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  1. Re:3/14 is an idiotic way to write down a date. on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    I guess that is also why you write down "seventeen" as 710? oh wait ...

  2. 3/14 is an idiotic way to write down a date. on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 0, Troll

    even more idiotic than using absurd units like F, inches, miles and ounces.
    You are embarrassing yourself, US.

  3. Re:Why is this legal? on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    How can secretly accessing the private information of the people accessing the web site NOT be illegal? Where are you living? You need some decent laws over there, if it really is not illegal to do this.

  4. How is this not illegal? on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    Well in all the countries I have lived and worked so far (not the US) this would clearly be illegal. How is it not illegal in your country? Did you inform the police?

  5. I do not have physical things that need sorting on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? · · Score: 1

    paper? you are kidding, right?

  6. PDF or it did not happen on New Object Recognition Algorithm Learns On the Fly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why should I get excited about something written by a journalist where there must be something writeen by scientists? Where is the PDF of the scientific paper to download?

  7. Rather lame of GitHub on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 2

    they are totally within their rights of being that lame, of course, but they chose to be totally lame here.
    Ah well, good for BitBucket.

  8. Let the chimpanzees apply for that right .... on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    As soon as those chimpanzees apply for their rights by themselves I am all for it.
    In the meantime, could somebody provide some psychiatric help to those members of the Nonhuman Rights Project?

  9. Is it known what these chemicals actually are ... on Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump · · Score: 1

    and what the exact plan to neutralize or destroy them is?
    Without that information, it is completely useless to discuss the issue of whre it will be done.

  10. The main innovation of course being ... on Stephen Wolfram Developing New Programming Language · · Score: 4, Interesting

    that you will have to pay a lot of money to use it?

  11. Why "there are"? on Astronomers Discover Largest Structure In the Universe · · Score: 1

    What I never inderstand about articles that talk about very distant objects: they always use "are" as if this large structure would be there now, when, if at all and we interpret the data correctly, it was there billions of years ago. Something that "stretches" over 4 billion ligth years may also (depending on in which direction it stretches) also stretch over a time span of at least 4 billion years.
    It is weird to think that what we see is not our universe at all: it is a picture that is a collage of times of what the universe was.

    But what does it mean about our understanding of the universe now? Obviously we have no idea if Quasars "exist" -- the ones we observed so far are at least 600 million years away and thus have existed 600 million years ago.

    600 Million years is a very long time. But 10 billion years is much closer to the beginning of the universe than to now. Does this make the violation of that "principle" then even more or qutie less significant?

  12. Gotta love that dishonest lawyer-speak on Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic · · Score: 1

    "so where needed we will always start a dialogue to ensure the trademarks are used properly to avoid confusion."
    Yes - fuck you too.
    Somebody is getting way too much money that could get spend on useful work for this shit.

  13. A computer museum without a proper web-page on Welcome to the Goodwill Computer Museum (Video) · · Score: 1

    Somebody should tell them about computers.

  14. Adding carbon on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    It all depends where that carbon comes from. If the butane, methane, dimethyl ether or whatever it is is created directly or indirectly by photosynthesis or if it is created electrochemically using waste CO2, the net CO2 in the exhaust is not a problem. The other reaction products you mention still are but it should be able to crack them up catalytically -- these are essentially the same you find in a diesel exhaust, minus the soot, which is a plus.
    Hydrogen fuel storage is really still a problem, and I am not sure it is likely to be solved, but I think the alternatives of cells that work with methane or methanol are promising technologies.

  15. He is afraid on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    He is very afraid. And rightlfully so.

  16. What does he need the defibrillator for? on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    Since, clearly, he does not have a heart.

  17. Turns out I am wrong ... on Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser · · Score: 2

    Chromium obviously is open source already, but they do plan to opensource their additions too.
    So this could actually be the good stuff.

  18. Thank you NSA and GCHQ on Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser · · Score: 2, Informative

    Closed source? Seems legit.

  19. So you are saying .... on China Plans To Stop Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners · · Score: 1

    that taking organs from an executed person, possibly to save the lives of other people, is the terrible thing here, not the habit of executing people?
    Interesting take on ethics.
    In my point of view, every body of a dead human should be a possible donor (if at all, with an opt-out scheme). In my point of view, executing criminals is wrong and barbaric.

  20. Somebody put those judges in jail on Sent To Jail Because of a Software Bug · · Score: 1

    who obviously put more trust into a computer program without challenging its correctness than they trusted those postmasters. Obviously those judges had no idea of the subject matter and still felt comfortable to jail people.

  21. DId you register your brand? on How I Got Fired From the Job I Invented · · Score: 1

    TBH, i wholeheartedly detest the whole branding circus, whoever wants to take part in it. The idea that a silly word or phrase should be somebody's "property" is just not right and it is equally wrong when some blogger has it as when some multibillion dollar company has it.
    But if you really think you want to "I own a brand" game, then why dont you play by the rules? And as far as I know (but I admit I do not know much because, see above, I detest that whole circus), the rule is that you legally register a brand and that registering a brand is one (of probably several) steps necessary to protect a brand. If you did it, you probably can defend it. If you did not, tough call, you lose because you did it wrong.

    Investing in getting well known, famous, rich or whatever you desire by being known for your quality or originality instead of some silly "brand" may work better in your case.

  22. Blame the Scientists on Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? · · Score: 1

    If they would not do everything to publish in those journals from those companies, the companies would have no chance to be evil.

    But backbones are unfortunately rare things among scientists who will do close to anything to get funded and even more to get a high-impact paper published.

  23. Re:What can it do .... on Full Review of the Color TI-84 Plus · · Score: 1

    Thats true and highly relevant for people who have no chance to get close to a mains plug within 24 hours :)

  24. What can it do .... on Full Review of the Color TI-84 Plus · · Score: 1

    that I cannot, for example, do with Maxima and octave on my Nexus 7, much more quickly and without that feeling of being trapped in the distant past?

  25. How about not burning and killing instead? on Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body · · Score: 1

    How about not going an burning down houses of innocent people, how about not going and killing and hurting innocent people because somebody made a drawing or a video about some stupid old fairy tale?
    If there is something that would be good censoring then it is the utter nonsense the comes from an islamist dictatorship.