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  1. My phablet makes it irrelevant on The Great Tablet Gold Rush Is Over (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    I never understood the need for a tablet since when the phablets came out. I have big hands and no trouble with large screen smartphones, i.e. phablets.

    I have a 5.7 inch display Samsung Galaxy Note, which does most if not all the tricks a tablet does, and many many more since its a phone too.

    In the end the gold rush was over before I even joined.

  2. Perhaps Facebook has no money to or future left since they bought Oculus Rift? So, sue Wall Street hiring practices. From what I've seen the Catholic church hasn't hired many Jews or Arabs. That might be a potential target too. Where are the blue eyed dishers? Women garbage men? The list is long.

  3. Be clear, be honest, fuck ... ? on Man Licenses His Video Footage To Sony, Sony Issues Copyright Claim Against Him (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    " Martinez concludes by offering some tips on how to resolve such claims."

    In short: be clear, be honest, fuck Apple, then Sony.

    Or? Don't ever be like Steve Jobs ever was.

    .

  4. Re: Trade Secret, not Copyright on Source Code On Trial In DNA Matching Case (post-gazette.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I'll just add that the concepts of patent and copyright are both quite old. Patents had been invented in Venice some decades before Columbus discovered the western hemisphere and copyrights in the 17th century. [All information according to The Big W.]

  5. Re: Trade Secret, not Copyright on Source Code On Trial In DNA Matching Case (post-gazette.com) · · Score: 1

    "Software the only industry that covers a single body of work by three IP laws: patent, copyright and trade secret. I believe the original intent of each of these laws was that they would mutually exclude each other."

    Why would you believe that?

  6. Yes, it does it matter on Ask Slashdot: Is the Gap Between Data Access Speeds Widening Or Narrowing? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does it matter.

    For example, if you want to sort objects which does not fit at one level, the sorting may spill over to a next level of much slower memory. This imbalance of speed is relevant regardless of the interconnect speed limits, as a delta as such is the culprit.

    There are some ways to improve on that.

    From Wikipedia > Sorting_algorithm > Memory_usage_patterns_and_index_sorting
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    That is one example of a solution to a problem that matters.

  7. Re:Neo-Luddite scaremongering wins again on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do these people want us to go back to the Stone Age? Because that's what's going to happen.

    These people are opposed to any progress that might actually solve the problems we face, which only leaves us with the option of going backwards.

    From http://www.savethepinebush.org...
    Who Owns Life?
    Canadian Farmer Sued by Monsanto

    by Lynne Jackson

    ALBANY, NY — The First Lutheran Church was the setting for the talk by Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian farmer being sued by Monsanto for patent infringement. [...] Around 1995, Percy told his wife he was thinking of retirement. Louise expressed concerns about what he would do with himself, so Percy decided to keep farming for a while longer. What to do with his spare time was decided in 1998, when Monsanto sued Percy for patent infringement. Monsanto said that it had found GMO (genetically modified organism) canola seed in Percy’s field, and that Percy had to pay a $15 an acre fee for using its patented GMO seed. Percy never had anything to do with Monsanto. He never purchased seed from Monsanto. He was concerned that Monsanto seed had contaminated his farm. The GMO canola plants got into his fields by the wind blowing pollen or seed onto his land. It took two years for the pre-trail motions and paper-work to be completed. During this time, Monsanto dropped their charge that Percy had illegally obtained the GMO seed. Because this was a patent case, the case would not be heard by a jury but by one federal judge. The trial took two and one-half weeks. The federal judge decided that it did not matter how the GMO crops got into his field, he must pay Monsanto their fee of $15/acre. In addition, the judge ordered that Percy pay Monsanto all of the profits from his 1998 crop, and that he must turn over all of the plants and seeds to Monsanto. Two of Percy’s fields were not contaminated with Monsanto GMOs and 60% of the GMOs Monsanto found were in the ditch by the road. Percy appealed his case to the federal Court of Appeals, which upheld the ruling against Percy by the first judge.



    There is nothing Luddite refusing GMO.

  8. Re:Wait, what? on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Aren't all crops genetically modified?

    No, not by humans. By natural selection, yes, but that rarely would produce Antarctic teleost genes in vascular plants or other extreme HGT effects now "readily" possible.

  9. Agreed on Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't it true that most psychiatrist and psychologist are self-healers, ie they are a bit odd to begin with?

    Psychiastrist and psychologist: "Aah, you don't seem to feel well. Aah. Locking you up. Yedi, Yoggo. Aah. Duggo. Jaaaammmaaa. Thetan. Xenu. Teegeeack. Sfgofgiaughaifh."

    Something along those lines? I understand then that scientologists don't want that to happen.

  10. Old news? on Building the Face of a Criminal From DNA · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maybe not old as in really old, but at least since 2012/2013/2014.

    Even artists know about it.

    2012
    https://web.archive.org/web/20...
    "Researchers have moved one step closer to facial reconstruction with DNA by discovering the genes that help control the width of the human face. A recent study of almost 10,000 individuals revealed five genes associated with different facial shapes – known as PRDM16, PAX3, TP63, C5orf50, and COL17A1. Manfred Kayser and his team of the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of people’s heads to map facial landmarks and estimate facial distances."

    2013
    http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09... "We leave genetic traces of ourselves wherever we go -- in a strand of hair left on the subway or in saliva on the side of a glass at a cafe. So you may want to think twice the next time you spit out your gum or drop a cigarette butt in public. New York artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg might pick it up, extract the DNA and create a 3-D face that could look like you. Her project, "Stranger Visions," fashions portrait sculptures from bits of genetic material collected in public places."

    2014
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/al...
    "Sometime in the future, technicians will go over the scene of the crime. They’ll uncover some DNA evidence and take it to the lab. And when the cops need to get a picture of the suspect, they won’t have to ask eyewitnesses to give descriptions to a sketch artist – they’ll just ask the technicians to get a mugshot from the DNA. That, at least, is the potential of new research being published today in PLOS Genetics. In that paper, a team of scientists describe how they were able to produce crude 3D models of faces extrapolated from a person’s DNA."

    http://www.kuleuven.be/english...
    "Scientists are getting closer to constructing a likeness of a person's face using nothing but a DNA sample. Postdoctoral researcher Peter Claes and his colleagues describe the technique in a recent publication in PLOS Genetics. Their work opens a horizon of potential future applications in forensics, anthropology and medicine."

    Now its 2015.

  11. Re:Forget Esports on What Source 2 Means For Valve's ESports · · Score: 1

    Eehh ... Like announcing a release of a Steam controller every year?

  12. Re: Keeps the brain sharp on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: 1

    As a Scandinavian, I wonder what claim the Greeks may have had to intellectual fame since the great Aristotle. The misfits from Nicosia? Petrus? LOL... What scientific advances did the Bysantians ever make? NO, the days of Greek glory is like the Scandinavian, British, and French. They're all gone, at large. Live with it.

  13. Acute lead poisoning on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    It was acute lead poisoning i Paris, Copenhagen and Garland. It was the wrong thing in all three places.

  14. Microsoft Tetris and Google on New York State Spent Millions On Program For Startups That Created 76 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Microsoft, Tetris and Google wire created by less than a dozen people, in total. Anything more than that could be regarded as a success. :)

  15. Imagine - Lennon on India Mandates Use of Open Source Software In Government · · Score: 0

    Imagine:

    1. US/Russia/China

    2. France/UK/Japan

    3. Canada/Norway/Austria

    4. Ecuador/Israel/Palestine/

    5. Somalia/Bolivia/Vatican

    Transparency?! Probably no. None of these would dare that at full speed ahead. Not even Norway.

    Besides, many more countries have too many politically influential people which have "secret" money hidden, where an open source transparency may ultimately remove too many hidden money sources.

    Here is an example researched by the New York Times, "Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader".

    Chinese leaders, however, deny (two years later) to be that rich, acording to an article, "China's former PM denies role in family's 'hidden riches'", in The Telegraph.

    The Jeb B tribal/clan politicos? US is getting more inbred than Europe ever was at the political top :D



    Tough fighting for open source at all levels? Yes. Just a guess.

  16. My first pocket calculator on The 2015 Vintage Computer Festival East is April 17-19 (Video) · · Score: 1

    When I was a twelve (or so) I was given my first pocket calculator, the entry level Citizen 800D (version 1 or 2).

    http://ernst.mulder.com/calcul...

    It is at my parents home and my father still uses it for everyday calculations, as I've upgraded many time since then. :)

    I'm not sure exactly which version it is, version 1 or 2. They used different processors for each version.

    version 1 http://mycalcdb.free.fr/main.p... unlisted processor
    version 2 http://mycalcdb.free.fr/main.p... NEC uPD940C (1975)

    A friend later had the model 801D which had memory buttons. Awe.

    Didn't touch a computer until four years later.

    Memories :)

  17. When available as 16nm, yes on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN X Becomes First 12GB Consumer Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    Nvidia GM204 Maxwell GPUs May Jump From 28nm to 16nm, Skip 20nm http://www.eteknix.com/nvidia-... At 601 mm2 the Titan X will never be cheap because of the low yield. At 16nm this would be something.

  18. What sticks? on BlackBerry's Latest Experiment: a $2,300 'Secure' Tablet · · Score: -1, Troll

    " BlackBerry has been throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks". Children round the world, put camel shit on the walls They're making carpets on treadmills, or garbage sorting And it's no game.

  19. infrared telescopic contact lenses, now, please on Telescopic Contact Lenses Unveiled · · Score: 2

    I am one of those who never picked up any of those 700 000 infrared Sony camcorders in 1998. Could we, please, have infrared telescopic contact lenses now!

  20. Historical time series for OECD on Ask Slashdot: When and How Did Europe Leapfrog the US For Internet Access? · · Score: 0

    An exerpt from www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/oecdbroadbandportal.htm

    Country 2003-Q4 2008-Q4 2013-Q4
    Australia 3,49 24,56 25,98
    Austria 7,62 21,26 26,15
    Belgium 11,70 27,67 34,39
    Canada 15,06 28,23 33,47
    Chile .. 8,49 12,94
    Czech Republic 0,48 16,97 17,38
    Denmark 13,10 36,27 40,01
    Estonia .. 20,97 25,49
    Finland 9,48 27,89 30,82
    France 5,89 27,64 37,65
    Germany 5,59 27,44 34,84
    Greece 0,10 13,41 26,23
    Hungary 1,99 17,11 23,07
    Iceland 14,31 32,47 35,77
    Ireland 0,83 19,94 24,43
    Israel .. 22,70 25,12
    Italy 4,17 18,86 22,27
    Japan 10,90 23,51 28,06
    Korea 26,16 31,61 37,47
    Luxembourg 3,44 29,39 32,52
    Mexico 0,41 7,06 11,43
    Netherlands 11,79 35,61 40,44
    New Zealand 2,57 21,37 30,20
    Norway 8,18 33,71 37,04
    Poland 0,78 10,48 15,64
    Portugal 4,81 15,94 24,12
    Slovak Republic 0,35 11,45 15,63
    Slovenia .. 20,77 25,12
    Spain 5,25 20,08 26,31
    Sweden 11,15 31,51 32,43
    Switzerland (2) 10,55 32,73 44,86
    Turkey 0,29 8,07 11,19
    United Kingdom 5,37 28,14 35,20
    United States (2) 9,59 25,48 29,79
    OECD 7,03 21,95 26,97

    It all depends on which part of Europe one thinks of.

  21. "more financial-inclusion schemes"?! on Made-In-Nigeria Smart Cards To Extend Financial Services To the Poor · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That can only lead to more snake oil e-mails from Nigeria, I venture to say. Is Nigeria perhaps the biggest snake oil producers in the world?

  22. My rentaDVD/Blueray stores closed a few months ago on Amazon Plans To Release 12 Movies a Year In Theaters and On Prime · · Score: 1

    and Netflix sucks. The stores had literally thousands of movies to choose from, but Netflix? A few dozen mediocre titles... I want my DVD backlog opportunity back, not more productions, from yet another source!!!

  23. Saudi copes with low prices for at least 8 yrs on Iran Forced To Cancel Its Space Program · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

    "Saudi Arabia can cope with low oil prices for "at least eight years", Saudi Arabia's minister of petroleum's former senior adviser has told the BBC. Mohammed al-Sabban said the country's policy was to defend its current market share by enduring low prices. "You need to allow prices to go as low as possible in order to see those marginal producers move out of the market," he said."

    Eight happy years!

    http://www.theweek.co.uk/busin...

    "The dramatic fall in the oil price will spur the UK economy to grow faster than had been predicted this year, according to influential forecaster the EY ITEM Club."

    Yo-hoo

  24. Re:And what about net trolls? on New Collaborative Project Wants to Systematize Complex Problem Solving Online · · Score: 1

    That is an issue overcome by Wikipedia quite rapidly. One or a few trolls per hundred contributors are rapidly swamped out. Look at Slashdot. ;) My suggestion would be that the rather collaborate formally with Wikipedia, and tap their infrastructure, to get it going for real. I realize this may feel awkward and may hamper enthusiasm and funding opportunities if proposed the wrong way. Yet, it would give the idea a stronger start if they are more interested in their idea than in funding. Questions related to Strontium would be next the to the Wikipedia of Strontium, etc.

  25. "just" 9 percent? on Obama Planning New Rules For Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Emissions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    9 percent of the nation's greenhouse gas pollution is a bloody lot of greenhouse gas! Does the adding of the word "just" make it any less?