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  1. Re:A Revolution without Losing Authority? on The Information Age: North Korean Style · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With the ever present wireless tech availible, and a relatively small country like NK next to super-teched SK, it's only a matter of time before enough information spills over to either forcibly induce change or through cooperation with the leadership.

    SK should put a series of 200 meter high towers with ultra strength directional-antenna open wifi beacons along the DMZ. I mean, why?, the SK soldiers along the DMZ should be able to watch starcraft streams on their phones of course! What?, dirty NK pirates stealing their bandwidth! atrocious, lets put a password("1234") to prevent those dirty thieves from stealing their positively overspecced bandwidth.

  2. Re:maybe on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's a video of the drugged spiders
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1n15JxrBJ8

  3. Re:Not Ok. on Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads · · Score: 2

    It's not like you pay for windows anyway.

  4. Re:This May Work on Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a DDoS Attack? · · Score: 5, Funny

    "This sound is made as something passes over your head"

  5. Re:Einen moment, bitte. on European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People legally dodging large amounts of tax?
    You mean like the entire range of Fortune 500 companies and the associated persons?

  6. Cast in a negative light, obviously on European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Virtual currencies could have a "negative impact on the reputation of central banks."'

    By showing that the legion of morons and regulation and other peripheral bullshit associated with central banks are entirely unecessary and even counterproductive. Thus rendering, among others: the person that wrote the study potentially useless and unemployed.

  7. Re:Global Warming on Canadian Island's Historic Hot Springs Dry Up After Earthquake · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sure it's not GMO crops or teenage pregnancy?

  8. Re:Ugh, Pentile displays on Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Atleast it's not called Penile

  9. Re:Next up.... on Researchers Develop Surveillance System That Can Watch & Predict · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This system will be hilariously judging when someone with ataxia or just a plain limp sounds the system every damn time he walks past. Or some poor person with social anxiety that is constantly harrassed until he refuses to go out anymore.

  10. Re:The court didn't ask for an apology... on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He's probably around somewhere still.
    Reincarnated as a plankton most likely.

  11. Re:Simple... on Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ Scores In the Twenty-First Century · · Score: 2

    You're on the right track.
    The real answer is that while humans have actually been getting more stupid, the IQ tests have been even more so.

  12. Re:My computer has a tin-foil hat. on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 1

    I use a two stage capacitor bank, the second stage is charged by the first stage, but only when the first stage is disconnected from the grid. Using state of the art power electronics to switch this connection it will never break down!

    (actually I use only a RC toy fuse and house my computer in an oil barrel, but don't tell anyone)

  13. Re:Cerberus, the dogs of mass effect 3 on "New Statesman" Pirates Its Own Magazine · · Score: 1

    I bet the US govt keeps a set of similar professionals, that have as a goal to keep people as stupid as possible.

  14. Re:Ariel on In UK, Apple Must Run Ad Apologizing to Samsung · · Score: 2

    They should've specified comic sans in rainbow colours, font 50, as a splash screen to the apple UK site that appears like a pre-article ad that is unremovable for 15 seconds.
    With the sound of sirens accompanying it.

  15. Re:Vulnerability in pacemaker firmware? on Researcher Reverse-Engineers Pacemaker Transmitter To Deliver Deadly Shocks · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's pacemakers that only do the pacing.
    There's ICDs; Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators that restores proper rythm after detecting arrythmias.
    And there's combinations of the two. Most likely the pacemaker in question here is a combination device or they're actually talking about ICDs and not pacemakers.

    A classic heart attack involves blocking of coronary arteries however and a defibrillator won't do shit for that. Defibrillations are made to terminate an arrythmic beat and restore the normal sinus rythm.

  16. Re:But... on A Day in Your Life, Fifteen Years From Now · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Reads like cheap pulp scifi, lost me after second paragraph.

    What will happen is that you'll throw your low tech cotton pillow onto your 25 year old plastic, night indestructible alarm clock, grumble, and go to your 30 year old(shover head only 10 years old) shower system, swear while the water takes 2 minutes to reach a proper temperature.

    And suddenly you remember this masturbatory futuristic article from slashdot and chuckle heartily.

  17. Re:Truth or dare... on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. If all goes according to the plan you can expect 100% losses on everything, all the time.

  18. Re:The joke in question on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Mere words should never be punished or punishable by any form of physical violence.

    Anyone who thinks otherwise should be flogged in public because they deeply offend me and my religious belives and general sense of entitlement and ego and other arbitrary social constructs.

  19. Re:The joke in question on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 1

    If facebook is a public resource then 4chan is one too.
    Which means a lot of arresting is to be expected.

  20. Re:Units on Successful Engine Test in UK For Planned 1000 mph Car · · Score: 1

    They don't mention enough to calculate the acceleration.
    In metric, a furlong per square fortnight is: 1.375*10^-10 m/s^2 so I guess the value we're looking at would be several gigafurlongs per square fortnight at least though.

  21. Re:Gaming with one hand on Ask Slashdot: Gaming With Only One Hand? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the games most fit for playing with one hand usually demand the other for 'metagame activity', so to actually enjoy the game with only one hand he'd better learn to play with his toes.

  22. Re:Fawning Rubbish on Meet iRobot Founder Rodney Brooks's New Industrial Bot, Baxter · · Score: 3, Informative

    Usually when it comes to industrial robots they'll bludgeon you to red paste if you get close to them when they're working. If all coffee by default was lethally poisonous until this one cup then the analogy would be valid, as it stands it's not.

  23. Re:any plans on long-term memory? on Researchers Create Short-term Memories In Rat Brains · · Score: 1

    I belive you're deluded and have just forgot all the attempts where your long term storage push failed.

  24. Re:Putting Tin Foil hat on.... on Researchers Create Short-term Memories In Rat Brains · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, the plaque correlation is rather weak. Most like a soluble form of the protein do the damage, the plaques just being a precipitation of the soluble form., plaque removal do not correlate with reversal of the condition and plaque presence can be found in people with no notable cognitive decline.

  25. OR on US Carbon Emissions Hit 20-Year Low · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It could also means that CO2 release is correlated to the general state of the economy which as of currently is in the shitter.