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  1. The drake equation is a thought experiment of literally unknown variables. This entire simulation is a joke.

  2. Paid Advertisement on Once a Forgotten Child, OpenSSL's Future Now Looks Bright · · Score: 4, Informative

    Someone has to be shilling to post a summary like that one. The only future for OpenSSL is to be replaced over time by LibreSSL or another competitor.

  3. Re:Prince XML on Ask Slashdot: Best PDF Handling Library? · · Score: 1

    I'll have to second the recommendation for PrinceXml.

    After investigating and trying at least 9 other open source kits I eventually gave up and went with PrinceXml. You can try the 'trial' version easily and it just works easily. Their support is actually good as well. I wish there was a good pdf toolkit that was open source. But they all seem to just do one odd piece of the puzzle poorly.

  4. Far reaching repercussions on Court: Oracle Entitled To Copyright Protection Over Some Parts of Java · · Score: 1

    So at this rate I assume we'll get an appeal to the technologically illiterate supreme court and virtually all code written will violate someone else's copyright.

  5. Re:And Apple are still listed why? on Futuremark Delists Samsung and HTC Android Devices for Cheating 3DMark · · Score: 0

    I guess I'll have to buy that shiny brick then. Because I can't imagine Apple giving a rat's ass about any third party benchmark. It hasn't even been available for more than six months and I can't imagine Apple marketing quoting anything they didn't make themselves.

  6. Open GPU? on Dual-Core Allwinner A20 Powered EOMA-68 Engineering Card Available · · Score: 1

    Even the GPU is open? That seems to be the current problem child for being completely open. I can't tell from the summary and the site doesn't work without javascript. Anyone know?

  7. 297 Suns? on New Solar Cell Sets Record For Energy Efficiency · · Score: 1

    I don't think we'd care what the efficiency would be if Earth had 297 suns. jk

    What's the actual efficiency when used at a single sun? Is this technique only useful with hundreds of mirrors?

  8. Basic Statistics Deception on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    60% increase. Yet no relevant data for scale to understand the shift. No wonder someone else called it 'technically true'.

  9. Email Statistics on Researchers Buy Twitter Bots To Fight Twitter Spam · · Score: 1

    Does hotmail have no security at all to detect bot created accounts? 60+% of all them. That's ridiculous.

  10. Re:Public access has waned? on Global Study Stresses Importance of Public Internet Access · · Score: 5, Funny

    So what they're building in Utah isn't actually a datacenter. It is the worlds largest internet cafe!

  11. Stop going to theatres. on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just stop going entirely. It is expensive and isn't even as nice as watching at home or with friends. There's certainly no chance that social conventions will make it palatable again within our lifetimes.

  12. OMG The Sky is Falling! on Why You Should Worry About the Future of Chromebooks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lighten up people. The world isn't going to fall into some permanent software as a service hellscape.

  13. Re:Why wont JS just go away on JavaScript Comes To Minecraft · · Score: 1

    Until every browser supports LUA I'm not sure how you'd get Javascript to go away. There are very few (non-primary/embedded) scriptable engine languages. Besides with all the recent development Javascript is probably the best one.

  14. Obligatory on Intel CEO Paul Otellini Retiring · · Score: 4, Funny

    He stepped down just before 40 years so we could make 39.9876 year pentium jokes.

  15. John Gilmore on New Malware Variant Uses Google Docs As a Proxy To Phone Home · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "The malware interprets security as damage and routes around it."

  16. Re:Idiots and lasers = bad combo on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    I had no intentions on shining lights on airplanes or innocent people at all.

    What guilty parties did you intend to shine it at?

  17. Paradigm Shift Backlash on Legitimate eBook Lending Community Closed After Copyright Complaints · · Score: 2

    Every time the world's underlying assumptions shift there's some backlash and attempt to prevent the future from inevitably coming. But honestly either I'm just too knowledgeable about current events or everything I've read about other historical similarities seems tame in comparison. Yeah it was more violent but the world was just more violent then. Easier to club some heads or burn some equipment than employ lawyers. The breadth and scale of the backlash across everything in the digital space is just depressing.

    Copyright, first sale, fair use, etc.

    This was just the equivalent of a book club (slightly monetized). A twist on a library. This is getting ridiculous.

  18. Re:depressing becuase it's so accurate on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 2

    Can we even nominate those two? At this point they're practically Sci-Non-Fi.

  19. Re:Heinlein! on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not sure I'd consider The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as depressing. I'm still sad for Mike but I'm not sure how you'd find the story depressing.

  20. Awesome! on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't care how stupid, impossible, and just damn right eccentric this sounds.

  21. Re:Uh....May Fools Day? on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 2

    This edition has been in the work for a long time. So they really didn't even let 4th live in priority for more than three years. I'm not sure they have a good thing going though at all. Everyone I know played 3rd, 4th but eventually consolidated on Pathfinder. Does anyone like their pen and paper role playing game simplified down to 4th's level?

  22. What percentage of cancers leverage that? on Low Oxygen Cellular Protein Synthesis Mechanism Discovered · · Score: 2

    Does someone know? The summary implies all of them. But considering cancer is more of a collection of problems rather than a specific issue it just seems unlikely.

  23. Re:Don't you have to enter your password? on Federal Court Allows Class-Action Suit Against Apple Over In-App Purchases · · Score: 4, Informative

    You do have to enter a password but it does cache it for a short time. So in theory a parent making a purchase and handing an iOS device to a child could enable the child to make purchases at will for a short time.

  24. Audiophiles on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 0

    "I can't hear your rational argument over the impeccably better-than-perfect sound from my 83 trillion dollar sound system. Thank you, Monster!"

    For the rest of us on /. haven't we had all of our music in FLAC for a decade now? I don't even listen to music much and mine is.

    I'm not sure why this particular technology is so bizarrely specious in claims. I'm sure in fifty years we'll argue over the best neural interface with its platinum, massaged, better than reality addition is.

  25. Aren't all CAPTCHAs doomed to fail eventually? on Researchers Break Video CAPTCHAs · · Score: 4, Informative

    We need some made up law.

    "Anything a computer can generate it can understand."
    This is why chat bots still suck. Computers cannot generate context.