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  1. Re:Pffft on Chinese iPad Factory Staff Forced To Sign 'No Suicide' Pledge · · Score: 1

    In Utah that might be considered normal

  2. Re:Maximum douche on Face-Mounted Nose Stylus Created For Phones · · Score: 1

    Just wait until they invent a bluetooth nose stylus

  3. Re:ATM machines on Tech That Failed To Fail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, you're right. I don't go to the bank to have a lovely little conversation with the teller about the weather and the local sports team. I go to the bank to either 1.) Get Money, or 2.) Leave Money... These two jobs are perfectly suited to a machine, and in theory the machine should cost less to operate and thus lower banking costs... That's the theory anyway. The only problem I have with ATMs is that they seem to attract morons who can't operate them, and end up taking even longer than going to a human teller... Same thing with self-checkout at the supermarket. Outstanding idea -- I can get through those things in about 1/4 the time it would take even in the express lane. However, the problem arises that anybody over 40 can't seem to work them, and if you're behind someone over 60, well, just forget about it...

  4. Re:So uhh on Woz and the RCA Character-generator Patent · · Score: 2

    I agree. The patent seems appropriate for the time period. If it was so obvious to Woz, why didn't they contest the patent?

  5. Re:My name is finally appropriate on AppleCrate II: Apple II-Based Parallel Computer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple II == 6502 CPU from Commodore Semiconductor

    No, the 6502 was designed by Motorola and manufactured by MOS Tech. Besides, he's using enhanced 2e's which sported a 65c02 which was designed by Western Design Center...

  6. Re:This is just not true on Last Typewriter Factory in the World Shuts Its Doors · · Score: 2

    WTF does this have to do with news for nerds

    Well if you don't know, then you're clearly not nerdy enough.

  7. blah blah on Mars Orbiter Finds Buried Dry Ice Lake · · Score: 1

    could be evidence that Mars once had a thicker atmosphere and was able to have more water on its surface

    They say this about everything they discover about Mars... Just replace the headline with "Scientists discover XXX on Mars, which could indicate that Mars once had water."

  8. Re:Don't like it on Officials Say "Capes For the Unemployed" Plan Not Super · · Score: 5, Funny

    The people who thought this up should be fired in my opinion.

    Well that will help the unemployment problem for sure.

  9. Re:Bad things Happen in 3's on Doctor Who's Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane) Dies at 63 · · Score: 1

    Some kind of Dalek conspiracy?

  10. Re:the love of cloud on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 1

    Every day I get a corporate client asking me why they can't just keep their money in a bank.

  11. Chili? on CIA Declassifies Pages From Their Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Do they have a good chili recipe?

  12. Re:implications on Involuntary Geolocation To Within One Kilometer · · Score: 2, Funny

    My internet is just a series of tubes, so all you need to do is measure the distance the hamster travels in the tube. Simple.

  13. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    It's true that you may not have personally demonstrated it, but it's possible that you CAN personally demonstrate it.

    How do you know this? Are you just assuming, did someone else tell you, or have you personally done it? Do you simply believe, on faith, that you can do it? Someone else did it, you say? How do you know? You saw it on TV? You read it in a book? Your friend did it? None of those things proves it can be done. You do it -- then you have proven to yourself, and only yourself that it can be done.

  14. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    All of your examples COULD be reproduced, in theory.

    How do you know this? Are you assuming, did someone tell you this, or have you actually personally done them? Until you've done it personally, you don't know for sure if it can be reproduced. Even if you've seen it done on TV, even if you've seen it done live, you don't know. Until you've done it personally, you don't know for sure if it can be reproduced. It sounds to me like you believe they can be reproduced, on faith... That sounds a lot like religion...

  15. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    If I want, I can educate myself enough to perform the necessary steps to produce quantum entanglement.

    How do you know this? Or are you just assuming... How do you know that you can't educate yourself enough to perform a resurrection?

  16. Re:Summary is COMPLETELY WRONG on France Outlaws Hashed Passwords · · Score: 1

    It is still completely possible for Google to use hashed passwords to authenticate users and only "save" the plain password in a "write only" file (text or separate database) with the unhashed passwords...

    Wtf is a write-only file? Is that like a unicorn?

  17. Re:A simple solution on France Outlaws Hashed Passwords · · Score: 1

    would be against shareholder's interests

    God forbid a company does something against the shareholders' interests

  18. Re:To be fair... on Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics · · Score: 1

    the whole scenario is so complex that showing its compatibility with the Phong model must already be regarded as a remarkable achievement.

    I think what is remarkable is that the monolith is able to make its effect on the probes look identical to phong shading.

  19. Re:The Big Bang on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 1

    "I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain..."

  20. Genetic engineered mice on High Performance Gaming Mice Don't Perform · · Score: 1

    No surprise. Pinky and The Brain couldn't ever perform either...

  21. Re:What happened? on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 2

    All it takes is one accident, and you've got a disaster on your hands

    You can say this about anything.

  22. Re:GPL is the problem on Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    then no, you can't do that

    As soon as you utter that phrase, whatever it is you're talking about ceases to be free.

  23. Re:After sitting around for 53 years... on Sludge In Flask Gives Clues To Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    anything is going to have signs of life in it!

    Except maybe congress

  24. Re:Superman III on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 2

    Actually, that's the perfect password. Nobody would ever suspect it.

  25. Re:First on Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5 · · Score: 2

    First-open-source-space-game-that-runs-on-a-PDP-1-that-would-later-be-emulated-on-Java