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  1. Re:Changes nothing on Kickstarter Lays Down New Rules For When a Project Fails · · Score: 1

    Yeah, board games was the domain I thought of - though I was thinking of something more like Ogre.

  2. Re:Changes nothing on Kickstarter Lays Down New Rules For When a Project Fails · · Score: 1

    How is that wierd?

    People throw money at things like "ALS research" with literally zero chance of financial reward.

    And I'm sure someone somewhere has managed to ebay something they got on kickstarter for more than they paid for it. So though amazingly small there's probably a non-zero chance of financial reward.

  3. Re:Risk aversion on Kickstarter Lays Down New Rules For When a Project Fails · · Score: 1

    But then someone has to judge on whether phase X has been completed or not.

    Venture capitalists have legal contracts and the all important lawyers for when the two sides disagree on whether the requirements for a phase have been met. Kickstarter is not going to spend that sort of money and effort on each and every project.

  4. Re:Pay These Geniuses What They're Worth! on Mark Zuckerberg Throws Pal Joe Green Under the Tech Immigration Bus · · Score: 1

    "People just starting out" and "skilled" tend to be opposites which was the point you are so vehemently disagreeing with.

  5. Re:Federal Overreach on Dealership Commentator: Tesla's Going To Win In Every State · · Score: 1

    Maybe try reading the words?

  6. Re:There is no "almost impossible" on Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died · · Score: 1

    That $5 wrench doesn't do anything in making entity A decrypt something that only entity B knows the key for.

  7. Re:I LOVE READING PROPAGANDA on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 2

    In 1953 the percentage of GDP from manufacturing was 28%. In 2012 it was at 12%. I'd call that a drop.

    Then you're an idiot. Since 28% of 2.54 trillion is significantly smaller than 12% of 15.43 trillion. So the opposite of a drop.

    And no "The manufacturing capacity of the US has never dropped decade-over-decade" could never be referring to as a percentage of GDP, capacity is the raw amount and some other amount increasing doesn't matter in the slightest.

  8. Re:as good as a pair of pliers to drive in a nail on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    Sure but that CL415 only dumps 1600 gallons at a time, meaning it as to do 7 or 8 of those "fly to a body of water, scoop, fly back to the fire" reloads for every one the drop te DC-10 does.

    There's most likely situations in which the DC-10 is better, and other situations in which the CL415 is better.

  9. Re:Bwahahahah! on NSW Police Named as FinFisher Spyware Users · · Score: 2

    You left out western australia. I mean it's only a third of the damn continent :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  10. Re:Not surprised on NSW Police Named as FinFisher Spyware Users · · Score: 1

    Right. I guess if your white and middle class (or better).

    Otherwise the trifecta was your most likely result of interacting with the police.

  11. Re:It's getting hotter still! on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 2

    Which university did Al Gore get his climatology degree from again?

    Oh, you mean he's just a spokesperson? Like Bill Cosby was for JELL-O? Why would you give a shit what he said?

    Of course if you have the reference for the prediction he was just repeating that might be from a slightly more believable source than Mr "I have a nobel peace prize, and an Oscar!". Though chances are pretty good that actual source says something like "X% chance" making it less of a slam dunk.

    Also north != south, but that doesn't invalidate the claim, you could be going off topic on purpose.

  12. Re:Obviously, and that's a good thing. on Kickstarter's Problem: You Have To Make the Game Before You Ask For Money · · Score: 1

    Amazing, when you are competing with thousands of other projects for people's money you actually have to let people know you exist before you'll get any of that money.

    Who would have thunk it!

  13. Re:Why is this legal in the U.S.? on Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla · · Score: 1

    Right, so in your country they just makes the "some conditions" work exactly the same way (it's probably how they do it in Nevada too for that matter).

    Just like when you are required to advertize a job position but already know who you want to employ - and so the job advertisement becomes amazingly specific on a bizarre mix of required experience.

  14. Obviously, and that's a good thing. on Kickstarter's Problem: You Have To Make the Game Before You Ask For Money · · Score: 1

    Why should people hand over money because you have a "great idea". A track record or a prototype seems a perfectly reasonable thing to ask for - and of course the person paying they money is the one who determines what qualifies as "track record".

  15. Re:Some bribery is required to operate in some pla on Hewlett-Packard Pleads Guilty To Bribing Officials in Russia, Poland, and Mexico · · Score: 1

    Which is why those payments have an explicit exemption in FCPA - making it completely different from a cash business owner committing tax evasion.

  16. Re:Lacking data on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    If you wave a magic wand and make buses emit 0 CO2, then congrats you've reduced just the travel related emissions of CO2 by 1%. Woohoo!

  17. Re:Bikes lanes are nice on Surprising Result of NYC Bike Lanes: Faster Traffic for Cars · · Score: 1

    Feel free to make up explanations off the top of your head, but maybe the slightest bit of NYC knowledge would help.

    The three stretches of road that the study looked at traffic speeds for are all one-way, so nothing you said applies at all. Not one word of it.

  18. Re:Predictable on In France, a Second Patient Receives Permanent Artificial Heart · · Score: 1

    Making a heart that will keep the patient alive for years is not easy but it is likely easier than making "we'll control our hearts with our smart phones" secure. The "wifi" is only one tiny part of the huge completely out of the control of the heart maker chain of security there.

  19. Re:From the article.... on Microsoft Takes Down Slideshow-Building Tool After Getty Images Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Because they just show them too you with links to the source pages, rather than taking those images and creating a slide show out of them for you to put on a web page somewhere.

  20. Re:Don't really care on Responding to Celeb Photo Leaks, Reddit Scotches "Fappening" Subreddit · · Score: 2

    Because people lie?

  21. Re:question colon on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Well I stand corrected on the "no one except you" bit. Apparently more than one anonymous coward also doesn't know that tri means three. Or maybe that graph mean character. Or maybe that ?: is only two characters...

  22. Re:question colon on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 2

    ?: is not a trigraph, which should be obvious since it doesn't have three characters in it.

  23. Re:question colon on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Probably why no one except you seems to think anyone claimed it was.

  24. Re:The biggest risk to the pyramids is Islam on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1

    And this human efforts at restoring them are "natural phenomenon". What was your point again?

  25. I would have thought that cell membranes on Researchers Harness E. Coli To Produce Propane · · Score: 1

    would be a reasonably critical part of the e-coli staying alive...