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  1. Re:I've had this as a plug-in. on Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 · · Score: 2

    All I see on that page is a large blocked flash ad right smack in the middle.

  2. Re:Can we maybe fix the memory leaks? on Chrome 44 Launches With Tweaks To Push Messaging and Notifications · · Score: 2

    I have been crashing more and more lately just trying to google something. That is the only thing that crashes chrome for me.. Cmon Google, get your own damn search to work with your own damn browser at least.

  3. Re:Weekly/Monthly Salary on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    I think the norm in the US for exempt employees is twice monthly, with non-exempt being paid bi-weekly.

  4. Re:What a great idea! on Prosecutors Push For Anti-Phone-Theft Kill Switches · · Score: 3, Insightful
    You could be trading one kill for another

    Consider this: Mugger demands your phone, but knowing that you may just kill it when he runs away with your phone, kills you instead and takes your phone.

  5. Firmware update on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1

    Yea no thanks Would rather not have to find myself in a situation having to reboot my weapon because it has a required update while an intruder is aiming his own non-hindered weapon at my chest.

  6. Re:D-Wave's Dirty Little Secret on Some Scientists Question Whether Quantum Computer Really Is Quantum · · Score: 1

    "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -Arthur C. Clarke

  7. Re:WTF?? on Speeding Object Makes Small Hole In the ISS Solar Array · · Score: 5, Funny

    Their ZPM may be close to depleted

  8. Re:ID Tags on the particles? on Scientists May Have Detected Neutrinos From Another Galaxy · · Score: 2

    The surrounding ice around the detector array acts as a scintillator which generates a minute track of light as the particle passes thru the area. That immediately gives directionality, and energy in eV is computed by summing the light response from the entire detector array during that "event".

  9. Re:Elliptical on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1
  10. Elliptical on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use a portable elliptical trainer that can be used standing or sitting down in a kind of peddling motion. It's non motorized and pretty quiet.

  11. Re:"Reduce the prices ten-fold"?? on New Technology Produces Cheaper Tantalum and Titanium · · Score: 1

    Reduce tenfold seems legit, I've heard that used before meaning N / 10, increase tenfold would be N * 10

  12. Re:Cold fusion again? on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    You're correct this is the same approach as Rossi and others, altho the implementation details are probably slightly different. I think the goal of the NASA experiment is to find out what is actually happening (mentioned in a press release from the NASA Langley director which I can't seem to pull up at the moment) rather than throwing around some buzzwords and trying to sell a product.

  13. Re:Crappy AMD drivers?! on AMD/ATI Video Drivers: Unsafe At Any Speed · · Score: 2

    Actually WoW is very multithreaded and can make use of up to 3 cores. They even make use of some multithreaded OpenGL ( I know little about this).

  14. Re:Even a broken clock on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    Except in Lua where it replaces !=, not to mention =~ in Perl :P

  15. Re:Bitcoin haters on Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $500k In Venture Capital · · Score: 1

    You can buy bitcoins with cash pretty anonymously.
    1. Create anonymous identity on a site like bitcoin247 using tormail
    2. Do a cash deposit transaction into that BTC account (the bank doesn't even ask for your name)
    3. Trade your BTC thru a few instawallet sites using different quantities
    4. ???
    5. Profit!

  16. Re:Still no mention of military spending on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    The DoE does a whole lot more than just "supply power" and "energy" research. It runs a large number of national laboratories including Brookehaven, Fermi Lab, Jefferson Lab, Oak Ridge, SLAC, etc. Many of these labs are not single focus and have research facilities ranging from biofuels to medicine. For example many cancer treatment technologies have originated from DoE labs, I would hope that most people here would agree that cancer research is important :)

  17. Hogel? on Real 3D Display; 3 Years Out? · · Score: 2

    What the heck is a "hogel"?
    Voxel is the correct term for the volume represented by a 3D pixel...

  18. Low Energy Nuclear Reaction on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1
  19. Newcastle on Online Shopping May Actually Increase Pollution · · Score: 1

    What, no cracks about conducting research whilst drinking a certain brown ale?

  20. Re:This ain't a patent troll on Patents On Synthetic Life "Extremely Damaging" · · Score: 1

    What about any other companies/institutions who have been working on something similar also for several years? It looks like Venter's patent application is so broad that it would effectively shut down these other players who have been doing separate work in parallel. The patent system should not be a race. Sure, some guys did something special and they should be rewarded for it, the next guy also does something special but takes a little bit longer and is all of the sudden infringing upon the first guy. They both did hard work, they should both be rewarded.

  21. Re:Maybe I'm missing something on Exam Board Deletes C and PHP From CompSci A-Levels · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Technically... on Home-Built Turing Machine · · Score: 1

    Was anyone else reminded of this quote? "If, he thought to himself, such amachine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one, is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea ... and turn it on!"

  23. PvP on Professor Ditches Grades For XP System · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the PvP system would be like...

  24. Re:the sky is falling! on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Informative

    I recall a study done several years ago by MIT students regarding tin foil hats. Apparently certain folds will actually amplify certain frequencies!
    http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

  25. Kayaking? on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 1

    Why actually go outside and get wet and risk drowning when I can use Google Maps to take a virtual tour of the river from the comfort of my own home! I can even read reviews from actual kayakers on that river and decide for myself if I liked the experience or not.