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  1. Re:Bläurg on Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists · · Score: 1

    Sure, the contract hitman pumped bullets into the target's head, but they have a duty to their mob bosses to maximize profits!

    As AC pointed out, the ends do not justify the means, especially when the means are simply acquiring more stuff (money).

  2. Re:Firing a missile over the Mediterranean Sea? on US and Israel Test Missile As Syria War Tensions Rise · · Score: 1

    Step 3: Profit!

  3. Re:You would think. . . on First Ever Public Tasting of Lab-Grown Cultured Beef Burger · · Score: 1

    The stem-cell reproduction process uses viruses to revert cells into stem cells, and eating viruses or virus byproducts is pretty gross.

    At least with organic food, you have some idea of what you're eating.

  4. Re:Destroyed in Seconds on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    I can't remember the name of it, but there was a trailer for a fake movie with Pamela Anderson called something like "Blow'd Up" that had just that - guns, explosions, scantily-clad women - and it looked exactly like the real movies we've seen cranked out by Hollywood.

    Of course, it could have been the real movie "Barb Wire" that was basically the same thing.

  5. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    Consider Sharknado. Obviously low-budget film with ridiculous special effects and terrible acting, but such a goofy/novel idea that a lot of people ended up watching it, judging from the amount of publicity it received. Proof you don't need massive budgets or expensive actors to get your movie viewed by millions of people. By the way, the best parts of Sharknado are here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARpJBSTmcJ0

  6. Re:Why does the equipment move? on Tar Pitch Drop Captured On Camera · · Score: 1

    Presumably to separate the drop from the suspended volume in the glass funnel. The drop already "dropped" or hit the bottom.

  7. Re:There are already bigger though on Samsung Ups Ante In Smartphone Size Wars: 6.3 Inches · · Score: 1

    Just don't hold it to your head like a regular phone. Hold it out in front of you, like a regular phone in speakerphone mode or like a tablet using video chat.

  8. Re:Civ is overrated on The Father of Civilization: Profile of Sid Meier · · Score: 1

    Alpha Centauri also had destructible terrain. If you used the mega-nuke, you would leave a crater in the terrain, sometimes with a radioactive lake in the center.

  9. Re:Do it in China on Rise of the ARM Clones · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points, you'd get +1 Insightful. Why not make use of existing capabilities to increase competition?

  10. Re:That's fine on Legislators Introduce Bill To Stop Set Top Boxes From Watching You · · Score: 1

    You would probably start receiving advertisements for the Bravo channel.

  11. Hunt for Weed on Fly, Drones, and Bring Me Data · · Score: 2

    I wish I could hunt down some weed using a drone.

  12. Obfuscate the Source on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Another Dev Steals Your Work and Adds Their Name? · · Score: 1

    Use code obfuscation to make the code unmaintainable, then only you can work from the original, clean source.

  13. Re:Here's his best defense.. on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    If they had actual evidence of a crime, they would have charged him with one. So far, they have not, so they must be lying about the evidence, trying to trick him into self-incrimination.

    Never cooperate with the police. The police are there to put you away, not be your friend.

  14. Re:Atari interview question on Steve Jobs' First Boss: 'Very Few Companies Would Hire Steve, Even Today' · · Score: 1

    The first 9 numbers, listed in alphabetical order.

    English alphabetical order

  15. Re:They get it on T-Mobile Ends Contracts and Subsidies · · Score: 1

    if you bought a smartphone with any carrier in the USA, you paid at least that much, since the "subsidy" is rolled into your rate plan, which with other carriers doesn't decrease in cost after you pay off the phone. who is the real sucker now?

  16. Re:T-Mobile CEO: "Stop the Bullshit" on Another Way Carriers Screw Customers: Premium SMS 'Errors' · · Score: 1

    John Legere doesn't control T-Mobile UK; that's a separate company from T-Mobile USA.

  17. T-Mobile USA != T-Mobile UK on Another Way Carriers Screw Customers: Premium SMS 'Errors' · · Score: 1

    T-Mobile USA is a completely separate entity from the European version of T-Mobile (UK/etc). The European branch is still owned by Deutsch Telecom, whereas T-Mobile USA is a separate entity. John Legere has no control over the European company.

  18. Re:3D will remain a gimmick for a long, long time on Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? · · Score: 1

    That type of 3D is truly the most useful, especially since standard 2D displays would already work with them. A new interface would be needed to input 3D positional commands to control the virtual camera. Then you could truly immerse your self (camera's perspective) in the scene.

  19. Impending Market Correction / Crash on Eric Schmidt To Sell Up To 42% of Stake In Google · · Score: 1

    He's selling his stocks, as other billionaires are doing, to get out of the stock market before it crashes again: http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/billionaires-dump-economist-stock/2012/08/29/id/450265

  20. Freely and Readily Available on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    All these arguments I read about guns being "freely and readily available" - they're neither "free" nor "readily available" if you've actually ever tried to purchase a firearm. Using that phrase betrays a person's ignorance of how gun laws really work. I wish guns were free; I'd own a whole lot more! Guns are expensive!

  21. Copy Windows on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    1. If you want more Windows users to switch to Linux, make Linux look and feel just like Windows. Users can switch without having to relearn how to use the OS.

    Look at the backlash with the Windows 8 Metro UI; people don't want to relearn how to use even a new version of Windows.

    2. Have AAA games for Linux. Games are the primary reason many people use Windows. Any OS (Linux, Android, etc) can let a user browse the Internet.

    If a "killer app" came out exclusively for Linux, it would drive many people to switch to Linux. Right now, except for using a Windows emulator, you can't play many AAA games on Linux.

  22. Re:The voice that still haunts me on Welcome to the University of Michigan's Computer and Video Game Archive (Video) · · Score: 1

    The speech synthesis on my C128 was not clear enough that I could understand that first part ("Another visitor"); thanks for solving a 26-year old mystery!

  23. If I say to you that I am going to kill you when I catch up with you and you know I am joking, under the old laws there was no crime but under the current system it is a crime. If I say that I am going to kick your teeth in and mean it, there is no change. All that is new is that now innocent people can be sent to prison with ease.

    Not necessarily "innocent," as the person is still issuing a threat of physical violence.

  24. Re:Does anyone actually use this shit? on New Modeling Algorithms Bring More Detail to Google Earth's 3-D World · · Score: 1

    scan yourself and use your own 3d image in the latest games

  25. bastards all! on Canada's Internet Surveillance Bill: Not Dead After All · · Score: 1

    except me of course