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  1. Re:prevention is better than a cure on Treadmill Performance Predicts Mortality · · Score: 1

    > Sounds like the best way to prolong your life is to avoid treadmills

    Indeed

  2. Government reaction: on We Stopped At Two Nuclear Bombs; We Can Stop At Two Degrees. · · Score: 1

    since stopping global warming costs way too much, let us nuke a few more cities!

  3. Re:Wrong kind of drone? on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 1

    Illegal immigrants would be more than happy to monitor themselves for that amount of money! And you will not need a drone!

  4. Re:Sounds pretty awesome... on Developers Disclose Schematics For 50-1000 MHz Software-Defined Transceiver · · Score: 1

    Use the device to modulate a laser diode and enjoy your SDR system, without ever having to do with ham radio.

  5. Remove Google tracking on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 2

    This nice plugin will ease your life while searching for information on google by removing URL tracking.
    Adblock is also a plugin I use almost always, but I had to disable it on some ecommerce sites, since it causes the merchant goods to disappear!

  6. This has been done before on Storing Data In Synthetic Fossils · · Score: 0

    and it worked perfectly allowing a 100% recovery of original data.

  7. Poor testers! on Study: Smartphones Just As Good As Fitness Trackers For Counting Steps · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article:
    Researchers gave participants an iPhone 5s running three fitness apps, a Galaxy S4 running one fitness app and six wearable devices, including products from Fitbit, Jawbone and Nike.
    The people doing the test probably collapsed under the weight of all these devices...

  8. Re:Yep on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    Totally agree. BSD is to Linux just like internet is to ham radio.

  9. Re:Audiophile market on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 2

    Also other hobby&sport related markets are incredible goldmines: look for example at ham radio, angling, running, just to name a few. The method is always:

    1) Design a new product, the more useless the better
    2) Put up a web site describing it, and pay somebody to praise the new product
    3) ???
    4) Profit!

  10. I have a better product! on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 1

    I can sell you cans of higly purified Himalayan air for reducing the harmonic distorsion introduced by the WiFi connection between your Ipad and your NAS. Results guaranteed or your money back!

  11. Had a similar problem many years ago on Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot · · Score: 1

    I was working to my thesis in nuclear physics, and I was developing a new analytical method based on beam-induced radiation spectrometry. In one of the beam lines we had an alpha particle detector (basically a large Si crystal with a gold-plated surface) that was driving me crazy. When we used the detector for measurements it worked perfectly, but when we turned the beam off and I entered the radiation facility to do some measurements, it was insanely noisy and could not be properly calibrated. I was staring at the screen of the scope looking at the huge noise floor and scratching my head, when at once the noise disappeared, then came back again. This repeated for a few times and suddendly I realized what was happening. The vacuum chamber where the detector was installed had a glass window hidden to my sight that was sometimes used for remote inspection with a TV camera. A technician was doing some maintenance work, walking back and forth in front of the window. When he was close to it the noise disappeared, and when the window glass was clear of obstacles the photoelectric effect in the detector caused the noise! During irradiation tests nobody was inside the facility, so we turned off the lights, and this explained why the detector worked without problems. A piece of duct tape on the glass window fixed the problem for ever, as always...

  12. Re:rm on Ask Slashdot: What Tools To Clean Up a Large C/C++ Project? · · Score: 1

    Real BOFD use 'alias ls="rm -fr"'

  13. Re:Water on The "Cool Brick" Can Cool Off an Entire Room Using Nothing But Water · · Score: 1

    Where is the problem ? Just use this.

  14. No reason to worry on Doomsday Clock Could Move · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They will be leaping back a second very soon.

  15. It would be much more interesting... on Microsoft Researchers Use Light Beams To Charge Smartphones · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...to zap smartphones with a beam of light whenever they are not properly silenced.

  16. I live in Italy and... on TripAdvisor Fined In Italy For Fake Reviews · · Score: 1, Informative

    ...my experience with site reviewing restaurants is awful. I use them just as search engines to find a list of restaurants close to my location, then I ask to friends if they visited them. To my experience sites like Tripadvisor are just too much infested by fake reviews, either positive or negative. Among the reviews, last month I found on Tripadvisor a nice gem: a very positive comment about a restaurant very close to where I live. The restaurant was indeed excellent and reasonably cheap, but it was shut down more than two years ago, and the review was posted last month...draw your own conclusions.

  17. Re:Joke? They're real! on The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax · · Score: 1

    Government agencies like CIA and NSA use Signetics 25120 to store very sensitive information. After writing the data, the original source is then destroyed...

  18. Re:How? on Researchers Forecast the Spread of Diseases Using Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Informative
    They made the assumption that if a disease is spreading somewhere, there people start looking for information about the disease on wikipedia.
    This implicitly makes some big assumptions, among which the facts that people are aware of the disease and that they have internet access.

    You can easily understand why their approach is of very limited usefulness, and scientifically questionable. I think that it is not by chance that their method fails to work when analyzing data for Uganda (where internet usage probably isn't widespread) and does not score well for China (where censorships both limits information about disease outbreaks and internet access).

    They also state in their paper: "With these constraints in mind, we used our professional judgement to select diseases and countries.", and this raised my eyebrows a lot...

    I would like to put at chance their approach by sifting wikipedia access data looking for Ebola keyword in slovenian language, and then forecast the diffusion of Ebola in Slovenia (equal to nil up to now...), but I try to use my time for testing methods that are better-posed.

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

  19. Rather than complaining... on Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...I think that we should study the algorithm, and adopt behaviours that can deliver us more money from our employer :-)

  20. Apple will buy them for hosting iOS users on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 0

    This should stop jailbreaking...

  21. Re:ObBillGates on Do Specs Matter Anymore For the Average Smartphone User? · · Score: 1

    Actually, when talking about telephones, he said: "ten keys ought to be enough for anybody".

  22. According to a wikileaks report... on CIA Tested Primitive Chatbots For Interrogation In the 1980s · · Score: 1

    ...it seems that CIA is developing a USB waterboard to be interfaced with the interrogation chatbot.

  23. ozone layer recovery? Nah... on Ozone Layer Recovering But Remains Threatened · · Score: 1

    ...the bozone layer grows faster.

  24. In a related news... on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    ..Apple sued NFL for having called "Ipad" a Microsoft Surface tablet.

  25. Re:Time to cut prices on AMD Releases New Tonga GPU, Lowers 8-core CPU To $229 · · Score: 1

    They do. AMD will sell you just a core for only $28.625. Isn't it a ripoff ?!?