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  1. Re:It's SENSATIONAL! But also kind of BORING! on The 300 km/h Superbus · · Score: 1

    And TFS also says it runs super-silent. So you'd have to give it an artifical noise, to warn passers-by that it's approaching. Like, I dunno, "Choo-choo!" or similar.

    How about "Whooosh"?

  2. Re:Have they actually found it? on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 2

    They have a Sigma 5 confidence level which is equivalent to one chance in a million that they're mistaken.

    The way that I understand it, is that they have Sigma 5 confidence level that they found a new boson type particle. And that they have sigma 4.9 confidence level that it is the boson responsible for the Higgs field i.e. the Higgs Boson

  3. Re:Lots of coffee or caffeine = always indoors? on Caffeine Linked To Lower Skin Cancer Risk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps those drinking 3 cups a day are more likely to be in jobs where they are virtually chained to a desk, so they rarely see the sun and thus less skin cancer.

    Normally I would agree with your line of thinking. But since coffee also has been show to cut the rates of liver cancer and Alzheimer. I would say that there are other functions at work here. All three seems to be, as the summary stated, related to the ability to kill off damaged cells before they do more damage.

  4. Re:Poor bastard... on Lonesome George Is Dead At 100 · · Score: 4, Funny

    he could have been impotent thus the inability to interbreed would not be able to produce offspring while still compatible species

    Nah, he was just wise with age, and took precautions so that he didn't need to spend the golden years heating formula and changing turtle diapers.

  5. Re:IP? on Biotech Report Says IP Spurs Innovation · · Score: 1

    No, actually Transport Control Protocol spurs innovation.

    No, actually all my innovation is spurred by ICMP you insensitive clod. :D

  6. Re:HeadRoom on Ask Slashdot: Best Headphones, Earbuds, Earphones? · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're unbiased enough to say when a $40 pair is better than $100 pair that they sell.

    I have no experience from HeadRoom ( I am sure they are good if you recommend them).
    But I did use to work in an electronics store as a teenager, and I just want to say that it is quite possible for the reseller to have better margins on a $40 pair than the $100. Especially when the cheaper product isn't all that well known and the more expensive one is. So that is not really a foolproof sign that they are unbiased.

  7. Re:Sigh. on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 1

    This comment is priceless!

    Thanks, seems that moderators strongly disagree.
    I fear the Slashdot community has fallen out of love with my witty charms.

  8. Re:Sigh. on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 1

    You know he wasn't upset that his stuff was stolen.
    The real reason he was so miffed, was because the thieves where using a getaway car that ran closed firmware!

  9. Re:Altruism vs profit. on Intel Builds On Top of Android, But Hedges On Open-Sourcing Improvements · · Score: 1

    Also, anybody still wondering why the "viral" clauses of the GPL that require changes to be GPLed are important?

    But isn't the android kernel under GPL license, as it is forked from the Linux kernel?
    Surely a change to the scheduler will be a kernel change.(Or do I perhaps need to read the fa here?)
    So this would mean that they will have to distribute the source when the distribute the binary.

  10. Re:What about non state sponsored? on Google Warning Gmail Users About State-Sponsored Attacks · · Score: 1

    Please RTFS.

    Reading the summary before commenting, how very unslashdotesque of you. :D

    OK, Ill admit it, I somehow missed that part.

  11. Re:Great on Mozilla's Open Source Project Shumway To Translate SWF To HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Now we only need a project that converts HTML5 to something that can be rendered uniformly on all major browsers.

    PDF? ;-D

  12. What about non state sponsored? on Google Warning Gmail Users About State-Sponsored Attacks · · Score: 1

    I think Google should notify me if they suspect any type of attack ,not just state sponsored ones.

  13. Re:I can't decide... on Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir · · Score: 1

    Is cat-copter adorable, or disturbing?

    It must be adorable,
    Let me give you a perfect example of what would be disturbing.

    1 Implant titanium mounting brackets in the cats paws.
    2 Mount motors on brackets.
    3 Put batteries and electronics in a little back pack on the cat.
    4 Apply some electric current to the nerve ends of the legs, so that the cat keeps them straight at all times.
    5 .....?
    6 Profit?

  14. Really, the most famous pilot EVAR? More famous than the Wright brothers?

    As inventors they were pretty awesome but in all honesty, the Wright brothers actually didn't fly all that far, the last and longest flight was just 24.5 miles. Most famous female pilot? Should be Marina Popovich, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Popovich

  15. Re:Ok, Sherlock, your mystery is not a, uh, myster on Windows 8 Release Preview Now Available To Download · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the anti-MS bias at slashdot will ever die down.

    That's sort of like asking if the anti-Satan bias in heaven will ever die down. Or perhaps the anti-Jesus bias in hell, I'm not completely sure which is which. Perhaps I should just stick to car analogies ....

  16. Re:First choice on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 1

    Already done. Most companies have hundreds of managers sharing the processing, memory, and storage facilities of one brain. Too bad the power and wasted space savings don't scale.

    I think that might actually be the opposite of visualization. I think what you have is a BeoWolf cluster of pea brains?

  17. Re:Shocking. on Fox Sues Dish Over "Auto Hop" Ad-Skipping Feature · · Score: 1

    Whoever didn't see this coming.... can I have your job?

    Sure, as long as you hand me the pay-check.

    (Actually I did see this coming, but I haven't had a +5 Funny for weeks now).

  18. Re:2fer on viruses on Stanford Bioengineers Create Rewritable Digital Data Storage In DNA · · Score: 1

    This digital data storage could get both technological and biological viruses! I wonder what the crossover will be like... You thought bird flu jumping to pigs then humans was bad....

    Yeah I know, the Symantec stock just jumped like giddy old mare.

  19. A word of warning to the Pirates out there. on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    Do not look at BSA statistics with remaining (unpatched) eye!

  20. Re:ugh on UK Government Staff Caught Snooping On Citizen Data · · Score: 1

    Yes, well maybe that was the CHANGE that the AC was HOPING for?

  21. Re:ugh on UK Government Staff Caught Snooping On Citizen Data · · Score: 3

    Ugh? You are aware of what country Obama is president of right?

  22. Re:About time.. on Vermont Bans Fracking · · Score: 1

    What do you know, it is still possible to find quality comments on Slashdot every now an then.

  23. Re:Sorry, it had to be said. on Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan · · Score: 1

    True, but it will only now become evident, once they have tricked their human servants into giving them eternal life.
    There will be no cheese left for the pilgrims.

  24. Re:Sorry, it had to be said. on Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan · · Score: 1

    Life is measured, not in the number of breaths you take, but in the number of cheeses that take your breath away.

  25. Sorry, it had to be said. on Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Long Live our new cheese eating over lords!