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  1. Featured apps only will be analyzed? on Google 'Experts' To Screen Android Apps For Banned Content · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So this is telling me that the apps that Google "Features" currently are not inspected or analyzed by any humans before they become featured. "Featured," to my way of thinking, means recommended. So, currently, are algorithms recommending apps, not people? And if so, how long before algorithms recommend movies, books, music? (Currently, Wikibooks notes that "Featured books are books that the Wiki community believes to be the best . . .")

  2. Still marveling at on Strange Stars Pulse To the Golden Mean · · Score: 3, Funny

    "It's the sort of thing tenured professors can get away with." I'm thinking I need to rethink my career path right away and become a tenured professor.

  3. Re:Nothing wrong here. on Supreme Court Gives Tacit Approval To Warrantless DNA Collection · · Score: 1

    You FBI Coward, I spit on you! No, wait, I don't want to spit on you because then you will collect my DNA. I throw my hairbrush at you! No, no, that won't work either. I, I, punch you with boxing gloves!!! Take that!!!

  4. Re:Rookie mistake... on How Do You Handle the Discovery of a Web Site Disclosing Private Data? · · Score: 1

    According to James Clapper, "Even more than terrorism, the threat of cyberattack is the biggest peril currently facing the United States". If Cybersecurity is a major threat to the US, you would think that some agency in the government would be interested in making it easy to report security flaws and not prosecute people for reporting security flaws. "And I said to myself, what a F&$#ed up world."

  5. Live the present, not the future on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hi, A friend of mine was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer, Stage 4, and he spent the next 6 months lecturing his sons (grades 5 and 8) and getting them to promise to be good. I hated to watch him do it because it put a tremendous extra burden on them. One year later, I would have to say the sons are not being "good." The burden of living up to Dad's expectations was overwhelming, I think. I lost my father the summer after 6th grade. I remember him telling me I could do anything I wanted, after he listened to me sing, "I am Woman, hear me Roar," probably slightly off key, and telling him I wanted to be a rock star. You won't be there in person in the future, but you are there now. Love her every day as if there is no tomorrow, thinking about today's concerns. Respond to her questions today. She's not ready for the future now, but trust that you've given her enough by who you are and she will be when she gets there.

    Of course, you can always read the Last Lecture, and do what that tells you to do.


    -A geeky scientist Mom

  6. Re:works great on campuses on Cellphone Start-Ups Handle Calls With Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I had a phonne that did this; very helpful on campus where, due to instruments/equipment, whatever, you can't cell a cellular signal in many buildings, including the med school, but you can easily get wifi. Now my kid is in college, I signed him up for Republic because hey, he's nearly always around wifi and he can afford the monthly fees.

  7. What does the kid want?. on Autism: Are Social Skills Groups and Social Communication Therapy Worthwhile? · · Score: 1

    If the kid does not want play dates, I would not force them. Find a way to make time with the kid happy and learning or exploring his world - if this occurs at the specialist's, great, if it occurs at a museum where the kid is essentially alone looking at exhibits or just with you, great. Sometimes kids like individual sports such as swimming. Childhood is short! good luck. But, I'm not autistic and no expert, just a Mom.

  8. Re:Okay, so... on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: 1

    Figure out which bacteria the obese patients have in common that the thin ones don't, and figure out a way to eliminate it.

    Sounds easy, but there are more bacterial cells in your body than eukaryotic (human) cells by a factor of 10, and unlike the human cells that all have the same DNA, the bacteria are different. By the way, if you want to know what various types of bacteria are in your personal stool, you can go to American Gut and pay someone $99 to analyze your shit. The answer, however, will be fairly general, because no one's sequenced all the different bacteria there.

  9. Re:what about skinny people? on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: 1

    Can you name a single primarily psychopathic society to provide even anecdotal experimental evidence for your claim? Theory is nice and all, but is notoriously inapplicable to human behavior.

    Lord of the Flies.

  10. Re:The solution is obvious on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 1

    My phone (Z998) is running Android 4.1.2 through AT&T and there is no option to upgrade to the fixed version. I am switching to Chrome and Firefox for use as web browsers but otherwise looks like I'm stuck.

  11. Re:News for nerds, stuff that matters... on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    Helicopter parenting does not produce nerds. Nerds are people who love something so much they learn all about it and are totally engrossed by it (defnition by Wil Wheaton at some convention). Parents can push you, but they can't push you into true nerd-dom. My personal corollary: to be a true nerd, there has to be a large element of inutility in the subject. Klingon translator does not land you jobs. I'm a little bit of a weather nerd; the weather in Montgomery County on December 20th was high 35, low of 19, sunset at 4:48. I wouldn't want them walking home in the dark, without winter jackets, and unable to describe which way home was. Assuming the kids had jackets on and it was daylight, and they knew the route, somebody needs to take a chill pill.

  12. Re:This could be fun.... on Man Saves Wife's Sight By 3D Printing Her Tumor · · Score: 1

    Just as not only one person thought of 3D printing a gun, lots of groups have had the idea to 3D print the output of medical imaging (e.g. http://depts.washington.edu/uw... and http://digm.drexel.edu/portfol...). One company has even gotten FDA medical device approval (http://3dprint.com/18577/materialise-heartprint-class-1/) and one man printed his tumor before and after chemotherapy (http://3dprint.com/14359/3d-printed-cancer-tumors-2/).

    So my point is, this is /.-worthy news?

  13. Re:what language is on Human Language May Have Evolved To Help Our Ancestors Make Tools · · Score: 1

    No, more important that using language to make tools is using language to get other people to gape at you while you use tools. How many times have I heard, "Honey, can you pass me that screwdriver/nail/hammer/allen wrench/Manly Item so you will know how Manly I am"?

  14. Re:islam - Ferguson on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    The answer is to hunt down, arrest, and prosecute the people who perform terrorist acts, whether they are doing it for the glory of Islam or because they hate all police officers, or because they think all black youth are criminals, or because they think Israel the state should not exist, or because they were following terrorist orders from superiors. Sometimes terrorists do have a point, but nobody including would-be terrorists has the right to use terrorism to make their point.

  15. Re: News at 11.. on Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics' · · Score: 1

    The fact that it is trivially easy to break a law is not, actually, a defense. The fact that you believe a law to be wrong does give you the right to break the law and turn yourself in and argue the law is wrong in court. It does not give you the moral authority to argue that it is right to break the law and just get away with it for free. Would Ghandi be a freedom fighter if he stole salt and didn't go to jail for it? Another option is to run for office or support those running for office to change the law. Stealing and patting yourself on the back is still stealing.

  16. Re:News at 11.. on Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics' · · Score: 0

    Copyright infringement is theft because it denies a copyright owner the ability to sell the product for which they have the copyright and thus they lose money. If I sell a knock-off Louis Vuitton bag that looks like a real one to Madame A, I am depriving Louis Vuitton the right to sell a real bag to Madame A. This is copyright infringement; you lose money and I go to jail. If I give away a knock-off Louis Vuitton bag to Madame A, I am still depriving Louis Vuitton the ability to sell the bag. I suffer monetary loss from your actions. Copyright infringement with no physical handbag is completely equivalent - except worse, because at least the knock-off Louis Vuitton bags are lower quality than the real deal and for digital copyright infringement, the copy is as good as the original. Many have posted on this issue: it is the settled law of the land.

  17. Re:Does Shortening a name change it? on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    Just as ignorance of the law is no defense, ignorance of the meaning of common words, I would argue, is no defense either. OTOH, it sounds delicious so I hope to try some.

  18. Re:Trans fats next? on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    I'm out of date: Crisco is now made entirely from saturated fats and has no trans fats in it any more. So take an extra slice of leftover thanksgiving pie.

  19. Re:Well, it's not mayonaise ... on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    The European Union has a very specific definition of mayonnaise that includes emulsified oils and eggs, and in the EU, food ingredients in named foods are enforced. Here there is a consumer awareness standard of reasonability in play, or I think that is the case. Would a consumer be fooled into thinking there were eggs here?

  20. Does Shortening a name change it? on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 2

    Hi, I assume you argue that "Mayo" is a different word than "Mayonnaise," so there is no problem marketing "Just Mayo" or "Chipotle Mayo" as a mayonnaise substitute (without the word "substitute" on the front of the label). How would you feel about going to the store and getting some "OJ" that had no juice from oranges? If I read a label that said "Just OJ", I would assume it had only orange juice.

    How would you feel about putting an image of eggs and a cross through them or some other way to quickly identify this is eggless mayonnaise substitute, and not mayonnaise?

  21. Re:Portrait mode? on Eizo Debuts Monitor With 1:1 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    Stop whining. You can buy a Dell Ultrasharp U2311H monitor and run it in portrait mode today.

  22. Trans fats next? on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    Saturated fats are all well and good, but I want trans fats back in the diet in addition to saturated fats (think Crisco). How many studies are needed before hippy liberal places like New York City and California go back on their stupid trans fat bans?

  23. Re:Kinda funny how taxes set back the internet on Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    I don't agree. People need their internet/need their connectivity and they will pay whatever they have to. Dumb phones are way cheaper than smart phones to buy and to run, but Apple just sold 39 million new expensive smart phones in 9 days. Many people will go without other basic needs to be internet connected as much as they want. I don't understand it myself (I like to vacation in places with no internet/no cell phone service), but I see it in others.

  24. Re:Please on DHS Investigates 24 Potentially Lethal IoT Medical Devices · · Score: 2

    Dick Cheney had the wireless connection to his defibrillator removed just so he couldn't be targeted wirelessly. Of course, there are supposed to be regulations to ensure privacy and security on all new wireless health devices, so the FDA is not completely napping.

  25. Re:Transcript... on The Grumpy Programmer has Advice for Young Computer Workers (Video) · · Score: 1

    Kitten videos. I want full transcripts of all cute animal and nonverbal children videos.