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  1. Hilarious Study in that Summary on $56,000 Speeding Ticket Issued Under Finland's System of Fines Based On Income · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have some evidence lower social class predicts unethical behavior (to use language of study title). Much higher incidence of murder, armed robbery, vandalism etc. where they are. Jealousy driven extra punishment for the successful and hardworking, what could go wrong? T

  2. Re:Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... on A Mars One Finalist Speaks Out On the "Dangerously Flawed" Project · · Score: 1

    Yes we do, that's trivial. We've done it in one gee field

  3. Re:Where can I download... on NASA Wants Your Help Hunting For Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Saucers. There had better be saucers. Or I'm agin' it.

  4. Re:I'm gonna FREAK! on OpenSSL To Undergo Massive Security Audit · · Score: 1

    A lot of obsolete and archaic functionality no one was using is gone. Very unsecure code that was blindly rubber-stamped for FIPs compliance by people only concerned for money rather than security is gone. You then mention bug that was fixed last July 2014 with random pools. The two maintainersadmit they don't understand the code, too much slapped together over too long by too many Finally we have something the hands of security gurus, who are cleaning up the code, who are doing project in transparent and open manner

  5. Re:Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... on A Mars One Finalist Speaks Out On the "Dangerously Flawed" Project · · Score: 1

    You are wrong about the reason this particular thing is a scam, one-way trip to Mars, when we do have the tech to accomplish such a thing, is not unthinkable. people who project their own cowardice or philosophy on others are amusing. We already do plenty of things that result in known body count for each percent complete of project.

  6. Re:What about the botnets run by the NSA . . . ? on Obama Administration Wants More Legal Power To Disrupt Botnets · · Score: 1

    "Wesa got a grand army. That's why you no liking us meesa thinks. "

  7. Re:Google Product on Google Code Disables New Project Creation, Will Shut Down On January 25, 2016 · · Score: 1

    An AC who had an IP address at the time of the post, yes. Maybe he even takes cookies and loads pixel beacons or link beacons. Maybe he was logged in but clicked the Anonymous box before posting. And maybe he visited another site in the Dice partner morass with the same IP. Uh oh, getting scary eh?

  8. Re:This is some serious sci-fi drama on IBM Reported To Be Developing Blockchain-Based Currency Transaction System · · Score: 1

    There are no perfect "circles" to be found in nature, only things approximately circular. Circles are a platonic ideal, a human construct.

    You then contradict yourself with Science is essentially the process of making observations and developing statistically consistent models. Only a human mind can do that. Such a process did not exist before human minds did. Science is a man-made endeavor.

    No cryptographic processes for number existed before man invented them. The algorithms were devised not discovered.

    There are more than one system of mathematics, by the way, things "true" in one system can be false in another. That's another nail in the coffin of your imaginings that math algorithms are discovered. They are invented after imagining a set of postulates.

  9. Re:This is some serious sci-fi drama on IBM Reported To Be Developing Blockchain-Based Currency Transaction System · · Score: 1

    No, mathematics like science is purely an invention of the human mind, Algorithms are indeed invented, BitCoin's main ones go back about 30 years.

  10. may not be much there on Oldest Dot-com Domain Turning 30 · · Score: 1

    But this we know, it is slashdotted already

  11. Re: Cue MRAs/GamerGators/Redpillers in 3...2...1.. on Twitter Will Ban Revenge Porn and Non-consensual Nudes · · Score: 2

    There was a time when nicer words than either were used.

  12. Re:Cue MRAs/GamerGators/Redpillers in 3...2...1... on Twitter Will Ban Revenge Porn and Non-consensual Nudes · · Score: 2

    Address a female as "Woman" at work, and get back to us on how well that went

  13. Funniest Sentence in Months on New Molecular 3D Printer Can Create Billions of Compounds · · Score: 2

    " For those of you who are not chemists, small molecules are organic compounds with very low molecular weight of less than 900 daltons. " Now that is a funny sentence.

  14. Re:Following instructions? on Powdered Alcohol Approved By Feds, Banned By States · · Score: 4, Informative

    it's just a polysaccharide with alcohol in it, the particular one they use can absorb 60% its weight in alcohol. You're still going to only get the alcohol of a standard drink whether you eat the starchy stuff straight up or put it in a quart of water.

  15. Re:Two photons will interfere on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 1

    Nope. That only demonstrates a large amount of photons self-interacting. Proven many times since Dirac first declared photons only self-interact. The only thing near to a photon-photon interaction are under certain high energy conditions where they transform into pairs of other particles first, and those interact. These conditions are not present in two-slit experiments.

  16. researchers will be sorry on Homeopathy Turns Out To Be Useless For Treating Medical Conditions · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been homeopathically poisoning the planetary water supply of this study's authors with sewage, every time I go to the bathroom.

  17. Re:Google Product on Google Code Disables New Project Creation, Will Shut Down On January 25, 2016 · · Score: 3, Funny

    slashdot does that too, you know.

  18. Re:Google Product on Google Code Disables New Project Creation, Will Shut Down On January 25, 2016 · · Score: 3

    NearLine is product that people pay money to use, and has so has service level agreements and etc; not relevant.

    You know, I have a lot of complaints about Google, but this article's issue is not one of them.

    Discontinuing free offerings in a responsible way, so people don't lose their data and can migrate, is fine.

  19. Re:not the first time on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 1

    No, when detecting you have photons not landing in some places, not any real "destructive interference" of anything besides photons with themselves other than of probability density functions. Photon-photon scattering "under extreme conditions" means the photons have converted to other particles to interact

  20. Re:Google Product on Google Code Disables New Project Creation, Will Shut Down On January 25, 2016 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wrong, the data will still be there and accessible. People can migrate to another store and take over a year to do so and be fine. I love people that whine about something a business provides for free, like a business is somehow obligated to give away freebies indefinitely. No one is going to lose any data. Reliable and responsible handling, in this case.

  21. Re:I'm gonna FREAK! on OpenSSL To Undergo Massive Security Audit · · Score: 1

    You link to something from July 2014, when libressl project is four months old that mentions issues? Massive changes happened since then. How is libressl or their kernel work (like say W^X in amd-x64 kernel, or their randomizing of allocation, tcp properties, etc.) a "trainwreck"?

  22. Re:Must be designed secure - not "coded" on OpenSSL To Undergo Massive Security Audit · · Score: 1

    Laughingstock? Most open source OS use code done by the OpenBSD team, as well as big vendors including Cisco, Juniper, even Microsoft (in the Unix services suite) etc. Your "formal proof" languages have been used for projects with bugs that have failed, maimed and killed people, exploded. There's a laughingstock, you spout ivory tower idealism that doesn't hold in real world.

  23. Re:what about depth of field on Developers Race To Develop VR Headsets That Won't Make Users Nauseous · · Score: 1

    that will only work to about 43 feet apparent distance, and if person has normal equal load balancing for their stereoscopic vision.

  24. Re:I'm gonna FREAK! on OpenSSL To Undergo Massive Security Audit · · Score: 5, Informative

    A team with leadship in the realm of secure software already did that, starting about 11 months ago. The OpenSSL code didn't just need audited, it need large swaths of code thrown in the trash, and code refactored for security, readability, and ease of debugging. And fixes made. Which is being done. http://www.libressl.org/

  25. Re:what about depth of field on Developers Race To Develop VR Headsets That Won't Make Users Nauseous · · Score: 1

    To do correctly would have to sense the aperture and lens thickness of eye, then adjust picture accordingly