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  1. Re:MP3 is pants on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    I always wondered why codecs do not parameterize over known musical instruments, detect them, and subtract them from the signal, to encode the remainder using psychoacoustic models.

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

    Yes, that means that gullible people buy crap.
    It also means that smart people aren't forced to buy crap.

    I think the whole point was that, with this so-called "research", even the smart people buy crap.

  3. QM on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Perhaps somebody can explain this to me.

    If in Quantum Mechanics anything can happen with a certain (perhaps very small) probability, then in an infinite amount of time anything will in fact happen.
    This proves that the universe will in fact never collapse.

    Or does it?

  4. Integration into OS on Why Aren't We Using SSH For Everything? · · Score: 1

    I've been wondering for some time now why TLS (SSH) is not integrated into the OS, to extend the TCP/IP stack on a low level.

  5. No progress on Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low · · Score: 1

    The problem is that movie theaters don't show any technological progress.
    For instance, where is my holodeck?

  6. I can understand the judge's thoughts on Argentine Court Rules Orangutan Is a "Non-Human Person" · · Score: 1

    Just wait until Quantum Physics turns you into a monkey.
    The odds are incredibly small, but the rest of eternity is a long time.

  7. Re:Good luck not doing that on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    Can't we have something like "net-neutrality" for e-readers and video viewers?
    I mean, it is kind of the same principle.

  8. Re:Everything old is new again on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Also, people start working on mainframes again. Except now they call it "the cloud".

  9. Re:Sadly,... on Uber Banned In Delhi After Taxi Driver Accused of Rape · · Score: 1

    yet post-indicdent it seems that they may not have told the truth

    Could you then please sketch what an Uber advertorial should like like?

  10. Phew on Heathrow Plane In Near Miss With Drone · · Score: 2

    Thank goodness my Amazon drone-delivered goods were not destroyed by this incident.

  11. Darknet for kids on Google Confirms That It's Designing Kid-Friendly Versions of Its Services · · Score: 1

    Will this be a darknet, where google and wikipedia pretend that santa claus exists?

  12. Developers on Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform · · Score: 2

    Good for them.
    Open sourcing .NET will probably work better than just shouting "developers, developers, developers!!!"

  13. Proposed codename of this mission on The Strangeness of the Mars One Project · · Score: 1

    /dev/null

  14. iPhone on The Math Behind the Hipster Effect · · Score: 2

    I guess that's why all iPhones look exactly the same then.

  15. This would be good news for the WINE project!

    Now I'm wondering when we'll see the first compatibility layer allowing OS/X programs to be run on linux.

  16. Re:Nothing? on Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing · · Score: 1

    We will probably never fully understand physics.
    Why?

    Well, we cannot explain experiential consciousness, or in other words explain why we are here and observe everything around us. While that alone could be explained by an observer that is outside of this universe, but the fact that I am bringing this up in a discussion is proof that this thing we call consciousness is actually part of physics.

  17. The internet is a life form:

    1. it is growing (new devices are added every day)
    2. reproducing (new subnets are created every day)
    3. functional
    4. continually changing

  18. Re:Does it know if I've been bad or good? on Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job · · Score: 1

    Big data makes generalizations, like: if you're black, female, etc. you (can) make less money.
    This is discrimination. On the basis of this alone, big data should be forbidden.

  19. Re:That was close... on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 2

    I thought the article was about running out of sand for silicon semiconductors.

    And I thought the shortage was due to the steadily increasing popularity of silicone implants.

  20. I just hope it has the main wished-for feature on Mozilla Teases First Browser Dedicated To Devs · · Score: 1

    Switching rendering engines between Gecko, Webkit and IE.

  21. paywalls on Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine · · Score: 2

    So basically, it's a search engine for searching paywalls.

    This makes it easy to filter out paywalls from your search results.
    1. run search on google
    2. run search on disney
    3. subtract results from (1) by (2)
    4. profit

  22. Re:Algorithms Can Be Patented on Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine · · Score: 2

    They formulated the ranking of websites as an eigenvalue problem. Not sure how that would be patentable.
    http://www.math.cornell.edu/~m...

  23. Sending e-mail reliably on Ask Slashdot: How Useful Are DMARC and DKIM? · · Score: 2

    Are there any guides out there describing how to send e-mail *reliably* these days?
    Seems that the RFCs don't cut it anymore, since there are so many undocumented rules that large e-mail providers (gmail, etc.) use.
    If you'd go by the RFSs alone, your e-mail just ends up in a spam-filter (at best) most of the time.

  24. Keep it simple, stupid on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    I think systemd has too much functionality and should be broken into smaller modules.
    That's the nicest thing I can say.

  25. Re:Um on Charity Promotes Covert Surveillance App For Suicide Prevention · · Score: 1

    How he fuck is this different than wget-ing and grep-ing your friends' feed?

    If I ask you: "how was the movie?" and you answered "1001011100111001...", how the f*ck is this different from downloading a torrent?

    The difference is: what the judge thinks of it.