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  1. Re:Any lawyers in the house? on US Judge Orders Twitter To Give Up WikiLeaks Data · · Score: 1

    it's quite possible that the IP address identifies no one... so how can it possibly be personal information....

    I think that's been gone through many times before.

  2. Re:If this were a systemic Problem, on Game Maker Says 40% of iTunes In-App Buys Are Fraud · · Score: 1

    compulsion to lie
    blame other people
    lack of empathy
    no feeling of guilt.
    seems to use words without actually understanding the meaning.

    Apparent lack of remorse[4] or empathy for others
    Persistent lying or stealing (my lawn)
    Cruelty to animals[5] (e.g. geeks)
    Poor behavioral controls — expressions of irritability, annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse; inadequate control of anger and temper
    A history of childhood conduct disorder
    Recurring difficulties with the law
    Promiscuity
    Tendency to violate the boundaries and rights of others
    Aggressive, often violent behavior; prone to getting involved in fights
    Inability to tolerate boredom
    Poor or abusive relationships
    Irresponsible work behavior
    Disregard for safety

  3. Re:If this were a systemic Problem, on Game Maker Says 40% of iTunes In-App Buys Are Fraud · · Score: 1

    that would be:
    DSM-IV antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), and the ICD-10 antisocial personality disorder and dissocial personality disorder (DPD).

    aka psychopath or sociopath.

  4. Re:Patents should not be about ethics on European Court of Justice Rejects Stem-Cell Patents · · Score: 1

    ok... maybe your off-topic... but I would have said that, seeing as you topic is about ethics and medical research....

    I think the ethics would relate to the potential for abuse as opposed to someone wanting a 'sex change' type effect, since that already possible in terms of changing your body in a more apparent physical way.

    I've been told crack is known to work to a greater or lesser degree, so is poverty or a few quid for taking some pictures and putting them in a porno mag.

    So money or crack already work to some extent.

  5. Re:Patents should not be about ethics on European Court of Justice Rejects Stem-Cell Patents · · Score: 1

    which bit about

    " CORRUPT companies who CAN'T IMPLEMENT PROPER SAFETY POLICIES doing ALL KINDS OF CRAP just to TRY and land the next big patent."

    and ethics did you fail to grasp?

    I think Scientology claims to cure Gay people... all you need is one of those type of people and well .... now pretend that their doing experiments on embryos etc... get the idea now?

    and do you have any evidence that people are 'brain washed' into being Gay and not as Lady GaGa would say.. born that way.

  6. Re:Patents should not be about ethics on European Court of Justice Rejects Stem-Cell Patents · · Score: 1

    the ethics is they don't want corrupt companies who can't implement proper safety policies doing all kinds of crap just to try and land the next big patent.

    When where talking potential... say bio-warfare.... or the cure for being Gay... then I'm sure ethics are applicable.

  7. Re:Wrong recipient on Smartphone Device Detects Cancer In an Hour · · Score: 1

    and someone may want to call/email/message etc... the Dr or visa-versa.

    or they may want to look xyz up on the internet... they have to know more than the patient some days at least.

  8. Re:If this were a systemic Problem, on Game Maker Says 40% of iTunes In-App Buys Are Fraud · · Score: 1

    now how did that happen.... oh elections for politicians that created the system that rendered the people powerless... who'd have though, government wanting the people to be powerless. obviously not the voters.... or maybe it was..

  9. Re:More FUD on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 1

    how about... lets say... umm.... you find a few other people who want the same problem fixed and all chip in a bit...2
    150 people and that's only 1 dollar an hour... 1500 people and it's 10c... a few companies chipping in as well... and I think it would be cheaper than all of them buying windows now wouldn't it...

    your total is a very selfish one.

  10. Re:More FUD on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 1

    Yep... n u just wait till the first to patent comes in...

    All that software that relies on obscurity.... well you don't want someone to reverse engineer your stuff and patent the algorithm you use then sue you.

    I suppose copy protection algorithms being available would be one bonus.... but it depends how viral the changes to patents are.

  11. Re:DirectX on Doom Creator Says Direct3D Is Now Better Than OpenGL · · Score: 2

    I think if you look back a good few years (not long after doom 3 was released... just after Direct X 10 he said exactly the same thing)..

    Infact Janurary 2007 according to wikipedia.

    Some former critics of Direct3D acknowledge that now Direct3D is as good if not better than OpenGL in terms of capabilities and ease of use. In January 2007, John Carmack said that "DX9 is really quite a good API level. Even with the D3D side of things, where I know I have a long history of people thinking I'm antagonistic against it. Microsoft has done a very, very good job of sensibly evolving it at each step—they're not worried about breaking backwards compatibility—and it's a pretty clean API. I especially like the work I'm doing on the 360, and it's probably the best graphics API as far as a sensibly designed thing that I've worked with."

  12. Re:Agree on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    aliens, efficient and well over attacking their own race... make sure all their interfaces are perfect and remove any kind of checks from either end...

    They figured no species was dumb enough to code, interfaces, or all things crappy and would dream of attacking each other..

  13. and this is why on Prepare For Massive Wave of Earthquake Scams · · Score: 1

    I do my best every day... why wait for a desaster to happen before helping a fellow friend.

  14. BSod question answered on Ex-Microsoft CTO Writes $625 Cookbook · · Score: 1

    a class action is now under way as the 'less savey' cooks attempted sous vide cooking,
    but due to incorrect equipment and vacume packing ended up with Botulism... seal of death.

  15. old tec on Tractor Beams Are Getting Closer (Sort of) · · Score: 1

    why no one has thought of combing this with this to move particles over distance is beyond me.

  16. Re:What flavor of Open? on Open Source Guy Takes the Hardest Job At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    well you could run some open stuff on mono on whatever OS you like I should imagine.

    you can also get a copy of the windows code and peer review it too....

    you appear to be attached to one definition of open source, FLOSS.

  17. Re:Idiot on World's Most Powerful Optical Microscope · · Score: 1

    umm... google gravitational wave detectors and holographic universe.

    They are already apparently measuring things (interference) at less than a Planck length.

    According to Einstein’s view on the universe, space-time should be smooth and continuous. However, this view may need to be modified as space-time may be composed of quantum “points” if Hogan’s theory is correct. At its finest scale, we should be able to probe down the “Planck length” which measures 10-35 meters. But the GEO600 experiment detected noise at scales of less than 10-15 meters.

  18. controlling my self? on Full Bladder Improves Decision Making · · Score: 1

    well usually I'm in the third person..
    the only thing I've ever found that allows me to mobilise my 'self' is Ketamine but I expect PCP and DXM can do that too.

    I've never slipped into the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th or any other kind of self when needing the toilet.

  19. Re:What if you can't get a full bladder? on Full Bladder Improves Decision Making · · Score: 1

    also metabolism, salt etc.. levels, stimulation (known to increase concentration), tempreture, blood vessel dilation etc....

    now, why didn't they inject fluid into the bladder? and controls stimulate the nerves in the bladder that say it's full and stimulate other nerves.

  20. Re:Naive Question on Will the LHC Smash Supersymmetry? · · Score: 1

    They may not have found the higgs boson, but they did find something unexpected, well a couple of things.

    Gluon soup is a kind of loose liquid type of substance.
    Things where shooting off in directions that could not be explained by the known forces involved in the collisions. (not sure if they've sorted this one out yet).. apparently particles have a 'preferred' direction.

  21. Re:What flavor of Open? on Open Source Guy Takes the Hardest Job At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    probably either peer review or collaborative.

    Microsoft does have it's own open-source thing going on. I've not, and will not, use anything from CrApple, but it's claimed they churn out some good closed source stuff... and things like Web Kit which was FOSS but they decided they wanted to take control from the KDE chaps. (I suppose that's one less thing for the KDE team to support now though and Konqi does work with Web-Kit now. I don't think it's default yet just an extra KPart you can install)

  22. umm.. Not sure about the unqualified 'mostly bit' on Open Source Guy Takes the Hardest Job At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how Microsoft would say that developers are mostly in the open source world...
    I've worked with many and mostly, though they use open source... Their often not giving back, or not getting the value out of fixing or improving it, just within the company with no kick back.

    I've also worked with many who do contribute to open-source.... they tend to be the better ones, often self-taught.

    I'm not sure if it the teaching and improving ones self bit that makes them generally better and so brings them to open source. But often that's a bit of a mix for doing your own thing (authority wise) and also being able to keep up and adapt to the fast pace of change in the software industry.

    The bad 'closed source' ones, are often jobs worth, write buggy crap (you wouldn't want anyone to see it that's for sure), and 'yes men' who often find all manner of excuses to keep the crap flowing out of their minds and into the code or other people's faces... I suppose that's one way to keep your job and suck up to the boss, whilst being able to blame issues on other people or develop a skill and excuses and manipulation beyond the reasonable.

    I think a better, more qualified way of putting it could be,
    Most of the good developers work in open-source or in an open-source way... not only are they quick to adapt to things, good at self-management and dealing with 'customers' and faults... but their work is often publicly available and easy to look at, with temporal data. (including support, quality, configuration, documentation and people management etc... they do).

  23. Re:IEEE on Atomic Antennae Transmit Quantum Information · · Score: 1

    I'd get my head seriously looked at if that happened.

    I would have thought that the post I replied to, why couldn't you superposition the SSID/s and probably get the right one depending on how you made the measurement/s.

    IEEE 802.11q would be meta not relative.

  24. Re:Nutron Star? on Frictionless Superfluid Found In Neutron Star Core · · Score: 1

    ahh... but this is slashdot. I couldn't fit the real world version in a sig,

    but I could encode extra information in the misuses of authority and consensus in relation to understanding.

  25. Re:Nutron Star? on Frictionless Superfluid Found In Neutron Star Core · · Score: 1

    "it's ment to catch people who can't work it out due to spelling and grammatical errors."

    as in, reliant on consensus of knowledge, not intelligence / wisdom.

    A.k.a Grammar Nazi