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  1. Uh on Amazon Is Only Going To Pay Authors When Each Page Is Read · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Fat, impressive coffee table books are...

    ...not e-books.

    Thin, concise authors will be bereft. Page turners are in.

    Why? Why wouldn't they have just as much control over the price-per-page as they currently do* over the price-per-book?

    *which may not be much, or may be a lot. I don't know.

  2. And the message was... on 'Brain-to-Text' Interface Types Thoughts of Epileptic Patients · · Score: 1

    "Ow my brain."

  3. Re:less depressed or more insane? on Triggering a Mouse's Happy Memories With Lasers Gives It the Will To Struggle On · · Score: 1

    Maybe the mice who stop struggling have simply reached a Zen-like inner peace.

  4. inconveniencing a mouse

    Now there's a euphemism looking for a meaning.

  5. Questions on Turning Neural Networks Upside Down Produces Psychedelic Visuals · · Score: 1

    Some questions, in case anyone here knows:

    What kind of size are these neural nets, typically? As in how many bytes would it take to define one?

    I vaguely get the idea of neural nets, but how do you apply them to images (or vice versa, rather)? Does the input layer consist of one "neuron" per pixel, or what?

  6. Re:Subject/Object? on BBC Develops "Mind-Control TV" Headset For iPlayer App · · Score: 1

    Splitter!

  7. Re:Same thing only different on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or cutting and welding equipment because you could armor a vehicle.

    Who'd do such a crazy thing? I'd pity that fool.

  8. Re:Subject/Object? on BBC Develops "Mind-Control TV" Headset For iPlayer App · · Score: 1

    WOWUMWOWUMWOWUM

    All hail hypnotoad!

  9. Re:Well... on BBC Develops "Mind-Control TV" Headset For iPlayer App · · Score: 1

    Because you have an uncontrollable urge to hump the TV every time he appears...?

  10. Re:Would be far more impressive... on BBC Develops "Mind-Control TV" Headset For iPlayer App · · Score: 1

    But it doesn't - even on my fast (~70MB/sec), wired connection it constantly stutters and drops.

    But it does - even on my much-slower-connection-than yours (~2.5MB/sec) [you meant MB as in megabytes, right?], wireless, it hardly ever stutters or drops.

    (and costs rather less than the TV licence fee)

    iPlayer's completely free* if you don't use it to watch live TV.

    *well, it's completely free anyway (in the UK) - you're just not legally entitled to watch live TV if you don't have a TV licence. The only check at the moment is a box popping up to ask if you have a TV licence.

  11. I've developed a Slashdot mind control device on BBC Develops "Mind-Control TV" Headset For iPlayer App · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's nothing. I've made a boobs mind-control device that boobs lets me write Slashdot posts without having to physical type titties like a chump.

    There are still a couple of boooobies bugs, but nothing a couple of big investments couldn't fix flange.

  12. Re:Conterproductive, perhaps? on Canadian Government Servers Compromised By Anonymous · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anonymous hacker XYZ convicted to Y years

    So is his middle name a number, or is he going to get sentenced to Jeff years in prison?

  13. Re:Pretty Cool on UrtheCast Releases Its First Commercial Videos of Earth · · Score: 1

    That's because, unsurprisingly, the Earth is still fucking huge even if you're 250 miles away, and you can only see something like 40 degrees* of the surface from the ISS at any one time.

    *or possibly less, not sure about my calculation

  14. And then? on Is Surespot the Latest Crypto War Victim? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you're going to end your summary with something that happened in November 2014, you could at least hint that there are further developments to be read about in the article, even if you can't be bothered to copy-and-paste those into the summary itself.

    TL;DR: no-one at Surespot is answering questions about whether or not they've had any Gubmint interference, and someone who used to work there, but doesn't any more, won't talk to anyone about it either.

  15. Re:No Keychain on Researchers Find Major Keychain Vulnerability in iOS and OS X · · Score: 1, Informative

    I don't even use the keychain for anything other than wifi network passwords.

    I don't use iOS at all, but I didn't see the point in posting just to tell everyone this.

  16. What? on Samsung Cellphone Keyboard Software Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 1

    When the phone tries to update the keyboard, it fails to encrypt the executable file.

    Why would the phone be trying to encrypt the executable (? article also says it's a ZIP file) file?

    I think what's trying to be said is that the phone fails to verify the signature on the update file - a ZIP file which may contain an executable - which it then unzips without a care.

  17. Re:What about the signature verification? on Samsung Cellphone Keyboard Software Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 1

    I read it as saying that because the already-installed keyboard APK has been signed, it runs with high priveleges. And because of its weaknesses, it will download and run unsigned, tampered "updates." These aren't just updates to the keyboard APK itself, but also things like language packs.

  18. Re:Said the what with the what now? on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    Hate those things. I can never remember my personal PIN number.

  19. Dateline: New York on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    Rohr, who represented Bobby Dee’s

    - but sounds like he's representing BMI -

    said it makes sense for businesses to be in harmony with licensing groups like BMI. “It’s actually foolish not to do it,” he said, noting the licensing cost is less than a legal proceeding.

    Is that like how it makes sense to pay protection money, because it costs less than having your store smashed up or burnt down?

    It shouldn't be "foolish not to do it." It should be "fair to all involved to do it."

  20. Said the what with the what now? on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    Giovanni Lavorato [...] says the disc DJ brought into the eatery paid a fee to play tunes.

    Can we have that in English? The article isn't much better...

    The disc jockey DJ brought into the eatery by his son also paid a fee to play tunes

    Brought in by whose son?

  21. Re:Old saying on Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus · · Score: 2

    Thou shalt not underestimateth the widthe of a bande of a tome carried by a swallow.

  22. Re:win32 really? on Microsoft's Skype Drops Modern App In Favour of Old-Fashioned Win32 App · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have 2,147,483,648 contacts, you insensitive clod!

  23. Re:What is being missed... is the $2 million part. on Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Really?

    The article isn't exactly clear on what "system" is being replaced. Boilers, air con units, etc - all might need an upgrade.

  24. Re:Angular momentum at the park on Turning a Nail Polish Disaster Into a Teachable Math Moment · · Score: 1

    That is absurd.

    No, it only looks absurd. It does, by all accounts, work well.

  25. Re:Angular momentum at the park on Turning a Nail Polish Disaster Into a Teachable Math Moment · · Score: 1

    That's not a roundabout...

    This is a roundabout!