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  1. Re:I was not saying US prsion on Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran · · Score: 1

    I've taken the liberty to check wikipedia for countries that have a federal government and institute a death penalty, the US seems to be the only one in that particular intersection.

  2. Re:Gimme A Choice on New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops · · Score: 2

    If you'd like to get extra information about the way the produce was grown that the supervising agencies have not deemed relevant to mandate printing on the label, whether it's the brand of fertilizer used, the kind of music played to encourage growth or the ethnicity of the pickers, I'm sure there will be corporations willing to provide you with it for a nominal fee.

  3. Re:Geeks are all the same... on US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 1

    Huh, I thought getting drunk was illegal in Iran.

  4. Re:start with Australia and Brazil on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 2

    I suppose you'd be surprised to learn then that there are regular releases with all patches slipstreamed in.
    For example:
    http://www.rlslog.net/microsoft-windows-7-enterprise-x86-sp1-integrated-december-2011-bie/

  5. Re:(re)location on Intel Revenue Dives $1bn On Hard Disk Shortage · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about?
    Intel doesn't even produce eggs, it makes bacon.

  6. Re:this is an amazing thing for Id/Carmack to do on Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release · · Score: 1

    Didn't you read the article?
    The shadow of a doubt is still there, it's just implemented slightly differently and might take a few more resources to calculate.

  7. Re:Carmack can't use "Carmack's Reverse" on Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release · · Score: 1

    If only there was some place where something that's generally done one way in, for example the United States, was let's say 'reversed'.

  8. Re:Major reasons we care about sphere packing on Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered · · Score: 1

    Did you use your packing knowledge to pack this post so it triggers 'Read the rest of this comment...' while still being readable in its entirety without clicking it?

  9. Re:Killer App on Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than · · Score: 1

    Visicalc murdered my mother.

  10. Re:Doing this for some time on Ask The Bad Astronomer · · Score: 1

    Sheesh, obviously any kind of improvement would only be observable over astronomical timescales.

  11. Re:Linux =Startup time non-issue, no frequent rest on Early Speed Tests For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Well, then jeeze, for fuck's sake, turn auto update off, problem solved.

  12. Re:What is yahoo? on Ballmer: We're Lucky Microsoft Didn't Buy Yahoo · · Score: 1

    They're a web portal which is 90s-speak for 'We put a bunch of incongruent shit on a page, hope you like it'.

  13. Science? on EU Court Rules Against Stem Cell Patents For Research · · Score: 2

    I'm appalled at the reaction of the scientists, one guy basically said "We get funded by the public to do the research but how are we supposed to monetize it without patents?".
    This is not how I was brought up to believe science is supposed to be conducted.

  14. Re:Keanu Reeves on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 1

    At this point I'm thankful it's not Will Smith.

  15. Re:Multi-touch cabinet on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Old Webcams? · · Score: 1

    I did a project a while back for a course using something similar.
    After removing the IR filter and replacing it with a visible light filter (you can just use a piece of fully exposed photographic film) I used some filed down IR LEDs (filed down to distribute the light more evenly in all directions) and used a graphical programming app called vvvv to do blob detection on the LEDs (I believe the blob detection plugin itself is open source).
    After you have the locations of the LEDS you can estimate locations in 3D space, maybe do something with gestures and the like.

  16. Almost as creepy on Company Unveils Personalized Anime Robot Girl · · Score: 1

    Almost as creepy as that guy who decided to make sex bots after losing a friend in 9/11.

  17. 0-60 In 4.5 Seconds on Tesla Model S: 0-60 In 4.5 Seconds · · Score: 0

    As someone not particularly familiar with the automotive world I'd like to know, is that an impressive figure?
    Could someone please clarify with some kind of an analogy?

  18. Re:Kindle Touch on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    I've been wanting to jump on the ebook wagon for a while now and this looks like it might just be the right price point and features.
    Now if only the people who make the Duokan OS add support for it I'll order one right away.

  19. Re:Why has it taken 50 years? on The Dead Sea Scrolls and Information Paranoia · · Score: 1

    Ha, if these sects were in any way concerned with facts and newly discovered information they wouldn't exist in the first place.

  20. Re:Legal delays on The Dead Sea Scrolls and Information Paranoia · · Score: 1

    I accidentally thought this was part of the above thread on why Jesus wasn't mentioned and was about to correct you with "Actually it's Trademarks that were problem".

  21. Re:Why has it taken 50 years? on The Dead Sea Scrolls and Information Paranoia · · Score: 1

    This bothers me as well, so I figured I'd join your post.

    If you can't make any assertions about this entity then it's not only the scientist for whom the discussion would serve no purpose, but anyone at all, it's an empty set.

    If you can make assertions about it, like what it doesn't want you to have for breakfast or who pissed it off so much it turned them into an eternally lasting urinal cake, then it's knowable, you extrapolate from patterns and understand and test aspects of it.

    Otherwise what does unknown and unknowable mean?
    Should I say that the nature of my breakfast is unknown because I don't quite fully understand the biological, chemical interactions that are involved and unknowable because we may never understand how stuff works at the quantum level, with virtual particles popping in and out of nowhere?

  22. Not called 'Unauthorized Autobiography' in Sweden. on Julian Assange's Unauthorized Autobiography · · Score: 1

    I have it on good authority that in Sweden the legal term is Book By Surprise.

  23. Re:Art on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1

    There is indeed a little bend to it.
    Also the wooden blocks holding it up on the left are half in the air over the edge there.

  24. Art on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1

    In my case I just connect one end to one device, the other end to the other, keep adding stuff as needed and then charge admittance as installation art.

  25. The Next Xbox. on Xbox TV Launch Planned Before End of Year · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm getting the feeling the next Xbox will just be a dumb Kinect terminal that connects to an OnLive-like service, or potentially an outright buyout of OnLive itself.

    They can put out a box for $50, they get to do that whole cloud thing they like so much, all running on their own servers, collecting subscription fees, no need to give those pesky users access to the game data files, no need to compete with Sony on who has the most powerful hardware or lose face by licensing their optical media format.

    And if the country you're in doesn't have Microsoft infrastructure you're probably all dirty pirates anyway and not worth bothering with, right?

    Personally I wouldn't like this to happen one bit, but it seems to make a lot of sense to me from Microsoft's point of view.