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  1. Re:An easy solution on Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You · · Score: 1

    > Or...am "I" the only one left in the world now, that isn't on FB ?

    No.

  2. "I'd like to see an explanation..." on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 1

    The wholesale model requires that the publishers provide significant added value. Without paper books they don't.

  3. Re:holography? on Sheffield Scientists Have Revolutionized the Electron Microscope · · Score: 2

    No. Read TFA (which is s bit short on detail).

  4. Re:Flare vs Asteroid on Large Solar Flare To Glance Off Earth · · Score: 2

    Yes, very, very slightly, as could any of the numerous flares and other changes in solar emissions that will occur between now and 2040. That is one of the reasons why the asteroid's future path is uncertain.

  5. Re:Astrometrics ain't like quantum mechanics boy.. on What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040? · · Score: 2

    A coin flip is exactly as probabilistic an event as this possible impact.

  6. Re:18 months won't matter on What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040? · · Score: 1

    There's no reason not to start thinking and talking about it now: at worst we get a head start on planning for the next one. BTW the 2023 pass might be the best time for a deflection effort. There is almost no chance that we could deflect it if we wait until the last few years before impact.

  7. Re:Astrometrics ain't like quantum mechanics boy.. on What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Am I the only one that gets terribly frustrated by statements like "the asteroid has a 1 in X chance to hit earth"?

    Do statements like "The coin has a 1 in 2 chance of coming up heads" also bother you?

  8. So knock back a couple of Red Bulls... on Exercise and Caffeine May Activate Metabolic Genes · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and then run a mile. You'll live forever.

  9. n/t

  10. There's no "superjurisdiction" here. on US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains · · Score: 2

    Verisign is inside the USA and that is where all .coms are registered. The "registrars" are just sales agents. Get youself a .ru domain.

  11. As soon as you hear the phrase "create jobs"... on Cloud To Create 14 Million Jobs? Not So Much · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...you might as well walk away. What follows is always bullshit.

  12. Re:Does anyone know a good app.. on Video Captchas are Hard for Computers to Understand but Easy for Humans (Video) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    EVENTUALLY all bots will be better at breaking all captchas than humans will be.

    It's much worse than that. Because the botherders can tolerate a very high failure rate the bots can be much worse than humans and still be effective.

  13. Re:Want to see more? on Asteroid Will Make Close Pass To Earth · · Score: 1

    > ...the question becomes how many are we still not seeing?

    Part of the purpose of the surveys is to answer that: not by finding them all but by acquiring enough data to use statistics to estimate the number unfound.

  14. Re:It's not the wheel, it's the road on Why Did It Take So Long To Invent the Wheel? · · Score: 1

    I would argue that wheels (for transportation) are more or less useless without roads...

    Wheelbarrows and carts are quite useful without roads.

    ...nor that wheel use tended to die out after the fall of the Roman Empire...

    Evidence?

  15. Re:Dumb question on Did the Titanic Sink Due To an Optical Illusion? · · Score: 2

    Radar. Satellite images.

  16. Re:From my understanding... on Mysterious Dark Matter Blob Confounds Experts · · Score: 1

    Photons are their own anti-particles.

  17. So the real invention was the bearing... on Why Did It Take So Long To Invent the Wheel? · · Score: 1

    ... and is often the case the real blocker was materials and tooling.

  18. Pick a single distribution (I suggest Debian)... on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Distro For Linux Lessons? · · Score: 1

    ...and install it on all machines. Set up FAI or Puppet or something to administer it and establish a local repository. Tell the developers that if they want to use anything else they can but they're on their own for support.

  19. "...we don't see 'leaderboards' for skills yet..." on Is It Time For Hacker Scouts? · · Score: 1

    Acquiring skills is a positive-sum game. We don't need to know who is "winning".

  20. Re:Please use this in political debates. on Speech-Jamming Gun Silences From 30 Meters · · Score: 1

    Each of the idiots has a microphone. The moderator could turn it off. He doesn't.

  21. Re:User of voice silencer gun silenced by real gun on Speech-Jamming Gun Silences From 30 Meters · · Score: 1

    I don't think it would be all that difficult to build one that looks like a camera.

  22. Re:Science museum? on Speech-Jamming Gun Silences From 30 Meters · · Score: 1

    Nonetheless, this invention can be - and will be - misused to silence political speech.

    I think it more likely that the thing will never be used at all.

  23. Mod parent up. on Majorana Fermion May Have Been Spotted At TU Delft · · Score: 0

    n/t

  24. simpler countermeasure: earplugs. on Speech-Jamming Gun Silences From 30 Meters · · Score: 1

    n/t

  25. Could be worse. on Khan Academy Chooses JavaScript As Intro Language · · Score: 0

    They could have selected PhP.