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  1. Wa...? on What Happens To a Football Player's Neurons? · · Score: 1

    What they need neurons for?

  2. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Still being born every minute.

    But why isn't this in the idle section?

  3. Re:Short answer: on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Stop trying to run slashdot out of business.

  4. That's why on Lies, Damned Lies and Cat Statistics · · Score: 1

    I never, ever RTFA. No, I didn't.

  5. Re:PR Bullshit on Supercomputing, There's an App For That · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why are they spamming slashdot anyways? Has the academia gotten so pathetic that they deem any exposure is a good exposure?

  6. Re:Misleading headline. on Scottish Scientists Develop Whisky Biofuel · · Score: 5, Funny

    No kidding - the French complains about everything.

  7. Re:This may backfire... on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, a bad move. RIAA vampires make CIA goons look like buncha of Ray Kurzweils.

  8. Re:BMWs, Minis on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    GP, if in the northeast, might try an all wheel drive car (basically a WRX this being the northeast), on twisty mountain dirt road. Plenty fun without pushing things too dangerous.

  9. Re:"Central Europe" on Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my comment is bit off the mark for Austria, her having been neutral during the Cold War and all.

  10. Re:More bugs on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 1

    I can vouch for C programmers. They are experts - you can't beat them.

  11. Basically on San Francisco Just As Guilty In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Another episode of lawyers fucking over a geek.

    Let the nerd rage spew forth.

  12. "Central Europe" on Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe · · Score: 1

    If you've been reading Euro news, you would have noticed that the countries (other than Russia) that we used to call Eastern European have re-labelled themselves as "Central Europeans".

    It's a political/PR measure to distance themselves from Russia, and the connotation (good or bad) we had of Eastern Europe.

    The "patent" seems in line with this movement.

  13. Re:BMWs, Minis on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    They tell you to rotate radial tires front-to-back on the same side. Also, with directional tires, you can't rotate from one side to another.

  14. Re:A Swedish tabloid? on Julian Assange To Write For Swedish Tabloid · · Score: 1

    That's no cat, you fool.

  15. Re:Use databases! on How Do You Organize Your Experimental Data? · · Score: 1

    "While we may do lots of programming work to accomplish our scientific tasks, being a qualified DBA is a completely separate challenge - an unwanted one, as well."

    While I get what you are getting at, it's the same shit - you muck with it (hacking perl/python/dbms) because there is no prepackaged stuff for your needs.

  16. Re:put some footprints in concrete on Preserving Memories of a Loved One? · · Score: 1

    I was, rightly, afraid it was a mistake to post the question here, but at least there are some sympathetic replies, like this one I like. Throw in your and kids' footprint/handprints in there.

    Maybe the guy and the family can try any and all goofy ideas and try to share a few (or whole lotta) laughs.

    We all die, the ones that squeeze out the most good time of it win.

  17. Big Pharma model on Startups a Safer Bet Than Behemoths · · Score: 1

    Big companies acquire and market, small startups do the real R&D. Increasing reliance on IP which means increasing reliance on government lobbying by the large corporations? At least FCC/FTC is no FDA...

  18. Re:Ignorance, mostly. on Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages · · Score: 1

    Ignore this - it's just some guy's crazy rambling.

  19. Re:This is real science. on Rare Sharing of Data Led To Results In Alzheimer's Research · · Score: 1

    Yep, this is how all the ideals of science are flushed down the toilets, and medicine probably is the worst offender of them all despite their "science" rhetoric, never mind their shoddy deployment of statistics.

  20. Re:Troubling on ISP Owner Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order · · Score: 1

    I don't know that we need WikiLeaks. What we need is unbiased investigative reporting, something that is sorely lacking these days because it is hard work."

    Given that we are not getting that, and even less likely to get it in the future the way the media industry is moving, only thing of the sort we do have is WikiLeaks. If it's WikiLeaks vs. no leak, I am leaning to WikiLeaks.

    As far as the case at hand, the gag orders as implemented are a complete violation.

    Don't mean squat since there is no repercussion to FBI and the administration. The laws have become a mere legalism.

  21. Re:Does not compute on Can Solar Storms Cause Wildfires? · · Score: 1

    See, astroengine knows that it's "patently false". Know why? Cuz he set the fricking fire.

    Course, the dolt doesn't realize that it's the solar flare that triggered the sequence of signals in his brain leading him to commit the act.

    Oh the convoluted chain of life.

  22. Re:My favorite feature of this round of Wikileaks. on Wikileaks To Publish Remaining Afghan Documents · · Score: 1

    Hey, if being an American is wrong, I'd rather be wrong.
    (yeah, I think this makes sense, I think)

  23. Re:Troubling on ISP Owner Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order · · Score: 1

    You know, I could go either way on WikiLeaks and that Assange guy, but each time such a story pops up, it throws the scale over to WikiLeak.

    And, even though those that do pop up to media attention are likely a very small fraction, they still pop up pretty damn regularly.

    Like it or not, we need WikiLeaks.

  24. Re:Read the small print on Scientists Develop Brain-Microchip Bridge · · Score: 1

    Yep, those guys turn $5 pulse meter into $5k FDA-approved pulse measurement stall.

  25. Just in time on Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers · · Score: 1

    The newly beefed-up FBI special forces are right on that.