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  1. Re:Indians... on Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens · · Score: 1

    That makes so much sense...

    On the other hand travelling to the New World wasn't profitable the first voyage either.

  2. Re:Example of Transitive logic on Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Therefore we can conclude that Snowden is from North Korea or a comparable nation.

    Q.E.D.

    Snowden is from the US, so, yes.

  3. Language barrier on Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens · · Score: 1

    It's hard to see how there's anything useful in sending disjointed messages without at least providing a primer on English or whichever Earth language the messages are going to be in. Something like transmitting all of Wikipedia and Project Gutenburg so there's a big enough sample of the language so they have a chance of deciphering it.

  4. Maybe it's the train on Project Envisions Modular Aircraft That Double as Train Cars · · Score: 1

    There are already the equivalents of pallets and containers for air freight. Maybe we just need to make a sort of pallet for passenger seating, and transfer it on to the aeroplane, the way air freight containers transfer from trucks to aeroplanes.

    Otherwise the aircraft is transporting a lot of weight for no particularly good reason, especially if it turns out the rail gauge at the destination is different.

  5. Re:Metal Gear on India To Develop Military Robots For Warfare · · Score: 1

    War is an *expensive* way to acquire resources, but often people don't care because they can arrange for *other* people to sacrifice their wealth and/or their lives.

  6. Re:what fucking law did he break? on NSA WhistleBlower Outs Himself · · Score: 1

    They stopped caring about legal and illegal a while back.

  7. Re:I disagree on Supermarkets: High-Tech Hotbeds · · Score: 1

    And you know it's unintentional and random because it works in the customer's favour 50% of the time...

  8. Re:Here's an idea on Supermarkets: High-Tech Hotbeds · · Score: 1

    But it's really inconvenient when you are a victim of identity theft and you have to get new DNA.

  9. Re:Contact your former client. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Another Dev Steals Your Work and Adds Their Name? · · Score: 1

    "I know you're not looking for a fight, but it seems one that's worth fighting has found you."

    I thought that merited repeating.

    Remember, though, as another post pointed, the issue here is plagiarism, not copyright.

  10. Re:Lucky! on Asteroid Passes (Just) 65,000 Miles From Earth · · Score: 1

    We should upgrade all the asteroids to 64-bit so they can pass at a safe distance.

    We definitely don't want the next asteroid to be the exception.

  11. Re:Wrong question anyway... on NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress · · Score: 1

    The US government violates the rights of everyone, without discrimination based on citizenship. Other forms of discrimination, yes, but not citizenship.

  12. Re:Maybe.. on When Will My Computer Understand Me? · · Score: 1

    You mean the way human children learn language? Not enough buzzwords.

  13. Readability on Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates · · Score: 2

    *No* code is readable without either knowing the language or knowing something similar. Hence the word 'code'. (COBOL is a particularly perverse and ironic example.)

    I find Java readable because I know Java, I know C++, and I like its style as a personal matter of taste, but none of those are a reflection on the language itself.

  14. Canadians have a bad habit on Canadians, Too, Should Demand Surveillance Answers · · Score: 2

    ....of copying whatever the Americans do when it's stupid. In those rare moments when Americans get it right, they refuse to imitate because the difference is part of what makes Canadian identity distinctive.

    Curieusement, les Canadien français sourvent font la même chose à l'égard des Canadiens anglais.

  15. Or more accurately... on Fear of Death Makes People Into Believers (of Science) · · Score: 1

    Fear of death makes people fall back on their dominant belief system. People genuinely religious turn to religious, the others weren't honestly religious to begin with.

    Atheism is typically the belief that religion is inherently metaphorical or outright superfluous. The scientific method achieves demonstrable practical results but it is still a belief system, as are religion, patriotism, economics, or technology fads.

  16. Re:Could Bitcoin Go Legit? on Could Bitcoin Go Legit? · · Score: 1

    Creating currency because fiat currency requires the money supply to increase as the total of tangible wealth in the economy increases is one thing.

    Deliberately diluting the value of money in order to confiscate the others is something very different. It ends with bubbles that transfer wealth from those who earned money (wealth) to those who made money (currency).

    Disguising the fraudulent nature of financial activity is money laundering by definition.

  17. Re:Preserve Cultural Heritage on Star Wars Episode 4 To Be Dubbed In Navajo · · Score: 1

    So you can share a cultural experience - even if that experience itself has nothing to do with Navajo culture - with people who speak that language.

    So for example you could watch the movie with people from an older generation who speak only Navajo, and then have conversations with them about it. It's sharing the experience that makes it cultural.

  18. Re:depends where you are. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Work On Projects While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting eastern Europe, and that's not even counting the half of Europe that's part of Russia.

  19. Re:Why not just "relax" and enjoy travel WITHOUT w on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Work On Projects While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    Why not multi-task and do both?

  20. Re:Bloomberg is a spoiled brat on Mayor Bloomberg Battles Fleet Owners Over NYC 'Taxi of Tomorrow' · · Score: 1

    Does that apply equally to the Koch brothers and their NRA connected group ALEC?

    Yes. Obviously.

  21. Re:Always wondered how Schroedinger ... on Schrödinger's Cat and RCU (Well, Structured Procrastination, Actually) · · Score: 2

    Schrödinger's whole point was that for a macroscopic system as complex as a cat to be simultaneously alive and dead was obvious nonsense, and therefore there was something still missing in our understanding of quantum mechanics.

    Ironically, the outcome was people agreeing that quantum weirdness is, well, weird, but simultaneously believing he was talking about a cat actually being both alive and dead.

  22. Re:it's really really hard on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If a Video Has Been Faked? · · Score: 1

    Funny thing, Ford appealed on a technicality. He never challenged the finding that corruption had occurred. He probably still doesn't realize that corruption is considered bad.

  23. Why bother on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If a Video Has Been Faked? · · Score: 1

    I don't know why anyone cares about the video. In fact, it's clear people don't care about the video, they just care about how Ford is (or is not) reacting to it.

    But there's no value in forming an opinion, informed or otherwise, as to the authenticity of the video. If there's one thing there can be absolutely no doubt about, it's that Ford doesn't care what any one else thinks.

  24. Understanding Asperger on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 2

    Everyone has varying degrees of ability in different areas.

    Some people are sensitive to non-verbal signals, and some less sensitive, and some really have to work at understanding them.

    People who genuinely have Asperger do not realize there is such a thing as non-verbal communication until someone teaches them. Their instinctive understanding of human nature does not even include it.

    Ironically, their abilities and temperament are actually highly prized in a great many employment situations.

    It's job searching where they're handicapped.

  25. Re:So... on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Humans are social animals. Social problems *are* disabilities.