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  1. Re:Oblig xkcd on VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better · · Score: 1

    The money would likely not be held in evidence in the correct order.

  2. If he genuinely has a working model, he'd certainly have no trouble getting a patent or defending it.

  3. Re:Gotta be a downside somewhere on Z Machine Makes Progress Toward Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    Aspiring future gas giant. Wait a few billion years.

  4. Re:Awesome on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 1

    If you make more than $34K a year, you're in the top 1% of world income.

  5. Re:Chrome is crap now. Switched to opera. on Chrome 38 Released: New APIs and 159 Security Fixes · · Score: 1

    How is opera based on chrome? I know it uses webkit, but webkit is apple's safari modifications to konqueror's khtml... certainly not a chrome-specific rendering engine. (Technically blink is, but it doesn't differ much from webkit yet.)

  6. Re:Still a fail on A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month · · Score: 1

    It's hard to imagine someone who can afford to buy a small aircraft but can't afford to rent a car at the airport.

  7. Re:Ads On Facebook on Dubai Police To Use Google Glass For Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    Take off the tinfoil hat. Facebook knows you like cameras and printers from your techy profile, and you happened to look at popular ones.

  8. Re:Not science on Diners Tend To Eat More If Their Companions Are Overweight · · Score: 1

    Why shouldn't people's diets be controlled by the government? Because everyone has different needs, and treating everyone as the statistical mean person is bad for almost everyone. For a simplistic example, controlling food to make it very hard for people to gain weight is bad for underweight people.

  9. Re:FB could solve 80% of the problem on The Single Vigilante Behind Facebook's 'Real Name' Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Or just set the game's posts to show only to you. It's not hard. It's a lot easier than making a fake account.

  10. Re:IBM should open source it then on End of an Era: After a 30 Year Run, IBM Drops Support For Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 2

    IBM has long been a contributor to openoffice and released Lotus Symphony based on it, so it's safe to assume they've brought the relevant parts over.

  11. Re:The general issue is decentralization & res on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    There will be no barbarians at the gates in Antarctica, or under the ocean.

  12. Re:Chicken Little Global Warming nuts on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    Most likely, people are confused by the fact that arctic sea ice extent is considered a measure of global warming. They expect to use the same metric in the antarctic, not understanding that it's the melting of land ice (and thus reduction of salinity) which causes the larger extent of sea ice in the antarctic.

  13. Re:Simple answer on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    Las Vegas and Phoenix are lived in, believe it or not, and rarely see a day below 100 in the summer.

  14. Re:'Muricans on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    The USA is already mixed. We use liters for cola, grams for drugs and some cooking, kilometers for 5K races, millimeters for anything really small, etc.

  15. Re:But is Linux any better? on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    Might be a Fedora issue or more likely something specific to your PC. Haven't seen any slowdown with Kubuntu.

  16. Re: Yeah ... but ... it's true. on Former GM Product Czar: Tesla a "Fringe Brand" · · Score: 1

    First, California has already legislated better electric generation. Secondly, carbon emissions have nothing to do with breathable air. When you're walking down the street, it's the vehicle exhaust that makes you choke and gasp for breath.

  17. Re:Open? on OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1 Released · · Score: 1

    "Open" is prepended to community versions of distros, as opposed to the corporate versions... so yes the goal is to keep it to nerds since there's no official support.

  18. Re:Can we trust the numbers on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Sorry to hear you have less than 6 years to live.

  19. Re:So wait on Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Given the cut-rate nature of the Russian space program in recent decades, the odds of Russia getting to the moon by 2030 are quite low. It's just something to try to inspire.

  20. Re:100s of train cars, every day on Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food · · Score: 2

    Right... 5 seconds after you start charging people by volume of trash, they start sneaking their trash into other people's bins and/or street and yards.

  21. Re:One real prediction in science fiction on Sci-fi Predictions, True and False (Video 1) · · Score: 1

    Or for some prior art, The Machine Stops: http://archive.ncsa.illinois.e...

  22. Re:Is this anything other than a press release? on Elon Musk Hints 1st Person To Mars May Go Via New Brownsville Spaceport · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Antarctica is the most comparable place on Earth, and we've not managed a large-scale colonization of it yet despite the easy access, regular resupply flights and air.

  23. Re:Aggression in practice, right? on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    Are all non-democratic governments illegitimate now? Is there no legitimate Chinese or Russian government either?

  24. Re:Aggression in practice, right? on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    The presence of ISIL in Syria is a direct result of the USA spending the last few years arming Syrian rebel jihadist groups, many of whom either resold the weapons to ISIL or simply joined ISIL as the tide of the Syrian civil war changed. So the last few years of American interference in Syria is much more like Russian actions in Ukraine. This current bombing action is just a frantic attempt to control the mess we created.

  25. Re:Why is this on Slashdot on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    I'm okay with it being on slashdot, but it should be on politics.slashdot.org... not tech.slashdot.org.