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  1. Re:Alternate hypothesis on Baby Chicks Have Innate Mathematical Skills · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem is that most birds are already known to have very poor senses of smell. Chickens included. So it seems unlikely that they would be smelling plastic from behind the screens that accurately and that far away.

  2. Re:If you want a hideous layout... on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Yes. The level of discussion provided by your scrollbar and the idle section of slashdot are about the same.

  3. Re:WASD customization on Slashdot Keybindings, Dynamic Stories · · Score: 1

    DSK Model M reporting in.

  4. Re:Humans can defeat humans on 3D-Based CAPTCHAs Become a Reality · · Score: 1

    Given the drivers in Boston, four.

  5. Re:And... the electric car is still not quite ther on Tesla Releases First Official Photos of Model S Sedan · · Score: 1

    The US has no public transportation. At least not any effective public transportation, except possibly sidewalks and a bike.

  6. Re:It happens? on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    If the universe is infinite. It may not be (many, if not most, scientists seem to think it isn't.)

  7. Re:Please ban the word "leverage" on Want a PC With 192 GB of RAM? · · Score: 1

    Most processor sockets have a small clip that uses leverage to lock the CPU/heat sink into place. It's still bad grammar, but leverage is involved.

  8. Re:Quality, or neophobia on Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback of Sorts · · Score: 1

    I'd never used a buckling-spring keyboard before I got my Unicomp Model M, and I do think they're better. Especially when compared to the laptop keyboards, the extra key travel is much easier on the fingers.

    That said, it's hard/impossible to do double-blind testing, so the only real data is anecdotal evidence.

  9. Re:on the contrary: !Easy to dectect on Laser Sniffing Captures Typed Keystrokes From 50-100 Feet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Also, the point is to point the laser at the window and have it reflect. By measuring changes in the angle of reflection you can reconstruct sound hitting the inside of the window. Double-pane glass with a vacuum between the panes removes this attack vector.

  10. Re:I for one welcome our Culture overlords on Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons · · Score: 1

    Except that the Minds aren't really overlords in the traditional evil sense. The most important things still get put to a vote.

  11. Re:That's it... we're dead on Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons · · Score: 1

    Jello Pie, of course.

  12. Re:Your choice on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 1

    Use E-mail. Save the E-mails. It seems normal but gives you a way to document everything that is much less suspicious than recording in-person conversations.

  13. Re:What does the G in GPS stand for on Chimps Have a Built-In GPS · · Score: 1

    But there is. A bunch of maps, a compass, and a sextant. It can be quite accurate and not overly slow, but GPS is faster, more accurate, takes less skill, and is lighter. On the downside, GPS uses batteries.

  14. Re:What's the question again? on Dealing With a Copyright Takedown Request? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Verizon employees pay 75 cents^H^H^H^H^H dollars for coffee at Starbucks. It's the same thing, right?

  15. Re:Mod down please on Microsoft Unveils Open Source Exploit Finder · · Score: 1

    GP seems to be confused, thinking that because the tool is open-source it must be for debugging open-source software. It's an open-source tool for debugging ANY software, though only really useful if you have the source of the software you are debugging. But that goes for most debugging tools.

  16. Re:Election Fraud on Kentucky Officials "Changed Votes At Voting Machines" · · Score: 1

    Punchscan lets you walk out with a record of how you voted, but it's useful only to you. No one can determine what candidates you voted for, they can merely determine that the votes were recorded as cast. http://www.punchscan.org/

  17. Re:did we run out of targets ? on Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery? · · Score: 1

    Only the blind people with screen readers.

  18. Re:Yeah... on ESA Launches GOCE To Map Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    The average global temperature has been going up, much more so in recent years. Thus the term "global warming." When some scientists predicted that if the earth gets hot enough there might be a catastrophic rebound and another ice age the term "climate change" began to be used. It's more accurate, since the warming may lead to extreme cooling.

  19. Re:Land vs. Sea evolution on 95M-Year-Old Octopus Fossils Discovered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    More. Land is effectively 2-dimensional. The sea has quite a bit of depth.

  20. Re:selection pressures on 95M-Year-Old Octopus Fossils Discovered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no evidence of intelligent motivation for evolution. The burden of proof is on those trying to show that it exists, not the other way around.

  21. Re:LOLUTAH! on Utah's Third Attempt To Regulate Keywords Fails · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The thing I don't get is, if "clearing" the orbit is what's needed for a dwarf planet to become a planet, why is Neptune a planet? It hasn't cleared its orbit of Pluto. It's a silly definition. Just make Pluto, Ceres, Neptune and Eris planets.

  22. Re:Space - application with today's Superconductor on New Type of Superconductivity Spotted · · Score: 4, Informative

    The shade will heat up, then emit IR radiation, which is the light that causes that heat in the first place. All bodies radiate, how much depends on their temperature.

  23. Re:Surely they could have chosen a better name. on New Graphics Firm Promises Real-Time Ray Tracing · · Score: 4, Informative

    Caustics are light reflected and/or refracted by curved surfaces. The pattern of light lines on the bottom of a pool is one of the more common types of caustic. The company chose a graphics term. The graphics people chose a term that has another, more understood meaning.

  24. Re:What a fucking fantasy land Sir Timmy lives in. on Berners-Lee Says No To Internet Snooping · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lack of QoS is not a good thing. I want routers to respect the IP TOS field. It's there for a reason. Lack of non-standard QoS is the bad thing. With QoS I can use bittorrent and play games at the same time, without it there's no prioritization and the game lags. It's the deep-packet inspection that's intrusive crap.

  25. Re:Another one bites the dust! on Lawyer Sues To Get a Patent On Marketing · · Score: 1

    And with a few animate object spells you can have a horde of gold.