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  1. Re:Wrong. on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    Exactly. It's basically saying that determining if someone is a witch by drowning them is great. Experiments are worthless without proper methodology.

  2. Re:IBM, Microsoft, Google on Google Apps Deciphered · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exactly. Not only do they allow you to export, they almost always write a publicly available api with hooks in a number of different languages which let you automate the process.

  3. Re:Chrome still misses the point on 2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux · · Score: 1

    It might be fair to say they're being a bit slow on getting extensions, but they're hardly ignoring it. It's on the development timeline, people are working on preliminary code for it right now.

  4. Re:Privoxy on What Filters Are Right For Kids? · · Score: 2, Funny

    And if she does change it, hey, she just learned an important lesson about proxies.

  5. Re:I hope they fix a couple of things on Firefox Beta Touts Advanced Engine, Solves 8 Flaws · · Score: 1

    I've been using nightlies on linux for some time now, and haven't noticed any changes in speed for some time now. Thanks for the heads up though, I'll try doing some benchmarks later and see if I'm just overlooking and suffering from some grass is greener mentality.

  6. Re:retarded on Google's Struggle To Reach Authors — of Every Book Ever Written · · Score: 1

    Why do you think the author of riverworld recently disappeared?

  7. Re:From native to web on QT 4.5 Released, Plus New IDE and Analysis Tool · · Score: 1

    The webkit kpart is, I'd say, something like 98% usable now. I don't use konq all that much, but it's in a solid enough state that I've set webkit as the default for rendering webpages.

  8. Re:Heinlein, please? on Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    I want a ringworld movie! I was just reminded a few weeks back that the sci-fi channel was supposed to make a miniseries of it. Long enough back that it seems yet another case of a ringworld deal falling through.

  9. Re:Not really a "reunion" on The MST3K Crew Reunites For Live Webcast · · Score: 1

    Yep, it's a cool thing. But nowhere near what I read it as, which was both Joel and Mike doing a movie together.

  10. Re:Very sensitive people? on Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras · · Score: 3, Informative

    They're not. It's been tested far more than something like this deserves. Their problems always magically disappear the second they're put into a double blinded test.

  11. Re:Lars and the Real Girl on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    I thought it was an ok film somewhat flawed by the overly feel good world it tried to create. In that sense it reminded me of the terminal with Tom Hanks. Taking something incredibly sad, and putting in an outcome that's so over the top happy that all it does is remind me of how it would never turn out like that in the real world.

  12. Re:Female on Slashdot on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    13,000 responses can not make up in anyway for a real woman or a real man in any conversation

    Have you actually paid attention to the quality of most human conversation? I don't think I'd call most of what we express through a day unique. Phrased differently, but humans tend to just have a set selection of canned replies as well.

  13. Re:Its a fraud on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    I've wondered that for a long time. I mean look at realdolls. It'd be easy as hell to add at least a little bit of tech in there. Something to give it a human body temp and heartbeat, make it blink, follow people with its eyes. The only explanation I can think of is that it'd be creepy and into uncanny valley land. But realdolls are pretty much solidly in there already.

  14. Re:Bullshit. on "Reality Mining" Resets the Privacy Debate · · Score: 1

    All life above a certain intelligence threshold? Way to reason from a sample size of 1.

  15. Re:They wrote a play... on Robots Debut In Japanese Theater Production · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That always struck me as horrible about the droids as well. I was always surprised more people weren't bothered by it. They're constantly being killed, and nobody even cares.

  16. Re:Too Many Traps on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps · · Score: 0, Troll

    And you sound like someone who's never outside of a major city. It's not at all uncommon for signs in rural areas to be 100% obscured by plants. The locals know about it, they weren't planned that way, but it happens.

  17. Re:Easy on A Computer Composing and Playing Jazz · · Score: 1

    I was married to an artist, and I learned a lot about the culture in that time. What I learned was that anything which depends 100% on subjective interpretation deserves scorn if it's held up as anything other than a pleasant diversion.

  18. Re:Will it really matter ? on Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, there's a patch/build of chrome already which has support for greasemonkey scripts.

  19. Re:MVP !!!! on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    If someone owns a cloned, last member of a resurrected extinct species and can't make a ton of money off it he's the one who should go extinct.

  20. Re:more exciting on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    The idea of being fated into living in a stone enclosure with no chance of ever mating? No, I'm sure none of us on slashdot could imagine how isolating that would be. *sigh*

  21. Re:Good Riddance on Google Terminates Lively · · Score: 1

    I have little to add other than thanks for an awesome story. That's one of the best examples of what contracting is like that I've seen.

  22. Re:There is more to it... on On the Economics of the Kindle · · Score: 1

    I'd be shocked if someone doesn't crack the drm if there's ever real motivation to do so.

  23. Re:HBO? on Mystery Science Theater Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Wow, I was really young when that was on as well. I had totally forgotten about that show, and it was one of my favorites! Internet, you better have some episodes!

  24. Re:These places are designed to be risk-averse on Amazon's Cloud Data Center To Follow Google To Oregon · · Score: 1

    I used to live pretty close to a googleplex, and had power failures fairly often. At least once every two months or so.

  25. Re:i wish i could run android on my real iphone on Running Google Android On iPhone Clones · · Score: 1

    Especially backgrounder! That one program increases the functionality of the normal apps by a pretty large amount.