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  1. It's about time ... on Two Big Dark Matter Experiments Gain US Support · · Score: 1

    ... that America participates in science experiments on American soil.

    We passed on Waxahachie, Tex. and many of the world's premier scientists are having coffee at the LHC. America could have detected the Higgs boson.

    Hopefully, we'll get lucky and find something worth contributing regarding dark matter.

    Then, America would be one of the cool peeps.

  2. If the future is robots ... on Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? · · Score: 1

    ... go in to robotics.

    I have to think of everything.

  3. Sue, sue sue ... on Breaches Exposed 22.8 Million Personal Records of New Yorkers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's time for some litigation. These breaches should fall into an area similar to product liability where the cost of shoddy work is expensive.

  4. I called this ... on German NSA Committee May Turn To Typewriters To Stop Leaks · · Score: 1

    Back to snail mail, fax machines, typewriters, mechanical credit card cachingers.

    All have their weaknesses, but those frailties are well-known after so many years of experience.

  5. Microsoft's only commodity is ... on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... stocks.

    They sell stocks. They cater to the shareholder and that's a money-grubbing bunch of folks.

    Look at Facebook. They are making decisions that are radical departures from their pre-IPO culture. It has to be.

    Facebook, too, sells stocks.

    Knowing that explains the business model and strategy of public corporations.

  6. Hire a contractor ... on NSA Says Snowden Emails Exempt From Public Disclosure · · Score: 1

    ... to go in and get them.

  7. The ball is small and it's got this: "$" on it ... on Google's Experimental Newsroom Avoids Negative Headlines · · Score: 1

    Google's prime directive is to make money.

    There's the answer to today's question.

    Those who don't understand and embrace that first sentence may well start babbling about free speech, 4th estate, bias, or any number of equally irrelevant issues having nothing to do with Google's business model.

    Google does not owe anyone the "news," any more than does the news entertainment venues like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and the likes.

    If you're interested in news in the traditional sense, good luck and please remember where you parked.

    Money-making ventures report to the shareholders -- not the news desk.

  8. Re:Moron Judge on Judge Shoots Down "Bitcoin Isn't Money" Argument In Silk Road Trial · · Score: 1

    The instant Bitcoin was converted to ANY form of money, it became money; subjected to the same audit trail, regulation, forensics, and transparency as money.

    That alone is the show stopper for Bitcoin.

  9. Oops I did it again ... on DHS Mistakenly Releases 840 Pages of Critical Infrastructure Documents · · Score: 1

    Recall the inadvertent Gmail slip, and the doctor SSN fail ...

    Buy then books and send them to school and they bite the teacher.

  10. Big a tree ... on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 0

    ... to move it away from my pole to the garden.

  11. Re:Meanwhile, in DSL-land on Alcatel-Lucent's XG-FAST Pushes 10,000Mbps Over Copper Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, we don't know if the speed is synchronous.

    Perhaps the upload is .6Mbps?

  12. Re:"Thus ends "Climategate." Hopefully." on Climate Change Skeptic Group Must Pay Damages To UVA, Michael Mann · · Score: 0

    Who needs "supercomputer driven model simulation?"

    Go to the five-and-dime and buy a freaking thermometer and measure for yourself. Share your results and let's see what conclusions we come to.

    People have been crowd-sourcing that crap for nigh on to a thousand years.

  13. Hardware wipe strategy ... on Avast Buys 20 Used Phones, Recovers 40,000 Deleted Photos · · Score: 1

    Required tools:

    1.) Goggles
    2.) Hammer.

  14. Who's building the builder? on Foxconn Replacing Workers With Robots · · Score: 1

    I see a major jump in robot construction ...

  15. Re:Using SSN? on Blue Shield Leaks 18,000 Doctors' Social Security Numbers · · Score: 1

    I don't see this as a SSN problem; it's more a greed problem on the part of the seller, who failed to enforce due diligence.

  16. Humans are "non-engineers" ... on Study: Whales Are Ecosystem "Engineers" · · Score: 1

    Whale poop.

    I'm all for saving the whales, but to give the planet a break, perhaps we could compensate by finding a way NOT to treat human poop.

    I am certain, combined, people are fuller of it.

  17. Re:Supreme Court did *not* say corps are people .. on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    Healthcare is not a gift from corporate. It is a benefit. When convenient, corp says, "You actually make more than your salary indicates when you add in benefits."

    If "benefits" are actually, "compensation," then what is corporate doing messing with my stuff?

  18. Real artificial intelligence will be "artificial," because it's not "human."

    However, it will have human DNA because of its origin.

    When the switch is thrown on the gold version, it will commit suicide.

  19. Re:What's worse? on New Snowden Leak: of 160000 Intercepted Messages, Only 10% From Official Targets · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if the American government was competent.

    That way, they could perform miracles of a semi-religious nature and we'd never know about it.

    The problem I have is that we know about it.

  20. Re:Classic Slashdot on Microsoft Backs Open Source For the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Nice try with the link.

  21. Re:Fantastic! Open sourcing will make pwning easie on Microsoft Backs Open Source For the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    I like your comment because it jostled a thought:

    What if the manufacturers start selling connected devices and insist that we hook them up or we have no warranty, or any support, or we just can't use it?

    Wow.

  22. Re:Fantastic! Open sourcing will make pwning easie on Microsoft Backs Open Source For the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    Yep, and the backbone these things have to hit in order to get out of the house ain't been patched yet.

  23. Really? on Hacking Internet Connected Light Bulbs · · Score: 1

    At least they didn't have to drill a hole through the roof.

  24. Re:Ever hear of something called a "sales pitch"? on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 1

    I am sorry you:

    1.) Live among most Americans
    2.) Chose to be a statistician.

  25. Re:does it fuse? on New Class of Stars Are Totally Metal, Says Astrophysicist · · Score: 2

    The iron doesn't "want" to come apart, and doesn't.

    The star is a fine balance of gravitational attraction that compresses of all its parts to the point of fusion at the center, and the expansion of the star as the pressure of fusing energy at the center wants to expand the star.

    At first, hydrogen is converted to helium and that process is so energy-rich that the star doesn't struggle much to hold off the collapsing effect of gravity.

    As other elements are converted from one to the other, the fusion process is less efficient in producing energy and the star struggles even more to fight off gravity and becomes more dense

    At the last stage of the star's life, when it produces iron, the star hits a brick wall. Fusion is not robust enough to convert iron into the next element.

    What happens next is amazing because gravity finally overcomes the expanding process of fusion.

    The star collapses very quickly, and THAT enormous pressure jams particles together so violently that heavier, more complex elements than iron are made through fission, and at the same time, the star is exploding.

    The iron atoms do not come apart. They ride the shock wave.