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  1. Re:I assume... on Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good? · · Score: 1

    Is your sig a Culture Club reference? Nice one :-)

  2. F1 Doc on Predicting IQ With a Simple Visual Test · · Score: 1

    I remember seeing (ha!) an interview with neurosurgeon Sid Watkins, who was the head of the Formula One on-track medical team. He was saying how F1 drivers were invariably very intelligent people, and they could process more visual information, and at a much higher rate, compared to average drivers. Seems to tie in with the findings of this study.

  3. Sandboxing on Scanner Identifies Malware Strains, Could Be Future of AV · · Score: 1

    I think sandboxing is also a key tool. Not sure if a file contains malware? Run it on a sandboxed VM and monitor what it does. Look for files it drops, registry changes made, IP addresses it tries to connect to, etc. Hence the rise of companies like FireEye, who provide this sort of service. Other anti-malware vendors are also adding this functionality - I know of at least three big players heading down this path.

  4. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    Some antibiotics also act as a growth enhancer, and they are dosed at sub-thereputic rates for just this reason. http://www.fao.org/docrep/ARTICLE/AGRIPPA/555_EN.HTM

  5. 5 - Profit! on RPiCluster: Another Raspberry Pi Cluster, With Neat Tricks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, you should totally mine bitcoins with that bad boy!

  6. Re:WTF?! on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    Holy fuck, what a staggering display of arrogance and narcissism.

  7. Re:Fail on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    So you went to see a reboot to see new things? My rating of your comment? FAIL

  8. Re:Brain Dead Action Trumps Philosophy & Ethic on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    BS. Kahn was given a bit of pathos in this one, the whole protecting-his-family bit. And Kirk's character had a bit of an arc. He learnt a bit of humility. And Starfleet was shown to have bad elements. Hardly "...absolute good versus absolute evil"

  9. Re:Did they get rid of the fake lens flares? on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 2

    They're artificial in that there's frequently a torch just off camera being deliberately shone at the lens. You can see it in the making-of on the first movie's DVD

  10. Re:Did they get rid of the fake lens flares? on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    Once you start seeing it you can't look away.

    Dont get me started on how annoying those translucent stations IDs, hash fucking-tags and animated coming next announcements are on TV. I find a lot of shows unwatchable because of them.

  11. Re:Did they get rid of the fake lens flares? on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    I think one scene, with a close shot of Marcus talking as the camera slowly tightened on her face, had too much lens flare. The flare obscured her face at times, and it took me out of the moment. But that was the only time I found lens flare distracting. I throughly enjoyed the movie - I'll probably go see it again next week.

  12. Fact on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    Fact: Saying something is a fact doesn't mean it is.

  13. Warfrotting? on Smartphone Used To Scan Data From Chip-Enabled Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    So you have to rub against the card - warfrotting?

  14. Holy Crap on Tracking the Web Trackers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you want to see Ghostery at work, try that link to the first opt-out site http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ with Ghostery running - the list of blocks scrolled right off the bottom of my page.

  15. Re:Predicted by science fiction? on Intercontinental Mind-Meld Unites Two Rats · · Score: 1

    Individual pack members are sentient self-aware beings, they're just not very smart. For example, when Scar approaches Peregrine and asks "May I be a part of you... please?"

  16. Re: it's safe because it's running Linux? on Thousands of SCADA Devices Discovered On the Open Internet · · Score: 1

    As compared to using HTTPS, not HTTP on port 80

  17. Re:knowledge on Russian Space Industry To Receive $69 Billion Through 2020 · · Score: 1

    That's a lot of money for space research. . Do they know something we don't?

    Well, if they don't now, they will in a few years time.

  18. $7.90 for 91 in NZ on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    +1 We pay $7.90 for 91 octane at the moment (it has gone higher)

  19. Re:SkyNet on Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Director of Engineering · · Score: 1

    Kurzweil didn't invent the concept of the Technological Singularity. I'm cautiously optimistic that we won't achieve transhumanism in time for this hack to upload himself into some more permanent processing substrate.

  20. Re:It's very possible on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 1

    As a parent I'm sure you know and are just in denial. It's a thin sheen of bugger / snot. Better to face the truth imo.

    I believe the correct term is santorum.