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  1. Re:Reminds me of Moon on Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi By Going Old School · · Score: 1

    Planet of the apes got an Oscar for make up, simply because they didn't realise the apes in 2001 were fake.

    So the story goes...

  2. Re:Bullshit. on Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi By Going Old School · · Score: 1

    Perfect case in point. The explosion of the first death star was real (shot from below to simulate 0-g), later they added a shockwave with CGI and made it look fake.

  3. Re:Dunno... on Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi By Going Old School · · Score: 1

    The explosion of the deathstar in A new hope is a perfect example of this. It actually looks _less_ real in newer versions when the shockwave was added in.

  4. Re:First strike? on Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone · · Score: 1

    You can shoot down a surveillance drone with little or no repercussions. To shoot down a manned airplane risks killing the pilot. Some random terrorist isn't going to have an opportunity to shoot down a U2, it would have to be Iranian military, and one would hope they will pause and think before taking a shot at a person. A drone is another matter, taking one of them out involves no loss of life, so they can be used as target practice.

  5. Re:Faster cells on World's Fastest Cells Raced On Petri Dish · · Score: 1

    If those cells were to be placed in an exoskeleton build by other cells, the opportunity to increase the travelling speed become realised.

  6. Re:While we're at it on How Photoshopped Is That Picture? · · Score: 1

    Don't they already?

  7. Re:And all this effort for what? on How Photoshopped Is That Picture? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you invite her outside for some active sports?

  8. Re:Revert? on How Photoshopped Is That Picture? · · Score: 1

    Also, if you crop some pictures in MS Word, the cropped parts are not removed until you compress the images. Up to that point, you can easily uncrop them.

  9. Re:Offtopic on Physicist Uses Laser Light As Fast, True-Random Number Generator · · Score: 1

    It was placed there by the random section assignment algorithm. Behold!

  10. Would have been first post on Google Throws /. Under Bus To Snag Patent · · Score: 2

    Tried to post first, but Google slashdotted slashdot.

  11. Re:you go FB! on Facebook Denies Disputed Page To Both Mercks · · Score: 1

    Well the better way would to give one the name Merc and the other Merk or Erck, that way they would each have 80% of the baby. I'd like to see Solomon manage THAT!

  12. Re:The pacific coast is really that beautiful on Toy Story Meets Google Street View · · Score: 1

    But with GSV I get to see all these places without having to leave my basement and subject myself to a rigorous groping by an Airport Safety Technician, or possibly murdered by their deathmachines.

    Holidays are overrated, you might meet other people.

  13. Re:First Metrics on Toy Story Meets Google Street View · · Score: 1

    Waaait a minute! How did you check this without clicking the link? Surely the views count would have gone up when you checked??

    Hmm, what's that sound...

  14. Re:First animal? on Spider Spins Ant-Repellent Silk · · Score: 1

    Oddly I read the summary as it being one of the first studies, more so than the first animal. I assume that not much study into the stinkbug or skunk was done because the reason for the repellent was clear. Is it possible that the spider's method is oderless to humans, thus making this interesting.

  15. Re:How about some more quotes on 'Amateur' Astronomer Snaps Pic of Planet-Forming Disk · · Score: 1

    It's impossible to read your sentence without mentally pausing every time I see quotes.

  16. Re:As Austin Powers Says on 'Amateur' Astronomer Snaps Pic of Planet-Forming Disk · · Score: 1

    Well. 10" is nothing to be ashamed of.

  17. Re:Peh. on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 1

    It would be quite interesting to see dissident Darwinists release this virus to the world with the tagline - "Where is your God now?"

  18. Re:Easy opt-out on EU Targets Facebook's Ad System · · Score: 1

    No, by running anything, noscript or adblock, you are opting out.

    Opting in would require you to install something to make adverts visable. And that would have to be something that the site doesn't tell you about, either (show me a website that says "Click here to install adblock+ and remove all adverts from our website"). You would have to want to see adverts badly enough that you would research of your own accord what piece of software would make it happen.

    That would never happen. If opting in was made mandatory, you would have popups on the page asking if you want adverts turned on, or pictured links to the software for activating adverts everywhere.

    Even here, on Slashdot, when I have good enough karma that I can turn off adverts, I still have to make the choice to opt out ("Tick to disable adverts") instead of them being removed automatically (with the option of turning them on).

    So no. We are going to be stuck with opting out of adverts for ever.

  19. Re:Easy opt-out on EU Targets Facebook's Ad System · · Score: 1

    If people had to opt in for advertisements, advertising companies wouldn't make any money. In what world do you see that happening?

  20. Re:103 words on The Science of Humor · · Score: 1

    Why not just make a joke thus:

    Duck duck duck duck duck duck, duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck. Duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck. Duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck, duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck, duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck.

    Scientifically speaking, this should be extremely funny.

    Now lets see how the mods react.

  21. Re:Yet another piece of junk science ... on The Science of Humor · · Score: 1

    Nothing quite like a Great Jape

  22. Re:Ideologue Comedians on The Science of Humor · · Score: 2

    "How to Serve Man" ?

  23. Re:Completely logical actions... on Lego Bible Too Racy For Sam's Club · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's one thing to say Penis on TV, it's another thing to show one.

  24. Re:Facebook Post Suggests the Website is the Probl on Lego Bible Too Racy For Sam's Club · · Score: 1

    Yes it does, Moses took their tablets and broke them when he found that the children weren't up to the responsibility to use them correctly.

  25. Re:Snotty on Carrier IQ Relents, Apologizes · · Score: 1

    They should use the term in an episode of The Good Wife.

    Then wait for Barbara to complain.

    The irony would be, delicious