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  1. Re:Macs will be a closed platform in the end on Apple To Distribute OS X Lion via the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    Did you try installing Thunderbird on the source machine and importing there?

    If so, what went wrong?

  2. Re:My brain... on Real Life Farmville · · Score: 0

    In the U.S., we also have a corrosive gun culture. Not because people hunt, but because they want murder to be easy.

    And sure, many hunters don't do their own butchering, but the majority do field dress their kills.

    And fishing? No one ever fishes.

  3. Re:I thought this was a good idea.. on Real Life Farmville · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Robert.

  4. Re:Priorities on Apple Releases iOS 4.3.3 To Fix Location Tracking · · Score: 1

    He was probably born over there and has married two of them.

  5. Re:P = NP? on Forty Years of P=NP? · · Score: 1

    So maybe he is a plumber or designs airplanes.

    His main claim was that he was not interested in the topic.

  6. Re:Smallest camera you say? on The World's Smallest Video Camera · · Score: 1

    One of the nice things about really small cameras is that you can stick them in your mouth, and then they do the work while passing through the neighborhood.

  7. Re:N900 on The Insidious Creep of Latency Hell · · Score: 2

    That's a hell of an argument, it's not a phone, it is just a shitty computer with some cellular and audio hardware built in.

    But at least they made a computer with a shitty phone application, and not a just a shitty phone.

  8. Re:Wouldn't it have been far better... on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 1

    Rumor has it that they fall out of the sky almost every time that they take off.

  9. Re:why are it the bulk of slashdot comments on Japan Raises Nuclear Plant Crisis Severity To 7 · · Score: 0

    There are a lot more hah-hah comments in this story right now than there are rah-rah.

  10. Re:And some people still wonder why... on Japan Raises Nuclear Plant Crisis Severity To 7 · · Score: 0

    It sort of does when you make the comment using a computer that uses electricity, at least over short-medium terms.

  11. Re:The truth on Fukushima: What Happened and What Needs To Be Done · · Score: 1

    There is quite a bit of independent monitoring:

    http://blog.energy.gov/content/situation-japan/
    http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html

    (Note that those links both use the available TEPCO data, but they also list other data)

    So if there is a coverup, it is more than just TEPCO and Japan.

  12. Re:Records retention? on NYPD Anti-Terrorism Cameras Used For Much More · · Score: 1

    The various situations in Iraq, Egypt and Libya are somewhat instructive. Air power is indeed very effective when it is asymmetric, but there are also demonstrations of the effectiveness of a relatively small guerrilla resistance, a demonstration that sometimes the military makes their own decision, and a demonstration of the benefits of trained troops on the ground.

  13. Re:Records retention? on NYPD Anti-Terrorism Cameras Used For Much More · · Score: 1

    Only up until the point a sufficient number feel they have nothing to lose.

  14. Re:"Reverse Engineering" how? on Apple AirPlay Private Key Exposed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sure. The definition of the phrase is pretty much investigating a device directly to figure out how it works. That's what he did.

  15. Re:Actually it's physics and BIOLOGY on Forget Space Travel, It's Just a Dream · · Score: 2

    Marine mammals avoid decompression problems by not breathing underwater (for divers, the problems come from needing to inflate their lungs under high ambient pressures; dolphins and whales inflate their lungs at 1 atmosphere of pressure).

  16. Re:Give me my iphone and I could ace it on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    One thing I wondered about is how much of it was an admissions test and how much of it was a placement exam.

  17. Re:Read more carefully: 'irreversible' impotence on Merck's Drug Propecia Linked To Sexual Dysfunction · · Score: 1

    I've seen people argue that acetaminophen should be taken off the market.

    Usually the people doing so haven't considered that it has advantages in certain situations (children, people prone to bleeding).

  18. Re:Nuclear economics on 30 Years To Clean Up Fukushima Dai-Ichi · · Score: 1

    Global insolation is ~ 100 petawatts.

    Total human electrical utilization is ~ 15 terawatts.

    That's a factor of about 6600. I don't disagree that it is pragmatic to pay attention, but I'm not real worked up about it.

  19. Re:Truecrypt on Dropbox Authentication: Insecure By Design · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's why I use TrueCrypt, so that the information I store in it isn't available if someone steals my computer.

    But we are playing imagine what the attacker is able to do, not guess what the likely attacker will do.

  20. Re:Truecrypt on Dropbox Authentication: Insecure By Design · · Score: 1

    TrueCrypt would help in the event that physical access was gained by stealing the hardware (assuming some exercise of diligence. i.e., the volume was not left open while the hardware was unattended).

  21. Re:Halflife? on 30 Years To Clean Up Fukushima Dai-Ichi · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is mixing things for fun and foment. The reactors and associated equipment will take 30 years.

    The water is only a problem in that it is easy to filter, so the government sort of insists that they filter as much of it as possible before releasing it into the environment, but the filtration plant is offline or not operating at full capacity.

  22. Re:Its not politically correct to say it. on Scientists Create a "Worth Saving" Index For Endangered Animals · · Score: 1

    Any human society will have economic limitations, the overarching design of the economic system is only relevant to the extent that it will impact those limitations.

    I.e., you can holler about it being wrong to choose, but it is very likely that we will be forced to do so.

  23. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    Why would you say "We have a problem". Only people who insist on things beyond the demonstrable and repeatable have a problem, and it is pretty clear that it isn't all of us.

    I don't think any a quantum physicist would go to his death claiming they were absolutely correct, I don't even understand why you would expect them to (they would likely vehemently defend quantum physics as one of our better theories about the universe, but it isn't likely that they would defend it as being either complete or perfect).

  24. Re:I wonder how many gigs of ram I'll need on Firefox 5 Scheduled For June 21 Release · · Score: 1

    I regularly have it over 400 MB. But the later releases of 3.6 and 4.0 have been a lot more stable in memory use than 3.5 was.

  25. Re:7.4 versus 9.0 on 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Japan; Tsunami Alert Issued · · Score: 2

    A 9 releases 1000 times the energy of a 7:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale#Definition

    And a 9 is about 250 times more powerful than a 7.4 (there is a factor of 1.5 in the exponent that "it's just a logarithmic scale" misses).