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  1. Potentially you can also: on 3D Printers Shown To Emit Potentially Harmful Nanosized Particles · · Score: 2

    - burn your fingers
    - trip on the power cord
    - drop the printer on your big toe

  2. Re:Doesn't the winner need to... on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, why would common sense be required? That would make no sense.

  3. Re:Definitely... on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 0

    he promised to shutdown gitmo

    The fix is in for that one:

    1. instead of capturing terrorists kill them with drones, this keeps new prisoners from coming in

    2. for the prisoners already there, just wait until their hunger strike ultimately ends

  4. Re:Man the FL state attornies just want to fuck up on Whistleblowing IT Director Fired By FL State Attorney · · Score: 1

    What was on the phone, that was not disclosed to defense included:

    - text messages Trayvon discussing that he wanted to buy a gun
    - text messages about Trayvon fighting, losing the first round because he was on the bottom while the other guy was sitting on him, but then in the next rounds coming back by punching the other guy in the face, breaking his nose, but not seeing enough blood
    - photo or photos of a gun
    - Trayvon's little brother asking him when he's going to teach him how to fight
    - photos of Trayvon showing off his muscles
    - photos of marijuana plants and Trayvon blowing some smoke

    These text messages and photos were hidden and password protected.

    Only the jury could've decided their relevance, but I think some of those items will be a clear path to appeal, if it gets to that.

  5. Much better than iOS. on Android Co-Founder: Fragmentation "an Overblown Issue" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    From the start Android was designed to support a variety of hardware, including screen resolution, screen aspect ratio, keyboards etc. On the other hand every time a new iDevice came out, Apple just made hacks to get them to work (eg. image for retina screen loaded by hard coded @2x at the end of the file name). There are 5 screens to support for iDevices, and it's a major pain in the arse. On android, hundreds of different screen configurations done very easily.

  6. Re:Spent $x million on what? on Former Valve Hardware Designer Recounts Management Difficulties · · Score: 2

    25 person team. $100k per person salary, just to keep it on the cheap side. Salary, per year is $2.5million, plus 25-40% benefits.

    Add to that material and equipment cost.

    Add to that rent, electricity, toilet paper.

    This project, per year, $5 million sinkhole, easily.

  7. Spent $x million on what? on Former Valve Hardware Designer Recounts Management Difficulties · · Score: 1

    I don't know how many millions this project cost, but come on, we have rapid prototyping tools so it could've at least been made looking better than a high school science fair project.

    Add to that the fact that people refuse to wear their 3d tv glasses. Or glasses in general.

    Points to this being a smart executive decision to cut losses and move on.

  8. Re:Meh I disagree on English Schools To Introduce Children To 3D Printers, Laser Cutters, Robotics · · Score: 1

    crippling laziness

    Obviously no tinker toys would've helped with that.

    programmable turtle... time to draw a circle... and well that's how you learn about pi

    Sorry to break it to you, but drawing circles in turtle has absolutely nothing to do with pi. You might just be living proof to support OP's argument.

  9. Re:Secure Boot ISN'T! on Secure Boot Coming To SuSE Linux Servers · · Score: 2

    What's wrong with Slashdot that posts with the most misinformation are modded up? And then other people take these modded up posts as gospel and keep repeating the FUD.

    Welcome, young Skywalker, I have been expecting you.

  10. Re:let me fix that for you on Lincoln's Surveillance State · · Score: 1

    No, I haven't. And I keep hoping that next time, the election will be decided on real issues by informed voters.

  11. Flying East. on Solar Powered Plane Completes Cross-Country Flight · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Pilot Andre Borschberg trumpeted the milestone of a plane capable of flying during the day and night, powered by solar energy, crossing the U.S. from West to East without the use of fuel.

    Now let's see how they get back from NYC to SF without the use of fuel.

  12. A look in my magic ball.. on US Spies Have "Security Agreements" With Foreign Telecoms · · Score: 1

    ..reveals some upcoming /. titles:

    US spies on non-US citizens
    Western countries spy on US citizens
    Western countries spy on Western citizens
    Western countries spy on non-Western citizens
    Non-Western countries spy on US citizens
    Non-Western countries spy on Western citizens
    Non-Western countries spy on non-Western citizens
    US spies share information with Western spies
    US spies share information with non-Western spies
    Western spies share information with non-Western spies
    US spies on US social networking
    US spies on non-US social networking
    non-US countries spy on US social networking
    non-US countries spy on non-US social networking


    All of these articles will spark in depth discussions about the rights of government, the rights of citizens, violations of such rights, heroes vs non-heroes, which countries have greener grass, and at the end it will be concluded that most people don't give a shit.

  13. let me fix that for you on Lincoln's Surveillance State · · Score: 1

    The [your choice of country] I believed in never existed.

  14. Re:Except, in that case there was an actual war on Lincoln's Surveillance State · · Score: 1

    > cowards do that

    But YOU voted for the coward. If not this one, then the previous one. So what does that make YOU? A farmer?

  15. Read the contract. on How To Stop AT&T From Selling Your Private Data To Advertisers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure some of the tiny letter stuff on your contract says that by signing the contract you give them full permission to do whatever they want with all the data they collect from you.

  16. Re:No reason to light up snipers these days... on Why Protesters In Cairo Use Laser Pointers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Will not happen. It's a game of numbers. Let's start with 100% and start subtracting:

    - people too young and people too old
    - democrats
    - liberals
    - socialists/communists
    - african americans
    - hispanics
    - lbgt
    - with free cell phones
    - on government aid
    - holding a lot of government debt (eg student loans)
    - fans of actors/musicians who entertain president
    - ...

    Even with the partial list you can probably see how this game was won much before it started.

  17. Congrats! on RepRap Morgan Receives $20,000 Gada Prize For Simplifying 3D-Printer · · Score: 1

    This is a great and worthy project especially since 3d printing is turning into a complete ripoff/get rich quick business everywhere else.

    There are 3d printer projects popping up on kickstarter every day that never deliver, sites are selling power resistors for $5 ($0.7 on digikey), $100 hotends that don't work, printers that cost at most a couple hundred dollars to manufacture are sold for multiple thousands. And we thought Apple's markup was outrageous...

    The reprap core team has to correct course.

  18. Re:not exactly a lot of money? on State Dept. Bureau Spent $630k On Facebook 'Likes' · · Score: 1, Troll

    You must be:

    a- joking

    b- a politician

    c- lost your sense of reality

  19. Earth Farts? on Underground 'Wind Mines' Could Keep Datacenters Powered · · Score: 1

    You mean Earth Farts? Wouldn't it be easier to dump all leftovers from mexican restaurants into large Earth Holes? That would provide even more energy. Earth Wind AND FIRE!

  20. Re:not for quadriplegics or other victims ?! on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    OK, so let's put brain damage apart for a second and let's just focus on spine injury.

    Why would you not be able to transplant nerves from a donor, replacing the damaged section of a nerve, and attach it on both ends instead of one?

  21. not for quadriplegics or other victims ?! on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    "This is not the same as restoring nervous system function to quadriplegics or other victims of traumatic spinal cord injury."

    Why? Is it possibly because someone (like wealthy social network founders, etc...) would pay lots of money for keeping their heads going vs quadriplegics or other victims don't have the money required to "enrich" science?

  22. Re:Yes they are. on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    We could, but some morons keep closing down all the nuke plants.

  23. Re:Depends on the energy source duh! on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 0

    Smart move. So you pay more for the same electricity from the coal power plant, but pay more for a wink from Al Gore, who in turn takes your money and buys jet fuel to take a weekend vaca halfway across the earth on his private island. You feel good, he feel good. Awesome.

  24. Re:No. on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    Proof with numbers, or it never happened.

  25. Re:Holy crap... on Don Mattrick Leaves Microsoft To Become CEO At Zynga · · Score: 1

    > If an already crumbling ship sinks, nobody will blame him

    That's not the issue. Sinking ships go through captains faster than a mexican restaurant through toilet paper rolls.