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  1. Re:Caught because someone noticed ... on Police Capture Second Marathon Bombing Suspect in Watertown, Mass. · · Score: 1

    Sooner... At what cost?

  2. If past history is any indication... on Will the Supreme Court End Human Gene Patents? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dred Scott v Sandford -- slaves are private property
    Roe v Wade -- an unborn child is private property
    This case -- your genes are private property, when a company "isolates" them from the human body

    Way to go 'Chief Justices' - reassign what is God's, to man...

  3. Re:I guess it depends on Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem? · · Score: 1

    Whoosh... Talk about missing the point

    I meant "wind generated power" (I am the AC you responded to)

  4. Re: How would you feel about it? on Eric Schmidt: Regulate Civilian Drones Now · · Score: 1

    You've not been drinking enough water again Harald!

  5. Re:regulations on "Dark Lightning" Could Expose Airline Passengers To Radiation · · Score: 1

    Yes... Or simply load the luggage above the passengers, not below...

  6. Nope -- Leukemia too! on "Dark Lightning" Could Expose Airline Passengers To Radiation · · Score: 2
  7. Remember privacy preferences on New CFAA Could Subject Teens To Jail For Reading Online News · · Score: 1

    What about web-servers sending back optional HTTP 'TOS' headers to disavow criminal penalties?

    On the client client side, the browser could choose to render 'less-friendly' sites in a red haze to warn users this site could subject them to criminal (not just civil) penalties.

  8. ------- Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT) ------ on Iain Banks: Extremely Ill With Cancer · · Score: 1

    -----[ If the author, or a loved one of his, is reading... please look into this carefully! ]----

    Cancerous cells love sugar. IPT uses that to launch a trojan horse attack with very low dose chemo. For this condition IPT is challenging, but a very promising treatment (please see Google link below):

    http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Insulin+Potentiation+Therapy+(IPT)&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari#hl=en&gs_rn=8&gs_ri=tablet-gws&pq=insulin%20potentiation%20therapy%20(ipt)&cp=51&gs_id=1w&xhr=t&q=Insulin+Potentiation+Therapy+(IPT)+gall+bladder

  9. Re:OK, on Gartner Says 3D Printers Will Cost Less Than $2,000 By 2016 · · Score: 1

    The real advance will be ultrasonic welding of metallic-glass beads.

    I'm serious :)

  10. Re:Derivative Works on You Don't 'Own' Your Own Genes · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sure.

    And for 20 years, grateful Neanderthals left choice carcasses by the cave of the one who figured partridge soup helped the a'choos.

    They were happy the inventor of this diagnostic test and theraputic method was licensing his discovery on an FRAND basis.

  11. Re:Haters Gonna Hate on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Because sin is still sin.

    Regarding the two Old Testament commandments above:
    - the first doesn't describe a squinty person as sinful
    - the second - the 'hair commandment' was apparently against an idolatrous fashion of the time.
        (Source: http://bible.cc/leviticus/19-27.htm)

    To be fair to your point, the Catholic church is itself idolatrous due to its worship of Mary, belief in apparitions and superstitions.

  12. Re:bad idea ? on Australian Govt Forces Apple, Adobe, Microsoft To Explain Price Hikes · · Score: 1

    uh. replying to undo mistaken negative comment

  13. ..."up to 50 percent or more."? on Can Legacy Dual-Core CPUs Drive Modern Graphics Cards? · · Score: 1

    0 to infinity? :D That's makes it hard on us summary-readers! Now we must go read the article.

  14. Re:Is This for Real? on Making Sure Interviews Don't Turn Into Free Consulting · · Score: 1

    What _is_ that "blur" thing you spoke of?

  15. Re: Microsoft controls compoter booting on UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Rewritten To Boot All Linux Versions · · Score: 1

    Uh, no... Merely getting the top 20 motherboard manufacturers to do thiat would do just fine...

    In fact after 4 or 5 include the keys, the rest will be scrambling over each other to "let their computers run Linux"

    Signatures can be revoked. Is it more difficult (or attractive) for 20 manufacturers to revoke keys, or for Microsoft to?

  16. Re:luggage loser on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Devices For Luggage? · · Score: 1

    If you think you're luggage makes you pretty, you're carrying some serious luggage 'up there.

  17. Re:Oooh shiny!!! on German Laser Destroys Targets More Than 1Km Away · · Score: 1

    Unless the rotate the surface to cool it down (with what? something with high thermal mass)

    Rotating, shimmering, armor plate on every inch of a tank surface!

  18. the rules... on What Are the Unwritten Rules of Deleting Code? · · Score: 1

    1. Don't be a theorist -- profile your code! Only consider code for deletion that's not actually used in production
    2. If the code you want to delete code can't be profiled (e.g. its within a method), be creative... refactor it out into a method and profile.... Or write a log entries to disk.
    3. Now delete the code - be bold!
    4. ... But make sure your tests pass
    5. Get your change reviewed
    6. Get your build UAT tested by 'the business'... perhaps by bundling with other minor changes
    7. Along with a deployment plan, have a rollback plan (and a rollback build).

    You notice I didn't say "use version control". Version control is good for managing the development process. Its not a shortcut to manage the entire software change process.

  19. Re:2038 on Adobe and Apple Didn't Unit Test For "Forward Date" Bugs. Do You? · · Score: 2

    Have your forward-date tested the edibility of your canned spam?

    If you plan to eat it in 2038, you really, really should, :)

  20. Your tests weren't buggy ... on Adobe and Apple Didn't Unit Test For "Forward Date" Bugs. Do You? · · Score: 1

    I've seen a vendor issue a super-urgent patch. IIRC, it contained an update to an expiring CA certificate. They could have forseen this issue with time-shift testing of the type you did (which 'breaks' your test, but it also proves the need to install update CA certs by a future date)

    My other post has an example why time-shift testing is important.
    http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3356429&cid=42472583
    (It was the same vendor in both cases)

  21. Re:Why? on Adobe and Apple Didn't Unit Test For "Forward Date" Bugs. Do You? · · Score: 2

    See this link for an example: http://www.wmusers.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-5470.html

    webMethods' 'Trading Networks' B2B integration software (now owned by Software AG) used a GUID-generator routine which created 24-byte GUIDs for processing B2B documents. One of the inputs to this routine was the number of milliseconds between UTC and UNIX epoch.

    One day in 2004, the progress of time caused 25-byte GUIDs to be created. Trading Networks tried to insert these into a database column whose width was 24 bytes. So, at the same instant worldwide, none of their customers used this software could process B2B transactions!

  22. Side effects on Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways · · Score: 1

    Cool, but keep count of those rapidly decreasing neuronal telomeres... as pot snips them away.

    Me, I prefer my brain cells regenerate when I need them. Like, when I get old

    One last thing - marijuana is neuroprotective, but the likely mechanism is this...
    [ http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_science1.shtml ]

    "Perhaps the current best guess for how these chemicals [Cannabinoids] provide their protective effects is that their general dampening of neural activity reduces excitotoxicity (damage caused by overly excited neurons)."

    That's right, it dopes the brain down...

  23. Its true on Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine is a heavy pot smoker in his late 40s. It has damaged his intellect and health (shaky hands, etc.) But he continues to defend his drug habit, except for this one thing...

    He told me about a young friend of his, that he once introduced to pot. The young fellow had a psychotic episode _when smoking pot the first time_. Since then, he's not been right in the head (i.e its caused some sort of permanent mental damage).

    Others can count this as hearsay, but I heard this first hand from someone who _loves_ pot. This study just backs that up. I'd urge you to kick the habit.

  24. False premises on Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? · · Score: 1

    "'Wouldn't a more powerful sense of security come from knowing your children were capable, and trusting in their ability to reach out for help at the moment when they realize they're not?'"

    Yes, but children are not fully capable, may not be full able, and may not realize they're in a sticky situation... that's why we shouldn't rush to condemn folks who use such devices.

  25. Now this, ladies and gentlemen... on OpenGL Becoming a Requirement For the Linux Desktop · · Score: 0

    ..This, is a real Slashdot article!

    Well done submitter, well done editor!