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  1. Re:Well, that's embarrassing on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 1

    Actually C14 skyrocketted with atomic tests, so much so they've been able to map how long the average cell lives based on the year-to-year curve (!) Then in the 1960s, above ground testing was banned, and levels are returing to normal.

    Science has about 10 or so years to figure out the rest of it before the deltas are so small as to be useless, in studying cell age.

    There is a whole Radiolab about it.

  2. Re:A free search engine on Google Facing Fine of Up To $1.4 Billion In India Over Rigged Search Results · · Score: 1

    Wintel machines were free?

    Holy shit, I overpaid more than I thought!

  3. Re:Easy on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    1) Buy a nice house. 2) Buy a nice car to stick in the garage. 3) Pay off all bills and ex wife. 4) Continue downloading porn when not eating out from my penthouse. 5) Hide as much as legally possible from the mooching meme sensibility used by politicians to gain power. 6) Donate to them, playing their game of paying them to get back out of the way, which is why they got in the way to begin with, using aformentioned meme as hoi polloi fraudulent cover story.

    Eventually) Die, and they take a huge chunk of it anyway, having taxed it all once already.

  4. $57 for Zaxxon, yikes! on Unearthed E.T. Atari Game Cartridges Score $108K At Auction · · Score: 1

    $108,000 / 900 = $120 per cartridge

    Assuming $40 price in 1982, after inflation, that is $98.92, so an "investor" would profit about $20 per. That doesn't account for shipping, and assuming his mom let him store them in the basement for free next to his bed.

    Of course you could buy them for a dollar a pound soon after release.

  5. Re:Not a new idea on "McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali" · · Score: 1

    This. It already had a name anyway.

    See, if you let the states control their own territory instead of giving most of the last 20 or so states' land to the feds as a condition of entry, you wouldn't have this prob...NO DON'T DOWNMOD ME NOOOOOOOOOOooooo!

  6. Re:Headline leaves out one very important detail on Over 225,000 Apple Accounts Compromised Via iOS Malware · · Score: 1

    Yes yes yes. This is all good and nice, but will there be more pctures?

  7. Re:Oh I believe it on The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles · · Score: 2

    This has nothing to do with hacking. It's someone putting a bomb in a car or truck, and setting the nav destination.

  8. Just no bunny hopping please. on Cliff Bleszinski's Boss Key Productions Unveils LawBreakers Game Trailer · · Score: 1

    From the look of it, a better description might be The Real Quake III. The gameplay looks identical to old Quake with the Threewave Capture The Flag mod, which included the sub-mod grappling hook, and rocket jumping, a serendipitous discovery that fell out naturally from the physics.

    Later hacks who were in charge of Quake (on retrospect, they got lucky with Quake I in spite of themselves) obliterated this stuff out of existence...and the game suffered...and in their arrogance they paid the price.

    Don't mention names; these people were terrible.

  9. So far, so good on Magnet-Steered Nano-Fish Could Deliver Drugs and Sweep Body Toxins · · Score: 2

    So is there hydrogen peroxide naturally in blood, or it can be safely introduced, to drive these things? (It reacts with platinum particles in the tail to provide thrust, and are externally guided by magnetism via iron in the nose.)

    Drug delivery is by ramming into the area in question and dissolving, releasing the payload (already proven in previous, simpler experiments.)

    Bad particle "eating" is done by binding the fish with some chemical that attaches to it.

  10. I raise you, Mr. Freedom and Small Government on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 3, Informative

    Both the Republicans and Democrats know the only way to stave off Social Security money scarcity is to inhale large numbers of younger workers (this, by the way, is the exact problem Ponzi schemes have, and why they were made illegal, and why it's a legitimate comparison -- they always run out of new investors to pay back previous ones. They just don't have the legal power to force everyone to invest, delaying, but not stopping, the inevitable. No "investor" gets back as much as they put in...in either.)

    The Republicans are just pissed The Donald has made a stink of it, and now they have to respond with idiocies like this, the more outrageous the better, apparently. Seriously.

  11. Re:Christ on a popsicle stick, now what? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    I mean, if you wanna claim "Nazi-ism" was so rampant after the war that you need extreme emergency measures to beat that meme out of existence, fine, but at least admit to it.

    Stop trying to pretend you have a holier-than-thou, benighted interpretation of what freedom of speech means. You do not. You are still part of the problem.

  12. Christ on a popsicle stick, now what? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 2

    I thought it was an unconditional surrender.

    "There's no scope for misplaced tolerance towards internet users who spread racist propaganda. That's especially the case in light of our German history."

    Perhaps a more important lesson "in light of our German history" is learning that dictators require the power to silence opposition...especially political opposition. They can't wield it if it doesn't exist. Now it does. History gives no confidence it won't ultimately be misused. Your own country, along with ancient Greece and Rome, are prime examples of nominal free democracies that gave up "emergency powers" to someone who never gave it back.

  13. No "rushin' " on this plan! on The View From 2015: Integrated Space Plan's 100-Year Plan · · Score: 1

    Clearly they're not taking into account a new administration cancelling the previous one's big NASA project so they can 1. save money and 2. deny them a Kennedy moment years down the road.

  14. Re:Dubious on Symantec Researchers Find 49 New Modules of Regin Spying Tool · · Score: 2

    No, if you stumble across something, you have freedom of speech and government cannot pre-silence you. Nothing save an imminent D Day type invasion launch would pass the Supreme Court, and they would mean imminent, like 24 hours.

    Government has worked with anti-spyware people to overlook certain things in certain cases, if stories are to be believed, but that is voluntary.

  15. So freelance blackmailers are encroaching on their paid delete quasi-blackmail-wink-wink.

    > people whose details were contained in the leak are beginning to face threats of blackmail.

    "I see you joined Ashley Madison, Mr. Slashdotter, but nobody cheated with you. I will reveal your pathos unless you pay me 400 quatloos in Bitcoin."

  16. Re:Um, even worse news: on Research Suggests How Alien Life Could Spread Across the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    The more important point is using spectography to analyze planetary atmospherez for signs of life. This should be possible.

    And if it is, and life is detected, we should be able to tell enough about it to make a guess as to whether it evolved independently, or was related to each other (or us) the way we can relate all life here via DNA.

  17. Re:Really? on Analysis Reveals Almost No Real Women On Ashley Madison · · Score: 1

    > That means for every 7750 men, there were 3 women.

    Those odds are still far better than the male-to-female ratio of the average Slashdotter's bedroom!

  18. Re:And who was the big believer in carbon credits? on Countries Gaming Carbon Offsets May Have Dramatically Increased Emissions · · Score: 1

    Every country gets some credits to play with. China demanded a buttload more because we'll just step it up and inhale whatever everyone else saves anyway and nobody cares. I sure don't.

    We won't recognize the world in 100 years, and I don't mean global warming. The faster we get there by tech advancement, the better.

  19. And TV on Why Modular Smartphones Are Such a Nightmare To Develop · · Score: 1

    Modular cell phones. It's only missing an AM/FM receiver and it's a tricorder.

  20. Re:Glad they didn't read the books on "Sensationalized Cruelty": FCC Complaints Regarding Game of Thrones · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jesus was the prophesied one and he came back to life after being killed by soldiers of the powers that be, after being betrayed by a trusted colleague.

    He could heal people and cast out demons that invaded their minds.

    He was, wait. Oh my god. He was just like Neo in The Matrix. They must have based him on Neo.

  21. Interrupting social intercourse on Most People Use Their Phones During Social Events, Despite Thinking It Harms Conversation · · Score: 1

    In the words of Don Martin, One Fine Day At A Taco Hell

    "...and I agree, Hillary 2016 baby and...yes, that's a picture of Taylor Swift...what are you doing, what are you...oh gross! Stop fapping!"

  22. Inevitable on US Scientists Successfully 'Switch Off' Cancer Cells · · Score: 2

    "It took a few years," the wise one continued, "but once they polished a cure up, the clamor for smoking in public places built gloriously until a few years later, when those pollies removed the laws. They knew what side their bread was buttered on, which was the only reason they changed it in the first place."

    "What a bizarre little period that was," we stated.

    "Yes. It was."

    "What did the fussbudgettry turn their attentions to, then?"

    "Oh, I don't know. Anti 3D printed sex slave robots or something. They didn't have mouths genetically engineered growing outta their taints to give the what-for to their own junk, as guaranted by International Rights today, back in those days."

    "Craaaaazy!"

  23. Re:Pre-emption on California Bill Would Dramatically Limit Commercial Drones · · Score: 1

    Local jurisdictions try things like block cell phones, or block them in stadiums, or shut them down in a police "emergency", and the FCC is like back the fuck up, we didn't say you can do that.

  24. Some day, my Prints will come! on MIT Develops Inkjet-Style 3D Printer That Uses 10 Different Materials At Once · · Score: 2

    > self-correct

    This will become much more interesting with full 3D printers that can self-replicate. How many copies down the road until enough errors crop up that it stops working "good enough" and starts printing out Bitch Printies.

  25. Re:Moronic on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, most nerds have never encountered a situation where someone grabbed their "pen" and refused to let go.