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  1. Woo-hoo! Three day weekend! on Amazon Is Killing Off Its Free P2P Money-Transfer Service WebPay On October 13 · · Score: 2

    Amazon WebPay [...] is shutting down October 13, 2014.

    Awesome. Could they shut down a few more days between now and Christmas? I need the time off.

  2. Re:Untangle on Ask Slashdot: Advice On Building a Firewall With VPN Capabilities? · · Score: 1

    I too liked the look of Untangle, but I couldn't bring myself to use it after I discovered a probably-never-happens-in-real-life bug that causes emails to be dropped without a trace. I'd always be wondering...

  3. Re:I've gotten 4 on Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers · · Score: 1

    Haw haw!

  4. Re:I've gotten 4 on Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers · · Score: 1

    It's not going to be illegal to scam a scammer, as in order for the authorities to know about it the hackers would have to identify themselves to them, something they would never do.

    I hope you don't generally live by the rule that "if you can't get caught, it's not illegal."

  5. Re:Red Dwarf reference too.. on Researchers Working On Crystallizing Light · · Score: 1

    Close, but I think it was "hard light."

  6. Re:Still no SELinux support on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 1

    How many of the others are now integrated into the Linux kernel?

  7. Re:It's clearly genetic on Massive Study Searching For Genes Behind Intelligence Finds Little · · Score: 1

    At least some of the smartest people in the World think so.

    I'm reserving judgement until I hear what their kids think.

  8. Re:Half-life on Universal Big Bang Lithium Deficit Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Considering that the highest half-life so far determined is 790 quintillion years, I'd guess that we'd know if Lithium was that unstable.

    Wouldn't there also then have to be an over-abundance of H and He?

  9. Re:What does that have to do with driving? on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 1

    It really hurts my feelings when an anonymous coward calls me names. [/sarcasm]

    So... it's okay if the rest of us do it?

    Poopy head!

  10. Seems like not the right solution... on Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use · · Score: 1

    Loeffler suggests a suite of sensors including GPS and the wristband accelerometer could be given to convicts as a requirement for their parole

    Tagging a parolee to keep them within a certain area, or to make sure they don't stay out too late... not such a bad idea. Worried they might go around shooting guns? Maybe don't let them out yet.

  11. Re:Easier and better solution on Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use · · Score: 1

    Okay, I guess that was just one idea in the summary.

  12. Re:Easier and better solution on Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use · · Score: 1

    Why not just add a small camera attachment to the gun (i.e. on a picatinny rail where flashlights are commonly mounted) and have it automatically activate whenever the gun is held?

    Because the idea in the summary is to tag parolees, so unless you're thinking of issuing each one their own gun to monitor (and superglue it to their hand), the unremovable wristband would seem to be the better option.

  13. Re:More solar exposure? on Architecture That Changes Shape In Response To Heat · · Score: 2

    The roof gets hot, so it expands, thereby exposing much more surface to the sunlight.

    Nope. It's exposing a larger area to roughly the same amount of sunlight.

    _ _ _ _ _ _ -> /\_/\_/\_/\

    How is this considered a good thing?

    From TFS:

    thereby increasing its convective cooling.

  14. Re:When can we stop selling party balloons on WD Announces 8TB, 10TB Helium Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Yes I guess that is why a gas we can only mine tiny quantities of from natural gas reserves is currently being sold off for party balloon use.

    Party balloon helium - or so the argument goes - is an impure by-product of the production of industrial-use helium.

  15. PHP? on Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative · · Score: 1

    Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative

    PHP? Judging by past comments on here it's massively unpopular.

    Or did you mean "lesser-used"?

  16. Re:"Under the Apple Hype Machine"? on Under the Apple Hype Machine, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents · · Score: 1

    Yeah, got that and am practically comatose with anticipation. But what is does it mean to be under a hype machine?

  17. "Under the Apple Hype Machine"? on Under the Apple Hype Machine, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Under the Apple Hype Machine

    Perhaps I'm being super-dense, but... what's that supposed to even mean?

  18. No need to swear on US Rust Belt Manufacturing Rebounds Via Fracking Boom · · Score: 1

    US Rust Belt Manufacturing Rebounds Via Fracking Boom

    Watch your fracking language.

  19. Editors? What editors? on $10 Bet Brings Researchers Closer to Industrial Scale Graphene Production · · Score: 1

    to test her technique of separating layers of graphite and boron nitride to instead try graphene

    What?

    technique method

    What?

    Still, well done to AaronW for actually taking the time to write a summary, and not just copy and paste a couple of paragraphs from the article.

  20. Re:BBC? on BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    but by having a TV set.

    No, it's not. You're perfectly entitled to own a TV set without paying the licence if you don't use it for watching live broadcasts.

  21. Re:BBC? on BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    The BBC is financed primarily by mandatory TV license fees.

    It's not mandatory. Don't watch live TV? Don't have to pay.

    You can even still use iPlayer - just not for live broadcasts.

  22. Re:JavaScript on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 2

    No points.

    Or pronouns.

  23. Re:By that logic on How Astrophysicists Hope To Turn the Entire Moon Into a Cosmic Ray Detector · · Score: 1

    he she

    Hey, that's the guy's mom you're talking about!

  24. Re:LOL on Denver Latest City Hit By Viral Respiratory Infection That Targets Kids · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, that must be it. You'd better call the Children's Hospital in Colorado, since apparently the qualified medical staff there have no idea what they're talking about.

  25. I'm not sure I want to know on GM To Introduce Hands-Free Driving In Cadillac Model · · Score: 5, Funny

    GM To Introduce Hands-Free Driving In Cadillac Model

    Genetic Modification has definitely gone too far.