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  1. Re:To be stolen, and hidden in the desert on Radical Dual Tilting Blade Helicopter Design Targets Speeds of Over 270mph · · Score: 1

    Durrrrrrrrrrr!!!

  2. Anti-personnal flash on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    Get a very high-powered flash unit (sometimes called an antipersonnel flash for its ability to temporarily blind people) and set it up as a slave flash so that any internal flashes firing will set it off. This will probably work but the occupants won't like it much. It could also be triggered by flashes coming in from outside, so may actually be counterproductive and assist the paparazzi outside.

  3. Reflectivity map... on Game Developers' Quest To Cross the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 1

    In the same way that they have a bitmap (image) for the color of the surface, why don't they do a map for reflectivity? Real people and other things aren't uniformly reflective over the whole surface. That is why even raytraced stuff looks like plastic. Maybe someone has done it, but I've never seen it, even in movies where they have as much time as they need for raytracing.

  4. Same as lost luggage... on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He shouldn't have had them in his checked baggage, since it's well known that checked bags often get lost. If something's that important, it should be in your carry-on.

  5. How is this different from a feeding tube? on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Some people have to live a specially-prepared supplement through a tube, sometimes for years. How is this any different?

  6. It would have made more sense... on Expansion of Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Suspended · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It would have better if you'd posted this in the topic about RUSSIANS in SPAAACE!!!!!!

  7. Re:Execution not ideas. Get it in writing. on Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Having the ability to execute the idea isn't required to get a patent. By leaving off one of the inventors, they committed perjury.

  8. You do realize that was a fantasy article... on California Becomes First State In Nation To Regulate Ride-Sharing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...about the future. Google isn't selling any driverless cars.

  9. Dude, you'll have to tell me where you get that... on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    ...awesome ganja you been smokin'.

  10. Re:Call me old fashion on Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB & 1TB TLC NAND Drives Tested · · Score: 1

    What is it with SSD controller failure?

    The processor, bridges, memory controller and memory, and all the other chips in a modern computer, can run flat-out for many years without failure.

    What makes the controller chips in a SSD fail so often? (And I don't believe you about the controllers in a HDD failing, I've never had one fail, or even known anyone who had one fail, out of hundreds of hard drives run for many years, but I've heard of several SSDs failing in just the few that my friends have tried). Do they spend so much on the Flash chips that they have to go that cheap on the controller chip?

  11. Re:Call me old fashion on Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB & 1TB TLC NAND Drives Tested · · Score: 1

    Hence why we want to see a study that compares overall failure to old-fashioned drives, taking all failure modes into account.

    I would like to see some evidence that SSDs are more reliable.

  12. Re:Notify Xerox First on Xerox Confirms To David Kriesel Number Mangling Occuring On Factory Settings · · Score: 1

    It's not a security problem in the sense that people knowing about it won't be able to exploit it. In other words, public knowledge of the problem won't hurt security any more than it already has been, which is what the earlier post was talking about.

  13. Re:HFT on HFT Nothing To Worry About (at Least In Australia) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Things like 1% management fees and high expense ratios on 401(K)s (which can end up costing you 3/4 of your retirement money), combination life insurance/savings plans (almost always a ripoff), and more specific to day-traders, things like how the AP sells early access to hedge funds, insider trading, that type of thing. I would argue that even the ads on CNBC trying to convince people that they can make money day-trading qualify as a scam. Also, see this video:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/yes-markets-rigged-survive-shark-infested-waters-143233110.html

  14. Re:HFT on HFT Nothing To Worry About (at Least In Australia) · · Score: 2

    I have heard the argument that the HF traders are actually taking money from the exchanges, rather than the other traders (because they reduce buy/sell price spreads, it's actually beneficial for the traders). That is why they've gotten so much publicity (because the exchanges have big lobbying budgets). There are other things which hurt the average trader a lot more than HFT but they're mostly unknown.

  15. Re:First for banning HFT on Tweet From Hacked AP Account Causes High Freq. Traders To Drop DOW 150 Points · · Score: 1

    Madoff's track record was good... until it wasn't.

  16. Saw this in Popular Science 15 years ago... on Hybrid RotorWing Design Transitions From Fixed To Rotary Wing Mid-Flight · · Score: 1

    Everything that's old is new again.

  17. LED bulbs suck... on A Tale of Two Tests: Why Energy Star LED Light Bulbs Are a Rare Breed · · Score: 1

    I bought a number of different LED bulbs back when they were even more expensive (around $50 each). None of them lasted for more than a year or two. I think it was the power supplies, not the actual LEDs. And, they were in the open, not in an enclosed fixture, but they still got extremely hot. So if they only test it for the life of the LEDs, fuck 'em. They need to test the electronics too.

  18. Re: ageism on Silicon Valley Presses Obama, Congress On Immigration Reform · · Score: 1

    Apparently the ability to detect sarcasm declines with age...

  19. It doesn't help... on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't help that Congress is basically stealing $5 billion a year from the post office. They're making the USPS fully fund retirement plans over a very short time, and that money is going into government bonds, which ends up in the general fund. If it wasn't for the budget shenanigans that Congress pulled, the Post Office would be doing fine.

  20. Re:I recall... on Proposed Posting of Clients List In Prostitution Case Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What are you talking about? What two other acts, only when taken together, constitute murder?

  21. Get a safe deposit box on Ask Slashdot: Best On-Site Backup Plan? · · Score: 1

    Go to your bank, and for around $100 a year you can keep your drives in their vault. You should be able to fit 4 2GB external drives in the smallest-size box (but bring them with you to make sure).

  22. Contact Info on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1
  23. Re:it's stupid, but I don't think as strong as tha on Craigslist Demands Exclusivity For Postings · · Score: 1

    It's not a derivative work unless it's based on the original (in other words, if you modified the Craigslist ad). If you wrote another ad from scratch for the same item, it's not a derivative work.

  24. Sack of shit spammer on Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    None of the linked articles even contain the word Democrat. What the fuck are you talking about?

  25. Sack of shit paid spammer on Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    None of the linked articles even contain the word Democrat.