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  1. If U gaze long into an abyss,it gazes back upon U! on Black Hole's "Point of No Return" Found · · Score: 1
    Careful what you look for: ;-)

    [I]f you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes back upon you.

    (Friedrich Nietzsche)

  2. is a glitch... in this Slashdot: still can't count on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    HTML entities, and hence cuts headlines short.

  3. Watch out for 2 black cats: 'A déjà-vu i on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    ...in The Matrix: It happens when T.H.E.Y. change something.' ;-)

  4. '95% of assets drive out front gate every evening' on They Work Long Hours, But What About Results? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    95 percent of my assets drive out the front gate every evening. It's my job to bring them back.

    Jim Goodnight, SAS Institute CEO, in: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-550102.html

    One hundred fifty years of research proves that shorter work hours actually raise productivity and profits - and overtime destroys them.
    So why do we still do this?

    Sara Robinson, http://www.alternet.org/visions/154518/why_we_have_to_go_back_to_a_40-hour_work_week_to_keep_our_sanity/?page=entire

    "Management Summary": It's not Karl Marx ;-) who figured it out, but Henry Ford.

  5. US mess was a warning against EU software patents, on Judge Posner Muses on Excessively Strong Patent and Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    i.e. at least spared other continents from the worst (e.g. when certain courts and Commission were attempting similar "power grabs"), as shown in several articles at http://ijlit.oxfordjournals.org/reports/most-read (cf. also various developing nations restricting patenting of "traditionally known" biotech).

  6. In /. terms: Imagine a Beowulf cluster of ears ;-) on RockBox + Refurbished MP3 Players = Crowdsourced Audio Capture · · Score: 1

    The real tl:dr, in line with the anniversary mo(o)d... ;-)

    Great idea BTW. Now just think of the kind of footage (including audio) we'll get when everyone is wearing/wielding their Google Glasses (or Sights for that matter ;-)) in just a few years (actually, everyone minus the millions who'll get jailed for accidently looking at or listening to anything copyrighted for more than 30 milliseconds while on).

  7. Even if their solution sucks like forced Timeline, on Illinois Prof Calls for a Federal Law To Safeguard Digital Afterlives · · Score: 1

    by the very nature of the final word, this time around none of the account holders will get a chance to complain... posthumously.

    So is the next move after "Would you please rat out your friend for using a nickname?" possibly going to be a particularly considerate pop-up like "Has this friend of yours gone belly-up?"

  8. Musk makes remarkable allusion to the Great Filter on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 4, Insightful
    that would explain the Fermi Paradox of "where are they (intelligent species in space) ?":

    now for the first time in almost four billion years, it's been possible - very difficult, but possible - for life to extend to another planet. [...] who knows how long that window will be open?

  9. Women?! TFA says only Branson and Musk volunteered on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 1

    ...so far (the latter even "to die on Mars, just not on impact"), and how two guys are going to start a population together shall remain the greatest mystery of Mars. ;-)

  10. Solve every problem just by remodulating something on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    if the intensity of the space warps can be oscillated over time, the energy required is reduced even more

    Knew it, Star Trek was real ;-) and Geordi did visit the 21st century to leave that piece of advice for cases when inverting the polarity of shield emitters wasn't enough.

  11. How about having to OPT IN 1st?Re:Screw Disclosure on Preventing Another Carrier IQ: Introducing the Mobile Device Privacy Act · · Score: 1
    Sectoral data protection laws that take ages to be adopted always after the sad fact while Hydra grows another 7 heads... are part of the problem, not the solution.

    Make "thou shalt not snoop" the law of the land, with narrow exceptions that require prior consent (for cases other than self-defense), imposing jailtime and fines on all who infringe upon anyone's privacy.

  12. 52:Anything under sun's NOT necessarily patentable on Easy Fix For Software Patents Found In US Patent Act · · Score: 1

    Simon Phipps: What if all this effort could have been avoided simply be re-reading the law Congress wrote and understanding it differently?

    Which seems much closer to what Congress actually had in mind, as http://ijlit.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/3/257.full?ijkey=rF2MI0t8NYrGuJJ&keytype=ref#p-88 has pointed out previously:

    ‘[t]he Federal Circuit erred’ in citing [in State Street] a 1952 Senate Report [82-1979(5)] to construe 35 U.S.C. 101 as encompassing ‘anything under the sun that is made by man’, whereas in fact these words are taken out of context from a phrase that proves quite the opposite legislative intention: one of ‘clarifying a limit’, which the U.S. Supreme Court, unlike the CAFC, still seems to have been aware of when making the initial quotation. [...] Congress actually expressed a restrictive aim by stating that ‘a machine or manufacture, which may include anything under the sun that is made by man, (...) is not necessarily patentable'.

  13. Actually,squeaky voices will sing to say 'Bad Day' on WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs · · Score: 1
  14. In related news,Umbrella Corp have also denied any on Following FEMA's Zombie Preparedness Plan Could Land You On Terrorist List · · Score: 1
    knowledge of an installation at Raccoon City. ;-)

    CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms).

  15. If houses were built the way software is built,... on Bad Software Runs the World · · Score: 1

    ...the first woodpecker would bring down civilization.

    Weinberg's Second Law

  16. On The Beach, a/k/a USS Charleston on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1

    A movie with the submarine's name for title (instead of the book's) in many countries has been made in 2000 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219224 - reminiscent of The Day After http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404 (no, this one ain't no Emmerich, and definitely without any Tomorrow). Both as bleak as it gets on TV too.

  17. Bleak and short for a change? Stross: A Colder War on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1
    http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

    the Oliver North/Guns for Hostages scandal, seen from the viewpoint of a CIA bureaucrat, in a universe in which the entire Cthulhu Mythos is real. (Teresa Nielsen Hayden)

  18. Philanthropist agencies REMOVE backdoors for once? on The Chinese Telecom That Spooks the World · · Score: 1

    co-operating with the GCHQ in Britain, the UK's signals-intelligence agency, to ensure equipment built by Huawei is not back-doored

    Sure, eliminating eavesdropping opportunities is just the kind of business that SigInt spooks kindly engage in all the time...

  19. Europe has already had a DMCA in all but name for on EU Parliament Debates a DMCA Equivalent · · Score: 1

    an entire dreadful decade by now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Copyright_Directive
    No need to make it any worse.

  20. Ice-covered ocean world=target4human colonization? on Is There a Subsurface Water Ocean On Titan? · · Score: 1

    Less so with a methane atmosphere.

  21. Re:headless... on Bryson Crash Reveals Threat of Headless Government · · Score: 1

    No problem... we have headless servers, and that works fine, so why not a headless government?

    Because if you ssh even into the best and brightest, the logon message's just this. ;-)

  22. What the drone's been doing up there all this time on After a Year In Orbit, US Air Force's X37-B Will Conclude Its Secret Mission · · Score: 1

    what the space drone has been doing up there all this time

    Been waiting for the aliens to hatch inside the poor astronauts (sent to this first Close Encounter on a purportedly unmanned mission under the pretense of having to repair some secret satellite), so they'll be ripe&ready for world domination at landing? =;-o

    Or wait a minute, T.H.E.Y. said we mustn't ever tell anyone about that, or else... oops, posted already, on /. of all places +++NO CARRIER

  23. Heard about moonshots? 'A theory not a fact' now?! on Taking Issue With Claims That American Science Education is 'Dismal' · · Score: 1

    What year was this written? 2012? 2004? 2000? Try 1983.

    Thought that had been written by Doc Emmett Brown in 1885 after seeing the Tannens rule 2015. ;-)

    Yet during this period of national "mediocrity," we created Silicon Valley, built multinational biotechnology firms, and continued to lead the world in scientific journal publications and total number of Nobel Prize winners. We also invented and sold more than a few iPads.

    And then there was a thing about men and a moon, too (arguably a bit more of an accomplishment than selling gadgets)... or do "alternative viewpoint" (conspiracy) theories claim "equal validity in the classroom" on this one as well these days?

  24. It's been a long road, getting from there to here: on ISS Captures SpaceX Dragon Capsule · · Score: 3
  25. Will Sputnik's pre-installed user be named Laika?! on Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop · · Score: 1

    Hopefully not to meet a similar premature fate (in spite of the track record)...