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  1. Re:Should be taken seriously on Terrorist Target Mexican Nanotechnology Professors · · Score: 1

    When I worked in a composites lab, glass fibers itched, but carbon fiber dust caused hives in some.

    Yeah, but did they self-replicate?

  2. Re:Should be taken seriously on Terrorist Target Mexican Nanotechnology Professors · · Score: 1
    While I agree with the gist of your post, I think this

    Note that the virus would probably have to be specifically made for the purposes of killing off all human-kind, because nature has been trying since before humans were humans, without much success.

    is unwarranted. There never was any selection pressure on any organism on Earth that would drive it towards eliminating humankind. Nature has not been trying to eradicate us.

  3. Re:Get ye some 802.11a. on Ask Slashdot: Overcoming Convention Hall Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    You don't say?

  4. Re:Blinded on Video Game-Like Programs Could Treat Schizophrenia · · Score: 1

    Well put.

  5. Re:Discovery....Blah on Video Game-Like Programs Could Treat Schizophrenia · · Score: 1

    I'd watch a good program on logging techniques and good practice myself. Like what you do when the disk is full and you can't log that.

  6. Re:Loop invariants on Escaping Infinite Loops · · Score: 1

    Though it seems a recipe for disaster unless it'd be a worse disaster for your code to freeze up. (Medical equipment, maybe? Yikes.)

    I'd rather never choose between "the irradiator control is stuck in a for(;;) loop" and "let's get out of the irradiator control loop by using a default radiation of 99999.99999".

  7. Re:As Ben Franklin would say... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Data On Android? · · Score: 1

    I don't understand. Do I deserve the bike or the car, or to lose both?

    Both.

  8. useless on Linguists Out Men Impersonating Women On Twitter · · Score: 1

    I can't see how a detector like this would 'out' somebody impersonating a female. If it sees "my wife", it takes it as a very strong hint that the poster is not a female. But wouldn't someone impersonating a female rather say "my boyfriend" or "my period is due" or some other stereotypically feminine things rather than "my nigga" or "my balls itch"?

  9. Re:You know what else is a science project? on GE Bets On Holographic Optical Storage · · Score: 1

    Pronouns are not nouns. Fail.

  10. Re:Cue a gazillion posts... on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    Sure, but DOS let you drop the extension when executing the file. It first looked for a matching .COM, then .EXE, then .BAT.

  11. Re:Cue a gazillion posts... on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    C:\OFFLAWN.COM

    Why not drop the .com altogether?

  12. Re:I remember the big jump from DOS 1.0 to 2.0 on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    You could do this with STACKER for at least four years before that...

  13. Re:Cue a gazillion posts... on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    Each time she ran it, it crashed the PC, and after rebooting, it came back with No Boot Device. Obviously she had accidentally found a way to wipe the CMOS. Really quite an accomplishment.

    That would yield a "CMOS checksum error", not "No boot device".

  14. Re:Cue a gazillion posts... on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    There was a second mode where the cyan+magenta was replaced by orange+green, I believe.

  15. Re:Not China on Blocked Fuel Line Botched Military Satellite Orbit · · Score: 1

    goof-up by China is made fun of, but not if it USA

    Because if it USA, it not China and thus irrelevant.

  16. Now you tell us? on Blocked Fuel Line Botched Military Satellite Orbit · · Score: 1

    Too late.

  17. secure executions on untrused devices on Why Waste Servers' Heat? · · Score: 1
    The paper says:

    Virtual machine encapsulation ensures certain degree of isolation. Secure executions on untrusted devices are feasible.

    Can someone competent explain what they mean by the second sentence? Or a ResourcePtr to a specific term?

  18. Re:This can't be!! on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 1

    So maybe there *is* hope for Jagged Alliance 3?

  19. I play chuckie egg on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 1

    ... on an emulated speccy, admittedly.

  20. Re:Usenet (Newsgroups) Still In Use on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 1

    If you want to buy herbal V14GRA that is.

  21. Re:Things other than pixels on Windows 8 Will Run On All Current PC Hardware · · Score: 1

    Again, why would any sensible program be using a tree structure to process pixels?

    Because things other than pixels are being processed, such as the tree of elements in a DOM or game world or the associative array of variables in a scripting language.

    Right, but these are probably not cache-friendly anyway.

  22. Re:Windows 8 on Windows 8 Will Run On All Current PC Hardware · · Score: 1

    Win 2k *was* great, wasn't it? I installed it, upgraded my domain, and said to myself, "Microsoft hit the nail square on the head with this one!" The thig would happily run on my desktop with 128K RAM.

    Even Windows 3.1 would not run with 128K RAM.

  23. Re:People need to get out more on When Software Offends · · Score: 1

    Go on, bitches, call me whatever you want.

    You're a Yoda flashlight, that's what you are. :)

  24. Re:Yes, Great... on Scientists Put an End To Smelly Socks · · Score: 1

    I can't see what the impediment there is. It seems like there could be a lot of relatively simple modifications of the cell wall structure that would block alcohol.

    Cell wall != cell membrane.

  25. Re:There is an easy way to destroy this botnet on Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, cut off all noses and voila, no more runny nose.