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  1. Re:So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe this will help?
    Can some physics types comment on the quality of the explanation.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v657Ylwh-_k

  2. Re:keep honest people safe on Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    There have to be collisions or else it would be a encryption or compression system.

  3. Would this not be a copyright violation? on European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google · · Score: 1

    Since the creator of the site intended it to have a look, that included the adverts and created it as such.
    Changing the look, would be creating a derived work and distributing it. In Europe there are also those artist rights rules I expect those would also be violated.

  4. Maybe just not being ill on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: 2

    Being ill takes a lot of energy, being healthy again but still eating and exorsizing to the same level could result weight gain.
    I would think a search though the data should start to answer this question. Or relationship with our gutflora is more complex than can be summed up. There may be lots of changes in peoples that could be made this way. More collecting of before and after facts (even things like concentration, strangth, dexterity) should be considered.

  5. Join you local Maker Lab or Hack Space. on 3D Printing: Have You Taken the Plunge Yet? Planning To? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was very much wanting to get a 3D printer. In looking around I found a Maker Lab / Hack Space (http://rlab.org.uk/). There we have a number of 3Dprinters plus laser cutter, cnc, lathe and much more. Along with people that know who to use them and help fix and adjust them.
    I have access to all this for what it would cost to buy just a 3D printer (a year). When and if I want my own I can build it there.

  6. Copyright, Re-Copyright, and creative difference. on Unreleased 1963 Beatles Tracks On Sale To Preserve Copyright · · Score: 2

    It would be nice to have an explanation of when a copy goes out of copyright and how that effects other copies and originals. When an original (A) goes out of copyright, which I think we mostly understand. Compared to when copy of A (B) goes out of copyright. How does this affect the copy right on A and B. Does B have to be creatively different, detectably different, and what if they cannot be told apart? What about copy C made from A after copy B, or copy D and from B before copy C, or copy E made from B after Copy D.
    What about different legal systems, and different types of works (words, vs sound)?

  7. NPR radio play on 'Morris Worm' Turns 25: Watch How TV Covered It Then · · Score: 1

    I think is was NPR All Things Considered that explained how the Morris Worm worked with a radio play. Does anyone know where to find a recording.
    It was both funny and reasonably accurate considering it was intended to explain to a mostly non technical audience of NPR the idea of a buffer overflow.

  8. Re:Instead of likening things to rocket science on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    Mutually Assured Destruction, you need to be a bit mad to work on rockets that are M.A.D

  9. Yuck on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Yuck,
    fixed width
    busy

  10. Re:Interesting I though I would try this: on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 1

    But I think I can find a better way of wording it.

  11. Interesting I though I would try this: on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 2
  12. Re:Wireheads? on Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried · · Score: 2

    Spider Robinson's Mindkiller
    Takes a good look at this. Wonderful scene where a cat burgle find a nearly dead wire head and disconnects her.

  13. Beep, wrong on DoD Descends On DEFCAD · · Score: 1

    Metal detectors detect conductive materals. Or you would not be able to find coins (most of which are non ferrous) with them.

  14. Re:Actually on The Fallout From a Flickr DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1

    Since the argument in this thread is around the question of complying by deleting the file and surrounding content, or simply making it not accessible. I would think the words:
    "or disable access to"
    Would to a reasonable person indicate that removing link/from the website would be sufficient, as it would be the second (2) of the three choices the law offers.
    "responds expeditiously to (1) remove, or (2) disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing or (3) to be the subject of infringing activity." (numbers added)

    While I do not speak legal, I would thing the powers that be would have used "and" instead of "or" or just removed the second option.

  15. Every Man`s home is ... on Japan Creates Earthquake-Proof Levitating House System · · Score: 1

    His Bouncy Castle

  16. Re:Its the phone company that caused the problem on Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads? · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem was part of the testing was done a the World's Fair. AT&T had many layouts on display and asked people to rate them. Good idea except that most people when trying keying in numbers for the first time on anything pick 123 as it is easy. But long term, it would have been better to settle on the initially harder to use 789 pattern. (or this could be just as apocryphal as all the other stories)

  17. Maybe there are other reasons for the sale? on How to Heartlessly Arbitrage Used Books With a PDA · · Score: 1

    There could also be other aspects of the sale that are damaged by people scanning.
              The sale could be a loss leader for the organization, a way to get book buyers down to see the library. (or stop by the charity shop)
              The mixture of books could be part of the entertainment value of the sale, with a few gold nuggets mix into a lot of sand, it is the searching and looking, and reading a bit that is part of the fun.
    Having someone scan and remove all the gems is not going to get the buyer and therefore the seller what they are looking for.

    Maybe this person should offer to scan and price books for a fee. He I suspect he could make more money in the same time, and have the library staff help help him do it.

  18. Box Cutter? on Ten Gadgets That Defined the Decade · · Score: 3, Funny

    It would be more interesting looking at influence instead of favourite. I am not normally a look backwards type person, but almost everything that we think of as key to this decade is influenced by this simple tool (or in this case do to intent weapon).

  19. I live in Newbury, UK Email if you wish. on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    Audrey23
    @cpuffer9 .red-belt .org .uk

    yes this is a disposable address

  20. HP you can kill them, but it take an effort on Choosing a Personal Printer For the Long Haul · · Score: 1

    My HP 2605dn got plugged into Mains as week ago. Since it travelled to the UK with me it did not like the 220V. It went band and the magic blue smoke escaped.

    Well what do folks think the chances are that the damage is confined to to power supply?
    What is a good replacement? What do people think of the CP3520 from HP?

    And if you have a HP 2605, 2600, or 1600 and need an unopened set of toner(s) or wish to part with it, well seem to need a replacement, or a new power supply board.

  21. Re:If this keeps up, we won't need NASA. on Virgin Galactic Signs Historic Lease Agreement · · Score: 1

    I wonder if we miss the point, when we think of suborbital flight is a thrill ride. The suborbital up and down thing my not be the goal. The goal is a fast trip from UK to US or UK to OZ or the like.

    There my be some people who will spend there money to take a thrill ride, and some that will win contests and prizes for the same. But there is business in people who can justify a time saving trip and have their company pay for the trip. (and get to go to the edge of space).

    Remember lots of people payed to take flights with barn stormers, just to ride in a plane. It was the business traveler make air travel profitable.

    It my not be Space Ship 2, but suborbital flight is not just a thrill ride, it is the next generation in fast executive travel.

  22. Re:"Unmanned drone" on First All-Drone USAF Air Wing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    only somewhat correct.

    The drones can fly, drones and queens mate in flight. The queen flies to mate only once takes sperm (and in fact the entire gonads) from many drowns in the course of this fight.

    She then uses this sperm over the course of her life. All fertilized eggs are female resulting in workers (in less modified with royal jelly casing them to become queens.

    Drones are unfertilized eggs.

    The drones penis is the same materials as the egg layer of the queen or the stinger of the female worker.

    Under the wrong conditions a normal worker bee can start laying eggs. (This can happen in a queenless hive.) Since they eggs will be unfertilized all will be drones, and the hive is all but dead.

    As to unmanned drone, well emasculated might be a better word for it.

  23. Re:Sure Sign on Diebold Patch May Be Evidence of '02 Election Tampering · · Score: 1

    Maybe the patch was to remove the vote rigging.

    With the election conditions being some posts have claimed it could have been to obvious that there was something wrong with the count. So a patch was applied to make the voting machines work "correctly".

  24. Re:Don't bother if you use ubuntu - fonts issue. on Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day · · Score: 1

    It should be back. But even in version 3 it could be found in the bookmarks toolbar. With the bookmarks toolbar open go into toolbar customization mode and drag the home button to the main tool bar.

  25. No Linux is a DIDE on NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS · · Score: 1

    DisIntegrated Development Environment. There is more to integration that having all the parts on hand.