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  1. Re:New MS business plan on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Generations was a guilty pleasure. Like Stargate. :)

  2. Re:Wait so now on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1

    All other Floyd > Dark Side. And the Wall has awesome narative structure and coherence. My favorite track from it is actuall "One of My Turns" for its crazy drop.

  3. Re:Tried playing this game on Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 40th Anniversary · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hell, as a DM I even lied about rolls with some frequency. Players rolled their own attacks for the excitement of it, but many of the various environmental checks and more bizzare actions taken by players were rolled behind a screen. (Along with many "fake" rolls to prevent metagaming.) Sometimes the lie was just more fun than the actual roll. :)

  4. Re:juicers on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1

    Consuming large volumes of juice (from any sugar-containing source, including most vegetables) is a great way to strain your pancreas. By emulsifying your beats and carrots, you make the sugars in them easily absorbed by the gut. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

    As an occasional meal, juicing is fine, but going on a long-term "juice diet" sounds like a disaster.

  5. Re:juicers on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1

    Extreme vitamin A deficiency can impair vision, but you would have a lot of other problems too. And anyone who eats meat already gets enough vitamin A. (On the up side, you cannot get vitamin A toxicity from carrots, and B-Carotene is selectively converted as needed. If you ate the liver of a carnivore you would become very sick from vitamin A overdose.)

  6. Re:The problem I have with this is that I don't th on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1

    Anything liquid is either going to be incomplete or hell on your pancreas. Fiber and starches are important. A glance at Ensure reveals 50g of sugar per cup. That's more than twice what's in Coke...

  7. Re:Possibly good for you on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1

    Gluten is plant protein, not a poison. That's like calling your bones a poison because some animals can't eat them. Besides which, the vast majority of people have very good wheat tolerance. Gluten is just the new food boogeyman, like glutimate was in decades past. (If you were alergic to glutimate you would be dead.)

  8. Re:Just had a meal on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 2

    You're missing the point that many people are incapable of generating tasty food and cannot afford to purchase pre-made food on a daily basis. Besides which, GGP's meal sounds like a fucking heart attack waiting to happen.

  9. Re:"Soylent Green is people!" on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1

    You can't read: never mind.

  10. Re:Where is everybody? on Studies Say Earth Won't Die As Soon As Thought · · Score: 1

    They keep calling F-35 "a fighter", but haven't seen it fight anything recently but problems.

    I see people fight over it all the time.

  11. Re:Predicts the internet on Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World · · Score: 0

    At least it's not some truck that the women were dumped on.

  12. Re:I can almost imagine how it might be done on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Would sites really not include a hashed version of the number for verification? I don't doubt there are bad system designers out there, but it would be shocking to be if such a large operation was designed so idiotically.

  13. Re: healthcare.gov or Nieman Marcus on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 1

    It is supposed to line up with the new medicaid cutoffs, so people in states not expanding medicaid are potentially superfucked. (Technical term)

  14. Re:Cool science coming... on CERN Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you mean does away with dark energy? Because dark matter is supposed to have positive mass, so I don't see how adding negative mass would remove the need for it?

  15. Re:New MS business plan on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Hmm.
    1 - Should have been an MST3K episode
    2 - Decent
    3 - :(
    4 - Awesome
    5 - :(
    6 - Decent
    6 - Awesome (Generations)
    7 - Awesome (First contact)
    8 - :( (Insurrection)
    9 - :( (Nemesis)
    10 - Decent (un-subtitled failure in foresight)
    11 - :( (Into Darkness)

    Not quite every-other unless you ignore TNG on (IMO).
    Also,
    whales > khan

  16. Re:Keep in mind the occasional bug in the system? on Examining the User-Reported Issues With Upgrading From GCC 4.7 To 4.8 · · Score: 1

    Just because the mission isn't critical does not mean that nothing is mission critical. :)

  17. boooo hostile redirects on 20 Million People Exposed In Massive South Korea Data Leak · · Score: 2

    I did not access beta.slashdot.com. I accessed the main website. Breaking my UI is not welcome...

  18. Re:I'm not for driver's "rights" on Driver Privacy Act Introduced In US Senate · · Score: 1

    Argumentum ad hominem much? People who don't want their every movement tracked are old druggy drunks who kill people?

  19. Re:And so it begins.... on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    Blocking ads is stealing! (C)

  20. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 3, Informative

    GP wants the exact opposite of a PDF. He is advocating for flexible design, not a rigid set of layouts. Trying to create a rigid page structure is exactly what causes problems. Stop micro-managing everything and start making your page simple. You talk about "what people want". I assume you mean what clients want, because consumers don't care about frilly menus. They want a fast loading website with buttons where buttons always go and content in stardard format. The people paying for the website think all of the bling is good, and it is your duty as the expert to try to explain why simple is better. Some clients will not listen, but that's their loss when their page only works on IE9 on 1600x900 screens.

  21. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    I like NoScript + RequestPolicy.

    RequestPolicy is pretty handy for blocking access to outside servers -- untrusted images on a forum, adds hosted on third party servers, etc.

    RequestPolicy does require frequent interaction to enable access to style sheets, etc, but I like it. It even lets you whitelist from X to Y, or from all sites to Y.

  22. Re:Just a guess on Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps · · Score: 4, Funny

    Big Broth-er-Google Maps

    Leave my soup out of this, you insensitive clod.

  23. Re:When will companies be held liable? on Starbucks Phone App Stores Password Unencrypted · · Score: 1

    With the general level of incompetence I have seen in electrical/electronic/software engineers and cs guys, I would say most people have no clue how bad their code is for security. Unless the industry somehow finds a segment of the workforce I've magically never met, I'd say they are boned because they didn't shell out the big bucks.

  24. Re:Supposedly, "non-US" data is removed on NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension fail. Re-read TFS. GP was correct in saying TFS was backwards.

  25. Re:So you want to retire a statistical term... on Why Standard Deviation Should Be Retired From Scientific Use · · Score: 1

    BTW, standard deviation has nothing to do with Gaussian distributions, other than Gaussians being parameterized by sigma. Standard deviation is just the second order moment of a distribution. It exists for many distributions, and does not 'belong' to any particular distribution. Is your problem with Gaussians or moments?