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  1. Re:Poor Granny... on Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans · · Score: 1

    Why do you (and an AC above) assume it has anything to do with IP addresses? Wasn't that part of a different story on TOR recently?

    My first thought was that it might have something to do with capturing timing of keystrokes or mouse movements, perhaps even before the CAPTCHA is displayed (i.e. while reading the story before trying to comment).

  2. Re:light pollution on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    pedestrians?

    They won't be able to molest kids if they can't find them in the dark.

  3. Re:Let me not on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Burma Shave.

  4. Re:I wish they'd do it here. on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 0

    Stupid democrat. Go back to Russia!

  5. Re:Nitrogen narcosis? on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    I meant as a general method of execution (I also meant hypoxia, not narcosis), not for this specific case.

  6. Re:So it wasn't hacked, and Google fucked up... on PHP.net Compromised · · Score: 1

    That doesn't like a denial that they were hacked, only that there was some confusion when they looked at the suspect file and found nothing wrong with it because it had been reverted.

  7. Nitrogen narcosis? on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    How costly would it be to flood the chamber with nitrogen?

    On the downside, in some people's opinion, it's apparently not an unpleasant way to go*.

    *because they've tried it on people in slightly less-than-lethal concentrations, before some wiseguy asks.

  8. Re:i wonder.. on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    to the person in the ship moving .5c it expands.

    Are we talking a ruler co-moving with the person inside the ship? In which case, it won't seem to expand to them at all. It'll stay exactly the same.

  9. Shared experiences on Ouya Developers Share Their Experiences · · Score: 1

    Okay, so, this one time, I thought I was getting with this hot chick, but I was soooo wasted that I...

    Oh, you had something specific in mind. Right.

  10. Re:It's a race for ownership of the car's OS on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 1

    Completely bug free

    So far beyond wrong.

  11. Re:So what'll we do with half a trillion dollars? on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 1

    This is not a lifestyle I want to live.

    I don't want to a live a lifestyle where I have to do what someone else wants for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, but I got over myself.

    I can't imagine a future population truly being happy with this either.

    Then you're not imagining very hard. I'm only part of the present population but I already think it'd be an excellent idea.

  12. Re:I like my A4 2T 6 speed on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 1

    Why can't it be about both? Sure, if a texting driver causes an accident, on a karmic scale I'd rather the driver at fault died than the innocent party, but given the choice I'd rather no-one died at all.

  13. Re:I like my A4 2T 6 speed on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 1

    It's quite enough that he's required to pass a competency exam and forbidden from driving while impaired.

    It's only "quite enough" because it's a balancing act between safety and practicality and this is the way things have settled for now. Autonomous cars are going to change that whether you like it or not.

  14. Potatoes on Facebook Faces PRISM Data Investigation In Ireland · · Score: 4, Funny

    The DPC simply wanted to get this hot potato off his table

    I thought the Irish liked potatoes.

  15. Re:Product X has security flaw... on IZON IP Cameras Riddled With Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    So you can make sure the front door locks work, for one thing.

  16. Re: It was already a dangerous site to visit ... on PHP.net Compromised · · Score: 1

    or a very complicated system for the compiler to implement

    What's so complicated about doing it at compile time? When a function's called, compare the caller tags to the function definition tags and re-order them to match - no?

    Then as a user I not only need to remember what the parameters are for every function, but what they were named?

    It doesn't have to replace the current way of doing things. AviSynth allows parameters to be specified either in order or by name.

  17. Re:There really is no point on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    Motion-Picture Film - Indoor Theater and Review Room Projection - Screen Luminance and Viewing Conditions

    This standard specifies the screen luminance level, luminance distribution, and spectral distribution (color temperature) of the projection light for theatrical, review- room, and nontheatrical presentation of 16-, 35-, and 70-mm motion-picture prints intended for projection at 24 frames per second.

    That looks to be a guideline for - guess who - Motion Picture and Television Engineers so that they can do their job under a consistent set of conditions. It's not a universal "best way to watch TV in the comfort of your own home." The summary actually seems to actively exclude TV.

    If you want to sit closer, sit closer. If you want to sit further back, sit further back.

  18. Re:i wonder.. on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but that's not a good enough explanation

    Well excuuuse me for not being Carl Sagan...

    First, the acceleration events can be eliminated by doing flyby events and simply transferring the clock readings of events;

    Supposedly paradoxical equally slow tick rates will be determined by each traveller on a flyby, but to compare the final amount of time dilation at least one of them will have to turn around to meet up with the other and compare clocks again. If they execute symmetrical manoeuvres to meet up, their clocks will match when they meet - but if they don't, as is the case with the twin paradox, the clocks won't match.

    Second, the accelerations would be the same for a short trip and for a long trip, however the dilation effects are more pronounced on a longer journey

    Okay, perhaps what I really meant was that the accelerations are more of a demonstration of the asymmetry between the twins. The amount of time spent travelling relative to the stationary - non-accelerating - observer (and the relative velocity) is what determines the amount of time dilation, and the acceleration is what causes all of the relative motion to occur.

    Third, from the "travelling" twin's point of view it is the "stationary" twin that experiences the acceleration

    Nope. The travelling twin experiences his own acceleration - he'll be pushed back into his seat - from which he can determine that the stationary twin is not experiencing any.

  19. Re:2013: The first non-Latin TLDs... on First New Top-Level Domains Added To the Root Zone · · Score: 1

    Really, you think these are the fist non-Latin TLDs ?

    All right, calm down. I didn't realise these were only the first generic TLDs. I was more concerned with sarcastically pointing out Slashdot's continuing lack of support for unicode than factual reporting, and for that I can only apologise profusely.

  20. Re:There really is no point on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    The recommendation these days

    There you go again with that "the" word. Where did this One Recommendation come from?

  21. Re:How safe? on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    you might be able to pee on your own in a couple of months.

    Pee on your own what? Weirdo.

  22. Re:Little Let Down on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He did as much as was necessary to establish trust and no more.

    Or so he has led you to believe...

  23. Re:But can you trust xavier2dc? on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but your Sailor Moon vs. Iron Man stories have already been stolen

    It wasn't "vs." You don't want to know what it was, but it wasn't that.

  24. Re:Product X has security flaw... on IZON IP Cameras Riddled With Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    What if you accidentally forget to disable it before the device you were developing for ends up on sale?

  25. Re:There really is no point on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    10 feet is well beyond the recommended viewing range for a 42" TV.

    Who decides these things?

    A former engineer colleague of mine at the TV station where I used to work always said that "the" recommended viewing distance was six times the width of the screen.

    It's just the loudness war all over again.

    Get too close and you start failing to perceive things on one side while you're looking at the other.