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  1. I must be getting old. on Meet Focal, the New Camera App For CyanogenMod · · Score: 2

    I thought FOCAL was the language of the first lunar lander game.

  2. Great. on Wikipedia Rolls Out Mobile Editing For All Users · · Score: 0

    Now I can see my changes reverted when I'm on the road.

  3. What??? on Star Wars City Doomed By Sand Dunes · · Score: 2

    They weren't required to restore the dunes to their native state after the shoot?

  4. Hardly.... on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    News for geeks. We know about Google News, or any other mainstream news outlet for that matter....

  5. Re:Lost. on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    Um no. Just do a little reading and see what it takes to convict a person of second degree murder "beyond a shadow of a doubt". You're the "lost cause".

  6. Re:I'm amazed... on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 0

    Nice. I'd upvote if I could.

  7. If nature is so relevant... on Improving 3-D Printing By Copying Nature · · Score: 2

    Why not build a 400,000 lb bumblebee instead of a B747? Point being that imitating nature oftentimes isn't good or even possible.

  8. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So does some fsking common sense. Let's not drive cars. let's confiscate steak knives. Let's get rid of lawnmowers. Life is about risk management, not risk avoidance.

  9. Re:Faster than Light? on Quantum-Tunneling Electrons Could Make Semiconductors Obsolete · · Score: 0

    Aren't you the grump.

  10. I guess I missed the part... on A Different Approach To Making Alternative Fuels Practical · · Score: 1

    Where it made alternative fuels practical...

  11. Slashdot just jumped the shark on The Rails Girls Are Coming to a City Near You (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was fun while it lasted.

  12. PDP 8 field service school, at "the mill" on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    It was 1972 and I had just gotten out of the Army. DEC hired me to work at their Oakland, Ca. office and had sent me to the mill for 3 months of training. The one-week class on PAL-3 assembler was the best part of it. I also puttered around with FOCAL a bit.

  13. Re:Not open source on NetBSD 6.1 Has Shipped · · Score: 1

    Ha. My wife and I had a child in 1988, partly because it looked like the world was finally getting it's shit together. No regrets.

  14. Re:Not open source on NetBSD 6.1 Has Shipped · · Score: 1

    EndOfThread detected.

  15. Re:The Smart Grid Has Arrived on The Smart Grid Has Arrived · · Score: 2

    Um, no. Power in is measured at the substation level and can't possibly catch an individual stealing 10's of kilowatts. Likewise, temperature variations change the efficiency of cables and transformers. Most often power thievery is caught by a jealous neighbor turning someone in.

  16. Re:Advertising publicity stunt. on The Smart Grid Has Arrived · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not really. The article just missed the real reason. Lightning strikes. Florida power reliability is horrible because of the huge number of electrical storms and lightning strikes to the system. This will facilitate "routing around" strikes and bringing up portions of the grid faster. Of course, blaming mother nature isn't as politically popular as blaming piggish customers.

  17. Buy local honey on Laser Intended For Mars Used To Detect "Honey Laundering" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most places in the US have a small local honey industry. Support it.

  18. Re:This is great news. on Over the Antarctic, the Smallest Ozone Hole In a Decade · · Score: 1

    There's also a correlation between cosmic rays and the ozone hole. Just saying.

  19. Re:Chips are "reprogrammable" on Magnetic Transistor Could Cut Power Consumption and Make Chips Reprogrammable · · Score: 1

    Flash-based in-circuit reprogrammable logic arrays have been around for at least 20 years. Move along, nothing to see here.

  20. Chips are "reprogrammable" on Magnetic Transistor Could Cut Power Consumption and Make Chips Reprogrammable · · Score: 0

    Been so for 25 years. It's called FLASH memory.

  21. Well on their way on Dozens Suspended In Harvard University Cheat Scandal · · Score: 0

    To becoming the controlling elite of our country. Somehow I'm not surprised.

  22. HIPPA isn't about patient rights to information on Patient Access To Electronic Medical Records Strengthened By New HHS Rules · · Score: 1

    It's about government access to patient information. Everything else is a sideshow.

  23. Shades of... on Thailand Jails Dissident For What People Thought He Would Have Said · · Score: 1

    Sir Thomas More.

  24. Fix the real high def problems first on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 1

    I don't care so much about the increased resolution. What bugs the shit out of me is the motion artifacts and the grayscale discontinuities that I constantly see even on Blu-ray. Fix the real problems first then worry about the resolution.

  25. Can this work without owning the fiber? on Intel's Attempt At A-La-Carte Television Hits Delays · · Score: 2

    I mean, net neutrality is nice and all, but I hardly think that Google and ATT will just roll over and let Intel use their backbone fiber without a fight.