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  1. Many people do it already... on Most People Would Give Lab-Grown Meat a Try, New Survey Reveals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    eating at Mac Donald's

  2. Also, people are generally used to images of the outer planets and their moons being poor quality

    No. I remember the Voyagers pictures quite well, taken 40 years ago...

  3. Re:PI is 3 point something on Ancient Technique Can Dramatically Improve Memory, Research Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If I want more decimal places, I can google it.

    Going this way, in a not so far future you may not even remember the name "google", and you can't even google it..

  4. Less a matter of memory than a very strong analytical capability.

  5. Yes, and this is because you do, on Google behalf, some picture recognition as well, in order either to confirm some other person recognition "work", or to be the initiator. The percentage distribution between "recognition work" and "actual recaptcha" is not clear, but the more you have to recognize, the more you work for Google at no charge.

  6. Should You Use Password Managers? on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 1

    No. (Ian may now sleep in peace)

  7. Is that supposed to be obvious?

  8. Virtualization on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Make a Linux partition via VirtualBox (...), put the encrypted data there through ssh / rsync, encrypt it and keep it encrypted when on disk.

  9. Re:No real information on NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield To Protect Mars' Atmosphere (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    This is why that won't happen any time soon. If we intend to discuss here all potential NASA projects, slashdot must be dedicated to that, along with 10 other websites.

  10. "some photos are ill-colored" on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's a well known problem to photographers, photos colors are affected over time. Keep the photo negatives in a safe place!

  11. ext4 on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    ext4 is journaled and prevents loss in case of some file-corruption-prone events (like a sudden shutdown).

  12. What would happen?? on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? · · Score: 1

    We'd have all the Windows crapware running on Mac and Linux :-(

  13. Really? on The US Waged A Secret Cyber War Against North Korean Missiles (tampabay.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If the US really took control of the NK missiles the best options would have been to let the weapons have a roughly normal path during the tests (so that NK doesn't suspect anything), and, only if there is a real conflict, redirect them to the sea.

  14. IE/Edge at 27% on Microsoft Browser Usage Drops 50% As Chrome Soars (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That means 27% users are not computer aware enough to install and use another browser.

  15. Someone hacked your wifi router and used your bandwidth to download the movie.

  16. Yes, but what part of it is actually from sweat? Urine ~= sweat

  17. Re:One Billion Hours of YouTube Are Watched Every on One Billion Hours of YouTube Are Watched Every Day (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    What a waste of time

  18. Re:Best Korea Wins! on Life Expectancy Set To Hit 90 In South Korea, Study Predicts (nature.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unfortunately, due to NK's presence, SK life expectancy (on average) may well be below 90 in a not so far future.

  19. Not a surprise on Life Expectancy Set To Hit 90 In South Korea, Study Predicts (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    since SK's Samsung stopped selling the Note 7

  20. Re:Interesting, but... on Scientists Discover a Way To Get Every Last Drop of Ketchup Out of the Bottle (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ...that will never work.

    Depends. That could work if manufacturers are pressured to take more into account the environment.

  21. Re:Interesting, but... on Scientists Discover a Way To Get Every Last Drop of Ketchup Out of the Bottle (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, transfer the ketchup from the regular container to this new slippery surfaced bottle. Wait..

  22. Yes. Now go ahead and guesstimate the percentage of major PHP software packages accidentally using == where the developer should have used ===.

    Whose fault is that?

  23. even the double equals of C is one of the least "beautiful" design decisions ever made.

    It's not because some not so good programmers confuse '=' with '==' that '==' is not "beautiful". On the contrary, I think this is one of the many genius ideas K&R had at the time ('a = b', 'a == b'... think about it!)

  24. Except for objects, where a === b is true only if a and b are the same object

    In Java, a == b is true if a and b references are identical, which is probably what does PHP under the hood.

  25. if ("0E54321" === "0E12345") { echo 'equal'; } else { echo 'not equal'; }

    Too bad your example is useless (like 80% of PHP's doc examples anyway), since if ("0E54321" == "0E12345") (only 2 '=') yields also 'not equal'. A more relevant example is if ("123" === 123) (yields false but '==' yields true).