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  1. Re:Won't help as long as the stores aren't up to c on Chipotle Plans To DNA Test Produce After E-Coli Outbreaks In Nine States · · Score: 1

    Food poisoning can kill people.

  2. Re: Barbara Streisand effect... on Film Studios Send Takedown Notices About Takedown Notices · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you let us buy big media company, we'll de-index all that embarrassing stuff that's still hanging around the net you desperately wish would go away.

  3. Re:Bad headline on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing lots of papers get written, as a layman :)

  4. Re:We must find out for sure! on How Would an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Die? · · Score: 1

    The center of the universe is...right here. And over there.

  5. Meh. on Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? · · Score: 1

    "Space" combat will look like combat on earth, with people lasing other counties satellites on day 1, which will be the entirety of the space phase. The rest will use standard current surface tech, because we're too lazy to actually significantly leave the planet.

  6. Re:Somebody actually watched Caprica? on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 1

    Same here. After the BSG finale I flat-out ruled out even thinking about spin-offs. Clearly they had no idea what the hell they were doing.

  7. Re:Story submitter here on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 1

    They were doing extensive facility remodeling in 2009, that's why the weird season for everything produced there immediately before/during, such as Doctor Who.

  8. Re:Null hypothesis my ass on Evolution Battle Brews In Texas · · Score: 1

    If when I die, against all my personal expectation there is an afterlife, and even more shockingly it is in fact ruled by the big G-man, Holy Ghost, and Jesus of the bible, before I get sent to hell I'm going to ream them a new one on pointless suffering.

  9. Re:Null hypothesis my ass on Evolution Battle Brews In Texas · · Score: 1

    The answer to all the "can God create an X so Yish that he cannot Z, the obvious answer is "Yes, he just chooses not to Z the X. Because when you're omnipotent won't and can't are equal. Don't confuse having the power to do everything with being forced into doing everything all the time."

    Though if I were God, everyone who posed me these sorts of questions would get their favorite item of rhetorical musing landed on their house every time they pestered me with it.

  10. Re:No miracles? on Evolution Battle Brews In Texas · · Score: 2

    God is also infinitely a jerk.

  11. Re:Decent List on Smithsonian Unveils 'Art of Games' Voting Results · · Score: 1

    If you read further you'll find they've got a short set of 5 playable games at the exhibit, one of which is the Pac-Man arcade version.

  12. Re:The problem with PC gaming... on How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date · · Score: 1

    My OS X steam install says otherwise.

  13. Re:Shut-off valve on Hundred-Ton Dome To Collect Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    That would be the BOP which is the bit which failed.

  14. Re:Wrong on All of Gopherspace Available For Download · · Score: 1

    So did you get your answer in old newsgroup thread?

  15. Re:Boring on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 1

    My god, he's going to create pikachu!

  16. Re:Errata: "one" - "no one" on Proposed Telescope Focuses Light Without Mirror Or Lens · · Score: 1

    Mute point is wrong. The proper usage is moot point.

  17. Re:Jump to End of Line on Mac OS X Leopard Edition: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    You can assign the Home/End keys to do whatever actions suit your fancy, if you delve into the keyboard preferences files. See for example, this link: http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2004/05/07/fixing-the-homeend-keys-on-os-x/

    Fixing that was pretty important to me in my mac migration. :)

  18. Re:Human Error on MPAA Botched Study On College Downloading · · Score: 1

    If only I had mod points.

  19. Re:at a real-time systems conference on Your Worst IT Workshop? · · Score: 1

    Hi! I'd like to invite you an industry webinar on real time systems.

    *ducks*

  20. Re:All of this misses problem #1 on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    Except in this country, it's the security people constantly yelling Fire! when there isn't any. If anybody else did this, it's off to jail. But if it's security goons and elected officials jumping at shadows, it's just peachy.

    If there actually IS a fire, they bury anything that might point that out until after the rubble is cold. And it's not their fault, if they said anything, somebody might have panicked, or someone higher up squelched it. If you've got a uniform or were elected, lucky you, we no longer require you to think or take considered action other than to cover your own ass.

  21. Re:How To Stop Terrorism on Human Nature Trumps Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    Short a bullet.

  22. Re:An illustration of how stupid this situation is on Federal Panel [not NIST] Rejects Paper Trail For E-Voting · · Score: 1

    Okay genius, the paper receipts don't leave in voters hands, they're there only as a crosscheck against the vote just recorded. If the evote and printed ballot don't match you raise a stink because it's fraud or a malfunction. If they match the evote and the paper ballot remain in the machine. Bad paper receipts get marked void and put into the same secure storage that valid vote receipts go into.

    Later if vote tallies look fishy, the individually certified by voter but anonymous paper vote receipts are tallied against the evotes to see where the error lies.

    The paper receipts would be no less anonymous than the rest of the vote accounting process. Vote instance #40u490u6-4u682 at vote machine #412-5 voted Bob. Maybe a timestamp.

    Sure its possible to tamper with the paper votes, but its easier to spot a guy lugging a couple briefcases full of fake receipts than it is to spot that someone has hidden behind their tie a USB key (pick your favorite vendors crappy vulnerability) with the voting machine hack-of-the-week on it.

  23. Re:Wasted money going electronic on Federal Panel [not NIST] Rejects Paper Trail For E-Voting · · Score: 1

    Right thing for the country, I agree. That is why it won't ever happen.

  24. Re:I can't be alone in hating this game... on Final Fantasy XII Review · · Score: 1

    Not as lame as the whole imaginary blitzball player thing.

  25. Re:Trolling for cookies on An Older, Larger Universe · · Score: 1

    Here have a cookie.