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  1. God damn legal system on Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    On a side note, our legal system forces us all to lie.

  2. Re:Blinding revelation, version 2 on On Social Networks, You Are Who You Know · · Score: 1

    You know, now with such "research", social science people will be rattling on about it as if it became a solid scientific finding "backed by research", rather than a conventional wisdom that it really is and remains so.

  3. Blinding revelation on On Social Networks, You Are Who You Know · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stereotypes work.

  4. Re:Well I'm sold. on Zeus Botnet Down But Not Out · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is, harness the evil for the good? Embrace and extend, am I getting it right?

  5. Serves the noobs right on IE 6 & 7 Unpatched Exploit Goes Wild · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why we in the know sticks to IE5.

  6. Re:Why is the wii controller even mentioned? on Accidental Wii Suicide · · Score: 1

    Because the Wii angle is the hook taco chose to stir up slashdot gamer mujahiddens.

  7. Re:Why is the wii controller even mentioned? on Accidental Wii Suicide · · Score: 1

    But the Wii factor is marginal. Three year old kid, loaded gun, don't need much catalyst of any sort for such a tragedy - the kid could have mistaken the gun for whole lotta other things.

  8. OMG! on Man Threatened Spam Attack In $200,000 Extortion Plot · · Score: 5, Funny

    The dude did manage to drag the company through slashdot - there is no water muddier.

  9. Re:2012? on LHC Will Be Shut Down In 2011 Because of "Mistake" · · Score: 1

    Uh-huh. "Because of mistake", they say.

    THAT'S NO MISTAKE!!!

  10. Re:Where were YOU when the bomb dropped? on Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Saw the ship sinking, jumped it and went on extended cheap backpacking. Rode out good part of the bust. Good times.

  11. Legit on Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Legit" apps sells your info just as well as the others. That's another plug of open source software.

  12. Slashdot Shopping Network on Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Now, in an exciting development, Regenerative Sciences Inc. in Colorado has found a way to skirt the FDA and provide these same stem cell treatments to humans."

    And if you call in the next 15 minutes, you get 5 plastic syringes, absolutely free.

    Call now.

    * The free syringes may or may not be new pending supply.

  13. Re:MS on The Secret Origin of Windows · · Score: 1

    Trower, I mean, not Trevor.

  14. MS on The Secret Origin of Windows · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's just like MS. They may not succeed at first... Actually, they never succeed at first try, at anything.

    And yet, they manage eventually - see how they kicked out Trevor in the end. It's no coincidence.

  15. Please on HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux is not a malware. Such smear tactic at slashdot must stop.

  16. Re:this is one nasty little bugger on AIDS Virus Can Hide In Bone Marrow · · Score: 2, Funny

    yeah, but at least it's not sarcoidosis.

  17. Re:Wind farm and climate change on Gas Wants To Kill the Wind · · Score: 1

    Probably good arguments, but the dynamics of atmosphere is deemed a non-linear system, isn't it. Besides, the fact that we clearcut forest without regard to climate effect doesn't mean there is no effect on the climate.

  18. Re:Wind farm and climate change on Gas Wants To Kill the Wind · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ooooh, the climate mafia still afraid of some righteous sunlight, eh. Scared of a simple question? Pathetic.

  19. Wind farm and climate change on Gas Wants To Kill the Wind · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If enough wind farms are set up to actually contribute significant energy volume, I wonder what would be its impact on the climate.

    I mean, it is sucking the kinetic energy directly out of the movement of air.

  20. Calm down on Gas Wants To Kill the Wind · · Score: -1, Troll

    Stop hyperventilating, you carbon zombies!

    Breath in. And then breath out. Actually forget the out bit, if you, really, truly care about CO2 emission. ;-)

  21. Haha on ABC Pulls Channels From Cablevision · · Score: 1

    ABC stuck it to Cablevision. I hope someone can summarize the terms of the contract.

    HBR should do case study on this.

    This is hilarious.

  22. Dear software engineers on Time To Take the Internet Seriously · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's come up with something to replace HTTP/JavaScript/Flash/what-have-you. It's huge waste, but even worse, distortion.

    We have the technology. We can do better than this.

    x86 assembly, bogus sessions, they do not have to be fate.

    Right? Right?

  23. More to come on Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Into Rivals' Email · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Expect a lot more of these stuff.

    The people who start social networks are a different breed than those that cooked up tech startups of past decades.

  24. Re:So, what next? on California To Create Public Animal Abuser Registry · · Score: 1

    Meh. It's not so bad, really. They give you karma here, you know. Even mod points, sometimes.

    Beats working, anyways.

  25. "Study" on Why Wikipedia Articles Vary So Much In Quality · · Score: 1

    It sounds like articles cared for by people that stick around turn out better than ones edited by drive-by people, eh?

    Interesting and all, but you know, this sorta studies get cited to support all kindsa wackjob social "theories", don't they? I mean, citing such studies are deemed "rigor" and whatnot.