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  1. Re:Viability of ocean mining? on US Gives $120M For Lab To Tackle Rare Earth Shortages · · Score: 1

    The only hurdle to successfully mining the ocean floor is that James Cameron hasn't decided to do it yet.

  2. Another reason not to buy Surface on Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As if you needed another reason.

  3. Re:Would /. please spare us ?? on John McAfee Tells World How He Fooled Cops and Escaped Belize · · Score: 3, Informative

    And the new slashdot would send an investigative reporter to the Belize holding cell and hear out the double's story, and come out with a book called False Positive The Story of McAfee's Escape

    Published by Packt, so naturally it would get a great front-page review on Slashdot. Win-win!

  4. Re:The HORROR... on Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold · · Score: 1

    No they don't... if an idea is not packaged and marketed to them properly, vegans don't it exists.

  5. Re:The HORROR... on Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold · · Score: -1, Troll

    Learning to eat meat is what caused a rapid rise in intelligence in our distant ancestors. Vegans are proof that the path works in both directions.

  6. Re:Botox on Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold · · Score: 1

    Female skin apparently has a slightly lower pH than male skin, although I'm not sure why.

    Duh... it's lower because of the bee venom cream they apply every morning.

  7. Re:No - I just assume they will fail on Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Good point but I'm unlikely to get two from the same manufacturing run since I buy one WDC and one Seagate each time to avoid that sort of correlation! I haven't found one brand is any worse than the other.

  8. No - I just assume they will fail on Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    I buy hard drives in pairs, using one for live data and one kept offline until it's time to back up the live drive (I use Unison sync to quickly determine what's changed between the two drives). My boot drive gets backed up every night with Macrium Reflect. The secret to a happy life: assume that every drive will fail tomorrow and keep everything backed up.

  9. Re:Great! on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 5, Funny

    The British did this in 1776... that's why Canada's so much saner than U.S.A.

  10. Re:True on IQ 'a Myth,' Study Says · · Score: 4, Funny

    A person with an IQ of 160 would know to look under the keyboard for the passwords.

  11. Re:I'll look into it on Most Kickstarter Projects Fail To Deliver On Time · · Score: 1

    Gartner Group can help you out with that.

  12. Re:Single microbe or single strain? on Single Microbe May Have Triggered the "Great Dying" · · Score: 1

    The most dangerous single microbe in the history of the world: Bacillus jeanclaudevandammiensis

  13. Re:Ah, I'm not sure what's so Earth shattering on Australia Plans To Drill 2,000-Year-Old Ice Core In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Mastodon tears?

  14. Re:This changes nothing. . . on Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ha! Another sign of excessive pot smoking is adding extra zeros to numbers.

  15. Re:How do they do it? on The State of In-Flight Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    So what happened that made them allow this today?

    Money!!

  16. Re:Somebody's got to say it on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    You don't live in the country, where bears and wolves can kill you. Easy to give up something you don't need.

  17. Re:Marketing 14nm not, real 14nm on TSMC and Global Foundries Plan Risky Process Jump As Intel Unveils 22nm SoC · · Score: 1

    No double patterning required... just make sure you use name-brand Rubylith and a very sharp knife.

  18. Re:One of the most eye opening things I ever did on Coderdojo Inspires Coding In Kids As Young As Seven · · Score: 1

    you just have to think base 16 instead of base 10.

    And you wonder why programmers are considered nerds by all the cool kids?

  19. Wrong approach on Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using a CD-ripper is so 1990s. What you want to do is buy a good quality scanner and scan your CDs using high-resolution mode -- should take about 20 seconds per disk. Then use any of the usual conversion programs to convert the scanned images into whatever audio format you prefer.

  20. Re:Wtf? on The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or just disable secure boot, which is amazingly easy to do in the first place.

    For now.

  21. Re:This is the Raven's Retribution on Canadian Island's Historic Hot Springs Dry Up After Earthquake · · Score: 1

    No, the springs magically went away.

  22. Re:But is it efficient? on Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol · · Score: 2

    Assuming you mean metric ton, the cost of a ton of this petrol would be around 380 times the cost of a gallon of the stuff.

  23. Re:Let Hans Reiser work on Reiser4 File System Still In Development · · Score: 2

    But then the entire Slashdot community would have no incentive not to commit heinous crimes. If all that happened when you got caught was 20 years of free meals, free accommodation and a PC to program all day, how does that differ from the average Slashdotter living in his parents' basement? The idea behind prison is to punish people so others will think twice before committing a crime.

  24. Re:And this helps the consumer how? on FCC To Allow Cable Companies To Encrypt Over-the-Air Channels · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cable exec makes more money. Cable exec buys new car. Consumer gets to wash that car, earning cash to pay current month's cable bill. Win-win!

  25. Anything from Packt on Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life? · · Score: 2

    Everything I've read from Packt rates 8/10+ in my book.