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  1. Not just development on Ask Slashdot: Has Your Team Ever Succumbed To Hype Driven Development? (daftcode.pl) · · Score: 2

    It happens all the time. Everywhere. As soon as a trend arises on the horizon many companies jump on it to get their share of the cake. And it's even not unprofitable.

  2. Re:Dear Teens on New 'Doom 3' Mod Successfully Ports It Into Virtual Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    :

    The initials composing the weapon's name stand for "Big Fucking Gun", and in Irish, it is often called the "Big Fecking Gun"; it officially stands for "Bio Force Gun" in the 2005 movie. Alternatively, it also stands for "Big Friggin' Gun".

  3. Re:Doom 3 continues to be overrated one decade lat on New 'Doom 3' Mod Successfully Ports It Into Virtual Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Played it when it was released around 2005. One of the scariest game ever. And, at the time, one of the most realistic. Must agree however that, despite the many robots, devices and other originalities, the story/objectives were limited to shoot and kill. Nothing elaborated enough, story wise, to keep the fun high.

  4. Just wanted to say on Scientists Believe There's Finally A Cure For The Common Cold (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I... a... a... achooo!

  5. Re:Workaround: on Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Or use a new iPhone, it doesn't have a headphones plug

  6. A headphone... on Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    is a microphone. Both headphones and microphone share the same mechanism (using a voice coil). The microphone is more sensitive (as it generates small alternative current when the sound makes the diaphragm vibrate) ; and headphones do the opposite, its diaphragm vibrates when the device injects positive or negative current. Even a bigger speaker is sensitive enough to act as a microphone.

  7. What about religion?

  8. Homeopathy may work on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    if you believe in it.

  9. Touch Disease Symptoms on Apple Launches 'Touch Disease' Repair Program For iPhone 6 Plus (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Touch Disease presents as a gray flickering bar at the top of the screen and a display that becomes unresponsive or less responsive to touch

    Does it mean only some 6+ are/will be affected, or, eventually, that all 6+ are to be affected some time in the future?

  10. 149? on Apple Launches 'Touch Disease' Repair Program For iPhone 6 Plus (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First, starting to be sick about these always ending by 9 numbers? 99.99, 149... Come on Apple, you're expensive enough no to have to be cheap and use that cheap marketing strategy ; do a straight 150 or a 145. Then, reading the summary quickly, I was really expecting the prior-normal cost to be $149, and due to complaints, the repair cost would be either free or way cheaper than that! $149 for a design flaw? Sounds like a (bad) joke.

  11. Re:Joke's on you on A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Next Apple will remove wifi access and you'll have the safest computer on Earth!

  12. been done already
    (don't whooosh me or you'll be whoooshed in return!)

  13. Re:Not the worst that can happen on A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Memory is not encrypted, applications that use memory may encrypt the data they put in it.

  14. Indeed. Boot the pc on a USB Linux, mount the computer disk, enjoy.

  15. Makes sense on Microsoft Announces Visual Studio For Mac (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple getting closer and closer to Microsoft practices, MS feels comfortable developing for the Mac.

  16. Re:"no cause of death was provided" on 'Radioactive Boy Scout' Reportedly Passes Away At Age 39 (harpers.org) · · Score: 1

    That's my point. Since no cause of death is provided, why should we automatically assume he died from the effects of radiation exposure?

  17. "no cause of death was provided" on 'Radioactive Boy Scout' Reportedly Passes Away At Age 39 (harpers.org) · · Score: 1

    So he died from what? Traffic accident?

  18. Stephen Wolfram came up with an answer overnight on How Stephen Wolfram Devised Interstellar Travel (And Code Samples) For 'Arrival' (backchannel.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Easy. He just asked Worlfram Alpha.

  19. Re:Do the math on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh and we are talking about population. China = 2 US (CO2) but China = 4 US (population).

  20. Re:Do the math on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Do the math on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    China = 18.6 % of world population
    US = 4.4 % of world population

  22. Of course casting agencies have knowledge of actors details, especially the famous ones. Actors only want to hide their age from the public.

  23. Re:It must be on November 14th Supermoon Will Be Biggest In 68 Years (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the global warming effect is when the Earth looks just like the Moon.

  24. Re:I'm terrified on November 14th Supermoon Will Be Biggest In 68 Years (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    terrified

    Information that may or may not be relevant: within 1 week of one of the biggest recent earthquakes the Moon was a "super" (March 11, 2011)

  25. The difference is visible to the naked eye, even with just a "regular" supermoon.