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  1. epub is XHTML on Is Free Software Ready For E-publishing? · · Score: 1

    LyX already supports output to XHTML. Merely generating XHTML output and renaming the file extension to epub has a good chance of working.

    Some things might have to be tweaked, however, and that would require changes to the LyX source code.

  2. Re:Y2k as most expensive mistake on The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake · · Score: 1

    Because that one was a two-byte mistake.

  3. Object determined to both cure and cause cancer on Mysterious Object Found In Seabed · · Score: 1

    This is, after all, the Daily Mail.

  4. Re:Scandinavians on Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    weapons grade or not

    That distinction would be wrong to gloss over. While it is relatively easy to build a nuclear reactor (not a safe one, mind), building a nuclear weapon (and merely producing or handling weapons-grade nuclear material) requires technological and industrial resources beyond any individual. Therefore, this is not nuke material. It is at worst usable in a dirty bomb.

  5. Belt buckles, shoelaces and a piece of gum on Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who needs radioactive material to build a nuclear reactor? This is clearly no Macgyver.

  6. Re:Lesson learned on Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    It's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission, unless you're looking to stay out of jail...

  7. Re:In other news... on Making Graphics In Games '100,000 Times' Better? · · Score: 1

    Something where if you take a shovel, and dig, you can dig up rocks, and other bits-- or even bury loot, or build a house out of ambient materials, and have it be persistent.

    Yeah, that'd be awesome. A game where you could mine and craft all kinds of stuff... what to call it...

  8. Re:All of those studies are the same on Study Compares IQ With Browser Choice · · Score: 1

    The smaller the sample group, the more intelligent the average in it

    So the users of IE for MacOS are both supergeniuses...

  9. Re:But first, get a lawyer. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With the Business Software Alliance? · · Score: 1

    If the BSA comes in and says it has an affidavit from a former employee that says he was eyewitness to license violations

    Until they end up in court, they might simply have an informal tip-off. The former employee might be disgruntled enough to cause some trouble, but it's another thing to sign a false affidavit, which is perjury and a felony.

  10. Re:Heist on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    And then what? Try to deposit it?

  11. Gone far enough on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 2

    The Republicans are boycotting all plans that place the slightest tax burden on rich people, hoping to chicken the administration into agreeing to its cuts to social spending. They do this because they know that while they wield enough power to obstruct the government, it's Obama's face in the news when the shit hits the fan, or the government takes ridiculous measures like this.

  12. What it comes down to on Pakistan Tries To Ban Encryption · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The particulars may vary, but the essence is that you try to forbid people to have secrets from you.

    Once you see it in this light, the paradoxical futility becomes clear.

  13. Re:I've got an even better idea on MIT Unveils Sun-Free Photovoltaics · · Score: 1

    mice and a supercomputer

    So, what is the ultimate question?

  14. Re:ruh roh! on Sniffer Hijacks SSL Traffic From Unpatched IPhones · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Cue is the correct term in this context. Fail.

  15. Awesome on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    Now get ready as self-declared statisticians interpret and reinterpret the data to say what they want it to say. Put on some rubber boots, the bullshit is going to get knee-deep.

  16. Very precise numbers on Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas · · Score: 4, Funny

    So either this guy is Hari Seldon and has a working theory of psychohistory, or this is mostly bullshit.

  17. iPhone 6b on 35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen · · Score: 1

    They should rename it to iPhone 6 a month after launch. A lot of people would buy it again.

  18. Re:Stuxnet on Iran Forced To Replace Centrifuges To Stop Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    intends to speed up the uranium enrichment process

    Yeah, excellent job there, guys.

  19. James Rupert on James Murdoch's Defense Crumbles · · Score: 1

    Wait what?

    I know who James Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch are, but who's James Rupert?

  20. Re:The Moon on Getting the Latest Rover To Mars · · Score: 2

    Who is going to build that colony? Not hundreds of humans in bulky suits who need to be supplied with oxygen, nutrients and shelter, who can work less than twelve out of twenty-four hours, and are easily injured or bored. Most of the large-scale construction (before a pressurized habitable area can even exist) must be done robotically because it's too dangerous and taxing.
    Figuring out how to engineer remotely guided robots and how to keep them from failing is at least as much part of these rover missions as exploring Mars.

  21. Re:Stop me if I'm wrong but... on Getting the Latest Rover To Mars · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Running out of altitude" is the most awesome synonym for hitting the ground I've yet heard.

  22. Misread that as... on Heathrow To Install Facial Recognition Scanners · · Score: 1

    Racial recognition scanners.

    Which wouldn't be all that different to what airports do now, come to think of it.

  23. Re:Let me get it right. on GNOME and KDE Devs Wrangle Over 'System Settings' Name · · Score: 0

    This is not the year of the linux desktop.

    I thought every year since 1991 has been the year of the linux desktop...

  24. Not a wholly owned subsidiary... on Google: Sun Offered To License Java For $100M · · Score: 1

    ... but they do hold a majority share. :-P

  25. Re:Just when I was hoping... on GE To Sample 500GB DVD-Size Discs Soon · · Score: 1

    Won't ever be. In a few decades, the dominant storage methods are more likely going to be some form of (holographic) optical memory and flash.

    (Though I don't think the disc form will survive, because the surface is too exposed. Higher density will make it even less durable. It's more likely going to be embedded in sticks or cards, which are also less fragile and more compact.)