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  1. Re:IF you RTFA on Request to Falsify Data Published In Chemistry Journal · · Score: 1

    So you seem to think it's fair to tell us to RTFA while the actors involved didn't think it fair to do their own reading. If so, that smacks of the type of double standard we're hoping to illustrate, so thanks for helping make us out as correct.

  2. Because data center... on Memory Wars May Herald Mobile Devices With Terabytes of Capacity · · Score: 1

    By the time those levels materialize, wireless speeds will too, so any 'storage' burden will be on the backend/cloud, not the device. That's why slots are not being bothered with now.

  3. Um.... on Camels May Transmit New Middle Eastern Virus · · Score: 0

    "though it may be a challenge to do a nose swab in a camel."

    Camels spit without much provocation, making it near trivial to obtain saliva, so lame way to wind up an article, sorry. As well, this is most likely an engineered virus/contamination, deployed as one of many around the globe by nare-do-wells looking to prune the world's general population. Follow the money and don't waste too much more time on ferals...of any type.

  4. Sure - Siri... on AI Is Funny - a Generative Joke Model · · Score: 1

    Ask Siri where to bury a dead body - or where to buy a digital camera...heck, just say 'tell me a joke'...

  5. First task on IBM Devises Software For Its Experimental Brain-Modeling Chips · · Score: 1
  6. Re:How they use Google in the Third World on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 1

    Why is it ./ windows fans are always cowards here... Oh, wait...

  7. He's wrong, of course. on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: -1, Troll

    Very funny....and very wrong.

    The day BG comes up with any kind of vision (Road Ahead tanked)... Let's see anything he does that fails to involve and benefit from Google in some way. He's just a mouthpiece for Bing.

  8. It's about trust on Ask Slashdot: Is Development Leadership Overvalued? · · Score: 1

    ...they want to know why, after all this time, someone hasn't already trusted you to take management's side against the rank/file in the past. Trusting you to do things you might not have had the stomach for earlier in your career, etc.

    An example is being an editor - defined as the guy that walks down the hill after a battle, shooting the wounded and keeping your mouth shut about it.

    So, yes, it is an important step to get behind you as early in your career as possible.

  9. Point is... on New Technique Creates 3D Images Through a Single Lens · · Score: 1

    We don't care too much how the wonks do it as long as it doesn't involve headgear beyond what moviegoers walk into the theater with.

  10. Not new from them on Comcast Working On 'Helpful' Copyright Violation Pop-ups · · Score: 1

    C'Cast did this just a few years back, but the topic was bandwidth, I think. So their sniffing isn't new at all, just their nanny-state attitude over in-your copyright nag.

  11. In other news... on Version 2.0 of 3D-Printed Rifle Successfully Fires 14 Rounds · · Score: 1

    Syrian rebels have requested more resin to help in their recent push...

  12. Re:WTF is a 'becquerels?' on Fukishima Springs Water Leak · · Score: 1

    We can sure, but this is Japan we're talking about. Where they have their own earthquake scale, based on destruction of property, meaning if no buildings are in that area, the quake was minimal, regardless, and where you're not counted as a highway fatality unless you die within 12 hours of the accident.

    Because safety.

  13. Carrier? on Japan Unveils Largest Warship Since WW2 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Carriers are sitting ducks without a battle group. I doubt the Chinese are worried over this at all.

  14. Yawn on NASA Data Suggests Solar Magnetic Field About To Flip · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've survived 5 of these so far - one more can't hurt...

  15. Re:Why not stop using firefox and Java on TOR Wants You To Stop Using Windows, Disable JavaScript · · Score: 1

    The tires are not safe when used on that brand of automobile. Stop using that brand of car.

  16. Re:duh? on TOR Wants You To Stop Using Windows, Disable JavaScript · · Score: -1, Troll

    What is this 'knowledge' you speak of as pertains to existing Windows users? Oxymoronic, no?

  17. Re:I'd love to build laptops on The Open Source Laptop and the Golden Age of Open Hardware · · Score: 1

    Imagine if there were this process where we could actually print them out ourselves.....oh, wait.

  18. I remember on Jeff Bezos Buys the Washington Post · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...when newspapers feared the rise of the internet. Now we have all the new money buying one outright. Is Jeff going to keep it going out of nostalgia or dig a hole and give it a quiet burial out of regard for the old guard? Or will it become his personal editorial platform...

    Reasons to buy any newspaper:
    - Foreign bureau access
    - Subscriber base
    - Political posture
    - Brain trust
    - Support a specific community
    - Keep a tradition going
    - Take control of an adversary or adversarial outlet

    I'm going with the political angle on this one...

  19. So... on NASA's Curiosity Rover Celebrates One Year On Mars · · Score: 3, Funny

    Birthdays for anthropomorphized machines is all they got? Isn't it going to be another year before it gets to where it's headed? Wake me when it finds an ancient civilization - that or a fish head.

  20. yeahbutt on Project Anonymizes Your Writing Style To Hide Your Identity · · Score: 1

    Just don't lick the envelope.

  21. Re:no article? on Japan Launches Talking Humanoid Robot Into Space · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's basically a toy - less than a foot high, I think - it responds to basic verbal pre-programmed commands. And since it only responds to Japanese and no one up there right now speaks enough to play with it, they will use someone on earth that has already worked with it to communicate over radio.

    I'm going to call this more of a stunt than anything else, sorry.

  22. Finally? on The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet · · Score: 1

    As I recall the Romans networked toilets some time ago. Not sure whom they got the idea from, tho...

  23. Again... on Microsoft Cuts Surface Pro Price By $100 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not interested. Won't buy it. No use for it. Wouldn't take one as a door prize if was bacon wrapped, dipped in milk chocolate and came with a free weekend on Martha's Vineyard with Warren Buffet's Gold Card. I'm confident that even if they were pulled back and sent to the crusher, the crusher wouldn't want them either. Ballmer isn't going to learn until losses like this start coming out of his lily white hide. Let the lesson begin...

  24. Did I read that right? on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 1

    "Any users accessing a Freedom Hosting hosted site since 8/2 with javascript enabled are potentially compromised."


    That would include all the FBI computers used to deliver the poison, then?

  25. Smart is as smart does on Samsung Smart TV: Basically a Linux Box Running Vulnerable Web Apps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Samsung isn't stupid....either worry about seminar hack-trolls or patent trolls. In the end, what counts is staying in the public's mind. Mission accomplished, I'd say. Wash, rinse, repeat.