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  1. Re:I should start a company... on 15-Year-Old Developing a 3D Printer 10x Faster Than Anything On the Market · · Score: 1

    Get ready to travel through time and eat cake while you do it!

    My company with patent pending technology will let you travel through time while eating cake.

    Sorry, I got prior art on this. Everytime I find myself eating birthday cake I am shocked that I've traveled one year though time. It really sucks (the time travel, not the cake).

  2. Alcohol on Train Derailment Dumps Two 737 Fuselages Into Clark Fork River · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to the article, there was alcohol involved.

  3. I want an electric Model T on Tesla Aims For $30,000 Price, 2017 Launch For Model E · · Score: 1

    Yes and I want it in black.

  4. Confusing article on Polymer-Based Graphene Substitute Is Easy To Mass-Produce · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is the end result graphene, a lattice of carbon atoms, or not? What exactly is a "substitute carbon nanosheet" if not graphene itself? Is the process new or the material new? This article is like saying you developed an easier process for creating wood-pulp-based white laminar sheets that are flexible and suitable for writing letters and calling it a "paper substitute", without clearly saying why it isn't paper.

  5. Shitfaced drivers on Facial Recognition Might Be Coming To Your Car · · Score: 1

    This is a good thing as long as it can recognize shitfaced drivers and keep them of the roads.

  6. Re:Embarrasment on Overkill? LG Phone Has 2560x1440 Display, Laser Focusing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The principle reason to put 2560x1440 pixels on a phone is to further the embarrassment of monitor manufacturers who can only manage to get 1/4 of the pixels into a 19" screen.

    We will soon be better off buying a smart phone and a Fresnel lens instead of desktop monitor and our computers will begin to look a lot like the ones in the movie Brazil.

  7. Doug Engelbart did this in 1968 on Meet Carla Shroder's New Favorite GUI-Textmode Hybrid Shell, Xiki · · Score: 1

    If you watch Doug's demo in its entirety, you can't help but see the similarities to this new project:

          http://www.1968demo.org/

  8. Re:Kernel bloat on Are the Hard-to-Exploit Bugs In LZO Compression Algorithm Just Hype? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why should the Linux kernel have a compression algorithm in it?

    Because it aspires to compress itself into a microkernel.

  9. Re:The real question in my mind on Test: Quantum Or Not, Controversial Computer No Faster Than Normal · · Score: 5, Funny

    How could they not know?

    Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: If they knew for a fact their claims were fraudulent, they would not know what their claims were. Since they in fact know that they are claiming to have a quantum computer, they cannot know whether the claim is fraudulent or not.

  10. Illegal to own? on Chinese Vendor Could Pay $34.9M FCC Fine In Signal-Jammer Sting · · Score: 1

    Why do they need the names of everyone who bought one of these? Is it illegal to own one? What if I bought one because it was just the right size and weight for a doorstop?

  11. Re:That's going to screw up the map. on Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock · · Score: 1

    How much of that pasture is left? XKCD needs to update their map, or better yet, make an animated timelapse.

  12. The Solution. Apple just comes up with another name for the IPhone and sells the IPhone under that name in Mexico.

    ayTeléfono!

  13. Why not use the mosquitoes as the delivery vector? on Robots and Irradiated Parasites Enlisted In the Fight Against Malaria · · Score: 1

    Hum, I wonder why they don't just have the mosquitoes with the weakened parasites bite people. Seems like a lot of work to dissect mosquitoes, concentrate the vaccine, deliver it to doctors, put it in a syringe and inject it. Just ship the mosquitoes to where they are needed, put them in a box, and have people who need immunity stick their arms in the box.

  14. So what's the problem? on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 1

    "'without additional expertise and the right type of ammunition, anyone attempting to fire one would probably maim or even kill themselves"

    Maybe it's time start handing out free 3D printers to criminals.

  15. Rewriting textbooks on Zazzle.com Thinks Depictions of Pi Are Protected Intellectual Property · · Score: 4, Funny

    That specifically covers the stylized "pi mathematical symbol followed by a period."

    Oh dear. I guess we'll have to fix all textbooks to remove infringing uses of pi at the end of a sentence..

    Example of infringing use:

    The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is .

    Non-infringing alternatives:

    The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is !
    The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is :)
    , what the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is.

     

  16. Aw cripes, not again! on eBay Compromised · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is the THIRD time this month I've had to change my date of birth due to compromised website.

  17. Here's a start on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Tell a Compelling Story About IT Infrastructure? · · Score: 1

    A compelling story? Okay, I'll get it started for you all:

    "On a dark and stormy night, as the release deadline loomed..."

  18. iPhone will support dual-SIM too on Firefox OS 1.3 Arrives: Dual SIM Support, Continuous Autofocus, Graphics Boost · · Score: 2, Funny

    Humor has it Apple's next iPhone will support dual-SIM too, but you'll have to buy a dongle that hangs off the lightning port for the extra SIM card.

  19. Re:Let me get this straight on For the First Time Ever, the FAA Is Trying To Fine a Drone Hobbyist · · Score: 1

    I think the point is that the buildings had carelessly invaded his airspace and the pedestrians had trespassed his landing field. Obviously, these are the ones who should be punished.

  20. The story behind the smiley... on Apple, Google Agree To Settle Lawsuit Alleging Hiring Conspiracy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "In one email exchange after a Google recruiter solicited an Apple employee, Schmidt told Jobs that the recruiter would be fired, court documents show. Jobs then forwarded Schmidt's note to a top Apple human resources executive with a smiley face."

    The story behind the smiley face is that Steve Jobs now knew exactly what disgruntled ex-recruiter he could hire to solicit Google employees on behalf of Apple.

  21. "Speak Now" bubble give it away on Google Chrome Flaw Sets Your PC's Mic Live · · Score: 1

    I get a "Speak Now" bubble when I visit the demonstration website. Isn't that sort of a dead giveaway that something is amiss?

    I don't see this as a particularly big flaw unless there bubble is hidden in certain instances.

    -- Marcio

  22. Re:Hardware off switches on Google Chrome Flaw Sets Your PC's Mic Live · · Score: 1

    I put a little static cling sticker on the lens.

    They are working on bypassing that particular security measure:

    https://medium.com/the-physics...

  23. It goes to show that... on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Coding and campaign do not mix.

  24. Re:disclosure on Stung By File-Encrypting Malware, Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've spent years trying to dissuade people from using (old) Excel's password "protection" due to the false sense of security. That Win API has the same effect—convinces the masses they're employing secure means when in fact they're not.

    I think recent events have shown that relying on security of any kind leads to a false sense of security (examples: NSA backdoors, OpenSSL bugs, WEP vunerabilities, etc). We'd all be much safer if we simply assumed there was no such thing as security.

  25. I don't understand the logic behind this on Satoshi Nakamoto Found? Not So Fast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First off, let me say I don't care who Satoshi is and I think everyone should leave this Dorian guy alone, but I don't understand how a denial coming from that account proves anything. If in fact Dorian was BitCoin's creator, wouldn't he try to draw attention away from himself by posting from the original account saying that he wasn't who in fact he is?

    -- Marcio