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  1. the zombie apocalypse on Study: Multimedia Multitasking May Be Shrinking Human Brains · · Score: 3

    ...is here. This is not news. For proof, just walk along the average school route during the morning rush, kids everywhere aren't talking, they've got their faces firmly planted in Candy Crush on their super-flexible brand new hot pink iphones while their parents fight for parking spots as close to the gates as they think it's possible to get and still be able to open the doors (failing which the kids are pushed out through the sunroof). Technology and in particular Facebook has killed the art of communication and social media in general has turned the connected generation into a bunch of ignorant cunts. And woe betide the first one of you whippersnappers who clicks "Like"!

  2. Re:The best photo... on Indian Mars Mission Beams Back First Photographs · · Score: 1

    yeah, I try not to do this (respond to ACs, that is), but for hot Indian women think Shilpa Shetty (Bollywood actress), Neha Kapur (Miss India 2006 and wife of Kunal Nayyar (if you don't know who that is burn your Geek card NOW)), and the late and exceedingly hot Persis Khambatta (who won Miss India in 1965). Those are just three off the top of my head, there are many, many more.

  3. oh wow on Indian Mars Mission Beams Back First Photographs · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to get some of these contour images through a terrain mapper and recoloured. Awesome job, India. :D

  4. Re:About Time on Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun · · Score: 1

    if language was invented by poets, how the fuck do they explain "orange" and "vagina"??

  5. I've seen the photos on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 1

    the phones are bending around the cutouts for the side buttons - a clear indication of structural weakness from the off. Aluminium alloy is not meant for such thin devices.

  6. Re:so on Obama Presses China On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected, the national speed limit (55mph www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2724439/ ) was repealed in 1995 (disclosure/disclaimer: I am not American).

  7. Re:Think about the children on Obama Presses China On Global Warming · · Score: 0

    The so-called "carbon problem" doesn't have me convinced, not least because the entire premise is based on innuendo and unprovable theory backed by pseudoscience and thought-ending cliché, and outright lies. The damage to our children both demonstrable and potential, is tangible: the State are fucking our kids.

    They block, obfuscate, ridicule and incarcerate using false accusations such as arson, those who try and go public with their experiences in State abuse situations (Melanie Shaw, who attempted to go public with her survivor's tale of sexual abuse, trafficking and murder in Nottinghamshire got her jailed without access to medication or any medical help whatsoever - not even a visit from a chaplain - and no access to legal advice to challenge her unlawful incarceration AKA abduction while her repeatedly-delayed "swift trial by jury" (actually, a summary hearing by a single judge as it is more likely to end up being) is now put back until NEXT YEAR. Three days ago she went on hunger strike at privately-run high security jail Peterborough). They've been doing this shit for years and as recently as 2010 they changed the Law so that children who were being abused in State "care" were not allowed to file grievances against the local authorities. Yesterday the solicitor who she SACKED last week appeared on her behalf in a closed court hearing concerning her case. VHS Fletchers of Nottingham are complicit in perversion of the course of Justice by those charged with enforcing it. VHS Fletchers of Nottingham are hiding a conflict of interest, in that they operate under contract to Nottingham City Council Legal Services through the Children & Families Department which means tht every time they "represent" an individual client in a civil, criminal or family case against the local authority, they are technically breaking the Law by a: failing to declare this interest and b:continuing to work for the local authority by undermining the individuals' case in favour of the local authority which PAYS THEIR LEGAL AID.

    Fuck your smokestacks, I don't care about them. Let's talk about what we're going to do about these paedophiles in power.

  8. Re:Translation: on Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets · · Score: 1

    except they build Apple gear and have done for years.

  9. Re:Precisely on Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets · · Score: 1

    the really sad part is that for years Dell have been putting Apple laptops together in their plant in Ireland.

  10. Re:The pot calling the kettle black on Obama Presses China On Global Warming · · Score: 2, Informative

    oh, you mean the one that the US refused to ratify because (according to Bush) "it would harm the economy"?

  11. so on Obama Presses China On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    ...when will American auto makers get the message and build a car that gets better than 60mpg? (easily done with a 1.3 litre engine, impossible with a 6 litre whatever fucking jet engine thing, and there is NO NED for 6 litres in a car that's made for a market with a 55mph national speed limit!). I say China is doing damn well with small-engine hybrids etc, even considering they're importing them by the shipload from Korea and Japan. Obama's got no room to talk. Maybe he should get back to adding another layer of depleted uranium to the Iraqi desert.

  12. Re: Customers for Wi-Fi enabled thermostats on Popular Wi-Fi Thermostat Full of Security Holes · · Score: 1

    haha, bazinga!

    AC Shaming: the new Black

  13. Repeat after me on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 1

    "Do you want fries with that?"

    Fuck me, you expect to start midway up the ladder after a six year break??

    Get real.

  14. Re:Science vs religion again? on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    ok, to pick a childish example, why is the sky blue?

    Religion would have it that God made it blue. This requires no further explanation and will brook no further questions. "God made it so in his infinite wisdom" is a thought-ending cliché.
    Science has it that for various reasons provable with experiments, the predominantly nitrogen content of the air is semi-to-opaque to all but the blue end of the light spectrum. I could spend the next five hours typing out why the sky is blue s opposed to any other colour, going into excruciating detail about any number of experiments you could perform in a well-stocked kitchen and garage, but it's really hard to type on a keyboard that's the size of a cellphone.

  15. Re:MAD on US Revamping Its Nuclear Arsenal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    MAD only prevented WWIII from going nuclear. The damage is far more insidious than a brilliant flash and a three mile wide mushroom cloud, the State are fucking our kids.

    They block, obfuscate, ridicule and incarcerate using false accusations such as arson, those who try and go public with their experiences in State abuse situations (Melanie Shaw, who attempted to go public with her survivor's tale of sexual abuse, trafficking and murder in Nottinghamshire got her jailed without access to medication or any medical help whatsoever - not even a visit from a chaplain - and no access to legal advice to challenge her unlawful incarceration AKA abduction while her repeatedly-delayed "swift trial by jury" (actually, a summary hearing by a single judge as it is more likely to end up being) is now put back until NEXT YEAR. Today she went on hunger strike at privately-run high security jail Peterborough). They've been doing this shit for years and as recently as 2010 they changed the Law so that children who were being abused in State "care" were not allowed to file grievances against the local authorities.

    Fuck your nukes, I don't care about them. Let's talk about what we're going to do about these paedophiles in power.

  16. Re:I thought this was long ago debunked on Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light · · Score: 1

    what would constitute "proof", Sparky?

  17. Something to consider on Service Promises To Leak Your Documents If the Government Murders You · · Score: 1

    Someone wants you dead anyway. Particularly if they know that you know something they either don't want you to know or it getting out. Release it anyway, he's either going to kill you afterward or run for the hills (depending what it is). Consider yourself fortunate if he does the latter. Blackmail NEVER works.

  18. Re:I thought this was long ago debunked on Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light · · Score: 2

    yep, you could do it with a college HeNe laser and a laptop. (worn that t-shirt, even had the idiot start screaming that I was about to blow up the moon when I fired the laser! (yeah, that bit on TBBT when Penny's BF expressed concern about the safety of the planet and the wisdom of firing a great green laser at the Moon, that shit happens, man)).

  19. Re:There are numerous other obvious flaws on Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light · · Score: 2

    uh... no you couldn't, the angular resolution of even the largest telescopes coupled with elementary physics would prove that.

    The best you could ever hope for is catching a shadow on the terminator straight across the centreline of a pixel.

  20. Re:Cue "All we are is dust in the wind" on "Big Bang Signal" Could All Be Dust · · Score: 2

    Less their own beliefs, they have their God to do their thinking for them and their Pope to speak for them.

    These "beliefs"are pretty much spoonfed to them piecemeal, just slow enough that they don't form curiosity about what they're being told.

  21. something tells me I've read this before.

    http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/p... (viability study from this year)
    http://www.neowin.net/news/78-... (MSCI corporate venture to provide 3G backhaul from LEO (news from 2011). To date, I think about 0 have been actually deployed).
    http://www.bit-tech.net/news/h... (oh yes, this is one of the more recent ones by Google - again, nothing came of it).

    I don't think any of the microsats being launched from ISS are intended for trunking wireless. ICBW.

  22. Re:Metal on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 3, Informative

    secret to metal in a microwave: eliminate exposed sharp edges.

    That funky little HTC with the one-piece machined aluminium chassis is probably safe.
    Some microwaveware is metal (I have steel bowls that are specifically designed for safe use in microwaves).
    I have an uberbudget oven that has steel pins in the turntable runner.
    Combination ovens (micro/grill jobbies) have steel grilles and NOWHERE does it say in the manual to remove these before you operate the oven in microwave mode.

    The thing all these have in common is that any exposed metal surfaces are devoid of sharp angles and the edges are rolled back on themselves. Rod points (ie on the grilles) are filed back as far as possible to eliminate those areas as a RFE sink. Also note that on those, the wires are thicker than you'd find in a conventional oven.

  23. Re:Why is this here? on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 1

    watching them die in ways that didn't quite make the cut for any of the Final Destination series is pretty fucking funny, too.

  24. Re:But wait on NY Magistrate: Legal Papers Can Be Served Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    I got around that (when some dink denied a signature was his), I showed the judge the VIDEO of him SIGNING the document.

  25. Re:I'm fine with it on NY Magistrate: Legal Papers Can Be Served Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    or house arrest, or police bail...

    Google "Robert Green"; Jailed without charge or trial, then he's spent over 100 days and counting under house arrest, he's prohibited from using the internet, he must report to his local police station once a day. So what did he do?

    He tried to expose criminality and paedophilia in the highest echelons of Scottish Government.