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  1. Re:Moral question on Bredolab Botnet Taken Down · · Score: 1
  2. Re:This is simply misguided -- don't we know bette on The Future of the Most Important Human Brain · · Score: 1

    All my life I would have given a leg and an arm to learn to play any musical instrument

    MONKEY PAW!!!

  3. Re:Wouldn't mining the moon be a bad idea? on NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just like when you stand on the moon and look down at the earth you see the landscape we ruined?

  4. Re:ICANN: Tower of Babel for the modern day? on ICANN Approves .IRAN (in Non-Latin) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I mean, I don't want to be pompous and promote my own language, but it seems obvious if you look around and see what people are speaking everywhere. The world would be better off if everyone just learned French.

  5. Social Problem on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're doing it wrong. If there's anything I've learned in dealing with people, it is never try to create a technical solution to a social problem. If someone wants to make a copy of some secret document, they will quickly learn that the copiers have this software installed and will use a different machine. You need to figure out why they would want to make copies of something you don't want them to, and solve that problem. I could see this being marginally useful for preventing accidental release of information, however the article seems to state that they are trying to stop deliberate users.

    A determined user who has guessed the prohibited keyword could get around it by simply substituting numbers or other characters for letters, such as z00 instead of zoo, representatives for Canon conceded.

  6. Re:Websites are responsible too on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2

  7. Oblig on High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd · · Score: 1

    525

  8. Re:aww... on Of 1.2 Billion Twitter Posts, 71% Are Ignored · · Score: 1

    So then, anywhere from 0 to 71% of tweets are ignored?

  9. Re:The space race is not one you can win... on Watch the 1st American Newsreel of Sputnik Launch · · Score: 1

    First one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope

    Then one of these (RIP): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmap

    Putting satellites in orbit has brought forth some of the best data to help us understand the universe we live in.

  10. Re:As long as we Americans keep buying made in Chi on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 1

    Scientific Accuracy? Pi is 3 in the Bible.

    There are only two places where pi is 3. Religion and Engineering.

  11. Re:what's /b/? on eLEGS Exoskeleton Allows Paraplegics To Walk · · Score: 1

    what's /b/? (gibberish for the comment body)

    Yes.

  12. Re:Sophisticated credit card fraud on New Class of Malware Will Steal Behavior Patterns · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I recently ordered a netbook for my brother off an online website. The next day I got a call from my credit card company asking me if it was actually me making the purchase. I said yes it was, and THANK YOU for calling me. I feel the same way when I go to use my credit card and they ask for ID. Sure it inconveniences me, but I'd rather have false positives that only require me to say OK when I do something unusual, then someone making fraudulent purchases with my card. I know in the end my credit card company will be footing the bill, not me, but it still is a large waste of time.

    I can see how a local pizza hut being flagged as unusual would be an issue, but that is a flaw in the implementation, not the algorithm.

  13. Re:right to not incriminate yourself? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    It might be given in evidence.

  14. Re:Buy organic on Animal Farms Are Pumping Up Superbugs · · Score: 1

    Actually "organic" has a clear definition, particularly in the realm of the food industry.

    products that say they are "Organic" need to be made with 95% organic ingredients.

    STACK OVERFLOW

  15. Re:Your definition of movie may vary... on Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You should check out http://www.themoviedb.org/

    XBMC can download information directly from their database, which is how I was introduced to it. I believe this is what you are looking for.

  16. Re:not a real tractor beam on Researchers Create Real Tractor Beams · · Score: 1

    You park on a driveway, you drive on a parkway.

    If you send something by truck it's a shipment. If you send it by ship it's cargo.

    English is weird.

  17. Re:Could use the CO2 to generate electricity, too on 'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda · · Score: 1

    Well for one, that's not a huge pressure head to generate electricity on a large scale. When you see dams they are so tall to generate enough pressure to make large scale energy harvesting feasible. It's also possible that by trying to harvest the energy, you'll disrupt the siphon's flow; although I don't have any backup for that claim, it's just a guess.

    Secondly, I'd wager that if they're pulling the methane out of the lake and burning it that you remove most of the source for the dissolved CO2 anyway.

  18. Re:...And one generation behind on HTML5 on Firefox 4 Will Be One Generation Ahead · · Score: 1

    When you are so far from being efficient, there is plenty of room for advancement.

  19. Re:More than feasible on The Limits To Perpendicular Recording · · Score: 1

    So you're saying 2 TB aught to be enough for anybody?

  20. Re:Most machines are horribly overpowered for desk on What To Do With an Old G5 Tower? · · Score: 1

    You do know how much power this thing draws right?

  21. Re:Address people, not houses on Adapting the Post Office To the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    So you tell the PO that you moved, not everyone you know that you moved.

  22. Re:50GB? 100? 200? 20xWhat? on Sony's Blue-Violet Laser the Future Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    100 GB is a dual layer double-sided disk. They cheat on maximum storage sizes by counting double-sided disks.

  23. Re:Dupe on Boeing Shows Off First Commercial Spacecraft · · Score: 1
  24. Dupe on Boeing Shows Off First Commercial Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    This was posted about a month ago: http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/09/26/153251/SpaceX-Announces-Dragon-As-First-Falcon-9-Payload. Not the exact same article, but I recognized the quote.

  25. Re:Who cares on BP Caught Photoshopping Disaster Response Photos · · Score: 1

    You do not represent Public Opinion.