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  1. Re:To bad that non college education does not resp on MOOC Mania · · Score: 1

    Let's just add some more polemic to it
    To bad or not to bad, that begs the question...

  2. Re:Samsung hasn't lost anything yet on Judge To Review Whether Foreman In Apple v. Samsung Hid Info · · Score: 1

    Thanks for those clarifications, it makes much more sense now
    Some video footage of the whole mess for people needing some more clarifications about the subtleties of this trial

  3. Re:Why? on Intel Details Eight-Core Poulson Itanium Processor · · Score: 4, Funny

    I understand
    In death, an agent of project Itanium has a name
    His name is Robert Poulson

  4. Re:Purse Phone on Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone · · Score: 2

    Your parent was clearly in a hurry
    (S)He meant ROFLYSST

  5. Re:red/blue shift on MIT Slows Down Speed of Light In New Game · · Score: 2

    What you are describing is correct, but it just is the classical doppler effect
    For relativistic speeds, time dilation also enters the scene
    For example, if the source moves in circles around you, you are not to expect any classical doppler effect, but there would be a relativistic one completely due to the time dilation effect
    More about it here

  6. Re:Uh... on The Web Won't Be Safe Or Secure Until We Break It · · Score: 4, Funny

    In fact the term "webapp" has been in use (and still is), we believe, since hundreds of millions years by the first frogs, long before the mobile revolution

  7. Re:Shameful behaviour on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, sane people *should* check the fine system

  8. Re:Maybe on Apple Loses Trademark Claim Against iFone in Mexico · · Score: 1, Funny

    iMisHijos

  9. Re:BRAKE on Self-Driving Car Faces Off Against Pro On Thunderhill Racetrack · · Score: 1

    That's because once this speed is achieved, the passengers brains produce a level of gamma waves — those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory — never before reported in neuroscience

  10. Re:Goldbach's conjecture on Ask Slashdot: Mathematical Fiction? · · Score: 1

    There is also the logicomix from the same author (apostolos doxiadis)

  11. Re:Misleading summary on Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter · · Score: 1

    I know exactly what you are talking about, but the keywords were joke and woosh
    "No you can not prove a negative assertion" (this is a negative assertion)
    Parent's joke: "you should prove it for me to believe it" (but you are saying this is not possible to prove so why should I believe it ?)

  12. Re:Misleading summary on Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter · · Score: 2

    Because one can prove that it is not possible to prove a negative assertion of course !
    (sorry to ruin your joke by explaining it (I just supposed a 'woosh' wouldn't be enough for those who missed it))

  13. Re:Probably weren't even looking for it. on Apple Maps Accidentally Reveals Secret Military Base In Taiwan · · Score: 5, Funny

    The big deal, is, we must have managed to get past c, somehow, and are now stuck in the bizarro universe

    Message from the ministry of defense to Apple and everyone else:

    "We are sorry to ask you Apple so bluntly to follow our strict privacy rules, but this as a matter of the highest importance for our country and therefore we demand:
    That the pictures taken from our Ultra Top Secret Defense facility be blurred immediately

    The top-secret radar base, located [Full address with detailed instructions about how to get there quickly + nice hotels and restaurants nearby] , contains a highly-advanced ultra-high-frequency long-range radar that can detect missiles launched as far away as the city of Xinjiang.
    The radar system was obtained via U.S.-based defense group Raytheon in 2003 for $1.23 billions, you will see in attachment a copy of the receipt and the names, addresses and phone numbers of the diplomats and businessmen involved in the super secret project so that you can confirm those figures, should you need to
    This Top secret facility is operated by over 250 trained soldiers and scientists. There are 25 dogs protecting the north and west areas, 35 people shift turns every 3 hours to protect the rest of it, except at lunch since they all lunch together

    Again, blur the pictures immediately as they are a threat to our top secret facility "

  14. Re:PLEASE on Russian Officials Consider Ban On Wi-Fi Use For Kids · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess this is the right occasion to follow his sig and tag the post as flamebait while still mostly agreeing with it :)

  15. Re:Silly Inadequate on Your Facebook Likes Conveyed As Simulated Hugs · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it will have an enormous success in the crazy suicide bombers groups.
    Now, you can blow up actually knowing that indeed your guru/master/whatever likes what you are doing, it's a total garantee to end up in paradise

  16. Re:Video (with pics) on French Bees Produce Blue and Green Honey · · Score: 1

    There is more video information available here
    It features an interview of a beekeeper, though not a french one but I soppose it doesn't matter this is just in order to get some expert's feedback

  17. Re:Equivalent of peeking without killing it ?! on Quantum Measurements Leave Schrödinger's Cat Alive · · Score: 3, Informative

    If the cat was just either dead or alive (according to whether or not the gun, or poison or whatever was triggered by some beta decay) and we would just be unaware of it until opening the box
    What would be wrong about it ?
    You put a coin in a box, shake the box. surely, it is either head or tails, you just know what it is when you open the box
    So why do you think there is such a buzz around the Schrödinger’s cat ?
    Precisely because, the experiment is setup so that the cat is not either alive or dead, but in a special state
    Schrödinger put together this thought experiment to show how silly the Copenhagen interpretation was (to his eyes)
    The experiment is there to say "according to you, the cat is both dead and alive (which we can all agree on is ridiculous)"
    Except it's not that simple, and then, there is entanglement and there indeed are "weird mixed states"

  18. Samsung to the rescue on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 5 Camera Flaw · · Score: 2

    Hi can only imagine how this is going to influence the next round of Apple vs Samsung's lawyers round

    SL: your Honor, pictures taken with our SG3 are way crappier than what a picture would like like with an iPhone, therefore we did not infringe
    AL: wrong ! the SG3 pictures totally put the iPhone 5 ones into shame, which prove they didn't have time to copy the iPhone 5 flare and had to resort to copy the superior older iPhone 4 design
    SL:I disagree, the purple flare makes the pic stand appart in a way we couldn't dream of with our crappy products (but we have been working on a green flare technology since well before the purple flare was demoed so don't miss the SG4)
    AL: Puh ! I can't tell appart my dog from my wife when I shoot them together with my iPhone5 and when I ask Apple Map to guide me to somewhere to print it, it leads me to the wrong *continent* I wish I had an SG3
    SL: what ? you can ask your phone things ? the multitouch is so screwed on the SG2 I totally gave up on getting any meaningful output from my gestures and am actually *scared* about using voice, God do I miss my iPhone...
    ...

  19. Re:Not rude on Why Are We So Rude Online? · · Score: 1

    Hi, mwvdlee (nice nickname, by the way)
    I just wanted to say I totally understand your sig, I too see a world of many shades of gray, it's depressing.
    Hopefully I can buy a color TV soon enough...
    Which, err, brings me to, hmm, oh, sorry, I'm just noticing you managed to get a purple ID, and a very nice shade of it too, congratulations bro !
    Err so, where was, ahh yes yes, hmm so about that color TV, well I happen to need some cash man, I just thought, maybe, well, since we share those views on the B&W world, I suppose it would be my responsability to help you out if I could, and I would, but I am the one beeing needy right now, so... err can you help ?

  20. Re:So am I the only one on Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties · · Score: 1

    Well that's too bad I was already up in arms to fight a human cause about the death penalty but you don't seem to be up to it...
    ...
    Well I still feel the heat, I 'll go seek some apple flamebait story, I'm sur I will find some good use for all this energy !

  21. Re:Missing something on Concept Aquatic Rover May Explore a Lake On Titan · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I was going to post but I checked first somebody else wouldn't be puzzled as well
    I think we should create the Association For Removal Of Broken Acronyms (AZRABOA) which also means 'WTF ??' in ancient Klingon

  22. Re:This is slashdot on EU Set To Charge Microsoft Over Ruling Breach · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot

    Ahh thank you sir for pointing that out, I could have been thinking I was looking at gmail or something like that
    Some people are really helpful, last time I was about to watch a show, and a guy went completely out of his way, he almost killed himself just to tell me that "It's...." but then the flying circus jingle started

  23. Re:What? on Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' · · Score: 1

    I thought you were "quiet desperation"
    *sigh* was more than enough :)

  24. Re:Thats no way to be a good citizen on Woz Applying For Australian Citizenship Because of the NBN · · Score: 2

    "3. If everyone/majority has Jigabytes of speed... how would that change the internet, what would become possible/everyday because of it?"
    Who knows, but it would most probably be a waste of Goules of power

  25. Re:16 x 5 bits = 80 BIT !! on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    Wow
    Is that true ?
    I was just joking above of course, but I assumed that the consequence was that your larger than 16 chars passwords would not work anymore, not that their truncated version would work as well
    Thanks for pointing that, I shall have a closer look at the (real) issue