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  1. Quantum computing isn't happening, so the threat they pose is purely hypothetical.

  2. Should be free for alpha users. on Microsoft's Minecraft Set To Launch Its Own Currency (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't Notch promise back in the alpha days that people who buy during alpha would get all future expansion packs for free? This sounds like it would qualify. Microsoft almost certainly won't care about Notch's promise, though.

  3. Re:Congratulations - you invented the WWW on WeChat Beats Google in Releasing Apps That Don't Need Downloading or Installing (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Downloading implies keeping data more than temporarily, whereas retrieving doesn't.

  4. Re:Why the Hell didn't Let's Encrypt register it?! on Comodo Attempting to Register 'Let's Encrypt' Trademarks, And That's Not Right (letsencrypt.org) · · Score: 1

    NEVER use Google Translate with Latin. You'll get complete garbage almost all of the time (e.g. It used to provide "lacus non leo" for "merry Christmas," which actually means "the lake isn't a lion" and seems to come from lorem ipsum).

    Let me help you:
    Rotae iustitiae volvunt lente, sed ruminant optime.

  5. Bullshit. on Computer Scientists Invents Game-Developing Computer AI · · Score: 1

    "Angelina chose the color of the walls, the textures, the ambient sound track" So all it did was randomly choose a few things. Completely stupid. That isn't "AI" by any stretch.

  6. He was spot-on about anti-GMO being "the creationi on Make Way For "Mutant" Crops As GM Foods Face Opposition · · Score: 1

    Protip: DNA is universal. There's nothing that marks any genes as being from any particular species. It's just DNA. The original species of a trait doesn't matter at all if DNA—what you're taking—is species-blind.

  7. Re:nature and consumers on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 1

    DNA isn't really a species-specific thing. There's no way you could tell that a sequence of DNA from a starfish was actually from a starfish without comparing it to the DNA of other starfishes.

    And extra DNA doesn't cause mutation. Mutagens, radiation and miscopying cause mutations. Additional DNA is usually far more beneficial than harmful, because it can provide extra resistance to pathogens, as #44406327 said.

    Also, jeez, you sound like a conspiracy theorist.

  8. Re:"Needs"? on Europe Needs Genetically Engineered Crops, Scientists Say · · Score: 1

    Greece is Southeast Europe, not West Europe.

  9. Re:I don't get the blocks on Voxel.js: Minecraft-like Browser-Based Games, But Open Source · · Score: 1

    Minecraft blocks are 1 cubic meter.

  10. Re:I Wonder? on Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1% · · Score: 1

    Start screen --> app bar --> all apps

  11. Re:Couldn't they just arrest the students? on QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Anonymous is against scientists now? on Trying to Untangle Anarchist Attacks On Scientists · · Score: 2

    anarchists != Anonymous.
    Where in TFA does it mention anonymous?

  13. Re:Privacy issue in Europe on Ask Slashdot: Are Smart Meters Safe? · · Score: 2

    The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has warned that smart meters, which must be introduced into every home in the UK within the next seven years, will be used to track much more than energy consumption unless proper safeguards are introduced.

  14. Re:"Java scripts" on Mozilla Testing Click-to-Play Option For Plugin Content · · Score: 1

    And by "this plugin" I mean "this feature." My apologies for being stupid.

  15. Correction on Adobe Releases Last Linux Version of Flash Player · · Score: 0

    Adobe Releases Last NPAPI Linux Version of Flash Player.

    It'll be usable on non-Chrome browsers once they get their heads out of the sand and implement Pepper.
    Keep up or get left behind. :)

  16. Re:To read it, you say? on New Technique Promises Much Faster Hard Drive Write Speeds · · Score: 2

    Blu-Ray is an optical medium. Hard drives are magnetic. The use of lasers in writing is unusual. They use the lasers to flip magnetic bits. The lasers can't simply be shined onto a bit and then have light deflected in one of two directions depending on the data stored.

  17. Re:Yay! if they figure out 2 read da stuff, we'r g on New Technique Promises Much Faster Hard Drive Write Speeds · · Score: 1

    Those two activities are generally not limited by disk access speed.

  18. Re:I think the bigger news here is... on Go Daddy Reverses Course On SOPA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wikipedia does too.

  19. Re:Make it send data to you on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that the user can't provide information like what they were doing when the crash happened or what the expected behavior was. For uncaught exceptions, sending a stacktrace could be helpful. Depending on the language, though, there might not be exception handling - just crashes.

  20. Re:Why not treat web pages as loss leaders? on Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option · · Score: 1

    Just playing the devil's advocate here, but wasn't the Internet in the 70s-80s more of an experiment with far fewer users than it has today?

  21. Re:Javaception on JavaScript JVM Runs Java · · Score: 5, Informative

    It doesn't implement that much of the standard JVM.

  22. Re:Raise taxes NOW! on Cray Replaces IBM To Build $188M Supercomputer · · Score: 0

    I agree, but this isn't really the place to post that.

  23. Re:well.. on Inside the Duqu Worm's Source Code · · Score: 1

    It's a bash/similar shells command. Theoretically, it can work on almost any OS.

  24. Of course. on Netflix Loses 800,000 Subscribers After Qwikster Gaffe · · Score: 0

    What did they expect?

  25. Re:Do not want on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    He didn't respond to "unless I can install an alternate OS and have hardware level access." He responded to "Yea, what you're looking for is not a game console, I believe it's called a com pew tur or something like that."