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  1. Re:Dupe on Airgap-Jumping Malware May Use Ultrasonic Networking To Communicate · · Score: 1

    It's so infectous, it's already reproducing on Slashdot.

  2. Re:Oh Noes! on Self-Published Zombie Titles Have Doubled Since 2012 · · Score: 2

    They reproduce by eating the brains of their readers.

  3. That's an easy question to settle on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 1

    Get some volunteers, let them play on a machine with an old GPU and a machine with a new one. If they can tell which is which, then apparently our eyes can see the difference. I'd be curious to see the result.

  4. Re:Physical keyboard on Motorola's "Project Ara" Will Allow Users To Customize Their Smartphones · · Score: 1

    You can already buy keyboard cases.

  5. Re:Fooling body sensory and temp regulation system on MIT Wristband Is a Personal Climatizer · · Score: 1

    I definitely wouldn't use it for long periods, but fooling your body's perception heat could have interesting uses. I'd love to see this stuff hooked up to a TV or a computer to give appropriate temperature stimuli during a movie or a game. It would be like smellovision, just actually working.

  6. Re:Beat To Market By a Toy Company on Insect-Inspired Flying Robot Handles Collisions And Keeps Going · · Score: 1

    The advancement is not the cage but that it can rotate freely. That's what allows the robot to continue flying after a collision.

  7. Re:I believe the results are true on CAPTCHA Busted? Company Claims To Have Broken Protection System · · Score: 1

    Interesting idea. I guess you are right in that given enough time, most captchas could be "bruteforced" with a high accuracy. But that wouldn't be a practical way of braking them.

  8. Re:Semantic capthas? on CAPTCHA Busted? Company Claims To Have Broken Protection System · · Score: 1

    The problem with semantic captchas is that if they can be generated and checked by a machine, they can also be solved by one.

  9. Re:arXiv is not peer reviewed on Why Johnny Can't Speak: a Cost of Paywalled Research · · Score: 1

    Peer review is not fact checking. Duplication is. And without big journals and the publish-or-perish culture they are cultivating, there would be more of that.

  10. Re:Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    I would definitely trust a company that has proven the worth of their technology over a company that has started to develop autonomous cars before everybody else and has been making big claims about it for years yet still refuses to enter any independent test. Until Google shows some proof that their technology actually exist, they aren't going to convince me.

  11. Re:Well on FBI Seized 144,000 Bitcoins ($28.5 Million) From Silk Road Bust · · Score: 1

    Convert them to US dollars, just about the single most Bitcoin-legitimizing action I can imagine...

    It would also cause the biggest crash in BTC history, likely cancelling any "legitimization" factor.

  12. Re:Google can now see the future? on Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans · · Score: 1

    If you have knowledge of every property about everything and enough computational resources, you can simulate the future. Google has both.

  13. Re:The Internet on The Internet Archive Switches To HTTPS Connections By Default · · Score: 1

    Why would I need it in Wikipedia unless I'm editing it?

    Because you may not want others to know what exactly have you been looking for on Wikipedia.

  14. Re:Someone should probably explain this to them on Network Scientists Discover the 'Dark Corners' of the Internet · · Score: 1
  15. Re:I donâ(TM)t suppose... on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    So why was she writing a series of articles on a topic she had no knowledge of?

  16. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    While I'm normally against capital punishment, I don't think we should judge Americans by our own standards. Different societies require different solutions.

  17. Jokes on them on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 2

    They were all in French.

  18. Re:Evil, powerful men have enemies. on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    Murders don't happen all the time because they have severe consequences. But in this case, catching the murderer would be very hard.

  19. Re:"hack" on Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine · · Score: 1

    What's the difference? At the end of the day, they got what they wanted. Real hackers care about results, not methods.

  20. Re:Java already had closures on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 2

    Java doesn't have closures and it won't have any in Java8 either. A closure isn't the same as a lambda. In a closure, free variables are stored by reference, and their changes are reflected in the closure. Java8 lambdas require all free variables to be final.

  21. Re:Human rights. on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 1

    What human rights? Public nudity is illegal in most countries in the world. The punishment may be a bit severe, but you don't have the right to dance naked on the street.

  22. It's alive! on NSA's New Utah Data Center Suffering Meltdowns · · Score: 1

    After being stuffed with all the information in the world, the network is starting to gain self-consciousness.

  23. It's not about the engine on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The database is much more important than the engine, and IBM can't compete with Google on that one.

  24. Re:What is the point of this? on LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays · · Score: 1

    Unless you touch it with your nails (and I don't see why would you do that with a capacitive screen), a plastic screen can withstand everyday use. There were phones before the iphone, you know.

  25. Re:What is the point of this? on LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays · · Score: 1

    Foldable tablets. The screens fold together, protecting each other from scratches, and it will fit in your pocket.