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  1. Re:Software Patent Rejections on USPTO Rejects Many of Oracle's Android Claims · · Score: 1

    It's not 17 of 21 patents, it's 17 of 21 claims on a single patent. That means still less than 1 patent rejected in this case.

  2. Re:I smell on Practical "Smell-o-Vision" System Being Developed · · Score: 1

    Or allergic reactions. Certain smells, especially certain colognes, can give me migraines. You can bet they'd be on the forefront of using the technology if it were available.

  3. Re:Good luck keeping it on on Tracking Bracelets for Autistic Kids and Senior Citizens · · Score: 1

    Probably in the same way that a cast you can't remove is constantly irritating to people, to the point that some harm themselves or cut it off.

  4. Re:Statute of Limitations? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? · · Score: 2

    3-5 years, depending on whether you're talking about civil or criminal copyright infringement. At least, that's what I got from reading about it a day or two ago.

    http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#507

  5. Re:C++0x on Biggest Changes In C++11 (and Why You Should Care) · · Score: 1

    No, in hex (0x) you really can go to 11.

  6. Re:Old News? on Redbox Brings Video Game Rentals To Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    I'll probably get marked a troll, but, I thought they introduced this nationwide months ago. They've had games at our local Redbox's for going on a year.

    That doesn't make you a troll, just wrong. I hope that our current batch of mods aren't that bad. But perhaps I'm just an optimist.

  7. Re:What about add-on / map pack games? on Redbox Brings Video Game Rentals To Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    It's roughly $8 at Blockbuster, and older games aren't cheaper. If they have too many they'll often resell the older games for less than the rental price. I saw several games for $8 to rent and $6 to buy used when I went there last weekend. The clerk said sometimes he tells people but they rent it anyway.

  8. Re:I thought this was old news? on Redbox Brings Video Game Rentals To Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    Our local boxes put on "Coming Soon" signs a week or two ago. Maybe you were in a pilot area.

  9. Are you sure? on What LulzSec Logins Reveal About Bookworms, and Passwords · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps these are their passwords for every site, and this site just over-represents people interested in books and writing. I certainly don't use custom passwords based on the type of site.

  10. Re:Cheap Enough, But ... on Following the Money In Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    Planet Money just did an episode on this ( http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/06/16/137181702/the-tuesday-podcast-inside-the-credit-card-black-market ) and, yes, some of them do accept BitCoin (as well as other nontraditional currencies).

  11. Like antibiotics on Following the Money In Cybercrime · · Score: 2

    Now we just need to hope that they don't breed better attackers that are all resistant.

  12. Re:Mmmm on Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage · · Score: 1

    What McDonald's do you go to? There's a toaster specifically for the buns; they don't toss them on the grill.

  13. Re:anonymous coward on Google Redirects Traffic To Avoid Kazakh Demands · · Score: 2

    Just cruise at +1 if it bothers you so much. That's why they have that option.

  14. Re:judges need to say no on School District Hit With New Mac Spying Lawsuit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do you feel this case is wrong? Suing the hell out of the people who do these things is the only effective way to discourage others, if the state isn't going to imprison those responsible.

  15. Re:Not anti-intellectualism on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 2

    I do not like the way the question is posed. It seems to make assumptions that are not necessarily true in order to posit that "geeks are becoming anti-intellectual".

    That's called "Begging the question".

    I agree with you in general. My college experience was very little intellectual experience, mostly practical work training and well-rounding busywork. I feel like I came out of it far smarter, but not more "intellectual" (depending on how you define such a thing). I think I've learned more intellectual thinking from books than college.

  16. Re:Comments from RSS? on Spain To Clamp Down On File Sharers · · Score: 1

    The bizarre part isn't that there are comments. It's that, instead of displaying other people's comments, it gave me the box to type, preview, and submit my own (and it worked, for first post). It has never been that way before today. And that's not to mention the fact that the actual website was erroring out at the time.

  17. Re:Shades of the Foundation! on Phase Change Memory Points To Future of Storage · · Score: 1

    Asimov's Foundation trilogy? Is that like "The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy"?

  18. Re:Evidence of time travel? on Bringing Old Arcade Machines Into the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    It's too bad the italics don't make it into Google Reader.

  19. Re:Geez, What's the Problem Here? on Google Founders' Jets Caught On WSJ's Radar · · Score: 2

    An excellent point. How many tons of CO2 credits it would take to offset burning down the "Church"? Also, where is it located? I have a door decoration I'd like to provide them.

  20. Re:Obama and the senate are irrelevant... on Congress Makes Deal To Renew Patriot Act For 4 Years · · Score: 1

    Allowing it to expire at its pre-established expiration date is not "revoking". This was only intended to last a limited time, and that time has already passed.

  21. Re:Still wondering... on Mint It Yourself With a Browser-Based Bitcoin Miner · · Score: 1

    As Planet Money put it this week, the price of gold is basically a 4000-year-old bubble.

  22. Re:Zombie prosthetics? on Man Demonstrates His New Bionic Hand · · Score: 1

    Wait, sorry, it's more confusing. The first linked BBC article has 2 stories in 1 article, and this guy was the second story. Is that sort of thing common?

  23. Re:Zombie prosthetics? on Man Demonstrates His New Bionic Hand · · Score: 1

    Even worse, from the second sentence of TFA #1:

    "The patient, called "Milo", aged 26, lost the use of his right hand in a motorcycle accident a decade ago."

    The patients in the 2 linked articles are different people.

  24. Re:Dumbing down on Hack Targets NASA's Earth Observation System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's because our submitters and editors are too lazy to write a summary, so they just copy-paste a chunk of the article (which may be intended for a less-technical audience).

  25. Re:Discount? on Fingerprint Scanner That Works From 6 Feet · · Score: 1

    Burcham says several potential customers have indicated that a single-finger scanner would be sufficient for their needs

    Perhaps they meant a specific finger, and he didn't get the joke.