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  1. Re:Yes, let's bring that back on Vastly Improved Raspberry Pi Performance With Wayland · · Score: 1

    What kind of changes did you make to your kernel build? And what CPU and I/O schedulers are you using?

  2. Re:A SCIENCE GUY on Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014 · · Score: 1

    With Seth MacFarlane as executive producer, of course it will be.

  3. Re:Dean Kamen - Luke on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Look For In a Prosthetic Hand? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I used to work at DEKA. I didn't work on the Luke arm, but I got to talk to the engineers and a couple of early adopters. I think it is a great idea for an artist. The arm's controls are modular. They accept many different kinds of inputs, and the actions are even programmable with macros. You can get hand, wrist, forearm, elbow, upper arm, or shoulder configurations. It is as light as a 50th percentile female arm (including the batttery!). It's precise enough to pick up a grape without crushing it. It allows enough finesse in multiple degrees of freedom to allow a double-amputee to eat cereal without spilling it (which Dean Kamen jokes even he can't do :) I saw a guy use a macro to control an electric drill to handle the changing torque while he controlled how fast the drill went. I think it would be a great choice for an artist.

  4. Salt molecules? on New Process For Nanoscale Filtration Holds Promise of Cheap, Clean Water · · Score: 2

    Salt is a crystal formed by ionic bonds, there's no such thing as a salt molecule. They must be making holes small enough for a single sodium ion. Not sure why they need to tailor the holes for each chemical, though. Just make them a bit bigger than water molecules, right? Than I guess a second filter that's a bit smaller, to remove contaminants that are smaller...

  5. Re:Lame? The Slashdot blessing on Chromebook Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon · · Score: 1

    I like my Cr-48, but I wouldn't pay $250 for it.

  6. Re:Interesting, but not that useful on Android Options Mean "Best" Browsers Might Surprise You · · Score: 1

    Fennec has officially been promoted to Firefox for Mobile, for about a year now. They also removed XULrunner in favor of more native code, so it uses a lot less RAM. The Firefox Beta I'm running scores slightly higher on HTML5test.com than the desktop Aurora version of Firefox I'm running now.

  7. Re:They could have at least handed it off to someb on City of Heroes Reaches Sunset, NCsoft Paying the Price · · Score: 1

    The company is trying to move players over to another game. The whole point is not to let players keep playing this game, so they'll look for a new one.

  8. Re:Lockout? on New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes · · Score: 1

    Sending the hash over the network doesn't work. Anyone who knows your *hashed* password could log into the machine by sending the hash, effectively making your hash *into* the plaintext.

  9. Re:It could be worse on Adobe EULA Demands 7000 Years a Day From Humankind · · Score: 2

    But you're not legally liable to buy a Snickers bar, whereas you are legally bound to follow the terms of the EULA. It's not optional.

  10. Re:Hold on, let me check something... on Splashtop's Cliff Miller Talks About Their New Linux App (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The URL actually says ?utm_source=PR&utm_medium=PRWeb&utm_campaign=LinuxStreamer-20121128

  11. Re:No one cares on Ask Slashdot: Good Linux Desktop Environment For Hi-Def/Retina Displays? · · Score: 1

    ATSC HDTV (all digital broadcast TV in the USA) can by 720i or 1080i (among others). In fact 1080p is not a supported resolution.

  12. Re:KDE on Ask Slashdot: Good Linux Desktop Environment For Hi-Def/Retina Displays? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yup, they were made for Android and are under the Apache license.

  13. Re:I disagree. on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    We were taught the 4 elements, along with several different atomic theories, and a couple non-atomic theories (that is, that materials are continuous instead of being made of smaller parts like atoms). We were also taught several theories of celestial mechanics including epicycles and angels. Some class time was specifically dedicated to debating random philosophical ideas students came up with; in fact extra time was scheduled outside of class for several professors and any students who wanted to show up. I was also taught about 6 versions of creationism (from Idimmu Xul's sibling comment), and a few strains of evolution like punctuated equilibrium. I also was taught a lot of philosophy from Aristotle to Camus, a lot of theology (mostly Christian of some form, but a lot of it was inconsistent) etc.

    In addition I learned modern physical theories like quantum mechanics (chemistry, cryptology, and physics), general relativity (with worked examples of real systems like GPS), and post-Mendelian genetics (incomplete dominance, linkage, maternal inheritance).

    Because of this, I knew my way around the "space" of various fallacies, and I am familiar with what evidence supports which theories. With years of defending my ideas in various fora, what I have concluded is true is a young-earth "literal 6-day" creation, and a personally involved, omnipotent, creator-savior God. My point here isn't to start a debate. I'm just pointing out that you can't predict people that well.

  14. Re:Close... on Spaun: a Large-Scale Functional Brain Model · · Score: 1

    If I make a robot that kills people, am I responsible for the deaths? If I make an AI that lusts after my neighbor's wife, am I responsible?

  15. Re:Apologies, RMS, but Obligatory XKCD on Ask Richard Stallman Anything · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Provider slowness. on IPv6 Deployment Picking Up Speed · · Score: 1

    Setting up an IPv6 tunnel is not hard to do. A couple minutes and you'll have IPv6 internet access. tunnelbroker.net (just for example) walks you through it, then you can install 6orNot in your browser to show off :)

  17. Re:What PenTile means on Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Wow, that sounds like the Apple II's color display! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_graphics#High-Resolution_.28Hi-Res.29_graphics "another quirk of Wozniak's design is that while any pixel could be black or white, only pixels with odd X-coordinates could be green or orange. Likewise, only even-numbered pixels could be violet or blue."

  18. Re:Would not one have to spend energy... on Entangled Particles Break Classical Law of Thermodynamics, Say Physicists · · Score: 2

    Since you're not *un*-entangling the particles during the experiment, the energy used to entangle the particles shouldn't matter. Besides, they're not talking about a specific amount of energy, they mean there is a technique to sort *all* of the higher-energy particles into one side of the box. That means you can extract some energy from the diffusion when the particles re-randomize, and then do it all over again to collect (over time) an unbounded amount of energy.

  19. Re:And 2+2=4 on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    Why do we have 1.0 and 1.00 and 1.000 and 1.0000... and 1/1 and 2/2 and 3/3 and 4/4... and 1^0 and 2^0 and 3^0 and 4^0 and... they're all 1, and so is 0.99999....

  20. Re:And WebOS failed because? on Firefox OS Will Win Big With Developers - Mozilla · · Score: 1

    You know Firefox Home is not a web browser right? What makes you think it uses Webkit?

  21. Re:Ok, now THAT is a cool sci-fi story on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 1

    D'oh South Africa not South America.

  22. Re:Ok, now THAT is a cool sci-fi story on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 4, Informative

    PI-290884 is the name of a sample of wild grass taken from South America. Tifton 68 is a hybrid of PI 255450 and PI 293606 which are both samples from Kenya. https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/v2-294.html

  23. Re:yeah, except for the true part on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 2

    Selective breeding does not make plants RoundUp-resistant. Monsanto modifies the genes of the plants in specific ways that do not occur randomly in plant genomes.

  24. Re:The reason Christianity has this problem. on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    "Jesus saves us not because he died on the cross, that is just a spectacular example of incomprehensible self-sacrifice."

    It is that, but I do think you missed the part where he ROSE from the dead. His sacrifice was impressive and might well have gained some loyalty points, but the reason we are "saved" is because of Jesus' power to conquer death. And the New Testament is full of people saying that Jesus did not, in fact, prevent them from sinning (although they gave it a good try), the point is that Jesus has the power to forgive them *even though* they descend into sin anyway.

  25. In memory of Dennis Ritchie... on Renaming the Very Large Array · · Score: 2

    space* dennis_ritchie[]; // The Dennis Ritchie Array of Pointers to Space