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  1. Re:Remember when "apps" were called "programs"? on Apple In Trouble With Developers · · Score: 1

    No. However I remember when they were called "applications" (and applications, daemons and all other types of executables were collectively called programs).

  2. Re:As an Apple hater, I disagree. on Apple In Trouble With Developers · · Score: 1

    Slashdot does allow editing posts. It's just that you have to edit it before you submit.

  3. Psychometric authentication on Predicting Color Blindness, ADD, or Learning Disorders From Game Data · · Score: 1

    So maybe in the future you'll authenticate by playing a short game.

    Boss: "Hey, what are you doing! I'm paying you for work, not for play!"
    Employee: "We temporarily lost the network, and now I have to re-authenticate."
    Boss: "Ah, OK, go on. However I wonder why we have so many network problems lately ..."

  4. Re:Remote Control Mouse on Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior With Light · · Score: 1

    Hey, I've had a wireless optical mouse for years!

  5. Re:the problem's not the labels or the customers.. on IFPI Won't Share Pirate Bay Damages With Musicians · · Score: 1

    There are several things to do to be a successful rock band. Which part do you think is harder?

          1. Playing music

          2. Marketing

    In the grand scheme of things, musicians are of little importance to the final product.

    Let me guess ... you are working in marketing.

  6. Re:Another "ban" on Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets · · Score: 2

    Why don't we ban [...] crime, since they are even more dangerous than magnets?

    So crime is not already illegal in the U.S.?

  7. Re:So we live in molasses on Interviews: Giovanni Organtini Answers About the Higgs and LHC · · Score: 1

    No, an EM field doesn't interact with itself. You can see that if you try to deflect the beam of a flashlight with the beam of another flashlight: You'll not succeed.

    Another field which does interact with itself is the QCD field, which is responsible for the strong force. Here the self-interaction is responsible for the fact that you cannot separate the quarks of a hadron.

  8. Re:Virtual particles vs real particles on Interviews: Giovanni Organtini Answers About the Higgs and LHC · · Score: 1

    A better Wikipedia article would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity

    Interestingly the section titled "Controversy" names only opponents of the concept of relativistic mass (doesn't sound like a controversy to me), and right above it there's a quote by Einstein himself speaking against the concept of relativistic mass.

  9. Re:Wires are not the issue. on Wireless Car Charger Test Starts In London · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I prefer if the stupid are not able to use a car. It will make the roads much safer.

  10. Re:Welll.... on Wireless Car Charger Test Starts In London · · Score: 1

    Wild dogs aren't exactly decimating native bird populations anywhere.

    Yeah, they are notoriously bad at counting. Also, 90% of all bird populations aren't an exact multiple of ten birds anyway. ;-)

  11. Gate is so yesterday ... on Police Close Climategate Investigation · · Score: 1

    If this had happened this year, it would have been named Climateleaks.

  12. Re:For what is which better? on SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? · · Score: 1

    What is webscale? Is Wikipedia webscale? Does Wikipedia use NoSQL?
    What does Slashdot use? Is Slashdot webscale?

  13. Re:fork vs spoon: Which Is Better? on SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? · · Score: 1

    They are complimentary.

    Really? My forks and spoons aren't very complimentary. Maybe I should send them to a training in good manners?

    SCNR :-)

  14. Re:Programmers should not be allowed to write SQL. on SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? · · Score: 1

    And those people would not be programmers? I don't think it's a good idea to let non-programmers write procedures, stored or not. Especially if those procedures operate on critical data.

  15. Re:One point for NoSql Data bases on SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? · · Score: 1

    I've been using NoSql data bases for a long time now. The one I use now is called ext4. It's great, and even came built into the OS.

    Yeah, it even has stored procedures (they are called executables). And you can write those in any programming language you like!

  16. Re:Flamebait in Headline on SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? · · Score: 1

    SQL and NoSQL are different, with different use cases.

    No. Wrong. Clearly, $CHOICE is superior in all cases. If you think you've found a situation in which !($CHOICE) is better, you're obviously using $CHOICE wrong and should RTFM before you EVER say anything against it again, n00b.

    Ah, but then you have to look at the implications of $UNRELATED_PROBLEM. After all, $CHOICE can't $BUZZWORD1, at least not without support for $BUZZWORD2.

    Once $CHOICE supports those, then maybe it'll be better in all cases.

    $BUZZWORD is totally overrated! It's $OTHER_BUZZWORD which counts! And only $CHOICE really supports $OTHER_BUZZWORD. Yes, !($CHOICE) formally also supports $OTHER_BUZZWORD, but that's no true support. Only $CHOICE has true support for $OTHER_BUZZWORD. And that clearly proves that $CHOICE is better.

  17. Re:Nobody expects the spanish inquisition! on When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, the most interesting paragraph was this one:

    But there was one point that really stuck with me. He told me that when you start working at one of the stores, you have to sign an agreement that you won’t talk about it. First you go through training, and you can’t talk about what you did for training. Then you go through an initiation where you follow an experienced employee, and you’re not allowed to talk to any customers. Finally, when you are a full-fledged employee, you are absolutely restricted from representing Apple in any way outside the store. If you post an identifiable comment as an employee, you will be fired immediately.

    That really sounds like some religious cult.

  18. Re:Market economy to the rescue on What Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? · · Score: 1

    And the cost of training a new astronaut.

  19. Re: worth! on What Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? · · Score: 1

    [..] and lighting a cigar with a 1000 Euro note.

    There is no 1000 Euro note.

    That's because he already lighted all of them. :-)

  20. Re:No magnetic fields on Bas Lansdorp Answers Your Questions About Going to Mars · · Score: 1

    That's an effect in matter which, as should be common knowledge by now, is composed of charged particles. The magnetic field doesn't affect the light, it affects the particles in the matter and thus the way those particles interact with light.

  21. Re:And yet, nothing of value was lost. on Facebook "Like" System Devalued By Fake Users · · Score: 1

    For it to have been devalued you'd have to assume it had any value in the first place.

    No, it can have negative value.

  22. Re:Functional on Why Is Wikipedia So Ugly? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess anyone who thinks Wikipedia is ugly will also consider books ugly. Think of it: The typical book has a big, mostly uniform block of text surrounded by unprinted space except for a page number. Most books don't even have images (except on the cover).

  23. Re: Space for growing food on Bas Lansdorp Answers Your Questions About Going to Mars · · Score: 1

    At four people every two years, it will be a long time before Mars has 1.3 million people.

  24. Re:Brzzt! on Bas Lansdorp Answers Your Questions About Going to Mars · · Score: 1

    Maybe they could even get a sponsorship from nuclear energy companies that way. It there's a business branch in need of positive press, it's the nuclear energy one.

  25. Re:tp on Bas Lansdorp Answers Your Questions About Going to Mars · · Score: 1

    Maybe they will just use three sea shells.