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  1. Re:A Taste of Your Own Medicine on Warner Bros. Sued By Meme Creators Over Copyright Infringement · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You joke... but Kellogg sued Image-Line over their use of "Fruity Loops" because "it confused customers." ... Image-Line makes audio production software.

  2. Re:A win for me! on Florida Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Search Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I have lived there for some time, and been in Georgia for the last few years.

    I'm moving back to FL this summer. Of all the places I've lived, FL is my favorite. (Maine, California, Georgia, Florida)

  3. Re:Missing something? on Living In a Virtual World Requires Less Brain Power · · Score: 1

    So, not a fan of Noir either?

  4. Re:Poor virtual worlds on Living In a Virtual World Requires Less Brain Power · · Score: 1

    We have feedback loops on our sensory inputs that allow them to adjust the "gain" of signals. Just like auto-level on an audio recorder, silence causes the gain adjustment to firewall, to the point where noise is the signal.

  5. Re:Sounds impractical on IBM Researchers Open Source Homomorphic Crypto Library · · Score: 1

    Easy - you write the algorithm with unencrypted data. That's the fun part about your computer being deterministic and all...

  6. and yet... on Even the Ad Industry Doesn't Know Who's Tracking You · · Score: 3

    ... and yet they whine and moan about people using adblockers and such.

    Shut up, bitches. You made your bed, now you get to sleep in it.

  7. Re:Bad headline on NASA's Fermi Spacecraft Dodged a Defunct Russian Satellite · · Score: 5, Informative

    If there was any debris from the Cosmos (either directly from it, or from interactions with other junk or such) could be within that area.

    Our radar is not good enough to make it safe enough to pass by that closely.

  8. Re:v1.0 not production ready ... on OpenBSD 5.3 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    OpenBSD is not Ubuntu. Changes are not made because they feel like it.

  9. Re:Google glasses on Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Until I ask you to stop, at which point your continued persistence could be construed as harassment.

  10. Re:We Wish on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1

    Oil will never go away. We won't ever be able to get all of it, and when it becomes cheaper to synthesize it instead, we will do that.

    More Expensive might as well mean Not Available.

  11. Re:What am I missing? on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention repeated experiments with differing equipment can rule out consistently "misbehaving" equipment.

  12. Re:What am I missing? on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 2

    This seems to be just another "Yup, relativity still works" type of experiment.

    The way you say that suggests you don't see much value in that. Confirming that what you believe to be true, is true, is very important.

  13. Re:What am I missing? on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 1

    If we could make enough of and contain them; a simple balance scale would do.

    I'd like to see how this is supposed to work, when you are trying to measure antimatter.

  14. Re:Orbital pickup truck on Helium Depleted, Herschel Space Telescope Mission Ends · · Score: 1

    You'd have to rely on large (read: heavy) radiators and black-body radiation, OR as you state, pass some kind of medium over the radiators to collect the heat, and expel that.

    Helium happens to be very light and excellent for the purpose.

  15. Re:Orbital pickup truck on Helium Depleted, Herschel Space Telescope Mission Ends · · Score: 1

    OK, so you fit reaction drives as well for the stop/start.

    You know, you can even use RCS thrusters for that, in a pinch.

  16. Re:Orbital pickup truck on Helium Depleted, Herschel Space Telescope Mission Ends · · Score: 1

    Even today that would be incredibly difficult. It would have to be nearly (if not totally) autonomous because of the communications delay.

  17. Re:Lamar Smith is a Christian Scientist on SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lamar Smith is stupid fucking douchebag. I think that's all that needs be said, no need to get into specifics.

  18. Re:Not enough publicity on What's Holding Back 3-D Printing · · Score: 1

    They do? I think you're holding them up to an unreasonable standard.

  19. Re:Not enough publicity on What's Holding Back 3-D Printing · · Score: 1

    the problem comes from trying to use a low polygon editor to try and make a high polygon model

    Catmull-Clark does a wonderful job doing just that.

  20. Re:Not enough publicity on What's Holding Back 3-D Printing · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, most 3D modeling software lets you create manifold shapes very easily. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by '2D shapes in 3D space.'

    Sure, I don't HAVE to make the figure manifold, but I'd be a moron to do so.

  21. Re:Not enough publicity on What's Holding Back 3-D Printing · · Score: 1

    I could never wrap my head around proper CAD programs, but I have no problem using something like Blender.

    Just another anecdote to file away...

  22. Re:Not that unique on Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates · · Score: 1

    I speak from a position of being (passably) familiar with the Serious Sam engine.

  23. Re:Why is this here? on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    I'd argue that's not changing the level of intelligence at all, it merely allows you to use what you have more efficiently.

  24. Re:Not that unique on Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates · · Score: 1

    Totally misworded that. I think you get what I meant.

  25. Re:Not that unique on Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates · · Score: 1

    We don't often agree but we do, here.

    It's not easy to put a check for "Should I still be here?" in the Scorpion's game logic.

    So it would appear - for as long as it took the loaded game to trigger that check and 'disable' the instance.