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  1. Re:Define cancer cell. on Smart Knife Sniffs Out Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    "smell" is not what you do (which arguably is not very useful for detecting anything except maybe rotten food), but just a bad description for analysing gaseous materials. You could also say any beathalizer is using a "smell" sensor, as well as any other device that eg. tells you the gas composition of the air or similar.

  2. you misspelled frist!

  3. Re:About Time on Angela Merkel Tells US Firms To Meet German Privacy Rules · · Score: 1

    Lets make more summits and then grandly announce "on the major theme we were of the same opinion" ... and two weeks later do exactly the opposite

  4. Interesting strategy ... on Oracle To Stop Developing Sun Virtualization Technologies · · Score: 1

    buy a company, then one by one shut down or at least severely reduce development on everything they did (OpenOffice, Java, MySQL, VirtualBox, etc etc etc)

  5. Re:So happy on Google Raises Campaign Funds For Climate Change Denier · · Score: 1

    ahem, as if the US was not an as big pig when it comes to output of greenhouse gasses.

  6. Did the same ... on Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard · · Score: 1

    ... not only because it got quite hard unexpectedly, but also because I found that the course was not what I was actually looking for (was a simulation course and I tended more towards the programming side while the course pushed for the hard math side without giving much incentive)

  7. Don't accept feature changes during sprints on Ask Slashdot: Development Requirements Change But Deadlines Do Not? · · Score: 1

    If the story is agreed upon then it will be built that way, and I can hardly imagine cases where it is acutally business critical if a requirements change is implemented this week and throwing everyone out of the loop or next week where it can be correctly scheduled.

  8. Written by a smoker on Obamacare Software Glitch Will Limit Penalties Charged To Smokers · · Score: 1

    he just wanted to safe money in later life ;)

  9. Re:simple on Ask Slashdot: Preventing Snowden-Style Security Breaches? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, respect peoples rights, and stay within legal boundaries. It's really that simple. About every whistleblower you heard about was because companies or governments don't respect the most basic of rights of their users. Nobody gives a damn about the "grey areas", but if you blatantly abuse your customers and/or employees and/or their rights then people tend to get pissed.

    Also: to not be able to blow the whistle you need people without knowledge about anything, and people without knowledge can usually not do your bidding.

  10. Re:One interesting tidbit. on NSA Recruitment Drive Goes Horribly Wrong · · Score: 1

    i imagine the thought process ... "hm, someone requested something totally illegal ... ah, if someone requested it, it must be okay to do it"

  11. they dont have the money ... on How NASA Steers the Int'l Space Station Around Asteroids & Other Debris · · Score: 1

    ... but lets ask google (GSS) ... or Apple (ASS ... how fitting), after all their new HQ will already look like an UFO, maybe it can also fly (who really read all the specs of that thing?)

  12. because writing "International" or simply ISS was too mainstream

  13. Way to go :) on EU Parliament Supports Suspending US Data Sharing · · Score: 1

    Finally my dear parliament decides to stick up to the US instead of just being pussies all the time. Now we just need to somehow kick out the stupid commission (or at least give the parliament directive powers) and the EU is on a good track :)

  14. Space junk on Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected · · Score: 1

    Probably ...

  15. Re:Your data is wrong! on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 1

    PS: giving russia as 22 years is also obviously bullshit. The Russian empire existed for way longer, and the USSR could be considered and intermediate phase of its reign.

  16. Your data is wrong! on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 1

    Austria given as 1k+ years, which was probably the first time it became independent (or was it being mentioned in writing?). However I distinctly remember that not-so-long ago we were assimilated by Germany for some years, like the rest of Europe (arguably, we were stupid enough to say "yay" instead of putting up a fight).

    So any country in middle Europe where the age is given as more than 70 years is provably wrong.

  17. Re:Thats the OOP mentality on LibreOffice Calc Set To Get GPU Powered Boost From AMD · · Score: 1

    wrong. the problem is that you can make a bad design based on every concept. If you have your base objects small and fast its no problem, but if your cell mutates already in an abomination of hundreds of lines then something is quite wrong, regardless if its a struct with helper functions or an object ;)

  18. Techies dont understand unions on BART Strike Provides Stark Contrast To Tech's Non-Union World · · Score: 1

    ... because we are used to be paid essentially what we want and get incentives shoved up our asses.

    Gladly I worked in a factory as a summer job before that so I know what it is like to get screwed by The Man (TM) every day and having no power to say anything, because there are plenty of people who are willing to take over for you.

  19. Re:The pilot is my insurance on Jetstream Retrofit Illustrates How Close Modern Planes Are To UAVs · · Score: 1

    PS: also what do I give a fuck if the pilot is prosecuted when I am probably dead by then? My personal goal is not having the plain crash and not justice if it actually did.

  20. Re:The pilot is my insurance on Jetstream Retrofit Illustrates How Close Modern Planes Are To UAVs · · Score: 1

    Still, no better incentive not to screw up then being the first one who touches ground when you nosedive a mountain :D

  21. Omg I'm not awake yet... on Microscopic "Tuning Forks" Help Determine Effectiveness of Antibiotics · · Score: 1

    read "Microsoft" the first time when I saw the news in reader and was "Wtf? Microsoft Tuning Fork? Parsing error!" and now after opening the story did the same thing again ;)

  22. 'Murica on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    gotta love it

  23. The pilot is my insurance on Jetstream Retrofit Illustrates How Close Modern Planes Are To UAVs · · Score: 2

    Because if he crashes then at least he also dies ... so kinda extra incentive not to crash ;)

  24. Re:Prior art on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port · · Score: 1

    not to forget the gazillion of card-readers that only have one opening but accept multiple different cards through it.

  25. Imagine the thrill of having to monitor that thing on NASA's NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nonstop To Set New Record · · Score: 1

    from the protocols:
    [quote]
    ...
    Day 1500 09:00: still running within required parameters
    Day 1500 10:00: still running within required parameters
    ...
    [/quote]