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  1. Re:Glitch or flash memory failure? on Curiosity Rover On Standby As NASA Addresses Computer Glitch · · Score: 1

    As they cannot have someone pushza physical hardware reset button, they should have a simple watchdog circuit that looks for a particular radio signal (it would listen in on it) and force a reset that way. The flash routine would similarly be brutally powerful yet simple.

    And why they don't have 200 flash banks I don't know. Best 9 of 17 wins on a bit level, that kind of thing.

  2. Re:Really? on Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers · · Score: 1

    Not even that. Use a small box.

    Peoplr at my work do that too -- put the other monitor up so it's stacked with the laprop monitor. I don't get it. Side-to-side is the way I've been doing it for over 15 years now, home and work.

  3. Re:If you're not familiar with ACTA... masturbatio on Canada Launches ACTA Bill · · Score: 3, Funny

    This site is turning into a meme instantiation mechanism apart from the normal substrate of human minds.

  4. Re:If you're not familiar with ACTA... masturbatio on Canada Launches ACTA Bill · · Score: 1

    Anything may be sumitted.

    Anything may be voted to the front page.

    Anyone seeing a problem with that? Now combine it with downmods of unpopular but relevant opinions.

  5. Re:Fill your basement on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 1

    Come by and get the 35" tube TV in my closet while you're at it. I can't give that away.

  6. Re:Stupid should hurt. on Texas Declares War On Robots · · Score: 1

    If the brush is too broad, blame those who are self-appointed investigators on behalf of government.

  7. Re:Reductio Ad Hitlerum? on Texas Declares War On Robots · · Score: 1

    Similarly if the neighbor lady didn't want my 12 year old ass spying on her, she shouldn't have reflected her brown nippular photons out her bathroom window, through my telescope, and into my eye.

  8. Re:Clealry on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 1

    And get rid of hero units. I want epic battles of hundreds of units.

    That "upkeep" preventing you from building big armies infuriated me. You only get 70% of mined gold above a certain population, and only 40% abobe a higher level pop. It felt like some out-of-control socialism, a society I had a hard time wanting to save.

  9. Re:How good is it at its best? on Crysis 3 Review: Amazing Graphics, Still a Benchmark Buster, Boring Gameplay · · Score: 1

    OP was giving me more a feeling of ass cannon.

  10. Re:Don't change it... on Shorter '.uk' Domain Name Put On Ice · · Score: 1

    This is the same country that allows TFA's lawsuit about "defamatory proceedings" for people who criticized it too hard. What could possibly go wrong having these same people registering porn?

    I love the idea of presumptively needing permission of government to do things. It makes me feel safe.

  11. I admit the financial possibilities are endless on Intercontinental Mind-Meld Unites Two Rats · · Score: 1

    Why you should be skeptical:

    1. Slapping implants that record...something, and then slapping implants that...play back something that stimulate neurons in the exact same way as they were firing when recorded is a hell of an accomplisment.

    This alone is sci-fi level stuff.

    2. It's doubtful such activity, on the level of a neuron applies to a blanket region as if projecting on a screen. You wouldn't be "projecting" the correct micro-piece on the correct destination neuron.

    3. Even with sufficiently fine neuronal alignment, it's doubtful neural networks at the individual neuron level are identically positioned in rats any more than skin cells are.

    4. Even if neural network topology on the individual neuron level are identical between rats, again they wouldn't line up any more than eyes do for humans needing glasses.

  12. Or a Quake-type game... on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 2

    "Ars speculates in the article that the new game could be Blizzard's version of a DOTA game."

    Well, there are a half dozen of those already, too. So: Nothing new still.

  13. Re:know your audience on Spinning Black Hole's Edge Rotates At Nearly the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Spacetime -- What you have plenty of all alone in your room.

    Accretion disk -- The growing circle of used kleenex around your bedroom garbage can.

    Event horizon -- The zipper of a girl's pants, and there's no way to know, even in theory, what's on the other side.

  14. Re:It gives the RIAA/MPAA an excuse to monitor use on Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S. · · Score: 1

    While corporate dystopias make good fodder for sci-fi movies and anime, almost all great evil is at the hands of government.

    It's disturbing that government growth has adopted the meme that it is the solution, and that corporations are a historical-scale super-evil, them having, when you put away the memetic blather and get out the yardstick, brought more good to humanity than anything else save freedom itself, of which they are a subset.

  15. Re: First strike on Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S. · · Score: 1

    I suspect this post was intended to be funny, but got modded "Informative".

    That makes it even funnier.

  16. Re:FOIA, anyone? on Supreme Court Disallows FISA Challenges · · Score: 1

    At best, that suggests amelioration of the rough edges, while harnessing the undenied power (power the left relies on heavily to generate taxes).

    How did "homeless mothers" do in societies that seize all wealth via command-and-control? Those experiments are not over. These are not issues, to borrow a phrase from the ruling, "discussed in the rarified atmosphere" of academia. There are strong correlations between economic freedom and general well-being, which have been used to make successful, counter-intuitive predictions which came true. Repeatedly.

  17. Re:FOIA, anyone? on Supreme Court Disallows FISA Challenges · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, that's about the level of anti-libertarian screeds. They don't understand the difference between government telling a crook he can't steal your wallet and government telling you who you can't marry.

  18. Re:Please tell me it wont be an accurate replica.. on Plans Unveiled For Full Scale Replica of the Titanic · · Score: 1

    The lifeboats should be replicated! 3x over, in fact.

    Also I'd put their luxury kitchen up against a modern one any day.

  19. Re:Naturally on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    Is there no legal downside? It sounds like unequal prosecution, that he was singled out for rough treatment for doing other, perfectly legal things. He wouldn't have had such charges but for other, legal activities.

    Justice is thus not blind. If that isn't illegal, it should be.

  20. Re:misleading synopsis on NOAA Report: World Labor Capacity Dropping Because of Increased Temperatures · · Score: 2

    Humans will continue to adapt and advance, and productivity will continue to increase...barring massive government intervention.

  21. Re:Portion of the proceeds? on For Sale: One Nobel Prize Medal (Slightly Used, By Francis Crick) · · Score: 1

    Any normal person, yes. For a sitting president, it is unseemly in the best, most deserving of cases. For something like that, taking part in a massive slap of George Bush's face, no matter how well deserved, was beneath the presidency.

  22. Re:cry some more on Federal Court OKs Amazon's System of Suggesting Alternative Products · · Score: 1

    They might have had a case if a search for MTM watches returned other brands first, but as Amazon doesn't sell those (MTM's choice, apparently) Amazon said, "We don't have that brand, here are some others."

  23. Scaminatori.oilischious on Ask Slashdot: Identity Theft Attempt In Progress; How To Respond? · · Score: 1

    I don't think an account was compromised, yet. These sound like phishing attempts. I receive emails for the following kinds of junk:

    Your FedEx has arrived but been returned.
    You have attempted to sell your Warcraft account.
    Your eBay (or Paypal or ???) account (something something that sounds like I should check it out), I don't even have accounts

    Etc.

    Never clicked, don't want to. Links typically fake pointing to, say, ebay.com but are actually ebay.com.somesuspicious.url.some.tiny.country

  24. Re:FU Trekkie geeks on Trekkies Vote 'Vulcan' Into the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Technically "Wankerhead" isn't a canon species name, either.

  25. Re:the problem with titanium on New Technology Produces Cheaper Tantalum and Titanium · · Score: 1

    I work with titanium. Buying 500 kg this week. It's not that bad. I'd use more of it if it were cheaper.

    Much like women!

    But I wouldn't get them in 500kg packages.