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  1. Re:The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data' on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 1

    The plural of anecdote is data: http://blog.revolutionanalytic...

  2. Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 1

    Eat a reasonable balanced diet with some exercise. Something Dr.s have been saying for many decades.

    Eat right. Exercise. Get a good night's sleep. Enjoy the occasional drink or smoke. Stay away from harmful drugs.

    Exactly. This is something 1st world doctors have been saying for decades. Sounds pretty fucking 'holistic' to me!

  3. Re:Mac mini on Intel Announced 8-Core CPUs And Iris Pro Graphics for Desktop Chips · · Score: 1

    Not gonna happen.

  4. Re:Sarcastically Typed on Facebook Introduces Hack: Statically Typed PHP · · Score: 1

    def c$ as string(as.IF!)

  5. Re:you propose a DOS against yourself on Full-Disclosure Security List Suspended Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    Simple: Put the valuables in a smaller safe INSIDE the bigger one!

  6. Re:Yeah, but it's fast and it's not bloated on Firefox Was the Most Attacked & Exploited Browser At Pwn2own 2014 · · Score: 1

    On my Mac, the Chrome app is 6 times the size of Firefox, and far slower. Just sayin'.

    So what? If the whole thing isn't loaded into memory, why would the file size matter? The biggest parts of GraphicConverter.app are the embedded PDF manuals; if you don't open them, they're never loaded into RAM.

  7. Re:Winding down? on Is One Laptop Per Child Winding Down? · · Score: 1

    No, "they" meaning the end users. They didn't want some bastard child of an OS, they wanted what everyone else in the world runs: Windows, and Office.

    End of story.

  8. Re:Who else would provide the info? on Major Wikipedia Donors Caught Editing Their Own Articles · · Score: 1

    The FCC could have, or a radio advertising network could have same info. Someone with access to that info could make the page. Whether that WOULD happen is another matter.

  9. Re:Conflict on Major Wikipedia Donors Caught Editing Their Own Articles · · Score: 1

    You should be able to edit it, but WP requires that change to have a 3rd party source, which frankly is a bit ridiculous, but I can totally understand why the rule is there.

  10. Re:hack the planet on CanSecWest Presenter Self-Censors Risky Critical Infrastructure Talk · · Score: 1

    Since when does Google define anything? It's a search engine.

  11. Re:Laughably Easy? on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? · · Score: 1

    Check out their whitepaper, it's a very interesting read: http://images.apple.com/ipad/b...

  12. Re:Great Responses... on Interviews: ESR Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    ESR = Eric Steven Raymond the third. I'm kidding about the the third bit.

    Damnit. I knew ternary logic was a lie!

  13. Re:"Sight"? On slashdot? on The Tangled Tale of Mt. Gox's Missing Millions · · Score: 1

    When I put the sentence "the code running the sight was a mess" in MS Word, it does not show up as spelling error.

    Because none of those words is spelled incorrectly?

  14. Re:Autodesk has 3 Animation packages on Autodesk Says It's Killing Softimage Development, Support · · Score: 1

    Maya was a ground up replacement for PowerAnimator, which had gotten rather bloated and kludgy compared to SoftImage (at the time).

    Or as we Alias people used to call it, Soft Fromage :P

  15. Re:Why? on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek · · Score: 2

    Because it's now public that he's sitting on nearly half a billion dollars somewhere.

    He's not sitting on anything but 800,000 internet fun bucks until he cashes them into real money.

  16. Re:Conspiracy nuts are going to love this one! on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek · · Score: 1

    b) Why did a Japanese citizen work on classified US military projects

    Yeah! Like all those damn Germans working on the A-bomb! Who the hell let THEM in?!

  17. Re:Tired... on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    *I RUN FIREFOX ON MY MAC*

    Try running it on you iPad.

    Nice goalpost moving.

  18. Re:So, doomed to fail? on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    I also wonder what the daily losses due to credit card theft amount to?

    Very little, as a percentage of total credit card transactions.

  19. Re:Indeed. But how can they be "stolen"? on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    The coders behind these exchanges don't know that having a negative balance in an account is a bad thing.

  20. Re:Unregulated currency on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 2

    It offers a seamless way to wire funds across borders without a money transmitter taking a big cut.

    You have to pay a transaction fee or it won't go through the blockchain. Plus multiple confirmations are needed to ensure that it did in fact go through. Your recipient will also have to pay a cut when they want to turn it back into real money.

    The Bitcoin protocol as it exists today is absolutely terrible.

  21. Re:Unregulated currency on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    Fiat money works only as long as there remains confidence in the issuing agency. If you don't trust the government to back up its currency, its currency is so much paper, and it doesn't even make good asswipe. Want to get rid of a competing currency? Undermine confidence in it, it'll go away. We're seeing that with Bitcoin. Whether it's by 'criminal activity' or government design is immaterial; confidence in Bitcoin is gone.

    BitCoin is a fiat currency by definition.

  22. Re:The worst kind of human beings on Study: Half of In-App Purchases Come From Only 0.15% of Players · · Score: 1

    It's their money, they can do what they want with it. Plain and simple.

    "The man behind that company should be put behind bars."

    No, he shouldn't.

  23. Re:Wooden chopping boards. on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 1

    Try giving it a rinse with white vinegar first instead of letting the dog lick it.

  24. Re:Most common pathogens on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 1

    So that it flows back down into the water supply and keeps downstream places hydrated.

  25. Re:Ever work in a high school? on Why We Need To Teach Hacking In High School · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that works in Germany.

    The moment that kids were identified as unsuitable for college in America and shunted off to vocational programs, the racism lawsuits would come so fast they'd make your head spin.

    LMAO. The vast majority of kids in my high school shop programs were white.