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  1. Re: multi-options on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Maybe in some universes coins are long cylinders and landing on the side is more likely, balancing out the possibilities.

  2. Re: You mean on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Don't even ask the questions; that's a way for someone to cry foul. Instead, trust the separation of powers and gridlock to keep the low IQ people from mucking everything up. Maybe have votes to vote select people out of office in case they get bad enough, but force the service when someone has been randomly chosen, just like with jury service, because you know the smart and successful people will look for ways to excuse themselves.

  3. Re: Get a real mail account on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 2

    And for sites that disallow plus signs in email fields, y..o.ur...nam....e@gmail.com resolves to yourname@gmail.com too. A little bookkeeping, and you can keep track just as with the +. Of course the companies can sanitize the dots or pluses when they buy or sell, thus the utility of your own mail server.

  4. Re:CGI? 1994 called... on White House Reportedly Dismissing Key Healthcare.gov Contractor · · Score: 1

    Naw man, CGI's all the rage in movies these days.

  5. Re:Exactly why I stopped buying Apple on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 1

    I've got a couple single core laptops with 2GB of RAM from the XP era which would have no problems running win7 or win8. Maybe a little slow, but they'd get security updates. They're currently running latest versions of Linux and are definitely getting updates.

  6. Re:Easy on How Do You Move a City? · · Score: 2

    I prefer the MOM method: allow raiders to conquer a city, reconquer it, and raze it. Costs some fame, but that's easily regained defending the new city.

  7. Re:AND THE POPULATION OF 17 !! WHAT OF THEM !! on How Do You Move a City? · · Score: 1

    They're not Eskimos. They're Sami. And they have 180 words for snow.

  8. Just leave on How Do You Move a City? · · Score: 1

    To borrow from a children's rhyme:
    Here are the streets
    Here is the steeple
    Look in the houses
    The city's the people!

  9. Select, but not fire on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 1

    I thought humans need to be in the loop at all times, so AIs can select, but humans need to pull the trigger. "Selected target image displayed above. [cancel] [OK]"

  10. Just like the German Protection Squadron on FBI Edits Mission Statement: Removes Law Enforcement As 'Primary' Purpose · · Score: 1

    Schutzstaffel!

  11. Re:So now... on University Developing Technology To Vote On Your Tablet, Smartphone · · Score: 1

    for an educated user.

    Which includes 0.001% of the population. Even a lot of IT/programmer types don't really understand how SSL does its gold-lock magic.

  12. Re:Typical Roman cuisine on Ancient Pompeii Diet Consisted of Giraffe and Other "Exotic'" Delicacies · · Score: 1

    And I've never seen a hamburger grazing in a field. Just pointing out that sometimes meat and animal are referred to by different names, so there might be no records of Romans eating camel leopards, but plenty of records of them eating spotted steak.

  13. Re:Ridiculous on Development To Begin Soon On New Star Control Game · · Score: 1

    DOH! that should be http://sc2.sf.net/


    "It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment" I know, I'm posting a correction.

  14. Re:Ridiculous on Development To Begin Soon On New Star Control Game · · Score: 1

    No, they sold the trademark and licensed the right to distribute the binaries, but P&F retained all ownership of the IP, art, stories, code, etc. That's why http://uqm.sf.net/ exists.

  15. the IP from Star Control I & II on Development To Begin Soon On New Star Control Game · · Score: 1

    they won't be using any of the IP from Star Control I & II

    Then it's going to suck. *frumple*

  16. Re:And your predictions? on Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Prediction For 2014 Is Viral and Wrong · · Score: 1

    Don't Date Robots!
    http://vimeo.com/12915013

  17. "eating at multi-flavored algae bars" on Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Prediction For 2014 Is Viral and Wrong · · Score: 5, Funny

    I eat at Taco Bell semi-regularly.

  18. Re:You know what they need right now on Chinese Icebreaker Is Stuck In Ice After Antarctic Research Vessel Rescue · · Score: 1

    They have an ice bridge.

  19. Re:dogs deficate not staring into the sun on Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 2

    You mean, the frightful day-star, it can actually move?! How fast is it? Can I evade it?

    ~370 km/s (relative to the cosmic microwave background) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

    That's slower than the speed of light, but if you see it coming at your planet, you can't avoid it unless you have a good space program.

  20. Re:What is this? on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    "Script kiddie" for me has always meant someone who employs scripts written by others. Writing a script is no different than writing a program that needs compiling. The only difference is in how they're run.

  21. Re:What is this? on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 2

    My guess is that submitter writes commands sequentially into .bat, .ps1, .sh, or .csh files then double clicks the files to run them. Not knowing anything about loops or conditionals, submitter is happy to just use shell scripts to run commands and considers this the command line.

  22. Re:I desperately want to give HBO my money on The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't feel silly about that. When netflix finally goes under you'll still own the TV series. (unless you "bought" it as a rental flash movie from the original distributor.

  23. Re:Too long on The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 · · Score: 2

    If [your sweatshirt] is stolen, when you return someone will likely be in your seat

    wearing your sweatshirt. Thieves are pretty brazen these days.

  24. Re:My password is printed on the side of my router on Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure they were all Vulcan names that humans couldn't universally pronounce correctly, so they dumbed them down to just the letter.

  25. Re:It's true -- but only root can read them though on Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Depends on the system. Maybe the user is supposed to have root or physical access to system X, but not access to wifi access point Y from system Z.