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  1. Biological affinity on Prescription Meds Get Trapped In Disturbing Pee-To-Food-To-Pee Loop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That compound seems to have low biological affinity: if it could be absorbed and expelled intact by both humans and crops, how could it have any biological effect?

  2. Re:"Half a second" is a lifetime... on Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst May Be Linked To Gravitational Wave Find (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    photons are delayed when propagating through gas or plasma because they get absorbed and re-emitted.

    Even in vacuum, photons can hit quantum fluctuations and turn into an electron-positron pair. The pair quickly recombine into a photon with the same energy, but during the time the photon turned into matter, it travels at speed lower than light.

    Gravitational waves and neutrinos do not interact with vacuum quantum fluctuation this way. This is why they travel faster than photons. Their speed may be actual light speed, while photons travel slower than light speed (which is a bit odd when written like that, I agree).

  3. What is in a name? on Online Voters Name British Vessel 'Boaty McBoatface' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For a non native speaker, it is not obvious why this name is wrong. Is there a pun, or a reference to a cultural item unknown to me?

    A wild guess is that it looks like child talk. Is that all?

  4. Losing capital on Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In a Decade, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Summary says

    Private and government-backed companies have invested billions of dollars into plants that turn fossil fuels into electricity. Ditching these plants means losing a lot of capital and owing investors with plenty of explanations.

    We all invested even more billions of dollars into assets that require a sustainable ecosystem. Ditching it means losing even more capital.

  5. Re:Shut up Snowden! on Snowden Predicts Global iPhone Hack, Records Song (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares what you think; you aren't special or an expert at any subject matter.

    Why would you deny him the right to talk? I agree his tweets are uninteresting, but they as uninteresting as many other people's tweets.

    The problem here is that journalists think they need to inform us about everything he says.

  6. Clueless on Obama Forms Commission To Bolster US Cyber Security (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not sure multinational ex-CEOs have any clue about security.

  7. How does the system prevent control from someone else that the legitimate user?

  8. Stalin said that when one could not fight ideas, one should fight the persons. It seems somebody here had the idea to go against the business.

    This is an improvement over Stalin's approach, however it remains a terribly weak way of fighting ideas.

  9. 3D printed dress on 3D Printers Create Sound-Wave Rings And A Wedding Dress (3ders.org) · · Score: 1

    TFA does not say much about how a dress can be 3D printed, and how much manual work is required to assemble it.

  10. Smartphone on The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It is a good idea to mask a laptop's camera, but what about smartphones? They could be hacked too.

  11. Copyright? on Computer Created A 'New Rembrandt' After Analyzing Paintings (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The next big question is: who owns the copyright of a computer-generated painting?

  12. Voting requirement on Turkish Citizenship Database Allegedly Leaked Online (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I am wrong, but don't we need such database being public if we want transparent election process?

  13. Re:Not much improvement in mining? on Bitcoin Could Consume As Much Electricity As Denmark By 2020 (boingboing.net) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bitcoin iis designed so that mining gets harder as new bitcoins are found

  14. While we are at numbers: how many ready-to-strike terrorists the TSA caught?

  15. It would have been so easy to generate a local secret and use it as an identifier instead of the IMEI...

  16. Assess project quality on One of Silicon Valley's Most Esteemed VCs Says Startups Are 'Mostly Crap' (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    Improving VC means they would be able to assess project quality, instead of being misled by nice talks. Is it possible?

  17. Re:Hands free doesn't help. on NJ Legislator Proposes Fine For Walking While Phone-Distracted (philly.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it could be worse for drivers, because they need their both hands to drive in some situations, while a pedestrian can walk without using its hands

    That said, when it comes to attention, I fail to see why a hands-free kit would be of any help for a pedestrian.

  18. secret about box on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Easter Egg? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    In MacOS 7.5, drag and drop the "secret about box" text snippet to the trash, and get a waving MacOS flag. Wind direction and force is controlled by mouse position.

  19. Fiber optics have a limit on University of Illinois Transmits Record 57Gbps Through Fiber Optic Lines (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Summary says:

    breaking previous theories that fiber optics have a limit in how much data they can carry

    In other words, fiber optics would have no limit in how much data they can carry, which it utterly bullshit. How someone could write that?

  20. Java on Apache PDFBox Hits 2.0 (sdtimes.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Support for forms in open-source PDF viewers is currently disappointing,

    And one's hope is that yet another Java bloatware will fix that?

  21. Re:Wait...what? on Infamous French Hacker Calls Internet a "Digital Shantytown" (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    What is proposed here is closer to a profit-sharing or corporate-interest granting arrangements.

    But if there is something to retain from Marx, it is the point that capitalists will not give up their profits without a fight. How can this proposed system prevail?

  22. Replaced by a chineese worker on Workers In China, India, USA Believe AI and Robots Will Replace Them (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    EU politicians have the naive (or racist?) idea that in the future, China will produce goods and western countries will design them.

    EU workers are not stupid and understood that China also want to do the design. Hence their fate is to be replaced not by a machine, but by a Chineese worker designing machine-made products.

  23. Priorities on Bank of England Teams With New UK Cybersecurity Body (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Priorities are interesting. UK could have set food, water or energy supply chains as the strategic assets that need to be protected against cyber-threats. They chose finance instead.

    Is it so important to keep faith in your bank if you are under cyber siege, without electricity and drinkable water?

  24. Custom distro on Reports: NVIDIA Launching a Distro of Its Own (phoronix.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So we have a custom Intel distro to have better Intel support and a custom Nvidia distro to have a better Nvidia support.

    What about if I have a system with Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU and I want to get better support for both?

  25. Re:Mobile is broken now... on Reports: NVIDIA Launching a Distro of Its Own (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    after we had the HTTPS garbage shoved down our throats.

    Perhaps it needs fixes, but HTTPS is a good news, since the trend is about malware injection in HTTP streams