User: thisisnotreal

Re:Kill yourself

On: Tech Billionaires Are Asking Scientists For Help To Break Humans Out of Computer Simulation (businessinsider.com)

I think this is the case..

Re:Paper & Pen for Flexibility

On: Slashdot Asks: Do You Prefer To Handwrite or Type Notes? (npr.org)

Anonymous Coward, Some good tips in there. thanks.

Re:livescribe, ever try it?

On: Slashdot Asks: Do You Prefer To Handwrite or Type Notes? (npr.org)

I want to believe in this tech.
but I'm reading that it's still not there yet..
anyone care to opine?

Re:write. on paper

On: Slashdot Asks: Do You Prefer To Handwrite or Type Notes? (npr.org)

same.
lol on the fluff comment! So many fluffers use fluff for their lives and career.
and it's still fluff.
lol

Re:Handwriting for security

On: Slashdot Asks: Do You Prefer To Handwrite or Type Notes? (npr.org)

send her back

Trackrecord

On: Replacing Butter With Vegetable Oils Doesn't Decrease Risk of Heart Disease, Says Study (medicalxpress.com)

Honestly. These food and body researchers have a horrible track record here with these things. I saw someone wrote Today's Health...Tomorrows horror.. No shit. These people have a worse track record than weatherman in calling it. These are 'scientists'? 'Engineers"? What the hell is going on.

Re:I love start ups but they're not for everyone

On: Ask Slashdot: Joining a Startup As an Older Programmer?

this is good advice.
And by anyone's standards....burning man is pretty intense...and the fact that it is mainstream at that company...speaks a lot to me. These kids are intense...and it might be a lot of fun. Or alternately, there might be a lot of fools there. depends on specifics..

300 is not a startup.

Re:mathematica?

On: Wolfram Language Demo Impresses

HAH!

Re:Take pictures, press charges.

On: Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass

i prefer baklava

I add my voice to the protests

On: Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

I do not like the Beta in any way. I wish it to be abandoned, and/or slashdot classic to remain as an option.

Re:Kunta Kinta Speaks His Thougts and the World +

On: LeVar Burton On Google Glass

hilarious

Re:Kunta Kinta Speaks His Thougts and the World +

On: LeVar Burton On Google Glass

What the hell does this mean. Is this because we hated Serenity?

Re:I'm getting tired of this industry

On: Alcatel-Lucent To Cut 10,000 Workers, Calls It "Shift Plan"

here's a blooming career option: Euphemism Nomenclator.
Who else to come up with terms like "Shift Planning" / 'Right Sizing' / 'Realignment'

Re:More like...

On: Alcatel-Lucent To Cut 10,000 Workers, Calls It "Shift Plan"

damn. i just dropped this steaming pile up there before seeing yours..

Re:'Shift Plan', because...

On: Alcatel-Lucent To Cut 10,000 Workers, Calls It "Shift Plan"

was thinking 'the shit plan', personally

Re:I'm getting tired of this industry

On: Alcatel-Lucent To Cut 10,000 Workers, Calls It "Shift Plan"

medicine, education

Re:RIP Bell Labs

On: Alcatel-Lucent To Cut 10,000 Workers, Calls It "Shift Plan"

remember when Nortel crashed in canada. the pillars are falling down :(

Re:Classic strategy

On: Alcatel-Lucent To Cut 10,000 Workers, Calls It "Shift Plan"

oh fuck.. i hope you're wrong.

Re:Could not replicate (as many others can't)

On: iOS 7 Lock Screen Bug Leaves Certain Apps Vulnerable For Access

It is disappointing, but true.
Phone security will never be, and we should acknowledge it then.
I guess...that's the thinking.
Then the question is just how insecure are we okay with?

Re:OUCH

On: Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn

yes. I do too. Agree with you. The last quotes you selected are fine ones.

Smashed?

On: Brazilian Journals' Self-Citation Cartel Smashed

There was nothing physically smashed. I got all excited that someone stormed into a server room and physically destroyed things in a tittilating and completely unnecessary way. What the heck, man!?

Re:How will they be compensated?

On: Surveillance Story Turns Into a Warning About Employer Monitoring

LOL!

Re:Isn't this well known?

On: A Climate of Violence?

this is why canada is so nice!

Re:photosynth

On: Disney Algorithm Builds High-Res 3D Models From Ordinary Photos

Thanks!

photosynth

On: Disney Algorithm Builds High-Res 3D Models From Ordinary Photos

Wasn't this the first time? Photosynth demo.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-8k8GEGZPM