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  1. Re:Warning about corrupt moderator... apk on FCC To Update 1996 Cell Phone Radiation Standard · · Score: 2

    Can this be killed off? I don't mean this account, I mean the actual meatbag behind it.

    I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track the IP address. Then we can send a fake DMCA request to his ISP to identify the user's real name. From there, we hire an assassin.

  2. Re:subject on Sarah Brightman's ISS Trip In Peril · · Score: 1

    But, but... Sarah Brightman's vacation plan's in 2015 are in peril!

    Dear samzenpus,

    You are about to receive a butt load of hate from us.

    Your's truly,
    The Internet

  3. Please don't critisize the sensor on Canon Shows the Most Sensitive Camera Sensor In the World · · Score: 1

    ... and avoid sharply worded questions.

  4. Re:Apollo 8 Moment on Dennis Tito's 2018 Mars Mission To Be Manned · · Score: 1

    The problem is that Earthrise is going to be kinda lame.

    At least you get an 'Earthrise' on Mars, you can't do that s*** on the Moon.

  5. "... student belief in a nonverifiable identiy" on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 2

    50 bucks says an atheist wrote that line as an easter egg.

  6. Re:Passwords are shit. on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 0

    Why aren't passphrases more common?

    Far easier to remember Hot grits down your pants with a petrified Natalie Portman than miJFsVXx3!, and potentially far more secure by virtue of character number.

    Catchphrases fail because:

    People are lazy: I don't want to type more than I need to if I am going to log a few thousand times.
    Capitalization requirements: Are your proper nouns capitalized? What about every word? What about the first?
    String length limits and special symbols required: Is Ms. Porman's name hyphenated, or did I put that somewhere else, does that symbol even count? And where the heck did I put that '1'?
    ***************** oh, crap, did I misspell a word?

  7. Re:Initials + Number on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    People like short email addresses. Do intials plus a random number.
    mjs54@domain.tld

    Not all initials are good initials, some people will have offensive phrases or sexual innuendo's... I would know, I am one of those.

  8. Re:Well that proves it on BEST Study Finds Temperature Changes Explained by GHG Emissions and Volcanoes · · Score: 1

    He's done * research *. All those peer-reviewed science things on Fox News...

    It took quite a while for me to find this from Fox News, there were 2 pages of liberal and non-partisan sites bashing them before I found something on Fox, although I think the line that says 'By LiveScience Staff' might be the only reason I found something like this at all there.
    http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/11/20/greenhouse-gases-hit-record-high-in-2011/

    It doesn't give an exact number, but at least they say that that the primary source of new Carbon in the atmosphere since 1750 has been man made. So I guess that puts a lower limit of 1 on that number.

  9. Re:Well that proves it on BEST Study Finds Temperature Changes Explained by GHG Emissions and Volcanoes · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please cite a source on this. I would love to see if this is truly fact. My own research into the matter suggests not, but I am willing to be wrong. Where are you getting the figure "100 times more"? It is quite interesting that your number works out so exactly to 100.

    P.S. @Moderators - "Informative". Really?

    If you were any more obtuse, I'd be able to use you as a decent approximation for pi.

    https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=human+production+co2+volcano&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

    First 5 links all agree with a number on the order of 100 time greater, I stopped bothering to look after that.

  10. Re:I live in a cave... on Dutch Architect Plans 3D Printed Building · · Score: 1

    We can now make a completely artificial home look just like not just any cave, but your cave, you'll feel right at home!

  11. Re:Let's not celebrate on the graves of too many on Mathematicians Aim To Take Publishers Out of Publishing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The articles are written by scientists, generally using taxpayer money to do so.
    The scientists pay the publisher to publish their work.
    Other scientists, who are usually not paid, review the work before publication.
    The publisher uploads the pdf to a website and then charges universities thousands of dollars to have unlimited access to their pdfs.

  12. Re:Say what? on iPod Engineer Tony Fadell On the Unique Nature of Apple's Design Process · · Score: 2

    If you move the bar far enough, then everything passes. Who's to say that the 'certain internal milestones' that 99% of products which reach, pass isn't 'Foxconn has assembled the first device'?

  13. Re:CO2? on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 1

    great, but when you burn it does it still spew CO2 into the atmosphere?

    when are we going wake up and start using cars powered by hydrogen separated from water in LFTRs?

    The thing that's great about biofuels is that you're essentially cutting down a plant, burning it to produce CO2. Then you have to replace the plant and that consumes the same amount of CO2 as you created. The problem is just the other atoms* are sustainable like Nitrogen and Hydrogen which come from the soil and water.

    *Oversimplification for aesthetic reasons.

  14. Re:Let the fuel wars begin on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 2

    Correction: A lot of big oil companies are interested in patenting alternate energy sources these days, because patents can stifle innovation...

    Kodak: Invents the digital camera, then sits on it for fear that it would destroy their film industry.
    GE: Invents the fluorescent light bulb and markets it to businesses while selling their incandescents to homes.

    According to a pie chart on Wikipedia; in 2009, petroleum accounted for only 1% of us power generation in the US. 'Other renewables', which is going to be made up of wind, solar, and geothermal accounted for 3.6%. Oil companies fund research into renewables because they never made it into that massive market.

  15. Re:Origionial Movie Idea on Warner Bros Secures Commercial Control of Superman · · Score: 2

    Copyright protects individual works. The character may fall out of copyright, but the films and cartoons and the like will remain in copyright until they expire... if they are ever alloweed to. You predictions of chaos and lack of marketability are exagerated.

    This is Hollywood, we like our facts like we like our celebrities, plastic.

  16. Origionial Movie Idea on Warner Bros Secures Commercial Control of Superman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Authors death + 70 years.

    Superman was invented 75 years ago in 1938, in 2013 a god awful movie comes out which must be stopped at all costs. Due to the Grandfather Paradox, we can not stop the creation of Superman; but if Superman falls into the Public Domain before the movie is released, Warner Bros will crease production immediately, knowing that they will never make money off of it. This gives our time traveling hero a short window of 5 years to track down and kill Jerome Siegel before it is too late.

    This idea is not protected in any way, if somebody wants to make it into a movie, please do!

  17. Re:Only a spiral on Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy Discovered · · Score: 1

    To be fair, IC 1101 is disturbed due to all of the collisions by those little galaxies the size of the Milky Way colliding into it.

  18. Re:Viability of ocean mining? on US Gives $120M For Lab To Tackle Rare Earth Shortages · · Score: 2

    Surely it has to be more feasible than capturing an asteroid to mine though?

    E.g.:
    http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/21/229248/billionaires-and-polymaths-expected-to-unveil-a-plan-to-mine-asteroids
    http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/1656237/chinese-want-to-capture-an-asteroid

    Yes, but nobody is actually seriously considering that option either. Hiring an pundit to think of ideas and write about them doesn't cost much. Actual implementation would require you to cube their salary raising the cost from a few thousand to a few billion.

  19. Re:Problem-solving... on Better Tools For Programming Literacy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering that a basic devkit like Eclipse (sufficient to write a lot of Java code) can be set up by downloading, unzipping and double clicking on the file with the colorful picture, I can only concur.

    You are missing a few steps, like installing the JDK and possibly installing the JRE, figuring out what the heck this workspace thing is. The Hello, World example you copied from the Internet also doesn't work because the package doesn't match. Congratulations, Hello, World compiles in Eclipse, but you want to see it as a standalone program. You click on your .java or .class file, 'Windows can't open this file'. After googling the problem, you find out that you need to run it from the command prompt by typing "java hello.class" so you become comfortable with cd.. until you get to your workspace and find the 'bin' folder. You try it, 'java can not be found or recognized'. Now you have to add the jdk to the path.

  20. As a current UC student... on UC's For-Pay Online Course Draws 4 Non-UC Students · · Score: 2

    I had no idea this existed.

    The current course listing is as follows:
    American Cybercultures: Principles of Internet Citizenship
    Intro to Probability and Statistics for Business
    General Psychology
    Beauty and Joy of Computing

    I guess it's not much of a loss, the only course I could have taken for credit was Psychology. A helpful suggestion would be for you guys to put the University wide requirements on here. The American History and Institution's requirement is generally unfulfilled by international students for instance.

  21. Re:Slow News Day on Rusty Foster Isn't Dead · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Posted by timothy on Saturday January 05, @12:24AM"

    posted a whole 24 min after the day started, tell me ... are you a natural fucktard, or a trained dipshit?

    I don't think you have a comprehensive knowledge of either time zones or phrases in the English Language.

    First point, in some places of the world, like Sydney, it's after 5PM, the workday is over. This is due to the Earth being round, a discovery made a few years ago and a bias by the majority of the population to being active when it's bright outside. Second point, the phrase, 'slow news day', is a figure of speech refering to publisher quotas and a demand to publish crud over nothing at all.

  22. Re:Neither did Google on Adobe and Apple Didn't Unit Test For "Forward Date" Bugs. Do You? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone come up with a good way to test user interfaces yet other than to have someone sit slack-jawed and wiggle everything they see on the screen for hours on end?

    The Java Robot class is built into the standard library and can be used to control mice, keyboards, and features screenshot capability. If you can come up with a way to convert menu selections in your application into a function call like selectMonth(2013,'March'), then you compose all of the related screenshots generated together. Now your slack-jawed guy just needs to play a game of spot the differences.

    I am sure better options exist.

  23. And heres to many more cameos! on Stan Lee Celebrates 90th Birthday · · Score: 2

    Come on, who doesn't love this guy's filmography?

  24. Re:Take it one step at a time... on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree While Working Full Time? · · Score: 1

    Your assumption is the AS has any actual value in the marketplace. I believe it does not. If you can't commit to completing the 4 yr save your money and time and just get industry certifications.

    An AS degree, or at least the classes taken at a community college still transfer to state schools. This route is a hell of a lot cheaper than going straight to a 4 year university and if you do well in these courses, you can transfer to significantly more competitive universities than otherwise. Community colleges have many night classes, nearly every single CS course the I took was at night there with most students between 20 and 40. If you live in California, the options are even better because the CCC system is a feeder into both the UC's and CSU's which happens to be the route that I took.

  25. Summary, summarized on UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move · · Score: 3, Informative

    The UK is concerned that some of their international students are illegally working. Their reasoning is that school and work are mutually exclusive so if you are in school you are not working and vise versa. This is flawed reasoning.