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  1. Re:Yes, But... on "Ballooning" Spiders Use Electrostatic Forces To Generate Lift · · Score: 1

    Spiderman doesn't do web flight.

    Don't be so sure. http://flickr.com/photos/giantsizegeek/7368940948/lightbox/ And since he's a "Science!" superhero, you can bet he'll use this in a fight against Electro soon.

  2. Good luck with the vaguebooking on Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort To Find Meaning In Your Posts · · Score: 1

    humans can't figure that &#$* out.

  3. Re:Yet another story... on Work Halted On Neal Stephenson's Kickstarted Swordfighting Video Game · · Score: 1

    die by the sword sucked as a game

    Blasphemy. You just didn't have a good joystick.

  4. Good for resume too. on Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving On Bitcoins · · Score: 2

    Worked in internet advertising between tech jobs.

  5. Re:Easily avoided on iOS 7 Lock Screen Bug Leaves Certain Apps Vulnerable For Access · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are plenty of people who want an instant camera instead of fumbling with passcodes and opening the camera app for 30 seconds.

  6. 'like from a beer mug' on Crowdfunded Bounty For Hacking iPhone 5S Fingerprint Authentication · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or from the iPhone itself.

  7. Lawyer with sexual fetish podcast on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    lawyer who also runs a popular sexual fetish podcast

    Really? No "I am not a lawyer" acronym jokes yet?

  8. Re:It is about the printer not the gun. on 3D-Printed Gun Bought and Displayed By London Art Museum · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, if they're like any other museum, they'll have a few 3d printers around to print out plastic trinkets for a buck or two. Most will be pre-made, and you can select your model and watch the re-stock item get made (if you're patient enough).

  9. Re:That's awesome on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 2

    It's good to be the king.

  10. Will be illegal in France on Intel's Wine-Powered Microprocessor · · Score: 1

    Changes the flavor of the wine, I'm sure.

  11. Re:Predatory investing? on Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets · · Score: 1

    Because their purpose isn't to invest. Their purpose is to own stock in a company for 0.00001 seconds until it rises in value, then dump it. It's not investment. And what most human traders do isn't investment either, but at least when they hold on to stock for a day or two, you could pretend that they're intending to keep it and make sure the company they partly own will do well. With the HFT, there's not even that pretense.

  12. Re:Predatory investing? on Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets · · Score: 1

    Why isn't it a good thing? It's definitely collaboration since it culls weak strategies and computer trading programs that are more vulnerable to such "predation".

    Because trading stocks is about the transfer of investment, not the transfer of wealth. Strategies shouldn't even enter in to the mix, let alone "computer trading strategies".
    Stock trading should be like the episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" with the Hickidu cards. Ray and the other kid's dad are all thinking about the dollar value of the cards, whereas the kids are interested in the cards themselves. Investors who see their stock in a company as a vehicle to get money by selling it don't really care about investing, they care about gambling on a semi-sure-thing. A real investor wants to see a company grow, and receive a modest return on the investment in the form of dividends. That dividends are now a rarity shows how badly the system of trading stock has been perverted.

  13. Re:Predatory investing? on Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets · · Score: 1

    Trading stock in companies exists to facilitate the transfer of investment. Investment is the end goal for society, not trades.

  14. Predatory investing? on Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Investment is a collaborative strategy, a symbiosis. Programming "investment bots" to be predatory is not a good thing. It introduces parasites into the mix.

  15. Re:rrrrrradical! on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    Didn't the original iphone have a unibody aluminum shell for the back?

  16. Re:Betteridge's law on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Some call it HVAC tape. Handy for a million other projects too.

  17. Re:Jobs must be rolling in his grave... on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 0

    half of iphones in the wild having something wrong with them. cracked screens and dead power buttons being the common problems..

    You're holding it wrong.

  18. Re:Luddites. on British TV Show 'Blackout' Triggers Online LOLs · · Score: 1

    No one believed or should have believed Red Dawn. It was clearly a work of fiction in a movie theater, not a television broadcast formatted like the nightly news (with the same talking heads as the real news covering the story).

  19. Re:Sounds promising on Syrian Gov't Agrees To Russian Chem-Weapon Turnover Plan · · Score: 1

    Or the rebels could have been trying to gas the Syrian military with the stolen chemicals but ended up gassing themselves. Never ascribe to mere malice what you can ascribe to malice and stupidity.

  20. Re:"The only problem? It's GMO." on Interview With Professor Potrykus, Inventor of Golden Rice · · Score: 2

    Do sweet potatoes grow in boggy fields? Golden rice can grow in current rice fields.

  21. Re:Ugh on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 1

    He's probably referring to binary blobs from Adobe or Autodesk which say they're for RHEL, but don't really care what version of Linux they're on because all of the libraries are statically linked. Being a newbie, he didn't realize that "Designed for Windows 8" doesn't mean "Will only work on Windows 8. If you attempt to use it on Windows 7, a Baatezu will be summoned to drag your soul to the lower planes".

  22. Re:the best os for creative people on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 2

    Yes. Now I want you to render on paper a preview of the video I'm cutting.

    Do you want a storyboard or flip book?

  23. Re:You can't trust any mainstream Linux distro on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    if you don't keep the penetration from happening, the log can just disappear.

    not if you copy the logs to another server and constantly print the logs with a line printer.

  24. Re:It has never been safe. on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Probably submerged mineral oil cooling since water cooling 16 pci cards might be difficult.

  25. Re:Dangerous Crypto mistake - my testing results on Time For X-No-Wiretap HTTP Header? · · Score: 1

    Your mistake was in not doubling the triple. Always use triple rot-13 twice. It's sextuplely encrypted and you can use it easily.