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  1. Serious problem: on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 2

    Such a coin would not be compatible with existing coin-op machines.

  2. Re:Again? on New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models · · Score: 2

    "Satellite data" is always calibrated with ground data. That's how it works.

  3. Could we please have link to the paper? on New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models · · Score: 1

    Or at least to a different article. The constant use of the word "alarmist" is a bit offputting (in the same way as is the word "denialist").

  4. Re:Or... on Linguists Out Men Impersonating Women On Twitter · · Score: 2

    > Or it can be used as a training tool for would-be impersonators.

    Or to test gender-altering scripts. OMG! :)

  5. Are you sure the content isn't making you ill? on 3D Nausea Solved By Eye-Tracking · · Score: 2

    n/t

  6. Re:new scientist on How Do You Keep Up With Science Developments? · · Score: 1

    > Not sure what you mean by "accessible"...

    Usually that means dumbed down to the point of being content-free and consisting mostly of science reporter speculation about the wonderful consumer products that will ensue. And photographs, of course. Every article must have at least one photo no matter how irrelevant.

  7. Re:Keep it simple on How Do You Keep Up With Science Developments? · · Score: 0

    > Fanaticism itself is a bad thing by definition. But what is a "fanatical liberal"?

    You.

  8. "the partnership worked out rather well" on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For Microsoft.

  9. Re:Amazing... on Dawn Takes First Pictures of Vesta From Orbit · · Score: 1

    Actually there is no communication with Earth while the engines are running as the main antenna is fix-mounted and can only be pointed by pointing the spacecraft. Essentially they told Dawn "Ok, you can see Vesta. You know what its estimated mass is. Put yourself in about a 9.900 mile orbit and call back when you are done."

  10. Re:You Know What Dumpster Diving Is For, Right? on Dumpster Drive: File-Sharing For Your Digital Trash · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's a generational thing, but the /. summary writer seems to have missed the point of why people (used to) dumpster dive: collect intelligence that could be used AGAINST the divee.

    Speak for yourself. Those of us who were not in the blackmail business did it to scrounge valuable junk.

    I'd LOVE to pick through other people's stuff,

    I wouldn't. I'd find yours quite boring.

    The crap I delete includes material nearly as valuable in terms of PII, PI, and IP as the stuff I keep on my drives, whether home or office.

    So in other words it's all worthless to anyone.

  11. Doesn't the "cloud" already do this? on Dumpster Drive: File-Sharing For Your Digital Trash · · Score: 1

    n/t

  12. Re:Was It Worth It? on How To Jailbreak and Upgrade Old Android Phones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The time spent doing this could have been spent on a billable (or freelance) project that would have paid for a new phone (and then some).

    The time you spent writing your comment could have been spent on a billable project. Don't you ever do anything just for the hell of it?

  13. Re:Whats the inspiration..? on The Science of Password Selection · · Score: 2

    > What's the inspiration for choosing short, simple passwords?

    The execrable admonition to never write down a password.

  14. "Documentation"? on 7 Days With a Google Chromebook · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's so twentieth century. Isn't everything supposed to be "intuitive" now?

  15. Re:You serious? on A High-Bandwidth Interplanetary Connection · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why? How does thinking about "multi gigabit" speeds for interplanetary communications conflict with you getting a faster connection to Pirate Bay?

  16. A judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission on HTC Infringed Apple Patents, Says ITC's Initial Determination · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just to be clear, this guy is not really a judge. He's just a bureaucrat. HTC has the right to contest his decision before a real Federal judge. Unfortunately, their imports will be barred in the meantime, so they might decide to settle even if they think they would prevail in court.

  17. Re:Think of the children! on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 1

    > How does encouraging underwear bombs protect your rights?

    It causes potentially dangerous kooks to set their pants on fire. This makes them easy to spot.

    > Think of the children falling from the sky.

    I've got all perils insurance. It'll pay for the roof repairs.

  18. "anybody have experience living without the net" on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access? · · Score: 1

    Yes. I've lived most of my life without the Net.

    > What major nuisances did you encounter?

    No Slashdot.

  19. Disappointing. on Novel Drive Wheel System Based On Spinning Sphere · · Score: 1

    I visualized a spinning black hemisphere scuttling about by tilting itself. From the article I learn that it's just a drive wheel.

  20. Re:My wallet doesn't require batteries on PayPal Predicts the End of the Wallet By 2015 · · Score: 1

    The next generation of fifties will have GPS and require wireless to report their locations to the mint.

  21. Re:I can't believe that no one pointed this out ye on PayPal Predicts the End of the Wallet By 2015 · · Score: 1

    > Cash doesn't require batteries!

    Yet. The Treasury has plans...

  22. "by the year 2015, no one will carry a wallet" on PayPal Predicts the End of the Wallet By 2015 · · Score: 1

    I expect to live longer than that.

  23. Re:How is this legal? on Visualizing Behavior-Tracking Cookies With Firefox · · Score: 1

    How is what legal? Offering to send you a cookie and then sending it when you request it? The Web sites didn't configure your browser to silently accept and pass on cookies. No site can store or read back anything from your computer without active cooperation from your browser, which is entirely under your control.

  24. "passing sensitive information to criminal gangs" on UK Police Database Abuse 'Hugely Intrusive' · · Score: 2

    And, perhaps, tabloid reporters? Or is that the same thing?

  25. Broken Web site. on Visualizing Behavior-Tracking Cookies With Firefox · · Score: 1

    When I go there with Firefox 4.0 I see a block of text overprinted by a menu.