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  1. It isn't very easy to tell an original from a copy on Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? · · Score: 2

    It isn't very easy to tell an original from a copy, as this poor reporter found out (too late):

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=789he-8T_-E

    The object in that video looks like it was copied from something with rounded corners. Could it be an Apple copy of something? Don't know. Still. As always. I prefer the original.

  2. Assange should stop calling those women witches on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    Assange should stop calling those women witches. He has hunted too many women and may have to suffice with Ecuadorian embassy pussy for quite some time.

  3. Skip the Library of Congress, go for Wales on Scientists Store Entire Textbook In DNA · · Score: 1

    Skip the Library of Congress for once. Why not go for a small country, like Wales (no, not Jimmy or his deed). That would be an effort worth bragging about!

  4. If it is without consent, yes, it should on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    If it is without consent, yes, it should get complicated legally.

    That is most likely the case anywhere, even in Ecuador. Or, are Ecuadorian girls legal prey now? One should really doubt that and I hope not.

  5. Re:Unfortunately, UK has become Uncle Sam's lapdog on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd also have to wonder how many >67 yr olds are commenting on slashdot.

    You insensitive clod. Haven't you seen how many references to Unix there are here!

  6. Re:He REALLY pissed off governments.... on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    "Even if that is true it is nothing compared to the damage that would be done by revoking the status of an embassy over an asylum seeker."

    But, UN approved asylum can only be given to people threatened for "well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion" in their native country.

    Australia is not trying to get him for any of that.

    He is simply wanted for a hearing in Sweden about alleged sex offenses.

    This makes the Ecuadorian position untenable.

  7. Sixth country, Zambia or Congo? on Indian Prime Minister Formally Announces Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    I thought Zambia never made it after this 1964 attempt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL5gEpkATTA

    They were regarded as crackpots back then and still are, I guess.

    Later, this failed attempt from Congo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR97o_FuX-c

    Rats. Bad luck.

    So, who is the sixth country?

  8. Why not build several, perhaps 3, at the time? on Boeing's X-51 WaveRider Jet Crashes In Mach 6 Attempt · · Score: 0

    Why not build several, perhaps 3, at the time?

    I doubt it would make the project three times as expensive.

  9. Re:Always been a problem on Independent Labs To Verify High-Profile Research Papers · · Score: 1

    "That's always been a problem; the journals usually want to publish new work, and aren't interested in publishing work that just repeats something already done."

    That has been a problem as you say.

    "And, what if the new work doesn't replicate the results? Does it get published?"

    Well, that is already part of the previous problem, also since long.

    Very few journals have been publishing "contradictory results", unless "seriously warranted", or something along those lines.

    "Credited to whom?"

    Yes, this is curious. Why would the original authors be credited, again?

    The entire circus makes me wonder if there is one or a few recent cases envolving some high-ranked but financially and morally skewed authors.

    Do we have any suggestions for any major research bogus research producers? Nobel Prize winners even?

  10. Re:Wikipedia has something to say about this threa on Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover? · · Score: 1

    > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don't_stuff_beans_up_your_nose

    The mother from that link: "Don't eat all the cabbage".

    WTF?! What mom needs to tell its kid to stay away from the cabbage? Cabbage isn't naturally tasty... And cooked? Well then it smells.

    Weird.

  11. Was Paul Ryan modeled after Rick (The Young Ones)? on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 2

    Was Paul Ryan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_%28TV_series%29#Rick) modeled after Rick?

    They're even look-alikes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul3U_J37YCc

    "Hands up, who likes me"

    Hands all down.

  12. Companies want to see data from fheir patients on Patient Just Wants To See Data From His Implanted Medical Device · · Score: 1

    Companies want to see data from fheir patients?

    Why? Only make money? No.

    Still, it is a serious moral contender to why Romney is so very much morally wrong.

    For once, let the Moral Majority speak up - Dont Put A Price On My Child's Life.

    How much is a Texan child worth compared to someone from Massachusetts?

  13. So, sue the developer for the cost he caused. on Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software · · Score: 2

    So, sue the developer for the cost he caused.

    That should teach him a lesson. ;)

  14. Give that code to a Chinese engineer on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 0

    Ok, now give that code to a Chinese engin... Hey wait. Now give that code to a Chinese, female engineer and we will see what happens.

    Hmmm, maybe the Chinese already have that code.

  15. Imagine if it had been in kilometers on Upgrading Software From 350 Million Miles Away · · Score: 1

    Imagine how far it would have been if they had measured it in kilometers instead!

    Whoaw!

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  16. Call Thomas Jerome Newton! on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1
  17. Sophia Loren wasn't built in a day on No Bomb Powerful Enough To Destroy an On-Rushing Asteroid, Sorry Bruce Willis · · Score: 0

    or in a night. She is definitely one of the biggest shells ever made! There were always two big reasons to explode for her. (http://www.google.com/search?q=young+sophia+loren)

  18. Sci-Fi or Wi-Fi, what is the difference? on Sci-Fi Writers of the Past Predict Life In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Wi-Fi Users of The Past - Get A Life In 2102

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zt4opqL18

    So, why read Sci-Fi when real-life in early 21st Century nearly beats the fiction?

    Nah, I still like Sci-Fi, but these authors, Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, Algis Budrys or Frederik Pohl did NOT predict the clueless.

  19. AreYourNeighborsRepublicans? There'sAGeneTestForIt on Is Your Neighbor a Democrat? There's an App For That · · Score: 1

    AreYour Neighbors Republicans? There's a gene test for that too!

    Yes, seriously.

    But, it could, of course, also check if you're prone to be Democrat too.

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-genetics-of-politics

    "The researchers’ data on 442 identical and 364 fraternal Add Health twins indicate that genetics underlies 72 percent of differences in voting turnout and roughly 60 percent of differences in other political activity. Fowler, who presented the research at the American Political Science Association meeting in August, claims that preliminary results from the Twins Days festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, also support the findings. Fowler adds that his team’s work does not suggest that genetics can determine whom people will vote for, only whether or not they are likely to vote. He also emphasizes that environment most likely plays a significant role in voting: “There is still a lot we can do to shape political behavior in spite of our genetic tendencies.”"

  20. Re:Codenames are common. on Microsoft Drops 'Metro' Name For Windows 8 UI · · Score: 1

    "Also, in US at least, slang term for a straight guy who acts/dresses like a homosexual."

    Metrosexual is a newer term term for ideas and dress codes that are much older, regardless if the those older ideas and dress codes are fashionable at "today".

  21. Re:Just Like Slashdot's Moderation System on Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why · · Score: 1

    "Mysterious and known moderations (mostly by editors) can't get you comment banned here and for some unknown length of time. As well as mod points given and taken away. Slashdot does shady stuff like this all the time, why is what google doing news?"

    "Can't get you banned here"

    WTF?

    If you really do want to get banned, I am sure your IP address could get banned.

  22. the die hard versions of - 1984 on Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why · · Score: 3, Insightful
  23. No, tell that to Monica Lewinsky on Overconfidence May Be a Result of Social Politeness · · Score: 1

    >>"You mean if no one tells me I suck, I won't think I suck?"
    >"Please tell that to Hillary Clinton"

    No, tell that to Monica Lewinsky. Because she did suck. Or at least the president told us so, and, he was the spouse to Hillary Clinton at the time.

  24. Chimaeras must be tough on The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing · · Score: 2

    Chimaeras (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_%28genetics%29) must be tough.

    First as athletes

    Second for the gender test

    Having every other cell mixed at random shouldn't be all that fun in the long run

  25. Re:Activities? on KDE Announces 4.9 Releases · · Score: 1

    "a solution looking for a problem"

    Brilliant. I can think of that as well put in a large number of totally different scenarios.