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  1. Fantastic on StethoCloud Project Diagnoses Pneumonia On the Cheap · · Score: 1

    Good Stuff!
    Smartphones moving towards a Tricoder?

  2. Shoot Through on Weather Delays Two NASA Launches · · Score: 0

    I really don't know what bad weather has to do with rocket launches.
    These things fly very fast, basically straight up and would do so through clouds and bad weather.
    So what's the issue(s)?

  3. Re:Put an offline wikipedia on it on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    BiNU - an app that installs on any phone that can run Java and runs smartphone apps via the cloud..
    http://www.binu.com/
    and then donate.

  4. Quatermass and the Pit on Curiosity Rover Fires First Laser Beam At Martian Rock · · Score: 1

    A classic take on the Martians
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTiZJFRRlwE

  5. Re:NASA never met a problem... on Curiosity Rover Fires First Laser Beam At Martian Rock · · Score: 1

    LASERs.
    It's an acronym.

    You missed the periods
    L.A.S.E.R.s

  6. Re:One problem... on Curiosity Rover Fires First Laser Beam At Martian Rock · · Score: 1

    Repeating myself here:

    "Hello! We are silicone based lifeforms and we invite you t....." (sizzle... pop! ... fizzz.....)

  7. Re:I want to buy that rock on Curiosity Rover Fires First Laser Beam At Martian Rock · · Score: 1

    No it wasn't! It was a mutant space goat!

  8. Re:Nice tagline... on Birth Control For Men Edges Closer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Large sacks are good as they allow the balls to swing and pound for the extra thrill.

  9. Re:It's the server that's not on Hacked BitCoin Exchange Sued By Customers · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just got some spam email from a Nigerian lawyer who is offering me 2.5 million bitcoins if I pay 150 bitcoins to help him get it out of the country.
    Does this mean that the deal is off?

  10. Re:Secret Life of Plants on Disney Turns Plants Into Multi-Touch Sensors · · Score: 1

    Me too. That was the Indian guy Bose who did all the demonstration work.
    Another aspect of my '70s hallucenagia.

  11. Re:Yes but.... on Microsoft Reaffirms Default Do-Not-Track For IE10, Windows 8 Express Setup · · Score: 1

    There's no reason for why they shouldn't.
    Also, IE9 + tracking protection does work like an AdBlock of sorts. At least its an alternative to Firefox and that dastardly thing called Chrome.

  12. http://www.iegallery.com/en-US/trackingprotectionlists

    Why doesn't anyone use these?
    MS has given the ability to filter this stuff out already. Nobody looks though.

  13. I think the only reason Joe Public hasn't revolted is most people don't know just how bad online tracking has become.

    How do you mean that? That they are ignorant for whatever reason, or, the advertising they are seeing are of their interest because of targeted tracking?
    In that case, tracking can be controlled somewhat by the use of IE add-ons that have different levels of filtering,

  14. Ok then - ' in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone'. I never got to Revelations as the Old Testament freaked me out too much.

  15. Re:Is that a man or a woman? on The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing · · Score: 1

    It would be an interesting thought exercise to include a 3rd 'human' gender in our species. I couldn't work out the fine details though....

  16. You've got to be joking! on The Cost To 'Promote' a Facebook Post: $200 To $500 · · Score: 1

    I often wondered why fb wouldn't allow user preferences to control their timeline. You are right. It is lame.

  17. ALL PHYSICS is subjective. And it's subjective by the very nature of us being human, which I and many others believe are actually part of the universe we are exploring. It is impossible to separate human experience from this. The very act of perception cannot be denied by any experiment to define an objective truth.

  18. Re:Soooo on Entangled Particles Break Classical Law of Thermodynamics, Say Physicists · · Score: 1, Informative

    There's no Hell in the Bible. It's an invention of the Zarathustrans.

  19. Re:Any cost to entangled particles ? on Entangled Particles Break Classical Law of Thermodynamics, Say Physicists · · Score: 2

    I also wonder how the "demon" knows which particle on one side corresponds to the entangled particle on the other side. It's not like they have labels on them or anything.

    There's a lot in that. The entanglement 'demon' you allude to is probably not discoverable, but the science it creates has the potential to be astounding.

  20. It means that the laws of thermodynamics depend not only on classical phenomenon and information but on quantum effects too.'"

    You mean they didn't already know that?
    Geez!

  21. Re:The Ludovico Technique on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    Hmm... There was also the Ludovica Military Academy in Budapest. I thought your comment was somehow related.

  22. Re:Can a story be modded "Troll" or "Flamebait"? on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    Tell me more of this 'Ludovico' that you speak of?

  23. Re:Facebook ... on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    I think we all need more FWD: 's
    Not that many traversing the cables nowadays :)

  24. Re:Interweb on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this have to do with the pipes of the internet?

  25. Re:And 2+2=4 on The Web Is Not the Internet · · Score: 1

    I think all of you in this 2+2 discussion have forgotten in that some early versions of B.A.S.I.C. integers were always rounded down as there was no provisions for a decimal place.