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  1. Re:No they haven't on Nature Makes All Articles Free To View · · Score: 1

    They're articles. If you need some extra software to read an article then you're doing it wrong. Hell, even scans of older stuff can be put out there as a PDF. Anything new should be HTML or something freely convertible to whatever format comes along.

  2. Re:All the Kindles are on sale... on Apple and Amazon Launch Black Friday Price War · · Score: 2

    I've always used the Kindle app on my Android phones. No idea why I'd want a standalone reader.

  3. Re:Why is Android allowing Uber to access the info on Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You either accept all permissions, without explanation, or you can't install the app. Android needs to give people the ability to deny individual permissions, without having to root your phone and install Cyanogenmod or the like.

  4. Re:Cameras on Ask Slashdot: Best Biometric Authentication System? · · Score: 1

    It's hard to identify people that are all dressed the same and are wearing face coverings. Thankfully, team sports figured out a HUNDRED YEARS AGO how to do this. Put big numbers and/or names on their backs. Done.

  5. Re:But what about on Consortium Roadmap Shows 100TB Hard Drives Possible By 2025 · · Score: 0

    You think your assumptions about flash memory will be true in ten years? LOL

  6. Re:Where does this leave independant media players on Windows 10 To Feature Native Support For MKV and FLAC · · Score: 1

    I've used it quite a bit. Seriously, I'd rather use WMP than that crap if it weren't for the file format support. For example, double click on a media file in explorer and it'll add it to your playlist. Playlists are organized as tabs. The whole interface just sucks and very few people have the time to frak around with a bunch of buggy plugins that 'almost' work.

  7. Re:Where does this leave independant media players on Windows 10 To Feature Native Support For MKV and FLAC · · Score: 1

    Foobar2000 is a clusterfark of bad plugins and a really weird interface that takes forever to figure out. It's IKEA. Lots of assembly required.

  8. Math on BlackBerry Will Buy Your iPhone For $550 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So they give you $400 for an iPhone 6. Then they sweeten the deal by adding another $150. That's $550. I have a better idea. Give iPhone 6 users $350 for their phones. Then sweeten it with a further $100. And then, yes that's right, throw in another $100 just because. Wait. I have an even better idea. Give $200 for the phone, then sweeten it with $100, then another $100, and THEN ANOTHER $150 on top of that!!!!! Wow!

  9. Re:Unsolved problems on WaveNET – the Floating, Flexible Wave Energy Generator · · Score: 1

    Add one to that count. I tried building a fusion generator last night when I was drunk. Just like all the other attempts mine didn't work either.

  10. Re:Niche energy on WaveNET – the Floating, Flexible Wave Energy Generator · · Score: 1

    The question isn't how much energy is there in a wave. The question is if you can extract enough for it to be worth it. The answer of course is a big yes. That's why so many companies are engaged in this kind of research. Same goes for the wind. A wind turbine only extracts a small portion of the energy that's in the wind but that's irrelevant as long as it can generate enough energy to be worth building and running the damn thing.

  11. Re:I wish they succeed too!!! on WaveNET – the Floating, Flexible Wave Energy Generator · · Score: 1

    We use metal structures that are in contact with the ocean all the time. It's not suicidal in the slightest.

  12. Re:Niche energy on WaveNET – the Floating, Flexible Wave Energy Generator · · Score: 1

    For almost everything that works there was a time when it didn't work. Just because others have failed in the past doesn't mean it's impossible.

  13. Re:Well if two google engineers say so on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Don't equate smart with making lots of money. If that were the case we'd be giving people like Mitt Romney the Nobel Prize.

  14. Re:The Numbers Lie on Bicycle Bottle System Condenses Humidity From Air Into Drinkable Water · · Score: 2

    Yeah. The AC had it as .001mL per drop, which is very low. 0.05 mL per second gives you 180 mL an hour, which is pretty much useless to a person riding a bicycle.

  15. Re:The Numbers Lie on Bicycle Bottle System Condenses Humidity From Air Into Drinkable Water · · Score: 2

    Even at a drop per second it seems optimistic to expect 500mL an hour. I think a drop is less than 0.14mL.

  16. Re:Cynical of promises.... on Lunar Mission One Proposes To Take Core Sample, Plant Time Capsule On the Moon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Raising and managing the billions required requires a full company, let alone actually producing anything. Kickstarter just isn't up to the task.

  17. Robots can't drill on Lunar Mission One Proposes To Take Core Sample, Plant Time Capsule On the Moon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're going to drill any decent depth you'll have to put together a manned mission with a bunch of roughneck drilling rig workers. They're the only ones that can operate drilling equipment. It can't possibly be taught to other astronauts, and most certainly not some dumb robot.

  18. Re:Yawn ... on Microsoft Azure Outage Across the Globe · · Score: 1

    Owning and operating your own stuff doesn't mean you won't have outages. I have no idea why you would ever think that.

  19. Re:So can anyone with Pro Tools... BFD. on Polyphonic Overtone Singing Explained Visually With Spectrograms · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think if you sat down with one of these software packages for a few minutes you'd quickly realize that having a top notch performance is the key to a quality end-product. Think of it this way. If you're photographing a model would you rather spend a half-hour having makeup applied (maybe it takes longer, I don't know) or would you rather spend many hours airbrushing and PSing the shit out of the final image before you can even start working on stylizing it for print and doing the 'normal' PSing? Same goes for music. You can create vocals and instrumental music out of thin air with software, but it takes a TON of work to get them to not sound like crap, let alone good.

  20. Sounds terrible on Polyphonic Overtone Singing Explained Visually With Spectrograms · · Score: 0

    It's basically a bad party trick. It sounds awful.

  21. Computers are easy to program to do math on Magic Tricks Created Using Artificial Intelligence For the First Time · · Score: 1

    It's not especially difficult to get a computer to do some math. Get a computer to shuffle a deck of cards and I'll be a thousand times more impressed.

  22. Re:Shocked... on Window Washing a Skyscraper Is Beyond a Robot's Reach · · Score: 1

    The skill isn't in the cleaning, it's in the rigging. They give the job to what would otherwise be janitors, and that's where safety suffers. I've seen these cleaning rigs up close and they are always in rough condition. The ropes are frayed like crazy, when in any other rigging industry they wouldn't allow that kind of wear. Then there's the cables and I'll bet they're not much better but it's harder to tell. It sounds like competition in the window cleaning industry is so tense that they're cutting out safety, and the only way out of that is with tighter regulations. You have to force everyone to play by the same rules.

  23. Re:I don't get it... on US Gov't Issues Alert About iOS "Masque Attack" Threat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can't stop viruses that are manually installed by ridiculously dumb users unless you have virus scanners, and even then it's hit and miss. I wouldn't even call it an exploit.

  24. Re:Solution on Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation? · · Score: 2

    Stop visiting crappy pages where you can't select your language or currency and where the content is filtered depending on where you are.

    Yes. Just abandon the internet entirely.

  25. Re:It's all about the haters on Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever · · Score: 1

    I've had my S3 for a quite a while now too. Just put in a new battery a few weeks ago. What an improvement. Thankfully Samsung gave us the ability to order a 3rd party battery online and just pop it in. One of the many reasons I won't go with Apple and their unmaintainable design.