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  1. Your Watch Works, and You Want To Fix It on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 1

    What could possibley go wrong with that?

  2. Re:The real secret on Secret of the Banjo's Unique Sound Discovered By Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist · · Score: 2

    This sure looks like a candidate for an IgNobel?

  3. Re:tracking hours in front of a phone/laptop/PC on Larry Page: Healthcare Data Mining Could Save 100,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    How about, "Hay Vender of product A, a person is texting on their phone, we can send a targeted ad about your product that will help them with the problem they are texting about."

  4. Re:Hey Larry ... on Larry Page: Healthcare Data Mining Could Save 100,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    I couldn't help but wonder if Larry had seen the "Wizard of Oz" last night; especially the last scene when the Wizard is "Outed."

  5. A Damn Fine Statement on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly · · Score: 1

    "If there was a robot that would straighten out my office and vacuum rugs and dust and re-arrange the bookshelves"

    It's ironic, the only thing holding this up is the power supply.

  6. Re:Phew, it was a near miss! on The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe · · Score: 2

    I sure hope the mensa get their math right; looking at the universe and knowing that we shouldn't exist is a little uncomfortable.

  7. "I'm Not a Bad Person" -- Don Sterling on Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit · · Score: 1

    If this issue had been one of Lible, then a lawsuit of $1.00, not $10Million would raise eye brows. Instead we have a person trying to make bank on the flimsyest of social issues.

  8. An Idea Useful for California? on Maglev Personal Transportation System Set For Trial In Tel Aviv · · Score: 1

    Consider a "3D" approach? Bottom layer would be 20/40/44 foot cargo containers, next level up are people pods. Use the existing State Highway corridors?

  9. Re:Long Overdue Use of "free space" on Maglev Personal Transportation System Set For Trial In Tel Aviv · · Score: 1

    I think the technology for handling failures already exists; I'm thinking Winch, Harness, And Rope. But most times as not, when you're stuck in a pod, the safest thing for Pod Surfers to do is wait for help.

  10. Re:So now we can steal their IP? on China Leads In Graphene Patent Applications · · Score: 1

    Are the Chinese patents filed in the U.S.? Are patents filed in China accessable for foriegners to read? Would a patent filed in China be honored in Vietnam? Our children are going to be busy learning stuff it appears; which may save their lives after we are "busy" elsewhere.

  11. Impressive on 3D-Printed Material Can Carry 160,000 Times Its Own Weight · · Score: 1

    Could they make a thread of the stuff?

  12. Re:Administrators on Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job · · Score: 1

    Fault? This demonstates your complete lack of even the most simple aspects of this issue. This issue is one of simple greed; at the ambivalent cost of damaging our children. The shortage of class rooms, and educators is synthetic. When one treats a school like a business, the first thing thrown away is the student, then the educator.

    Here's some lunch to eat; if the number of CS, and UC campuses in California were doubled, there still would NOT be enough class rooms for students. This one fact is the most menacing of issues today.

  13. Re:Administrators on Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job · · Score: 1

    Your first argument imples that you have no concept of why schools, at any level, exist. Your second argument about whom should attend a school is pure sinister. The disease that is killing education is that top level administrators are getting better money, and no one else. Educators are being systemactially driven out of their jobs. There are actually fewer educators today per student. With so much money being spent to go to schools, with less educators teaching; one has to question the motives of those that manage our schools, and the damage to this nation by maintaining the naive assumption that ignorence is bliss.

  14. My thoughts were more pedestrian, nothing sinister, my thinking is that some one wants a few more dollars by hyping the sale; maybe? But then again never substitue malice when simple stupidity makes sense.

  15. So who would stan to gain from such an event occuring?

  16. Parasite Entry? on Make a Date With Fraud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Looking at the code provided by NetCraft, and RTFA, it looks like a bogus php $_post transaction is sent to a php web service? So if the web service doesn't verify the inputs, then that would be an entry point where a script vectors in? I guess the real question is, "How to prevent a PHP script being executed when it is being read in as an $_post element? Another question is, "What command sequence causes this?"

  17. Re:The real question in my mind on Test: Quantum Or Not, Controversial Computer No Faster Than Normal · · Score: 1

    In this case, it's finding a way to be faster than other guys. It'll happen, but not today; maybe tomorrow. My main concern is will it run my Battle Field 5 game?

  18. Re:Amount of useful science generated: close to ze on Draper Labs Develops Low Cost Probe To Orbit, Land On Europa For NASA · · Score: 1

    I was thinking along the lines of a camera. Maybe get under funded 'KH Sat. and move it to Europa?

  19. Re:So how is that going to work on Chinese Vendor Could Pay $34.9M FCC Fine In Signal-Jammer Sting · · Score: 2

    I heard that a someone bought a signal jammer. I tried calling this guy at his Meth Factory, but I couldn't get through.

  20. Re:So how is that going to work on Chinese Vendor Could Pay $34.9M FCC Fine In Signal-Jammer Sting · · Score: 1

    Ok, I just bought a Signal Jammer and I have it in my trembling fingers. Um, what's the point of buying it? What if I need to make a phone call? What if a Tornado is approaching my trailer park? What if 60 Minutes is outside my fortified compound? Before I even turn it on, its not working! Maybe I can exchange it for some really good looking rolex watches?

  21. Re:The real question in my mind on Test: Quantum Or Not, Controversial Computer No Faster Than Normal · · Score: 1

    Ok crew, coffee break is over, back to the Drawing Board.

  22. A couple of questions come to mind. "How does one backup?", and "If I need to make a U-Turn, how can I?"

  23. Mapping the Nematode? on First Movie of an Entire Brain's Neuronal Activity · · Score: 2

    So many questions.
    Could a complete mapping of the neural network be accomplished?
    Would it be possible to artificially trigger a neuron to verify the mapping?

  24. Re:I'm really missing Groklaw on US Supreme Court Invalidates Patent For Being Software Patent · · Score: 1

    Aside from that.

  25. Re:confused on SpaceX Falcon 9R Vertical Take-Off and Landing Test Flight · · Score: 1

    I don't think Terminal Velocity is at some Hyper Mach number. Why not use the engine to slow the craft down to a use gravity for a vertical decent?