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  1. Re: Billions and billions: on Who Needs NASA? Exoplanet Detected Using a DSLR · · Score: 1

    no, there is 3 zeros too many.

  2. Re:Hahahahahahha on Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Say Google Data Now Protected From Gov't Spying · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, they were transferring the data over _their own links_. It's not like anybody else should have had access to it. But they have fixed that now.

  3. Re:How do they not take a writedown? on WhatsApp: 2nd Biggest Tech Acquisition of All Time · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that the intersection of Whatsapp users and Facebook users is likely to be large. So the number of new Facebook users may, relatively speaking, be close to zero. But this buy still makes more sense to me that the Snapchat price.

  4. Re: Sure, why not? on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I had 100k to spend on an electric vehicle that could be used for 95-99% of my daily errands, what would I have bought before Tesla?

    Exactly.

  5. Re:Oh look! on US Government Embraces Bitcoin in Hearing on Virtual Currency · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It really depends on the amount of invested (or converted) money. The ups and downs are a symptom of the poor market depth of bitcoin. My real problem with it is that I don't see the market depth becoming deeper any time soon with the deflationary properties of bitcoin.

  6. Others have already taken over on The Silk Road Is Back · · Score: 2

    Other have already taken over. It might not yet be as trusted as Silk Road was, but there are alternate platforms that were just waiting for the big one to go away and took over without a problem. Too much money to be gained in a fairly secure market. Just don't be from the US but from Russia or somewhere where they don't bother going after someone mostly facilitating sales in the US and Europe.

  7. Re:Book of Unwritten Tales on Why Are We Still Talking About LucasArts' Old Adventure Games? · · Score: 1

    Wanted to test the game, and while they seem to realize the importance both of demos and ports, they don't do both. Too bad for them, but after playing The Cave and being somewhat disappointed by the shallow puzzles, of which only a handful was hard due to absolutely random combinations, I am not going to shell out another 20 bucks for this.

  8. Re:Count Me Confused on Increased Carbon Emissions Creating Giant Crabs · · Score: 1

    I don't know the slightest thing about Chesapeake bay, but numbers may be tricky.

    There was a study done on the Baltic sea, which concluded that private fishers caught more than half of the total fish extracted that year, something not previously being taken into account in the projections for quotas.

  9. Re:Didn't they get the memo? on North Korea Declares a State of War · · Score: 5, Informative

    I realize reading TFA is frowned upon, so just for you:

    "The state of neither peace nor war has ended on the Korean Peninsula."

  10. Single player for On-The-Road on EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems · · Score: 2

    I often travel a few hours by train or other measures, where I have lots of free time on my hands. I would have loved buying simcity 5, and very nearly did, but then heard about the always on requirement. Which frankly, just doesn't make sense for this kind of game.
    Also losing my save-state when the internet connection at home goes down: Who designs crap like that?

  11. Re:Too little, too late on EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    Has been this way with battlefield 2 as well. Each "update", which seemed incremental, i.e. names such as update_103_to_104.tar.bz2, was a complete replacement and even overwrote your configs if you didn't save them someplace else. Servers were a pita to run as well, but I guess they solved that with their stupid rental model now.

  12. Re:TWO years?? on CERN's LHC Powers Down For Two Years · · Score: 1

    Well, as they say:

    When a man says he is going to do something, then he will do it. There is no need to remind him every 6 month of it.

  13. Re:Firearms on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 1

    Depending on how many you are, you will be outgunned in most cases. Besides the US there aren't many places where you are allowed to have guns, especially as a foreign national. Also, you will be searched in certain nations, depending on which nations flag you have and where you are coming from.
    So I don't think that guns are a particularly good idea. Many have done it without and most places where piracy is rampant are well known and should be avoided.

  14. Re:universal connector on Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.maclife.com/article/news/microusb_set_european_commission_standard_smartphones
    Brought to you by those commie, over-regulating Europeans.

  15. Re:NSIDC hasn't called the record yet on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low Extent · · Score: 1

    Have a look at the Stern Review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review . He did exactly what you asked and was widely communicated.

  16. Re:I, Caveman on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most serious vegetarians (I consider myself to be one), know full well that only modern methods of science are able to extract needed amounts of protein from plant sources, be it through tofu, seitan, tempeh or else. Humans are not made to be fueled solely by salad and grass.

    Bio-availability of plant protein is lower when it is only from one source, and while most people eat a diverse enough mix, one can get problems with it quite easily. But by mixing, this can be greatly improved (as can be witnessed by the protein shakes for body builders that are purely plant based).

  17. Re:unix permissions? on Android Jelly Bean Much Harder To Hack · · Score: 1

    Very cool, thank you

  18. Re:unix permissions? on Android Jelly Bean Much Harder To Hack · · Score: 2

    What they really need to do is to include fake data. Some apps just crash when being revoked access to certain things, while giving them fake access to an empty phone book e.g. would be a good way to circumvent this.

  19. Re:You mean Greenpeace lied? on Apple Commits To 100% Renewable Energy Sources for NC Data Center · · Score: 1

    While it might not be the case in the US, Greenpeace is highly respected in many parts of the world, so the danger to image is real.

    Also, Greenpeace would never accept money from Apple as it is a corporation.

  20. Re:This is crap. on 'Social Jetlag' May Be Making You Fat · · Score: 2

    Actually, less sleep is responsible for more calories in, as we tend to eat lots of sugary stuff to stay awake when tired.

  21. Verbatim search on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since discovering the verbatim feature for Google, the search works once more. Most of my searches are now done with it enabled.

  22. Re:Oh please on Employers Need Wind Power Technicians · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a question of the size of turbine. The bigger ones have work benches and everything in the _rooms_ at the top of the towers.

  23. Re:Not smart Enough? on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 1

    In "What does China think", Mark Leonard describes your last idea as currently being tried out in China, especially in the city of Zeguo http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/china/
    Also, china is evaluating other types of democracy, such as inner party democracy, election of lowest (and closest to the people) levels, or consultations (all significant decisions are open to everyone) in Chonqying, a city with over 30 million inhabitants, making it larger than most countries in Europe. Of course, in China with all it's issues of civil rights, there is still a huge amount of influence possible, but I think all of these are fascinating developments.

  24. Re:Too early, wrong server on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Beta 1 Released · · Score: 3

    Really, slashdot is _early_?

  25. Re:Lax attitudes toward child pornography on Reddit: No More Suggestive Content Featuring Minors · · Score: 1

    "the 2005 Durex Global sex survey found that people worldwide are having sex for the first time at an average age of 17.3, ranging from 15.6 in Iceland to 19.8 in India."

      My sources say something completely different than your sources. Sorry... Median would be far more interesting anyway.