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  1. Re:Implemented the wrong connector on TMS9918A Retro Video Chip Reimplemented In FPGA, With VGA Out · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't adding a VGA to HDMI converter take care about that one?

  2. Re:Remember - GUNs don't kill People... on Bad Guys Use Open Source, Too · · Score: 1

    But then to comply with GPL3, they have to hand out the keys to the jail!

  3. Re:Thank God these technologies on Scientists Print Cheap RFID Tags On Paper · · Score: 1

    Unlike web cookies, you won't get that attached to you when just looking at something.

  4. Re:Interpol doesn't arrest on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, is the same organization that can murder people in the US now and not face criminal charges if they make a little boo boo when they do it? Very important indeed!

    [citation needed]

  5. Re:and where is exactly the problem? on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually he should be able to tweet everything whichdoes not violate twitter's TOS.
    But of course, the worst thing which should happen when violating those is having the twitter account cancelled.

  6. Re:Bad title. on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 1

    Good relations? Or oil money?

    I think Saudi Arabia has enough oil that they don't need to buy any from Malaysia.

  7. Re:and where is exactly the problem? on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is exactly the type of extremism that turns me away from religion, and that applies to all forms of it.

    That's not specific to religion. If in the former Soviet Union you had said that you don't think communism is a good idea, your life wouldn't exactly have been safe either.

  8. Re:and where is exactly the problem? on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe the true reason why he fled is a completely different one, and the Saudis just used that twitter message because they couldn't use the real reason, and because they expected Malaysia to accept that one.

  9. Re:and where is exactly the problem? on Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently the Saudis put out the warrant and the Malaysian authorities detained at the airport and are shipping him back. Apparently the Malaysians are really amenable to the foreign governments about extraditing and returning people, so even if this guy faces the death penalty the Malaysians just don't want to get in the middle of things.

    I guess the moral of the story is that if you are going to flee to another country, try some place like Canada or Sweden first.

    But if you choose Sweden, keep away from the women.

  10. Re:How audiophiles can fool themselves on Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers · · Score: 1

    The crazy thing, and I'm not making this up, is that some audiophiles claim that double-blind testing "doesn't work".

    Oh, double blind testing works great if you do it right. Just feed the $1000 cable from an excellent amplifier and the $2 cable from a crappy one, and you'll immediately hear the difference between both cables. ;-)

  11. Re:Proving something negative is impossible on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible · · Score: 1

    Well, since it's obviously beneath you to read a single paragraph in Wikipedia (or maybe you're too stupid to understand it?), well, then you are not worth being educated. Or maybe I've just fallen for a troll?

    Well, in any case, it's not worth to continue this thread.

  12. Re:This can't be happening! on Google In Battle With Its Own Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but in the small print, evil is defined as whatever the lawyers consider wrong.

  13. Re:Proving something negative is impossible on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible · · Score: 1

    You just continue to show that you have no clue about why Schrödinger invented the thought experiment.
    Hint: Reading the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article might give you a clue.

  14. Unless the trojan just prevents the signatures for it to be downloaded.

  15. Re:Just goes to show you on Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan · · Score: 1

    Wow how wrong you are, you simply say to the corporation "I'm a security consultant want to watch me get through your security?" they say "yes", you say "pay me" and then show then how insecure their network truly is.

    Wow. it's that easy to get into a corporate network? After all, you might be employed by the competition to steal your corporate secrets.

  16. Re:Proving something negative is impossible on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible · · Score: 1

    Well, let me start with a big Whoosh!

    And then let me reply to your post:

    No, what I'm saying is that it was just a thought experiment, there was never any cat, and if you did it in real life, the cat doesn't "split into a superposition of states" - it either lives or dies. Schrodinger f***ed up.

    You are clearly clueless about why Schrödinger invented the cat thought experiment. Maybe you should read about it ...

  17. Re:Why, when you can shame 'em too? on Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan · · Score: 1

    Just re-configure the surrogate DNS servers to return the same reply to every query and point all traffic towards an FBI server

    I don't think the FBI would have any interest in DDoSing their own server ...

  18. Re:// lulz on Simulators Take the Humans Out of Hiring · · Score: 1

    Well, just wait until they find out to break complex problems into pieces small enough to be solved during such interview sessions. Then they can just interview so many programmers that they ultimately have the code without paying anyone for it.

    Oh, you say breaking down the problems still requires employees? Well, the employment test could also be: "Given this problem, how would you break it down into smaller pieces to be assigned to different programmers?"

  19. Re:We could do that. on Simulators Take the Humans Out of Hiring · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmmm ... google Hello world powerpc, click on the first link and scroll a bit down until you find the assembly. Now you only have to find a powerpc assembler and linker, and you're done.

  20. Re:Proving something negative is impossible on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible · · Score: 1

    Note that there should be dots (from the <ul>) in front of the indented part (two of them, actually). But apparently Slashdot's CSS inhibits them :-(

  21. Re:Proving something negative is impossible on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible · · Score: 1

    Well, when speaking about time travel, what is meant is invariably that your own elapsed proper time differs from the proper time elapsed for the surroundings. Actually there are two sorts of time travel:

    • One, where your own time is just going at a different speed than the time around you (see for example H. G. Wells' Time Machine). Note that using that definition, going into the future is possible using time dilation (however not with a machine keeping where it is, at least with currently known physics).
    • The other (more common) where you just disappear at one time and materialize at another without being anywhere in between.

    Note that the normal passing of time from today to tomorrow doesn't fit any of those. However if you identify yourself with your consciousness one could say that you travel into the future every time you sleep.

  22. Re:Proving something negative is impossible on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible · · Score: 1

    Ah, so Schrödinger found the law "If you put a cat in a sealed box with a radioactive probe, a detector and a bottle of poison, it disappears" but he kept that discovery for himself?

  23. Re:And that's how it is supposed to work. on Apple Overturns Motorola's German iPad and iPhone Sales Bans · · Score: 1

    at times that have absolutely nothing to do with religious zealotry,

    I thought it was Apple we are talking about.

  24. Re:Bismarck Copyright Term Extension Act on Finding Lost Recording From the 1880s · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nobody knows Bismark anymore.

    But at least in Germany, about everyone has heard of Bismarck.

  25. Re:How about a reverse ontological proof? on $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible · · Score: 1

    1. Human imagination imagines beyond what is possible.

    2. I cannot imagine a quantum computer.

    3. Therefore, quantum computing is further beyond what is possible than my imagination.

    4. By (1), quantum computing is beyond the possible.

    At least it's valid. If you give me half the money, I can work out rest of the kinks.

    That argumentation is as valid as: "Humans can go everywhere on earth. I have not been in China. Therefore China is not on earth."