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  1. Cash you received from an ATM which records the serial numbers of each bill given to you. Your path to and from the store recorded by traffic cameras and toll transponders.

  2. Re: *TRIGGERED* on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Last I checked my phone does not have a 15" subwoofer. I can more easily hear the higher pitched voices simply because my phone is better at producing them.

  3. Re: Well.. on Chipotle Plans To DNA Test Produce After E-Coli Outbreaks In Nine States · · Score: 1

    Sure you can. It's called Night Soil.

  4. Re: Is this the sort of thing we need legislation on Congress Joins Battle Against Ticket Bots (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    So flavorous, eventbrite, and wanttickets don't exist?

  5. Re: Should have read "or less" on AMD Forces a LibreOffice Speed Boost With GPU Acceleration · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Or fewer"

  6. Re: So is it two or ten times tougher? on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 1

    Every time the article is read, the strength increases logarithmically.

  7. Re:Cadillac on Minority Report's Legacy of Terrible Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Probably because it's made by Holden

  8. favstar on Analyzing Tweets To Identify Psychopaths · · Score: 1

    Could have saved themselves a lot of research time just going here:

    http://favstar.fm/recent_most_faved/100-favorites

  9. Survivorman on NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff · · Score: 1

    Les Stroud needs all that stuff to be there when he starts shooting his feature film to complement the series.

  10. Re:Isn't this an old idea? on Tapping Subway Trains For Energy · · Score: 1

    When I was piloting Disney's monorails, a fully loaded train would draw up to 2000A at 600VDC accelerating out of a station. The regen braking would also generate 2000A slowing to about 20mph before the friction brakes stepped in. Unfortunately that power is burned off in resistor banks located between each car.

  11. Re:Says you... on Why Nobody Wants You On OKCupid · · Score: 1

    I suspect it's because of all the illiterate messages she's busy weeding through. There's no need for her to contact anyone or even read profiles.

  12. Re:What is the actual purpose of using TOR? on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To Tor Browser Bundle For Windows? · · Score: 1

    I know of at least one group that teaches techniques like these to spouses in domestic violence situations. It helps the victims get information and resources (legal or otherwise) together before they make their move.

  13. Re:It's a good decision on ICANN Approves .XXX · · Score: 1

    The porn sites, from what I've heard, want to be in a .xxx domain so that they can be blocked more easily. Why? Because that gives them protection against future bills like COPA that would be much more burdensome for them.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm sure a lot of porn sites will continue to maintain their .com or .net domains, but I'd imagine they will quickly be modified so that each page redirects you to the same page in the .xxx domain. It's easy enough to set up a web server to do that.

    This must be why many members of the porn industry showed up to protest.

  14. Re:Higher DPI and Gamut, please! on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what Quartz is supposed to do?

  15. Re:P4 and MythTV Details on Today's Best CPUs Compared... To a Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    If one wanted to push things, I'd be interested to hear if a P3 can write an HD stream to disk fast enough to make one usable.

    I currently have a couple dual-tuner HDHomeRuns and (they say) it streams from each tuner at 15Mbit/sec max via ethernet. I think a P3 backend would have little trouble writing that to disk.

  16. Re:"Thermally isolated" on First Look At Wild New "Level 10" Concept PC Case · · Score: 1

    External drives are hot right now. Lets make *everything* external, but we'll glue it onto this backboard.

  17. Why? on Digital Schwarzenegger Set For New 'Terminator' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why was a body-cast taken in the first place? Did the producers send someone back in time to get the mold so it would be available for 'Salvation'?

  18. Re:Reminds me of the DMCA on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you might like to watch The Money Masters. About 3.5 hours on google video

  19. Re:Reminds me of the DMCA on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 1

    That's how we got the Federal Reserve, too.

  20. Re:Sub $500? on Build a BoxeeBox and Wean Yourself From Cable · · Score: 1

    I built one for "free" and installed it as a menu option on my existing MythTV machine. Works like a charm..

  21. Re:And this surprises whom? on US Digital TV Switchover Delayed Until June · · Score: 1

    The coupon is a lie. It makes a $20 device cost $55.

  22. Re:Share your connections? on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    If you're all on CATV, you're sharing the local network with them anyway.

  23. Re: can hold 52.220 kWh on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    Would it not be most clear to write 52kWh220 ?

  24. Re:Sweet! on Intel Core I7 Launched, Nehalem and X58 Tested · · Score: 1

    I did my part! I ordered a Celeron E1200 today!

    I welcome the new chips. It makes my appliance PCs even cheaper. For the price of one i7 I can build 5 whole computers now.

  25. Re:can someone please tell me which #s aren't incl on Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler · · Score: 1

    The owl, too, only counted to three before reaching the Tootsie-roll center.