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  1. Re:Better Alternative on Gift Idea: Custom Photomosaics With AndreaMosaic and PhotoGrabber · · Score: 1

    By "seems like a blatant ad" --

    See step 9, where they recommend a donation.

  2. Re:Why on Gift Idea: Custom Photomosaics With AndreaMosaic and PhotoGrabber · · Score: 2

    This can't be right.

    Neither appears to accept Bitcoin donations.

  3. Re:What would you expect? on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 1

    If your goal is to furnish reactors to places that would like to build nuclear weapons (but you'd rather they didn't build nuclear weapons), a reactor that doesn't readily produce weapons-grade material is a good thing.

  4. Re:i say: put your money where your mouth is. on Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo Form Alliance Against NSA · · Score: 1

    More people watch TV than read the New York Times.

    Not necessarily news programming, but if it got a 60 second spot during Dancing with the Stars, people might notice.

  5. Re:What would you expect? on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 1

    it couldn't produce fissile material for nuclear weapons.

    That sounds more like a feature than a bug.

  6. Re:Why is this cr@p on the front page? on Add USB LED Notifications To Your PC With Just a Bit of Soldering (Video) · · Score: 1

    Ooops... not PTH, but THT.

  7. Re:Why is this cr@p on the front page? on Add USB LED Notifications To Your PC With Just a Bit of Soldering (Video) · · Score: 1

    This is a computer controlled, USB RGB LED (triplet of TLAs!).

    Not only that, the PCB seems to be almost entirely PTH instead of SMT - perfect for the DIY market!

  8. Re:hmmm on First Images of a Heart Injected With Liquid Metal · · Score: 2

    You get plenty, so long as the rifle is at least 104% efficient.

  9. Re:Could Be Worse on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    Or collect ransom, based on the threat of making an area uninhabitable.

  10. Re:Good to see Justice Prevails on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    I'm going to open this up and immediately rub its contents, whatever they are, directly on my genitals just to show the world THEY CAN'T EVAR CONTROL ME!"

    That sounds slightly more like 4chan than Slashdot to me.

    Of course, they'd also say "Just received this box of death in the mail, WAT DO?" and possibly a "post ending in 03 decides".

    I expect that the /. crowd would be more apt to test their Geiger counters, and possibly put on a bunny suit first.

  11. Re:Before we get a OMG about this on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1
  12. The minor differences:

    • Private property vs public property
    • The property owner called the police
  13. Re:Other than just between walls on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? · · Score: 1

    Just make sure that you are using non-plenum cabling.

    You can ALWAYS use plenum rated cabling; you can't always use non-plenum. Plenum is less toxic when it catches fire.

  14. Re:Makes perfect sense.... on Is GWU Econ Prof. Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto? · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget: Zik's Bacon

  15. Re:Why is this so difficult? on Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Around here:

    What if I already paid tax in another state?

    Wisconsin allows a credit, for sales tax properly paid in another state, against use tax due. If you properly paid sales tax in another state, the sales tax paid may be used to offset the Wisconsin use tax due. See Wisconsin Tax Bulletin #157, page 28 for further information. Foreign taxes and customs duty charges are not eligible for this credit.

    I have to believe that there is similar language in 49 other places.

  16. Re:The death of tape on How the LHC Is Reviving Magnetic Tape · · Score: 1

    So you're saying I need a backup plan for my backup plan?!

    That really depends on what your current backup plan is, and under what circumstances a failure of the backup is acceptable.

    At one organization, we had decided that a meteor, EMP, or otherwise "turning the building into a crater" would be a "business ending event", and there would be no purpose for a backup plan that could survive that - the insurance agents got copies of the quarterly financial statements, and were prepared to issue a settlement to the stockholders based on those statements. (No need for off-site copies!)

    Another organization decided that was not acceptable, and wanted a full, spinning, off-site backup file-server. (A crater-inducing event would have still ended their business, but they wanted to spend other people's money for theoretical peace of mind.)

  17. Re:Holy Crap! on R2-D2: Mall Cop · · Score: 2

    You're not factoring in the optional extended warranty.

  18. Re:So, build your own on The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes · · Score: 1

    So long as you're digging, make a few chambers at the bottom.

    You might want one for, uhh, disposal, one for storage, and maybe a survival shelter, in addition to the anechoic chamber.

    They don't all need to be furnished at once, but I imagine it will be less expensive to have the deep hole excavated once, rather than bringing back the heavy equipment when you want to expand the underground lair.

  19. Re:I D A 4 U on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 1

    If you're 75, base 36 starts to look darn good.

  20. Re:I D A 4 U on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 1

    I was going to suggest octal - nobody reads that anymore, either - but realized that's easier to misinterpret as decimal, probably not helping the cause.

  21. Replicators on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    If the natural food supply is in danger, it's time to build food replicators.

  22. Re:thank god slashcode is ancient... on Cute Cat Photos Are Data-Driven Science Behind Cunning New Language Learning App · · Score: 2

    I, for one, am glad that we are not on dotchan.

  23. Re:Why would the US allow this? on US Wary of Allowing Russian Electronic Monitoring Stations Inside US · · Score: 1

    when your autonomous vehicle parks in your neighbor's garage instead of yours

    Why do so many people here talk about the accuracy of bombs?

    There are monitoring and control stations scattered around the continental United States, which is where I'm likely to be dealing with cars and garages. I'm reasonably confident that around here, the accuracy is quite good.

    Why talk about bombs? Many don't have a pilot on board to make course corrections. I expect that an autonomous car will have a manual override, and if you're too busy fumbling around with the linebacker's girlfriend to make a course correction when the car is parking itself in his driveway, well... that'll learn ya.

  24. Re:Futility of certain laws on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1