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  1. Re:Really? on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 1

    "There is no largest prime number"

    It is a negative, and you can prove it.

  2. Re:Flawed assumptions. on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    Tell this to believers, and they will tell you that their prayer only consists of "thanking God for all the great things the God has done".

  3. Re:Probably on Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? · · Score: 1

    2) Animals that kill people are put down, people are just animals.

    In the second part of the sentence you say people are animals. If it is applied to the first part, I should ask:

    "are animals that kill animals put down?"
    or
    "are people that kill animals put down?"

    People are animals, but special animals. In some cases we could equate them (eg. biology/physiology). Not in psychology or intent.

  4. Re:Faux-k not 4k on 4K UHDTV Hardware On Display in Berlin, And On Sale In Korea · · Score: 1

    "k" and "K" are different.

    k = kilo = 1000
    K = 2^10 = 1024. (also represented by "kibi")

    Not many people seem to bother about these details though.
    https://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictK.html

  5. Re:Would you trust the answers you got from Slashd on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't straight away shoot/kill you. They'd want to know whether you have passed on the information to someone else.

    They might also be interested in knowing the circumstances in which you witnessed it, so as to know whether (a) there was a leak from their group, (b) someone else witnessed it too.

  6. Re:Inferred interest? on Microsoft Patent Hints At Search Results Tailored To User's Mood, Intelligence · · Score: 1

    I believe you can set the language in the default-search-engine settings (in Chrome).

    I use bing as my default search engine. I use "setmkt=en-US" to get US english Bing results, even though bing knows that I am located near Frankfurt which it shows on top-right corner.

    This is my default search engine:: http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=%25s

    Something similar should be possible for google as well.

  7. Re:Or you never visualized them in the first place on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    I did neither the step 2 (except the rewriting part) nor 3.

    I figured it is 47*3 and all the options except the first are larger than 1000! And 47*3 can't be > 1000.
    Yeah, it takes a second or two more, If I do the multiplication. But knowing it from looking makes it easy.

    At the same time, the 5th problem needed working on it (math).
    The options had 208.80 and 203 in them, and they are close enough that a guesstimate could get it wrong.

  8. Re:Fahrenheit on Borders Books, Dead At 40 · · Score: 1

    the comment sounded like a speech to me. A campaign... Loved it.

  9. Re:New Books Maybe Old Books Never on The End of Paper Books · · Score: 1

    My ex-girlfriend (now 20) already had a HUGE paper-book collection at the age of 18 itself. Her younger sister has an equally big one too. I consider them exceptions though. In general, as "bigstrat2003" says above, today's youngsters' reading is goal-oriented than reading for its own sake.

  10. Re:Sensationalism and denial on Things Get Worse at Fukushima · · Score: 1

    (a 40 year old train has an accident, kills 50, all others injured - would we call for a ban on trains? - perhaps we should, because all other means are accident-free) A major natural disaster leads to a few deaths in a 40 year old nuclear plant. And hundreds of people are 'infected'. [coal-extraction kills too; Remember oil-leak?]. In the longer run: Aren't we not aware of the dangers from coal-burning plants in the long run? Shall we not take the cumulative effects rather than just a month's news report?

  11. Re:I can't blaspheme?! on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    He was five faced and lost one face as a punishment. (so.. even after the "accident", he is four faced)

  12. Re:OK, how do I ignore the ENTERTAINMENT section? on Slumdog Millionaire Takes Home 8 Oscars · · Score: 1

    So do I! Slashdot is way better than most of the sites of this kind.

  13. My case against Firefox on EC Considering Removing Internet Explorer From Windows · · Score: 1

    Since I have a bookmarks-organizing plug-in/add-on for Firefox, Firefox should not have a built-in bookmarks manager. It is the violation of law. Would this stand? IMHO, it is the manufacturer's choice to include what. If Opera (or anyone) is so bent on having browser free OS, I don't think anyone is going to stop them creating a new OS and beat M$.