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  1. Re:Not the most sympathetic victim on SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal · · Score: 1

    And the only thing they managed to prove of all this was the sharing of one CD.

  2. Gravity on Turning Soap Film Into a Projector Screen · · Score: 2

    The problem with soap films is that fluid from their top is slowly flowing to their bottom, causing their top to become thin. As a result, the film bursts in a few minutes. I haven't seen anything on how they plan to make these displays durable.

  3. Re:Pass evil laws when the people are down on 'First Base' In Greek Courts For ISP-Level Blocking · · Score: 1

    Greece doesn't have precedent law, this is a judgement based on an earlier law.

  4. Re:uhh? defensive patents = offensive = good? on Software Patents Good For Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Is there prior art in Australian law?

  5. The actual arguments on Software Patents Good For Open Source? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here is the point made:

    “If a group of open source collaborators can secure a patent, it can choose to grant a royalty-free licence to the open source community to use it just as open source software is licensed,” Bates noted.

    “This secures the invention for public use immediately. In other words, it blocks the ability for another party to patent that invention and prevents that other party from exploiting it for commercial gain.

    “Secondly, it secures the open source community the right to continue using the patented invention subject to the terms of the patent licence.

    “Thirdly, open source patented innovations reside on patent databases and thus form part of the same public record, which makes the public record more comprehensive and useful to the community at large.”

    None of these techniques benefit open source, they only try to limit the damage done by software patents, fighting fire with fire.

  6. Re:patents are supposed to move us forward on Amazon Patents Pitching As-Seen-On-TV Products · · Score: 1

    Still, if it means that nobody else can do the same thing from now on then in the end the patent has served the public good.

  7. Re:Whatcouldpossiblygowrong on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I'm reading the article right, the chips are still deterministic, they just don't care about a few rare edge cases. So whether there is an error or not depends on the input, and in your case all four chips will make the same mistake. What you could try is modify the input a little for each rerun and try to interpolate the result from that, but that won't give you perfect accuracy.

  8. Re:Works for the feds? on The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS · · Score: 2

    This whole thing sounds fake to me.

  9. Re:Garbage data?? on RunCore Introduces Self-Destructable SSD · · Score: 1

    Why the hell do they need to rewrite it anyway? In a flash memory rewriting starts with erasing the whole sector, why not just stop after that?

  10. Re:My prof dranks coffee like water on NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death · · Score: 1

    No, the data says that it reduces the risk of certain causes of death. They didn't measure whether it has an effect on expected lifetime. A shot in the head would make all those risks zero, but it's not something that will make you live longer.

  11. Re:Why isn't renewable cheaper? on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1

    once you've built the gathering mechanism

    There's the catch, getting any reasonable amount of power out of a renewable source requires a tremendous invest.

  12. Noone read the articles on GMU Prof Teaches How To Falsify Wikipedia — and Get Caught · · Score: 5, Informative

    The reason might be that noone read the Wikipedia articles. Once they have linked to them causing people to actually visit it, they were quickly debunked.

  13. Re:Solar power satellites on Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More · · Score: 1

    Or you could put those panels on the ground instead of space getting the same energy for a fraction of the costs.

  14. Re:Look at it this way on India's Proposal For Government Control of Internet To Be Discussed In Geneva · · Score: 1

    There needs to be global body but it definitely shouldn't be a UN one. The UN is a bunch of corrupt politicians and third world dictators. I wouldn't trust the UN with anything. The Internet needs to be a separate political entity, independent of nationstates. The UN will never agree to your points, the only reason some of its members are pushing for global control is so they can censor sites outside of their borders. America has many problems, but at least it has strong free speech protections, which is essential for a working net.

  15. Re:Look at it this way on India's Proposal For Government Control of Internet To Be Discussed In Geneva · · Score: 1

    The first rule of politics is that there is always worse. If the Indians ruled the net, any site could be turned off for insulting a cow.

  16. Re:anonymous is a bunch of childish kids.... on The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Why are you so sure it was them? They are not the only ones using these methods.

  17. Re:Anonymous Manifesto on The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is there a proof that it was them?

  18. Fearmongering? on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hacking causes a lot more damage than terrorists ever did.

  19. A new FF story every day on New Firefox For Android Beta Released · · Score: 2

    With the rapid release schedule a story for every FF release would already be more than enough, but now we are getting a new story for a BETA for every platform?

  20. Re:Insert on Police Charge News of the World Editor Over Voicemail Hacking · · Score: 1

    There's no difference between the two, except for their political beliefs.

    So care to tell me which liberal canceled Firefly?

  21. Ceiling on Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? · · Score: 1

    Toddlers grow fast, better mount it on the ceiling.

  22. No on Photographers, You're Being Replaced By Software · · Score: 1

    Creating a 3D representation of a scenery is much harder than clicking your camera.

  23. Re:Not enough brainpower on "Brainput" Boosts Your Brain Power By Offloading Multitasking To a Computer · · Score: 1

    It's not that easy, sometimes it's your job that requires you to multitask.

  24. No damage on Kickstarter Leaves Project Ideas Exposed · · Score: 1

    They would have been made public eventually anyway.

  25. Re:Not enough brainpower on "Brainput" Boosts Your Brain Power By Offloading Multitasking To a Computer · · Score: 1

    In short it's a headband that detects when your brain is occupied with something other than the task at hand and switches to autopilot for the time being.