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  1. Re:who fucking cares about author's rights on Once Again, US DoJ Opposes Google Book Search · · Score: 1

    ...and their works are, frankly, unknown, out of print, forgotten...

    Yet Google has them. This is the part I don't understand.

  2. Re:Chinese made, not always = Chinese code on Can You Trust Chinese Computer Equipment? · · Score: 1

    Heaven forbid the products be made in the US...

  3. And most said on "Vegetative State" Patients Can Communicate · · Score: 1

    "Get me away from these charlatans!"

  4. Fly in the Ointment on Using Windows 7 RC? Pay Up Or Auto Shutdown Warned · · Score: 1
    From the quoted how-to:

    The Windows 7 beta or RC releases were Ultimate edition, so youll only be able to upgrade to the RTM (final) if you are installing Ultimate Edition.

    I already bought the XP Home to Win7 Home upgrade when it was pre-offered at $50, so I guess I'm out.

  5. Tinfoil hat time on Woz Cites "Scary" Prius Acceleration Software Problem · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have a suspicion that every Toyota brought in for a new accelerator pedal* will also have new throttle / cruise control firmware surreptitiously installed without it being mentioned to the owners. No way this is all due to just extra friction in an accelerator assembly.

    * - Anyone else pick up that everytime Toyota discusses the suspect accelerators, they just happen to mention the supplier is an American company? More BS nationalistic face-saving to distract from who designed said part.

    PS: Tom Merritt from CNET has also mentioned the squirrely acceleration habits of his older Prius as well.

  6. Corrosion on Super Strong Metal Foam Discovered · · Score: 1

    I quickly scanned TFA, but didn't see what the 'metal' actually was (steel? iron? titanium?). With a vastly larger amount of delicate structure potentially exposed to the environment, I think corrosion could be a significant problem.

  7. Bonus Payoff on Laser Fusion Passes Major Hurdle · · Score: 1

    If it works, Dick Cheney will instantly keel over.

    / something something Dark Side

  8. MESSAGE TRUNCATED on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 1

    AT&T NO CARRIER

  9. Re:I don't buy it. on Ballmer Defends Microsoft In China · · Score: 1

    China in many ways has more of a free market economy than the US does

    Their environmental and public health records prove this to be true.

  10. Re:Cyberwarfare? on Meet the Military's Cyber-Security Forces · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stall Man
    Is he the superhero that can never keep his jet aloft?

  11. Re:Cyberwarfare? on Meet the Military's Cyber-Security Forces · · Score: 1

    ...and if you're over 30 you're too old.

    You haven't been paying close enough to their despiration (and attrition).

  12. Sigh on UK Police Plan To Use Military-Style Spy Drones · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a UK study released last year that showed all their CCTV's didn't make a thimble's worth difference on the crime stats?

  13. Differing definitions on China Will Lead World Scientific Research By 2020 · · Score: 1

    This is also the same country that labels a worker the US would call a 'technician' as an Engineer. But no doubt they will lead the world in science very soon, given the sophistication and volume of Industrial Espionage they are conducting with literal military precision.

  14. Re:Combatting Piracy on Bach Launches Updated MP3 Format · · Score: 1

    The best ticket for U2 would be an iron-clad promise never to hear that sanctimonious bag of Irish wind ever again.

  15. Simple, really on The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans · · Score: 1

    People love to be told they are smarter, hipper, sexier, and ironically more independent thinkers than other people. Sothey gladly fork over big wads of cash to this man who has raised selling sizzle from beyond an art form into damn near a religion.

  16. Re:what is a cubic micrometer on Heat Engines Shrunk By Seven Orders of Magnitude · · Score: 1

    Library of Congresses are a perfectly cromulent unit of volume = Score:4, Informative

    Welcome to Slashdot!

  17. Re:I don't get it on Analyst Estimates AT&T Needs To Spend $5B To Catch Up · · Score: 1

    That's a perfectly cromulent sentence.

  18. Re:A word of thanks and a request on NYTimes Confirms It Will Start Charging For Online News In 2011 · · Score: 1

    Only if we are credited back in full for any article that we find to have a typo, use of the wrong word (to instead of too), missing a word, or (my personal favorite) repeats all or part of a sentence. I would be willing to (modestly) pay for professional content - provided it was proofread by an actual meatspace editor instead of merely run through a goddam spellchecker.

  19. Re:950 video at that price why not ion or a real d on 100% Free Software Compatible PC Launches · · Score: 1

    Came here to hear somebody moan about the graphics and am leaving satisfied.

    Rule 34 invoked.

  20. Re:Did we just break heisenberg's principle? on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 1

    No, the uncertainty principle applies to particles as well.

    Such as keys and tv remotes.

  21. The most effective weapon on Another Attack, On Law Firm Suing China · · Score: 1

    Would be Google dropping all Chinese and China-related websites from their search results (including AdSense if they really want to talk the talk). They could easily justify such actions by pointing to the attacks they suffered from China and declare it a lawless no-commerce zone where no one can be trusted.

  22. Re:Sure beats electroporation... on Nanowires Inject Molecules Into Living Cells · · Score: 1

    Aerosolizing anthrax or aerosolizing coated nanowires: which would be easier to do?

  23. Re:Statescraft on Google.cn Attack Part of a Broad Spying Effort · · Score: 1

    and people like Richard Bejtlich (who has literally written the book on network monitoring and incident detection) admit to being p0wn3d

    pretty easy to p0wn a computer when you make most of the chips inside it...

  24. Re:Tritium is fairly common... on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    Thus, by this non-sensical IT'S RADIOACTIVE IT MUST BE BAD FOR US logic, we should quarantine Colorado, because obviously it's going to end up becoming a mutated Zombieland where only those highly paranoid, and well adept at using all manner of sharp, blunt, and dangerous instruments for maiming Zombies will survive.

    I see you've never been to Denver.

  25. Re:On Hybrid Vehicles on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    At least one Mercedes diesel system requires an occasional refill of Urea to treat the emissions. Based on one story I read about what the dealers are charging, Urea is the new ink jet refill.