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  1. Re:Funny on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 2, Informative

    The potential for cross-contamination with nuts is surprisingly high. Just a little bit of peanut in the wrong place can be deadly. For this reason, entire school districts are "nut-free" with kids actually getting in trouble for bringing peanut butter sandwiches to school. I'm not sure if it's a good thing (protect the small population that has a severe nut allergy) or a bad thing (inconvenience everyone else), but apparently a lot of people do care about this issue.

  2. Re:Happy Io Discovery Day, /. on 400 Years Ago, Galileo Discovered Four Jovian Moons · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wikipedia is wrong on one point.

    So fix it.

  3. Re:WHY does this NEVER hapen to me? on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    I don't like your chances of suing the Slovak police in Slovakia.

    Even if you do win, you probably wouldn't like how they "settle their debts".

  4. Re:Perfectly secure airport on Fixing Security Issue Isn't Always the Right Answer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Passengers are hooked up to neutral interface

    It was a good idea until this part. I think the interfaces should be highly opinionated.

  5. Re:Huh? on Fixing Security Issue Isn't Always the Right Answer · · Score: 1

    This problem isn't common but it happens regularly.

    So what you are saying is that it is common?

    No, something that happens this regularly just isn't that common.

  6. Re:Yeah, about that... on Does Cheap Tech Undermine Legal Privacy Protections? · · Score: 1

    Just because someone is naked does not make it pornography. In the case of scanners, it might be a violation of privacy, but that is quite different than kiddie porn.

  7. Re:Hmm. I think I've... are you kidding me?????? on Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And what, pray tell, does your uber-programmer do when he's *not* writing out algorithms "as quickly as his fingers can move"? Or are you suggesting that this tremendous programmer you describe has a near infinite workload where he's constantly typing out new and revised algorithms?

  8. Re:Not paid for by NASA on Demo For NASA MMO Coming In January · · Score: 1

    While you could argue that time is money

    I certainly could, but it's not worth my time.

  9. Re:Her Constituent Status Is Only Part of It on Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Really? They don't run "Republicans want to kill your chilren" ads in your city?

    Nope, my chilren are never threatened in any way by anti-Republican ads. Neither are my kids.

  10. Re:So this is why Volkswagen Beatles were "cool" on New Antifreeze Molecule Isolated In Alaskan Beetle · · Score: 1

    And they worked eight days a week.

  11. Re:Democracy ? on UK Government Seeks New Web Censorship Powers · · Score: 1

    Oh I know, it's just annoying how she still manages to make the front page being nothing more than a Celebrity that doesn't make movies or music.

    Like Paris Hilton?

  12. Re:What happened to you, UK? You used to be cool on UK Government Seeks New Web Censorship Powers · · Score: 1

    Apparently it was cool in the 60s. That's what everyone says, but I missed it.

    Yeah, baby!

  13. Re:Is it really that hard? on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    Of course it is. If having babies were easy, everyone would be doing it.

  14. What if both lawyers are friends on Judges Can't "Friend" Lawyers in Florida · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I fail to see a conflict of interest if the defense lawyer and the prosecutor are both "friends" of the judge.
    Unless of course you start weighing how much each friend means to the judge, relatively speaking.
    But that path leads to madness.

  15. Re:The only people who will get rich... on Arrington Responds To the JooJoo, Files Suit · · Score: 3, Funny

    So all that will happen out of this is entertaining lawsuits where the laywers make their money and everyone else just laughs.

    ...or cries.

  16. Re:Or reposts of the same story everywhere... on Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I remember when you could come to slashdot and truly read original content. Now all these sites just seem to regurgitate the same thing.

    The original content appears in the comments.

  17. Re:"Google Go"? on FTC, Google Go After Scammers · · Score: 2, Funny

    What exactly can a programming language come after scammers in?

    That makes no sense.

    It makes no sense!

    Oh right, you knew that.

  18. Re:"The Doctor" Told me.... on Martian Methane May Be Created By Lifeforms · · Score: 1

    "The Doctor" Told me...

    Who?

  19. Re:option C on Martian Methane May Be Created By Lifeforms · · Score: 1

    Undefined methods aren't "theories" you smartass.

    Well, not yet they aren't. But I assume once the methods become identified (or "defined") they will spawn new theories.

    The phrase "So two theories remain" strongly implies that these are the only two possible causes, when really there are probably others.

  20. Re:Oh my God! on What Do You Look For In a Conference? · · Score: 1

    Free shit

    Careful now, you know how literal these sciency types can be.

  21. Ah, but their singing was actually *better* than the crappy Twilight movie that was playing. They should have charged an appearance fee.

  22. Re:Just yesterday on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    In some places you can get married without paperwork too, but it takes 7 years.

  23. Re:Carbon trading is stupid. on Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets · · Score: 1

    No, it really is. It advocates that 3rd world countries can only advance to 1st world status by writing bad code... a lot. Instead of trying to develop these countries' software without all the bad code we had to do in the past, they are basically saying that 1st world countries have to subsidize that poorly written software by lowering their own coding standards in response. It's a totally asanine proposition and basically is advocating that it's fine for 3rd world countries to program poorly if they advance themselves up.

    Put that back on topic for you.

  24. Re:...and now for something entirely unrelated. on Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hopefully, they work better than carbon offsets, actually."

    Way to ensure this whole thread goes off track, by trolling on an unrelated and politically charged topic. And with an example poorly chosen as proof of anything, at that.

    Don't pay any attention to the last line of the summary. If you ignore it, it will go away.

    ... just like global warming.

  25. Re:I call BS on Man "Beats" World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Even if "feats of strength" are different from normal achievements, I don't think you can be considered to have beaten the game if you don't have them all as well.

    In other words, there's stuff this guy hasn't done.