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  1. Why is this a bad thing? on Six Charged For Hacking Lottery Terminals To Spew Only Winning Tickets (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    By not printing the worthless tickets, they were acting in the interest of the environment. Good for them!

  2. VR on LG Announces "Super UHD" TV Lineup (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Who needs a 98 inch screen, when you can have a 360 degrees view on an Oculus Rift?

  3. Re:Holding the code hostage? on Open Source, Collaborative Rich-Text, Web-Based Editor Almost Available · · Score: 1

    No hostage here !

    Indeed. The original argument is like saying: my bakery is keeping my loaf of bread hostage until I pay for it.

  4. Re: Holding the code hostage? on Open Source, Collaborative Rich-Text, Web-Based Editor Almost Available · · Score: 1

    There are many projects that look similar on the surface, but aren't technically as sound as this project.

    If you don't agree, then please provide counter-examples :)

  5. Re:Holding the code hostage? on Open Source, Collaborative Rich-Text, Web-Based Editor Almost Available · · Score: 1

    You must be one of those executive types thinking all programmers should work for free.

  6. Overfishing on Scientists Look For Patterns In North Carolina Shark Attacks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Overfishing. Combined with the fact that sharks have to eat something.

  7. Re:I Knew It! on Collision With Earth's "Little Sister" Created the Moon · · Score: 1

    Another Earth (2011)

    Quite an interesting movie.

  8. End of business model on Taxi Companies Sue Uber For False Advertising On Safety · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No worries people, because drivers will soon become obsolete anyway...

  9. Re:So stupid ... on Amazon Files Patent For Mobile 3D Printing Delivery Trucks · · Score: 1

    Indeed. If you do A = B + C, where A is the new technology, and B and C are existing technologies, then the operation "+" should be sufficiently advanced for the patent on A to be approved.

  10. Bummer on Amazon Files Patent For Mobile 3D Printing Delivery Trucks · · Score: 1

    And here I thought that they would be making trucks filled with concrete and with big nozzles attached that could print houses, roads and bridges...

  11. Example on How One Developer Got the Internet To Watch People Code · · Score: 2

    This guy was trying a new editor named "vi", but didn't know how to properly exit it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Could anybody explain? on "Exploding Kittens" Blows Up Kickstarter Records · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the "defusing" of a kitten by a laser pointer...

  13. The same holds for physicists. on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Didn't Feyman once say:

    If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

  14. Re:A decade behind the rest on OpenStreetMap.org Gets Routing · · Score: 1

    When Linux was first introduced, your response was probably: sigh, another operating system. I've been using Windows for over 10 years now.

  15. domination on Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what you're seeing is that when a company becomes dominant, its dominance precludes it from dominating the next thing. It's almost like a natural law of business.

    You mean like how Google, after it dominated search, didn't dominate web-based e-mail, and online videos?

  16. Re:Attractive proposition on Quantum Equation Suggests Universe Had No Beginning · · Score: 2

    But entropy could go asymptotically to zero as time goes to minus infinity.
    So I still do not see the problem.

  17. Don't forget IE on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Web Development Linux Distro? · · Score: 1

    Of course, the distro should include a copy of all versions of IE, to test your website on.

  18. Re:And does Slashdot understand the threat? on EFF Unveils Plan For Ending Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    You seem to be under the impression that https is secure.

    http://blog.cryptographyengine...

  19. Already happening on Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed · · Score: 1

    Why do you think that processors have remained at roughly the same clock speed lately?
    It's because NSA has been using ever increasing areas of our CPUs for surveillance purposes.

  20. Re:Switch off; turn on! on Eric Schmidt: Our Perception of the Internet Will Fade · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can we change the Slashdot-icon for Google into the panopticon?

    https://magemistress.files.wor...

  21. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    When you're affronted with terror or high emotion, "pipe breathe" and within half a minute, you're in the zone, able to think and react with calm precision to high-stress situations.

    This sounds interesting.
    Do you have any links on this?

  22. Didn't RTFA, but still wondering: does this mean quantum encryption can be beaten by adding a "weight scale" to the transmission link?

  23. "decimal places" should have been "significant digits".

    Turns out the parent post was only accurate to within its first 44 characters.

  24. Re:Dyson sphere on The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun · · Score: 1

    But why emit energy if you can use it?

  25. Re:W00t? on Beware Headlines Saying Chocolate Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    This is only one line of thinking.

    A completely different approach would be, for example, to hold those who make statements accountable for them.
    And this should apply to advertisements as well. And even to "indirect" statements like (publicly) pointing to a research paper.