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  1. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    Great plan. Do you have a Plan B, too?

  2. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    Wrong analogy. (As most car analogies)

    Does a yearly oil change reduce the chance of an serious engine failure that would have to be covered be the insurance?

    If so, you could expect your premium to be DECREASED. (assuming the decreasing costs would be passed on to the customer. But We'Re still talking about an anology only)

  3. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    Honestly I would be fine with a simple we pay nothing until $X, then we pay everything. Somehow that does not seem to be available at all.

    Assuming that "we" refers to the insurrance company....

  4. Re:Pray for Oklahoma on Viruses In Mucus Protect From Infection · · Score: 1

    Ma fellow countrymen haven't been hit by a tornado.

    So, besides completly missing the subject of this thread thematically, this is an international forum.

    And what I really would like to know: Why do you exclude foreigners (from your viewpoint) from including the tornado victims in their prayers?

  5. Re:pfftt... on A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm.... organizing hunts where lawyers can be shot in the face... sounds like a business model!

  6. Re:Good to know on In Germany, Offensive Autocomplete Is No Laughing Matter · · Score: 1

    It's slightly different. We never actually had that to begin with. Or rather what is called freedeom of speech is defined as "the freedom of opinion and the right to freely express it as such"

    This wording excludes libel and slander right from the start (which aren't protected speech in the US either if I remember right)

  7. Re:"UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects?" on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 1

    All that said I think if they started making Buggy Burgers or something using bugs that were thoroughly processed enough that I wasn't crunching on carapace bits and was produced under sanitary conditions I'd be cool with trying them out.

    Crunchy Frog anyone?

  8. Re:The Big Oyster on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 1

    Already posted.. otherwise it would be a +1 intresting

  9. Re:"UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects?" on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 1

    Another one of my grandpa's favourites which I still think slightly gross. (but at least I've tried it...)

    Funny enough, since a few years, I aquired a taste for several of his other favourite dishes that mostly come from the tradition that no part of a pig should go wasted after you've used a bit of your own food rations to raise it for a year.

    This one for example tastes much better than it looks: https://www.google.de/search?q=eisbein&rlz=1C1GPCK_enDE415DE415&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=E2eRUbuwF8_Eswbdl4DIAg&ved=0CDoQsAQ&biw=1680&bih=959

    I'm not yet ready for the boiled pig's head....

  10. Re:How do they taste? on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even if you price them cheaply, there is still a price floor from costs of transportation to bring them to market.

    I wonder how you'd market this product?

    Wrong sales tactic. You need to set the price as high as possible to sell otherwise unsellable stuff. Caviar, escargots, oysters....

  11. Re:"UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects?" on UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Coincidentally, that's exactly the same thing Hindus say about eating beef. Or half of the world about eating pork. Or 95% about oysters. Or anyone besides the french about "escargots"...

    I find the idea gross, too. But there is a differenc between something that is gross and something you've been raised to find gross.

  12. Re:Not very long delay, station is really close on Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the pointer & explanation. While I was quite aware of the problems for direct communications ground to ISS, I somehow expected it much more difficult to aim for the parking lot from the race-car but of course this gets easier with distance

  13. Re:Not very long delay, station is really close on Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have an idea why they're doing this? IIRC the distance to geostationary orbit is bigger than the omne to ground, so why waste energy for that long distance stuff?

  14. Re:Great footage too on Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS · · Score: 2

    *Impressive* would rather be a description of the Mir. Having a space station that consists 98% out of duck tape and paper clips, build around a actual former space station that broke down is pretty impressive....

  15. Re:living in america :( on How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But doesn't he have to *survive* first?

  16. Re:Words Handed Down on English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language · · Score: 1

    And don't forget:

    "Damn I hit my hand with a rock!" internationally translates to

    ARRYAAAYAAAAAARRRRRGGGAAAA!!!!!!!

    with only slight changes to the "RRGGAA"-part depending if you hit your hand with an actual rock or the more contemporary hammer.

  17. I expected something else on Oculus Rift Guillotine Simulation · · Score: 1

    I seems I was wrong. I expected the first tasteless use for the Oculus rift would have something to do with pr0n.

  18. Re:Slow animation on Xkcd's Long-running "Time" Comic: Work of Art Or Nerd Sniping? · · Score: 2, Informative

    To be honest, the comic copied the musical piece:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible

  19. Re: Actually this is a good thing on UK Benefits Claimants Must Use Windows XP, IE6 · · Score: 1

    That's probably supposed to be funny, but it's insightfull...

  20. The usual on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle a Colleague's Sloppy Work? · · Score: 1

    Recommend him for promotion - to another team.

  21. "best practice" and surveys on Following Best Coding Practices Doesn't Always Mean Better Security · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Asking software companies if the require their developers to adhere to "best practice" won't lead to any usefull number at all.

    Or does anyone think anyone would admit to use only second-best programming standards?

    Let alone the question what programming techniques count as "best practice".

  22. Re:and get off my lawn! on IllumiRoom To Take Gaming Visuals Outside the Box and Onto the Living Room · · Score: 1

    I never used one of those, but I can imagine that hammering your fingers at typing speed onto a hard surface would be quite painfull after a few minutes. (you can't touch type on touch screens, so you're not getting your fingers on full speed there)

  23. Re:Predators are so cheap, everyone can have one! on Meet Drone Shield, an Ambitious Idea For a $70 Drone Detection System · · Score: 1

    And gee whiz, what if someone is hanging their wash in the back yard on a clothes line instead of using a dryer!

    WHAT?? Someone drying clothes without using lots of electrical energy to power a big machine? How Un-American! :-)

  24. Re:Predators are so cheap, everyone can have one! on Meet Drone Shield, an Ambitious Idea For a $70 Drone Detection System · · Score: 1

    As a commercial sUAS operator, this is depressing. To think that Americans believe their lives are so interesting that the government would care to spy on them is downright unbelievable

    For that, the gouvernment put quite a bit of effort into defining what can and what can't be done to American citizens using drones...

    And mostly while circumventing the checks and balances.

  25. Oh come on..... on Alaskan Middle Schoolers Phish Their Teachers · · Score: 1

    we did that 20 years ago. Spoofed a Novell login prompt. The first catch was the teacher with the admin rights :-)

    But it wasn't that much fun anymore when we were officially granted access to the server a year later.