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  1. Re:and what would i do with it? on Home Depot Begins Retail Store Pilot Program To Sell MakerBot 3-D Printers · · Score: 1

    You realize you can already buy third party parts for cars, right? Something something Magnusson-Moss Act....

  2. Re:and what would i do with it? on Home Depot Begins Retail Store Pilot Program To Sell MakerBot 3-D Printers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "I heard about a guy in another country who used one" doesnt really bode well for sales.

  3. Re:KeePass? on Critical Vulnerabilities In Web-Based Password Managers Found · · Score: 1

    You can do this with KeepPass, Google Drive, and a sneakernet'd keyfile. Move the keyfile to a non-synced location on each common computer (and / or carry it with you on your phone or USB drive), stick the KP database in Google Drive, viola. Secure access to everything from everywhere.

  4. Re:Any cell phone is a security risk. on Apple Refutes Report On iPhone Threat To China's National Security · · Score: 1

    maybe iPhone is a risk because apple makes it hard for China to tap it.

    They tap at the carriers. If you use SMS or voice, they have a record regardless of what phone or OS you're using.

  5. Re:Canada has the future :) on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    Coins are a PITA because they dont go nicely into a wallet, and theyre bulky.

  6. Re:Why? on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    So you can audit and authorize where it goes.

    That sounds like a choice for me to make, not for society to make. I appreciate the effort to make good decisions on my behalf, but I am a competent adult, and capable of making my own life decisions.

  7. Re:Cashless can't happen, here is why ... on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    6) That haircut I got on saturday at a shop that doesnt have a card reader...

    You know you're dealing with ivory tower intellectuals when the propose getting rid of a form of payment is the only accepted form of payment in many places. What, are we going to make mandatory the credit card fees?

  8. Re:666 on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    We've always had a strong streak of libertarianism

    There are at least as many far left liberals. Only on slashdot (and possibly reddit) would I see comments espousing the glories of Cuban communism.

  9. Re:Any cell phone is a security risk. on Apple Refutes Report On iPhone Threat To China's National Security · · Score: 1

    Apparently you are unaware of the fact that they tap all cellphones.

  10. Re:Search Results on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    My top results tend to be from the NIH, which I trust a lot more than random folks on slashdot.

  11. Re:Ewww... on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    Liquid water does not form permanent chains of that sort. If its doing that, its called ice, and has transitioned to a solid form.

    If you're convinced that I require education, you could perhaps link to an educational source mentioning something about this. When I google "water dipolar chain", however, I get nothing but articles on other substances forming chains, and nothing whatsoever on these chains.

    You're telling me to google; I did that before posting, and I've done it again, and found absolutely nothing of the sort. What terms should I be searching for?

  12. Its a little depressing how many people on slashdot know so little about any particular topic, but feel compelled to express an ill-informed opinion.

  13. Re:No thank you on Take a Picture Just By Thinking About It, Using Google Glass With MindRDR App · · Score: 2

    a device that allows them to read thoughts right out of my brain

    I dont think thats how EEGs work, but its good to see that Slashdot can still elicit a hysterical response at will with their stories.

  14. Re:Ewww... on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    The idea of water memory comes from the fact that water molecules form long chains.

    Im pretty sure the water molecule is 3 atoms "long", and it doesnt form anything unless its chilled to 0C @ 1atm.

  15. Re:WoW! on A Peek Inside D-Wave's Quantum Computing Hardware · · Score: 1

    It doesnt do 2^512 calculations in under a second. Im pretty sure nothing comes close to that, and if it did it would be an actual game changer.

  16. Re: Murphy says no. on Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows? · · Score: 1

    At least where I work maintenance is a once a month thing; Im led to believe this is normal by anecdotal evidence on the internet.

    Your average work week ends up at like 42 hours if you factor that in; its really not that onerous.

  17. Re:I see these and laugh on Microsoft Settles With No-IP After Malware Takedown · · Score: 1

    actually, 90% of malware these days relies no non-OS / browser specific exploits. Its all flash, Java, PDF.

    Of course, 98.27% of stats online are plucked from the ether.

  18. Re:Cry Me A River on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 1

    Powershell is object-oriented, and unlike bash scripting, its command names have some semblance of order and discoverability. No, man is not comparable to "get-help"

  19. Re:"Thus ends "Climategate." Hopefully." on Climate Change Skeptic Group Must Pay Damages To UVA, Michael Mann · · Score: 0

    Not really, no. It remains neither an actual poll nor a random sample, and the selection biases are completely unknown.

  20. Re:"Thus ends "Climategate." Hopefully." on Climate Change Skeptic Group Must Pay Damages To UVA, Michael Mann · · Score: 2

    My complaint is that the 97% draws an invalid link between abstracts written and opinion. 99.999% of scientists have an opinion on AGW; that doesnt mean they have written a paper on that. The way you determine that is to do a random sample poll, not to use a selection-biased sample and draw faulty conclusions on it.

  21. Re:"Thus ends "Climategate." Hopefully." on Climate Change Skeptic Group Must Pay Damages To UVA, Michael Mann · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That 97% number IS bull, and its right there in the link you provided, under abstract:

    We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.
    So of the abstracts which discuss global warming, 97% support AGW. Except, you would not call that an unbiased sample, nor would that be an acceptable selection criteria in any other poll, ever.

    I generally nope out of any AGW conversation because theyre cesspools of illogic, ad hominems, and general idiocy, but come on. That 97% claim is like saying "97%*** of CoD players hate the game (***- 97% of players posting negative posts on the message boards)".

  22. Re:Cry Me A River on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 1

    Any idiot off the street with a copy of Windows has access to Powershell and 90% of the .Net stuff behind it.

  23. Re:Cry Me A River on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 3, Informative

    It IS accessible. Every copy of Windows since 2006 has included Powershell, which is one of the easiest to learn things you will ever come across, and it can handle 99% of the tasks your average non-programmer user will ever want to do, from simple GUI's with scripted events, to excel automation, to bulk administrative work. Theres even an IDE for it built right into windows.

    Im not an OSX guy but I understand things are pretty similar over there, with whatever OSX uses (Applescript?), and Im pretty sure most Linux distros come with Perl or Python (if not theyre a 1-liner away).

    If you're not finding those scripting languages accessible enough, you dont care enough about the project you want to do. Alternatively, maybe some people just dont naturally have a gift for the type of thought process required by programming-- and I dont think that needs to be a "problem".

  24. Re:Cry Me A River on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 1

    We are using OSI. Forget about UDP, and layer 2 protocols other than ethernet?

    Most people can ignore most of OSI, but its still there. Signal recieved by interface, layer 1 signalling is removed, layer 2 headers are removed, layer 2 headers are re-written, layer 1 signalling is reapplied, signal sent out.

  25. Re:etc on CentOS Linux Version 7 Released On x86_64 · · Score: 2

    "et" IS a word in latin. The "C" is the abbreviation. Et c.