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  1. Re:Aside from the games' rules themselves... on Kids Still Playing Pokemon Like It's 1999 · · Score: 1

    It's also not a marketing scam to get kids to buy the pieces.

  2. Re:So would an analogue be the steering wheel? on Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Should Be Shared · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many disabled people control their car via a joystick.

  3. Re:How complex the model has to be? on Software Emulates Organism's Entire Lifespan · · Score: 1

    Yes, emulation is a huge overstatement, this project basically simulated only the DNA and the metabolism of the cell.

  4. Re:Feel free on Judge: Cops Can Impersonate Owner Of Seized Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Which means that if you do anything wrong the police has the right to wiretap/harass all of your family and everyone else in your phonebook without having to obtain separate warranties for them. A strong card when they want to persuade you to "cooperate".

  5. Re:Hit me on Judge: Cops Can Impersonate Owner Of Seized Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    But he was already guilty of possession, so this is a bad example.

  6. How do they keep the virus in the body? on Gene Therapy Could Soon Be Approved In Europe · · Score: 1

    How do they make sure that the virus they use doesn't spread to others?

  7. Now there's an aggressive movie on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It caused violence even before it was shown.

  8. Re:Far-fetched on Plan to Slow Global Warming By Dumping Iron Sulphate into Oceans · · Score: 1

    Even if global warming is human-caused, it's unlikely to do as much damage as algae blooms. The number necessary for a significant CO2 reduction would eliminate a large portion of marine life. While doing something is certainly easier to sell to the public, it's not always better.

  9. You can try on Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric? · · Score: 1

    but a SUV will never become environment friendly.

  10. Re:Wrap rage...? on Apple Gets the Importance of Packaging; Why Doesn't Google? · · Score: 5, Funny

    But the main main reason many people buy an iPad is so they can make unwrapping videos for Youtube. The tablet is just a bonus.

  11. Legislation is not the way to deal with this on Australian Consumer Group Wants Geo-IP Blocking Banned · · Score: 1

    While I also dislike geoip blocking I think that we can fight them much more effectively by technological means (like proxies) than by further regulation of the Internet.

  12. Re:Misguided on JavaScript For the Rest of Us · · Score: 2

    I write my code in English so that everyone in the world can understand my source. Digging through a library written in French would be much worse than learning the meaning of a few words (that have little to do with their English meaning anyway).

  13. The olympics should promote sports on An Olympic Games For Enhanced Athletes? · · Score: 1

    Freakshows with a lifespan of 30 years wouldn't be the best way to do that.

  14. You mean FTL? on High-Performance Monolithic Graphene Transistors Created · · Score: 2

    With the current size, that would be quite a huge step forwards, considering that light travels about 7.5cm during a 4GHZ tick. The main limit in frequency isn't the speed of transistors, but the speed of light.

  15. Re:Translation: on Judge In Kim Dotcom Extradition Case Steps Down · · Score: 1

    Judges are not Wikipedia to be completely neutral, in fact their job is exactly to decide between two parties. When a judge has personal or financial ties to one of the participants (like in the Pirate Bay trial), that's a valid reason to demand him to step down. Simply having an opinion isn't.

  16. Re:Translation: on Judge In Kim Dotcom Extradition Case Steps Down · · Score: 1

    He didn't, he quoted someone else and then the whole thing got published without context and blown out of proportion.

  17. Re:Lovely on Washington State To Allow Voter Registration Over Facebook · · Score: 2

    I think they only register on Facebook don't actually vote there, although with America and their evoting machines you never know. As for unnecessarily complicating the voting process to scare off undecided voters, that may not have the effect you are hoping for. You see, the more you know, the less you trust all the bullshit the parties are feeding to you, or that elections really have an effect on your life. The people who will go to an election no matter what are the radicals.

  18. Scores are unnecessary on The Problem With Metacritic · · Score: 1

    Anyone who reviews videogames -- or any form of entertainment, really -- will tell you the score is but one part of the puzzle; in some cases, it's looked upon as a necessary evil, as certain outlets' experiments with ditching scores altogether have been deemed failures.

    Yeah, that's why Rockpapershotgun have failed...oh wait.

  19. Not a prediction on Asimov's Psychohistory Becoming a Reality? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is model building, not prediction. They tried to find a model that can calculate the events of 2010 based on data from 2009. This may sound like prediction, but the important thing is that the researchers started this after the events the model "predicted" happened. Thus, they were able to tweak their models to fit reality. This is not a bad thing, that's how you create working models, but a prediction is a statement about things in the future. They only made predictions now that they have published their results, and whether they are right or not remains to be seen.

  20. Jumping into the same abyss on Firefox OS Will Win Big With Developers - Mozilla · · Score: 2

    as ChromeOS did. People still aren't interested in dumbing down their devices to a mere terminal.

  21. Many troll articles today on Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article is full of prejudice, misinformation and bullshit. First of all, the hackers causing real damage aren't your stereotypical basement dwellers: most of them are either part of a criminal organisation or a state agency. The young kiddies who do it for the lulz, as a challenge or to support an ideology are only the visible tip of a huge iceberg, as they are the ones who are either too careless to cover their trails or directly announce their deeds. Most of the time they cause little harm, and sometimes can even be valuable when pointing out vulnerabilities which could have lead to the loss of sensitive data in the hands of a more mischievous hacker. If you want to stop them from growing up to be blackhats, the most important thing would be legislation that doesn't send them to jail for pointing out that a door is open. If you don't want them to become outcasts, don't cast them out. Provide them with ways to use their skills within the boundaries of the law. Sending a shoplifting kid to jail is a sure way to turn him into a robber, and the iron fist approach will not work any better on adolescent hackers.

  22. Re:not always... on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    It's true for every system satisfying the axioms of arithmetic.

  23. Re:The article's wrong too on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    But those services don't follow the W3C standards, so strictly speaking they are not web.

  24. Re:Fragmentation on Why We Should Remain Skeptical of the Ouya Android Console · · Score: 1

    high resolution gaming on a tv

    Now that's quite a paradox here.

  25. Like all futurists on The Hivemind Singularity · · Score: 1

    He will be careful to only bring things that came true up by the time this doesn't happen.