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  1. :O on A New Class of Inflatable Robots By OtherLab · · Score: 0

    Dunno about the previous class of inflatable robots, but for some reason Japan comes to mind...

  2. Re:And in the US on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 1

    Still too early for a Terri Schiavo joke?

  3. Re:And in the US on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 1

    Depends on the mayo. The salad dressing and other slop passed off in North America (at most places) I find worse than eating the fry plain. A nice jar of Calve though goes great with fries (but you can hear the arteries harden and waist expand).

  4. Re:BC Comic on Heavy Duty Electric Unicycle Maker Takes On Segway · · Score: 1

    Not directly..more the game based off it..jumping logs, ducking branches..and trying to cross rivers on turtle back...that alone almost makes me want to get one.

  5. Re:I did on Fee Increase Attempt Inspires 'Dump Your Bank Day' · · Score: 1

    What is the point at all behind giving cash? If they are on your xmas list, you'd be on theirs one would imagine. So you send them 20$, and they send you 20$..and the only people that are actually getting anything is the bank and postal service. Unless you're just doing charity gifts, upon which case...only at xmas?

    I'd actually sooner see the giving of cash as a gift for *children*, as you likely might not be aware that 'little Jessie doesn't like Bieber anymore', and so safer to proxy it through the parents. Else wise, a well thought out gift or don't bother-just send a card.

  6. Re:Why not... on Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    Mhm, but it's amusing how similar the scenarios are to what was bitched about back in the day with regards to Microsoft...and yet seems so different. It didn't really (to my experience) polarise people along these lines. You had Microsoft haters, and you had apathists; apart from a few shills, there didn't seem to be zealots engaging in a Holy War to protect Lord Gates. Now days though, if you deign to appear to denigrate an apple product...

    Tangent: Arrived at work today to see a guy from head office installing something at my desk. He didn't bring the manual, assumed didn't need to. He said the new software shouldn't be a problem to integrate. They didn't figure the new procedures would be onerous. "Just try to keep an open mind" he asked as he side-stepped to reveal an apple computer emplaced above my PC...

    Do they expect persecution or something? Seriously, it was an effort to affect being annoyed at 'this infidel product'. Now the one button mouse on the other hand, yeah...but if it does the job it's required to do...

    ----
    FLAC...my music on PC is FLAC, but I down-sample to mp3 for battery life on my portable. I can tolerate a quality loss if it means quintuple the usage time. Is it really that much of an issue? I use a Clip+ and the battery life difference is eight hours worth: Flac kills it inside two hours, but 192 CBR mp3 lasts over ten.

  7. Re:I'll be celebrating Halloween instead. on Ask Slashdot: How Are You Haunting Your House This Hallowe'en? · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean Oidhche Samhna

    Prefered Spelling!=American spelling

  8. Re:French justice? on French Court Orders ISP To Block Police Misconduct Website · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/search?q=policeman+jailed&hl=en&safe=off&tbm=nws

    so...today.
    But don't let facts get in the way of a good rant.

  9. Re:Astrolabe, Inc. v. Olson et al on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 4, Informative
  10. Re:Well... apparently teh site hosting this crashe on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Change 'wave tech' at it' to 'wave magic wand at it' and Star Trek easily ports to being a story of a galleon sailing an archipelago, solving incidents and disputes on the various islands. Deal with hostile villages and rival empires/trade groups. Captain has a woman in every port...

  11. Re:Who cares on Why Star Wars Should be Left to the Fans · · Score: 1

    So it's like going to a Dinosaur Exhibit and being shown birds... we want to see what it was then...

    Although I'd buy it in a heartbeat if Vader hurled Palpie while screaming 'Do Not Want'.

    Side note: does Lucas owe me a refund? I went in expecting a complete movie, but if he's only now finished it, I want part of my ticket back, or at least an investor stake in his production :D

  12. Re:All I can say is... on Why Star Wars Should be Left to the Fans · · Score: 1

    Sadly, in 100 years it will still be under copyright, so you have to make sure no one is in line of sight of your giant screen illegally watching.

    Jokes on him though, in 100 years we'll be watching it on holographic projectors and he'll be dead, so the final cut won't be his version anyways :P

  13. Re:she was warned on Star Rips Exoplanet To Shreds With X-Rays · · Score: 1

    *sniff* oh for a mod point...

  14. Re:Here's an idea. on Social Media a Threat To Undercover Cops · · Score: 1

    Because with Napster the users were the ones doing the actions, while all Napster did was index and enable the transaction. Facebook would be indexing and sorting out pics regardless of who took what (and you can't say every photo was uploaded by the picture taker, or with permission of the taker, or with permission of the subjects in said picture (important in some countries)). If they could blame Napster, they could (try to) blame Facebook.

    Not necessarily saying they could or should win, since it does seem stretching things (unless 'suddenly' it's under some data protection/state secret/patriot act thing)... but it does amuse me to picture some mafioso with a Facebook gallery of witnesses for the prosecution, hoping for Facebook to recommend people in witness protection caught photographed at a picnic or such

  15. Re:Here's an idea. on Social Media a Threat To Undercover Cops · · Score: 1

    It's the Napster defence?

  16. Re:Astounding! on 'Instant Cosmic Classic' Supernova Discovered · · Score: 1

    Soon

  17. Re:Dear Apple on More Photoshopped Evidence In Apple v. Samsung · · Score: 4, Funny

    My desk had wheels. With the UPS I had a good 5 minutes of mobile!!

  18. Milage will vary on Do Spoilers Ruin a Good Story? No, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    In the stuff I read, the starting cast isn't necessarily the finishing cast: a major character might not survive past the half of the book. Knowing that so-an-so survives immediately removes any tension in any scene where their life is at risk. So while 'the journey may be better than the destination', in some cases, a spoiler destroys the journey.

  19. Re:Digital Data Compression: Music's Procrustean B on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    Use one:plagiarize.
    Use many: it is research.
    Don't forget footnotes.

  20. Re:So does this mean I can stop seeing those ads on The Electric Airplane Is Coming · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't ever have had to see them. The Russians made a hydrogen-fueled commercial airliner (Tu-155) 23 years ago. They later changed fuels to nat gas, but she initially was oil free (fuel-wise).

  21. Re:Many claim so and most a quite wrong. on Public AAC Listening Test @ ~96 Kbps [July 2011]. · · Score: 1

    Personally have a cheap little 4Gig Flash Clip+ for running/blading (logic is "if I'm falling I don't want to be distracted with worry about damaging my player".

    A full charge lasted somewhere between one and two hours playing FLAC, catching me by surprise. Re-encoding with 192 cbr shot that to ten-ish.

    </personal anecdote>

  22. Re:Yay. on Peter Adekeye Freed, Judge Outraged At Cisco's Involvement · · Score: 2

    will happen again --> will never happen again

  23. Re:Napoleon was Italian :-) on Scientists Study Impact of Wearing Medieval Armor · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is the French aren't bad soldiers, as long as they are lead by non-French, or their opponents are also French? =P

  24. Re:Not justice on Jury Acquits Citizens of Illegally Filming Police · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a stage you're missing.. between the initial arrest by the officers and the actual trial..say, an arraignment, where the charges could have been dismissed?

  25. Re:I am not worried on Fake Apple Stores Mushrooming In China · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the melamine in the milk not so much an issue of quality control (implying exceeding tolerance 'accidentally') but more corruption where they tried to fake higher protein levels by purposefully adding it?

    Lead in toys was idiocy in paint choice, while the rest of the recall was design flaw, not so much manufactured poorly...

    In sum: I'd not worry so much that they couldn't reproduce the vaccine if they tried...but more that someone will decided to use a few substitutions without validating, someone else will dilute the stuff with a toxin to increase 'production', and any initial design flaws will be faithfully recreated as well.