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  1. The dimwitted could have known on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    From the source:
    The university tells accepted students that their offers can be withdrawn if their behavior "brings into question their honesty, maturity or moral character,"

    So they kicked themselves outta Harvard

  2. Use the CO2 to make dry ice on Scientists Develop Technology That Burns Natural Gas With No CO2 Emissions (scienceblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps as a source for a dry ice (aka solid CO2) plant?

  3. Meh. US only on NASA Runs Competition To Help Make Old Fortran Code Faster (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I thought: ah, a fun challenge.

    Then I read the last sentence in the BBC article:

    >The sensitive nature of the code means the competition is only open to US citizens who are over 18.

    They just don't get it.

  4. IMDB 'can do nothing': poppycock on Hollywood Is Losing the Battle Against Online Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What utter BS that IMDB cannot control their rating system. They will not maybe. But cannot is a lie. Do they not own their own site?

  5. IBM Notes and Domino have been doing this for year on Encrypted Email Is Still a Pain in 2017 (incoherency.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Previously known as Lotus Notes and Domino. Been doing encrypted mail for decades. Key management is not a problem. Encrypted webmail? Check! You can even give Grandma and account and let her use iNotes lite. Works like a charm.

  6. Land of the free... on Appeals Court Decision Kills North Carolina Town's Gigabit Internet (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Free to trample on each other, freedom to bribe, freedom to have lots of guns available so accidents happen more often...

    Cannot grok it.

  7. MacPlus with SE mainboard and PC psu on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    had a MacPlus, wanted to add an Emachines BigPicture (17 inch screen).

    I put in a Mac SE logicboard, a HD drive, and PC power supply, and a 200 megabyte harddisk. Attached a 17 inch Big Picture. The Mac hid partly behind the big screen , just poking out enough to provide acces to the floppy slot. Totally awesome combo!

    Gaming was great too, since the slowly decaying phosphor made for smooth graphics.

  8. Wish I was nearer to this on The 2015 Vintage Computer Festival East is April 17-19 (Video) · · Score: 1

    Having owned a Telletype ASR33 in high school and a plethora of hardware, I wish i could attend!

  9. House episode? on Scientists Regenerate Rat Muscle Tissue · · Score: 1

    I smell a House episode where he finally is cured of his Vicodin addiction by elimination of the pain of the missing leg muscle...

  10. Brilliant scientist makes crap comment on Researchers Find "Achilles Heel" of Drug Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    In the article, Haohao Dong, another member of the UAE team, said: "Because new drugs will not need to enter the bacteria itself, we hope that the bacteria will not be able to develop drug resistance in future.".
    BS! Evolution teaches us that a members of the species that mutates into a species with a more effective wall, it will have beter survival rates and thus will have developed a resistance to these new drugs. So while wonderful that a new type of drug has been found, the overuse of antibiotics still needs to be adressed, to lower the odds and thus the rate in which a more effective wall is developed by these bacteria.

  11. Looks a bit like World of Goo on 3-D Structures Built Out of Liquid Metal At Room Temperature · · Score: 1

    Vid from 0:14 to 0:41 looks a bit like World of Goo...

  12. Re:Ironic on How the Inventors of Dragon Speech Recognition Technology Lost Everything · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, they are actually te baddest of te bad. Responsible for Euro crisis, credit crisis, mortgage crisis et al. Too smart and too greedy. It's high time Goldman Sachs and former associates are made to PAY BACK what they STOLE!

  13. I would deploy a Domino cluster on White House CIO Describes His 'Worst Day' Ever · · Score: 1

    I would deploy IBM Domino like in the days of Clinton, which Bush switched to Microsoft Exchange. Reliability went downhill with that decision.
    Domino runs cheap and fast and reliable. And has always active clustering so you don't have to deal with downtime. IBM simply has a much longer track record of delivering reliable computing than Microsoft.

  14. Running Cronos ROM avoids this giant PITA on CarrierIQ Tries To Silence Security Researcher · · Score: 1

    All hail the independent Android ROM developers, who avoid this PITA!

    Thank you thank you thank you !!!!!!!!!!

    For me, the Cronos ROM has extended the useful life of my Hero greatly!

  15. Re:Interesting... on Skilled Readers Recognize Words By Shape · · Score: 1

    If I try to sound out the words my reading speed drops dramatically. Full-speed, I'm watching the movie. Which tends to make watching a movie based upon a book I've read hairraising. Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings turned out OK, as did Bladerunner. If you've already seen the movie as the writer intended it, it's a hell of a job to reinterpret that.

    Re: remembering: that's because you are trying to remember the word. Try remembering what you just saw/heard/felt/experienced with your minds eye, I think you will recall a lot more!

  16. Re:DRM should come with an SLA on DRM Broke Dragon Age: Origins For Days · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would add a mandatory third clause:

    3) DRM cannot be used unless a method is made available to remove it through a certified third party in case DRM fails, whatever the reason. (Failure to meet SLA, software company ceases to exist, etc)

  17. Right. Early. on Threats vs. Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    It's way past noon here you timezone-ignoramus. I'm loving it!

  18. I call FUD on Are Google's Patents Too Weak To Protect Android? · · Score: 1

    I rather feel this falls squarely in the court "FUD".

    What a waste of energy.

  19. The Sun is setting on Solaris on Oracle/Sun Enforces Pay-For-Security-Updates Plan · · Score: 1

    I think Oracle wants to rid the world of Solaris. That's the intent I get from this gesture. I was considering Solaris for some servers, but this nails the coffin firmly shut.

  20. Duh, TANSTAAFL on Bing Cashback Can Cost You Money · · Score: 1

    Duh, TANSTAAFL

  21. RingWorld on Saturn's Moons Built From Ring Material · · Score: 1

    Ok How many of you immedeately thought of RingWorld by Larry Niven?

  22. Re:Word 4 on Microsoft Word 5.1: The Apex of Word Processing · · Score: 1

    Ah yes. Word 4... Especially Word 4.0d, which was patched to make its self modifying code run on 68040 (have a boosted IIvi). A real screamer!

    The joy of enlightening users to just ram in all the text, and then start playing with it in outline view.

    I used it for years!

  23. Re:Predicted response on Booting Linux Faster · · Score: 1

    I am glad that OSX is based on FreeBSD...

    The User experience using the OS is great too!

  24. Re:yes, its sad, but what can we do?!? on The Extinction Of The Mom & Pop ISP Service? · · Score: 2

    You can pay for the privilege! You were not forced to leave, you CHOSE to leave. So you personally are pushing them out of the market. Don't you pay your shareware fees? If you really like that small ISP, you should support them with $s not words.

  25. Duh? How accurate does a nuclear need to be? on Blackjack: Ultra-Accurate GPS Measurement · · Score: 1

    Does a nuclear warhead really hurt less if it goes of 22 yards off target?