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  1. Re:Protein from plants, not animals on Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive · · Score: 1, Informative

    Animal proteins are complete proteins.
    Plant proteins are not.

    Eating certain things together can give you a complete proteins (which is how the Mayans survived), but no one does that.

    Industrial processing of soybeans can turn it into a complete protein. We call this tofu. Tofu and fortified/enriched staples (such as bread and salt) are what make the modern vegetarian fad possible.

    Without complete proteins humans are physically incapable of building (or rebuilding) muscle tissue, and WILL wither and die.

  2. Re:Odd choice on Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad (independent.ie) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't forget the larger iPhones.
    Apple's "we will never" means "we're working on it but it's not ready".

  3. I wonder if AMD will ship an APU package with HBM / HBM2 slapped right on it. A true "system on a chip" - CPU, integrated GPU, integrated memory controller, integrated memory, PCIe, etc.

  4. Re:Dumb Holes? on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 0

    Percent means "per hundred". Percentages are calculated by dividing by 100. 0/100 = 0.
    I have no idea why you're trying to talk about 0/0, which is undefined.

  5. Re:WRONG!!!! on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 0

    You're an absolute idiot.

    Division by 0 is undefined.

  6. No, it's the network and the codecs.
    Plain old telephone service running on hundred year old copper buried in the ground sounds amazing compared to a call placed to/from a cell phone.

  7. Re:Convenience is the enemy on Self-Encrypting Drives Hardly Any Better Than Software-Based Encryption (cio.com) · · Score: 0

    Holy shit if you're serious you need to visit keepass.info right fucking now.

  8. Nope on Ask Slashdot: Automated Verification For Uploaded Files? · · Score: 1

    There's no way to determine what type a file really is. File types are designated in the Windows world by extensions (the .jpg in bigdick.jpg), but applications and other OSes use actual file information (typically the first few / few dozen bytes) of the file to determine what to do with it.

    This typically involves some specific byte sequence, or "magic number", which alerts the OR/program to start trying to read a particular type of header, or tells it the file is big/little endian.

    However, ANY file can contain those strings, and I've run into cases where Office docs have contained the magic numbers for JPG (or was it PNG) and shit got all fucked up. They best you can really do is trust the file extension / mimetype after your virus scanner says it's okay. Then you can TRY to process the file as what it claims to be and handle failures gracefully. If you want to be nice you can try to scan the files for those magic byte sequences, but I gave up on doing that because it's a fucking pain. I just bail out and tell the user to upload working shit, not my problem.

  9. Re:Not yet disclosed on New Android Phones Hijackable With Chrome Exploit (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What devices? I bet you can root, but not get perma root.

    This attack still wouldn't unlock the bootloader for some of the more locked-down devices.

  10. Re:Agree on Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And Hello?
    And the fucking proprietary DRM and media shit?
    And the "about:newtab" shit that shows you your top visited sites, and "recommended" sites?

    All of that shit should be nuked from the code base, and everyone involved should be stripped naked, tied to a tree in the woods, and have their genitals coated in honey.

  11. First Rule About Watchlists on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't ask if you're on the watch list. If you weren't before, you are now.

    Alternatively: Realize that everyone is on a watch list and nothing will happen to you unless you stir up some shit. If you're a journalist investigating this shit your life will be hard. If you're a nerd who likes to Google a lot of shit and post about how you hate the government they'll just laugh at you.

  12. Re:I'm bored. Wanna fuck? on New Ransomware Business Cashing In On CryptoLocker's Name (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have to ask who will be the top, you're the bottom.

  13. Re:Cue the stupid comments on New Ransomware Business Cashing In On CryptoLocker's Name (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    The only people who see sigs are logged in users who are too stupid to turn them off.

  14. I'd like to see a written copy of said policy prior to this guy's changing his licensing terms, and I'd particularly like to see how it affects an 11-year old paper.

    This is a political move, through and through.

  15. Re:Removing a Federal Judge from the Bench on Justice Officials Fear Nation's Biggest Wiretap Operation May Not Be Legal (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    A better way to set an example would be to draw and quarter him in the public square for being a traitor.

  16. Re:No it does not compete with Skylake, those are on NVIDIA Releases JTX1 ARM Board That Competes With Intel's Skylake i7-6700K (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    My virtual 8-bit CPU in my Minecraft world has enough oomf...

  17. Re:Fingerprint are not passwords on Unhashable: Why Fingerprints Are Weaker Security Than Passwords (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    Everything passed over a wire (or through the air) to a machine are effectively "something you know".

  18. Re:starvation deception #1 killers world wide stil on Stanford Creates Tricorder-Like Devices For Detecting Cancer and Explosives (stanford.edu) · · Score: 1

    You forgot the "fight for you Bitcoins" link.

  19. Re:Industrialized food on The Dawn of the Robotic Chef (robohub.org) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think Jack in the Box calls it the Buttery Jack.

  20. Re:QuBits on SETI Fails To Detect Signals Coming From KIC 8462852 (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Entanglement does not facilitate the transfer of information.
    Entanglement does not enable FTL communication.
    Entanglement does not violate causality.

  21. Re:First transmission to be received on SETI Fails To Detect Signals Coming From KIC 8462852 (examiner.com) · · Score: 0

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  22. Grade 2 Titanium Casing on TAG Heuer Launches "Connected" Android Wear Smartwatch With Intel Inside (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Grade 2 titanium casing?! PERFECT for a grade 8 Slashvertisement.

    This is useless trash. EXPENSIVE useleess trash. That doesn't have an Apple logo.
    Customers will be measured in the tens.

  23. Re:How on US Judge Rules Against NSA In Phone Spying Case (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Because this is slashdot, and the uninformed assumptions of a logged in doofus need to be moderated +4 Insightful, while the relevant and factual (and earlier) post by the AC needs to stay modded at 0.

  24. Re:Really? on Interviews: Ask Mathematician Neil Sloane a Question · · Score: 1

    And 5.

  25. Re:ABS releases cyanide when heated on 3D Printed Objects Found Toxic To Fish Embryos (universityofcalifornia.edu) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.
    I've been using soap all my life and I haven't had any fish spring up where I use my soap.

    effect/affecttttttttttttt