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  1. GIMP More Costly? on GIMP Core Mostly Ported to GEGL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought it was open source.

    If slashdot headlines continue to be this confusing I will have to start reading the summary.

  2. Re:What's the use case? on 30 Blu-ray Discs In a 1.5TB MiniDisc-Like Cassette · · Score: 1

    News story Sony announces NEX-FS700 '4k-ready' E-mount camcorder

    http://m.dpreview.com/news/2012/04/02/Sony-4k-ready-NEX-FS700-FS700E-camcorder

    Sony is planning a future firmware upgrade that will enable the NEX-FS700 to output 4K bit-stream data over 3G HD-SDI when used with an optional Sony 4K recorder.

  3. Google apps on Boeing Preparing an Ultra-Secure Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Will it be branded and use Google apps?

    I assume they are trusted.

  4. Re:Holy self-reference! on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    To investigte I tried a search at bing, duckduckgo and google,
    I must say that bing is probably in par with duckduckgo since it returned more than 10 hits.
    Google stands out by being the only one getting a relevant hit in the first page.

    (I tried "kinekt like mobile camera" which only samsung has.)

  5. Re:Unenforceable? on 4 UK Urban Explorers Face Orders Not To Talk With Each Other For 10 Years · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We forbid you to do forbidden things,
    And when you do it you can' t tell anyone,
    And tell us immediately if you do it,
    Because you will, won't you

  6. Millikan was faced with this on Academics Not Productive Enough? Sack 'em · · Score: 2

    http://www.aip.org/history/gap/Millikan/Millikan.html
    After 10 years of teaching he knew that he had to publish something great or give up research and becoming a professor.

    This proves that you only need one paper, if it also give you the Nobel prize.

  7. Re:6 or 7 degrees? WTF? on Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun · · Score: 1

    But just because there is no immediate threat of spontaneous combustion doesn't mean there is not a problem.

    I replied to your statement: "The most extreme predictions I have seen from reputable sources have been 2 to 3 degrees within 100 years."

    There is quite a gap from 2-3 degrees up to 6-7 degrees that you just ignore.
    If you are interested to see just look. If you are not you will continue making empty statements.

  8. Re:6 or 7 degrees? WTF? on Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun · · Score: 1

    At least check one source before posting, unless you actually want to spread lies.
    Wikipedia has one set of predictions where 75% is over 3 degrees http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

    Note that scientific responsibility may underrate factors when making predictions, but thing might have changed since 2001.
    If we on the other hand want to take a responsible action on these predictions we shouldn't undrerrate them and there is no way that we can get between 2-3 degrees.

  9. Google got it sorted out on Facebook On Collision Course With New EU Privacy Laws · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "It's your data" so if you want us to delete your GPS locations
    crossreferenced with your search habits you will have to give
    up your gmail.

    All in the new simplified agreement that covers everything.

  10. Re:How many require guessing? on Lower Limit Found For Sudoku Puzzle Clues · · Score: 1

    What is simple guessing?
    Maybe the author of this paper should use his supercomputer to find the soduko for the following rules:

    * the are at least two possible solutions from the information given in the first clues

    * following one of the incorrect clues will not be proved incorrect until the last five figures is about to be filled in.

    I ran up on hard sudokus where I had to 'guess' or follow through a faulty solution for 20 steps until it proved itself wrong.
    I think this is the trademark for a hard solution if the correct solution would lead to another choice situation after just one or two steps.

  11. Bad for kids, good for teenagers on Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the good side of every story.

    The sideeffects will weed out wimpy teenagers that cannot take pain
    and orders fake neodynium "piercing" kits.

  12. Re:CF save energy, but lack functionality... on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Specifically, I'm talking about lights that dim... CF bulbs do not dim.
    Wrong, they do dim. After a few months they don't give that much light any more but
    the dimming is so slow so you don't notice (until you bump into walls).

  13. Re:Sounds like HOT news to me! on PS3 Problems Cause Sony Stocks to Slide · · Score: 1

    And if it uses enough power and generates enough heat you could use it too warm your home.

    Isn't this exactly the plan Sony had from the very beginning, look at this article from 1 and a half years ago:
    (Remember to exchange all instances of computing power to power drain and home heating)

    Vast home network

    Sony hopes to put Cells in televisions, kitchen appliances and anywhere that could use any sort of computer chip.

    Each Cell will be linked to the others, creating a vast home network of computing power.

    Resources of the Cells across the house can be pooled to provide more power, and the links can also be used to enable devices to talk to each other, so that you can programme your microwave from your TV, for example.

    This digital home of the future depends on the widespread adoption of the Cell processor

    BBC article
  14. Re:Weeks old FUD on How Steve Jobs Got Green Overnight · · Score: 1

    One cannot really weight 280 statistically calculated deaths in fires per year
    against certain pollution of poisonous flame retardands. Are the unlucky owners
    of laptops with exploding sony batteries glad that they didn't die when the
    house burned down or concerned that the fumes they inhaled could make them ill.

  15. Re:Quantum Leap on Intel Previews Potential Replacement for Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    We believe PCM are going to be that quantum leap

    Almost correct, a Quantum Leap may take you anywhere,
    like through walls, to unprecedented performances.

    Though in the future when we know the results of this
    invention and the probability distribution breaks down
    it may well show that the quantum leap was a big leap
    backwards or nowhere at all.

  16. Re:Hey Taco! on Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, Me Hearties · · Score: 1

    Why,
    Troll is the Piratey mod-point.

  17. They couldn't be green by normal standards on First "Carbon-Free" CPU Fights Global Warming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Via must have looked at ISO14001 and found that they had no control over
    chemical use, water pollution and what their subsidiaries in china were up to.
    But since you can buy certificates to clean their otherwize uncontrolled electrical
    supply they decided that if they could buy a green corporate image for by getting
    certificates a small fractional percentage of their production.

    This smells like Chiquita's banana stickers, nowhere close being accepted by
    any real certification system, but bragged about in commercials everywhere.
    Chiquita - Going Green or Greenwashing Corporate Crime?.

    Everyone can make a difference by conserving power, but not by buying more stuff.

  18. Smoke from the webserver on My Maxtor Hard Drive Just Caught Fire! · · Score: 1

    If his harddrive went up in flames,
    I'd like to see the effect that slashdot
    had on his webserver.

  19. Re:Tofu? on Cloned Beef Coming Soon? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Personally I'd love to see us progress to the point where it was possible to grow just the meat itself without the animal.

    Personally, I would love to see us progress to the point where cows are well fed, happy and healthy. The meat will taste better, we'll be healthier and there's less cruelty to the cows. I would never eat meat grown in a lab.

    Why can't we just breed cows without brains, wouldn't that end all ethical issues.

  20. Why not combined with PirateBay torrent trackers? on Pirate Party Launches Commercial Darknet · · Score: 1

    It has already been noted that this is not a darknet,
    using a VPN gateway only adds delays compared with a
    real darknet with P2P VPN connections between trusted parts.

    To give this some advantage if P2P traffic avalanches the VPN gateway
    it should act like a tracker distributing both requests and
    data packet responses, the difference being that each data
    packet response may be multicast to all requesting parties
    for a bittorrent. This should improve torrent efficiency.

    The legal issue may be that the combined tracker and gateway
    will in some sense not only have links to the data but in
    a dynamic way have the data in its pipes.

  21. Link to article? on Turing Equation Explains how Leopard Spots Develop · · Score: 2, Informative

    As interesting as the link may be it does not mention any of the new findings in the header.

  22. Re:the theory on The Most Dangerous Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Actually the old antibiotics are fine,
    the problem is doctors oversubscribing or
    them being available without prescription.

    Betting on new cool antibiotics being found,
    - well if we are that lucky they will be
    restricted to those that really, really needs
    them. That's why companies don't see a big market.

  23. Re:Ridiculous on Sweden To Be Oil-Free By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Ethanol has become very popular in Sweden for being a pretty new alternative.

    I cannot think of any worse way to get rid of fossile fuel
    - Ethanol cars require a 15 % gasoline mixture, hardly getting rid of oil dependance.

    On the other hand Gas or Ecodiesel might be a real fossile-free solution - however current Swedish law proposals have only required _one_ alternative to fossile fuels to be present on gas stations and Ethanol will be that alternative in all but a few cases.

  24. Re:The real iPod Killer: on MP3 Player Shoppers Guide · · Score: 1

    Hmm,
    that sort of ideas should only be used
    on things that are sold with heavy
    subventions. Though if you started the
    "smash my lexmark" movement you would
    probably end up with hell of a waste problem

  25. Re:IE 7 vs. Firefox 1.5 on Firefox 1.5 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    * Firefox 1.5 has one of the coolest features you can imagine: SVG.

    They seem to have crippled SVG to use the same backend as in Linux,
    now thing like printing are handled as bitmaps. Good point with a vector format.

    * Everything is well integrated with XUL/Javascript.

    Not XSL, most forms are hardcoded as a lot of identical
    buttons or just programmed in javascript as if it was just another UI API.

    *This opens the door to many applications that were not possible before without resorting to Java/Flash/ActiveX/...

    I thought they closed that door for firefox, the mozilla suite opened up for a lot of applications in the browser.

    Think of a Gantt chart editor in your browser.
    Think of a graphical editor in your browser.
    Think of a CAD in your browser.

    * SVG has the potential to move the kind of operations you can perform in a browser to the next level.

    You are probably thinking about XAML