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  1. propagation delay on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    propagation delay? Really? What country is that other room where you moved the PC to? Or perhaps you had some other problem that you don't really understand and just decided to call it propagation delay.

  2. Oh what do we do? on Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So what about a world where cursive writing is forgotten? What do you do when your computer is dead and you need to leave a note?

    What do you do? The same thing that I do now, you print it. No reason to put anyone, including myself, through trying to decipher my cursive writing. Idiotic question!

  3. AND, notT OR on Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    They did say combined, although they used the short form of it "and". The only thing close to being literally correct would have been to say "generating more power from "clean" technologies than nuclear, coal or gas". It would still be deceptive though, since they are taking the total of every dubiously clean technology and contrasting that to each individual traditional source.

    Nuclear certainly can be clean, particularly if you are not trying to produce plutonium for use in weapons. China, for one, is doing a lot of work on Thorium reactors, and they should be extremely clean, extremely inexpensive, and extremely safe. I also wonder how clean Scotland's "clean" technologies are if you factor in the energy spent to produce them. Many supposedly clean technologies are very dirty when you factor in all production. (Which the eco-freaks tend not to do.)

  4. Re:OBD2 on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Hackable Car? · · Score: 1

    OBD II is diagnostic

    That's bull. Since 2007 all OBD II ports on cars made for sale in the USA have had the CAN bus on the OBD II port (and many had it before that). With the CAN bus you can send commands to lots of different stuff. The trick is finding out the commands to send, which isn't well documented and varies between manufacturers. But a heck of a lot more than just diagnostics can be done by sending the right commands down the CAN bus.

  5. Re:Buyer Beware on Elite: Dangerous Dumps Offline Single-Player · · Score: 1

    To represent it as an investment is even more off the target than calling the mark a "buyer". The "reward" is usually sold at a premium price if it ever materializes at all, and "backers" share in absolutely no profits. Even huge backers are offered things of no value for being a top backer. I would, however, suggest the use of the terms "chump" or "mark" or even "victim" rather than "buyer".

  6. Re:Buyer Beware on Elite: Dangerous Dumps Offline Single-Player · · Score: 1

    Not well regulated is an understatement. While the concept of the community joining together to help launch a little guy with a great product started OK, it has become a scamer's dream. We've seen big multimillion dollar studios rake in money for large projects that they could well have financed themselves and then not deliver on promises that they made to the original funders, people presenting off-the shelf hardware as their own designs that they supposedly need funding to bring to market, and outright scams that take in a small fortune but never deliver anything.

    I don't have data to back this up, but I suspect that you have a better chance of getting what you paid for with the electronic bay of thieves than you do with Kickstarter. Or at least you might not be cheated as much. And that is not an endorsement to risk your money with the former.

  7. Re:We have one in the US, too on The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia · · Score: 1

    Well, quoting from the original summary " and they live longer. ". That is against the basic concept of Obamacare. And D.C. isn't for those with Alzheimers, it is for the criminally insane.

  8. Re:or an oncologist on Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands · · Score: 1

    If you think something inside the body isn't in contact with anything then your understanding of physics and medicine is different than mine. Another good reference is AntiChips.com, they have some good pictures of the tumors that you don't want to believe can be caused. And I have seen this problem myself in at least one dog; my neighbor fosters for the local SPCA, and one of the dogs that she fostered developed a lump at the point of injection in the short time that the dog was in her care. I heard of another case where a dog that she cared for was adopted out and then developed a tumor around the chip, the SPCA wouldn't do anything for the owner, even though they had insisted that the dog be chipped (and neutered). No way that I want my dog going through life with this inside him.

  9. pretty obvious question on MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate · · Score: 1, Informative

    Time to come up with chocolate substitutes.

    I suspected very much as I read this that that is exactly what this is about. Some of the candy companies have been wanting to and trying to get regulations passed that let them produce lower quality stuff and still call it chocolate, which they can't do currently in the USA (although some pass off some pretty poor crap and the consumer thinks that they are getting chocolate). I find it very hard to believe that on an on-going basis we are consuming more chocolate than the farmers can produce. Sure, one year or even a couple that might happen, but if it happens every year then there is a pretty obvious question that you should be asking yourself.

  10. or an oncologist on Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands · · Score: 1

    Enjoy the cancer, fools. There is plenty of evidence that these chips will cause it, particularly if you plan on living more than ten years. Google it for yourself, but here is just one link: http://www.dogsnaturallymagazi... Bob Barker also recommends getting your balls cut off at the same time.

  11. don't worry about it on Ask Slashdot: Is Non-USB Flash Direct From China Safe? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't worry about it. If you got it through Alibaba it is almost certain to be a counterfeit card with the size and even brand name printed on failing rejected cards, and it will have no better chance of retaining malware than it will have of holding your own data. I know a couple of people who bought through Alibaba that this happened to.

  12. So now webelieve them? on Drone Sightings Near Other Aircraft Up Dramatically · · Score: 1

    Our government has for decades refused to believe pilots when they report seeing UFOs, even when there is radar evidence to back them up. Now, when they want to prohibit the use of drones, they are suddenly willing to believe any sighting a pilot makes?

  13. Re:Ya...Right on U.S. and China Make Landmark Climate Deal · · Score: 1

    Opps, I must have hit the bookmark for TheOnion rather than Slashdot. I just read a story that said a man who is trying to destroy America and flies around in a private jumbo jet has promised China that the rest of us will cut our carbon footprint by 28% ! Too funny!

  14. Re:anonymously on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 1

    Yes you ignorant AC, it is damn hard. The police have no way to give the video to one of you Anonymous types. They couldn't even email that much video to an anonymous email address. To say that "somebody" wants us to give them many terabytes of data but we don't know who they are implies that we have no practical way to give it to them (not that they should give it to them).

  15. anonymously on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 2

    anonymously asked Poulsbo PD for every second of body cam video it has ever recorded.

    anonymously? As in, "I want all of your videos. Please leave them in the hollow hole in the old oak tree at midnight tonight."?

  16. Re:What does God need with a starship? on Washington Dancers Sue To Prevent Identity Disclosure · · Score: 5, Funny

    You clearly don't have a good understanding of prayer. Clearly God knows everything and has a supreme vision of how his eternal plan is to unfold. Prayer is a way to say to God "excuse me, but I would like you to change your plan, I have an idea of how things should progress, and I would like you to at least consider if my idea isn't the right way for things to go". Clearly no one would bother the Almighty just to say "I approve of how you plan to have all things develop, keep up the good work", so when contacting God to ask him to change his plans you better have good facts, like names and addresses and exact birth dates of any strippers that you want him to change his plans for the universe over. Otherwise you're just bothering him needlessly.

  17. Tell me more about those photos on Washington Dancers Sue To Prevent Identity Disclosure · · Score: 1

    including their full names, addresses, photos and dates of birth

    I want to know more about those photos. Do that clearly document how suitable these young women are to be in this profession? If so, maybe I need a copy so that I can pray for then too. And clearly you need all of this information to pray for them, God would have no idea who to credit the prayers to if you didn't have their full name, address and date of birth.

  18. Re:I'm not a scientist... on French Health Watchdog: 3D Viewing May Damage Eyesight In Children · · Score: 0

    You're thinking too much. This is France. Think of the children! Don't bring logic into this.

  19. Why do kickstarter funders fall for this? on LibraryBox is an Open Source Server That Runs on Low-Cost Hardware (Video) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This guy got $33,119 from Kickstarter and now he is selling the "Starter Edition" for $150. The starter edition is, in a nutshell, a router that costs $31.24 on Amazon and a stinkin' 16 gig flash drive with some free books from Gutenberg.org on it. And he even wants to sell custom 3d printed boxes for $50 more and little stickers that say "Library Box" that he charges 5 bucks each for. Why do people feel compelled to fund such greed?

  20. When are we going to get this right? on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 1

    When are we going to get this right?

    The question mistakenly assumes that this is not exactly the intended effect.

  21. This is great on Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't want to question too much the validity of this patent. I'm just glad that a corrupt organization like Disney got the patent. That way other search engines will think twice and not risk implementing any sort of "authenticity" factors" in their searches. So Disney can go ahead and have searches that favor Disney in their own search engine, but will have to avoid doing that. Great move Disney. What other things that would have favored you are you going to patent so that others can't do?

  22. mixed? on A Mixed Review For CBS's "All Access" Online Video Streaming · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OK, it has technical problems, it cost 6 bucks a month for CBS, it still includes commercials, and it is run by and finances a corrupt entertainment industry. In what way is this a mixed review? I don't see anything good about this at all.

  23. I call BS on Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC Breached · · Score: 2

    The credit card companies don't allow stores to charge more for a cc transaction.

    At least here in North Carolina, as well as in Virgina, and in Kansas, I've seen chains of gas stations that have a "cash price" (also the price that you get if you use the chain's own brand credit card) and a higher price (usually about 8 to 10 cents higher per gallon) if you use a major Credit Card. I don't see Visa doing anything to prevent this. In fact, the law was changed recently at the federal level to explicitly allow merchants to tack on a credit card processing fee, although many major merchants such as WalMart have said so far that they will not do that (although one has to suspect that the politicians who passed this were motivated to do so by someone with an interest in doing it).

  24. Re:and it's not a joke on "Dance Your Ph.D." Finalists Announced · · Score: -1, Troll

    You make it sound as if these people have learned something more than to just scam the system.

  25. and it's not a joke on "Dance Your Ph.D." Finalists Announced · · Score: 0

    It's so great to realize these people are going to get real Ph.D. s