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  1. Re:10 years = nothing done on 76% of Web Users Affected By Browser History Stealing · · Score: 1

    Same here. Opera 10.53, Javascript enabled -not that it matters.

  2. Re:Aww.. on Mobile 'Remote Wipe' Thwarts Secret Service · · Score: 1

    Ooooooh. No, better not drink rainwater. It condenses and falls from clouds.
    The same clouds seeded by the US Government and contaminated by CHEMTRAILS.

  3. Re:"nonfamily safe" on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 2, Funny

    This conversation has gotten too intelligent, compassionate, mature, and reasonable for Slashdot. This is your final warning! ~

  4. Re:Aww.. on Mobile 'Remote Wipe' Thwarts Secret Service · · Score: 1

    I thought you were going to say in microwave ovens, but you specifically are not using those I see. You really meant inexpensive.

  5. Re:hang on slashdot on Scientists Question Safety of New Airport Scanners · · Score: 1

    By "Wattage" you mean the output power of the transmitter. This relates to the photons as the flux of the photons multiplied by the energy of the individual photons. And the energy of individual photons is given by e=h*nu where nu is the frequency, h is Planck's constant, so the GP is correct in relating wavelength to energy. And this is significant because "wattage" doesn't express the damage that will be done. Increasing the flux of low-energy photons won't make a difference to your DNA but using higher energy photons may.

    Would you rather stand in front of, a few feet away from, a:
    (A) operating 50,000W AM radio transmitter antenna
    (B) operating 1000W microwave oven with door interlock defeated and an open door
    (C) Co-60 source with effective radiated power of 10W.

    Pot, meet kettle.

  6. Re:Help me understand oil dispersants on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    Your linked article says:

    "The Gulf of Mexico dead zone is an area of hypoxic (less than 2 ppm dissolved oxygen) waters at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Its area varies in size, but can cover up to 6,000-7,000 square miles."

    Wikipedia says:
    "The gulf basin is approximately 615,000 mi (1.6 million km). "

    That means the dead zone is approximately one percent of the area.

  7. Re:Worst Catastrophe In History on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    as opposed to not working? Oh, I guess the American company forced him to work there as well, and he could be making more working working for a local company if he had a choice.

  8. Re:I remember... on The Laser Turns 50 · · Score: 1

    Well I guess it found a few, huh?
    Construction levels
    Tattoo removal
    Drilling through printed circuit boards
    LASIK
    LIDAR
    amusing cats and their owners
    LASERIUM
    office printers
    lithography
    showing someone where a celestial object is
    particle counters
    inertial confinement nuclear fusion

  9. Re:Assassinated on Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Passport Confiscated · · Score: 1

    Non sequitur. He asked if ANYONE saw that, and you said MOST OF US can read.

  10. Re:Rarity score on Doctors Seeing a Rise In "Google-itis" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nice idea, but it probably wouldn't work very well. One, people are notoriously bad at estimating risk. Two, if you really think you have the symptoms that fit a particular disease, you'll just assume that "yes I really am that one person in 2.5 million that has this disease". Three, if one in a 100,000 is a "high-risk disease", because very few conditions have higher rates, it'll make it easier to convince yourself that you have it. Four, there is no fourth point.

  11. Re:Reading Comprehension on Armstrong, Cernan Testify Against Obama Space Plan · · Score: 1

    He didn't say racism is not an issue in the matter, he said it's not an OVERRIDING (i.e. the biggest) issue. It's one of a few or several. It's an issue but not the biggest. He has a law degree. He knows how to choose words carefully.

  12. Re:So what? on Microsoft Kills Support For XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    What, the curtains?

  13. Re:I see. on German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right.
    I always thought the argument for seatbelt laws is that if you get hurt or killed it costs society financially, so we can't let you let that happen.
    Of course, the next logical step would be total bans on smoking, and on high-calorie, fatty food and sugary drinks. The whole thing is not logical though, so, OK.

  14. Does this mean on North Korea Announces Achieving Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    that N. Korea is going to be able to have some lights on now?

  15. Re:I wonder... on New Metamaterial Means More Efficient Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Is it a "pickup"?

  16. Anyone try Sabayon? on Mandriva Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    If so, what do you think?
    I like obscure things, but there are probably reasons why I shouldn't.

  17. Re:GOLD! on Stock Market Sell-Off Might Stem From Trader's Fat Finger · · Score: 1

    boron's not really a metal. put gallium under your mattress, then when you warm it up with body heat it'll get slushy and not make you uncomfortable.

  18. Re:Gross on Crowdsourcing HIV Research · · Score: 1

    Is there a sort of disease where you *wouldn't* want to stay away from phrases like "viral load"?

  19. Re:Your website is so awesome..... on Consumer Webcams With High-Quality Sensors? · · Score: 1

    Opera handled it OK. The site even popped up a Javascript window letting me know that it knew I was using Opera.

  20. Re:that site on Consumer Webcams With High-Quality Sensors? · · Score: 1

    Site changed, webcam did not?

  21. Re:Not getting it... on MIT Unveils First Solar Cells Printed On Paper · · Score: 1

    It's nice to have options. Y'know, like when you go to the grocery store and they ask you (or at least used to ask you), "paper or plastic?"
    Next up, re-usable photovoltaic cells made from canvas!

  22. Re:Is it just me? on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 1

    6 x 10^24 attograms is more fun. 10 moles worth of attograms.

  23. Re:Mod parent up on Rest In Peas — the Death of Speech Recognition · · Score: 1

    I remember seeing a sign on the side of a highway in Eastern Washington that said "Family Hunting Club". I always enjoyed that one.

  24. On the other hand on Microsoft's Touted iPad Rival Courier Becomes Less Than Vapor · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was planned to only allow installation of one font, a certain typewriter font, to make it run faster and create a consistent branding.
      This did not do well in focus groups, who showed a preference for being able to use Comic Sans and other fonts.

  25. Conditions of cube? on Lego Robot Solves Bigger and Harder Rubik's Cubes · · Score: 1

    Does it have to be one of those well-broken-in, lubricated cubes that easily spin, or does it work with a stiff cube just out of the packaging? I'd bet it would not.