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  1. Re: Good luck on China Unveils World's First Facial Recognition ATM · · Score: 1

    Of course - the face recognition is a second factor.

    This would not work on the Moddle East, though. You would just get a bunch of unauthorized withdrawals from the accounts of captives.

  2. Re: I still think they will kill us on LHC Season 2 Is About To Start Testing the Frontiers of Physics · · Score: 1

    Plus, Monsanto.

  3. Re: My new Microwave on LHC Season 2 Is About To Start Testing the Frontiers of Physics · · Score: 1

    Wasn't this test inadvertently performed on a Russian scientist's brain a few years ago when the instrument was started when he happened to be hunched over with his head in the target area?

    Being stoic and Russian and all that, he survived.

  4. Re: No new physics == Michelson–Morley of th on LHC Season 2 Is About To Start Testing the Frontiers of Physics · · Score: 2

    It will be if it proves that dark matter does not exist.

  5. Re: Why is it worth that much? on Mystery Woman Recycles $200,000 Apple I Computer · · Score: 1

    It has that valuation precisely because so many Apple Is were thrown out. Had everyone been brilliant about recognizing potential value in old gear, it would have potentially had...no value.

  6. Re: cach lam bai thi mon van thpt quoc gia on Ground Crew Back In Touch With LightSail Solar Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Badum TISH!

  7. Re:Water sterilization is the big thing here on First Ultraviolet Quantum Dots Shine In an LED · · Score: 1

    Could this sterilization tech beat the Steri-Pen for portability, for the outdoors market?

  8. Re:Must...resist...gender-based rant! on Feds Bust a Dark-Web Counterfeit Coupon Kingpin · · Score: 1

    "You stupid cocksucker. You just had to ruin the moment with your ugly hatred of women."

    Don't you just live the hearty give-and-take of intellectual discourse?

    What I was actually flaming here is the marketing industry's cynical exploitation of women in selling the whole concept of retail coupons. The same applies to the design of slot machines.

  9. Re:Exodus on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    Converse Fermi: if usable wormholes existed, the aliens would already be here.

  10. If we achieve age reversal... on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    Then all of society will become twelve years old, instead of just politics.

  11. Must...resist...gender-based rant! on Feds Bust a Dark-Web Counterfeit Coupon Kingpin · · Score: 2

    I hope this scam works, and that it will mean the death of coupons as an inducement. When I think of the time expended cutting them out, fiddling with them on every shopping trip, and snipe hunts for products we don't usually buy but-there's-a-great coupon-this-week, I will rejoice at the extra time that awaits us in our future. Then consider the time and money expended by retailers and by manufacturers. Wouldn't we save just as much if coupons didn't exist at all? Whenever I'm out shopping by myself, ignoring the whole coupon world when I do price/value analysis, I find I'm saving just as much.

    But coupons will persist so long as they keep appealing to the wives of this world.

  12. Re:astrophysicist? on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race · · Score: 1

    Bravo! If this be trolling, then I too wear the banner proudly.

    If we are to go on having News For Nerds to discuss, we need to defend science and its applications from the yahoos out there.

  13. Re: Who is this jerk? on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race · · Score: 1

    It's because we have GMO in our potato chips. Whenever we eat one, a union public school teacher loses her wings.

  14. Re:The race is already on we're just not in it on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race · · Score: 1

    "The US doesn't even have a man rated launch platform any longer."

    But Silicon Valley is in the final stages of developing one. No need to weep over the lost technological prowess of the federosaurus, which as we speak is busy indicting a foreign sport for the crime of depositing cash into US banks without going through all the sacred FATCA paperwork we were recently saddled with.

  15. Re:And who's going to pay for it? on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race · · Score: 1

    There has been no instance of settlement to relieve surplus population on Earth either. The number of Italians living overseas may exceed the number who stayed home, but Italy and each of its "colonies" had to manage the population/resources question anew in each place.

    Ultimately we will settle the solar system for maintainability, to assure that no imaginable calamity could wipe out all humans.

  16. Re:instead of space race on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race · · Score: 1

    Cuban communism will vanish within a year now that the country has opened up to trade. First the long-suffering peasants will sell their carefully preserved classic Fifties cars for half a million each to Stateside collectors, the they'll plow the money into restaurants, AirBNB hostels and Uber cabs for the onrushing tourist trade.

    That leaves two remaining Commie countries. Venezuela will run out of bullets and toilet paper this summer, while North Korea will fold as soon as China gets tired of making excuses for it.

  17. Re:No thanks on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race · · Score: 1

    "No thanks. They steal."

    And for all that good American technology that we refuse to develop for ourselves, wouldn't the whole world be better off if we just gave it to them?

  18. Re:instead of space race on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race · · Score: 1

    In fact, China just explicitly asked for space cooperation:
    http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/28/...

  19. High-grade home security will be needed on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 1

    The extra copper needed for low voltage wiring will lead to home invasions just to strip copper from houses. Better get South Africa style home defense systems, which of course will mean still more copper.

  20. I used to work there on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wrote a PL/I compiler for Tsukuba's IT department. Yes, that was a long time ago. The university stood alone among rice fields at the time; now it's the centerpiece of Tsukuba Science City, which researches a little of everything.

  21. Fir Yew I Pine and Balsam Too on Computer Chips Made of Wood Promise Greener Electronics · · Score: 1

    All termite jokes aside, this could have applications where disposability is a criterion. Those animated greeting cards could now be more annoying than ever before.

  22. Re:Dry Heat on Heat Wave Kills More Than 1,100 In India · · Score: 1

    I lived in Phoenix for over thirty years. Everybody there has refrigeration, and in June when the temperature hits 50C, about the maximum, the humidity is below 10%. By mid-July is gets more humid as the weather pattern shifts from the dry westerlies to Gulf air from the southeast, but the temperature plummets to 40C and the humidity never goes over about 30%, with clouds and thunder (not always rain) every afternoon.

    Now imagine the temperature at 50C with 60% humidity, and no A/C. And it's not monsoon yet, so no cooling storms.

  23. Re:Heavy vs. light? on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    We have already done aerobraking on Mars, both for orbiters and landers.

  24. Re:Hobbit on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    As soon as you stop calling yourself an expert on space development.

  25. Re:Hobbit on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    The first colonists will live underground, to be sure, but the big problem with radiation is going to be on the trip up there. There is going to have to be some meeting-in-the-middle of shielding vs a generated magnetic field.