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  1. Re:eye color on Forensic Test Predicts Eye and Hair Color From DNA · · Score: 1

    Is that you, Sven?

  2. Re:We swear your honor... on Forensic Test Predicts Eye and Hair Color From DNA · · Score: 1

    Would you require proof that there's no teapot orbiting the Earth before you'll accept that it's probably not there?

    If the Chinese have a manned space program, you can be sure there's a teapot orbiting the Earth.

  3. Long enough to see Hugh Pickens link to every blog on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 1

    Should be about 67 years, at current rate.

  4. Better accuracy than a Pentium on Solid State Quantum Computer Finds 15=3x5 — 48% of the Time · · Score: 1

    IIRC, the Pentium gave correct answers 0% of the time.

  5. So trust only negative reviews... on Inside the Business of Online Reviews For Hire · · Score: 1

    When I'm reading reviews on Amazon, etc., I only look at the one-star and two-star reviews to see what buyers do not like about the product. You can tell pretty easily what's a real gripe ("Slashdot has too many Packt Publishing reviews") and what's a paid shill from a competitor ("Slashdot has too many Packt Publishing reviews, I only read those really excellent books from O'Reilly").

  6. Re:I live in Kansas City on Would You Open Your Home To a Hacker – For Free? · · Score: 1

    Whenever google fiber was first announced and what we heard on the local news was something to the effect of it's going to be an experiment by google to see what people will do with a giga-bit connection. At first that sounded like (to me anyway) that they would let us run our own web servers from home, but now it looks more like they just want to offer a web browsing only service for residential customers (like Time Warner).

    What they want is to collect hard data on how much it costs to really run a network, so they can use the data to support their network neutrality efforts. This is one of the times that they aren't being evil.

  7. Re:Litigation stifles Innovation. on Would You Open Your Home To a Hacker – For Free? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention what happens when Mr Hacker uses your ultra-fast fiber to download everything on PirateBay to his hard drive and the lawyers track it to your door...

  8. Re:Updated regulation is needed on Will Your Books and Music Die With You? · · Score: 1

    Also because copyright will never expire, it'll just keep getting extended.

    Sonny Bono's great great grandchildren have to eat too, you insensitive clod.

  9. It's photoshopped. on Incredible New Photographs of Live Coelacanths · · Score: 0

    You can tell from the pixels.

  10. Home school the unvaccinated ones then on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 2

    Simple solution. If you don't want to vaccinate your kid, they don't get to mingle with healthy ones. Added bonus: the healthy ones probably believe in evolution and other ungodly things.

  11. Re:Reason for rejection on Judge Rejects Settlement In Facebook Sponsored Stories Case · · Score: 1

    The judge feels that Facebook's 100 million affected users may not be getting adequate compensation from this arrangement—and is pondering whether it's even possible to provide so many people with compensation.

    Of course it is... shut down Facebook. I'd consider that a fair deal.

  12. Re:Montreal, qc, Oh Canada on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the crumbling infrastructure. Literally, pieces of concrete fall off bridges and overpasses regularly (even killing drivers every few years). With all the potholes, count on replacing the ball joints of your vehicle every couple of years.

  13. Re:Oh Canada! on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    Unless they move somewhere else, leaving you with an empty rental unit.

  14. Re:Oh Canada! on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    And you can eat lobster rolls all day long!

  15. Re:Oh Canada! on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    You're fluent in Chinese?

  16. Re:Which pundits and analysts on Forbes Likens Instagram Purchase To Myspace Deal · · Score: 2

    Gartner Group, most likely... after all, Facebook's a paying customer.

  17. This problem will solve itself on The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee · · Score: 1

    Caffeine is a diuretic, so it makes fish pee more. Fish urine makes coffee taste terrible, so Oregonians will drink less coffee. It's a perfect example of a negative feedback cycle... that's the beauty of Mother Nature. Take note, Global Warming believers.

  18. Re:BS on The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee · · Score: 1

    Your calculation implies that only Oregonians drink coffee? Many Seattleites are hipsters too...

  19. Re:Maybe LiveScribe on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? · · Score: 1

    Livescribe is amazing! They have a great marketing department that spends many hours each day on Slashdot. You must try Livescribe paper-based computing platform.

  20. Re:Old School... on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? · · Score: 1

    If Einstein was alive today, he would use Livescribe paper-based computing platform. It includes a smartpen, dot paper and software applications that changes the way people capture, use and share information.

  21. Re:LiveScribe on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? · · Score: 1

    Livescribe paper-based computing platform includes a smartpen, dot paper and software applications that changes the way people capture, use and share information.

  22. Re:Sheesh people on Microsoft Drops 'Metro' Name For Windows 8 UI · · Score: 1

    They used Bing for the search... no way they found 100 references.

  23. Re:Defend flash trading? on Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million · · Score: 1

    That was the whole purpose of the amending clause their lobbyists would insert in the draft legislation... don't you know how democracy works?

  24. Re:Defend flash trading? on Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million · · Score: 2

    That proposal would be acceptable to all parties, provided you add a clause that rebates the small transaction fee to large players like Goldman Sachs who exceed a certain number of small transactions per day.

  25. Re:Knight really this screwed up... on Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million · · Score: 1

    So maybe they need higher quality shitty developers there -- experienced architects who can deliver not just fuck-ups, but fully-redundant clustered-fucks designed for scalable failure. If the money's good they'll have my CV by morning.

    You say you're qualified and available now... let me guess, you were on the Windows 8 development team?