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  1. Re:Motive? on More Troubles For Authors of Controversial Acid-Bath Stem Cell Articles · · Score: 1

    I guess it's like embezzlement. You have to know, you're going to get caught eventually. There is no escaping it. But people do it anyway.

    Let's step back and look at your logic for a moment. "I hear about a lot of people who have plagiarized. If I heard about them, then they must have done it. But every single person I hear about has gotten caught. Therefore, every person who has done it gets caught."

    a) Where is the flaw in this argument (2 points)

    b) With that in mind, what do you know about the number of plagiarists who are not caught? (3 points)

    c) If the person sitting next to you hands in the same answer to this question, what does that mean? (5 points)

  2. Re:Shades of WinAmp 3 ? on A Call For Rollbacks To Previous Versions of Software · · Score: 2

    This whole we-are-always-right started with Microsoft and IE.

    I think you misspelled "Bell Labs and Unix in 1969". Autocorrect is always purple monkey dishwasher.

  3. Re:Please, learn proper english on Algorithm Reveals Objects Hidden Behind Other Things In Camera Phone Images · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "a technique that effectively looks round corners"

    What does that mean? Obviously you meant "a technique that effectively looks around corners" but you were too lazy.

    Not only that but you can get sued by Apple for using round corners.

  4. Re:I hate to be that guy, but... on Algorithm Reveals Objects Hidden Behind Other Things In Camera Phone Images · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tits or it never happened.

    Katz and co use their Nokia to produce images of several objects hidden behind light scattering layers, such as frosted glass, onion skin and even chicken breast tissue.

    It happened.

  5. That's because they were hidden. You have to use your phone to see them.

  6. Re:Ah, the Planet Pluto on Pluto Regains Its Title As Largest Object In Its Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    But you don't have a problem with Ceres no longer being a planet?

    Typical orbitist prejudice.

  7. Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    A single nuke from any country would most likely escalate into multiple nuke exchanges from other countries which would no doubt escalate into full blown nuclear nuclear destruction of the planet. Those pesky things called treaties and such would pretty much assure some ally has more nukes in the waiting.

    A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

  8. Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

  9. Re:High Standards? on Dorian Nakamoto Officially Denies That He Created Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    So, then, what you're saying here is that every Newsweek article written in the past 80 years is suspect? Having read Newsweek more than never, I can't say I disagree.

    Actually that just means that every Newsweek article written since the launch of the magazine under the current owners and with the current writers is suspect.

    That adds up to... one issue, with a handful of articles of questionable veracity.

  10. The Stone of Scone on Origins of Blarney Stone Revealed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not to be confused with the "Scone of Stone", which can be purchased at O'Callaghan's Deli down the road.

  11. Re:$420,000 in movies? on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    Or let's just say that the friend is a film maker, or a recording engineer, or an astronomer, or just about any other kind of person for whom storing multiple terabytes of irreplaceable data is just another day at the office.

    And compressing a full length movie into 700 megabytes? What a horrible thing to do to it. While I appreciate your attempt to use MPAA math to compute the value of that hypothetical collection, it would be more realistic to assign a full DVD or Blurry disk to each one instead of squeezing them onto CD-Rs. At 25GB per title, 20TB would be completely filled by only 800 of them, which is a completely different story.

  12. He's not Satoshi Nakamoto on Should Newsweek Have Outed Satoshi Nakamoto's Personal Details? · · Score: 1

    He's a very naughty boy!

  13. Re:Absolutely nothing happened today in Sector 83 on Hubble Witnesses Mysterious Breakup of Asteroid · · Score: 1

    No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a Boom tomorrow.

  14. Re:My guess? on Hubble Witnesses Mysterious Breakup of Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Don't make me do this to everyone.

  15. That's an easy one on Ask Slashdot: Reviewing 3rd Party Libraries? · · Score: 2

    In situations like this I usually recommend arson.

  16. Re:What a surprise. on Steve Ballmer Blew Up At the Microsoft Board Before Retiring · · Score: 1

    Will someone tell me why he was there in the first place?

    Because, like they say in the mafia, you keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

  17. That's nice, dear on Website Simulates Amiga OS · · Score: 1

    It's pretty, but I can't even drag down the menu bar to reveal the second workbench behind it. And after playing around with the site for a few minutes I never saw a Guru Meditation Error.

  18. "But your hohhhhh-norrrr... We PROMISED to break the law! We pinky swore and EVERYTHING. What are we supposed to DO?"

  19. Fact checking? We don' need no steenkin... on Bugatti 100P Rebuilt: The Plane That Could've Turned the Battle of Britain · · Score: 3, Informative

    As usual, linking to the people who actually know what they are talking about would have helped.

    Instead we have a story with the headline "WWII Bugatti 100P Plane Rebuilt: Jet Fighter that Could Have Won Battle of Britain for the Nazis" in bold print directly over a photograph of a plane with a propeller.

    Amazingly enough, even the Daily Fail article which the International Business Times cribbed for this story contained more accurate information.

  20. And here's the call centre script on MtGox Sets Up Call Center For Worried Bitcoiners · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lister: Where are everyone's Bitcoins Hol?
    Holly: They're gone Dave.
    Lister: Whose are?
    Holly: Everybody's Dave.
    Lister: What Captain Holister's?
    Holly: Everybody's Bitcoins are gone Dave.
    Lister: What Todd Hunter's?
    Holly: Everybody's Bitcoins are gone Dave.
    Lister: What Selby's?
    Holly: They're all gone, everybody's Bitcoins are gone Dave.
    Lister: Peterson's aren't, are they?
    Holly: Everybody's Bitcoins are gone Dave.
    Lister: Not Chen's?
    Holly: Gorden Bennet, yes Chen's, everybody's. Everybody's Bitcoins are gone Dave.
    Lister: Rimmer's?
    Holly: They're gone Dave, everybody's Bitcoins are gone, everybody's Bitcoins are gone Dave.
    Lister: Wait, are you trying to tell me everybody's Bitcoins are gone?

  21. Re:Exposure .... on How Japanese Scientists Are Monitoring Fukushima Babies For Radiation Exposure · · Score: 1

    This looks more like a way to actually monitor the real results. If the kids are fine it will go a long way towards dismissing that irrational fear. If they aren't then the fear wasn't that irrational.

    Obi-Wan once thought as you do. You don't know the power of irrational fear.

  22. Ninite on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    If you are using Windows then start with ninite. It not only handles installation of a bunch of useful things, it also does the job of the package manager that Windows still doesn't have.

  23. Re:$10,000?!? on Study: Half of In-App Purchases Come From Only 0.15% of Players · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing; we should collaborate, make our own game that's nothing but microtransactions...

    It's a good thought, but EA would sue you for stealing their business model.

  24. Re:$10,000?!? on Study: Half of In-App Purchases Come From Only 0.15% of Players · · Score: 1

    Where is this "life coach" app, and how many IAPs does it have?

  25. Re:0.15% vs 1.5% on Study: Half of In-App Purchases Come From Only 0.15% of Players · · Score: 1

    See title.

    See summary.