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  1. Re:How good can a transcription be? on SpinVox "Recognition" Is Often Expensive Human Transcription · · Score: 1

    No, it's okay if they're in spane and it's raning.

  2. will smith did it on How To Vet Clever Ideas Without Giving Them Away? · · Score: 1

    If your invention is the "flashy thingy" from Men In Black, then I think you've solved your own problem.

  3. Re:Maybe I can use this... on Progress In Brain-Based Lie Detection · · Score: 1

    Would have saved everyone a lot of time if the base was on Alderan.

  4. Re:Light data? on More First-Light Data From Herschel Space Telescope · · Score: 1

    While you're waiting, why not satisfy your thirst with some heavy water?

  5. 30 Rock on OMGWTF Baked Beans · · Score: 1

    Does it have a ham button?

  6. LOW budget 3D movie on Cameron's Avatar a 3D Drug Trip? · · Score: 1, Funny

    The world is ready for a movie that's a 24fps sequence of Magic Eye[TM] stereograms.

  7. let me get this straight on Data Centers Work To Reduce Water Usage · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, theoretically, through the use of evaporative cooling at large data centers, local humidity could rise, and...cloud computing could produce actual clouds?

  8. Re:Should have been done differently from the star on New ICANN TLDs May Cause Internet Land Rush · · Score: 1

    thought it was an SNL skit, a brokerage that didn't get a website until after all the good names had been taken.

  9. Re:Which means for the greenies... on Solar Powered Car Can Get Close To 60 mph · · Score: 1

    Many RV's already have a modest solar panel on the roof. Their primary use is to keep the batteries topped up while the unit is storage.

  10. solar panels/fans on California May Reduce Carbon Emissions By Banning Black Cars · · Score: 1

    the new thing is to incorporate a small solar photovoltaic panel in the roof of the car to power a fan that removes heat from the car on hot days.

    i've seen this on the prius and the mercedes E-class for sure and possibly other manufacturers will follow suit.

    i think the minimally fair thing to do would be to allow an exemption for cars with this feature to be painted black.

  11. Peltzman Effect on Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving · · Score: 1

    This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Peltzman

  12. Re:OpenDNS on What Filters Are Right For Kids? · · Score: 1

    >> Giving kids the proper tools and knowledge on how to deal with the "bad things" is far better than trying to protect them with any sort of shell.

    I dunno, my daily use of the bourne shell protected me from all kinds of "bad things" involving girls.

  13. my guess based on prior art on New Graphics Firm Promises Real-Time Ray Tracing · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a plain old accuracy vs. time trade off. For a pixel in a given frame they choose some reflected/refracted rays to follow. They add noise or dither to their ray selection process so over time a pixel will converge to a nearly correct value. Moving items won't get an exact solution right away but they're moving so the viewer won't notice that the shadow isn't quite dark enough immediately or something in the mirror got a little jaggy for 3 frames.

    In most games, the viewer moves more than objects do, so they'll have some work to do to avoid smearing everything in an RPS or run-around-real-fast thingy.

  14. Re:Duh, they're CRAP... on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    Ah, thanks for the clarification.

  15. Re:Duh, they're CRAP... on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    ST:TNG was a Paramount show, originally broadcast on UPN, though since UPN didn't have complete geographical coverage of the US, ST:TNG aired on other stations depending on whatever deal they could work out with the local stations.

  16. Management Math Fun Time on Microsoft Brings 36 New Features To Windows 7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Two years.
    30,000 programmers.
    20,000 managers.
    40,000 more people doing god knows what.

    And they come up with 36 new features.
    That's one new feature for every 2500 employees.

    THIS SEEMS A LITTLE ON THE LOW SIDE.

  17. please be reassured on How To Handle Corporate Blackmail? · · Score: 1

    My read of the situation is that your current boss is just messing with your head. He wants to hurt you by upsetting your relationship with your next employer--by having you start there later than you originally planned. Do not allow this to happen.

    I don't know why some people act so childish and bitter, but they can and they do. Leave at your appointed time or earlier, spend a year working diligently at your new employer and that will become your best reference. Your old boss will no longer be part of your life and you will be very, very happy about that.

    Your resume lists your employer not your boss. Just don't list him as a reference and that's the end of it.

    These days prospective employers are more likely to weigh things like personality tests and credit scores. It's almost unheard of for anyone to call up an employer and ask to talk to your old boss.

    You'll be fine, don't stress about it.

  18. Re:Not that hard. on The Tech Behind Preventing Airplane Bird Strikes · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's a turducken joke in there somewhere.

  19. Re:too many negatives on Child Online Protection Act Appeal Rejected · · Score: 1

    On top of that, it's opposite day!

  20. Re:Slashdot == The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf on Possible Last-Minute Problems With Vista SP2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Churro?

  21. 600VDC is not chicken soup for the soul on DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Suggestion for the DC power supply designers: have a heart and build GFCI into the spec.

  22. Re:What's a pirate's favorite programming language on The Power of the R Programming Language · · Score: 4, Funny
  23. Re:Economically rational, isn't. on Phishing Is a Minimum-Wage Job · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just assign a value to, or create a market for, the lost self-respect and you're back in business from an economics standpoint.

  24. Re:What a bunch of BS on How the City Hurts Your Brain · · Score: 1

    They do it because they love you. They love you so very, very much.
    They just want to eat you up and inject their baby spiders under your warm, moist, nutritious skin.
    Nature is so beautiful, I just want to cry.
    But I cannot cry, because the spiders ate my eyeballs last night.

  25. along the lines of sneaker net on SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to suggest that you skip the NAS and just get a large-capacity eSata or firewire drive. Plug it into your current test machine, do your thing, unplug it and move along to the next machine. This approach sidesteps any limitations of your LAN, host machine, RAID cards, or NICs.