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  1. HDD move on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    If the laptop HDD isn't soldered in, and if you've got an IDE controller on your desktop, motherboard haul the drive out of the old laptop and plug it in to the desktop with a ribbon cable. Copy away!

  2. Decked Builder on Ask Slashdot: Automated Tool To OCR CCGs Like Magic: the Gathering? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use it every day. The Android app is phenomenal at picking the right card from the database based on the picture. The only real problem is that it doesn't have all the alternate art versions of cards from older MTG sets. The interface is a bit sloppy on the desktop version, but the recognition is pretty good.

  3. Re: Illusion restored on Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's incredible! I have the same combination on my luggage!

  4. Re: XKCD on Voyager 1 Finds Unexpected Wrinkles At the Edge Of the Solar System · · Score: 1

    I watched an episode of Northern Exposure from 1992 that mentioned Voyager I was on the very edge of leaving the solar system. Extrapolate from that, and it's been going on since the damn thing was launched, apparently.

  5. Sounds like Edmonton, alright. on Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried · · Score: 1

    Next step for an Edmontonian would generally be, "Is there a way I can program myself to only see white people?"

  6. Re: After accounting for all variables *they know on Death of Trees Correlated With Human Cardiovascular & Respiratory Disease · · Score: 4, Informative

    That would be the *media's* fault for cherry-picking the language and the studies. If you ever really drill down into a study, you'll find a metric shit-tonne of ambiguous language the media turns into certainties.

  7. Google Health on Ask Slashdot: Which Google Project Didn't Deserve To Die? · · Score: 2

    This needs to happen again, before it gets owned by some shady proprietor.

    Speaking of which, where's Google Vote?

  8. It *would* be 'Gord' on WW2 Pigeon Code Decrypted By Canadian? · · Score: 2

    Canada's singularity will be when all of us are named Gord. I figure we're about five years away.

  9. Re:RTFA. SRSLY. on Study Shows Testosterone is Bad For High-Stakes Decisions · · Score: 1

    Wasn't redundant when I'd posted it.

  10. Re:RTFA. SRSLY. on Study Shows Testosterone is Bad For High-Stakes Decisions · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Correlation, causation, etc... Could it be that whatever is causing higher levels of testosterone is also causing their bad-decision making? Lifestyle? Choice of career? Hot grad student applying the test?

  11. Re:News To Me on How Good Software Makes Us Stupid · · Score: 1

    Die in a fire.

    Classy. So it would appear they're right, then.

  12. Re:You can't prove a negative. on Defending Self In a Case of On-Line Identity Theft? · · Score: 1

    Yes, they do. They've made an accusation of criminal misconduct, and as such, they've shown their hand and now have to prove it. If they try to fire him for another bullshit reason now, a lawyer, or indeed even a government labour board representative (not sure what the American equivalent is) will find serious wrongdoing here. At the very least, he should file a complaint for wrongful dismissal.

  13. Re:Give it Back on Defending Self In a Case of On-Line Identity Theft? · · Score: 1

    No, no, no, no, no, and... NO. Do not do this.

  14. Re:You can't prove a negative. on Defending Self In a Case of On-Line Identity Theft? · · Score: 1

    He doesn't need to prove it wasn't him. The employer needs to prove it was him.

  15. Re:PROOOOOOOF! on New Photos Show 'Devastating' Ice Loss On Everest · · Score: 1

    It's not about snow, it's about context.

  16. PROOOOOOOF! on New Photos Show 'Devastating' Ice Loss On Everest · · Score: 1

    Here is a photo of my house in winter, covered in snow. Here is a photo of my house in summer, surrounded by green, leafy trees. From this, we can deduce that global warming has forever changed my local environment. The snow, which we know from the first photograph has always been here, is now gone forever, as proven by the second photograph.

  17. Unanimous bi-partisan support... on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why is it that every time I read the words "Unanimous bi-partisan support", the result is always and without exception... Trouble?

  18. Re:Sounds like people need to fix thier names on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 1

    But it's not a stunt. His name is legally, actually, and in every sense that matters, Chad Ochocinco.

  19. Re:Sounds like people need to fix thier names on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 2, Informative

    OCHOCINCO!!!!

  20. Re:Wow on Iceland Votes "Já" To Proposed News Haven · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Colonel Jessup? Is that you?

  21. Re:Enough acronyms? on Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration · · Score: 1

    Do you need a de-acronymization of SQL?

    Do you need a de-acronymization of XML?

    I might.... It all depends on what those things are.

  22. Awesome. on NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Can't wait until this story gets picked up by my local stations and reported as FACT!

  23. Re:Government collusion on Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies? · · Score: 1

    Capitalism shouldn't. FOSS companies are merely functioning in the manner in which capitalism should be. With concepts foreign to capitalists, such as 'competition', and 'choice', and 'failure of irrelevant companies'.

  24. Re:Government collusion on Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Competition is thriving in the open-source market, hence the lack of massive market-cap non-specialised companies. FOSS is showing capitalism how it's done.

  25. Re:Have you read what treasonous is? on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    OK, you're right about the treason charge. It wasn't treasonous, just treacherous. What he did in releasing the video was patriotic, to be sure. However, giving an outsider unfettered access, as I said, is beyond the pale. Just because you interpret the scope of the military's Top Secret designation as 'bullshit' (which, for the record, I agree with) doesn't mean that there aren't actually extremely sensitive things in there. When he tried to give Lamo access, he was a) being an idiot, and b) being an anarchist, not a patriot. Had he kept his fool mouth shut, he could have picked his battles more effectively, and shone a light into the treacherousness of the more hawkish elements in the military. Instead, he's going to be punished, and made such an example that I doubt anyone else will try to divulge pertinent information. More's the pity.

    PS. The soldiers' actions could in no way be interpreted as being treasonous, using the same definition of treason laid out in the Constitution.