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  1. if you know how to read these on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you must be a suspect

  2. Re:The *real* shame in all of this on Things Get Worse at Fukushima · · Score: 1

    It was the most modern plant that could possibly be at this stage of its life cycle.

  3. Re:Virtual Machines on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 2

    I shop around VMs to try and find at least one environment that the software will run within and call it good.

  4. Actually they underestimate it on Limewire Being Sued For 75 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Downloading a song does them out of the opportunity to sell more than one CD since they seem to self-destruct over time. I can think of several instances where I have paid for the same music at least a few times over.

  5. maybe they'll settle on Limewire Being Sued For 75 Trillion · · Score: 5, Funny

    for only 40 Trillion

  6. There are millions of cars on Experimental Batteries Charge In Minutes · · Score: 1

    some of them wind up getting soaked in sea water from time to time. The occupants would not stand a chance. I think the solution is going to have to involve generating power on-board from something relatively benign rather than storing power in a battery or capacitor.

  7. Re:Scratch ? on Ask Slashdot: Online Science For 8th Grade Students? · · Score: 1

    Scratch was a big hit with 4th and 5th graders when I demoed it to them, they also had fun with it at home. I could see you setting up some scratch sensors and using them to capture measurements from a live experiment.
    Cassiopeia project also has some great videos, especially if you want to interest boys with raging hormones in science.

  8. eom

  9. Re:Nothing to worry about on US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis · · Score: 1

    Before we all rail against 50 year old designs...
    1) This plant is at the end of its service life
    2) The service life of any major power generation facility is measured in decades and often gets extended from the original plan
    3) It takes years to plan the plant in the first place and who would go with an unproven design
    My point is, that in 30 years time the same argument will be leveled against whatever technology we are contemplating installing now.

  10. Where's on Potentially Great Sci-fi Films Still Due In 2011 · · Score: 1

    A brave new world. I thought that was coming in 2011

  11. Toilet paper supply fears on The Quake Through Eyes of Slashdot Japan · · Score: 1

    Pity this news is posted online and not in a print newspaper. The solution would be at hand.

  12. No problem on DHS Chief Wants Better Algorithms For Analyzing Intelligence Data · · Score: 1

    post what you have on /. and we'll tell you the patterns. Your data will be perfectly secure here, no-one ever reads the articles anyway.

  13. Re:It's not the math ... on CS Profs Debate Role of Math In CS Education · · Score: 1

    I can create a pointer to apples 0, 1, 2, and 3 but pointing to apple 4 is an array out of bounds error.

  14. Re:Arrested or Convicted? on DNA Testing Proposed For All Felony Arrests In New Mexico · · Score: 1

    Sounds like it's about time to create a new religion that actually does something for its followers. How about if the FSM were to preach that its followers were not to be subjected to DNA tests unless convicted. That way any extraction of DNA by the police would be a strike against a major religion.

  15. Re:Pretext on DNA Testing Proposed For All Felony Arrests In New Mexico · · Score: 2

    Take your own damn DNA if you want to mount a defense. This here DNA's fer prosecutin.

  16. Re:Do not look at laser with remaining eye on DIY Laser Pistol Shoot 1MW Blasts · · Score: 1

    You'll shoot your eye out kid...

  17. Re:Does not Affect Prior Art Doctrine on Senate Passes Landmark Patent Reform Bill · · Score: 1

    One should not have to go to court to get prior art considered, the USPTO should be able to amend their decisions if presented with a valid example of prior art that, with the benefit of hindsight, they should have found themselves. Only after that, if the parties involved are not satisfied, should that result in a court case and judges should only accept cases that have been reviewed at least once by the USPTO and give due weight to the USPTO's findings.

  18. Re:Is this even a thing? on Wikipedia Moves To Delete the Free Speech Flag · · Score: 2

    Presumably it can only exist online or in digital format. As soon as you display it, print it or make a flag out of it any mismatch from fading, dye inconsistencies, LED spec variation etc. would mean that the colors no longer have that exact hexadecimal representation.

  19. The probem is the parentis... on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    they're loco

  20. 100 experts ? on Making the Case For Microscopic Life In Meteorites · · Score: 1

    If they are right, one would be enough

  21. Earthquake on Linus Goes Hollywood At Pre-Oscars Party · · Score: 2

    I sit in my office (which used to be in the basement, now it's a room above the garage)

    I think he should get out of there now, before it moves even further

  22. But will it run on Tiny Transistors Could Be Used To Track Cash · · Score: 1

    linux ?

  23. Re:It's ridiculous that SSNs should be sensitive i on Why Google Wants Your Kid's SSN · · Score: 1

    How does Sweden achieve that ? Assuming that I could pass for being Swedish and I am roughly the same age as you; if you and I both know your swedish SSN and we both turn up at a government office claiming to be you, what 'gold standard' of ID do you have that does not tie back to your SSN to prove that you are you ?

  24. Re:TL;DR Version on Why Google Wants Your Kid's SSN · · Score: 1

    Are they that worried that a non citizen might win ? Really, it's not like the top prize is "running the state department for a day".

  25. Re:Amateur genetics on Man Open Sources His Genetic Data · · Score: 1

    They are not amateurs. They are far from being amateurs," says Doron Behar, a population geneticist at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, who studies human history.

    Does that mean that they don't enjoy what they do ? If they hate it so much why don't they just stop doing it ?