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  1. Re:Retina Displays? on Samsung Terminates LCD Contract With Apple · · Score: 1

    I didn't comment on how long I thought it would remain a meaningful term, only that I believe it would lose meaning at some point in the future.

  2. Re:Retina Displays? on Samsung Terminates LCD Contract With Apple · · Score: 1

    I'm inferring quite a bit, but my take on the OP's comment is that the term Retina Display is meaningless to him, not because of ignorance, but because he understands the principle behind the term and is more interested in the actual numbers.

  3. Re:Retina Displays? on Samsung Terminates LCD Contract With Apple · · Score: 1
    It's also a marking term that apple has trademarked. http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/appletmlist.html

    It won't mean much of anything once even the most basic screens exceed the retina display criteria.

  4. Re:Check your countries. on iPhone 5 GeekBench Results · · Score: 1

    Someone needs to overclock the iPhone 5 and upload the results for a fair apples to androids comparison then.

  5. Re:No need to deflect it on No Bomb Powerful Enough To Destroy an On-Rushing Asteroid, Sorry Bruce Willis · · Score: 1

    I think you're basically arguing that it's better that the shotgun pointed at you from two foot away be loaded with shot instead of a deer slug.

  6. Re:Time and Place on Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit fuzzy on the details but generally for extradition you usually have dual criminality. Shooting someone in Scotland from England is a crime in England and Scotland, so your anaolgy is flawed as I don't think O Dwyer has been charged with any crimes in England.

  7. Re:not really practical application on Gamera II Team Smashes Previous Best Human-Powered Helicopter Flight Time · · Score: 1

    Do you also feel that all the school projects you've ever worked on were futile as well?

  8. Re:Solution on Samsung Galaxy S3 Face Unlock Tricked By Photograph · · Score: 1

    The silver surfer could probably unlock the phone as well.

  9. Re:There should be a -1 SPAM mod on MIT Creates Glucose Fuel Cell To Power Implanted Brain-Computer Interfaces · · Score: 1

    I would have to assume that by the length of the spam post and how annoying it was even to skim over that it can only serve one of two purposes.
    1. some sort of google rank gaming
    2. To evoke a negative feeling towards MyCleanPC

  10. Re:Why not a crawler? on New Curiosity Rover Landing Target May Save Months Travel to Prime Destination · · Score: 1

    Aside from stability issues others have mentioned, a snake large enough to house all the stuff in the rover would be very well, large I think.
    link chosen from google image search becasue you can get an idea of scale from the people standing beside the rover. http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-20013071-239.html
    Combining and recombining like a Japanese cartoon robot works best in cartoons. Sand and other realities would make it difficult to execute well on Mars

  11. Re:Same As the NTSB on No Tech Panacea For Tech-Distracted Driving · · Score: 1

    I intentionally left point 2 very vague and it covers both scenarios you mention. Regarding your last point, I don't think it's effective to use angry ranting to convey precise reasons.

  12. Re:Same As the NTSB on No Tech Panacea For Tech-Distracted Driving · · Score: 1

    I'm used to cycling in city traffic (Dublin, Ireland) and sensors and empty junctions don't factor there. Some of the quieter areas might have them but I honestly don' t know. All I know for sure is that outside of the city there are plenty of junctions which don't have sensors. Oh and I don't push any buttons when I'm on the bike, I just run them once it's "clear" :D

  13. BUY NOW!!! on Splashtop Drops Windows 8 Metro Testbed Onto Android · · Score: 4, Funny
    FTA

    The app usually costs a whopping $49.99, but it’s currently on sale for $24.99, so get it while it’s hot.

    or you know, don't.

  14. Re:Same As the NTSB on No Tech Panacea For Tech-Distracted Driving · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I've wondered about that myself. Assuming the traffic light system remains unchanged, 2 reasons I can think of against allowing any flexibility in running red lights are

    1. Force of habit, if John Doe is used to running red lights since the junctions nearby are always empty he might plough into someone absentmindedly when at an unfamiliar junction.

    2. Ambiguity, a red light is a red light, a “clear junction” is open to interpretation

    I’m sure there are plenty of other reasons against the idea, but the above two seemed enough to me.

  15. Re:People do what you incite them to do on Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland · · Score: 1

    Your informative statement is at best an anecdote. I realize that I have the whole of the internet to research what you attest to, but you could at least provide some idea of which Finish benefits are better and why.

  16. Re:It's a design patent... on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops · · Score: 1

    I was going to reply the same, but then I figure he was referring to the linked website. I used to use adblock to remove annoying blot out the screen flash adverts, some where along the way I stopped bothering since I think it contributed to the odd glitch on some websites (to each their own). It seems to me that those intrusive ones are not as common as they were anyway obviuos skip buttons etc, and I don't notice the others any more. Either way I never clicked on an advert unless perhaps by accident, so I wouldn't say from personal experience that slashdot would lose money if I were use adblock. I guess the parent poster needs adblock to protect himself from himself maybe?(:P) To attack the other side of the argument, it seems to me that slashdot is entitled to make money whatever way they see fit. I wouldn't recommend making money in a way that annoys the core user base, but whining about it off topic seems a bit pointless to me.

  17. Re:1 of my favorite Antenna channels on Grad Student Wins Alan Alda's Flame Challenge · · Score: 1

    It's not just you, I don't know if it's early onset old age or what but I do feel trolls were better back in my day. I commented as much recently http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2879609&cid=40142035

  18. Re:Really? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    You may well be right, but when you throw out a blanket "most people" you're speaking for every religion and person on the planet. I imagine there are several countries out there where sleeping in on a Sunday doesn't factor much into the equation.

  19. Re:Why would it need studies? on TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1
    A number attached to username is an obvious example of a fact.

    groupthink hasn't posted anything since 2005 http://slashdot.org/~groupthink/comments, so no.

    Where are all the good trolls, these ACs are useless.

  20. Re:Why would it need studies? on TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    One obvious difference between the two is 2234483, but then you don't really care since you're probably just trolling anyway.

  21. Re:USA should have some experience from Asia on Sound Increases the Efficiency of Boiling · · Score: 1

    :) Have you ever eaten a plate of bacon & cabbage with floury potatoes?

  22. Re:Not sure that is new... on Sound Increases the Efficiency of Boiling · · Score: 1

    I'm interested to know if this would increase the efficiency of a hydrogen generator, the ones that split water using positive and negative plates. I'm sure it's been tested at any rate, seems obvious that it would be worth testing when you read the summary.

  23. Re:USA should have some experience from Asia on Sound Increases the Efficiency of Boiling · · Score: 1

    Bacon is a fairly broad term, here in Ireland boiled bacon and cabbage is common and quite tasty actually. We're not boiling rashers, it's a large cut of meat and boiling is a perfectly valid way to cook it.

  24. Re:The relevant part on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    if...pfff...every year is a hole year on /.

  25. Re:pebble? on Ask Slashdot: Wrist Watch For the Tech Minded · · Score: 1

    That only makes sense if they don't ever plan to make more.