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  1. Re:default on CERN To Tap Unused Desktop Power To Help Find Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    I think you mean any other bloatware, which is exactly what it would be.

  2. Re:Unless you are one of the 1490 on Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps · · Score: 2

    Opportunity cost. The economic waste removed from transportation costs will probably save more lives if spent elsewhere.

  3. Re:Still, they must leave prints of some sort. on Why Some People Don't Have Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    I took a significant chunk out of a finger with a vegetable peeler. That healed smooth and ridge-free. Of course, it hurt a lot and was difficult to convince to stop bleeding, and would not be a very practical way to remove your own fingerprints..

  4. Terrible on Finding Fault With the Low, Low Price of Android · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thank you, Slashdot, for informing me of a website I never, ever, want to read again.

  5. Interesting applications for ethanol on New Chip Can Identify Liquids, Encode Messages · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What would be truly interesting is if we the common people could check the percentage of ethanol when we fill up our gas tanks, or have it monitored within our gas tanks. Being able to tell at fill-up would actually tell you which gas station gives better gas. My money's on the chips being prohibitively expensive, though.

  6. Re:Why? on Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hack · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry this came off as a troll. I was referring not to an actual problem with Macs but to their supposedly non-user-removable batteries on their newer lines (which I do not own). The computer I've truly had a battery-dying-problem with was a Dell, and the old (non-Intel) Mac laptop I own still has a fine battery. I just wish I could manage to get around the education-centered boot restrictions on it to wipe it and install Linux.

  7. Re:PC? on Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement · · Score: 5, Funny

    And changed his/her name to "Spiderperson".

  8. Re:PC? on Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're right, they should have made him a girl.

  9. Re:Good... on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 2

    I've definitely seen exceptions in courses with only one teacher, like a band teacher or a foreign language teacher that is a relative. Some schools are not huge enough to have multiple teachers for every discipline.

  10. Re:wag the dog... on Adobe's New HTML5 Design Tool No Threat To Flash · · Score: 2

    as soon as everything is html I'll have to use more sophisticated/complicated countermeasures...

    Like NoScript? Not that much more complicated.

  11. You know what it would produce on 3D Printing and the Replicator Economy · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the 3D printer would spit out a liquid almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

  12. Re:Well on Has LHC Seen a Hint of the Higgs? · · Score: 1

    Well, he has until Tuesday to figure it out and pick up a crossbow.

  13. Re:Why? on Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hack · · Score: 0, Troll

    They slowly kill off battery cells, one at a time, until your battery won't last more than a minute. When that happens you'll have to buy a new battery or (as this is Apple, and they're not friendly to battery replacement) a new computer.

  14. Re:But don't worry on Judge Says You Can't Know If Google Spies For NSA · · Score: 1

    You are exactly wrong. It is an entitlement. ("An entitlement is a guarantee of access to benefits based on established rights or by legislation." - Wikipedia) And paying ahead for guaranteed income when you are old is not insurance. Insurance is to cope with a relatively unlikely risk by grouping together; everyone is going to get old, through no unlikely circumstances that they need to pool to mitigate.

  15. Re:Another attempt to kill the secondary market on Ubisoft Hops On the Online Pass Bandwagon · · Score: 2

    The nice thing about Steam is that everyone knows you have no resale, so (admittedly, sale) prices reflect that. Most people wouldn't care if they couldn't resell their console games if they sold for $15-20 instead of $60.

  16. Bad idea on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We all know how this will go. Fewer lines will be allocated to normal lines, pushing people to give up tons of personal information in order to return to the speeds they previously had (as everyone will want the faster lines), instead of the skyrocketing time of the normal lines. It's the carrot approach to getting people to give up all their rights and personal information.

  17. Re:Identifying people on Computer Learns Language By Playing Games · · Score: 1

    their style, grammar and errorrs.

    Intentional? I would guess that's a rare one; maybe this AC could be found as he describes.

  18. Re:Maybe a million monkeys on Can a Monkey Get a Copyright & Issue a Takedown? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's that an infinite number of monkeys would produce it AT THE SAME TIME (emphasizing as you did). No monkey could type anything instantly, no matter how infinite in number.

  19. Re:Good Riddens on Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban · · Score: 1

    One man's inefficient light bulb is another man's reptile light/heat bulb. I really don't want to have to buy $40 specialty bulbs instead of $.50 standard bulbs.

  20. Re:Problem on Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity · · Score: 1

    According to an article I read on this, there is no category on the site for going it solo. I guess they don't think it can be active enough to count.

  21. Units on HTC To Buy S3 Graphics From VIA · · Score: 0

    "$300 million dollar deal" - How much is a dollar dollar anyway?

  22. Re:Only 33% since 2006? on Illegal Film Downloading Up 33% In the UK · · Score: 1

    It's only looking at the 5 most-downloaded in each category. My question is, why look only at the top 5? Comparing download counts of the top 5 most downloaded in each category hardly seems like an accurate general measurement.

  23. Re:Unique != groundbreaking on How Apple Came To Control the Component Market · · Score: 1

    Actually, ASJ is "In the year of Steve Jobs" (Anno Steve Jobs). Sorry to be pedantic.

  24. Re:AZ isn't anti-immigrant on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 1

    Even if we didn't have the social services, we'd still have to deal with "They took our jobs!"

  25. Re:I'll pass on Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand · · Score: 1

    It could be just like the episode of Futurama where Fry gets the robot devil's hands.