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  1. Re:Eating apes is pretty close to cannibalisim on Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? · · Score: 1

    And in particular, whether Neanderthals could or did breed with us is a controversial topic; the "did not breed" is the leading theory right now, but it hasn't killed the "did breed" one just yet.

    If it does kill it, will it eat it?

  2. Re:As for writing the inevitable sequel on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 1

    What's Harlan Ellison up to these days? He'd be a complete PITA to work with, but you know the screenplay would be in some damn capable hands.

    Not sure, but I heard he was in an escalating feud with Death over a copyright issue. At this point, who the winner will be is unclear, but vast general devastation of the surrounding environment (Los Angeles) is expected.

  3. My ruling on Appeals Court Says RIAA Hearing Can't Be Streamed · · Score: 1

    I don't want to sound like a dick or nothing, but my ruling would have to be that the court was 'tarded . . . they shouldn't worry though, plenty of 'tards out there are living really kick-ass lives.

    Brought to you by Carls Jr. Fuck you . . . I'm eating!

  4. Re:Sigh on Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack · · Score: 1

    They fooled the users into giving the virus root access and installing it.

    Wouldn't that be classified as a Trojan?

  5. Cyberdyne? on Robot Body Suit To Be Marketed In Japan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look at the name of the company . . . Cyberdyne. Fuck them and their goddamn pre-Terminator bullshit. I shouldn't worry, they'll probably be bought out by Weyland-Yutani anyway.

  6. Re:North Central United States on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 1

    I wish I where as smart as you sir, perhaps I could figure out how you just disproved my theory with two paragraphs worth of utter bullshit.

    It was in the first paragraph, so concentrate your efforts at understanding there. If you're having trouble understanding any of the big words, ask an adult to help you. Also, try googling "Post hoc ergo propter hoc".

  7. Re:Geeze on Windows 7 Touchscreen Details Emerging · · Score: 1

    You know - primates. As opposed to people evolved from fish like the Minbari, or from lizards like the Narn, or giant hydra like the Vorlons.

    The Vorlons didn't evolve from hydra (giant or otherwise), they've always been here.

  8. The LHC on Princeton Student Finds Bug In LHC Experiment · · Score: 1

    Every time I see a story about the LHC, I'm always glad I'm far away from it, because I don't want to have anything to do with colliding large hardons.

  9. Re:Job prospects on Princeton Student Finds Bug In LHC Experiment · · Score: 1

    I would have to say that this student will not have a problem finding a job after graduation.

    CERN: Now Xiaohang, Sherry is going to show you around the place. She can answer any questions you might have about fringe benefits or dress codes or anything and I'll see you back upstairs when you're done, okay? Sherry, take good care of this young lady. She's one of the ten finest minds kin the country.

    XIAOHANG: Someday I hope to be two of them.

    She'll probably have some trouble with the test from later in the movie...the 6 inch spike-hammering one.

  10. Re:Good Luck Boys on STS-119 Finally Launches Into Space · · Score: 1

    Getting old? Shuttles are old - the Discovery alone is 25 years old and the Enterprise first flew in 1977. Hopefully the next generation of spacecraft will be able to last as long (or longer) in a very reliable fashion.

    I didn't think the shuttle Enterprise ever actually went into space, am I not remembering correctly?

  11. Re:You're asking the wrong person... on Morality of Throttling a Local ISP? · · Score: 1

    Don't ask Slashdot, ask yourself: "What would the BOFH do in my position?" Then profit.

    As near as I can figure, something involving his boss, the building electrical, and an elevator shaft. And deleting files. There always seems to be deleted files for some reason.

  12. Re:Tax Cheats? on Swiss Banks Making Concessions On Secrecy · · Score: 1

    As for disability, why should the fact that something bad happened to you mean everyone else should be punished? Do you really think you are so important that if you could no longer work (and therefore not make money, assuming you're living alone with no family) that the rest of the population should pay you to sit at home and do nothing? That is a terrible waste of money and a huge burden to society.

    That's a real good way to let someone like Stephen Hawking die, but then he hasn't really done anything worthwhile for society, has he? Don't worry though, I remember another group people who decided that the disabled (among other groups) should just be left to die. It sounds like you'd fit right in with them. If you have a time machine handy, set it for the late 1930s and get yourself to Germany.

  13. Re:Yawn on Two Trojans For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, there are already hundreds of Mac viruses. I have some super-spammed e-mail accounts, that get hundreds of infected e-mails per day, and more often than not, viruses come with ".hpx" extensions and other MacOS file extensions. Ignoring these threats could have severe consequences for a Mac user, if they would click on such file.

    This is the second time you've made the claim that there are hundreds of Mac viruses, and I'm calling bullshit. There were a total of, I think, 42 viruses *ever* for Mac OS 9 and below, and so far maybe two for OS X and I'm pretty sure those were classified as trojans, not viruses. So, if you don't mind, please provide evidence of these hundreds of viruses for Mac OS.

  14. Re:Lawsuit on Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit · · Score: 1

    I dont think you understand... I am capped at 4Mb/s. Therefore Bell should advertise "up to 4Mb/s." For whatever reason, a cap is a cap. If I really cared (I dont really care, 4Mb/s is great imho), I should be able to sue... or better join a class action.

    I don't think you understand. "Up to 7Mb/s" means somewhere between zero and 7Mb/s. Is 4Mb/s between zero and 7Mb/s? I think it is. There is probably some customer that is able to get around 7Mb/s, so that's what they pick for the max in their advertising. Pretty simple, really.

  15. Re:Sounds fine to me on Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution · · Score: 1

    First, ID is not necessarily God. Sure, it could be, but saying a superior alien race was visiting Earth and someone sneezed seeding the planet is also ID.

    That's not ID, that's boogerlution. Or maybe punctuated snotilibrium.

  16. Re:moto on Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes · · Score: 1

    What's that young fella? Speak up...and get off my lawn!

  17. Re:Luckily for Apple Users there is a simple fix on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    The disc was specifically labeled. It didn't even say "Not suitable for PCs", which might confuse Mac users who think their machines are made of Steve Job's semen imbued with life by God above. It specifically said "Don't put this in your fucking Mac" and it had a picture because Mac users can't understand things that don't have pictures.
    Right you are sir, and, as a Mac user, let me be the first to say it with a picture: http://www.textfiles.com/art/afinger.txt
  18. Re:The market share myth... on Army Buys Macs to Beef Up Security · · Score: 1

    Macs never had a huge market share, but they used to have a flourishing viral ecosystem. Even oddballs like the Amiga had their share of viruses. If it was just market share you'd still have hundreds of OS X viruses to Windows thousands.

    I'm not sure around 40 qualifies as "flourishing", at least not compared to the 10s of thousands you have on Windows.
  19. Re:The market share myth... on Army Buys Macs to Beef Up Security · · Score: 1

    I could easily make a installer package contain a virus, get it to execute certain scripts while 'installing'. I could hide it in a encrypted archive and provide the password to it in the e-mail to escape virus scanning. Advertising random things the user may want. This would work exactly the same way it does in windows. No extra prompts and I am pretty sure a good amount of non-techie mac users will fall for it like a good amount of non-techie windows users will fall for it.

    Doesn't a virus have to self-replicate by definition? What you describe sounds like a Trojan, not a virus. Those are the only things I've seen for Mac OS X, and Trojans can be engineered for any system.
  20. Re:DIY? on How to Turn Your PC into a Mac · · Score: 1

    See, here's the real deal. The rest of us here at /. have been running linux since the mid nineties and find apples watered down overpriced & crippled setup a cute joke. It looks great on the surface, but us nerds care more about whats inside than just a pretty face and no amount of shine hides that its a tightly closed black box.

    Maybe you just ain't got the chops to get under the hood, son.

  21. Re:OF COURSE he does! on 'Gates for President' Group Gives Up · · Score: 1

    Nobody in the world needs more than $1 million.


    I believe the number you're looking for is $640 million.

  22. Re:Estate tax deduction too high in the USA on 'Gates for President' Group Gives Up · · Score: 1

    I'm not arguing against the estate tax, I'm arguing the claim that anyone with $2M in assets is "very, very rich".

    I don't think it matters if your wealth is in land, or a big pile of cash, if you've got over $2 million in assets, you're rich. Perhaps, though, we should prepend the word "net" to that. Anyone with over $2 million in net assets is very rich. How's that?

  23. Re:Getting what you "deserve" on Neuroscience, Psychology Eroding Idea of Free Will · · Score: 1
    Imagine that a computer program is eventually written that can simulate the human brain with sufficient accuracy that its behavior is indistinguishable from the behavior of a human brain.

    I can imagine a lot of things, it doesn't mean they're actually possible.

  24. Omega particles, really? on New Animated Star Trek In The Works · · Score: 1

    No kidding, Omega particles. Wow. Ok then, I guess it's time to fire up the main deflector dish or something with tachyons.

  25. Re:Legislation, Corporations, and Censorship on Has Verizon Forfeited Common Carrier Status? · · Score: 1
    It's also why the threat to rap

    You shall not rap at me sir, or I will be forced to defend myself.