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  1. 365 Gigapixels on Making the World's Largest Panoramic Photo · · Score: 1

    So, basically your're telling me we can capture images in 365 Gigapixels now. Okay, I want a monitor to display this, a video card(s) to render textures that size and of course a new Cry engine to run video games in at this resolution (at 60fps!).
    Meanwhile, I hope I never have kids who want to go to college 'cause I'm putting all my savings towards that equipment...

  2. Re:What is it you want again? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? · · Score: 1

    This.

    I really think "Airplane mode" should be renamed something else ("Battery saving mode"?), I use it all the time as a battery saving function when I still need to access my phone for other purposes and it gives me massive battery increase.

  3. Unlawful duplication on In Second Trial, Ex-Goldman Sachs Programmer Convicted of Code Theft · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sergey Aleynikov, 45, was also acquitted on one count of unlawful duplication, according to Reuters. [...]. Sergey Aleynikov was also acquitted of unlawful duplication.

    Meanwhile, timothy is still at large....

  4. Re:There's a shock... on FBI Slammed On Capitol Hill For "Stupid" Ideas About Encryption · · Score: 1

    You mean the "special...brand of forensic science" - like DNA and hair analysis - that has proven to be outright fakery?

    *squints hard at screen*

  5. Re:100mph? on Amazon Gets Approval To Test New Delivery Drones · · Score: 1

    I was more asking if the devices being used are even remotely close to being capable of speeds of 100mph. Since it's only approval for Amazon in this one instance and the FAA isn't giving open season to everyone, I was wondering what Amazon's hardware is capable of.

  6. 100mph? on Amazon Gets Approval To Test New Delivery Drones · · Score: 2

    Is the less than 100 mph limit really necessary? And if so, how soon until those speeds are safe enough for the limit to be removed? I mean, if we have the capability to safely use >100mph drones for deliveries of any sort, we should be doing so immediately.

  7. Works for Brazil... on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1
  8. Re: One Word ... on As Big As Net Neutrality? FCC Kills State-Imposed Internet Monopolies · · Score: 1

    The U.S. Postal Service is the only government agency that generates its own money and doesn't get funding from taxes. I fail to see how no cost to taxpayers is more expensive/costly than...whatever you're implying (that FedEx and UPS be allowed to carry regular mail? 3 mailmen a day is less invasive, seriously?!).

  9. Text free browsing on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 1

    Text free browsing for when reading people's stupid comments becomes just too much.

  10. Re:Great! on Alibaba Face Off With Chinese Regulator Over Fake Products · · Score: 1

    Pretty much my thought. I'm worried I might have to look somewhere else to buy cheap plastic crap in the shape of expensive-looking things, but more adequately priced. America has always turned to China (and other Asian countries) to sell us cheap plastic crap, why are people trying to ruin the arrangement?

  11. Re:"Holograssholes" ? on Hands On With Microsoft's Holographic Goggles · · Score: 1

    The bulkiness and usage examples in the article made me believe this is something you don't wear out of your home.

  12. Re:Primum scribee / first post on Interior of Burnt Herculaneum Scroll Read For First Time · · Score: 1

    Still more readable than beta!

  13. Re:Excuse me while I blow a kiss on Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service · · Score: 1

    No, I don't mind Fox missing. I abhor that network, and I'm no longer a Dish subscriber. I simply don't have enough fucks left to give at the end of the day to still care about Dish screwing over its customers based on principles alone.

    You don't mind Dish doing the same thing to Fox as AMC and Adult Swim because you're off?

    Exactly. Dish subscribers should vote with their wallet like I did.

  14. Re:Excuse me while I blow a kiss on Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service · · Score: 1

    I guess the fact that I said I didn't mind the Fox News thing was confusing, but I had already dropped them when they cut Turner networks. I did watch AMC and Adult Swim and was pissed off. Now, I stream/download while I decide if I want DirecTV.

  15. Re:Excuse me while I blow a kiss on Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service · · Score: 1

    You may still wind up with those problems of certain networks being unavailable. Dish gets into spats with providers all the time and doesn't back down easily. I don't mind the current Fox News debacle, but losing AMC (a while ago) and then Adult Swim (among others) for periods of time drove me off.

  16. Re:5th Admendment? on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1

    Dubya's been out of office for 6 years so stop bringing him up when people call out Obama.

    If Hitler had won and a successor continued his work, would Hitler no longer to be to blame 6 years after the fact?

  17. Re:5th Admendment? on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 2

    There's gotta be an award for you for derailing a story about forced decryption into a discussion of evolutionary biology. Or maybe it's better deserved by kruach aum...

  18. Re:Justice is served! on Kim Dotcom Says Legal Fight Has Left Him Broke · · Score: 1

    Wow, it's almost like you understood the point the person you were replying to made.

  19. Re:Amnesty International on Amnesty International Releases Tool To Combat Government Spyware · · Score: 2

    Amnesty International was founded in London in 1961 . I have no idea what that that paragraph was from, Googling bits and pieces of it and "Amnesty International 1954" yielded nothing. But given how long an nonsensical that last sentence was, I'm guessing you're just manufacturing bullshit.

  20. Re: Monsanto on Group Tries To Open Source Seeds · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this. If it weren't for genetic modification, the world would have reached its carrying capacity for humans ages ago. This is what I hate about the debate about GMOs: all the damned ignorance and fundamental misunderstanding of the term "genetically modified".

    Course, most of that frustration holds true for many other debates as well.

  21. Re:uh, no? on Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 · · Score: 1

    Oh, and it's the same airline company that lost a whole plane under very suspicious circumstances a few month's prior.

    That's gotta be the biggest red herring in the whole debate.

  22. Re:Yet Another Fake Picture on Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Can't trust robots on Comet Probe Philae To Deploy Drill As Battery Life Wanes · · Score: 1

    What, everything didn't go 100% according to plan in a groundbreaking attempt to land a probe on a comet? Quick, let's easily write off the whole endeavor to seem cool!

  24. Re:If at first you don't succeed... on Ubisoft Points Finger At AMD For Assassin's Creed Unity Poor Performance · · Score: 2

    This is why I'll never purchase a game I haven't already sunk tens of hours into after pirating it first.

  25. Cheap on Dance Your Ph.D. Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    Pshh, of course it's easy to make a winning dance about tornadoes. I think the dance of mayonnaise should have won hands-down. Clearly, the judges are Miracle-whip fanboys.