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  1. Perfectly legit on Crick's Nobel Medal Fetches $2.3 Million At Auction · · Score: 1

    Buying a nobel medal is exactly the same as earning one. It's articles like this that remind me how soulless people with large amounts of money can be.

  2. Hilarious scenarios for Friday on Ask Slashdot: What Should Happen To Your Data After You Die? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Husband dies, google releases data, wife finds out husband spent all excess cash on cam whores.
    2. Google deletes husband's data, treasure map / account numbers are lost.
    3. Husband makes another unrelated gmail account, a set time later, wife is notified husband is dead while eating dinner with him.

    Google just can't win here can they? :)

  3. Re:How did they come to that anyhow? on Mystery Meteorite May Not Be From Mercury After All · · Score: 1

    Reading that...

    That's important because it means it is a piece of a world that was large enough to have differentiated into a rocky mantle and a metal core.

    Could be us one day :)

    I can't seem to find anything on why it's green? I'm kinda curious...

  4. Re:So what on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Yes, but this is obviously the wrong site for such a discussion, I mean we've got a guy who's been on here forever not getting it, so if old members don't get it, the new ones are just plain out morons who wear their asses as decorative (so they think) headgear.

  5. Re:So what on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Let me try to put it another way, you see a light in the sky a thousand years old, you open a worm hole and instant travel there, what's your guarantee that in those thousand years the star didn't exploded wiping out the planet outside of the low probability of the event?

  6. Re:Let's predict the headlines of the future: on AMD Says There Will Be No DirectX 12 — Ever · · Score: 3, Insightful

    what's wrong with 7?

  7. Re:So what on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: 0

    I bet...

    you don't get invited to parties at all. In fact, I feel that way about most internet trolls... never met one at a party, ya know what I mean?

    I bet you all look like this too: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208835/Leo-Traynor-The-day-I-confronted-Twitter-troll-stalked-3-years.html

    Enjoy your neckbeard.

  8. Re:Google hates privacy on Google, Apple Lead Massive List of Companies Supporting CISPA · · Score: 2

    How about I link you to a google free internet experience instead?

    http://noscript.net/

  9. Re:Uh... you CAN'T stop uing Google anymore on Google, Apple Lead Massive List of Companies Supporting CISPA · · Score: 1

    Please post back here if you succeed with this boycott and still have a job at the end of that month.

    You're not even a good troll, get back in your hole asshat. We use in-house/the cloud if you can even comprehend what business systems look like. Some tiny businesses use google, but I can go a lifetime without dealing with those, so I think I'm safe.

  10. Re:Let's predict the headlines of the future: on AMD Says There Will Be No DirectX 12 — Ever · · Score: 1

    You've stumbled onto some something here...

    AMD doesn't make Directx, never has never will.

    It also sounds like TFA is trying to pimp TressFX.

    You know what though, I'm going to say I HOPE there's no directx12 because directx 9 -11 aren't worth upgrading hardware for:

    http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?s=0b835fb5dd2f2d73098918d134f47441&t=2312514

  11. Re:So what on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    way to point that out g+ guy, now prove to me those planets exist & weren't destroyed millions of years ago... as a planet a million "lightyears" away by the definition of the calculation of a light year would have emitted the light we're seeing today exactly a million years ago.

    *crickets*

  12. Re:So what on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: -1

    It may no longer exist and thus naming it would be pointless.

  13. Re:Google hates privacy on Google, Apple Lead Massive List of Companies Supporting CISPA · · Score: 2

    I don't care either to be honest. The seamlessness is nice, but as a choice between evils, microsoft offers similar usability. And I think if google truly went to the dogs, OSI competition would rise up in the constant rise and fall of internet empires to challenge and one day succeed google. I don't think google's patented immortality last I checked. They just happen to have a lot of wiggle room to fuck up with years and years of green.

  14. Re:Google hates privacy on Google, Apple Lead Massive List of Companies Supporting CISPA · · Score: 1

    There's a ton of ways to prevent that, but for the common user it could be troublesome. What I'd like to see is google implement do-not-track, but if I recall they screamed bloody murder on their revenue streams when asked.

  15. Re:Translation ... on Nintendo To Cancel Weather, News, and Other Built-In Wii Apps In June · · Score: 1

    Ya I've been posting on here for a bit, I'm just saying that at least at the time of my posting that the trolls out numbered any legitimate posts like... 5 to 1?

    They didn't load the wording... but the editors excluded oh say the reasons for the cancellations completely, and... those that RTFA would know that at least for now this is a Japan ONLY move. Headers / summaries / articles like this are a cancer imho, and just the editors demonstrating they can herd the sheeple through fear and rage.

    Anyways, I'll keep posting my objections till I find something better to do, or a better news site to have discussions on that's not reddit.

  16. Re:So what on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: 0, Interesting

    The whole thing is ironic because we're not actually finding planets, we're finding light discontinuities that were once celestial objects, a "planet" millions of light years ago could've become space dust millions of light years ago and we wouldn't know.

  17. Re:Google hates privacy on Google, Apple Lead Massive List of Companies Supporting CISPA · · Score: 4, Informative

    Took me under 5 seconds to put "firefox prevent google tracking" into my google toolbar and that brings up:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/remove-google-tracking/

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/gdc/

    and a hella comprehensive guide for thick tin-foil hats:

    http://www.leavegooglebehind.com/how-tos/how-to-build-a-firefox-privacy-arsenal/

  18. Re:Google hates privacy on Google, Apple Lead Massive List of Companies Supporting CISPA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    have you thought for one second... to stop using google?

    It's not like there's not other mail providers, search providers, and little applets floating around the web that have nothing to do with google. If google's behavior is becoming unacceptable STOP USING IT.

    How you people continue to knock a service that is completely free for you to use is beyond me.

    Ignorance check: did you know there were major search engines that aren't US based and thus are not subject to CISPA?

  19. Re:Translation ... on Nintendo To Cancel Weather, News, and Other Built-In Wii Apps In June · · Score: 1

    and then you got the idiots who are saying that Nintendo is dying and closing up shop as a result of cutting these services... that I 100% agree nobody uses. Articles like this just bring out the trolls.

  20. Re:Meanwhile, on the internet on High-Speed Camera Grabs First 3D Shots of Untouched Snowflakes · · Score: 1

    It's pretty crazy how complicated such a seemingly simple thing as photographing snowflakes can be.

  21. Re:Meanwhile, on the internet on High-Speed Camera Grabs First 3D Shots of Untouched Snowflakes · · Score: 1

    You're a little too good at that, don't you think?

  22. Re:Did the Penny Drop! on High-Speed Camera Grabs First 3D Shots of Untouched Snowflakes · · Score: 1

    where did you think money came from? The sky of course!

  23. Re:Loaded language? on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    Ummm...

    So for anybody that's ever worked in IT, we know that people who tend to run out of date browsers do so for two reasons: they are too non-technical/computer incompetent to upgrade their browser, and the other reason is nobody wants to touch their computer because they are probably unpleasant to deal with.

    However, there are exceptions to this and they can be as simple as a client having a website that needs to run on IE7 cause that's what the client's company still uses (not good, not your problem). My job runs on IE8 as per business requirements, etc...

    Having said that, I totally agree, this is not a good way to screen out candidates, and ironically people in HR tend to have some of the most poorly managed machines in some of the companies i've been in, so by this logic, they'd easily weed themselves out, and I'd have to say good riddance in most cases.

  24. Re:Slashvertising on Small Company Wants to Make Encryption Key Management Into a Commodity (Video) · · Score: 1

    Whoever signed the cert would house the key... Verisign, Comodo, etc... that's the trick, neither party has the key and a "secure" middle man does, but certs are end point authenticators, https is what would actually encrypt the traffic.

  25. Re: Okay, so, just to be clear... on IRS Can Read Your Email Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    What hasn't quite happened yet is these privacy abuses hitting some high level people with resources, then the law will truly be tested and fingers crossed that it gets fixed then, but the only reason the IRS is able to snoop emails is because the law lets them, challenging it in court in a manner that presents email similar to physical mail would make it very difficult for the IRS to do so moving forward, however, such a challenge is 6-7 figure cost for the individual.