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  1. Re:IPO basics; the banks got screwed, not FB on Mark Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake · · Score: 2

    What a surprise. And in my own news magazine, I keep crowing about the death of Forbes Magazine. I'm pretty sure that will happen sooner than Facebook.

  2. Re:Simple on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    It's called a power plant for a reason. That reason is a play on words. The reactors are also decayed plant matter in a manner of speaking.

  3. Whew on New York Experiments With Wi-Fi From Payphones · · Score: 1

    Who knows where Superman would have had to change otherwise.

  4. Re:upload? on Seagoing Servers Hit the Rocks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a seaworthy station wagon filled with hard drives.

  5. Can't figure it out on Insects As Weapons · · Score: 3, Funny

    It seems like every time I go to Australia to bring back a control insect, there's another insect that's not affected by the control that appears on the loose. Almost like there's a fly on the wall in my strategy meetings. Or a bug in my luggage.

    From the article, it doesn't sound like they looked at other possibilities; suppliers which typically travel from Australia to LA, and maybe declining quality standards there. Maybe these other pests were dying off because of competition from the first set of pests and once the controls are introduced, the old set of pests (continuously arriving through incompetent shippers) are able to reestablish.

    But I think it's an issue well worth talking about.

  6. Re:Now to understand what it means on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    In reality, most of those 30 million Americans who were uninsured were expensive to treat. Hence, our premiums will all rise a bit and it will be annoying. But for some of those people, they will be given a new lease on life and much needed relief. It is tyranny of the majority a little, but; but then again, if you could choose to trade places, I think you'd gladly pay a little more on your premium, than to be hit with one of those kinds of diseases.

  7. Updates on Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that all my facebook updates/reminders will go to my facebook.com address? Finally, I won't have to worry about what's going on with my facebook profile.

  8. Adds Rock music support on A New C Standard Is On the Way · · Score: 2

    cause this language goes to 11
    *puts on sunglasses*

  9. Re:Not true that fighting back doesn't work. on Hacked Companies Fight Back With Controversial Steps · · Score: 2

    Ah yes, self-defense. Like that scene from the Big Lebowski, when they find out who stole their car? "Do you see what happens, Larry? This is what happens when you f%$K a stranger in the @$$."

    I think working "with the State Department to actually get the local police to go in and arrest the people" is a bit different than hacking someone back. Especially when "hacking them back" might be hacking the wrong person's Ferrari to bits.

  10. Re:I don't get this basic definition of quantum... on Move Over, Quantum Cryptography: Classical Physics Can Be Unbreakable Too · · Score: 1

    Not sure if you later read the other comments, but you use quantum cryptography to transmit a one-time pad and you can then detect eavesdropping. Yes, after reading that one-time pad, it would be impossible to read it again. If you couldn't read the pad, you know someone is eavesdropping, so you don't send your pad until you resolve that problem (which could be difficult).

    Once you have exchanged a one-time pad, that has not been eavesdropped, you can begin to exchange messages encrypted by the one-time pad. If someone later figures out what your one-time pad was, they can decrypt the message. But since you only used it once, and since it would require brute forcing to guess the one-time pad, you generally would be dead and gone decades before that was useful to anyone else.

  11. Re:To republicans maybe on Committee Lowers Nobel Prize Award · · Score: 1

    Where have you been? Why is Netflix double what it was a few years ago? Why are soda prices up? Why are all bottled beverages / ice creams sold in smaller sizes? Why is it called a McDouble and not a Double Cheeseburger.

    In 2007-2010 lost 40000 of the median income: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/business/economy/family-net-worth-drops-to-level-of-early-90s-fed-says.html

    Care to explain where inflation isn't? I'm not sure whether Ron Paul has any real solutions to this mess, and maybe Krugman's right about what we should do, but there definitely has been inflation in recent times despite Krugman's so-called statements that there hasn't been any.

  12. Careful with Forbes on Forbes Names Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Worst CEO · · Score: 1

    Be careful with Forbes magazine. I've noted that they tend to have trollish articles of late. The headline generates controversy, but the meat is often nonsense. I didn't RTFA, but I've stopped reading Forbes ever since I read some article about how Apple was going to die, which basically read like some anti-Apple fanboy with no real substance.

  13. Re:Color me not surprised. on NY Times Apple Tax Article Flawed · · Score: 2

    Aagh. I misread the summary. I guess I was wrong about Forbes this time.

    So color me surprised.

  14. Color me not surprised. on NY Times Apple Tax Article Flawed · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Lately, I've seen lots of tabloid-esque headlines at Forbes supposedly drumming up controversy. I read the article and realize I was trolled. I think that magazine is not going to be around much longer.

  15. Re:Getting your email noticed on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Get Through To a Politician By E-mail? · · Score: 1

    When you're making friends, at the ATM, do the creep! do the creep

  16. Let me google that for you on Google Developer Testifies That Java Memo Was Misinterpreted · · Score: 2

    From the article:

    "This week Larry Page could not recall who Lindholm was"

    Hey Larry, let me google that for you:
    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tim+lindholm

  17. Re:interesting on Japanese Researchers Create A Crab-Based Computer · · Score: 1

    And of course, the Matrix explained how we'd power such a computing device and network.

  18. Re:Ow the irony... on Atari Wants To Reinvent Pong · · Score: 1

    You only need the lead "developer" to be in the US. If you know someone in the US already, you could have them submit it for you and pass the money to you; obvious logistics (tax considerations) and trust rules would apply.

  19. Re:BSD Jails on Godfather of Xen On Why Virtualization Means Everything · · Score: 1

    ?
    I can't believe you are nobody?

  20. Eric Jackson is not Shorting Google on Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android · · Score: 1

    Troll alert.

  21. correlation not causation on When Geeks Meet, Are They More Likely To Have Autistic Kids? · · Score: 1

    For crying out loud. How many times do we see this? I think it has to do with more educated people being older when they have their first child and nothing to do with their personality.

  22. What could go wrong? on US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing · · Score: 1

    Could it kill 9 people and wound 14?
    http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/

  23. Insane on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    This guy is so far above influential in everything that he did, such a tribute to American creativity. I was just thinking that it is just a shame that there seems to be no one who's on his level. I mean, this guy brought ideas about graphical user interfaces to reality. His visions shaped the courses of his competition. He's the Walt Disney of our era. I never really found Apple products useful enough for me personally to own, but I enjoy the fringe benefits of touch screen phones, simplified user interface (think why Windows 7 looks like it does), and of course films from Pixar and Disney. Who's going to fill the void?

  24. AI the movie on Talking To Computers? · · Score: 1

    I thought the movie AI actually was pretty good at wondering about this very thought. If you haven't seen the movie, I thought it was very thought provoking on the idea about what the world might be like if computers ever became super advanced.

  25. Don't Update on USAF Unveils Supercomputer Made of 1,760 PS3s · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't get the firmware update that gets rid of Linux. OOPS!