video.

    ISTR an nVidia graphics card that would let you fiddle with the colour adjustment tables of the RGB outputs (3 of 256*8 bits) to get the same effect but modern ones don't let you.

    I would love someone to build a cheap FPGA board that could handle DVI in and out then I could take it anywhere.

  24. Re:Time to stop supporting them. on Feds Continue To Consider Linux Users Criminals For Watching DVDs · · Score: 2

    That's nothing. I bought a piano and the sheet music, went to piano lessons for five years and now every weekend I dress up in lederhosen and play while she sings.

  25. Re:The real story... on UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks · · Score: 2

    But a lot of fun for those who enjoyed it. And anyway it was with hunting horns and hounds. Not my cup of tea but I would rather our elected leaders spend their time on more important things.