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  1. Science projects on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Engage 5th-8th Graders In Computing? · · Score: 1

    Potatoes that make electricity.. small electric loops.. etc.

    http://www.miniscience.com/pro...

  2. Well duh - they can't cover this up. on Study: Space Rock Impacts Not Random · · Score: 1

    contrary to what they thought, such events are not random,

    Random? Ask the good people on the Rodger Young who were attacked by a lobbed meteor from the Klendathu system, or the near 10 million lives lost in Buenos Aires when that rock landed. Good people. Innocent people. The SkyMarshal is gathering for an all out retaliatory strike to avenge the deaths. It would be an excellent time to step up and serve and become a citizen! Do your part now!

    Would you like to know more?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
    http://starshiptroopers.wikia....

  3. Re:Queen of Wands on Lava Flow In Hawaii Gains Speed, Triggers Methane Explosions · · Score: 1

    Is that a good book line? It sounds like it is in a similar vein as say the Dresden Files, the Laundry Files, or the Sandman Slim series. Dealing with the other worldly that the regular folk don't see.

  4. Confirmed.. on Developers, IT Still Racking Up (Mostly) High Salaries · · Score: 4, Funny

    If those high salaries are in Silicon Valley or New York, though, they might not seem as high as half the same rate would in Omaha, or Houston, or Raleigh.

    Confirmed - as a Nebraskan $207,000 appears high and desirable.

  5. People laughed... on Facebook Ready To Get Into Healthcare · · Score: 1

    People laughed when I said the iWatch's biometric tracking would be a "requirement" to run the facebook iWatch app or a myriad of other apps. It is painful that this is a reasonably foreseeable direction for these companies.

  6. New cameras - does that mean new filters? on Robot Arm Will Install New Earth-Facing Cameras On Space Station · · Score: 2

    Really.. Really guys, REALLY! - if we are getting a camera upgrade for the earth selfies there better be new filters. I mean, I totes *HATE* having to deal with the same boring filters. Ugh! I..can 't.. even!

  7. Re:My local library on Why the Public Library Beats Amazon · · Score: 1

    You forgot one of the more important archival facets - microfiche! Where's your microfiche back log there Amazon?
    Oh, yeah, you don't!

    Viva la Microfiche!

  8. Awww yes! on An Accidental Wikipedia Hoax · · Score: 1

    I do love the smell of collateral misinformation in the morning!

    It was mildly amusing that the author's wiki account was suspended. Better late than never..

  9. Re:Security cameras on Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains · · Score: 2

    For all I know there might be gnomes partying around the premises right now.

    On the scale of one to ten, how hot are your average gnomes that party at your vacation house?

  10. Will you walk into my parlour? on Larry Page: Healthcare Data Mining Could Save 100,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    .... said the Spider to the Fly.

    Seriously - once this genie is out of the bottle there is no way to bottle it back up. The fear of employment repercussions, insurance, etc all become a concern.

    “For me, I’m so excited about the possibilities to improve things for people, my worry would be the opposite," he told the New York Times's Farhad Manjoo. "We get so worried about these things that we don’t get the benefits Right now we don’t data-mine healthcare data. If we did we’d probably save 100,000 lives next year."

    Eeesh.. I heard this same logic, earlier this year, being applied to the pooling of all NHS records for pharmacons and researches to peel through in the UK. "Think of all the causality linking and better and better benefits".. Eeep! What?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
    http://www.nhs.uk/nhsengland/t...

  11. Where does the IB CS fall? on Average HS Student Given Little Chance of AP CS Success · · Score: 1

    I vaguely remember International Baccalaureate CompSci classes were spinning up when I was leaving high school. Did those stick? Are they measurably harder or more focused than AP CS?

    http://www.ibo.org/diploma/cur...
    https://www.ibo.org/myib/digit...

  12. Re:This finally has me pulling the trigger on With the Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate the PC Market · · Score: 1

    Heh - yes.. this is what I was going to post! It seems like a solid, and compelling, reason to jump into the tablet world..finally.

  13. Really? Is anyone buying this? on James Cameron and Eric Schmidt's SOI Grieve Loss of Nereus ROV · · Score: 1

    Riiiiiiiiiight.. "implosion". More like someone was poking around into territories - specifically outlined as forbidden - in the 1953 Benthic Treaty of Azores with BLUE HADES and got their expensive little toy slapped.

    Try and not get us wiped out there Cameron.. thanks.

  14. Re:Humanity is Sick and Twisted on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 1

    Oh, hey Azriel Abyss, the Prince of Sorrows. I didn't see you come in.

    Joking aside, what a sad outlook. Sure history highlights the brutality and atrocities, and if you do not accept the achievements in beauty then I point to the kindness and compassion that happens on a day to day basis. The overwhelming wash of small actions that are not globally interesting to make the history books, but profoundly affect the parties involved. Someone jumping a car for a stranger late to a job interview.. donating to a food pantry.. just stopping to say hello to a coworker on a bad day.. or a young mind sparked to better people through community action.

    I guess if I were to discount those actions, and only take humanity for the history book cliff notes of violence, then I would definitely pull up a seat on goth talk. Thankfully I don't and I see a slow progression of betterment. Maybe we'll hit that sort of 'awakening' (as seen with tv tropes with alien archetypes), but if not I think we'll do pretty okay.

  15. Re:Seaquest on 3D Display Uses Misted Water · · Score: 1

    Same here!

    "Luuuuuucas!! Why can't I talk to my dolphin?! "

    I miss Brandis.

  16. Re:Premise for a movie on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    Go the extra step and bring in a "Juwanna Mann"-esque jock as the roommate.. so now you have jock/nerd class systems breaking down to turn into bonding and mutual appreciation.

  17. Re:Good for Offroading... Offroading = mud on Land Rover Demos "Transparent Hood" · · Score: 1

    Per the image in the article - the cameras are mounted in the grille.

    http://www.motorauthority.com/...

  18. Re:Off-roading? on Land Rover Demos "Transparent Hood" · · Score: 1

    Per the image in the article - the cameras are mounted in the grille.

  19. I saw this episode.. on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 1

    How is this possible?! NCIS:LA's Eric totally fixed the zero day in GLONASS on episode 5x18! During a gun battle on a roof no less!

  20. Re:Dwarf Fortress on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    Yeah.. I spin up a game about every few months and see if I can remember what I was doing, how to even play, and what state of decay my fortress was in.

  21. Re:Dungeons and Dragons on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    I really should get back into it again.. It's been too damn long since I dusted off my trusty 20sider.

  22. Re:Comcast and ipv6 on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    Who has a single computer hooked up to the Internet at home and nothing else?

    Actually this guy does. No tablets.. no smart phones.. no laptops.. basic cable.. it works out okay.

    Though thankfully, from what I understand, Comcast is not in my area.

  23. Re:Boomerang on 3 Reasons To Hate Mass Surveillance; 3 Ways To Fight It · · Score: 1

    Sounds like chunks of themes ripped from the Fourth Realm series by John Twelve Hawks. Being off the grid is one thing, but also randomizing your choices helps another. Working with maps of CCTV to find alternative routes, and providing the double work of having 'usable' profiles to hide behind.

    http://www.mediaeater.com/came...
    http://www.fastcoexist.com/168...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  24. Aaaaaand this is how it starts. on If I Had a Hammer · · Score: 1

    A guy brings a hammer and smashes the chess computer.
    The IT team builds a more reinforced case.. this is met with a more vicious whacking tool and the next iteration has enhanced countermeasures.
    This continues until BAM! Hello T-800!

  25. Re:Grammar on Carmakers Keep Data On Drivers' Locations From Navigation Systems · · Score: 1

    No, you are not alone with readability concerns.