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  1. Re:I find lots of these "historic artifacts" on Pull-Top Can Tabs, At 50, Reach Historic Archaeological Status · · Score: 1

    Have you seen Detectorists?

    The full series was brilliant.

  2. Re:Not always true... on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    And you think someone on a suicide death dive with 200 people into a mountain is going to sit there quietly, breathing *normally*? Unless they are a complete and utter psychopath they will surely be in a heightened emotional state, crying, screaming, blaming anyone and everyone, not casually watching the altimeter spin down.

  3. Re:Absolutely not on First Crowdsourced, Open Data Address List Launches In the UK · · Score: 1

    And for creating junk mail addressed to "The Occupier".

  4. Same old same old? on Meet Flink, the Apache Software Foundation's Newest Top-Level Project · · Score: 2, Funny

    We need another distributed system for counting words like we need another javascript framework for writing a Todo list app.

  5. Re:You have your own brick wall on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Of course it "helped". Its a "theatrical placebo". The more theatrical the placebo, the stronger the effect. Trials have shown that sticking pins in the accepted "acupuncture points" is as effective as sticking them any old place. So all the mumbo-jumbo about "chi" energies is just that.

    Surely if it "helped tremendously" you wouldn't be still going after ten years. And TCM was invented by Chairman Mao anyway

  6. Re:There is no vaccine for the worst diseases on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone who has bad reactions to vaccines should be *promoting* the use of vaccines (alongside research into how to predict/prevent bad reactions). Then if you can't be vaccinated because of bad reactions, you benefit from herd immunity and the decreased amount of disease floating around that might kill you because you can't be vaccinated.

  7. Re: Why does this seem fishy? on Apple Releases CUPS 2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    One day someone will try to return a faulty printer to a company that insist they print the return label...

  8. Re:What is the guy saying here??? on How Flickr Is Courting the Next Generation of Photographers · · Score: 1

    It'll be Java on the server to replace the PHP on the server. Nobody writes Java applets any more. If they do it will be the end - do Java applets even run on phones? I've not seen one (by which I mean a "You need a Java Applet Plugin" placeholder) for years.

    I just take issue at the "Most Importantly". How is that most important? Because the end-user shouldn't care. The only people to whom its most important are the Java devs getting the gig. I suspect the PHP devs getting their final wages might be a bit upset. But then again, maybe Y! don't bother maintaining the code and retaining any PHP expertise.

  9. Potential Darwin Award Winner on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 0

    The best publicity for this gun would be for the designer to program it for someone else, then load it, point it at his own head and pull the trigger. Several times. Live. On television. Then give it to the guy it's programmed for and get him to shoot (at a target).

  10. Re:Flip the switch on Fermilab Begins Testing Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 1

    You mean:

    Computer, sudo end program.

  11. Re:Hipsters. on Correcting Killer Architecture · · Score: 1

    The problem with concrete is that it doesn't get enough love and attention, and dirty concrete does look terrible. Maybe in countries with less grime and rain its less of a problem than in the UK. Good clean concrete architecture is amazing though. Why do so many modern buildings hide their concrete and steel behind a skin of brick?

    Anyway, get a load of F**k Yeah Brutalism for the best of it. Although a lot of it doesn't exist any more.

     

  12. Re:It's not that much on Big Bang Actors To Earn $1M Per Episode · · Score: 1

    Why watch one per year when you can cram that into 23 days or less if you watch via some ad-free on-demand service. 200 hours?

    No kid is going to wait a week to see an old episode of a show...

  13. Re:Brandon Marshall on NFL Players To Use Tablet Computers During Games · · Score: 0

    I can't hear the phrase "wide receiver" without thinking of goatse...

  14. Re:Have you seen Gedit lately? on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 2

    A Pedant Writes: A learning curve is a plot of amount of stuff learnt on the y-axis against time on the x-axis. A steep learning curve means you learn quickly. I avoid using "steep learning curve" which I know in common usage is often taken to mean the opposite of its original meaning and use "slow learning curve", since "slow learning" is less ambiguous, hopefully..

    You'll thank me later.

  15. New version of an old saying... on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    Even a watch with a sticker on it saying "You have unread emails and new tweets" is right several times a day.

  16. Re:And another question on Mathematicians Solve the Topological Mystery Behind the "Brazuca" Soccer Ball · · Score: 1

    I do wonder what Bobby Charlton could have done with a modern ball considering he did this with a ball made of inch-thick cowhide with a concrete core that absorbed half its weight in water on a typical English match day.

  17. For the "its not news" crowd... on Train Derailment Dumps Two 737 Fuselages Into Clark Fork River · · Score: 2

    Its clearly not news, because it happens on a regular basis it seems.

  18. Re:Just 15 minutes? on Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts · · Score: 2

    Actually the PR does say they started with college students and then found some older people to play with, so ignore me.

  19. Re:Just 15 minutes? on Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts · · Score: 1

    A university press release, so my money is on the participants being any student wandering round campus who saw the sign offering $5 for doing experiments in the Psychology Dept. Not biased at all.

    Press release says the research is coming out in Science today so can check later.

  20. Re:Question... -- ? on Exploiting Wildcards On Linux/Unix · · Score: 1

    Any other way? How about this way:

    rm ./-f

  21. Re:Acceptable battery life on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For You To Buy a Smartwatch? · · Score: 1

    It means you have to take a charger with you if there's any chance you might not be spending the night in your own bed when you go out... Of course that won't happen because you're wearing a nerdy watch.

  22. Progress on Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's suing the editors, the people who wrote the stuff. A few years back, people would have sued wikipedia for showing the page, the hosting company for hosting the page, the company that maintain the DNS record for WIkipedia and Dell (or whoever) for running the site on their servers.

    Not really news.

  23. Re:Do they accept on US To Auction 29,656 Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road · · Score: 2

    Expected riposte from bitcoinfanbois insisting that bitcoin is a form of cash in 3...2..1..

  24. Fix on The Computer Security Threat From Ultrasonic Networks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Headphones. Or dummy jack-plugs.

  25. Churnalism on Was Turing Test Legitimately Beaten, Or Just Cleverly Tricked? · · Score: 1

    If the Turing Test is a test to see if universities can release press releases that the media churn out without doing any basic thinking or background checking then yes. Otherwise no. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism

    UK university staff are getting more and more pressure to get publicity for their work. Why? Because the student market is much more competitive than it was. Every Uni now has a small army of press and "impact" people who aim to get the Uni in the papers, on twitter, etc etc. Not that Kevin Warwick needs much help with that, he's been doing it for years.

    The press release about this so-called Turing Test was pretty much written in a style ideal for lazy journos to cut and paste into Quark Xpress. http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR583836.aspx