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  1. Thought it would be different on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 1

    From the title, I thought someone would have tried to compile all of this info in a bot who would use machine learning to find the potential matches.

  2. Re: Network layer and education on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 1

    Totally agree with your last comment, however it involves more investment and not everybody is a good parent.

  3. Re: Network layer and education on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 1

    Is it legal in the US to let children drink even supervised ?

  4. Re: Corporate interests on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how it is bad if it benefits the world more than it causes harm.

  5. Re: And even lower salary on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 1

    You are clearly not living in the US, people actually pay their professors over there.

  6. Re: Woz rolling in his grave on L.A. School Superintendent Folds on Laptops-For-Kids Program · · Score: 1

    Schools never had an Apple per student, here is the fallacy as someone else pointed out.

  7. Re: Note that this is a little different from sof on Wired On 3-D Printers As Fraud Enablers · · Score: 1

    I guess so, but in this case I was in a fairly high end art gallery. I could have been some kind of pedantic arty dude who would have got her barred from the gallery. I guess I expected people to be a bit ashamed of doing something like this as well. I understand that there is not much risk in this.

  8. Re: Note that this is a little different from soft on Wired On 3-D Printers As Fraud Enablers · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have talked to a tourist in London who admitted to me that he is travelling to London to copy art pieces. This person would take pictures of art in multiple directions and send it to manufacturers in China who would use the picture to build a 3d model and use a 3d printer to make a mold. From the mold you could produce cheap replicas for hotels and offices for people who would not mind too much. You do not have to 3d print everything just make molds. Of course this limits the use of such techniques. I was a bit surprised that the person would tell so much to a random stranger.

  9. More details needed on Homeland Security Urges Lenovo Customers To Remove Superfish · · Score: 4, Funny

    The agency could educate more the population. As it stands, this advice is superfishal.

  10. Re: Heating the metal to erase on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know how a person could melt a bullet without buying expensive equipment ? I was thinking of this and I could find an easy and cheap way that would not make the person looks suspicious.

  11. Re: Is this new? on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that if you base yourself on declared data you will have a massive bias as criminals are unlikely to provide information. Therefore your data will be about legally owned guns which is not the data you would need for crimes. I still agree with you that it would be interesting.

  12. Re: Overstamp twice. on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 1

    I think the result may differ depending of the number of guns already circulating and also if guns are illegal/legal and how strong is law enforcement in this regards and the previous absolute level of gun crime. Would be good if people quote studies rather than just saying studies, as you could find pretty rubbish studies on any topic.

  13. Re: Programmer error, really? on Scotland's Police Lose Data Because of Programmer's Error · · Score: 2

    Obligatory XKCD reference: xkcd.com/327/

  14. Pressing the wrong button ? on Scotland's Police Lose Data Because of Programmer's Error · · Score: 2

    It is amazing that in this day and age, a system containing police records allow certain users to delete data in an irrevocable way whether it is a button press or anything else.

  15. Re: All the more reason... on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    Indeed his advice of ditching the OS is based on a superfishal analysis.

  16. Re: All the more reason... on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 2

    To get rid of the malware just unplug the computer and replug it after counting to 30, that should teach the malware.

  17. Re: Life for Firearm Possession? on Silk Road Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty After Federal Sting · · Score: 1

    I am all for punishing hard people who use weapons during crimes. Using weapons during a crime increases the chances of people being hurt. It is so obvious that I wonder if you are trolling.

  18. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    Weight is not the absolute Graal, at 95kg I could be athletic or a fat person. If I eat junk food I'll be probably more fat. Where is the science that tells me how much exercise what kind of exercise and what I should eat to reach my body composition goals. If you are vastly overweight I agree with you though. Also there is more to this, some people seem to gain less weight even in calories excess. Why ? Not to say you are wrong because you are not but you vastly oversimplified the topic.

  19. Re: Double Irish on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    If you do issue bonds, it is child's play to hedge your FX exposure via derivatives ...

  20. Re:DynDNS and a real NAS on Western Digital 'MyCloud' Is Down 5 Days and Counting · · Score: 1

    Well pictures ? Videos ? Many people are technically illiterate but like to use tech gadgets which can generate huge amount of data. Your reply is 1337ist and pointless.

  21. Re:HDD != Cloud on Western Digital 'MyCloud' Is Down 5 Days and Counting · · Score: 1

    it is a cheap and easy way to get your mass storage online.

    Or off-line as it is at the moment

    It does not work that way: it is either a cheap and easy way to get your stuff online or an expensive and clunky way to get your stuff offline (or nowhere)

  22. If it is really your passion, you will be fine on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Jump Back Into Programming? · · Score: 1

    The best way is often the hard way, you need to seriously spend time starting to do what you wanted to do: as you said in your own post, you should try to program games. You can start by programming a text based version of it and then learn the basics of graphics libraries ?

    As long as you have the motivation and your passion/hobby, you will spend time trying to learn which is what differentiates the best from the rest.

    My only advice to you is to stay realistic and keep trying. Find a community forum where you can get answers for your questions and try to make friends at conventions if you can. Meeting people in real is always better than random online acquaintances.

  23. Re:The real answer on Ask Slashdot: VPN Service For a Deployed US Navy Ship? · · Score: 1

    And I can see it worked very well when you got dragged in long wars ... for example for Vietnam and Afghanistan. It surely did not create any issues at home.

    Are you trying to troll, I cannot tell since your argument is quite weak :(

  24. Re:My Take on Immigrants Crucial To Innovation · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Next time you get mugged in Japan on Japanese ATMs To Use Palm Readers In Place of Cash Cards · · Score: 1

    Is this a thread about forced marriage ?