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  1. Re:Hmm on It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body · · Score: 1

    Dr. Emmett Brown: No, no, no, no, no, this sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.

  2. Re:The bigger you are... on Court Declares Google Must Face Wiretap Charges For Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    the more of a target you become..

    unless you are a banker or Wall Street insider.

  3. Re:In soviet Egypt on Egyptian Authorities Detain French "Spy" Bird Found With Tracker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not a swan, a mean french duck because this is a vicious canard.

  4. Re: no.maybe.yes? on Dotless Domain Names Prohibited, ICANN Tells Google · · Score: 1

    Or how about phishing and other fraud that already capitalizes on people being mistaken about what the URL is.
    Making URL recognition worse... ah NO.

  5. Re:Interesting Headline on Indian Government To Ban Use of US Email Services For Official Communications · · Score: 1

    Also interesting is that India stopped telegram service only about 45 days ago.

  6. Re:Spooks are trying to provoke an irresponsible a on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Laura Poitras for several years has been subject to extraordinary harassment, intimidation and searches when travelling. http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_detained_at_border/

  7. Re:Is the science repeatable? on 700,000-Year-Old Horse Becomes Oldest Creature With Sequenced Genome · · Score: 2

    It looks like it was a difficult accomplishment:
    They also combined DNA sequencing techniques to get maximum DNA coverage — using routine next-generation sequencing with single-molecule sequencing in which a machine directly reads the DNA without the need to amplify it up which can lose some DNA sequences. [1]
    Such genetic puzzle assembly generally includes multiple samples from each part of the genome, sometimes as many as five or 10. In this case, the so-called coverage was just 1.12. [2]
    "We sequenced 12 billion DNA molecules, of which 40 million [were of] horse origin," said Orlando. "There was a bit of horse DNA in an ocean of microbial DNA." [3]
    [1]http://www.nature.com/news/first-horses-arose-4-million-years-ago-1.13261
    [2]http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-ancient-horse-genome-20130627,0,2514595.story
    [3]http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/06/130626-ancient-dna-oldest-sequenced-horse-paleontology-science/

  8. Re:The equipment isn't the story on Chicago Sun Times Swaps iPhone Training For Staff Photographers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The real story is that they want their P/L to look better Right Now because:
    "Some 40 parties have expressed interest in acquiring some or all of Tribune Co.’s newspapers, according to sources close to the situation. The Chicago-based media company hired investment bankers in February to manage inquiries for its eight daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times."
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-tribune-company-20130515,0,1793743.story

  9. Re:Interesting...but on NASA Wants To Test 3-D Printing Aboard ISS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about the time they needed to repair a satellite and had to custom rig a "flyswatter" (made from a window shade, a vacuum hose and a piece of plastic) to snag a lever on the rotating satellite?
    Custom parts will always be needed for unanticipated situations.

  10. Re:Electric cars are just not going to take off... on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Another thing the BMW can do is cook a hamburger on the engine manifold. I'm just saying.
    Of course BMW's aren't going to take off because every you need to move all your stuff, you need a moving van.

  11. Just wait until the good guys get bought. on Patenting Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    This is risky because a white hat is only benign until bought by a black hat.

  12. Re:Jesus Christ on Intraterrestrials: Mars Life May Hide Deep Below · · Score: 4, Funny

    For all we know, we might be more popular than Meercat Manor.

  13. Re:A bit of helpful theater on Court: Aereo TV Rebroadcast Is Still Legal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think there is a subtle difference. If you live in an apartment building sharing a common antenna, in some sense, that antenna is a property use paid for by all tenants, similar to a swimming pool.

    In the past, putting over-the-air shows on the internet has been stopped. In those cases there was no established obvious user access to the antenna that was used to put the programming on the web. Aereo is trying to merely meet a simpler case of enabling use of equipment to which the user has legal access. It may be that in the future a common use of a single antenna for multiple users may be allowable by extension of the common antenna example that you mentioned. But by breaking out individual antennas for now, it removed the need to establishment of the legality of that at this time.

  14. Re:Of course on Does Scientific Literacy Make People More Ethical? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To Godwin or not to Godwin?

    It would be nice to have slashdot automatically mark all these intellectually lazy Godwin comments -1.

    All of these comments are relevant and none of them fall under Godwin's Law:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

    The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering known mainstays of Nazi Germany such as genocide, eugenics or racial superiority, nor, more debatably, to a discussion of other totalitarian regimes or ideologies, if that was the explicit topic of conversation, since a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate, [...]

  15. Re:Saw a Chipmunk Up In the Mountains on Roadkill Forcing Cliff Swallows To Evolve · · Score: 1

    And crows in Japan are tremendous coat hanger thieves for use as a nesting material.

  16. Re:Too late to run and hide now on Porn Troll Panics, Dismisses Pending Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Layers are carnivorous predators that are occasionally promoted to an alpha role (politician). Every few years these politicians engage in a no-holds-barred battle for pack dominance.

  17. Re:finally on Video Inpainting Software Deletes People From HD Video Footage · · Score: 1

    or Star Wars without Jar Jar Binks

  18. Re:What's next? on Video Inpainting Software Deletes People From HD Video Footage · · Score: 1

    Someone just needs to take it to the next step. :-)

    Chatroulette?

  19. Re:Cheap Chinese knock off? on Growing Consensus: The Higgs Boson Exists · · Score: 1

    What is this Higgs Bosun?

    He stepped in when Higgs Garçon got sick.

  20. Re:Here's the video you actually wanted on Take Hands-Free 360 Degree Panoramic Photos With an iPhone (Video) · · Score: 2

    Here is a video that shows the spinning and then shows you a hack to using a small piece of tape to make it spin faster and smoother on more surfaces
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9R5tPEUts7I

  21. Re:Just Do Something (even if it's dumb) Managemen on Best Buy Follows Yahoo in Banning Remote Work · · Score: 1

    It's ironic how we can hire people on the other side of the world and put up with their shoddy work, but in the USA we need to come to the office.

    It's worse than ironic. It means that for telecommuting, they don't need/want Americans -- Bangalore or elsewhere will do.

  22. Re:"Big Data" on With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a Health-Data Windfall · · Score: 1

    I completely disagree with that, you need to think about the post after you read it, spelling and grammar can take a back seat if the point is vailid.

    A valid point. Sometimes the kids in the back seat won't shut up and make getting somewhere more difficult.

  23. Re:"Big Data" on With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a Health-Data Windfall · · Score: 1

    That's true.

  24. Re:"Big Data" on With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a Health-Data Windfall · · Score: 1

    You're right.

  25. Re:Local on Barnes & Noble Founder Wants to Take Retail Division Private · · Score: 2

    But they are thinking about transitioning away from building Nooks too:
    Barnes & Noble Weighs Its E-Reader Investment