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  1. Re:Cool on Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status · · Score: 4, Funny

    God damn foobar apps.

  2. Re:Not Very Noble on 2009 Nobel Ribosome Structures — Patented · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod this communist DOWN!!!

    Ha, that was fun. :-)

  3. Re:Not reviewing them in any way? Really? on Palm Frees Up webOS Development · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're completely wrong.

  4. Context please on FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records · · Score: 1

    I want to go on state red full-on black helicopter paranoia rant, but before that, can someone tell how probable/unusual for FBI to look into your record, say, in comparison to a no-name newspaper reporter, for example.

  5. Re:I for one... on Learning About Real-World Economies Through Game Economies · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty long-winded way of saying you're an "Austrian" religious zealot.

  6. Re:Don't forget: on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 1

    If you're not a field op for AMA, you're an idiot.

  7. Re:Don't forget: on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 1

    And as a final dig, if you continue to get your medical news from the NY Times,

    Where do you suggest plebes like us to get our medical news from? JAMA? NEJM?

  8. Re:Fly Southwest on California Requests Stimulus Funding For Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    Three letters: TSA.

    I'd kill an extra hour (or two) to spare me the aggravation that is airport and TSA.

  9. Re:Sad to hear of the RMN on Postmortem for a Dead Newspaper · · Score: 1

    They'll be back, probably. Just keep the circuit closed.

  10. Re:Spill the beans on House Committee Passes "Informed P2P User Act" · · Score: 1

    Sounds plausible - Waxman represents Beverly Hills area and is in the Hollywood's tank.

  11. Spill the beans on House Committee Passes "Informed P2P User Act" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ok, so who funded this bill and why?

  12. Re:Maybe it's a start on Executive Order Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving · · Score: 1

    It is what it is.

    If somebody doesn't like the executive order, she can take it up to the court. The White House will throw up the usual "national security" or some other bullshit, and she'd get fucked in the ass by the IRS, but that's just a part of the 'due process'.

    Yes, I am a lawyer. Of couse, I'm lying.

  13. Re:Is medical advancement stagnating? on Common Diabetic Drug Fights Cancer Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    I think it just shows how little we know about (human) biology, seemingly a very complex subject, and how crude our "modern" medicine is.

    A little humility and skepticism are in order, but they are lacking in news reports on health/medicine, quoting doctors and researchers as if they are engaged in a literary debate.

  14. Re:Summary inaccurate on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 1

    This is turning into a gag. Can any of you point to a single Slashdot story where headline/summary were reasonably accurate? Say in the last year or so.

  15. Re:PR on Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan · · Score: 1

    Not really a valid comparison, as Canada is the world's second biggest country, and could fit the population of Britian in several times over without even noticing...

    Also, things shrink when cold, so you can pack'em tighter.

  16. Re:The problem on Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan · · Score: 1

    Ha, I suppose nothing stops others from playing that game.

  17. Re:The problem on Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan · · Score: 1

    Return your stolen loots sitting in the British Museum.

  18. Security on IT Security Breaches Soar In 2009 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Security is a lot like IT, but much more so. It's waste of money until shit hits the fan. 5 minutes later, it becomes waste of money again. But it's difficult to judge how close you're to shit-blade collision point, though, because in the end it's an effort to mitigate breach, not a guarantee, and news stories that do pop up tend to be sensationalistic and doesn't help the assessment.

  19. Re:What's so bad? on Banking Via Twitter? · · Score: 1

    ... there's no transmission of account numbers, PINs or other identifying information ...

    I thought there were several research findings showing online trails, like this, provides more than adequate context info to identify people.

    That reminds me. Let me take this opportunity to give a shout-out:

    All you mofos after me for the money I owe you: Haaahh. Ha.

  20. Re:all you smarty pants scientists on 4-Winged Proto-Bird Unearthed In China; Predates Archaeopteryx · · Score: 1

    If the God didn't intend us to dig these shit up, he wouldn't have given us shovels.

  21. Re:And yet they do nothing to discourage the car on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    I've heard tons of stories from cyclists in the US detailing how people in vehicles purposely drive as close as possible to them, cut them off, throw things at them etc.

    Really? Wow, I (we?) am famous.

  22. Re:Would it be so tough on Theora 1.1 (Thusnelda) Is Released · · Score: 1

    Me, too!

  23. Re:So, does the Duct Tape Programmer... on The Duct Tape Programmer · · Score: 1

    ... but multithreading is generally not something you have a choice about. Avoid it if you can, think very carefully about when you need to use it because of the application requirements.

    A well-known lesson took a long while to get through my thick skull. If you're gonna do threading, try to design it to be async with message passing. Except in extreme simple cases, mucking around with locks and shared (among threads) resources will screw you over. And over. And over.

  24. Re:Cool discovery on Alzheimer's Disease Possibly Linked To Sleep Deprivation · · Score: 1

    The hell? I was following you cuz I thought you knew what you're doing...

  25. Re:So, does the Duct Tape Programmer... on The Duct Tape Programmer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And also a big difficulty doing big projects with Python - it becomes too damn unwieldy.

    Nevertheless, noodle monster bless Python. Right tool for the right job, etc.