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  1. Re:Blogspam on Nobel Prize Winner Got Free House and Free (as In Beer) Beer · · Score: 1

    The above link is not spam

    Relevance to the story still undetermined but it does link to a Carlsberg group associated with both a brewery and scientific endeavors.

  2. Re:Dropping DRM is a step in the right direction on GOG: How an Indie Game Store Took On the Pirates and Won · · Score: 1

    People want to explain things to each other. People need to explain things to each other. Without copyright a "pay to make" model would be required, and that's actually the model that makes sense. You don't have the right to work for ten years and then get paid for the rest of your life.

  3. Markets on Finding a Crowdsourced Cure For Brain Cancer · · Score: 1

    There's a better way to crowdsource knowledge: markets. Create markets that let people bet on whether X is the thing that will cure this cancer, and whether it's curable at all. If enough people participate you'll get your best chances out of the soup.

  4. the number e on Study Finds Similar Structures In the Universe, Internet, and Brain · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are certain constraints for the most efficient transfer of energy. Systems designed or evolved to take advantage of more efficient designs should exhibit similarities.

  5. Re:Patent nonsense on Microsoft Granted Patent For Augmented Reality Glasses · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually patents are for non-obvious specific implementations of hardware. This isn't.

  6. Re:Lets not on Statistics Key To Success In Run-and-Gun Basketball · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Respectfully disagree. By descending from their ivory towers and showing how math can be useful in everyday life scientists can greatly inflate the common man's understanding of these techniques and advance science.

  7. Re:the internet destroyed forgetting on Why Big Data Could Sink Europe's 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    >all you have to do is stop offering parts of your life to the internet Bullshit. If you use a utility company, buy a house, use a credit card, get a bank account, buy or rent a car, or sign up for internet access you've already signed away your rights to your information through boilerplate terms of service. You might say "so don't sign" but in the real world that presents an impossible situation.

  8. In time people would adjust on Google Glass Could Be the Virtual Dieting Pill of the Future · · Score: 1

    When that amount of food doesn't keep you from being hungry you'll adjust to eating larger-looking portions, I would bet my left testicle on it.

  9. Seconded on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 1

    NASA has a history of overhyping results. My guess is an oxycarbon.

  10. Re:water on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 1

    We already found that, the sediment granules that most likely formed from a stream. I hope they're not calling another discovery that water once existed "earthshaking". Not that I would be surprised: NASA has a long history of hyping non-news.

  11. Re:how many of the jobs didn't exist as well? on Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Recruiters copypasta the same interview "offer" to their whole mailing list. After getting as many replies as possible they forward them to the the company. "look how many resumes I can give you!" In the end it's about the same odds as mailing your resume to arbitrary companies. I think it's deceptive and evil.

  12. low pay on Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They didn't offer sufficient pay and now they don't have enough pilots. Seems pretty simple to me.

  13. Re:no on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That doesn't follow. What our bushman knows and what you know are each a matter of knowledge, not intelligence. If the bushman was born where you were and raised as you were he may have a better chance than you at being successful, determined by his intelligence. In the bush he may be able to better correlate a set of markings in the dirt with an eatable rodent he saw once three years ago. In a bar in your home town he may be better able to correlate a certain tone of voice with a girl's willingness to go home with him. The intelligence is the same: pattern matching.

  14. Re:Addiction with a capital A. on Better Brain Implants With Ultrathin Carbon Fiber Electrodes · · Score: 1

    It sounds horrible but I would love a device to give me more pleasure from getting shit done than from surfing the internet. A discipline bypass button. It doesn't need to be too strong to change my behavior.

  15. Re:What the fuck on Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sick of advanced users ganging up to disdain anyone who asks a question they could learn the answer to if they would only read a 500 page manual or three, It's an ugly canker on the face of geek culture.

  16. Smells like on CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair · · Score: 1

    Libya.

  17. There are worse things on The Data Crunchers Who Helped Win The Election · · Score: 2

    than a president who understands technology and has been in charge of groups manipulating and using big data.

  18. This is begging for a space sim on MIT Slows Down Speed of Light In New Game · · Score: 1

    Realistic sublight space battles? shut up and take my money!

  19. Re:Your one party system has failed you on Our Weather Satellites Are Dying · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a brilliant example of one category of tragedy of the commons. The dollars spent are easily seen and tracked. The dollars saved are invisible.

  20. energy content on Paintball Pellets As a Tool To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    I can't believe this would perform better pound for pound than high explosives

  21. bad idea on The Virtues of the Virtual Autopsy · · Score: 1

    For the foreseeable future it will take a real doctor's mark one eyeballs to recognize a tumor, the prick of a needle, several kinds of trauma, or the wrong kind of fluid in various places. Bad, bad idea unless your only purpose is to hide the truth.

  22. Re:"Cut Costs" on Japan Getting Real-Time Phone Call Translator App · · Score: 1

    until the cost of robot labor falls below the survival cost of a person

  23. Re:"Cut Costs" on Japan Getting Real-Time Phone Call Translator App · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is, it has always been thus and thus it will always be. And you're wrong. Mind-replacing software is as encompassing as steam power and the world will change just as much as it develops. It's unproven whether there's a third category of jobs after man's muscle and then mind have been replaced but I can't imagine what it would be. And if somehow there is a third category in a hundred years can it reach back in time and allay the suffering being caused right now?

  24. Re:Solitary Confinement on Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement · · Score: 2

    nope, it's spite. You can't expect to piss off people giving bags of money to congresscritters without suffering for it.

  25. It's an entire Martian civilization on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 1

    But because we can't imagine anything important of that size we'll never know.