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  1. Does this mean on Study Says Quantum Wavefunction Is a Real Physical Object · · Score: 2

    That there is uncertainty in the amplitude of the wave function too ?

  2. Re:wat on Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System · · Score: 5, Funny

    cheaper yet, stick a toothpick in each eye and simply use the keyboard.

  3. Re:Would this really work? on Hiding Messages In VoIP Packets · · Score: 1

    Perhaps signal using background noise or something. But to my way of thinking, the "lie about the codec trick" just isn't steganography as any reasonable attempt to decode the signal without knowing the secret would just result in a decoding failure. I think that goes for the sample rate example too.

  4. Re:If... on RIAA Doesn't Like the "Used Digital Music" Business · · Score: 1

    Yes,

    But like bitcoin, the ownership could be easily established. I could establish that the song I'm playing actually does belong to me (or not as the case may be). I could see there being three formats of song available from, say Apple...

    + Apple Ecosystem; songs only play on i-somethings

    + Open ecosystem,; songs in mp3 format

    + Trade-able ecosystem, songs in "bitcoin" format

    With different prices for each version. The online trading markets then would only accept the latter form.

  5. Re:This is untrue on Google Pulls the Plug On BlackBerry Gmail App · · Score: 1

    I don't think you'd say that if you had ever used the BB browser. It's awful.

  6. Teach programming to kids on How Do I Get Back a Passion For Programming? · · Score: 1

    Get a stack of cheap MSP430 Dev kits, read "MSP430 State Machine Programming" by Tom Baugh, and arrange to teach a bunch of kids how to control motors, lights etc. for whatever robotic / art / fun project they want to pursue. There's plenty of challenge to be had in teaching the subject well, and a world of difference between doing a good job and a ppor one.

  7. Re:Yeah right on Comcast Begins Native IPv6 Deployment To End Users · · Score: 1

    Well that's my concern in a nutshell. That this huge address space will be fragmented to the point where it will be unable to cope with demand for the next generation of networks, not a rehash of the internet that we know and love, but a new world with new and radically different requirements. It's all well and good having a new system that does a much better job of what we do today, but suppose I want a network for each item of clothing I wear, or each particle in my intelligent dust cloud.

  8. Yeah right on Comcast Begins Native IPv6 Deployment To End Users · · Score: 1

    until every light switch and toaster has its own /64

  9. Re:It's not just drugs. Sometimes it's culture, to on Survey Finds Cheating Among Students At All GPA Levels · · Score: 1

    I just googled valedictorians and changed my name to match by deed poll.

  10. Re:Best comment in article: on The F-35 Story · · Score: 1

    Surely all it needs for VTOL is a very long extendable nose wheel.

  11. Re:Because so many more enter college these days? on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    I would like to think that the first class was about learning a language (possibly for a mix of CS and non-CS majors) and that the second class was about learning concepts that were highlighted well by snippets of code from many languages. The second class being attended only by people majoring in CS. In fact, the fist class should probably not have been categorized as CS at all.

  12. Re:Need to model science after sports. on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    I'm up for running a STEM club, even one with competitive admissions (say we limit the club to 10 students from each grade). The question keeps coming around to what is fun enough and can be done safely enough to engage the participants. It would help me enormously if there were similar support arrangements for "STEM coaches" as there were for, say, soccer coaches, whereby the coaches can be trained and insured to allow them to do the more adventurous activities and fixtures/meetings can be arranged between teams. Sport is definitely not risk-free and needs leagues and qualified coaches etc. and yet these things have been overcome in a way that a coach in, say, rocketry could not readily achieve.

  13. Re:Maybe I won't buy those oranges this time... on One Tenth of China's Farmland Polluted With Heavy Metals · · Score: 1

    Yeah, switch to Tuna instead...

  14. IIRC: The film cartridges were quite big on Ask Florian Kaps of the Impossible Project · · Score: 1

    Perhaps big enough to include a CCD imaging sensor, a printer and a paper tray. It would make a cool digital conversion.

  15. Re:Absolutely right on The Software Patent Debate Is Incorrectly Framed · · Score: 1

    I don't think many people outside of slashdot believe that the purpose of patents is to encourage disclosure. I'm sure that most politicians and businessmen believe that their value is in creating barriers to competition. Whether they would say that out loud is another issue..

  16. Re:Quality of life: on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 1

    No, that just contaminates the soylent green with lead.

  17. Re:Not gonna happen. on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 1

    Just replace it, like a worn out hip.

  18. Re:Easy on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but by and large one or two kids will satisfy that urge. Generally one has to be mentally impaired or religious to sire seven kids in a developed nation.

  19. Re:What is the goal? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's true, lots of countries have tax reciprocity agreements whereby you pay the local tax in lieu of US tax.

  20. This is genius, once more hollywood leads the way. on DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project · · Score: 1

    Now combine it with the George Clooney goat killing method. The DHS could simply step to one side and glower at the bad guys as they make their way to the terminal, telepathically forcing terrorists to simply die on the spot. I think they could demonstrate about the same success rate as the current, more invasive program we have today.

  21. What are you not telling us ? on Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    or not telling yourself ?
    There must be something more. Your old company would get by without you, I'm sure they could phone you for help on occasions if they really got into a bind. This is an opportunity for the junior developers to perhaps progress a little to fill your shoes. After all there is no greater motivator that actually being responsible for something. There must be some other factor that gives you pause, something that it not as nebulous as "loyalty". Are you worried about spilling details to a competitor ?

  22. Re:How 1960s on Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, just tie it to the back of white fang, say mush, and watch the spool unreel.

  23. Re:There is no such thing.... on Righthaven Loses In Colorado; Abused the Copyright Act · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought you were going to say that there's no such thing as a reasonable attorney.

  24. Re:Kids aren't that good at it on Smarter Robot Arms · · Score: 1

    You think they are being inefficient because you don't understand the constraints; in particular any carpeted are of floor is "red hot lava" and sofas are bouncy, allowing "slingshot" style trajectories that would be the envied by NASA.
    If your children are not human, what does that make you ?

  25. Maybe it would be more useful on Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement · · Score: 1

    if it had some kind of hypervisor functionality.