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  1. Re:Hope they will fix the motion sickness problem on Oculus Rift Raises Another $16 Million · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between trying it in some of the leisurely demo levels and playing something like TF2 with it.
    The latter is much more intensive, and I'm not sure it's entirely just tracking lag or something that's at fault here.

  2. Re:Seems fishy on Revealed: How the UK Spied On Its G20 Allies At London Summits · · Score: 1

    You think NSA don't snoop on other intelligence services?
    Do you trust politicians too?

  3. Re:I sure do hope.... on Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry. I'm just going to send a copy of the book "How to Serve Man"

  4. Re:Good call. on NSA WhistleBlower Outs Himself · · Score: 1

    If if he did some "self mutilation" and then "shot himself" twice with two different firearms the US public would be too busy watching reality TV to care.

  5. Re:First post on Iain Banks Dies of Cancer At 59 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gall bladder cancer, not urinary bladder.

    A sad form of cancer as it's almost never detected in time(due to no symptoms and few tests that finds it by incident), find it early, and it have a excellent prognosis, find it late, and it's game over.
    Colorectal cancer is somewhat similar in that it grows slowly for a long time before turning lethal, but colonoscopies are much more frequently performed, and symptoms can show earlier.

  6. Re:Violence on Google Glass Banned At Google Shareholder Meeting · · Score: 1

    And by the way, I don't see much violence against the NSA.

  7. Re:Violence on Google Glass Banned At Google Shareholder Meeting · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not recording all the time. And regarding the supposed illegality: I'm pretty damn certain you can record everyone and everything in public, though you may face limitations when distributing it unless you have the consent of those involved.

  8. Re:Nice concept on EU Countries Closer To Mandatory Minimum Sentence Cap For Hacking · · Score: 1

    But knowing how incompetent the lawmakers are when it comes to issues like hacking, we're going to end up with dumb ass fucking laws that make it a hacking offense to read the email of some moron that didn't log out after using a public computer.

    I'm going to send out SQL injection links to my purposefully unpatched and brokenly secured system, then put all of the fuckers in jail that click on it.

  9. Re:No wai! on Multiple Studies Show Used Electronics Exports To Third World Mostly Good · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Greenpeace trying to make the lives of humans worse in the name of a nonexistant environment-related issue.
    How ironic that an organization with such a name hides a pitch black heart filled with evil intent.

  10. Re:Sheesh on FBI Considers CALEA II: Mandatory Wiretapping On Every Device · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But what about your off-device life? Clearly, a camera mounted in your forehead and bedroom is needed too.

  11. Re:Not so fast on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of course there are sheningans abound.
    To start with, I'm pretty sure that at least 97% of all scientific papers aren't about global warming, greenhouse gases, or atmospheric science at all.

  12. Re:huh on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's also a nice practical demonstration that there are, indeed, adults who struggle with understanding humor.

  13. Re:Anything to get more customers on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 1

    One that doesn't prevent listening to music clips on mobile devices.

    Oh...

  14. Re:Is it in a bunker ? on The New Yorker Launches 'Strongbox' For Secure Anonymous Leaks · · Score: 2

    "a secure information-sharing platform called DeadDrop, built by Aaron Swartz shortly before he DroppedDead."

    I'm not sure I want to use that, it sounds cursed.

  15. Re:NRA sedition^H^H^H patriotism on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 3, Funny

    The point of a rifle is to send metal ellipsoids flying in a predetermined direction at very high velocity, the rest is up to the user.

  16. Re:Any way to see them coming? on Speeding Object Makes Small Hole In the ISS Solar Array · · Score: 1

    The ISS routinely use its thruster systems to dodge space debris. You need to know of the object quite some time before though.

  17. Re:Got a better idea on Device Keeps Liver Alive Outside Body For 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    Also, avoid accidentally poisoning your liver with meds or mushrooms, and stay off them bad genes. No sex, and no blood transfusions either.

    While at it, we could simply stop all transport accidents by telling people to not crash their vehicles.

  18. Re:Figures they'd do the liver first on Device Keeps Liver Alive Outside Body For 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    Cancers would generally disqualify you, as any cancer outside the liver would throw a massive house-wrecking party when you start the patient on immunosupressants after the transplant.

  19. Re:Figures they'd do the liver first on Device Keeps Liver Alive Outside Body For 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    If you stop drinking entirely for some months you qualify for a new one.

  20. Re:shockingly on Nano-Suit Protects Bugs From Vacuums · · Score: 4, Funny

    It replenishes the energy gauge, allowing the insects to engage Maximum Armor

  21. Re:Stand next to a sighted helper. on Ask Slashdot: How Can a Blind Singer 'See' the Choirmaster's Baton? · · Score: 1

    Well, you'd want something that preferrably doesn't need an assisiting person all the time. Two IR leds attached to the baton and a computer running freetrack should be pretty good for tracking it, but then you'd need a tactile feedback device too.

    I guess a array of small servo motors pushing against the forearm in a pattern according to the baton location could be made pretty cheaply in hardware, but testing and tuning to get it right might be a problem.

  22. Re:No way to see! on Ask Slashdot: How Can a Blind Singer 'See' the Choirmaster's Baton? · · Score: 1

    Give the choirmaster a theremin stick and headphones to the singers.

  23. Re:Really? on Firing a Laser Into Your Brain Could Help Beat a Drug Addiction · · Score: 1

    Adult myogenesis in skeletal muscles isn't really happening much either.
    As for integration into the genome, I was under the impression that you can actually chose the place in the genome it would integrate in, but that this is mostly irrelevant as adenoviral vectors are preferred over lentiviral ones.

  24. Re:Firing a Laser Into Your Brain to cure addictio on Firing a Laser Into Your Brain Could Help Beat a Drug Addiction · · Score: 1

    You're not captain obvious, you're captain misunderstanding-the-whole-fucking-concept.
    The laser doesn't destroy any chemical reaction. It simply excites neurons that have a regulatory effect on addiction, the same effect could likely be had with electrode stimulation, or transcranial magnetic stimulation, only that the optogenetic approach have much better targeting resolution and neuron selectivity.

  25. Re:You are wrong. Cocaine IS addictive. on Firing a Laser Into Your Brain Could Help Beat a Drug Addiction · · Score: 1

    "The medical community is wrong because my anecdote"

    Sure thing bro, I cured my amputated leg with homeopathy by the way.