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  1. Re:Anti gravity applications? on Electricity Gives Bubbles Super Strength · · Score: 1

    Wait wait wait, Are you trying to tell me that sticky back plastic and Sellotape were 2 different things? They never ever mentioned Sellotape on Blue Peter, because it is a brand name. Hence sticky back plastic.

  2. Ellen McLain on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 1

    I'd go to see this movie if it has GladOS. I could listen to her lines for days. Innovative puzzles aside, her lines, and her deliverance of them made the game what it is.

  3. Re:stupid. on Is the Era of Groundbreaking Science Over? · · Score: 1

    I completely agree, Fracking is as popular as ever.

  4. Re:Why 2^n-1 on New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1 · · Score: 1

    Good question. Given that there are an infinite number of numbers, are there an infinite number of primes? Or, if you can determine that given how 1,2,3 are tightly spaced, then 5, 6, 11, 13 are medium spaced, then 17, 23, 29 start getting further and further apart, can you say that as n tends to infinity, the gap between primes eventually tends to infinity also, thus producing a 'final' prime number?

  5. Re:In practice on Startup Offers Pay-Per-Page E-Books · · Score: 1

    You simply spread your work onto more pages!

  6. In practice on Startup Offers Pay-Per-Page E-Books · · Score: 1

    I have a great way to game the system.

    (please pay €1 to read next comment)

  7. Re:Choose your own adventure? on Startup Offers Pay-Per-Page E-Books · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it punishes you for being good.

  8. Re:See an IP laywer. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Patent Trolls Seeking Wi-fi License Fees? · · Score: 1

    When did we make the step from "Corporation ARE People" to "Corporations Post on Slashdot"? Surely this is worthy of it's own news article?!

  9. Re:Privacy? on Details of Google's Project Glass Revealed In FCC Report · · Score: 1

    Signal to noise will likely be too high. In the words of one of modern day's great philosophers, "Aint nobody got time for that".

    Is you insurance agency going to have the time and money (and access) to examine petabytes of data from so many sources, just to put a few more cents onto your premium?

    These cameras may be the worst possible thing for insurance agencies. When everyone has one, there's a good likelihood that people will stop buying full comp insurance, and just settle for 3rd party (mandatory) in the belief that they will always have video evidence that they didn't cause the accident. Good drivers will simply not bother with anything but the basic 3rd party, fire & theft insurance.

  10. Re:Title is obviously misleading on $616.57 Three Strikes Verdict Cost RIANZ $250,000 · · Score: 1

    I made a similar comment above in response to another post, but this sounds like paying $250k investment the first time around to ensure that you set a solid precedent in the courts that is unassailable. Thereafter is is a simple case of issuing bills and charging the bailiff/sheriff with the task of recovering it.

  11. Re:Price of deterrence on $616.57 Three Strikes Verdict Cost RIANZ $250,000 · · Score: 1

    IANAL but doesn't this also cement in case law a successful outcome, thus making all further prosecutions a thing of rote? Can they now just use the system to send out 3 strikes, then a sheriff to claim the bill and possibly skip the courts altogether?

  12. Sit back, relax, close your eyes,.. hey, how are you still reading this?

  13. Re:Is there a chance of it hitting a satellite? on NASA Says Asteroid Will Buzz Earth Closer Than Many Satellites · · Score: 1

    The asteroid might even be very beneficial! I imagine that it might knock a lot of space junk out of orbit, either decaying or escaping or just being bug-splatted to the front of asteroid and carried off.

    I wonder how much gravitational pull it will have on objects in its path, how will it affect* things that it doesn't physically touch.

    *Need coffee, had to google whether it was affect/effect, to avoid the wrath of grammar nazis...

  14. I hate to be a pedant, but how did you get OWS from Open Wireless Movement? OWM surely?

  15. Re:one big problem on Polymer Patches May Enable Effective DNA Vaccines · · Score: 1

    I think your post gave me autism.

  16. Re:WTO is Full of.... on WTO Approves Suspension of US Copyright in Antigua · · Score: 1

    But copyrights don't hurt anyone!

  17. Re:Cost of business on Google Pledges Pi Million Dollars In Pwnium 3 Prizes · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what separates criminals from the rest of us? I know that I could earn more money doing illegal activities than where I work right now.

  18. Re:No, because it's still laughably expensive on Asteroid Resources Could Make Science Fiction Dreams and Nightmares a Reality · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt even a solid gold asteroid would justify the costs to go into space, mine it, and return said gold to earth--even if it were a relatively close solid gold asteroid.

    You could recast it into a more useful shape

  19. Re:Good machine, poor software on A Robot With a Chainsaw! · · Score: 1

    Okay, so I get 3-axis (x, y, z) what are the other 2 axis for? Will it make a Mobius loop?

  20. Re:Use E-Ink in an actual dash? on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the E-Ink Dashboards? · · Score: 1

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    Does this make you feel better?
    Of course, now I've incorporated your post into the Parent's.

  21. Re:here we go on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Particularly in more civilized nations where the religious are less likely to kill people.

    Oh, they would if they could.

  22. Re:Why JJ Abrams when you could get Joss Whedon? on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    I'd watch that.

  23. Re:Star Trek, Star Wars... on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 2

    SG:U could easily have been directed by him. "Stargate: Lost" is a private name me and some friends had for it.

  24. Re:Thanks, Antigua! on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 2

    That is exactly why we need USians, because USians immediately think that American refers to them, and them alone.

  25. Re:The copyright law has a good form! on Finland Is Crowdsourcing Its New Copyright Law · · Score: 2

    It was a to compensate losses what artists suffered from people sharing their copyrighted material.

    There a problem with this. They cannot prove that artists suffer due to piracy. It has been shown time and again that sharing people's songs among friends promotes the music and increases the chance that they will buy music in future and/or go to concerts.