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  1. Re:Hack it to add American names like "John Smith" on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    Since 2003, it is not so easy to change your name anymore. While in the US, for the most part, you can simply use any name you want, if you want a new passport, you'll have to go before a judge and it's going to cost you about a grand.

    ...and you can bet they have to notify the people who maintain the no-fly list.

  2. Re:Space travel on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 1

    Just so. Reduce lifesupport requirements significantly, and a trip to Mars by a 100-man study team becomes (relatively) trivial.

    Apart from reducing their metabolism you'll also have to remove all their bones and replace them with 3D-printed parts when you arrive.

    On the plus side, this reduces the storage space requirements for each human to about 50% of one with bones in it.

  3. Re:Space travel on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 1

    Genetic diversity.

    Or maybe all your genes are perfect...?

  4. Re:Space travel on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The first successful organ transplant was done in 1883: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Re:Space travel on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first thing you see when the lid of your cryo-chamber whirrs open will be another human saying, "Hey, we made a warp drive engine while you were asleep!"

  6. Re:Old idea. What makes it possible now? on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This idea is very old, so I suppose there was a technical hurdle to overcome.

    Probably the replacing-all-their-blood-with-saline-without-them-dying part.

  7. Re:Easy stats to pull on More Than 1 In 4 Car Crashes Involve Cellphone Use · · Score: 1

    Here's a question: Would the black box tell you how many of these accidents would have happened even if there was no cell phone involved?

    No, but there's these things called "driving simulators" where they can do controlled experiments.

    And, guess what...?

  8. Re:Homeopothy ... on Homeopathic Remedies Recalled For Containing Real Medicine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How come the homeopathic practitioners don't just row out into the sea and throw their goose livers in there? They could cure all diseases overnight. They must be mean capitalists if they're not doing things like that.

  9. Re:OMG FAG LOL on Xbox One Reputation System Penalizes Gamers Who Behave Badly · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's even simpler than that. All you need to to separate them by age. Put all the 13-years-olds on their own server (separated from the under 20s and over-20s servers).

  10. Re:They aren't worthless... on Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bitcoin is designed so the market can't flood.

    The work needed will go up if more people do like this guy (and his investment will be worthless...)
    .

  11. Re:I admire their spunk, but... on Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    I know it's a hard concept to understand, but gold only has its value based on consensus as well.

    Yes, but gold is pretty.

    It has other values. It's been used as a display of wealth since prehistoric times.

    Bitcoin? Not so much.

  12. Re:Obligatory.. on Xbox One Reputation System Penalizes Gamers Who Behave Badly · · Score: 1

    -1 irrelevant.

  13. Re:Obligatory.. on Xbox One Reputation System Penalizes Gamers Who Behave Badly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    -1

    (just because I can...)

  14. Re:Kickstarter skeptics eat your heart out on Minecraft Creator Halts Plans For Oculus Version Following Facebook Acquisition · · Score: 2

    Technologies that allow them to directly compete with things like google glass?

    Either that or they plan to turn facebook into Second Life.

    Or both at once - you walk down the street and see facebook profiles floating over people's heads.

    Who knows...but you can bet it isn't good.

  15. Re:How terrible energy production is! on WHO: Air Pollution 'Killed 7 Million People' In 2012 · · Score: 1

    That was the joke.

    So how come you didn't mod it "funny"?

  16. Re:Duffs Device is clever - its not elegant on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mode Parent Up.

    There's nothing "elegant" about DD.

  17. Re:Complete Spectrum Rom Disassembly on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 1

    I don't recall it being particularly "elegant"....

  18. Re:Is this a request for optimal code design... on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 1

    The request is oddly specific.

    Yes. Very odd...

    Almost like a code request.

    The correct thing to do would be to find one then add a very sneaky flaw. Find out if all he really wanted was to "read" it.

  19. Re:Prune Juice, a warrior's drink on Klingon Beer · · Score: 1

    Taste of prune's what, exactly? There's a word missing in your sentence.

  20. Re:Really? on WHO: Air Pollution 'Killed 7 Million People' In 2012 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Smug" is the filthy cloud you see around a Toyota Prius.

  21. Re:How terrible energy production is! on WHO: Air Pollution 'Killed 7 Million People' In 2012 · · Score: 2

    A true nuclear reactor wouldn't cause any pollution.

  22. Re:How terrible energy production is! on WHO: Air Pollution 'Killed 7 Million People' In 2012 · · Score: 1

    The answer is renewables, everyone knows it, some people are too cowardly to admit it.

    Wood isn't renewable?

  23. Re:At last on IRS: Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency · · Score: 2

    This is actually good news. Tax on Bitcoin legitimize the currency.

    Riiight. I can see all those Bitcoin miners heading out to get their tax forms right now so they can declare their coins.

  24. Re:This seems like good news on IRS: Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency · · Score: 1

    So...just like stocks/shares then? Or any other property you own.

    Sounds to me like you think the IRS got it right.

  25. Re:FreeDOS on Microsoft Posts Source Code For MS-DOS and Word For Windows · · Score: 4, Funny

    FreeDOS isn't done until Lotus won't run.

    Or something.