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  1. Re:Who is surprised on Oracle's Newest Move To Undermine Android · · Score: 1

    Seriously: what modicum of good has this man ever done? Obviously he doesn't care, but it's fairly certain there will be spontaneous world-wide celebrations when the news of his death is announced.

  2. Re:Enforceable? on Microsoft Patents GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I bet the Roman Empire had a massive amount of patent backlogs too, right before the fall.

  3. To piggyback on a Slashdotters' name on High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd · · Score: 1

    youranonymityisanillusion.

  4. How amusing on Visible Light 'X-Ray' Sees Through Solid Objects · · Score: 1

    to think that US law enforcement still follows such an arcane principal as 'the law'

  5. Weather gets a vote on Solar Power On the White House · · Score: 1

    Whenever I read about solar panels, I think of hail storms. Last month, Wichita, Kansas had hail; some the size (and weight) of billiard balls.

  6. Re:Nuclear Power! on US Military Orders Less Dependence On Fossil Fuel · · Score: 1

    I've often wondered why we have compact portable atomic bombs, but no compact portable atomic generators.

    Because all but the largest bases can be overrun / lost.

  7. Re:Flies in the Face of Common Sense Too on W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet · · Score: 1

    ...will thrust what support they can into practice, warts and all.

    The most compelling case for anti-virus I've heard for quite some time.

  8. This on DC Suspends Tests of Online Voting System · · Score: 1

    This should be a competition at the two yearly Blackhat conventions, which I suspect will prove it impossible to come up with a bulletproof e-voting system. What is wrong with paper ballots again? Oh yeah; Conservatives know millions of dead people and illegal aliens taint every election. As opposed to partisan election officials with untraceable access to a vote tally database and no paper trail to prove shenanigans.

  9. Re:Not Sure, Seems to Be More Territorial Dispute on Japan Begins Recycling Rare Earth Metals From Electronics · · Score: 1

    It's also interesting to remember, on the last two or three attempts by (Imperial) China to invade Vietnam, they had their heads handed to them. The French and the US were not the first to find out that the Vietnamese do not go gently into that good night.

  10. Re:In other news on Laptop Heat May Cause 'Toasted Skin Syndrome' · · Score: 1

    "Fire is indeed hot!"

  11. Earthquakes? on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 0

    I thought this was tried both in Switzerland and Texas, with both resulting in very out of the ordinary earthquakes. Or was it caused by adding water to dry hot rock...

  12. No, no, no on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 1

    No filthy drilling required. Just removing a mountaintop or two.

  13. Quid Pro Quo on House Democrats Shelve Net Neutrality Proposal · · Score: 1

    This is AT&Ts (et al) reward for breaking the wiretapping laws on behalf of the NSA.

  14. Let me take a wiiiiild guess on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    polical campaign commericals are exempt, right?

  15. Smell on Animal Farms Are Pumping Up Superbugs · · Score: 1

    The little town I live in has a cattle feed lot outside of town (brilliantly placed downwind). The inevitable stench is commonly referred to as "The Smell of Other Peoples Money".

    As an added bonus; occasionally when they feed the cattle, a cloud of dust rolls into town like of fog. Of course it's not just dirt, but also tiny particles of animal feed - and dried fecal matter. But being the second largest employer in a rural county, nothing will ever be done about this. This is also the same state (one of many, I bet) that has no problem allowing cattle to graze (and defecate) in occasionally dry stream beds.

  16. There goes the idea on New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs · · Score: 1

    for a CAPSLOCK street.

  17. On more thing on Does A Company Deserve the Same Privacy Rights As You? · · Score: 1

    you'll never hear about at a Teabagger rally.

  18. Another countless reason on "Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept. · · Score: 1

    anonymity is a fundamental pillar of a functioning, free society. And why it is such a threat to Corporate/Government/Religious interests.

  19. You go ahead on Earth-Like Planet That Could Sustain Life Found · · Score: 1

    I'll wait until they figure out how to prevent my bones turning into papier mache and my gastrointestinal tract from malfunctioning.
    I think you think it'll be like Star Trek when it would be a fair bit worse than Das Boot with no opportunity to 'surface'.

  20. Speak for yourself on Most Readers Don't Like Customized News · · Score: 1

    I dumped Google News when every story even tangentially related to US politics began to sport a snarky, propagandistic headlines provided by Fox News or their related ilk. But give me the option to completely weed out the scumbag sources of 'news', and I'm back in a heartbeat.

  21. How? on Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran · · Score: 1

    How do you have true Democracy when a fundamentalist religion insists on controlling every facet of human life? Even Turkey and Indonesia can't pull off this trick very well. As much as the Teabaggers wish to rewrite history, one of the truly great accomplishments of the American revolution was establishing the concept of the separation of Church and State. In Islam, the Church is the State.

  22. Imagine on OCZ IBIS Introduces High Speed Data Link SSDs · · Score: 1

    how much Monster would charge for these cables

    ...I can't count that high.

  23. Hawking on 100/1 Odds On 'First Contact' Within a Year · · Score: 1

    A couple of weeks ago, wasn't he quoted as saying contact with aliens at our current level of tech would be a bad idea? Hmmm...

  24. Plus on "Super Monkey" Security Force Used At Commonwealth Games · · Score: 1

    they'll take care of the Needle Snakes!

  25. Re:A catalyst for world peace on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 1

    Ignoring, of course, Africa. As usual.