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  1. British Comedian David Mitchell's take on The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer · · Score: 1
  2. James Burke on Ask Slashdot: Educating Kids About Older Technologies? · · Score: 1

    Connections, ConnectionsÂ, ConnectionsÂ, and The Day the Universe Changed.

  3. Hiveminder on Ask Slashdot: Life Organization With Free Software? · · Score: 1

    Hiveminder.com is a freemium task tracking service with an IMAP interface available.
    It's pretty nifty, and means many criteria, although I no longer use it because I found
    myself spending too much time managing task relationships. That's more a manner
    of how I was using it though, I think...

  4. Journals on Neglect Causes Massive Loss of 'Irreplaceable' Research Data · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this is n opportunity for journals to update their business models?
    Warehouse and convert data, as well as curate contact lists for papers.

  5. Re: Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Water on Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean · · Score: 1

    You might want to recheck your "facts." The prevailing theory is that excess fire surpression has lead to more dramatic wildfires, not a lack of "timbering." Indeed, selective harvesting of mature trees for more board-feet also leaves the forest more vulnerable to fires, since younger trees as are not as able to withstand them.

  6. Nothing "near" about it on How Microwave Transmission Is Linking Financial Centers At Near-Light Speed · · Score: 1, Informative

    Light speed in glass is less than that in air, which is less than that in vacuum. But the light (infrared, microwave, your favorite color) is still travelling at light speed.

  7. Anything with hijinx on Ask Slashdot: Science Books For Middle School Enrichment? · · Score: 1

    Some of my favorites as a kid: The Mad Scientists' Club, The Great Brain,
    Homer Price, Henry Reed, Bruno & Boots.

  8. Re:HHG2TG on Politician Wants Sci-fi To Be Mandatory In School · · Score: 1

    You're speaking of hard sci-fi, my own preference, but there is softer, less tecnologically speculative sci-fi.

  9. Ubunut 10.0.4 worls on The Dark Side of Amazon's New Pilots · · Score: 1

    Amazon is being particularly uncool about this. When I submitted a ticket this weekend I got a message back a day later thanking me for my suggestion that they add support for Android, when the point was thay it had already been supported!

    Fortunately(?) streaming is working on my desktop with FF17 under Lucid Lynx (the previous LTS).

  10. Re:Nothing to see here on The ATF Not Concerned About 3D Printed Guns... Yet · · Score: 1

    Right, I said the ight to bear arms was granted to protect other rights as a matter of last resort.
    That does not make it natural or intrinsic. By the logic that any potential means of self-defense
    must be permitted, regardless of repurcussions and efforts to limit those, one has a right to
    possess an M-28 Davy Crockett. That is of course ridiculous, and I acknowledge thay where one
    draws the line with regards to what weaponry is reasonable to permit is a sticky one, but I
    maintain that does not have a right to any and all forms of them simply by virtue of genus.

    Thank you for the reasoned response though.

  11. Re:Nothing to see here on The ATF Not Concerned About 3D Printed Guns... Yet · · Score: 0

    Natural rights are unabridgable, like life, liberty, pursuit of happiness*.
    Your right to a handheld explosive-powered projectile launcher is not natural.
    It is a right, but it does not come directly from being a human. However it is
    granted to you in the recognition that it may be necessary to exercise it as a
    last resto to defend other rights e.g; home invasion or tyrranical regime.
    However guns are not the end all be all of anything.

    * or liberty, equality, brotherhood; or whichever set of similar principles one cherishes.

  12. Re:Great white hope? on Auto-threading Compiler Could Restore Moore's Law Gains · · Score: 2

    Indeed. silicon is sort of a shiny black color!

    OP probably once read or heard the phrase,
    misunderstood the context and thought it
    would embiggen the post's language.

  13. Re:Chrome for Android does not support this plug-i on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1

    One browser not having a particular plugin is different from
    "Android tablets are not supported by service X."

    You might want to try Dolphin, or Firefox.

  14. Re:Netflix is on more tablets on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1

    What're you talking about? Prime streams in a flash-enabled browser.
    Galaxy Tab 10.1 works well since release; unlike hulu which brilliantly
    focused on supporting older android phones with tiny screens beforee
    ventually releasing a huluplus only app.

  15. Rudy Rucker on Ask Slashdot: Mathematical Fiction? · · Score: 1

    He has a modern version of Flatland, and his other novels vary from sci-fi w/ math, to too much math not enough sci-fi :-P

  16. Re:Who instead of Go Daddy? on GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility · · Score: 2

    HostGator. I've used BlueHost too, but HostGator's been more responsive and techie friendly.

  17. Re:CRC on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 1

    The v1.4 nagware works fine

  18. Re:CRC on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unique Filer http://www.uniquefiler.com/ implements these short-circuits for you.

    It's meant for images but will handle any filetype, and even runs under WINE.

  19. eMachines E527 on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Laptop With a Keypad That Doesn't Suck · · Score: 1

    Or equivalent. It's low cost, and probably an oudated model, but the design has been plenty solid over the last 18 months.

  20. Re:Shame they don't have cabin video on Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue · · Score: 1

    They want you to watch that every time, even if you're a frequent flyer? I could only bear to watch it half-way through.

  21. Re:hope it was worth the megan's law list on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 1

    http://download.lardlad.com/sounds/season12/error12.mp3 Simpsons reference (not cromulence)

  22. Samba! on The Fixes That Google Chrome OS Still Needs To Make · · Score: 1

    How else can you reasonably get the many arbitrary documents into Google Docs if you cannot upload them yourself as needed?

    http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=2343

  23. Re:A better name on Canadian Mint To Create Digital Currency · · Score: 2

    It seems to be a distortion of the actual distortion the word undergoes in many Canadian mouths, which is akin to "aboat" but not quit such a long-o.

  24. Re:There's no such thing as a "British" accent. on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Need some kind of disincentive in the water. on Militarizing Your Backyard With Python and AI · · Score: 3, Informative

    To expand upon this, capsaicin is apparently the peppers defense against mammals
    eating the fruit, since they do not spread the seed as optimally for the plant. Birds do
    not sense it, so you could even douse the seed in it as a simpler solution.