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  1. Re:How 'bout on the bottom? on LG's New Fingerprint Sensor Doesn't Need A Button (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    You... you don't want to know.

  2. Re:Exaggerate Much? on Without Encryption, Everything Stops, Says Snowden (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    You think script kiddies have quantum computers powerful enough to break RSA?

  3. Re:I'm... on Craig Wright Claims He's Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    I'm Satoshi Nakamoto, and so's my wife!

  4. There's more than one country in the world, y'know on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    The US Government wants to force people of interest to use their fingerprints to unlock phones

    FTFY. Fixed the stupid capitalisation too.

  5. Re:Can anyone explain to me... on New Chip Offers Artificial Intelligence On A USB Stick (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably not.

    What's really inexplicable is that you actually took time out to write about how little you care about it. Why would anyone do that?

  6. Re:Why? on New Chip Offers Artificial Intelligence On A USB Stick (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It's faster.

  7. No external power supply? on New Chip Offers Artificial Intelligence On A USB Stick (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    and without even using an external power supply.

    What are the 5 volts provided by the USB bus if not "external power"?

  8. You can't, it's subjective on Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? · · Score: 1

    Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books?

    Read a lot of them and the one you like the best is the one you like the best.

    Anything else is just time wasted that you could be spending on reading more sci-fi books. Or anything else you enjoy.

  9. Where to start with what's wrong here... on Can Quantum Entanglement Create Faster-Than-Light Communication? (mit.edu) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot reader StartsWithABang writes:

    Reader? Reader? I very much doubt StartsWithABang ever reads anything here.

    Can Quantum Entanglement Create Faster-Than-Light Communication?

    No, it can't. This has been known for years, and gets pointed out in every quantum story on Slashdot multiple times.

    If a headline asks a question, and the answer is known, I should think the last Slashdot could do is to put that well-known and proven answer in the summary.

    And Friday MIT News reported a research team is now making progress toward capturing paired electron halves for quantum computing on gold film. "Our first goal is to look for the Majorana fermions, unambiguously detect them, and show this is it."

    Does that have anything to do with the aim of FTL communication? Or did you just put it in because it had the word "quantum" in it?

    This week even 85-year-old Star Trek actor William Shatner cited quantum entanglement in a discussion of Star Trek's transporter technology

    And just when I thought it couldn't get any more tenuous...

  10. Yeah, you fucked it up, Slashdot on Malware Taps Windows' 'God Mode' · · Score: 0

    Next, run this specially crafted command from the command prompt (cmd.exe): > rd âoe\\.\%appdata%\com4.{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}â /S /Q.

    Fix the bloody quotes, will you?

    At least under the old owners we didn't see any sign of Unicode.

  11. Please [stop] doing this, [silly people] on Ask Slashdot: Should This Photographer Sue A Hotel For $2M? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    An Austrian photographer was contracted by the luxury [hotel] Sofitel

    [But] with this money

    I wish the editors - I assume it's the editors - would stop highlighting every change - I assume that's what's being done - they make to a submission. It doesn't help with anything.

  12. Google Files Patent For Injecting A Device Directly Into Your Eyeball

    What, named me personally, did they?

    Please stop letting through headlines with "you" and "your" in them without a second glance. It's a clickbait tactic, regardless of the merit of the story.

  13. Re:First a bird, now a weasel on Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So much like in H.G. Wells "The Time Machine" something would always happen...

    Err... when did that happen in The Time Machine?

    Or are you thinking of the film (Simon Wells's), which I liked, but had to accept didn't really make sense.

  14. Re:Might sound crazy. . . on Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, a weasel is weasily wecognisable. Stoats are stoatally different.

  15. Re:Greetz from Yankeeland !! on Google AI Has Access To 1.6M People's NHS Records (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Digital? Like... with a finger?

  16. Re:Isn't the idea on Who's Downloading Pirated Scientifc Papers? Everyone (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The idea that you can is pro-knowledge.

    The idea that anyone should have to is anti-knowledge.

  17. Re:Computers don't learn on Nvidia GPU-Powered Autonomous Car Teaches Itself To See And Steer (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but-

    No, wait, I'm not sorry. Why would I be sorry? Why are you sorry?

    Anyway, yes there is.

  18. The Nvidia team trained a convolutional neural network (CNN) to map raw pixels from a single front-facing camera directly to steering commands.

    That's about as "direct" as... well, as direct as the connection between the photons that enter my eye and the hand movements I make to steer my car, I suppose. Not very direct at all.

  19. Re:-1 Disagree on Nintendo's Mysterious 'NX' Gaming Platform To Be Launched In March 2017 (pcworld.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm posting non-anonymously just to be contrary. Hah! Everybody read the GP!

  20. Pah, study on Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, Says Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, Says Study

    Never mind the study. What does the billiard room have to say about it?

  21. Headline correction on Millions Of Waze Users Can Have Their Movements Tracked By Hackers (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    Millions Of Waze Users Can Haz Their Movements Tracked By Hackers

  22. Re:Volume on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Well yes duh on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not. No-one's forcing you go to YouTube.

  24. Not just LTS, but LTS support! on Node.js Version 6 Released With LTS (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Good, it's about time we had long term support support. But what about long term long term support support?

  25. Oh for... on Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved

    I haven't got a media business. Are you so insecure in the quality of your stories that the only way you think you can get readers is to make people think the story personally affects them?