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  1. ERROR: Please input the proper trademark! on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: 1

    Uhm... you're trying to do The Slashdot Interview without mentioning that phrase in the story. Taco, please send a memo to the editors.

  2. Re:Science Advisor, Comedy Advisor on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: 1

    It takes only one smart guy to keep the science right, it takes a team to do comedy right. Comedy is harder than science... I know that because I've been here long enough. (Wait, does my username still make sense?)

  3. Re:Advancing science on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: 1

    BBT is comedy for anybody who remembers their high school science, and the cute girl factor is a reminder that you get girls to do that when you're that smart.

  4. I want to downgrade to the upgrade! on Google Serves Old Search Page To Old Browsers · · Score: 1

    There's a problem at Google right now... it's Y2K search engine is superior to the one that they're offering today. I don't mind the including of AdWords sponsors, but the way they're bossing around the non-shaded parts of the screen is getting to be troubling. Additionally, the major content providers are bossing around Google Search.... I think we need a fresh crawl of the Internet by somebody else.

  5. Re:Great, on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    Comcast aims to be a common carrier which means they don't censor their system unless some court tells them to.

  6. Re:The difference is.. speed? on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    If you download at 12 Mb while you sleep, you'll spend all your waking day watching what you got.

  7. Re:Wait a minute on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    All of the religious texts exist because of the Gutenberg press concepts... first thing mass printed was The Bible, then people who couldn't agree with it started printing their own.

  8. Re:Not surprising on California DMV Told Google Cars Still Need Steering Wheels · · Score: 1

    That definition of a driver-less car is called a "Fiat" and only safe when nobody else is on the road near it. Collision detection for cars is a little slow to react right now... humans are better at spotting a car on the screen and through the windshield than current non-visual tech.

  9. Re:The key bit on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 2

    Those who are wrong hate communication because it allows the good-doers to take over.

  10. Re:If the Grand Ayatollah's against it.... on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Religion isn't always right... they don't teach facts, they teach opinions.

  11. Re:We need him... on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    Uhm, you're confused bankers on Wall Street are doing just fine moving the cash around... it's the traders instructions they follow, and the traders who are making the mistakes right now.

  12. Re:The difference is.. speed? on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    Yep, once we hit 6 Mb per screen we should be all set... that's the speed compressed HD video moves at at most. Anything that moves faster than a 1080p screen can't be represented by humans that fast, until we get to 4Kx1080.

  13. Re:Not surprising on California DMV Told Google Cars Still Need Steering Wheels · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering where Slashdot went wrong.... in the time I was in college, I got the 5s and the controversial people got the -1s.

  14. Re:It's preposterous on California DMV Told Google Cars Still Need Steering Wheels · · Score: 0

    Liability law needs to be rewritten... whoever inputs the bad command should be responsible for the accident if there is one. Therefore, there must be "black box" logging telling where the command came from. If the analysts say the car control people sent the command, then they're the ones who have to pay.

  15. Re:Not surprising on California DMV Told Google Cars Still Need Steering Wheels · · Score: -1

    Most "driverless car" situations involve a human with controls sitting on the other side of a radio signal connection... if the human in the car and controller in the "studio" can't match, then they're going to end up fighting over the wheel, and it'll be impossible to determine the proper angle.

  16. What do you want? on Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,' According To a Koch-Backed Astroturf Group · · Score: 1

    Server Guy: I only want to give my information to the people who lead to ad revenue or sales, everyone else is a waste of my server.
    User: I want access to all of Internet, not just some of it.

    We're going to have a problem here....

  17. Re:Betteridge on The IPv4 Internet Hiccups · · Score: 1

    Guess they only implement the even numbered IP sets... IPv8 anyone?

  18. Re:I'm not sure these buttons belong to the Wash P on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    In another thread, somebody pointed out that it was the Washington Post was divested from the Washington Post Company, leaving it as The Slate Group because they sold the piece that generated the company name.

  19. Re:It's not going to work on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    I don't think you need a new currency for that... just providers willing to track fractions of a penny. Right now, there's nobody offering that service, but it could be implemented once somebody figures out the right way to charge fees for that.

  20. Re:I'm not sure these buttons belong to the Wash P on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    Okay... so Washington Post Company sold the Washington Post... how confusing. Thanks for the correction.

  21. Re:It's not going to work on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    "So you're the cookie-blocker coming from IP address......" Sorry, sites will figure out who you are somehow.

  22. Re:It's not going to work on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    That's a roller-coaster chart. Two incidents of being propped up... then a solid downhill with a few bumps for the rest of the time. Wasn't this near a zero three years ago? Guess where it's headed back to...

  23. Re:Betteridge on The IPv4 Internet Hiccups · · Score: 1

    IPv6 didn't improve enough to be two versions ahead... let's start work on IPv7+!

  24. Re:Wow, seriously - that is annoying on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    It wasn't possible until Amazon wrote an API that notices a title an inserts the correct listing on their site. Remember, Bezos owns both WaPo and Amazon....

  25. Re:Wow, seriously - that is annoying on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 2

    The content-sales line has been blurred beyond repair. In-text ads like this has been a dream of the ad buyers since day one of the web, and they're starting to become acceptable. It's now inappropriate to talk about a title in Amazon's collection without a hyperlink to that page, and Amazon will gladly pay on a sale of that item from a customer that comes that way.