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  1. Re:Comp Sci 101 on Quantum Computers Check Each Other's Work · · Score: 1

    Verifying that a particular answer is correct is often far less complicated...

    Often, but not always. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that Dr. Stefanie Barz knows this, and is working on this technique for those cases were this doesn't apply.

  2. Re:No nanotubes on my skull thanks on New Headphones Generate Sound With Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    If nano isn't critical and in a highly safety engineered package far from me (or at least something biologically created that I have a chance of breaking down), I don't want it.

    Better not go anywhere near any roads, then. Or anywhere at all, probably.

    I know, we'll just call them picotubes. Problem solved!

  3. Re:No link in article but it's underlined? on LinkedIn Agrees To Block Stalkers · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the editors should have... *glasses* LinkedIn to the buzzfeed article. Yeeeooww...

    *cough*

  4. Dumb on An Animated, Open Letter To J.J. Abrams About Star Wars · · Score: 1

    My first major epiphany was that, in the originals, the characters are always outside somewhere very remote.

    That was seriously your first epiphany? You didn't notice that the dialogue was terrible, the actors were wooden and the screen was plastered over with CGI?

  5. Re:They were greedy on Two Years In Prison For Using Infrared Contact Lenses To Cheat At Poker · · Score: 1

    Every cheater knows that to stay undetected, you can't win too often.

    This guy apparently didn't.

  6. Re:They were greedy on Two Years In Prison For Using Infrared Contact Lenses To Cheat At Poker · · Score: 1

    The human eye can see near IR perfectly well

  7. Why do the sparks go in one direction? on New Real Life Laser-Rifle Cuts Through Metal Like a Blowtorch · · Score: 1

    This may be a naive question, but why do the sparks blow off away from the gun? Is there also a stream of air from the gun specifically to do this? Or is it just how the physics works when the laser hits the metal?

  8. Re: 4 years on Ask Slashdot: Suitable Phone For a 4-Year Old? · · Score: 2

    Rampant unfounded speculation FTW!

  9. Re:Megalomanic on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    Hats off to RMS

    Only if he keeps his socks on.

  10. Re:Earlier this YEAR? on Scientists Create "DNA Barcodes" To Thwart Counterfeiters · · Score: 1

    Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.

  11. Re:Cool! on Sparkfun's Entire Open Hardware Catalog Made Available On Upverter · · Score: 1

    a project I'm working on. Cool beans :)

    Someone beat you to it.

  12. Earlier this YEAR? on Scientists Create "DNA Barcodes" To Thwart Counterfeiters · · Score: 1

    Earlier this year, we heard about a gun and a fogging system

    Pretty sure I heard about it last century.

  13. Re:Different for me... on Scientists Describe Internal Clocks That Don't Follow Day and Night Cycles · · Score: 5, Funny

    and I'm now 50.

    On the plus side, that's only 43 in "you" years.

  14. Re:Seems to be fixed? on GMail Chat/GTalk Sending Chats To Wrong Recipients · · Score: 1

    But how do we know whether the Apps Status page is working correctly?

  15. Re:Ctrl-alt-del on GMail Chat/GTalk Sending Chats To Wrong Recipients · · Score: 2

    There's no reason it can't be both.

  16. Re:Great player missing some key things though on VLC Reaches 2.1 · · Score: 2

    Is there any kind of standard to adhere to?

    The real solution to this problem is to apply an electric shock to any phone user who tries to record a portrait mode video.

  17. Most tenuous link ever? on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 2

    In The Undiscovered Country they modified a torpedo to home in on gas emissions from a Klingon Bird of Prey. This is a story about building trading algorithms into an ethernet switch.

    Apart from "needing to do something quickly," I really, really can't see the connection.

  18. Re:Why would you on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you meant starting as opposed to restarting...

  19. Re:Why would you on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    Also, what does C.A.D. have to do with starting a computer?

    Ah, to be so young.

  20. Nouns and verbs on Boy Scouts Bully Hacker Scouts Into Submission · · Score: 1

    Anyone else have trouble parsing this headline, thanks to multiple words that are both nouns and verbs? I first read it as "Boy Scouts (v.) [Bully Hacker] Scouts (v.)..." and it took another couple of goes before it made sense.

  21. Re:Paperwhite? on Amazon Launches Kindle Fire HDX Tablets · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Where is a tablet with no lock in? on Amazon Launches Kindle Fire HDX Tablets · · Score: 1

    Apple locks you in, but Amazon and Google don't. You can install apps from any source on a Kindle Fire and most (all?) other Androids with the tick of a box. Admittedly, I haven't found a way to replace the home app on an unrooted Kindle Fire, but it's not like Apple's prison.

  23. Re:What is it with Minecraft that appeals to dulla on Ordnance Survey Creates Minecraft Model of Great Britain · · Score: 2

    Bla bla morality is relative everything is okay stop having an opinion different from mine.

    You're welcome to have a different opinion from mine - it's assuming yours must be the correct one that makes you come off as sanctimonious. In my opinion.

    I think I just established that I was, albeit incidentally, not wasting time. If I've discouraged someone from playing Minecraft, I've done a public service.

    ...in your opinion. And if you feel passionate enough about this that you'd like to encourage the world to play Minecraft a little less and go out and enjoy the world a little more, you could try to do so using reasoned argument rather than insulting your target audience.

    Yeah ethical living is about weighing up different priorities. Encouraging people to stop playing Minecraft doesn't result in murder.

    (Although if you had a better grasp of reality, you wouldn't be playing Minecraft, would you?)

    I don't play Minecraft.

  24. Re:This makes no sense. on New York Turns Rest Stops Into 'Texting Zones' · · Score: 1

    The texting law is supposed to save lives, not as a revenue generator.

    Whose fault is it that it works mostly as the latter?

  25. Re:The feature I miss most from RISC OS... on Middle-Click Paste? Not For Long · · Score: 1

    Well, to be honest, not as much as these days. But in the old days when checkable preferences were kept in menus it was quite a time saver. And there are still times today when I find myself wanting to click multiple menu items a few branches down the tree.