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  1. Re:but all the old stuff is still good, right? on New High Tech $100 Bills Start To Circulate Today · · Score: 1

    ...and they promptly set them aside in the cage, to be deposited and not mixed with the circulating bills, as most of the slot machine bill validators (the most likely target for any $100 bill in a casino) won't read them.

    That said, as a frequent gambler, I still get the occasional small-head hundred from casinos. They don't sequester all of them.

  2. Re:Marketing Numbers on AMD's New Radeons Revisit Old Silicon, Enable Dormant Features · · Score: 1

    At least Dell fixed this recently with *most* of their enterprise laptops.

    A 6430, for example is a series-6 laptop with a "4"-teen inch screen in the 3'rd revision.

    I have no clue what a 7970 is, of how it compares to an R7-260.

  3. Re:Douche-o-matic on Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Correct. They only benefit from others doing so.

  4. Re:I'm guessing this isn't the only thing. on AMD Intentionally Added Artificial Limitations To Their HDMI Adapters · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just for a minute.
    Just to see how it feels.

  5. Re:Here's the real story on Fusion Reactor Breaks Even · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Weapons research always trickles down into practical applications.

  6. Re:References? on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    For you maybe.

    Fair enough.

    It's actually pretty humid.

    Uh, no.

  7. Re:Can you imagine living on Pluto? on Pluto's "Thick" Air Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    touché

  8. Re:TFA on LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays · · Score: 1

    0.5 stars on the informations aggregator site.

  9. Re:Can you imagine living on Pluto? on Pluto's "Thick" Air Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Meh. Only about 6.3 Earth days to make a Pluto day.

    Getting your prison sentence increased by a year... ...that'd be a bummer.

  10. Re:Pro Tip: on Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own · · Score: 1

    Probably the smart choice.

    The inmates run the asylum there.

    It's generally my opinion that anywhere that generates more than a couple of shaky cell-phone videos worth showing on WorldStar is worth never, ever, going to under any circumstances.

  11. Re:Unnamed on Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own · · Score: 0

    Which of your constitutional rights am I violating by asking you to remain unarmed unless you feel you need to be?

    Taco Bells asks their employees not to be armed a little more strongly, I suspect. They're doing OK on the human rights violations front.

  12. Re:Can it search punctuation? on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, most Google punctuation is ignored.

    https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433

  13. Re:You don't understand Google on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 2

    This is perspective.

    Google isn't a search engine, finding places for you to surf to. It's already an ANSWER engine bringing you the results that you want.

    "Fur lined gloves" returns for me two yellow sponsored ads, and another ad block with five options for buying fur lined gloves. ...but there's a good chance that's what someone typing FLG wants -- they want to buy some gloves, so here's some gloves for sale.

    Searches for movies don't link immediately to movie reviews or quotable quotes. They first get you movie tickets, because nerds aside, that's what most people are actually looking for.

  14. Re:References? on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    Summer in the relatively dry heat of Phoenix is much easier on people than most of the humid south.

    It's not for everyone, but 115 in Phoenix (a common summer temperature) isn't that bad.

  15. Re:References? on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    A perfect reason to have the extra resolution of Fahrenheit - since both are completely arbitrary 0-100 scales.

    "Almost 80F" means a lot more than "Almost 30C."

  16. Re:She must be really busy on Meet the Voice Behind Siri · · Score: 1

    Not sure I get the point of your comment.

    She is, apparently, a reasonably well respected voice actress, doing work for a number of companies.

  17. Re:crash's version... on Meet the Voice Behind Siri · · Score: 1

    It's a rip-off to provide people a reasonable wage for their services and likeness, then hope to benefit from that?

  18. Re:What is the point of this? on LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays · · Score: 1

    What are your phones made of, unobtanium?

    It takes a lot less than diamonds to scratch Gorilla Glass.
    My phone isn't made entirely of Gorilla Glass.

    I dislike bulky cases, but like to protect my phone, so I make a small compromise in a wrap.

  19. Re:What is the point of this? on LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's about choice.

    Sure. Just give me a phone with the same processing power, the ability to take a call in speakerphone mode in a loud car, a screen large enough for my should-wear-bifocals eyes, and a non-carrier-based, unlocked-out-of-the-box stock from-Google ROM. It's a short list, and I picked the HTC.

    I prefer being able to keep my phone in a pocket with my keys and not worry about scratching the screen. You seem to be having a different experience, but I'm willing to sacrifice a TINY bit of screen clarity for a good deal of protection for my phone.

    People who want a flexible screen will enjoy not having a phone that shatters as often when dropped and will be willing to sacrifice some clarity over hard-glass screens for it.

  20. Re:What is the point of this? on LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays · · Score: 2

    True.

    It's a trade off.

    Right now, if you want flexible, you're likely going to have to deal with less clear screen than glass.
    If you want to protect that flexible screen, you're likely going to have to deal with some sort of rubberized coating as well. ...but your objection to Ghost Armor (and other similar products) is purely opinion. My HTC One is sufficiently pretty behind a matte front. I'm not doing graphics illustration or crime scene forensics on my display, so the minimally-diminished display doesn't hurt me.

    It's a trade off.

  21. Re:Wait... a phone which lasts? on LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays · · Score: 1

    While a quick Google search fails me, I'm not sure what the consumer product definition of "unbreakable" is, but I'm pretty sure it means you can absolutely break it under all sorts of conditions -- just not a narrowly defined set for a specific period of time.

  22. Re:What is the point of this? on LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they'll be smart enough to coat the front in some flexible way. ...or it's Ghost Armor on everything.

  23. TFA on LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays · · Score: 4, Informative

    TFA is so sparse on details that it's painful.

    After rounding, there's roughly zero information about this in the linked "article."

  24. I still don't understand... on Steam Machine Prototypes Use Intel CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A week of news on this, and I still don't get it.

    Other than promoting Linux, why do I want a new "Steam Machine" rather than simply upgrading my desktop, and running an OS that a larger percentage of the AAA games run on? I've already got HDMI out. Can't I just buy a controller? What do I actually GAIN by running this machine over just downloading the next Steam title to my existing desktop -- or building a machine of my choice (on Windows) and putting it in one of a dozen cases that look nice next to the TV?

    A prettier case?
    Fewer native games?

    I'm not nagging. Help me understand what I get here...

  25. Re:No. The cat has FriendlyChemists tongue Slashdo on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 1

    It's been proposed that FriendlyChemist and redandwhite were working together to scam DPR.

    FriendlyChemist asks for 500k, gets turned down, and names redandwhite as the guy he owes money to.
    redandwhite says, "no problem, I can make FriendlyChemist go away for 150k."
    redandwhite split 150k of DPR's bitcoins, and FriendlyChemist "dies."

    That explains the lack of a body.