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  1. Re:Microsoft still can't get the UI right on Microsoft Research Brings Kinect-Style Depth Perception to Ordinary Cameras · · Score: 1

    So you have no opinion on anything you have no personal experience in?

    So that excludes conversation about politics (unless you've managed a country), religion (unless you're a god), the opposite sex of yours, the weather (again, unless god), ...

  2. Re:All good until someone simulates biometrics... on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finger print scanners are fooled by gummy bears.

    Where I work, the scanners are quite high. Way beyond the reach of even the tallest gummy bears.

  3. Re:Freya on Elementary OS "Freya" Beta Released · · Score: 2

    "In Norse mythology, Froyjo (Old Norse the "Lordo"), son of Njörðr, is a god associated with yolo, swag and yogurt. "

  4. As long as certain rules are kept on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm ready to switch passwords for anything else as long as:
    1 - It can't be extracted from me by an easier method than torture or blackmail.
    2 - It stops working forever if I'm dead.

    Otherwise, some blood will have to wash away the naivete. Again.

  5. Re:Unless there is some killer feature on Elementary OS "Freya" Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Even Baskin Robbins knew to stop at 31 flavors.

    I count 55.

  6. Re:First Post on AMD Prepares To Ship Gaming SSDs · · Score: 0

    Indeed.

    99% of games have absolutely no performance issues on a Mac. They also take waaaay less space in a Mac's SSD. And they are also way cheaper.

  7. Re:Saved the earth on Ancient Worms May Have Saved Life On Earth · · Score: 1

    That's what a terrorist would say to cover his identity.

    Mr Coward, I'm afraid you have made your last mistake.

  8. Saved the earth on Ancient Worms May Have Saved Life On Earth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every single creature that has ever existed is responsible for the current precise status of the Earth.

    If an ancient civilization traveled half a billion years to the past and killed a single bacteria, the present wouldn't be exactly the same. Maybe the difference would be small, but it's much more probable that the impact of that tiny change, and its accumulated consequences century after century, billions of generations of bacteria later, would have changed everything.

    A single misplaced atom could be responsible for the non-existence of the troglodyte who was to be the ancestor of the guy who wielded the weapon that killed the great grandfather of the guy who discovered how to make fire, delaying the discovery a few dozen generations, and turning the present into the renaissance.

  9. Re:biased algorith on Algorithm Predicts US Supreme Court Decisions 70% of Time · · Score: 2

    But once the future has passed, it's no longer future. So one can only assert to have tested the predictability formerly called future; also known as the Prince test.

  10. Re:Not a private police force on City of London Police Take Down Proxy Service Over Piracy Concerns · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The reason the City of London Police are doing this a lot is because they are highly specialised in economic crime detection, investigation and enforcement, so combating criminal level copyright infringement is in fact one of their specialities.

    Is that a fact?

    Because if it's just a belief, mine is that the reason they are doing this is because, and only because, of corporate pressure.

  11. Christmas on City of London Police Take Down Proxy Service Over Piracy Concerns · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't want a lot for Christmas
    There is just one thing I need
    I don't care about the presents
    Underneath the Christmas tree

    I just want them for my own
    More than they could ever know
    Make my wish come true
    All I want for Christmas is
    My own bloody private police force!

  12. Homoglyph attack generator on Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Nuke it from orbit, then restore from backups. on Synolocker 0-Day Ransomware Puts NAS Files At Risk · · Score: 5, Funny

    The deluxe edition comes with an eye-patch. They initially offered a parrot, but there where some shipment incidences*.

    *: There's still some debate about the actual status of the parrots upon arrival. Synology insists on the parrots' being alive, but there have been customer reports on the parrots being: "passed on", "no more", "ceased", "expired and gone to meet it's maker", "a stiff", "Bereft of life", "resting in peace", among others.

  14. Re:"Investagating"? on Synolocker 0-Day Ransomware Puts NAS Files At Risk · · Score: 1

    Well, they need gates. And gates aren't free.

  15. Re:This is how we learn on Synolocker 0-Day Ransomware Puts NAS Files At Risk · · Score: 1

    If it was meant to be connected to the internet it would be called ASOTAS

  16. News' length on How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil · · Score: 2

    Now I'm sad about the length of news I really couldn't care less being about four times longer than news I'd like to know more about.

    And they even include corrections (as fundamental as changing Caroline to Carolyn).

    In science news, to get more than four paragraphs in the NYT one has to reach Mars riding a comet harnessed with carbon nanotubes. And replacing "light years" with "ping-pong balls" wouldn't be deemed deserving of errata.

  17. KSP on NASA Tests Microwave Space Drive · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's stick to the important consequences. When will this reach KSP? Is a patch/hotfix in development?

  18. Re:Ode to past: "Imagine a Beowolf..." on Unboxing a Cray XC30 'Magnus' Petaflops Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    A.... Beowolf... ...

    I've decided you mean a Philanthus Triangulum.

    The alternative is too sad.

  19. DF on Unboxing a Cray XC30 'Magnus' Petaflops Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    It's so overpoweringly mighty it can run Dwarf Fortress on a 256x256 embark area at 2 FPS.

  20. Re:Being a former drug addict, I think on Researchers Create Virtual Reality 'Parties' To Treat Drug Addiction · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you think being a nicotine addict makes it hard to avoid contact with the addiction, just imagine being addicted to sex.

    Your choices go from cabin in the woods to monk temple.

  21. Re:Being a former drug addict, I think on Researchers Create Virtual Reality 'Parties' To Treat Drug Addiction · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that hanging out with other users had potentially bad consequences.

    That seems almost exactly what they are trying to reproduce in this treatment. They are trying to bridge the gap between rehab and what you did during that one week after.

    I see it as a more practical alternative to sending a [whoever helps you during rehab] to accompany you everywhere for some weeks.

    If Muhammad has no time to go to the mountain, the mountain shall come to Muhammad, virtually.

  22. Re:Hamas Is 100 Percent of the Problem on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 5, Funny

    So... you're on the fence about which side to blame.

  23. Re:Ban caffeine! on Suddenly Visible: Illicit Drugs As Part of Silicon Valley Culture · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ban the 'D'! It's a gateway letter for Drug!

  24. Re:Too bad this didn't happen in 50 years on Comet To Make Close Call With Mars · · Score: 1

    In a few years more we'll have fusion.

    Fusion could make synthesizing water safer than redirecting comets.

  25. First pass on Comet To Make Close Call With Mars · · Score: 2

    I don't understand the concept of first pass. Do they really mean "first pass ever" which I suppose would also mean humanity will never ever interact with this comet ever?

    Or is it "first pass since we are able to see them, but it's part of the Solar System and it will eventually come back.