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  1. Kraken Mare on Mysterious Feature Appears and Disappears In a Sea On Titan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The sea is called Kraken Mare. I think we all know what that means this is...

  2. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    My problem with this kind of "solution" to keep kids safe is that the kids may now get used to picking up a gun and pulling the trigger and having it not fire because they are not an "authorized" user.

    Then they go to their friends house and find a gun there and play with it when daddy's not around and boom. Dead friend.

  3. I'm just glad on Original 11' Star Trek Enterprise Model Being Restored Again · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm just glad all of us Atheists will now have our own religious symbol to hang on the wall and worship.

  4. Re:WIFI-Enabled Vital Organs?!?! on In France, a Second Patient Receives Permanent Artificial Heart · · Score: 1

    You must be from the house of Harkonnen

  5. Question 1 on Interview: Ask Christopher "moot" Poole About 4chan and Social Media · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fucking magnets. How do they work?

  6. Re:Oh god why. on Tox, a Skype Replacement Built On 'Privacy First' · · Score: 1

    Time to go back to IPX/SPX and NetBIOS

  7. Re:Unless... on Coffee Naps Better For Alertness Than Coffee Or Naps Alone · · Score: 1

    Caffeine is acts as a stimulant chemical in the brain and some other tissues of the body. It can also block an inhibitory neurotransmitter (brain chemical) called adenosine. Adenosine acts on our brain to calm things down and even bring on a sleepy feeling. When we have caffeine, the brain produces more adenosine to counter the caffeine. If you feel sleepy after drinking coffee then your body is producing even more adenosine than normal. The caffeine and adenosine compete for brain receptors and the adenosine wins out. I have this same issue. I've also heard that it can be linked to mild ADHD due to the chemical imbalance which causes this reaction to caffeine.

  8. Re:And? on Apple Begins Storing Chinese User Data On Servers In China · · Score: 1

    But if the keys are stored in the USA, and the data is in China, then the keys will have to traverse the great firewall in order for the user to decrypt their data. That data will be susceptible to interception once it passes into China.

    This is just marketing.

  9. Re: Apply liberal amounts of gloss. on Point-and-Shoot: TrackingPoint's New Linux-Controlled AR-15s · · Score: 2

    500m with an M16A2 is part of normal training in the Marine Corps. This is with open sights. I can put 10 rounds in an 8" circle at such distances.

  10. Re:100km on Perlan II Project Aims To Fly a Glider To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    Ouch. s/you're/your/ My spell czecher sucks.

  11. Re:100km on Perlan II Project Aims To Fly a Glider To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    You're spell checker is Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!

  12. Re:Perhaps more than that... apk on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    Wow, you really are a loony.

  13. Re:That'll show 'em! on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking of that. Put a battery powered Raspberry Pi inside a stripped out laptop case and fill the empty space with whatever you want. Then when asked to power it on, it would boot without issues but would allow you to pack it to the brim with something more dangerous...Yah I know the xray machine would show that it looked abnormal, but perhaps some etched circuit boards in a single layer on the bottom to confound scanners?

  14. Re:Humans Can Not on US Navy Wants Smart Robots With Morals, Ethics · · Score: 2

    Wish I could mod this up. This is _the_ problem that needs to be dealt with. Taking the "Easy" way out.

  15. Re: Ethics and Morals ? on US Navy Wants Smart Robots With Morals, Ethics · · Score: 2

    I think what the parent means to say is that, in a war created by politicians, it should be fought by politicians. My Prime minister doesn't like your president. Ok. Grudge match! Stick em both in a ring and let them fight it out. First blood, till death, whatever. Doesn't matter. Or perhaps a forfeiture of that leader's assets should be on the line. Hit em where it hurts. You lose, you retire and lose the entirety of your assets to the victor.

    Point being... leave the rest of us out of it.

  16. Re:Up to 11 on US Navy Wants Smart Robots With Morals, Ethics · · Score: 2

    Actually, with the invention of the NATO round, bullets are designed to maim instead of kill. This way, one bullet can take out 2 or 3 people from the immediate "action". One to get shot, and up to two to carry the wounded solider to safety.

  17. Re:Cause and Effect on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1

    I think the suggestion was that by blocking the calls, the people had to concentrate on driving, thereby preventing the accidents from happening in the first place, which negates the need to make those 911 calls that might have been blocked.

    Wow, that was confusing to type.

  18. I would think on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, I would think that this is mostly to do with publicity. Once someone calls your software into question in a very public light, you will be more willing to go through your project with a fine toothed comb and clean up all that old cruft you've been meaning to clear out.

    This is not a sign of inherent insecurity, but one of obvious house cleaning.

  19. Re:Left-Wing Propoganda on Criminals Using Drones To Find Cannabis Farms and Steal Crops · · Score: 0

    Wait, what? So if a mother miscarries, we should toss her in prison for murder?

  20. Re:i read my first science fiction black hole para on Lasers May Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox · · Score: 1

    Not the 1920s but that was a short story by Azimov called "Old Fashioned" published in 1976 I believe.

  21. Re:Don't they need... on L.A. Police: All Cars In L.A. Are Under Investigation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is what I was thinking. Have the cameras doing the scanning, no problem. The camera scans a plate, then does a search for specific violations such as: Is the vehicle reported stolen, Has the vehicle been flagged as having received more than N parking or traffic violations, etc. Only a few select items to scan for. If it's a positive match, flag it and track it and notify an officer. If it's not, immedielty purge the record and move on to the next one.

    To me, that does not sound wholy unreasonable.

  22. Re: Summary is wrong on How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan · · Score: 3, Informative

    the iphone is a non player here in japan. a good estimation based on what i see on the train is one in ten. the rest are a split between android and flip phones, which still offer more features than an iphone. things like saifu keitai, one seg, etc.. are considered necissary features here. the iphone just cannot compete.

  23. Re:Plenty of scientists on Report: Space Elevators Are Feasible · · Score: 1

    Ahh, but say the ballast asteroid cut loose, or the cable was severed above the center of mass, the remainder of the cable would still be attached to the earth. The rotation of the earth would impart some lateral velocity to what was left. The end of the cable would immediately begin to accelerate and would either burn up in the atmosphere (which shouldn't happen at the strengths of materials needed to build such a cable) or hit the ground at hyper velocity speeds devastating anything within kilometers around the line of impact. On the positive side, we would get a nice line on the equator, kinda like what we have on maps now :)

  24. Plan 9 Torrent on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 1

    Site doesn't seem to be accepting any connections to download this so here's a magnet uri:

    Magnet Link

  25. Bittorrent Sync on Ask Slashdot: Distributed Online Storage For Families? · · Score: 1

    There's this program called bitsync: http://getsync.com/ which you each have a client on your computers. Share hashes with each other, and you get a distributed, synced in real time copy on each client running the software. It's free, secure, and no servers required. You each have a copy locally, and any modifications are replicated to each client.