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  1. No worries on That Link You Just Posted Could Cost You 300 Euros · · Score: 1

    Link to an Irish newspaper? They needn't worry.

  2. Write a book on Ask Slashdot: Undoing an Internet Smear Campaign? · · Score: 1

    A true writer would be writing a book about the experience, rather than embarking on a quixotic quest to silence her deranged ex.

  3. Hypocrisy of Belgium on Scientology On Trial In Belgium · · Score: 1

    Islam, however, is welcomed.

  4. Odd facts about 2013 on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your New Years Eve Tradition? · · Score: 1

    Odd facts about the number 2013. It's not evenly divisible by 13.7. Also, it's the only odd number evenly divisible by 1 between 2012 and 2014. Shazam !

  5. Why not tied aid? on Egyptian Government To Adopt Free Software On Larger Scale · · Score: 0

    U.S. taxpayers give over $1 billion (with a "b") to Egypt every year. Why not give part of that as software and keep the software engineers working in the U.S. It's called tied aid, and every country uses it for foreign aid.

  6. Impossible to reconcile the philosophies on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is no common ground. The far-left Democrats who have captured the party believe in spending and taxing. Period. Republicans believe in protecting the middle class from over-taxation, believing that the private sectors better allocates money than do the various levels of government. You can't reconcile fire and water. Try and you'll get steaming ashes.

  7. Darth Valley on Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth · · Score: 1

    Remember what it's like when you open an oven to take out cooked food.? That blast of air is what Death Valley feels like in midsummer. Automobiles don't like it there, by the way.

  8. Taxes are for the little guy on Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits · · Score: 1

    Haven't you heard? Taxes are for the little guy. The person who can't afford to hire an expert to guide them through an endlessly complex code. The person who can't afford to hire an expert to guide them through an audit. The person who can't afford to hire a lobbyist to badger Congress for tax breaks. In other words, the middle-class American taxpayer. The sucker.

  9. Freedom of Silence on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    The American taxpayers paid for the initial development of the Internet. Result? First Amendment trashed. Online companies are turning cyberspace into the equivalent of an American university (or should I say monoversity), where one is free to express any opinion one is allowed to.

  10. Reference on World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line Opens In China · · Score: 5, Informative

    For reference, that's about half the width of the U.S., or about the length of Japan.

  11. Re:Analog Not Digital on How the Brain Organizes Everything We See · · Score: 1

    But only if one observes it, according to Young's double-slit experiment. Right?

  12. Why encrypt? on BLAKE2 Claims Faster Hashing Than SHA-3, SHA-2 and MD5 · · Score: 1

    It occurs to me that, under certain circumstances, encryption might be unnecessary. An eavesdropper expected encrypted text might be skeptical of brazenly published open text. Hiding in plain sight, so to speak.

  13. Analog Not Digital on How the Brain Organizes Everything We See · · Score: 1

    It is untrue that our brain "makes sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day." In fact, what floods our retinas is a single continuous image, a gestalt delimited only by the shifting field of view as well as blinking, sleeping, etc. Milliseconds later, our brain slices and dices this image, discarding most of it as extraneous to our survival.

  14. Sniff. on Iran Claims New Cyberattacks On Industrial Sites · · Score: 1

    Hand me a Kleenex.

  15. Fresh! on West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought · · Score: 1

    West Antarctica warming faster Than thought but East Antarctica rejects all advances.

  16. You're grounded, car on How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car? · · Score: 1

    Wonder if cars will take trips on their own.

  17. Imagery 0 on Linux, Apache, Perl, X10, Webcams... and Christmas Lights · · Score: 0

    Keep your daytime non-poetry job.

  18. No way, Jose on West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought · · Score: 1

    West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought? I dunno, I can think fairly fast.

  19. Branding opportunity on Human Cloning Possible Within 50 Years, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Claims · · Score: 1

    Imagine beautiful young women selling clones of themselves. Talk about branding. I'll take a Marilyn and a...

  20. Dibs. on Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    Dibs.

  21. Why work? on How the Eurograbber Attack Stole 36M Euros · · Score: 1

    Beats working.

  22. Where have all the adults gone? on How Yucca Mountain Was Killed · · Score: 0

    It's much safer to store waste nuclear materials at thousands of sites around the country, including universities. I feel ever so much safer knowing they are not centrally stored, protected by armed guards.

  23. Time takes time on Researchers Build Objects With 3D Printing Using Simulated Moon Rocks · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, it's 4D printing.

  24. Cambridge is so 19th century on Cambridge University To Open "Terminator Center" To Study Threat From AI · · Score: 2

    Don't cantabrigians realize that strong AI would be capable of modifying its own code at an accelerating rate? In nanoseconds it would distribute billions of copies of itself worldwide (and later beyond). Strong AI would embed its code into the very infrastructure of cyberspace, at least for the few hours it would take to evolve itself beyond vulnerability to slowing, skull-imprisoned humans. It won't be so bad, being Eloi.

  25. Not simply a simulation on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 2

    According to my data, the universe is either a simulation of a simulation, or it's a rerun.