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  1. Here's a solution. on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    You need a 200kW strobe light with high speed electronics and triggers.

    Simply lower the light so that everyone will end up using flash on the limo. Upon detecting a flash signature, instantly trigger the anti-camera device.
    Now everyone have a suntan, and the photo taking was effectively prevented by giving a pure white picture as the result.

    Don't worry, the guests will be able to see again within 30 minutes

  2. Atleast.. on Facebook Mocks 'Infection' Study, Predicts Princeton's Demise · · Score: 5, Funny

    Princeton will have the last laugh as facebook will be dead before it.

  3. Re:Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole! on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In other countries some functionary will come up to you and say "put that away please".
    Then they would politely ask you to leave, and then sternly ask you to leave. Then a security guard would forcibly haul you off the property.

    Only in the US is are you getting law enforcement jumping to the opportunity to bust a guy a with a recording device in a movie theater. I bet they had the black helicopters and swat teams ready too.

  4. Re:I could be wrong... on New Object Recognition Algorithm Learns On the Fly · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The way I understand it is that it identifies recurrent features and learns them. Meaning that giving it a huge image library with no labels would mean it can recognize say, roses, but it would call them "object 193131", not "rose".

  5. Re:Interesting vs Exciting on Rare Exoplanet Found In Star Cluster, Orbits Sun's 'Twin' · · Score: 0

    Found in the constellation Cancer - Ironic

  6. Re:China will rule the Pacific on China: The Next Space Superpower · · Score: 1

    The US will have spy satellites riding piggyback on all satellites and peeking into the windows of space stations.

  7. Re:That's what you get on USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess this was a...
    STICK-up.

  8. Re:Hard to believe on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 1

    Or the wall if you're so inclined.

  9. Re:It's true on Web Surfing Improves Motor Skills · · Score: 1

    The internet made me ambidextrous.

  10. Re:nothing of any us to us on moon on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    Who cares about the fucking moon, it's a huge fucking desolate wasteland. Save for boots on the ground there no one is going to claim all of it. By the time someone starts an industrial plant up there you'll have all other aspiring world power nations shitting their pants and pouring billions into competing projects so you'll be lucky if you claim a crater or two for yourself.

    In the end it will be economical trade anyway. Someone will be sitting on surplus steel and someone will not bother to send a fucking smelting plant for 25 billion to the moon.

  11. Re:Seems reasonable enough. on Soviet Union Spent $1 Billion On "Psychotronic" Arms Race With the US · · Score: 1

    Akira - based on a real story.
    Doesn't seem too appealing to me.

  12. Re:If the lawyers cheated ... on Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn · · Score: 1

    The judge probably has his hands full of all the money he got as part of the deal.

  13. Re:Tough luck.. on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    Now if only all objects of value had such karmic theft protections. The world would be a better place.

  14. Re:Taxing is not going to fix the problem on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    And by your logic we should keep chasing those feel-good zero-impact idiot ideas that makes things slightly inconventient for us so that we feel we're doing something, while totally ignoring the big issues.

    "It's okay that there's polluting factories in china because plastic bags and incandescent lights are banned in Europe!"

  15. Re:Taxing is not going to fix the problem on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 0

    It's also a drop in the ocean when you consider the amount of other plastic item packagings and liters of fuel the average consumer uses per year. It's an imaginary problem.

  16. Re:Need more information on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 1

    Make an automatic answering machine that gives the impression of listening. If no one is talking on the other end It should randomly pick a very diffuse question like "i'm confused about this whole deal?" and "i'm still not sure what you want" and "are you really sure you have the right person" and so on.

    After picking 10 random of these it says "bye" and hangs up.

  17. Re:Install more weather stations on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 4, Funny

    But those few square kilometers that we miss to cover will spontaneously catch fire when all warming have to flee to them.

  18. Re:Very disappointing article. on Porn-Surfing Execs Infecting Corporate Networks With Malware · · Score: 1, Funny

    " 67% said the complexity of malware is a chief factor; 67% said the volume of malware attacks; and 58% cited the ineffectiveness of anti-malware solutions."

    And the remaining 40% said these numbers don't add upp.

  19. Re:Economics on Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results · · Score: -1, Troll

    There's desert farming concepts that use evaporation of seawater and condensation to provide freshwater to plants for no huge extra water cost.

    But clearly that have to be impossible because we're supposed to starve from overpopulation and be generally miserable because that's how the environmentalists want it.

  20. Re:Tag, you're it! (the kid in detention) on Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other · · Score: 1

    Just teach your kids to touch that other one while yelling "you can't touch me back or I tell the teachers!"

    And then teach them Newton III to use in defence if the teachers are cunts("well your honor, technically we both touched eachother at the same time")

  21. Re:Appealing to the inner pirate ... on Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's also a way to potentially slow down bug solving. You write the patch and just before you hit submit, you realize "Oh wait, I could get paid for this" so you create a $1 bribe for said bug, wait until it have some dollars more, then submit and cash out.

    It might even lead to more bugs appearing in the software. If there's some 1000 bugs you know because you added some willfully sloppy code, there's obviously money to be made.

    Want more features? Well think of it like DLC. Oh they're ready all right but I'm waiting for the bribe request.

  22. Re:Watch them die off? on How Earth's Biosignature Will Change As the Planet Dies · · Score: 1

    Some men just wants to see the world burn.
    Who cares about what world and when.

  23. Re:Can't do without excellent coders on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "the charming ideas guy" is a derogatory term in my book. It represents the hopeless idiot that have his idea of the new facebook/WoW/sliced bread and looks for someone to work for free to help him make it.

    The cooperation will last approximately a week because the idea guys doesn't have a clue about any technical detail or the process required to fulfil a fraction of his ideas.

    And there's like a billion of these morons.

    What drives tech progress is competence and ideas.

  24. Re:Arthur C Clarke strikes again! on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well if it's a spiky ice hell, then no wonder they told them not to attempt landing as that would only end in tears.

  25. Oh easy solution. on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 0

    Send a nuke as a landing zone herald.
    And pray to your diety of choice that 2001 wasn't made in correspondence with aliens.