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  1. This wouldn't have happened with Papa John's on DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect · · Score: 1

    because I always eat the crust with their garlic dipping sauce.

  2. VW Bonfire on New Magnesium-Alloy Foam From NYU's Nikhil Gupta Floats On Water · · Score: 1

    Anybody ever been to a party where someone throws an old VW engine block on the bonfire?

  3. Re:12 times the what? on Messenger's Mercury Trip Ends With a Bang, and Silence · · Score: 1

    A vacuum, of course.

  4. it's hard to patch hardware on Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs · · Score: 2

    Once it's cracked, it's cracked.

  5. Suspend an SSD by the cable in a bucket and then spray the whole thing full of quickfoam to make a watertight seal. Then bury the bucket in the backyard with the cable exposed. Cover it with a junction box and get one of those industrial Ethernet USB extenders. Then run a conduit and CAT6 into your house. Surely your house fire won't penetrate even a few feet of dirt. Now I bet you feel silly for asking when the answer was so obvious.

  6. Re:That car behind you... on EFF Fighting Automakers Over Whether You Own Your Car · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you just need a log to audit.

  7. Re:They do have a point... on EFF Fighting Automakers Over Whether You Own Your Car · · Score: 1

    Ummm...that's already the case. Google reprogrammers.

  8. "puts" on SCOTUS: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What if they just use the GPS tracker already on your dash or in your pocket?

  9. K350 on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I got a Logitech K350 a while back when they had a combo deal with the mouse I wanted. It's nothing all that fancy or special, but I like it. It's wireless, which is nice, though I don't really use it to its potential that often. I've never had any issue with lag (I play plenty FPSs), but I use a USB extender to put the transceiver right under the edge of my desk, less than a foot from my keyboard/mouse. The keyboard has never given me problems, but I didn't like the mouse's response with the USB transceiver plugged into the back of my PC. It's ergonomic without being clunky (I hate split keyboards). It's got a kinda wavy design, a good wrist rest, and concave keys that fit your fingers. It's got a few extra program buttons, but I honestly never use them aside from the volume buttons. It'll only run you about $50. I think I've only changed the batteries once over the last 2-3 years.

  10. Aliens? on Strange Stars Pulse To the Golden Mean · · Score: 1

    So...a number that commonly appears in nature...appeared in nature. I'm not saying it's aliens, but...

  11. Re:not the first time on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The brick is also a wave, it's just such a complex wave that it would be nearly impossible to express in those terms (it's just a sum of all its subatomic parts, after all). If we could express a brick in terms of a wave, the values would just be endless strings of numbers that make little sense to our human brains. Then, lets say we devise a way to visualize those values in a form more palatable for human consumption; you'd end up with a picture of a brick.

  12. confidentially, we assume on Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You · · Score: 1

    we did?

  13. tenacity on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    The thing that's made humans so successful is our tenacity. I imagine that tenacity would often fall short without some measure of aggression. There's plenty of times where it would be more logical to give up on a task, but we're too pissed-off to let it beat us. Aggression is what fuels that final push that often gets shit done. The problems arise when humans butt heads (or come up against an equally tenacious adversary). Two tenacious beings going at it will destroy their environment in the process of defeating eachother. If we could put differences aside and unite, our mutual aggression would be to our benefit. So, what humans most lack is empathy and understanding.

  14. kid with a telescope on Ask Slashdot: How Could We Actually Detect an Alien Invasion From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    Obviously if there were an invasion fleet looming around our planet, it would first be detected by some misanthropic kid with a telescope. That would be the easy part. Then the kid would have to convince his alcoholic, ex-Air Force father of the impending invasion. Then the father would have to swallow his pride and contact his old partner (the one who was promoted after turning in the father for doing something that was technically wrong, but was undeniably the honorable thing to do in the situation), who now just-so-happens to head a clandestine wing of the military specialized in dealing with alien invaders. Obviously.

  15. Re:Trained Falcons !! on White House Drone Incident Exposes Key Security Gap · · Score: 1

    Glad to see someone had roughly the same thought I had.

  16. Re:Hidden Implications on Scientists Slow the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    They didn't say they measured the speed of the individual photon, only that it arrived later than the other photons.

  17. Twitter and YouTube? on US Central Command's Twitter Account Hacked, Filled With Pro-ISIS Messages · · Score: 1

    Does that mean they used to same password? If not, someone must have a keylogger on their system. That seems a bit more serious.

  18. Re:Broken Windows Theory on LAPD Orders Body Cams That Will Start Recording When Police Use Tasers · · Score: 1

    I think it's more a matter of not letting cops have any discretion. I've had minor encounters with LEOs where, because I was relatively cool with the officer, I was simply told "pour that out" , "get your friend home" or "pull your pants up, sir". I'm grateful the officer didn't have a camera recording the whole time. If he did, he would have been far less likely to let me go. I see the argument that constant surveillance will lead to a more even application of the law. If they know their boss is watching they'll have to treat their best friend the same as a stranger, white males the same as any minority. But, this also means we're essentially eliminating the cool cop's ability to be cool. Every officer will be forced to become that dick sticks to the letter of the law to a fault.

  19. Torrent Sites are Illegal? on Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents · · Score: 2

    I was under the impression that the sharing of copyrighted material was the problem. I don't see what's illegal about Sony uploading an anti-piracy ad and naming it "DOWNLOAD Fury (2014) 720p BrRip x264" so long as they own the copyright on the ad. I mean, it's a pretty horrible name for an ad, but whatev. I was unaware that the protocol itself had been outlawed.

  20. That's all fine and good, on European Space Agency Picks Site For First Comet Landing In November · · Score: 1

    so long as they don't try to land a damn comet anywhere near me!

  21. sleep apnea on Study Finds That Astronauts Are Severely Sleep Deprived · · Score: 1

    I wonder how sleep apnea works in space. It's hard to sleep on your side when there's no "up".

  22. Re:how dark can it be on the ISS? on Study Finds That Astronauts Are Severely Sleep Deprived · · Score: 2, Informative

    They sleep in little padded pods. I'm pretty sure they can go pitch black.

  23. Re:Exactly same situation... why do you need N? on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    needs more copper mesh

  24. Real OG on Inside the Facebook Algorithm Most Users Don't Even Know Exists · · Score: 1, Funny

    Real gangstas browse by recent stories. My actual news feed only contains posts by chicks I'd like to do. I guess "doability" is one of those weighted variables.

  25. How could you possibly mistake the two? on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    You can't go wrong with rounded corners.