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  1. Re:North Pole on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    by Anonymous Coward

  2. Re:I love this story. on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    Actually, no, I read the fucking article.

    It spoke about how the amount of pop music on men's playlists decreased and leveled off around their mid-30s. That's why I specifically mentioned that my music library has a lot of pop music, and it's why I mentioned Ariana Grande, a current pop singer.

    From around 15 to 25, musical tastes expand quickly, and the share of mainstream music on a listener's playlists decreases before leveling out in the mid-30s.

    I could mention all of the other genres in my music library, but they wouldn't be as relevant to what it actually says in the actual article that I actually read.

  3. I love this story. on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    As a kid born in the early 1980s, I mostly listened to pop.
    In the mid-1990s I started listening to mostly what would then be called "alternative rock".
    In the mid-2000s, I switched to mostly pop.
    In the 2010s, I'm listening to mostly pop and dance music, with a lot of EDM, and some hip-hop. My musical tastes are wider than ever.

    As I post this I'm listening to the last song added to my music library Ariana Grande's "One Last Time".

  4. Re:Ratios? on A Light-Powered Retina Implant For the Blind · · Score: 3, Informative

    20/20 basically means "A person can read at 20 feet with a person with generally good vision should be able to read at 20 feet."

    And 20/1200 basically means "A person can read at 20 feet with a person with generally good vision should be able to read at 1200 feet."

  5. Re:Believed on Rare Ideopathic Encephaly Tied to Higher IQ, Not Lower · · Score: 1

    I got that the links were jokes, but even after clicking the link to the Coneheads IMDB entry I didn't realize that the whole blurb was referring to the Coneheads.

    I guess I'm just not one of the people with this ideopathic encephaly.

  6. Re:Yet another reminder that Fascism is liberal on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    Yes, I agree completely. Whatever could be more fascistic than trying to make sure that each person in the country has a say in who runs the government.

  7. Re:And still on NASA Ames Reproduces the Building Blocks of Life In Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Two children running into each other in the desert doesn't imply that adults don't exist.

  8. Re:The (in)justice system on Innocent Adults Are Easy To Convince They Committed a Serious Crime · · Score: 5, Interesting

    -or they would have to be more selective about what they prosecuted.

    5-17 year old took a nude picture of herself? Well I'd *like* to prosecute that, but I'm too busy prosecuting this other case.

    Kill in clear self defense? Again, I'd *like* to prosecute that, but I'm too busy prosecuting this other case.

    Can you imagine how horrible that would be?

  9. Re:Any actual examples? on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    Or enter a different name completely. Note that that's not an apology. It's just something that will accomplish what you're trying to do. Once you enter a different title and no other songs have the same mistake then it won't present that suggestion. This behavior is still unacceptable.

    The problem is that iTunes is autofilling what you're typing, but is using a list of all similar items(song names, artist names, et cetera, including the item you're trying to replace). It's fine to include a list of all similar items, but what's already there should not be a suggestion for what you're trying to enter there.

  10. Re: Nosedive on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    In Mission Control in System Preferences you can uncheck "Group windows by application" to get Exposé functionality back. It's not that I disagree with anything you've mentioned, because I don't think that should be checked by default, but I thought it should be mentioned so that other Mac users can see it.

  11. Time To Start A Criminal Enterprise on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that criminals will all be quaking in their boots to find out that the only people trying to catch them are people who couldn't even figure out how to get music for free.

  12. Hello Mr. SmarterThanMe! on Ask Slashdot: Alternate Software For Use On Smartboards? · · Score: 0

    My name's Mr. SmarterThanI!

    Do you want a grammar lesson?

  13. Re:This is also how Sarah Palin's email got "hacke on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 1

    That depends.

  14. Re:Flip the switch on Fermilab Begins Testing Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what it would mean. For all we know, maybe there's only one sentient being, and maybe they're reading this(or wrote it), and maybe they created this simulation and just don't remember doing so.

    If the universe is a simulation, the fact that other bodies act in ways that approximate my own activities is not itself definitive proof of their consciousnesses. Or maybe some have consciousness but not all.

  15. ASMR? on Is Dolby Atmos a Flop For Home Theater Like 3DTV Was? · · Score: 1

    As someone who watches ASMR videos, the ability to control the direction where the viewer experiences sounds coming from is a really great thing, and if it's used properly it could be really beneficial to the entertainment experience.

  16. Re:The difference is obvious on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 1

    The American car companies would move their manufacturing to cheaper countries, and voilà! They're no longer American cars.

  17. Re:No Way on Google Using YouTube Threat As Leverage For Cheaper Streaming Rights · · Score: 4, Interesting
  18. Re:next 50 to 100 years? on Study: Earthlings Not Ready For Alien Encounters, Yet · · Score: 1

    How long would it take for someone to walk from the southernmost tip of Africa to the southernmost tip of South America?

    A long time, right? Has anyone done it?

    But over generations, humans moved little-by-little, farther and farther out, and given a hundred thousand years or so, there were humans all over the face of this planet. It's not like one person left Africa and made the trip by themself in one day. No, but humans multiplied and spread out.

    Given the universe's age, more billions of years old than we can comprehend, even if we can't bet on a traveler making a non-stop streak across the sky to our backyard, why is it unreasonable to assume that they might have learned to live in space, and might have moved further and further out, little-by-little, and that they could be within a lifetime's travel of Earth right now?

    The fact that you're unlikely to meet some form of life from another planet is in no way an indication that you're unlikely to encounter something whose great great great* ancestor was from said other planet.

    We're so busy searching for signs of life that we don't realize that a sufficiently capable civilization might be able to exist where such signs of life don't exist, in the same way that we can exist in a plane or on a submarine. For all we know, the first bacteria on Earth could have been scraped off of the "boot" of some interstellar traveler visiting the Earth as the cosmic equivalent of the Grand Canyon. They could have been nearby before we were even here.

    And we're searching for intelligence, even though it's much more likely that we'd find simple life akin to bacteria? Has a scientist ever considered that if we do find bacteria and we set out in that direction, by the time any of us get there there might be intelligent life there? And has anyone ever considered that somewhere out there some extrasolar travelers might have made the same bet regarding Earth?

  19. Re:next 50 to 100 years? on Study: Earthlings Not Ready For Alien Encounters, Yet · · Score: 1

    Because even though life has existed on this planet through 3.8 billion years you're pretty sure they'll only detect it and start heading this way within the next 100?

  20. Re:OLD? Stupid crap still on 10.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 Brings Back Menus In Application Windows · · Score: 1

    Actually, on the Mac, you can't click above the menu items at the top of the screen. Clicking at the edge of the screen activates the control.

    As a Mac user it used to be infuriating that with other common desktop environments if you dragged the mouse to the edge of the screen they would miss the button by one pixel. Now it's common on systems using other common desktop environments, too.

  21. Price has NOT remained the same on Price of Amazon Prime May Jump To $119 a Year · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nine years ago, I could order whatever I wanted and have it delivered in two days.

    Now every item on Amazon is an "add-on item" that you can only get shipped to you if you're buying more than $25 worth of stuff. Making me pay $25 for extra stuff I don't need or want when I need toothpaste and deodorant is quite an increase in cost from nine years ago. Amazon Prime was almost $80. That $80 investment gives people quite an incentive to choose amazon.com, and it's not even like every item on amazon was available for Prime shipping even before they started doing this "add-on item" crap. There are plenty of times where I've chosen the prime item, not because it was the cheapest, but because it would be here in two days. There are many other sites and many other non-prime Amazon sellers who have better prices. Being locked into a system that doesn't have the lowest prices is not a benefit. It's a burden.

    And to make matters worse, if I decide that I do want just one add-on item, I can't even opt to just pay the cost of shipping on that one "add-on item" that I do want. If shipping is costing you too much, why can't I just pay the cost of shipping to have you send the *one* thing I do want? People who don't have Amazon Prime get to pay regular shipping cost without having to buy $25 worth of stuff they don't need, so why do people who are paying $80 extra have to get screwed over every time?

    Asking someone to pay almost $80 per year to get "unlimited two-day shipping" on things and then hiding most items behind an "add-on item" label and not allowing them to order said items at all unless said person buys $25 worth of stuff every time is not a money saver, and it is not the same price as it was nine years ago. A $40 increase in price for something that is now a burden and not a service is not justified or reasonable.

  22. Re:It's People. on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soylent Beige is beige people.

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

    Maybe we shouldn't be sentencing so many people to thirty years?

  24. Re:Technicians and engineers, really? on Foxconn's Robot Workforce Now 20,000 Strong · · Score: 2

    Automation has not lead to mass unemployment in the past,

    You're kidding, right?

  25. Re:Anything you say or do. on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 2

    Does that mean they can put you in prison as long as they don't arrest you and-

    Oh, I see.