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  1. It's almost like on Windows 8 Will Run On All Current PC Hardware · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's almost like an operating system doesn't need to amp up its requirements with every new release. Once it gets to a certain point, really, there's no need for an increase in necessary resources. Sure, you can make it scale well and perform better, but it really shouldn't be hard to keep the minimum fairly low.

  2. Where is this website? on Does Creative Commons Work With Pseudonymity? · · Score: 1

    I'd really like to know about this website. I'm a Latin major and I study Ancient Greek. I'd love to contribute to this.

  3. Re:Facebook? Has he sold out or what? on Geohot Joins Facebook As Product Developer · · Score: 1

    If you think hardware-level or deep OS-level knowledge isn't important to coding effectively, you need to read a little. Especially on mobile platforms, the trick is getting every ounce of power out of the CPU. And no one said he went into UI development. If anything, the team that handles that does so across all platforms so that the aesthetic is the same throughout Facebook products. Lastly, the security he broke wasn't anything that most consumer-level electronics bother with. The PS3 was so heavily locked down because people typically modify computers at their leisure, but it was a game console, and it's "bad" to mod a game console.

  4. Cowards on LulzSec Announces That It Is Done · · Score: 0, Troll

    What, life get too hard? Clearly someone got close to kicking them out of the game, and they ran before that would happen.

  5. Re:Obstruction? on Man Updates His Facebook Status During Hostage Stand-Off · · Score: 2

    You haven't played the latest Call of Duty? Tells you just how to do it.

  6. Re:Ray Kurzweil's predictions on Kurzweil: Human-Level Machine Translation By 2029 · · Score: 2

    Aren't we already supposed to have a working computer model of the human brain?

  7. Re:Wow on Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters · · Score: 1

    It's okay, we all make mistakes. It's good that you didn't try to justify it. You've gotten through the first step, and there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

  8. Re:Global Warming is Over! on Big Drop In Solar Activity Could Cool Earth · · Score: 0

    Because "the few who are" are trying to tell everyone else how to run their businesses, live their lives, and buy products.

  9. Re:Well damn... on Terry Pratchett Considers Assisted Suicide · · Score: 1

    Stem cell research has picked back up since they found efficient ways to get it from bone marrow. That is, the issue was separated from abortion, so now no one cares.

  10. Re:I call BS on EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec · · Score: 1

    No, I'm mad the same way I'd be mad if some caveman came and hit my shiny new fire with a club until it died out. DDoS is a brute force tool used to gain attention and tick people off.

  11. Re:I call BS on EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, I feel angry because my internet spaceships are gone.

  12. Re:I call BS on EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec · · Score: 2

    Agreed. They're children with toys. I may feel angry now, but I know the appropriate response is pity. I'd love to offer these guys an ear to hear out their problems, that's probably what they need most.

  13. Re:Can't they tie them down? on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 1

    Actual GPS is not cheap. Cell tower "GPS" is cheap. There are no cell towers in the ocean, as far as I know.

  14. Re:FRICKING LASER BEAMS. on Biological Lasers · · Score: 1

    The magnitude is usually off, but it usually pushes back on Cyclops to some degree. At least there's that.

  15. Stupid Question on English City Council "Not Ready" for Zombie Attack · · Score: 0

    About FOIA... I thought it was American legislation, but this is definitely a UK city. Is it called the same thing across the pond?

  16. Re:Plain old pdf on Stallman: eBooks Are Attacking Our Freedoms · · Score: 1

    The truth is probably in the middle, where few people like to look. Some customers are lost to piracy, more than the pirates are willing to admit, but not all downloads are lost customers, more than the publishers are willing to admit. Meanwhile, the lawyers are winning.

  17. Re:If that's not playing God, on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 2

    We need units with better names than "dekaseconds" though. Perhaps we could use seconds, lilbits, justaminutes, awhiles, and latres?

  18. Re:If that's not playing God on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 0

    Gotta love the usual religion bash. Let other people be, maybe? Maybe some of us are quite intelligent, is that at all possible?

  19. Re:If that's not playing God, on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 1

    The whole point of this story is that they're getting better at dealing with antimatter. Eventually, the antimatter bomb will be the next nuclear bomb.

  20. Re:Data is safe because... on Hackers Attack Nintendo, But Company Claims Data Safe · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why attack Sony? Everything Sony did to tick off these "hackers" was the same thing any self-preserving company would have done. Are they mad that GeoHot settled out of court? Boo-freaking-hoo.

  21. Re:Rights? on NSA Trial Evidence 'Riddled With Boxes and Arrows' · · Score: 2

    Your information seems helpful, if a little opinionated in places. I do agree with you, however, that this seems to be misuse of otherwise normal laws for a less than ethical purpose. I don't think the silent witness rule is inherently bad. If, for example, the security issue were a country with an attack plan that an NSA member decoded and helped to stop, instead of, say, Afghanistan, the silent witness rule could replace Afghanistan with Madeupaland. I guess the issue comes when, instead, the information comes out as "Smurf smurfed those smurfs who smurf smurfy smurfed smurfs."

  22. Re:Are any of these actually useful? on National Academies Release Over 4,000 Free Science Books · · Score: 1

    I think the point here is that most of these books don't matter to the general public, even slashdot visitors. While one or two of us may like each of these books, honestly, with that selection, there's no point posting that here.

  23. Re:five years for 10 viewings? on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    Right, incarceration is only cruel, not unusual. But if they sentenced you to be a shepherd (in nice conditions, though that's rare) for a year, well, that'd be unusual, but not cruel.

  24. Re:Dietel & Dietel on Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Abreu was being overly cruel, yes, but you should look at the survey statistics for the number of parents who pull their kids out of school for "religious reasons" or (self-described) "radical unschooling." The benefit homeschoolers get compared to the rest of children in some sort of education system is that their parents are involved in their schooling.

  25. Re:Different plants are DIFFERENT on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 0

    Wow, it's like you could have been informative and nice, but had a stick up your butt today so you went off on someone for not being a biologist. Grats to you!