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  1. scientific progress on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 1

    Scientific progress consists of someone showing that the current scientific consensus is wrong.

  2. dv camcorder on Ask Slashdot: Best Service To Digitize VHS Home Movies? · · Score: 1

    Plug the output of a VHS player into the input of a DV camcorder, press record.

  3. mute the audio on Two Explorers Descend Into An Active Volcano, and Live to Tell About It · · Score: 1

    Play the video with audio muted. The music is really bad and annoying. There is nothing on the audio track other than the annoying music.

  4. The comments in this thread are embarrassing. on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Someone posts a scientific article about dieting and everyone posts their wild unproven theories about dieting.

    If I wanted to read wild speculation by uninformed nobodies I can find that elsewhere.

  5. Re:What they don't tell you on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    Were is the science that backs your theory?

  6. Re:Does it really matter ? on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You seemed to have missed Israel on your list of nuclear countries, but included Iran a non-nuclear country on your list.

  7. Re:Too much good content is deleted at Wikipedia. on Latest Wikipedia Uproar Over 'Superprotection' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Notability is important for preventing a potentially slippery slope towards Wikipedia being expected to have an article on every shop, every street, every apartment complex, every popular teacher, and every creative work ever appreciated by more than 10 people.

    What is wrong with that?

  8. Re:Fun Fact on Cause of Global Warming 'Hiatus' Found Deep In the Atlantic · · Score: 0

    Here is the most accurate climate model to date:

    http://www.climate-skeptic.com...

  9. why this article is nonsense on Cause of Global Warming 'Hiatus' Found Deep In the Atlantic · · Score: 2, Informative

    An explanation why this article is nonsense:

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...

  10. useless website on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 1

    The worst part is there is no reason why the Obamacare websites even need to exist.

    Obama could have just told everyone to buy their insurance on einsurance.com and to get the subsidies when they filed their 1040.

  11. While Buying Back $1.5 Billion In Stock on Cisco To Slash Up To 6,000 Jobs -- 8% of Its Workforce -- In "Reorganization" · · Score: 4, Informative
  12. remove comments on Ask Slashdot: Corporate Open Source Policy? · · Score: 1

    My former company's policy was to remove all comments and documentation before making the code public.

  13. Re:Yes, Please on The IPv4 Internet Hiccups · · Score: 1

    And home users aren't even close to getting on board. Most people's PCs and other devices will handle IPV6 just fine.

    No. While most new routers have some ipv6 capability, most new routers are not "ipv6 ready". It is lack of complete ipv6 support in routers that is preventing widespread adoption.

  14. nope on The Doctor Will Skype You Now · · Score: 2

    No. I like keeping my medical information private and I don't want people listening in on my the conversion like they can do with Skype.

  15. Microsoft's child porn collection on Microsoft Tip Leads To Child Porn Arrest In Pennsylvania · · Score: 5, Funny

    In order to successfully perform these matches, Microsoft likely has one of the world's largest collection of child porn.

  16. Re:Over paid on Big Bang Actors To Earn $1M Per Episode · · Score: 1

    They are overpaid in that there are hundreds or thousands of other actors who could do as good or better acting.

  17. Re:Duh! on EFF: US Gov't Bid To Alter Court Record in Jewel v. NSA · · Score: 1

    He did not look very far. It has happened at Gitmo.

  18. two persons? on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't two persons have been arrested? ie. both the sender and the receiver of the emails?

  19. Re:Best secure email? on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 3, Informative

    email your friend encrypted pdf files and tell him the pdf file password over the telephone.

  20. Re:Thoughts on Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? · · Score: 1

    Why can't you use a video phone?

  21. Re:Video phones? on Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? · · Score: 1

    The families do not have to buy a video phone. They can use a PC based client. No need to use Skype.

  22. Re:WebRTC, Asterisk/FreeSwitch and a JS SIP client on Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? · · Score: 1

    This has to be the worst possible setup for a low maintenance reliable system. Is it possible to make it any more complicated?

  23. video phone on Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? · · Score: 1

    Get a video phone, such as: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KO...

    In the Alzheimers facility the phone is used just like a regular phone.

  24. Re:At least the Russians are being upfront on Law Repressing Social Media, Bloggers Now In Effect In Russia · · Score: 5, Informative

    And.... this information collection is legal in Russia, while what the NSA is doing is illegal.

  25. Re:Since When on Sony Agrees To $17.75m Settlement For 2011 PSN Attack · · Score: 1

    I have received over $1,000 in class action lawsuits. For me, the big payouts occurred when very few persons joined the class because no notice was given to anyone of those affected that a class action lawsuit even existed.