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  1. Re:Diamond on What Makes Spider Webs Tough As Steel · · Score: 2

    Diamonds are made of carbon and carbon is not metal under usual conditions.

    FTFY

  2. Re:*obliged* to think in words? on Computer Program Reconstructs Heard Words From Brain Scans · · Score: 1

    That's like saying that if I have an algorithm to smash an apple with a hammer, then with a reverse algorithm I will be able to reconstruct the smashed apple back into the original apple. The devil lies in the feasibility of coming up with the reverse algorithm.

  3. Now on Sinclair ZX81 Made Out of Lego · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Next step -- make it compute.

  4. Re:MP3 Players... on Rockbox Developers Talk Open Source Firmware · · Score: 1

    During take-off and landing. Otherwise you're allowed to use electronic devices which are not phones.

  5. Re:MP3 Players... on Rockbox Developers Talk Open Source Firmware · · Score: 1

    Do people still use them? Even the most basic dumbphone these days supports music playback..

    What if you want to listen to your music on a plane? Not every phone can be turned on on a plane.

  6. Re:Low attendance... on Thousands Take To the Streets To Protest ACTA · · Score: 1

    I see remarkably little in mainstream media about any of this

    I see you do not live in Poland or France.

  7. Re:They always have the option (devil's advocacy) on Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Controls · · Score: 2

    Plenty of pirates only pirate because they have no legal option to acquire the content.

    They always have the option to move to a country where the works are published lawfully.

    I knew I should've answered "because I want to watch Lost" during that US visa interview. Damn it.

  8. U2 on Aging U-2 Will Fight On Into the Next Decade · · Score: 2

    Aging U-2 Will Fight On Into the Next Decade

    ... in mysterious ways.

  9. Re:Market pull [Re:academia is highly competitive] on Scientists Organize Elsevier Boycott · · Score: 1

    That's a good point.

  10. Re:Fresh water? on Graphene Membranes Superpermeable to Water · · Score: 1

    Every water molecule on the planet is at least 4.5 billion years old.

    Are you sure?

    I disinctly remember lighting up a test-tube full of hydrogen during chemistry in seventh grade. The water that this brief explosion produced could be seen on the walls of the test-tube. This happened some 20 years ago, not 4.5E9.

  11. Re:Market pull [Re:academia is highly competitive] on Scientists Organize Elsevier Boycott · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An intelligent scientist, however, publishes a copy of his/her paper on arxiv.org so that those who cannot get over the paywall can read the arxiv version while still citing the original. Win-win.

  12. Re:Hrrm on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 1

    It runs fine in bash...

  13. Re:Magnetic field + conductor = Electricity? on 'Electric Earth' Could Explain Planet's Rotation · · Score: 1

    and will never flow from a point of lower voltage to higher

    Electrons have a negative charge. They move from negative to positive.

    Ions, including those positive, can conduct electricity too.

  14. Re:education is only useful for jobs on Study Analyzes Recent Grads' Unemployment By Major · · Score: 3, Informative

    Learning is only free in that you might not have to pay for it, but there are opportunity costs -- the value of what you could've done, but did not do because you were learning.

  15. Re:Links to Aspartame on Multiple Sclerosis Damage Washed Away By Stream of Young Blood · · Score: 0

    People have been getting MS long before Aspartame was even invented.

    People were dying of lung cancer before cigarettes were even invented.

    While I agree with you that there is no link between MS and aspartame, I think your argument was poorly thought out.

  16. Re:Finally! on Multiple Sclerosis Damage Washed Away By Stream of Young Blood · · Score: 0

    I'll be outside hiding in a bush with a video game tied to the end of a string. "Come on kids, take the bait..."

    What you'll get is a herd of Slashdot nerds - is their blood really what you want?

    Dunno, but virgin blood is said to be the best.

  17. Re:Slashdot conversation hijacking on 2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C · · Score: 0

    To show your appreciation of this "feature," please reply to this post with something completely different.

    There. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqosS6DBwhA

  18. Re:Who still pays for antivirus? on Symantec Sued For Running Fake "Scareware" Scans · · Score: 0

    Microsoft Security Essentials [wikipedia.org] is a free antivirus that is many times better than Symantec's and others.

    I agree that MSE is pretty good, although an option to disable it would be nice (that's right -- one just can't turn it off).

    Windows is also secure now a days

    WHAT???

    , and I haven't had a single malware in like 10 years.

    That you know of.

  19. Re:Sweet on Astronomers Estimate Milky Way May Have 100 Billion Alien Worlds · · Score: 0

    Even if such a planet existed it'd be unlikely to be close enough to be reachable within several lifetimes, much less yours. Sorry to be a party pooper.

    Stasis chamber.

  20. Re:What are the odds... on Vast Web of Dark Matter Mapped · · Score: 0

    based on our *CURRENT* understanding how the universe works

    On what else could it or any other theory be based?

    Belief, probably.

  21. Re:Ants with giant freaking heads on Ants Turned Into 'Supersoldiers' · · Score: 0

    They can't bread, but it's already happened w the bees, so :)

    Bees make bread now?

    He explicitly said they can't.

  22. Re:Writing Viruses for AV on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    FreeDOS is surely #1 on the list to require AV, I'd say it's safer than mac in regards to security through obscurity. .

    Your PC is now stoned.

  23. Re:Awesome, but.. on Instead of a Wheel Chair, How About an Exoskeleton? · · Score: 0

    But that's not what you said earlier. You said "for a given software".

  24. Re:Awesome, but.. on Instead of a Wheel Chair, How About an Exoskeleton? · · Score: 0

    Not really. Parallel computing is not deterministic.

  25. Re:Uhhhh on The Semantic Line Interface · · Score: 0

    want != can