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  1. Re:They do allow non-humans to compete on NFL: National Football Luddites? · · Score: 1

    you realize how dangerous and punishing on the human body football itself is, right?

  2. Re:let me go home and cry some more on Aging Consoles Find New Life As Video Streamers · · Score: 1

    you can't.. being obsolete tech, ddr2 ram is much more expensive than ddr3 (of which you CAN get 2x4gb for less than $50)

  3. Re:Dunning-Kruger effect on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    i'd be amazed if you were alive with a 1.2 BAC, let alone able to drive.

    on the other hand, if you were capable of passing a driving test with a .12 BAC, chances are you wouldn't even be pulled over while driving anyway.

  4. Re:The code gets larger, and yet things dissapear! on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    and most people can come up with a reason for having a preference instead of just saying it's their preference.

  5. Re:hmm.... on New Humble Indie Bundle Goes Live · · Score: 1

    this. i missed humble bundle 2 because i didn't get a notification.

    thankfully, they ended up including it in with bundle 3, which i did get.

  6. Re:Some info for the astonoy geeks on On December 10, the Last Lunar Eclipse Until 2014 · · Score: 1

    beh, partial eclipse starts visible, but goes quickly goes past the horizon here :(

  7. Re:Huh? on Spider Spins Ant-Repellent Silk · · Score: 2

    Perhaps repellents are a little more unusual in the animal (as opposed to plant) world or less well studied, but hasn't he ever heard of i.e. skunks?

    excellent misuse of i.e.

  8. Re:"Selective" Memory on New Study Finds People Remember More Than They Think · · Score: 1

    obviously the same guy.

  9. Re:What next? on Toronto School Bans Hard Balls · · Score: 2

    i also still have my graphite tattoo from 1997.. i gave a kid a flat tire as we were walking out of study hall and he instantly did some whirlwind ninja spin and stabbed me right in the arm with his pencil D;

  10. Re:Print? on Polaroid: This Time It's Digital · · Score: 1

    odd, i can only count to binary 1023 on my hands. you must have some strange hands.

  11. Re:typing class in school on Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard · · Score: 1

    i'm 27 and we were required to take keyboarding in high school and touch typing was stressed. anyone that was having trouble got a cardboard blind that fit over your hands/keyboard so you couldn't even look at the keyboard if you tried.

    i'd been using computers for nearly a decade at that point and i was terrible at touch typing, but that class forced me to learn quickly ;D

  12. Re:So same thing really on The Pirate Bay Founders Go Legit With BayFiles · · Score: 2

    so really, you don't want a torrent site at all..

  13. Re:Interestingly... on Canadian Judge Rules Domain Names Are Property · · Score: 1

    amazingly enough, yes you can watch someone deliver oral arguments.

    score -1 for the pedant.

  14. Re:Global Warming Denial on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    There is a worldwide scientific consensus that the Earth is heating up..

    yes.

    and humans are a major factor.

    not so much.

  15. Re:I really wish... on Google Plugs Hole That Lets You Remove Any Website · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/reviews/t

    page to manage your blocked sites.

  16. Re:Hacking innocent people's email accounts?!?!? on Anonymous To Release Sun, News of the World Emails · · Score: 1

    excuse me but you are mistaken. one group did it for tabloid headlines and profit, the other did it for the lulz.

  17. Re:Simple vs Short. Round one: Fight! on The Science of Password Selection · · Score: 3, Insightful

    learn to type.

    my regular password is 16 characters and i rarely mistype it, even if just for muscle memory.

  18. Re:Privacy, BS on How Google+ Measures Up On Privacy · · Score: 1

    everyone knows when giving a fake birthday to make it at least 21 years ago. now you know too.

  19. Re:Journalism on EVE Online Players Rage, Protest Over Microtransactions · · Score: 1

    actually OP confirmed for under 18 as he's never heard the word 'rage' outside of internet lulspeak.

  20. Re:VPN anyone? on US ISPs, Big Content Reaching Antipiracy Agreement · · Score: 1

    $20/month for 10 years = $2,400
    5,000 DVDs @ ~$15/each = $75,000

    doesn't take a genius to see which is cheaper.

  21. Re:AZ isn't anti-immigrant on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 1

    Anyway how is this any different than anyone else getting stopped by the police and being asked for identification such as a drivers license?

    because the only time you're required to show a driver's license is when you're driving, and furthermore police cannot randomly pull over cars to check if people have a license.

    aside from the case of driving, if confronted by a police officer you generally do not have to identify yourself. some states, however, do have stop and identify laws wherein you are required to identify yourself if detained* by a police officer. depending on the jurisdiction, refusal to identify yourself can be used against you or even carry it's own criminal penalty.

    * know the difference between a consensual contact with a police officer and detention. he must have reasonable articulable suspicion that a crime has been/is being/is about to be committed to detain you. if he is not detaining you, you do not have to stay and talk to him or identify yourself.

    that said, i have no problem with police officers checking the immigration status of anyone they have already arrested for other reasons.

  22. Re:Trade-school mentality on What's Your College Major Worth? · · Score: 1

    OR
    win the lottery, get drunk on the beach every day.

  23. Re:Proxy on Google Deprecates Translation API · · Score: 1

    it already does this. try to translate a page from english to english and it gives an error

    The page you have attempted to translate is already in English.

    picking any other source language bypasses this.

  24. Re:Photocopied? on ATM Repairman Accused of Taking (and Faking) Cash · · Score: 1

    US notes have the same feature. i get a similar message opening up a scanned US banknote in photoshop.

  25. guys, it's already started. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When the Rapture Comes? · · Score: 1

    it is now well past 6:00pm local time in new zealand.

    the news is reporting that new zealand has sunk into the sea. it's really happening. the world is ending.

    jkjk nothing happened. huge surprise.