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  1. Re: Editors, could you at least pretend to care? on Video Released, Crowdfunding Underway For Axiom Open Source Cinema Camera · · Score: 1

    It should read "world's first," and "videocam" isn't used in English ("cam" has connotations of "camcorder," implying low resolution). I assumed that this was because English is perhaps not your first language - and it's great to see someone taking the trouble to write their own summary, instead of just copying and pasting a couple of paragraphs - but if I was en editor I'd have tidied those bits up.

  2. Are you asking or telling? on Washington DC To Return To Automatic Metro Trains · · Score: 1

    That never happens on the London underground with human operators?

    Are you asking a question or making a statement? Hello, editors?

    Now however replacement of 'faulty' modules

    Is that what they call human drivers now?

  3. Re:Surely on Star Wars Producers Want a 'DroneShield' To Prevent Leaks On Set · · Score: 1

    Just declaring a no fly zone

    ...is not something a movie company can just do when it feels like it.

    an amplifier strong enough to interupt all radio frequencies [...] would be

    Illegal, yes.

  4. Re:Obvious solution ... on Star Wars Producers Want a 'DroneShield' To Prevent Leaks On Set · · Score: 1

    It's not hard to flood those frequencies with plenty of noise

    It may not be hard, but it is illegal.

  5. Re:I love Star Wars! on Star Wars Producers Want a 'DroneShield' To Prevent Leaks On Set · · Score: 1

    He didn't hit it that hard. It must have had a self-destruct.

    (and it was Han)

  6. Editors, could you at least pretend to care? on Video Released, Crowdfunding Underway For Axiom Open Source Cinema Camera · · Score: 1

    the world first open source cinematic videocam.

    World first? Videocam?

  7. Simplicity itself on KDE's UI To Bend Toward Simplicity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    KDE's UI To Bend Toward Simplicity

    "Bend toward simplicity"? Couldn't you have just said "to be simplified"? That seems... simpler.

  8. Re:And there's the reason why... on Google's Doubleclick Ad Servers Exposed Millions of Computers To Malware · · Score: 1

    Wrong.

    Or, actually, right, given that the GP was expressing his own personal opinion. But, hey, if you know his mind better than he does...

    You will reconsider

    Also you can see into the future. Neat!

  9. Sounds like no-one has faith in these new TLDs on Amazon Purchases .buy TLD For $4.6 Million · · Score: 2

    Google was also reportedly outbid for the .tech domain, which went for around $6.7 million.

    Outbid at a paltry $6.7m? Sounds to me like Google had zero real interest.

  10. Re:There is no "almost impossible" on Apple's "Warrant Canary" Has Died · · Score: 1

    Don't tell a probability theorist what you think "almost" means.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  11. Annihilating the Milky Way's halo? on Mystery Signal Could Be Dark Matter Hint In ISS Detector · · Score: 1

    the telltale sign of dark matter annihilating the Milky Way's halo

    Is that supposed to be "annihilating in the Milky Way's halo"?

  12. Re:An Insightful Quote on Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Context:

    It's a quote from the brother of one of the arrested men:

    Raban Alou said police were targeting his brother Kawa because he hung around a "bunch of hotheads" who were being investigated by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.

    He said police were searching for any material that could link his family to al-Qaeda or Islamic State.

    "I dunno, I got a lot of anger," he said. "It's a war on Islam just because we grow our beards. They want to label us as a terrorist, or supporters of IS, whatever, that's up to you."

    I'm not sure it's all that insightful, though.

  13. Re:well said! on Torvalds: No Opinion On Systemd · · Score: 1

    I have no opinion on it.

  14. Re: Got Burned by Titanfall on The Growing Illusion of Single Player Gaming · · Score: 1

    They created a service that you don't need and forced you to pay for it.

    What, gun to the head and marched you down to Walmart, did they?

    No-one complains about being "forced" to buy deleted scenes they don't want to watch and subtitles they can't read on DVDs.

    This is the deal. If you don't like it, you don't have to buy it.

  15. Re:Linux-oriented? on Digia Spins Off Qt As Subsidiary · · Score: 1

    Noone is stronger than Chuck Norris.

  16. Re:Implementation Fail on MIT's Cheetah Robot Runs Untethered · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If this is an implementation of a cheetah's running locomotion

    It's not...

    it is a complete fail.

    ...so it's not.

  17. Duh on MIT's Cheetah Robot Runs Untethered · · Score: 1

    In general, the faster the desired speed, the more force must be applied to propel the robot forward.

    I could've told 'em that.

  18. Re: Got Burned by Titanfall on The Growing Illusion of Single Player Gaming · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With XBox Live, they basically ask you to pay to have the right to use their service

    FTFY. Doesn't sound quite so despicable when you put it like that.

  19. Re:We call this propaganda. on Sci-Fi Authors and Scientists Predict an Optimistic Future · · Score: 5, Funny

    If your English wasn't so atrocious

    weren't.

  20. Re:The fancy ones are expensive.. on A 16-Year-Old Builds a Device To Convert Breath Into Speech · · Score: 1

    That's no disrespect to him (he's doing a good thing) - it's disrespect to this kind of breathless reporting.

    What was that? Tasteful? ;)

  21. What to do on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: 1

    What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes?

    Might as well just lie down and wait for death. You're never going to top this!

    Alternative pop culture reference:

    There's plenty of things you can do to pass the time: hitch up your pants, air whittle, make friends with a Chinese man...

  22. Oculus Rift CEO says... on Oculus Rift CEO Says Classrooms of the Future Will Be In VR Goggles · · Score: 1

    Oculus Rift CEO Says Classrooms of the Future Will Be In VR Goggles

    Says, hopes, whatever.

  23. Paint job, or just looked different on TV? on Original 11' Star Trek Enterprise Model Being Restored Again · · Score: 1

    This previous restoration had Trek fans up in arms owing to the paint job, which many feel doesn't represent the way the model looked originally.

    Or did they feel it didn't represent the way it looked on TV?

  24. Re:Event Horizon on Original 11' Star Trek Enterprise Model Being Restored Again · · Score: 1

    Or, perhaps more subjectively, everyone is allowed to have their own opinion.

  25. That title needs work, for one thing on Early Reviews of Destiny: Unfulfilled Potential · · Score: 4, Funny

    Early Reviews of Destiny: Unfulfilled Potential

    I'd have gone for a more confident title, for a start.