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  1. Well... on Elsevier Going After Authors Sharing Their Own Papers · · Score: 1

    I guess we'll just have to publish Elsevier! (I'll see myself out)

  2. Re:Nonsense on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 1

    So that's lower resolution than the 12 year old, 22.2" IBM T220? Yeah, it's mind-blowing all right. Where did it all go so horribly wrong?

  3. Re:6th mass extinction of biodiversity on 10 Wearable Habitats To Shelter You From the Apocalypse · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Infinite ratio on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Company's Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio? · · Score: 1

    Only if you approach 0 from the positive side. The limit of 1/n for n -> 0+ is infinity; the limit of 1/n for n -> 0- is minus infinity. Which is why you can't in general assign a value of infinity to 1/0.

  5. Re:Instead of cloning, have sex on Human Cloning Possible Within 50 Years, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Claims · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  6. Re:Hmm, I may have to clean my desk... on Giving Your Computer Interface the Finger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, it might interpret it as a "thumbs up"... Come to think of it, that interpretation would probably be correct anyway.

  7. Re:User key management on Red Hat Clarifies Doubts Over UEFI Secure Boot Solution · · Score: 1

    Incorporate an IQ-test in UEFI.Problem solved!

  8. Re:They can't even get "hacker" write on The Rise of Chemophobia In the News · · Score: 1

    You can't even read write!

  9. Re:When Is A Company.... on Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android · · Score: 1

    That's because you missed a T!

  10. Re:how how? on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 2

    Dropbox?

  11. Re:What I never understood about the uncertainty p on Using Averages To Bend the Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    But it IS possible to understand the math behind the uncertainty principle, even though the OP obviously doesn't.

  12. Re:I don't get it on Using Averages To Bend the Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    Yeah, okay, so I wasn't completely stringent in my choise of words, but I think the point got through ;)

  13. Re:I don't get it on Using Averages To Bend the Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 2

    The point is that if you measure whether or not the photon went through slit 1, you "force it to take a stand", and choose which slit to go through. Thus, the wave function collapses and you no longer get the interference pattern, but just two blops of photons on the back wall.

  14. Re:Success? In going up sure... on Danish Amateur Rocket Test Was a Success · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think you know what "exceeding the goal" means. This wasn't expected to be a perfect, smooth flight with a soft landing - it was the very first flight of an incomplete version of an all new design, and the succes criterium was simply "getting liftoff". And by that standard, it was a huge success!

  15. Re:Not for workstations on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    X61s here. Last of the breed; I really wish it was available with Sandy Bridge and perhaps a 1400x1050 IPS-screen... Guess I will have to bite the bullet and buy an X220, in spite of the 16:9 screen.

  16. Re:It's economy of scale. on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    See, I've heard that argument before, but seriously: Who buys 12-17 inch TVs? It might explain the change to 16:9 in the 20-odd inch category, but I really can't see how it is relevant for laptops. Can someone explain: Is there some part of the production apparatus that is shared between the different screen sizes? Or is it just to make the screens seem bigger than they are, and for bragging about "Full HD resolution"?

  17. Re:Same with 1080p on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    Oh, thank you, that works perfectly on my laptop! Why didn't I think of that before?

  18. Re:Snail Mail vs. E-mail? on FBI Overwhelmed With 'Solutions' To Encrypted Note · · Score: 1

    Money for nothing?

  19. Re:So... what? on University Switches To DC Workstations · · Score: 1

    Completely safe as long as you don't lick the wires or put them in contact with open sores (sores, not source!). But it could only provide 120 W, which is barely enough for some laptops, let alone a couple of them...

  20. Re:Wear usage? on Intel Unveils SSDs With 6Gbit/Sec Throughput · · Score: 1

    Uh... Sorry, but the data is in the microchips, not in the metal shell. Cooking it is more likely to destroy the microwave than the data!

  21. Re:quantum bla bla bla on Atomic Antennae Transmit Quantum Information · · Score: 1

    So, what do you propose? That we just stop all research on quantum computers just because it is "highly unlikely" (in your opinion) that they would ever work? That really would be a self-fulfilling prophecy...

  22. Re:Picture on Auto Incorrect · · Score: 1

    It's a Nokia N82, and the keys are actually not half bad - they are much better for fat fingers than most cellphone keyboards.

  23. Re:Floyd lost their integrity 20 years ago... on Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, the dangerous effects of caffeine abstinence are all too well known by me ;) My point was just that Pink Floyd didn't really lose any integrity if they couldn't have stopped the cover version from being aired anyway.

  24. Re:Floyd lost their integrity 20 years ago... on Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads · · Score: 1

    Sure, but can PF decide what the fees are? I thought it was a standard rate depending on the number of listeners.

  25. Re:Floyd lost their integrity 20 years ago... on Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia disagrees with you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_version#U.S._copyright_law (Although that is in the US. I don't have the patience to find the UK law.)