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  1. Re:Don't care. on $375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday · · Score: 1

    I suspect that they will eventually be able to produce higher quality meat then what is affordable right now, purely because this gives much more control over the development of the meat. I suspect that it wouldn't beat very high quality meat (E.g. Wagu beef) however. In the short term it will taste like crap though

  2. Re:Don't care. on $375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday · · Score: 1

    FYI organic produce usually tastes better than non-organic, so your example and argument kinda of conflict...

  3. Re:Is camping necessary? on Camping Helps Set Circadian Clocks Straight · · Score: 1

    Or for being inside all day with reduced (or different colour spectrum) light. The main thing is getting the light during the day, it is the same reason that if you spend a long day outside you feel a lot more sleepy.

  4. Re:Not surprising but shitty interpretation as usu on Camping Helps Set Circadian Clocks Straight · · Score: 2

    That really depends where you are camping and the quality of your tents, I find that I wake up closer to sunrise and feel tried closer to sunset when camping irrelevant of the time of year (including winter in reasonably cold conditions where it is far more comfortable in the tent).
    Also I am sure they actually measured the melatonin levels.

  5. But surely you only need to useful component of the algorithm, there is only going to be a certain range of useful inputs.

  6. Re:TV on Android Tablet Gives Rare Glimpse At North Korean Tech · · Score: 1

    No it's significant that it has a TV tuner at all because most western tablets don't

  7. Re:No offense... on Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash · · Score: 2

    I think GP meant we need US military support in order to maintain our own defences. Small populations and in the case of Australia large land mass mean we don't have the capability to do that ourselves.
    It is very unlikely that the US would engage in hostile action against Australia or New Zealand, but if another country decided to their not helping would be just as bad. Also that would require us to rein in our own governments, (which might be slightly better then yours but that doesn't mean much these days). Wikileaks revealed that a number of our politicians were being paid by the US and it hardly got any media attention at all.

  8. Re:AeroFS on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    as supposed to EC3 instances under the control of the company providing the service (AeroFS)

  9. Re:You are kidding right? on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 2

    Aerofs might also be a good solution, it only stores data on your own servers by default (and has a headless linux client that could be installed on a VPS or similar for offsite backup). All data is transmitted encrypted P2P, but it does use NAT Proxies and authentication information provided by their servers.

  10. Re:AeroFS on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    ok, I wasn't aware of that. It still works as a P2P dropbox alternative without using EC3 type service though, so still might be useful for the OP.

  11. AeroFS on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    I would suggest AeroFS it's P2P sync, they support multiple users and let you use your own Amazon EC3 instances if you want. It is fully encrypted.

  12. Re:The hashes are salted on Ubuntu Forum Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Because apparently the hacker's have managed to crack them.

  13. Re:Dupe from 3 days ago on Ubuntu Forum Security Breach · · Score: 1

    BTW they have managed to decrypt the passwords, Simple Machines Forum just got hit as well because an admin used the same password on both sites.

  14. Re:Dupe story on Ubuntu Forum Security Breach · · Score: 2

    and that the attackers have apparently managed to decrypt to passwords, causing another forum breach: here

  15. Re:Like in the Bible! on Ohio Zoo Attempts To Mate Female Rhino With Her Brother For Species Survival · · Score: 1

    If we are beginning literal here it says that he predates the plants flowering, not the plants themselves. It could be seen as a metaphor for creation coming to fruition, which would make sense in the context and be a normal usage of literary technique

  16. Re:Like in the Bible! on Ohio Zoo Attempts To Mate Female Rhino With Her Brother For Species Survival · · Score: 1

    Alternate Theory: It could be valid to assume that the two stories overlap in time period (many histories do this and some of the latter books of the bible as well) if that was the case (as is as likely as your proposal) then the animals, etc are not being 'recreated' only the story is recapped. (remember the early parts of the bible were retold orally and so there would have been overlap in the stories as they would not have necessarily been told chronologically).
    It doesn't resolve the original issue relating to incest, but you should bear in mind again these stories were told orally, and having many characters is hard to remember, you only need to look at most modern short stories to see this. Genesis 1 could also be symbolic of man* in general as supposed to a single subset of humanity. (* I use man here to mean humanity as is its traditional usage)

  17. Re:Like in the Bible! on Ohio Zoo Attempts To Mate Female Rhino With Her Brother For Species Survival · · Score: 1

    I have read that section of the bible, and that was not the impression that I got... you've got to remember the target audience and transmission of style of the early parts of the bible though, the stories had to cover the history whilst still being able to be learnt orally with ease and the more characters you add to something the harder it is to do that.

  18. Password Policy on Ubuntuforums.org Hacked · · Score: 1

    Does anyone remember what password policy the forums had, trying to work out which password I was using for it.

  19. Re:Should have used Windows. on Ubuntuforums.org Hacked · · Score: 1

    Or just being safe even if the passwords are salted, given that in the same line it also says that the passwords were not in plaintext.

  20. Re:Still missing encryption on Dropbox Wants To Replace Your Hard Disk · · Score: 2

    AeroFS is also pretty good, and its P2P unlike SpiderOak which stores all your data on their cloud. Pretty fast now as well.

  21. Re:Not a troll on the surface. on Boston U. Patent Lawsuits Hit Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and Others · · Score: 1

    They may not fab them, but do they design the components that are being fabed (not sure if this is the case). If they do they are probably still liable.

  22. Re:So it should on Windows 8 Passes Vista, Hits 5.1% Market Share · · Score: 1

    To be fair, Metro seems to work fine if all you do is browse the internet, play some games and perhaps even occasionally edit a Word document. The only people that don't like Metro are the professional users, developers and power-users. Though there are a lot of us, we're still the minority. I think Metro will do just fine for the home market and the serious market will just have to wait for 9 (or whatever it'll be called).

    Talking to many non-power users, especially less tech-literate people they all seem to find win 8 confusing and hard to use. Specifically I have had people complaining to me about it defaulting to using windows live accounts for login and not being able to find anything.
    In my personal experience with it I've encountered bugs, such as file sharing seeming to be completely broken in terms of login-in to win 8 shares with samba, etc.

  23. Re:Why does Australia have an army? on Australian Air Force's Recruiting Puzzle Shown To Be Unsolvable · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  24. Re:Typical military arrogance on Australian Air Force's Recruiting Puzzle Shown To Be Unsolvable · · Score: 1

    Looking at it briefly all of the calculus for this appears to be covered in the NSW Curriculum Maths Extension 1 course, although an average students doing that course would not be required to solve a problem of that length.
    Certainly if it is not solvable using what's taught in Maths Extension 1, it is certainly solvable for Maths Extension 2 students. For reference if you are doing a maths or computing degree in Australia most universities require you to have completed at least extension 1 maths (or equivalent in another state) in High School.

  25. Re:You're in the army now on Australian Air Force's Recruiting Puzzle Shown To Be Unsolvable · · Score: 1

    Parent and OP are talking about RAAF which is Australian. The commitment is four years, unless you do a degree at ADFA in which case you are required to serve the length of your degree after you graduate.