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  1. Yay! I can lose my data cheaply now! on Solid State Drives Break the 50 Cents Per GiB Barrier, OCZ ARC 100 Launched · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After my only two Vertex drives spontaneously died when the power was cut, I'll never own another OCZ product. This turned out to be a common problem with the first gen Vertex, and I will not forgive their engineers. Thankfully my backups worked. +1 for Acronis.

  2. Re:From Finland on Nokia Buys a Chunk of Panasonic · · Score: 1

    That's because they're the same thing, just different manifestations thereof.

  3. Re:seems like snowden did the exact same thing. on Thousands of Leaked KGB Files Are Now Open To the Public · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's spelled "Beta."

  4. Re:Problems on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    D'oh! You're right too.

  5. Could Google buy Amazon? on Why Amazon Might Want a Big Piece of the Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    Google's income stems from making advertisers believe they know what consumers want. As Amazon's catalog grows, it becomes a larger and larger center of what consumers don't just want, but actually shell out for. From a managerial perspective, I'm sure they could talk about saving money by combing their data centers. As a consumer, I'm not sure that I'd welcome such a merger.

  6. Re:Problems on "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa · · Score: 1

    They don't have seeds and are bred by splicing new chutes onto existing roots.

  7. Re:Do it to Congress instead on Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane · · Score: 1

    Do those old gasbags use the internet? See: a series of tubes.

  8. Re:OpenWRT all the way on Ask Slashdot: Which Router Firmware For Bandwidth Management? · · Score: 1

    That's what I was thinking too. Thank you, kind Wolf.

  9. Re:OpenWRT all the way on Ask Slashdot: Which Router Firmware For Bandwidth Management? · · Score: 1

    Any idea if version Tomato 1.27 is afflicted by heartbleed? I spent some time googling around for the answer, but came up empty. I'm not an expert, so I probably don't know the right places to look. Thanks!

  10. Re:Duh on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 5, Informative

    Er, hygene hypothesis predates House by about 15 years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

  11. Tell us what you really think on How Facebook Built Natural Language Into Graph Search · · Score: 1

    It shows what they think of users right in the pseudocode:
    "In loose terms, the grammar consists of a set of production rules that generate more specific expressions from abstract symbols:
    start -> users $1
    users => user $1
    start => photos $1"

  12. Re:Thanks, Homeland on DHS Steps In As Regulator for Medical Device Security · · Score: 1

    Hey I just said it was an idea. You kind of gave away that it was a spoiler, you...

  13. Thanks, Homeland on DHS Steps In As Regulator for Medical Device Security · · Score: 1

    Thanks go to Homeland for giving them this brilliant idea

  14. Re:Wow, Monsanto's evil tentacles reached his brai on Anti-GMO Activist Recants · · Score: 2

    If one understands how the pesticide works, it's not so scary. Per WikiP: "When insects ingest [BT] toxin crystals, the alkaline pH of their digestive tract denatures the insoluble crystals, making them soluble and thus amenable to being cut with proteases found in the insect gut, which liberate the cry toxin from the crystal. The Cry toxin is then inserted into the insect gut cell membrane, forming a pore. The pore results in cell lysis and eventual death of the insect."

    Humans, and I believe all vertebrates, have acidic digestive tracts, so BT is not active and cannot hurt you.

    Not to say, in some remote universe, you couldn't be allergic to it, but that's true with any new molecule introduced into your person.

  15. Thanks for that useless info on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    Here's a useless comment to go with a useless story.

  16. Cybernetic Brain Artery Model + Realdoll = ?? on Surgery-Simulating Dummy Allows Doctors To Develop Skills · · Score: 1

    horrible, horrible, life-changing, permanently-scarring bloodbath.

    At least until you get the tentacle mod.

  17. Selective pressure on NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests · · Score: 1

    Hey NY, you're raising wimps!

  18. That's the great thing about science: you don't have to trust it! It's got all the evidence right there! Sure, you have to believe all the data isn't fabricated, but that's a much smaller chasm than, oh, say, a bigwig in the sky is calling the shots. Maybe that's just me.

  19. Other timelines on Berkeley HTML5 Timeline Tool Can Show a Day, Or the Lifetime of the Universe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's another decent open source timeline I've used. It's not immediately scalable, but with a little db knowledge, I think it could be modified. http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/

  20. Proper controls on Active Video Games Don't Make Kids Exercise More · · Score: 1

    In order to balance out self-selection bias, they should have switched what type of game the kids had halfway through.

  21. Fancy prancer on BigDog Robot Gets Much Bigger · · Score: 2

    Look at me, I'm a dandy prancing (headless) pony.
    Is there a non-high-stepping mode?
    At least one need never worry about it sneaking up and prancing one to death.

  22. Priorities on Super Bowl Bust: Feds Grab 307 NFL Websites; $4.8M · · Score: 2

    I recommend going to the ICE Facebook page (WTF?) and let them know how much we appreciate their hard work protecting us from fake jerseys and other insidious chotchkies.

    You know, add yourself to the list of people to monitor. Fuckfaces all around.
    Too bad we have to use our real names...

  23. Maybe somebody set him up the bomb? on Man Who Downloaded Bomb Recipes Jailed For 2 Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    Should have claimed someone left the USB stick.

  24. w00t on Researcher Claims Siemens Lied About Security Bugs · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1st

  25. Re:The proper role of government on Large Scale 24/7 Solar Power Plant To Be Built in Nevada · · Score: 1

    That was precisely my point: The government's track record is bad (And their desire to meddle is only increasing.).
    But there are some notable exceptions, foremost in my mind being the space program. The direct and indirect benefits are staggering, and none would have been possible at the time if not for government involvement. That is the sort of thing I think it should be involved in. Large scale, high risk, high reward endeavors.

    Somehow though we need an oversight program that is immune to (or can compensate for) special interests, politics and the vicissitudes of popular opinion.
    Hari Seldon?