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  1. opal cards are free. on 'How I Went Dark In Australia's Surveillance State For 2 Years' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1



    opal cards are free, so you should be discarding them, and getting a new one, every trip.

    if you're reusing a card, it would be trivial to cross reference your travel times with social media access, phone records, and identify you.

    wrt airport, you should certainly be discarding when you go to the airport. you need ~$4 credit to tap on, when you tap off, this goes to -$13. then discard the card!

    this guy isn't thinking.

  2. discriminating between people who have sz, and those who don't isn't very difficult.

    how does it go discriminating between people with sz, and say, bipolar? these can be genuinely difficult for clinicians to tell apart, and would be useful.

  3. did you poo-poo the existence of an intelligent creator?

  4. i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic on The Top 10 Programming Languages On GitHub, Over Time · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > it still paints a fairly accurate picture of programming trends over recent years

    i don't think it does (at least not very much). i think it tells us about shifts in GitHub's demographic.

    java usage has increased at GitHub, but this more likely reflects greater adoption of GitHub by the business community.

    ruby has declined, but this probably just reflects that the ruby community really embraced GitHub at the beginning.

  5. i'd take a look at JASP.

    http://jasp-stats.org/

    - it has an attractive UI like SAS and SPSS, and you're not stuck writing code for an analysis that should be quite straight forward.
    - the analyses are themselves implemented in R, and python is to be supported.
    - an API is in the works for implementing arbitrary analyses

  6. espresso? on Engineering the Perfect Coffee Mug · · Score: 1

    sounds ideal for /american style/ coffee; which has been criticised for being less than perfect. espresso anyone?

  7. I don't have a problem with them breaking tor ... on US Intelligence Chief Defends Attempts To Break Tor · · Score: 1

    provided it isn't abused... oh wait ...

  8. Re:Genetic or Developed? on Probe of Einstein's Brain Reveals Clues To His Genius · · Score: 1

    it appears that taxi drivers learning a city experience increases in size of certain brain structures implicated in memory:

    http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/stories/brains-of-taxi-drivers-work-differently-than-average-people (couldn't find the journal article sorry)

    but that old chestnut keeps coming up:

    "What is not clear is whether those trainees who became fully-fledged taxi drivers had some biological advantage over those who failed. Could it be, for example, that they have a genetic predisposition towards having a more adaptable, 'plastic' brain?" Maguire said. "In other words, the perennial question of 'nature versus nurture' is still open."

  9. Re:"Life's not fair" on Probe of Einstein's Brain Reveals Clues To His Genius · · Score: 1

    And yet people will still say that your fate depends on how hard you try, rather than who your mother and father were.

    your genes only explain so much, and trying hard seems like a plausible contributor to success. i'm comfortable with the idea that applying yourself can make you more successful. genes certainly contribute (you only need to look at the heritability of IQ), but other factors come into it, otherwise we wouldn't need to bother with education, etc.

  10. homosexual men on Probe of Einstein's Brain Reveals Clues To His Genius · · Score: 2

    homosexual men have enlarged corpus collums too. http://paws.kettering.edu/~pstanche/ArchSexBehav.pdf what do these macro imaging studies really tell us?

  11. love it! on Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development · · Score: 1

    i really love calibre, use it all the time... but it's user interface harks back to the bad ol' days of open source user interfaces... not real pretty, not real nice to use.

  12. animated gifs on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 1

    wait. i remember the rotating skull, and the repeating nuclear explosion, but i can't help but feel the internet is a better place without them.

  13. Re:Not a worthy successor on Google's Second Generation Nexus 7 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Until Google realizes that storage expansion is a MANDATORY feature of media consumption devices

    for some users?

  14. Irony Much? on POTI, Creators of the Songbird Media Player, Call It Quits · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pioneers of the Inevitable: Irony Much?

  15. Re:Terrible keyboard layout on The ThinkPad Goes Ultrabook — ThinkPad X1 Carbon Tested · · Score: 1

    what about the layout of the bottom left control key? using a thinkpad is the most frustrating experience imaginable, because they put a different key where the control key (ctrl-c anyone?) used to be!

  16. Re:pfffft on Two-Thirds of US Internet Users Lack Fast Broadband · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Two-thirds is less than 8Mbps. I guess the US sucks afterall.

  17. pfffft on Two-Thirds of US Internet Users Lack Fast Broadband · · Score: 1

    Two-thirds of Australian Internet connections are slower than 1.5 Mbps source http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/8153.0/ We Win!

  18. 6 in 10? on Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey · · Score: 5, Funny

    6 in 10? not a very big sample!

  19. News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters!! on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters!! wtf is this doing in idle?!

  20. Re:We're still doing this stuff? on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    oh dude! i love shampoo get that man on the editorial staff.

  21. bloggers are ionized? on A Proposal For Unionizing Bloggers · · Score: 1

    bloggers are ionized? i had no idea. lets hope this initiative will unionize them in safe and predictable fashion.

  22. Free Trade on The Jobs Crunch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Welcome to the wonderful world of free trade. Not only does free trade totally destroy 3rd world countries, it harms 1st world one's too.