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  1. Re:Oh. Now I see it. on UK Voice Crypto Standard Built For Key Escrow, Mass Surveillance (benthamsgaze.org) · · Score: 1

    Telcos may not be able to serve british subjects without mandating this protocol on all their devices and their networks..

    If that happened, anyone who wants to use some other form of encryption can arrange it themselves.

  2. Re:Oh. Now I see it. on UK Voice Crypto Standard Built For Key Escrow, Mass Surveillance (benthamsgaze.org) · · Score: 1

    You'd have to go through a government-run server...

    No, you wouldn't. Unless you do critical work for the UK government.

  3. Re:Trump just says stuff on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Fine, but it's from a toothless badger.

    It could be worse.

  4. Re:Wow commas in domain names on Microsoft To Release Educational Version of Minecraft (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    He's not trying to pass himself off as a relevant and respectable news website.

  5. Re:"Robust" artificial Languages on Interviews: Ask David Peterson About Inventing Languages · · Score: 1

    I doubt very much that ordinary Roman citizens ... corrected each other's grammar.

    Wrong you are

  6. Re:Just one question: on Interviews: Ask David Peterson About Inventing Languages · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Deep.

  7. Re: But we STILL haven't seen how it actually look on Microsoft Leaks New HoloLens Details (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I see videos of solid 3D models composited onto a live camera view using similar technology, but what I have yet to see is what it actually looks like to a human wearing the thing - i.e., according to accounts I've read, transparent and occupying only a small area of your field of view.

  8. Re:We know there are questions we can't answer. on Are Some Things About the Universe Fundamentally Unknowable? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is the mathematician is just thinking about what i possible in principle.

    Why is that a problem? It's exactly what this story is about.

  9. Re:"Policy not to acknowledge" quote is offensive on Katherine Johnson: NASA's Pioneering Female Physicist (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    not listed as co-authors. Because they were female.

    Or because they were computers?

    There weren't any male ones who might or might not have been credited, so...

  10. Re:We know there are questions we can't answer. on Are Some Things About the Universe Fundamentally Unknowable? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    For example, does 2^(10^(10^500)) +1 have an even or odd number of distinct prime factors? That took two seconds to write down, but unless there's something very weird about numbers close to powers of 2 then we literally lack the computational power in the observable universe to answer that question.

    I don't think many mathematicians would accept "we can't do it because we haven't got a big enough computer" as a real proof of incalculability.

  11. Re:What about the "hot pole" theory? on Comets Can't Explain Weird 'Alien Megastructure' Star After All (newscientist.com) · · Score: 2

    ... hot pole ... bottom ... bulge ...

    That is all.

  12. But we STILL haven't seen how it actually looks on Microsoft Leaks New HoloLens Details (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All these glossy demos, but still no-one's stuck a camera in it to show us what it actually looks like from the inside.

  13. Re:Please, oh, please . . . on Matt Groening In Talks With Netflix For Animated Series (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Zapp Brannigan: Have the boy lay out my formal shorts.
    Kiff: The boy, sir?
    Zapp Brannigan: You. You lay out my formal shorts.

  14. To owe is not to pay on Apple May Owe $8 Billion To the EU After Tax Ruling (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple May Owe $8 Billion To the EU After Tax Ruling

    Sure, they might owe it. They'll probably never get around to having to pay it, though. About 0.1% of that amount should be more enough to pay for the lawyers to keep it tied up in court indefinitely.

  15. Re:Or... on Building a Laptop Enclosure To Last (makezine.com) · · Score: 1

    More, dammit. More money and time. See, I don't even have time to preview my Slashdot posts.

  16. Or... on Building a Laptop Enclosure To Last (makezine.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How I Built an Heirloom Laptop

    Or: How I have money and time than you

  17. Re:A what? on GNU/Linux Desktops with No User Knowledge Needed (Video) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux on the Desktop and Slashdot fixing typos?

    We truly are living in the future.

  18. Of course it doesN'T on What Spotlighting Harassment In Astronomy Means · · Score: 1

    Does it mean that astronomy has a harassment problem? Of course it does

    Does it?

    Or does it just mean that some people have a "harassment problem" and that by the law of averages some of them will work in astronomy, or engineering, or botany...

  19. Yeah, but only in the short term on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    It'll average out to 1:1 in the long run.

  20. He wasn't a common actor... on RIP Alan Rickman, AKA Hans Gruber, Severus Snape (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    ...he was an exceptional actor!

  21. *opens link*

    ... pornography ... splashed on the screen ...

    *closes window*

  22. Re:Nonsense on Are Phone Numbers Doomed To Die? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    And you might have driven an electric car to work last week. That doesn't mean ICE cars are obsolete, does it?

  23. Re:"so-called BlackBerry PGP devices" on Police Say They Can Crack BlackBerry PGP Encrypted Email (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just because no-one knows what they're actually called - the summary later calls them "PGP BlackBerrys."

  24. Really? What exactly did you ask them? on Consumers Expect Their Cars To Become Mini Data Centers (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Consumers Expect Their Cars To Become Mini Data Centers

    So how did you phrase the question in order to get the response you wanted?

    I also note that they used the word "expect" and not "want."

  25. Re:Influence of software in the displays on BBC Confirms 50% Bitrate Savings For H.265/HEVC Vs H.264/AVC (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't see any mention of how motion compensation and other "smart" features of the display devices influenced the perceived quality.

    Probably because the BBC are smart enough to use professional monitors without any of that crap.

    And even if they did, as long as the settings are the same for both showings, it shouldn't be a big problem.