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  1. Re:Obvious application on MIT Research Amplifies Invisible Detail In Video · · Score: 2

    What if the undead wanted their privacy hidden? Maybe they don't want everyone screaming and yelling when they enter a room and just want to unlive normal lives?

  2. Re:The question is on The World's First Supercavitating Boat? · · Score: 1

    After seeing firsthand what Juliet Marine built with $5 million, Kinsella said, “If you were taken around by a handler from Lockheed or Grumman or Northrop or any of them, and they told you, ‘We developed this on $150 million,’ you wouldn’t bat an eye.” He told the story of a meeting with Avalon and its fund investors. Someone asked Sancoff, “How did you get to be so capital efficient in your company?” Kinsella relays, “He leaned on the podium and said, ‘Because it was my money.’”

  3. Re:Anyone surprised? on Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data · · Score: 1

    So you are arguing for security through obscurity; that the only way these cards will ever be secure is if Apple/Google/Microsoft all strictly monitor what gets posted to their devices?

    Sounds like a losing proposition. Just because you stick your fingers in your ears and say, "Only the elite hackers will be able to do this" will not make your data more secure.

  4. Re:64 cores on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 4, Informative

    But Flash is single threaded!

  5. Re:Attractive female politician + coder?! on 2 New Social Networks With Very Different Political Twists · · Score: 1

    It's close... not completely related, but I understand both your point and cpu6502 ... I personally hate that guys have to be the initiators of relationships, but get railed by harassment or called "creepy" when that initiation is unwanted by a particular person. It's social politics and not everyone is good at it. While that is mostly unrelated to a person being looked better upon by their sex in their profession it doesn't help the double standard society we live in.

  6. Re:Attractive female politician + coder?! on 2 New Social Networks With Very Different Political Twists · · Score: 2

    I can't wait for the day when the person's sex doesn't matter in what they do.

  7. Re:Follow the lead of long URLs on How Would You Redesign the TLD Hierarchy? · · Score: 1

    This of course would use the .husband TLD, parent to the .her subdomain.

    Sounds... kinky?

  8. Re:Country codes + Namecoin on How Would You Redesign the TLD Hierarchy? · · Score: 1

    I like it... can I be one of the TLD Internet Diplomats who get diplomatic Immunity for operating outside of all country borders?

  9. Re:Wait, Surface? on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    Is that like Chevy renaming the Nova to Geo Prizm?

  10. Re:How much effort is needed by the developer now? on Unity 4 Adds Linux Support · · Score: 2

    Considering Wasteland 2 was promised to Linux users that backed it... and that they were working with the Unity team to permit Linux support... I'd say it's probably a fair conclusion to say that it will ship. If they decided not to ship it, there would be quite a few upset people on the whole Kickstarter process, inExile, and everyone involved.

  11. Re:Fuck yeah! on Unity 4 Adds Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Quick Internet search nets me a wikiquote page for him: (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman)

    Some GNU/Linux operating system distributions add proprietary packages to the basic free system, and they invite users to consider this an advantage, rather than a step backwards from freedom.

    Whether this is before or after something else he may have said is unknown.

  12. Re:Interesting on Rockstar Creates 'Cheaters Pool' For Game Hackers · · Score: 1

    I've also heard of "aimbots" that only fire when you have a perfect headshot... so all you have to do is just point and wiggle around a player and it will auto-fire when you have the shot. You could even fire off a few rounds to make it look like you are actually playing.

  13. Re:Wow on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    Mine has always been at the top left. (Well, at least on the Windows computer I use at work.)

  14. Re:I don't have a beef with one on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    All sorts of phones do, but most of them I've used don't place buttons where you hold the phone or have such sensitive buttons.

  15. Re:I don't have a beef with one on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    I've held one in my hand and I kept accidentally hitting the buttons on the side causing the phone to do things I didn't want.

  16. Re:utter pointlessness on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    I may be a bit ignorant, but I believe the cap is replaced during the reload so the serial number would be thrown out with the spent cap.

  17. Re:Damn! on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    (perhaps just general harassment of gun owners?)

    That's my vote. Make it annoying to carry (it already pretty much is) and law abiding citizens will just not do it.

  18. Re:Help on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5625/are-shorter-lines-easier-to-read

    Several studies found that longer line lengths (80 – 100 cpl) were read faster than short line lengths (Duchnicky and Kolers, 1983; Dyson and Kipping, 1998). Contrary to these findings, other research suggests the use of shorter line lengths. Dyson and Haselgrove (2001) found that 55 characters per line were read faster than either 100 cpl or 25 cpl conditions. Similarly, a line length of 45-60 characters was recommended by Grabinger and Osman-Jouchoux (1996) based on user preferences. Bernard, Fernandez, Hull, and Chaparro (2003) found that adults preferred medium line length (76 cpl) and children preferred shorter line lengths (45 cpl) when compared to 132 characters per line.

    In other words, Inconclusive and Subjective.

  19. Re:Just use Bing on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    But they will notice. If you use a larger search engine, your query is easier to drown out in all the other noise.

  20. Re:The summury sums up why its a joke on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is as about related as killing someone by gas/chemicals as killing someone by strangulation is.

    What if your partner wanted to try choking as a sex act? What if you Googled it to find out how dangerous and/or if there are implications to it. What if you typed "choking someone death" in Google to try to find out more about choking deaths? What if they did pass while in the act and it was truly an accident or there was something you didn't know about them (there could be countless things that could go wrong. Maybe you missed one.

    Maybe you are housecleaning and you want to find out if some chemicals interact and may cause death.

  21. Re:Help on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    That's subjective. Sure, you can more easily scan to the next line, but if you let the text go all the way out to the edge of the screen you have to do less scanning. Several of his sentences would be one line on my screen requiring no scanning whatsoever.

  22. Re:lets sort out the conspiracy theories on Ray Bradbury Has Died · · Score: 1

    That's what they want you to think!

  23. Re:surely they're joking on Richard Feynman's FBI Files Released · · Score: 1

    Does it come in grape?

  24. Re:During the Cold War on Richard Feynman's FBI Files Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those damn mind control pens!

  25. Re:lets sort out the conspiracy theories on Ray Bradbury Has Died · · Score: 1

    I suspect it may have had something to do with the Earth orbiting the sun over 90 times since he was born

    If we stop the Earth from orbiting the Sun, we can prevent countless deaths.