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  1. Re:yay on Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court · · Score: 0

    just because A==B does not mean B==A

    all dogs may be mammals but not all mammals are dogs

    ionizing radiation is bad non ionizing is not(in normal dowses so no lasers do not count). Visible light is EM radiation but no sane person says it gives cancer or is the same as Gama rays which are also EM radiation.

  2. Re:Also, Apple would need NFC in their phones on Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security · · Score: 1

    weird my local bank has made it default on all debit cards and i have seen it on credit cards and all of the card reader in my area have it and now many of the vending machines have it even. unfortunately the vending machines at my collage can't uses it due to the IT refusing to allow them have a network connection the card readers are useless. and i usually don't get a lunch break between classes so it is particularly annoying.

  3. Re:To what end? on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 1

    firstly the spacecraft the would go to mars would obviously not be the current generation of his space plane. As for publicly funded research thats findings publicly funded research should be in the public domain (not that it is in practice unfortunately) and thus usable by him. but if you meant that he is drawing on the public funding your wrong he is saying privately funded so no issue.

  4. Re:Well... that sucks for them. on Mikko Hypponen's Malware Odyssey · · Score: 1

    just remember if you can't guess their password just type "backdoor" and you can gain access to any and all systems at least that is what Hollywood taught me.

  5. Re:Or do the right thing on Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security · · Score: 1

    not that i disagree but you can kill lots of people on a plane with a gun/knife so I would add weapon searches but make it reasonable, my swiss army knife is not going to be an effective weapon neither is a toenail clippers.

  6. Re:Leave your cell phone at home... on Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security · · Score: 1

    or just don't charge the battery and it be dead when you get to the airport, and toss one of the AA-battery powered phone chargers in your carry-on and charge it in route to your destination.

  7. Re:Secret HOW? Nice Headline Slashdot... on Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security · · Score: 1

    no they are evil and want to put the ghosts of the sentient alien space clams back in my head.

  8. Re:Secret HOW? Nice Headline Slashdot... on Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security · · Score: 1

    and you weren't required to use ssn for anything else originally either.

  9. Re:Companies: Apple isn't forever on Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security · · Score: 1

    And if Microsoft hadn't bailed out Apple and committed to MS Office for OSX to beat the charges of monopolizing the market, Apple would have been on the list you just made. Apple with out one of the Steve's in command is doomed to to fall. Apple was at one time king of the personal computer then Microsoft began to sell DOS and NT to IBM and all of the PC clone manufacturers, which resulted in a situation very similar to the modern smart phone wars. by the way Apple tried pulling patent wars then to suing MS over the W.I.M.P. interface that they didn't invent much like they are currently suing over interfaces and other standard design elements now. Android for better of worse will probably be the next Windows in that it will be on everyones devices. Hopefully it Linux's influence and openness will stay with it keeping Google form being the next Microsoft.

    to quote battle star galactica

    "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
    or
    Apple's had held the consumer computing market before and they will loose it again

  10. Re:Also, Apple would need NFC in their phones on Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security · · Score: 0

    have you never bumped into someone or been bumped into in a crowd, or a rave, or a moshpit, or in busy airport, or any of a million other place where people come in close contact with each other. people have been pick-pocketed for millennium without noticing they were having things taken out of their pockets. now they don't even have to touch you.

  11. Re:Also, Apple would need NFC in their phones on Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Yes you have seen it, just not on your phone its on you credit/debit card. Only its called paypass or blink but the technology is the same.

  12. Re:This is great news on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 1

    ah the B ship approach, according to Douglas Adams it worked for to populate earth didn't it?

  13. Re:To what end? on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 1

    no don't ban religion in space, religion is great for colonies religious groups through out time have been more than willing to go to colonize new land knowing that they could not return which would be true for most astronauts on a mars colony. And their being no indigenous life on mars there would be no moral complications of destroying the native culture because there is none. Puls religion provides hope to people hope would be something people far away from all other life in a inhospitable enviroment with no chance of return would need. nihilist in space is a very bad idea.

    just be clear about what religion (no scientologist would not be a good one unless they are on the B ship) and weed out the crazies, nut jobs, go for the tolerant forgiving, middle of the road type, not the hardline evangelical, or the birth control is evil crowd (no birth control in space with limited life support systems would be a very bad combo) or the kill the infidel/heritic/heathen/"doesn't look sound act like me" type

  14. Re:To what end? on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you want to tax the guy more because he want to pay to build and research the technology and build the space craft to advance us as a species? this guy is wanting to do more for humanity than the government would do. They (the government) would simply put it in the general fund or squander it on a war or pork barrel funds for campaign contributers.

  15. Re:dibs on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exactly, I would be more than willing to work to pay my way to space at little to no pay, and if I were ever return to earth I would have on hell of a resume entry; though I would be more than willing to stay. Who gives fuck about pay and shitty hours and conditions, it's SPACE! My parents are friends with one of the engineers of the Canada armthe robotic arm used (formerly) on the space shuttle and space station he had the chance to go to space but his wife threatened to leave him if he went up so he stayed. I would still be kicking myself if I were him.

  16. Re:Food? on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 4, Informative

    feed them things that are easy to grow and genetically modify,
    yeast cheap easy and fast growing
    algae is another great option and can be used to make clean air
    fungus is another posibility
    some plants would be easy to grow in a hydroponics system - lots of sprouts, and roots/ tubers(potatos, ginger, carrots, ect) and bamboo shoots can be grown repetitively quickly

  17. dibs on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I call dibs on first job interview for lead IT tech on the mars settlement.

  18. Re:Why not on Motorola Seeks Ban On Macs, iPads, and iPhones · · Score: 1

    while shredding it throw in all their indie music.

  19. Re:And they'll still buy the next iPhone on Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App · · Score: 1

    so buy a nexus phone tablet or weird orb thing and have all of your updates on time, if you want quality buy it if you want the trackfone cheap (cheap in both meanings) the don't be surprised by the lack of quality. oh and the nexus has an unlocked boot loader for all of you firmware hackers.

  20. Re:SourceForge on Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal · · Score: 1

    Maybe the will add and host a git repository for the SourceForge active projects, that could help breath some life back into it.

  21. Re:Top ten effects of Slashdot being bought by Dic on Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal · · Score: 1

    On the flip side, perhaps this'll be the death knell for SlashBI.

    "...ding dong the witch is dead the witch is dead the witch is dead ding dong the wicked witch is dead.."

  22. Re:Let's Just Hope They Leave Well Enough Alone on Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal · · Score: 2

    hmm I wonder how you could make a d20 based moderation system? make a save vs troll? turn karma into a armor class and have tha0? it might work

  23. Re:Who cares on UK Government Owns 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    don't worry just because they won't have a ligament reason to won't mean they won't do it anyway just so they can make a few extra bucks

  24. Re:Show me the calculations on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    i thought that discovery was aimed at motorcycle gear-heads and grease-monkeys at least that is what i gathered last time i turn on their tv channel

  25. Re:Show me the calculations on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 2

    but a crazy archaeologist will realize that it isn't hieroglyphics at all its constellations and that is you dial six of them and use a seventh symbol as the point of origin, you will create a wormhole to another world