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  1. Re:What's this for? on Tricorder Project Releases Prototype Open Source 3D Printable Spectrometer · · Score: 1

    for teaching.

    and your assertion not useful for identifying is wrong, as 200 years ago the bright areas in light spread by a prism were marked on graduated arc for identifcation of compounds. no reason a normal digital camera with time exposure couldn't be used to replicate the effect with permanent record.

  2. Re:What's this for? on Tricorder Project Releases Prototype Open Source 3D Printable Spectrometer · · Score: 1

    nonsense, get yourself a prism, set it near flame on stove in the dark, and photograph with digital camera the patterns made on countertop made by shooting things into the flame of your stove (table salt, baking soda, sugar, talc). did this with bunson burner as kid in school, noting bright parts on graduated arc same as 200 years ago.

  3. Re:maintenance on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    but you are wrong, fragmentation can severly impact performance in the real world. Some people *do* defrag files under Linux when it becomes a problem

  4. Re:Rewriting multiple tracks everytime I add data? on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    bullshit on "done safely", instead of loss to a single file a power loss or unexpected interuption wil be devastating to the intergrity of an enormous amount of data.

  5. Re:Are governments interested in long lifespans? on New Research Could Slow Human Aging · · Score: 1

    get raised on welfare and turn out a politician? disgusting.

  6. Re:What's this for? on Tricorder Project Releases Prototype Open Source 3D Printable Spectrometer · · Score: 1

    or heat it to incandescence. did a slashdotter really need to have a spectrometer explained? They've only been around in various forms for 200 years.

  7. nonsense, there were and are over a million electronics hobbyists in the world (trivial to prove). I started when I was ten; and couple decades later managed CADD/CAE electrical engineering group.

  8. Re:already have electronic token currency on Bitcoin Kiosks Coming To 5 Canadian Cities · · Score: 1

    oh I am scared of paper money/mainstream digital money, but its the only game in town.

  9. Re:already have electronic token currency on Bitcoin Kiosks Coming To 5 Canadian Cities · · Score: 1

    might be good for many people, but my bank, which is a national chain, doesn't charge me to use its ATM or those of its affiliates. but having bitcoin value drop a large percentage in a short time is the same as middleman, though if you acquire them at the right time you get super interest.....well, too crazy for me.

  10. Re:"HERP DERP AL GORE" on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? · · Score: 2

    Al Gore is the village idiot, we're just enjoyng him. A real retard is anyone who idolizes him as a "green" person, as his house pulls the power of over twenty normal family's, and he travels by private jet. what a fucking hypocrite, and what a bunch of retards who think he is the climate messiah. let me clue you in, he gets laws passed to influence markets and he profits from them.

  11. Re:Where are the people really serious about CO2? on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? · · Score: 1

    only in stupid places. smarter countries are ramping up their nuclear programs and even more planning too in the near future.
    http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Others/Emerging-Nuclear-Energy-Countries/

  12. Re:I'll start taking AGW seriously on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? · · Score: 1

    absurdly biased statistics, that smarter countries aren't believing. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Others/Emerging-Nuclear-Energy-Countries/

  13. forget Expensive on Samsung Unveils Galaxy Gear Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    who wants a bulky ol' think strapped to their wrist? I'm thankful we've evolved beyond the need for that kind of jewelry with our smart pocketwatch/phones.

    Leela: " Hm. This thing I wear on my wrist says they're not poisonous"

  14. Re:Wake me up when you make the smart-shoe on Samsung Unveils Galaxy Gear Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    Smart Shoe? Maxwell Smart had one in the 60s. Maybe not that smart...

  15. Re: 24 bit 192kHz audio? on New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free" · · Score: 1

    a person wouldn't have to pay anyone, the mp3 will pop up by themselves just as they do for other copyrighted works. only difference will be its total legality.

  16. already have electronic token currency on Bitcoin Kiosks Coming To 5 Canadian Cities · · Score: 0

    Most US and Canadian dollars and euros and yen are just numbers in a computer. Why do we need bitcoin, you can only buy trendy overpriced crap from a relatively few places with it. and its value recently is volatile as hell Fuck bitcoins.

  17. Re: 24 bit 192kHz audio? on New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free" · · Score: 1

    Once freely released as high quality and lossless encoded, it can be converted and distrubuted in any lesser quality form.

  18. Re:Every piece ever? on New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free" · · Score: 1

    plenty of places in the USA pronounce shopping pretty much as that

  19. Re:all america does is create enemies on Making a Case For Cyberwar Against Syria · · Score: 1

    because thus far we haven't avenged anything including 9/11 attacks. We just scattered Al Qaeda to the four corners of the islamic world, and made Iraq, where they weren't, into an Al Qaeda recruiting center. right now we're negotiating with the Taliban in Afghanistan, because we suck so very very badly at avenging. Let's imagine a superhero who looks like Uncle Sam, called "The Failed Avenger". He'll be so quick on the draw he shoots his foot off, and when he swings his Mace of Justice at an enemy he'll miss and whack his nutsack.

  20. Re:Chemical Weapons Convention on Making a Case For Cyberwar Against Syria · · Score: 1

    Completely irrelevant, Syria has not signed that treaty so are not bound by it. Irael, a US ally, has not ratified it either.

    We are not at war with Syria, and have no reason whatsoever to engage them in war. History shows intervention by the USA in a civil war is a guarentee to quadruple the body count, we don't help we kill and destroy for defense contractor oppotunity.

    Syrians will continue to kill each other regardless of what the USA does, and it doesn't matter what weapons they use. dead is dead.

  21. Re:Wow, how time flies ... on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    yes, a new fork for gun enthusiasts. the default shell will be 2.75inch. the "tap" command will send a SIGTERM, "doubletap" a SIGKILL. on boot, the magloader will load, charge and fire a kernel off. The arsenal manager will get ammoboxes from the ammodumps.

  22. Always been at war with Eurasia on Leaked Documents Detail Al-Qaeda's Efforts To Fight Back Against Drones · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Putin claims Al Qaeda is the main echelon of the Syrian rebels, and that Kerry knows this. But Obama has been pushing to arm them for over a year. So here the USA is, about to jump into that fight, on the side of the rebels, against the will of most of We the People.

    If Putin is right, the issue of how Al Qaeda is going to shoot down US drones becomes moot, they'll do it with the anti-aircraft weapons Obama is going to provide them. Oh, you might say, but the Senate resolution says we'll vet any group of rebels we support. yes, because they wear labels with faction affiliation on them....

  23. Re:Bipolar planetary nebula on Mystery Alignment of Planetary Nebulae Discovered · · Score: 1

    Galaxy says, "You're just jealous of the high amount of pointing in my massive bulging package and a Milky Way of spooge that goes from horizon to horizon"

  24. Re:I have a nightmare... on Martin Luther King Jr's Children In Court Over MLK IP · · Score: 1

    do his children get off on beating the shit out of women like daddy did?

  25. Re:Munich? on US and Israel Test Missile As Syria War Tensions Rise · · Score: 1

    nonsense. over 100,000 people have already been gunned down or blown up with conventional bombs.....dead is dead. if people over there want to gas each other let them, because they'll kill each other in other ways anyway. we don't need to jump in the middle of a fight with terrorists on both sides. Look at history, the USA makes civil wars *much* worse when it jumps in, we're saving lives staying out of it