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  1. Re:Space exploration takes time on NASA's Bolden Claims NASA Is 'Doomed' Unless It Stays the Course To Mars (spacenews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Canada our high profile issue is how to equip the military but that wouldn't make headlines in any other country.

    Depends on how many F35s you buy from us.

  2. Re:It DRM circumvention is lawful on DRM Circumvention Now Lawful For More Devices · · Score: 1

    It's their device -- they are free to install what software they want. And we are free to not buy the product.

  3. Re:If you circumvent something that's disallowed.. on DRM Circumvention Now Lawful For More Devices · · Score: 1

    Well, you'd have to post to some public forum talking about... it... uh oh.

  4. A sudden attack of common sense on DRM Circumvention Now Lawful For More Devices · · Score: 1

    Wow. That's.... reasonable. What's the catch?

    Part of me is waiting for the other shoe to drop -- something like "but this only applies to licensed security developers, the license for which costs $100K and takes three years to get".

  5. Eat less sugar, be more healthy on Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits (wiley.com) · · Score: 1

    Film at eleven.

    What's remarkable is that we actually need to be told this.

  6. Re:Unplug? Do you even IoT, brah? on F-Troop and the 'Internet of Thingies' (Video) · · Score: 1

    >> Is it time to unplug everything because of the growing amount of unvetted software we're adding to our home and business networks?

    Unplug, eh? Well I've heard about this cool new technology called "WiFi" that may someday replace all the coax and twisted pair cables that connect all our phones and computers today.

    Was my thought also. Which means, it's not necessary to unplug, just don't give the thingy your wifi password.

    You *do* have a wifi password, right?

  7. Re:Even more useless on InFocus's New Kangaroo: a Screenless $99 Windows 10 Portable PC (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I see. But if it doesn't have any input devices or display devices, how is it different from carrying around a micro ATX computer?

  8. Re:And not a laptop why? on InFocus's New Kangaroo: a Screenless $99 Windows 10 Portable PC (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    For when you want the inconvenience of either needing wherever you are to already have all of these peripherals, or carrying them around yourself.

    What I see is a way to own a Windows 10 PC without the biggest major drawback -- having to look at it.

  9. Wait a minute... on InFocus's New Kangaroo: a Screenless $99 Windows 10 Portable PC (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful
  10. Re:Mark Baum: HERO. on Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Daraprim Pill (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd want to contribute to his personal bodyguards...

  11. Re: Call me a skeptic on Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Daraprim Pill (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 2

    I think he's saying there is the whiff of smoke, (hence 'odd' not 'criminal') but whether it's a cook stove or a forest fire hasn't yet been established.

  12. Re:Weather of Climate? on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Hurricanes have been down in recent years.

    Only 22 cat4 or higher this year. Remember that the world does not just consist of the USA

    A single data point with no context. Tropical storms are generally down, worldwide, measured from 1977 to 2012. There have been a few that were exceptionally strong, but again, weather is chaotic.

  13. Re:Weather of Climate? on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nor is Bill Nye the Science Guy.

  14. Re:Weather of Climate? on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    > That's one of the many reason the LYING, money-sucking "Climatologists" had to drop the moniker "Global Warming" in favor of the "Well, we can always claim it" name "Climate Change".

    To which the proper response is still: "What part of 'chaotic' do you not understand?"

  15. Re:Wow, slashdot editors can not RTFA on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Adjusting previous figures to show the current as maximum is a tried and true technique.

  16. Re:Weather of Climate? on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > This is no pissing contest, this is called 'hard experimental evidence'.

    This is called "a single data point". Hurricanes have been down in recent years.

  17. Re:Safe? on 3D-Printed Teeth Can Kill 99% of Dental Bacteria (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Long term studies are being done by customers. They may not realize it.

    Really. So who, exactly, has been putting this substance in their mouths for years and years? Nothing mentioned above is anything that goes in your mouth and stays there for years and years.

    Not "have been", but "will be".

  18. Re:Screw that... on 3D-Printed Teeth Can Kill 99% of Dental Bacteria (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I want bond villain stainless steel teeth.. Why cant we have those?

    Because you'd never, ever get a date.

  19. Re:Safe? on 3D-Printed Teeth Can Kill 99% of Dental Bacteria (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Quaternary ammonium salts are used as disinfectants, surfactants, fabric softeners, and as antistatic agents (e.g. in shampoos). In liquid fabric softeners, the chloride salts are often used. In dryer anticling strips, the sulfate salts are often used. Spermicidal jellies also contain quaternary ammonium salts.

    Are we sure this is safe to have in your mouth 24/7/365? Long-term studies done?

    Long term studies are being done by customers. They may not realize it.

  20. Re:Safe? on 3D-Printed Teeth Can Kill 99% of Dental Bacteria (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares? It's 3D printed. Therefore it's like Star Trek. It can't be bad. 3D printing is like the coming of the Messiah.

    Back in my day, it had to be "digital" to be good. Get off my lawn.

  21. What really? on Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    > If you've updated to build 10565 of Windows 10, you're in for something of a surprise: the Start menu is now being used to display ads.

    What, seriously? Ok, I'm officially staying on 7 for the foreseeable future. After that I think I'll buy a (probably used) mac. I've put up with a lot of pain from Microsoft because my apps run on Windows and I don't like the hipster culture of Apple. But this is the final pain point. It's bad enough that Win7 is now pleading with me to upgrade to 10. But ads in the start menu? This seems as much a gaffe as eliminating the start menu was in Win8.

  22. Re:I found another unicorn! on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    When we were trying to diagnose a digestive problem, (which turned out not to be lactose intolerance, but might have been) I was drinking rice milk for awhile. It wasn't bad.

  23. Re: I found another unicorn! on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 2

    Think of it this way -- the more almond milk he buys, the more real milk for you.

  24. Re:"tastes real"???? on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    As a vegetarian, I'm totally happy with Indian food. It doesn't try to be anything other than what it is, and can be really tasty.

  25. Re:Soylent Burger on A Fresh Take On Fake Meat · · Score: 1

    > wouldn't know of this

    Should have been "wouldn't know the origin of this".