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  1. Re:facebook is an american company on Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death · · Score: 1

    What era are you living in? Multi-person telephone calls have been around for ages.

    I could talk to 10 people at once with my VoIP provider.

  2. Re:facebook is an american company on Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is more like people talking crap about you over a telephone rather than a newspaper. A newspaper has editors that have to read everything in it.

    You don't sue the phone company for what people say on the phone.

  3. Re:how long will this behavior be tolerated... on Australian Intelligence HQ Blueprints Hacked · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually there are 2 'Made in China' car dealerships near me here in Australia. They are called Great Wall and Chery.

    They looks quite good and cheap too.

  4. Re:And with this move... on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You donated to PETA before this?

  5. Re:Will Tesla buy them? on Electric Car Startup 'Better Place' Liquidating After $850 Million Investment · · Score: 1

    What magical technology do you need to swap batteries?
    People have been swapping AA's for decades just fine.

  6. Re:Xbox One? Oh my! on Microsoft Files Dispute Against Current Owner of XboxOne.com · · Score: 1

    Xbox One's successor will obviously be Xbox A.

  7. Re:For free? on WIPO Panel Says Ron Paul Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Actually the mailing list alone could easily be worth than $250k.

    The site wouldn't be worth much, its the people following the site that determines the value.

  8. Re:If you think Bitcoin was ever Anonymous... on Bitcoin's Success With Investors Alienates Earliest Adopters · · Score: 1

    It is...kind of.

    The transactions are fully public of course.
    The semi-anonymous part is tying a bitcoin address with a specific person. You'll have a lot of difficulty doing that if they are being careful.

  9. Re:Quad copters? on Quadcopter Drone Network Will Transport Supplies For Disaster Relief · · Score: 1

    Why do you need a licence? Wouldn't it be a motor on a servo? Little bit different to Boeing designs.
    I see stability for a small tilt rotor plane while vertically ascending a bit tricky.

    Why not one that can launch just by throwing it or off the top of a car? They already exist.

  10. Re:Cross country? on Transporting a 15-Meter-Wide, 600-Ton Magnet Cross Country · · Score: 1

    Large as in size not weight.

  11. Re:It's All Relative on EPA Makes a Rad Decision · · Score: 1

    "He's had a cup of coffee in his lifetime! Judge please throw out this case."

  12. Re:Cross country? on Transporting a 15-Meter-Wide, 600-Ton Magnet Cross Country · · Score: 2

    I imagine calm sea waves don't actually do much to a large barge with 600 tons on it.

  13. Re:Serious question.... on German Researchers Hit 40 Gbps On Wireless Link · · Score: 2

    Your average wifi antenna radiates 100mW.
    Doing some very rough calculations in an hour that will heat a litre of water by about 0.08 degrees Celsius assuming that the water can't lose any heat to its environment.

    Compared to say 2000 Watts for a microwave that does cook food with 'wireless energy'.

    Also compare that with just the temperature from your car's engine and exhaust gasses.
    I think the latter wins hands down.

  14. Re:It doesn't sound like you're current. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current? · · Score: 1

    Why do you need to know all of them? In my niche focussing on web based stuff I need a fairly broad set of skills but nowhere near that broad.
    I only tick a few of them but the skills I use every day go from DRBD, OCFS2, MySQL low level stuff all the way through to Wordpress and jQuery.
    Each one I need to know quite thoroughly and I make a point of staying current with all of them plus keeping an eye out for anything new that could help.

    And good luck knowing Android 4.1 for 5 years.

  15. Re:what mcafee is good for: on John McAfee's Belize Home Burns To Ground · · Score: 1

    How does the house burning fit in to that?

  16. Re:Silver lining on Mice, Newts Retrieved After a Month Orbiting Earth At 345 Miles Up · · Score: 1

    You can't talk. You harmed seven puppies just to make a Slashdot post!
    These guys are actually doing real science from these deaths.

  17. Re:Ummmm.. on Mozilla Delays Default Third-Party Cookie Blocking In Firefox · · Score: 1

    Subdomains are not affected. They are first party cookies not third party.

  18. Re:BUYING SLASHDOT ACCOUNTS on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1, Interesting

    a) Its not possible to have a negative proof. Case in point, prove that I don't own a invisible pink unicorn.
    Its not actually possible.

    b) This study shows consensus however that still doesn't mean anything in science.
    There isn't a hypothesis that 97% of scientists agree on, it is purely American Idol style popularity contest of the idea.

  19. Re:You're right but.. on Leaked Microsoft Video Parodies Chrome Ad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or rather jealous of Google since they make money from free products while Bing makes losses every single quarter.

    *They* want to track you just as much, they are just incompetent at the implementation.

  20. Re:Why? on A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale · · Score: 2

    So....Fantastic! The sooner the better.

    Actually add human recognition software to this and it could reduce accidental (and deliberate) deaths drastically.
    Funnily enough just like self driving cars. Computers just do it better.

  21. Re:Why? on A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Next you'll be petitioning against adding rifling to barrels.

    Now I know its not the same but the point of shooting is to hit the target accurately.
    You want accuracy and not blind luck so you add rifling to the barrel.
    This is just another feature which improves accuracy.

    If your point isn't accuracy then sure do whatever you want. You could do it with one arm tied behind your back just as a challenge.

  22. Re:HP Printer Driver Developers Take Note on Interactive Raycaster For the Commodore 64 Under 256 Bytes · · Score: 1

    Their Linux drivers are quite slim on the other hand, install easily and work beautifully.
    Every feature on every device works through the standard mechanisms too.

  23. Re:Yep on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    And have been affected by high tides for quite a long time before now as well.

  24. Re:Yep on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 0

    Are we doing it deliberately? The jury is still out how much is natural and how much is man made.
    The planet was already warming anyway (kinda occurs after ice ages) remember.

    As for the people on the coast, we are talking about 50 - 100 year time frames. No house is going under tomorrow.

  25. Re:Yep on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1, Troll

    And everything seems fine just now doesn't it.

    Major temperature changes in the past (over 8 degrees hotter) gave us what we have today.
    Morale of the story, planet gets hotter, planet gets colder. Everything else sorts its self out.

    I'm not advocating pollution, its just the 'sky is falling' people are completely off the mark.