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  1. New winner just topped leader board on New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible · · Score: 1

    3.844 x10^8 meters, N. Armstrong

  2. Captcha for the blind on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    For a captcha for the blind, how about the question "Which sentence makes sense?" and grab a sentence from some out of copyright book or something with four other computer generated ones, that are grammatically correct, but otherwise are nonsensical. Something like:

    A. He was a light, slow, and there is a small Saturn -- away from a high flame lying in the life within it.
    B. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced-labour camp.
    C. Its neck was a novel entitled "Kaleidoscope Vision," which is hat crinkle were like fresh glass domain key
    D. He was shrill the world was a greenish drink at me that leads to allow the cold water

  3. Re:Ummm, yey! on Woz & Jobs 2.0: Leap Motion's Holtz & Buckwald · · Score: 2

    And that is what ultimately will carry this technology forward...

  4. Re:memory monster on Using Java In Low Latency Environments · · Score: 2

    C/C++ is much more prone to memory leaks than Java. Yes, you could chase them all down but this takes time. For a long running process this is definitely a factor.

  5. Re:good high wage jobs on Obama Praises Amazon At One of Its Controversial Warehouses · · Score: 1

    Right now the US G is attempting to reduce people's effective wage without them noticing That's what the $40 Billion per month money printing is for. The idea is that if the economy sucks, we need to start paying people less so they are competitive... But people don't like wage cuts, so the US G just prints enough money so that it's worth less. This is happening all over the world with all the currencies which is why the USD isn't tanking comparatively.

    So, sure, they can make the minimum wage anything you want, $20/h, $100/h, it doesn't really matter. They'll just print up enough money until people are making the target effective wage that they are looking for.

  6. It is against the law.. everything is against the law in some way, or at least can be interpreted to be.

  7. Re:Eric Holder on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 2

    If you take the long view you're not throwing your vote away. The more people vote for the third choice this election, the more that will vote the third choice next election, and so on, until eventually the candidate has a real shot of getting in.

  8. Re:normal people can probably do it too on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 0

    Your situation is one of the few where I think seeing a therapist is a good idea.

  9. Re:Cynic...? on Apple Profit Falls 22% But iPhone Sales Are Up · · Score: 1

    No, the point is that endless growth is possible provided you are able to determine the future winners vs the future losers, and change your investment accordingly. Today's investors aren't "failing" by trying to get the most profit as fast as possible, rather than "see their dollars as a building block to better companies with long term goals and good public relations". They've been seeking maximum profit as quickly as possible as they always have done.

    I find it funny how one group always thinks that another group should voluntarily just do what they consider the right thing, regardless of the sacrifice.

  10. Re:Cynic...? on Apple Profit Falls 22% But iPhone Sales Are Up · · Score: 1

    What I mean is that when investors look for growth, they aren't doing so with the expectation that an individual company will grow forever. However, they do have the expectation that there always will be a company somewhere that is in the midst of growth.

  11. Re:Cynic...? on Apple Profit Falls 22% But iPhone Sales Are Up · · Score: 1

    The endless growth isn't possible in the long term meme is kind of silly. A company that is growing often does so by cannibalizing sales from other companies, which means its becoming dominant in its space. So while it's growing, other companies are shrinking. A company that is beating its competition, or is about to beat it, is far more valuable than a similar company (in size and profits) that is losing to its competition.

  12. Re:More to the point... on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Heaven forfend" (forfend? wtf?) we stop using tricks and misleading data to try and justify our stance: http://www.skepticalscience.com/cherrypicking-deny-continued-ocean-global-warming.html

  13. Re:Nonsense on How Climate Scientists Parallel Early Atomic Scientists · · Score: 1

    It's because the people who normally mod down the climate change deniers can't because they're so impressed with their own perceived intelligence and wit that they can't help themselves but write a reply.

  14. Re: Honesty? on How Climate Scientists Parallel Early Atomic Scientists · · Score: 1

    How much volatility a market has would be a useful money maker. If you bought or sold both call and put options based on your prediction, you could make money if the price swings too high or too low, or vice versa, make money if the price stays nearly constant.

  15. Re:Biased thinking on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    How about "Man blows up marathon with pressure cooker"?

  16. Re:Why is this here? on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    Simply because it's been the #1 story on nearly all news outlets for weeks! And people just can't seem to get enough of it. Thousands of comments on each and every mention of Zimmerman on any news site that allows them, rehashing the same old thing over and over. It's the same as the 2 minute hate in 1984. A huge fucking distraction where news outlets feeds off the stupidity of the masses, receiving huge rating boosts from the inherit fascination and intense interest of each and every individual member trying to prove themselves smarter than their fellow man. At this point, news sites could probably charge a $1.99 per post and make a killing. All in all, a gigantic monkey pile of idiots and a cynical destructive body of press where the almighty dollar trumps any sort of integrity. The whole thing is as disgusting as it gets.

  17. Bitcoin block chain? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Store Data In Hard Copy? · · Score: 1

    Why not encrypt it and store it within the bitcoin block chain. As long as there is at least a few lonely souls still mining it your data is as safe as it could ever be.

  18. Re:Russia is getting something based on what they on Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President · · Score: 1

    Do you know how dumb the US would look if the plane holding Snowden crashes into the sea? Obama has already stated that he's treating this as a low priority (although I don't really believe that), it would make him look like an absolute jackass and turn Snowden into a martyr, galvanizing the public. More likely is Snowden won't get a chance to travel at all, or if he does, they'll try to reroute the plane again.

  19. Re:Straight from the books on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    You are one depraved motherfucker

  20. Re:Straight from the books on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    No teenager in the USA has ever been thrown is prison for 20 years for sexting. His argument might be valid, but he shouldn't be supporting it with outright lies.

  21. Re:LOL on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    Where in what you wrote says anything about anyone getting 20 years in prison? And a good ole "fuck you" to you, too!

  22. Re:LOL on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A teenager sexting their SO can get them twenty years in prison..

    Uh huh, sure...

  23. Re:skype privacy option on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 1

    How do you know it just wasn't the prosecutors friends playing a joke on him? In that case, they would already been in his contact list.

  24. Re:We have met the enemy on Edward Snowden Files For Political Asylum In Russia · · Score: 1

    I also have trouble believing the NSA and Booz Allen Hamilton thought a computer security guy in Hawaii needed secret documents about the bugging of embassies and other intelligence operations he had nothing to do with. In short, the utter incompetence of the NSA and its contractors about keeping secrets seems to have gone completely missing.

    That's because he probably wasn't a computer security guy, but rather an "infrastructure analyst". A person tasked to find ways to infiltrate and cause harm to foreign networks in preparation for a cyber war: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/nyt-snowden-was-hacker-nsa

  25. Re:what a tool on Edward Snowden Files For Political Asylum In Russia · · Score: 1

    It wasn't