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  1. Re:Vegetarianism makes it a lot worse on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    So your answer is to live more luxuriously in the aim of causing starvation. Nice.

  2. Re:RoI on Sinkhole Sucks Brains From Wasteful Bitcoin Mining Botnet · · Score: 2

    No, the $561,000 should be compared to the cost of smashing the botnet. What the botnet arseholes make is of purely idle interest.

  3. Asteroid Mining. on NASA's 'Inspirational' Mars Flyby · · Score: 1

    This only begins to make sense when you don't have to lift all the raw materials out of the gravity well anyway.

    Think asteroid mining. Then think refining, manufacturing, assembly, QA, and everything else that needs to be done before the parts for your spaceship can turn up at the dry dock.

  4. Re:Go be gay over there... on BioWare Launches "Gay Planet" For the Old Republic · · Score: -1, Troll

    More like Apartheid.

  5. Re:Whats Up Chuck? on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 2

    I dunno exactly, but it's bigger than 4 inches.

  6. Re:Stephen Hawking on Apple Yanks Toddler's Speech-Enabling App · · Score: 1

    Nah, go with Cristopher Walken.

  7. Re:poor cost vs. reward on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    I reckon if they had to put one in every bloody car made they could do it for less than $200.

  8. Re:Fire escape stairway on Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Why would they build a fire escape as stairs? Obviously they would make it a slide.

    Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee[etc]

  9. Re:How can it be a remake... on Syndicate Reboot Coming Next Year · · Score: 1

    I hope they put in some chest-high walls.

  10. Re:Not glowing on South Korean Scientists Create Glowing Dog · · Score: 1

    The restaurant will sort out the lighting and provide filtering glasses. Done!

  11. Re:No more apples on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While I'm not a big fan of app censorship generally, I don't see the objection to having Apple, Google etc block apps which have no purpose other than letting people drink-drive.

  12. What's the problem? on Cooperative Cars Battle It Out In Holland · · Score: 1

    If the wi-fi fails, you just fall back to the data gathered by your own vehicle and drive more conservatively.

    ("you" in this case presumably being the program driving the car)

  13. Re:And Oh the Formats to Support! on Ebooks Now Outselling Print Books At Amazon · · Score: 2

    I just made a decision on what format I was happiest with, and the rest came from there. Having decided that ePub would be best for books and PDF for magazines/other stuff, I also chose to specify that both must be unencrypted and looked for a store that sold them in the UK and a device that would read both.

    WHSmith sells ePub books, but they're encrypted: so I buy them there and decrypt them myself, and keep them backed up on my PC and online. I went with the Sony Reader PRS-350 as the reader, and have been pretty happy with it. When I eventually replace it, I'll probably just be looking for something else that can read unencrypted epub abd pdf files.

  14. Scanner with document feeder makes it easy. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home? · · Score: 1

    I picked up a printer/scanner combo with a document feeder, and I scan everything and (save for anything I think I might need for legal reasons) shred the originals.

    I file the docs in folders by company name and with a YYYYMMDD-whatever image name or subfolder (for multiple pages). And I upload a backup to my server.

    This has worked really well for me; paprework used to be a nightmare to find as I was so bad at filing it. Now I can find anything easily, and even email someone what they're asking for directly from my phone. It's awesome.

  15. ObNeal Stephenson on 10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year · · Score: 1

    Quote from "Zodiac":

    "They claim that this junk was going to become a habitat for marine life. You don't buy that?"
    Bless her, she did know how to blow my lid. "Rebecca, goddamnit, since the beginning of time, every corporation that has ever thrown any of its shit into the ocean has claimed that it was going to become a habitat for marine life. It’s the goddamn ocean, Rebecca. That's where all the marine life is. Of course it's going to become a habitat for marine life."

  16. Which is what it's good for. on 50% of Tweets Consumed Come From .05% of Users · · Score: 2

    Twitter is such a shit social tool I actually started unfollowing all my friends; it's still great for following news feeds, though.

  17. Speaking as a Virgin customer... on Virgin Media UK Begins Throttling P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    Despite THREE engineer visit their 50Mbps product only works intermittently anyway. I plan to ask them to cancel my contract early, just as soon as I get a BT phoneline back in and I can get regular DSL. I won't miss the speed if I can have some actual goddamn reliability.

    It doesn't help that they only offer non-geographic numbers for tech support, which mobile networks charge up to 50p/min to call, on a product which doesn't need the customer to own a landline. Maybe if I called them more from home they'd do better at troubleshooting my problem, but the calls would cost a lot more than the (shitty) service!

  18. Re:Makes sense on Secrets of a Memory Champion · · Score: 1

    1. Evolution *is* memory. (Some of) what works and what doesn't gets wired in.

    2. Have we really been transmitting information across generational boundaries using language all that much longer (in evolutionary terms) than we've been writing?

  19. Enter a code? on Kids Who Skip School Get Tracked By GPS · · Score: 1

    What's to stop them giving the codes and devices to someone who is going to class?

    This system nicely straddles the horribly invasive and the pointlessly insecure, doesn't it?

  20. Re:Why not just install some phones? on Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Because people are capable of talking in code, or just being subtle.

  21. This again? on Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Install jammers (probably with a whitelist of allowed phones) or STFU.

  22. On the other hand on Balancing Choice With Irreversible Consequences In Games · · Score: 1

    Much as I loved ME1, it did for me have one big flaw: completing the side-missions didn't fit with the story. The main storyline is a rollercoaster that should have you pelting at full speed to the next major plot world, and if you do buy into this you feel obliged to leave all the side-missions until you've completed the main campaign... at which point they're no longer available to you.

    I mean sure, I replayed it, but it did strike a bum note the first time around.

  23. Re:somebody should kill the bastard on A Third of World's Spam From One Russian Man · · Score: 1

    ... one at a time?

  24. Re:Robo-Thelma&Louise on Autonomous Audi TT Conquers Pike's Peak · · Score: 4, Funny

    "All autonomous vehicles are fitted with extra gasoline tanks made out of cheap plastic for explosive awesomeness".

  25. So 20 years to go digital on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a fairly generous timeframe.