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  1. Re:Really Slashdot? Really?! on Senate Candidate Sued By Copyright Troll · · Score: 1, Troll

    I am the submitter of this story. I am a registered Libertarian and much more sympathetic to Sharron Angle than to Barack Obama.

  2. Re:Bloody Hell on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    Raul Duke and Doctor--oh, in their right minds?

  3. Re:Cue increase in accidents on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    The National Maximum Speed Law was repealed by the National Highway System Designation Act in 1995.

  4. Re:Murdoch Must Be Dismayed on Nmap Developers Release a Picture of the Web · · Score: 1

    I noticed The New York Times.

  5. Re:Broken? More like fixed. on J. P. Barlow — Internet Has Broken the Political System · · Score: 1

    There were entire towns without a restroom for colored people.

    Name one.

  6. Re:Ah, nuts. on Guitar, Studio Wizard Les Paul Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    I wanted to go up to see him last August, but mom didn't want me to go alone because it was in SCARY New York. Thanks, mom.

  7. Re:It's not really GFS on Google Two Years Into Overhaul of the Google File System · · Score: 1

    You are not.

  8. Re:It's so very odd..... on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Space-time is a property of matter and energy, not a pre-existing void in which it appeared.

  9. Re:No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express on Passenger Avoids Delay By Fixing Plane Himself · · Score: 1

    It's when you replace the liver with part of a liver from a living donor. Unlike most organs, the liver regenerates.

  10. Re:what will happen in a storm flood? on New Video of Tesla's Mass-Market Electric Car · · Score: 1

    There will obviously be warnings about the HT parts of the system (just like there are in modern petrol cars that maintain a multi-thousand volt coil to fire the spark plugs, although at lower current than is used in the Tesla - not that it matters, since when you're talking about very high voltages, very small currents can kill you).

    At high voltages, small currents can kill you?

    Ohm's Law: Voltage = Current * Resistance

    Voltage is inversely proportional to current. It's the current, not the voltage, that kills you. A current of about 100 mA through a person's body is fatal.

  11. Re:You prob want a rest after 300 miles on New Video of Tesla's Mass-Market Electric Car · · Score: 1

    So you spend most of your time on the road driving...75 miles per hour? Including all stops?

  12. Re:I'm anal (and not in the fun way) so... on Bing Gets Porn Domain To Filter Explicit Content · · Score: 1

    The ability to translate ideas on to paper is important, but the ability to compose an image in the first place is even more important. It's the difference between learning to play an instrument and learning to write a song.

  13. Obama birth certificate on Open Government Brainstorm Defies Wisdom of Crowds · · Score: 1

    The actual #1 idea, with almost two thousand net votes, is about how annoying all the posts demanding to see Obama's birth certificate are.

    http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/4387-4049

  14. Re:How much do the Artists get? on Rates Lowered For Streamed Music In the UK · · Score: 1

    That hasn't been the normal situation in the history of popular music. Record companies used to be very local. Songs were published as sheet music, and if someone had a hit with a song, you would record it with your own singer and release it.

    Frank Sinatra changed that. He was the first singer to attract a large number of fans who wanted his records specifically. He was also the first artist to take an interest in producing albums that were not just collections of previously released singles. A lot of people don't realise what an influence Sinatra had on the industry. But you can't name one song that Frank Sinatra wrote; artists who wrote their own material like Little Richard, Buddy Holly, and Bob Dylan remained the exception.

    When the Beatles arrived in the American market in 1964, they changed everything. Record companies wanted them, and bands wanted to be them. And they wrote their own songs. Starting with Rubber Soul in 1965, the Beatles wrote all of their own songs. Then the Rolling Stones became a success writing their own songs. The Who had a great live act performing R&B covers, but when they wanted a record deal, they were told that they would have to write their own songs because it was what every rock band was doing now.

    Lennon-McCartney didn't end the profession of songwriters. Writing teams like Leiber and Stoller, Goffin and King, Holland-Dozier-Holland, and Strong and Whitfield continued to have hits. They did establish the rock band as a self-contained creative unit, though. Now we have bands that have never released a cover. This is not the way things were in the good old days, nor is it necessarily better or worse.

  15. Re:The 'what' era? on The Sewing Machine War · · Score: 1

    Tell the police! Out-of-staters with the surname Sherman are forbidden to own land in Georgia.

  16. Re:WOW on Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital · · Score: 1

    Hawking did to Einstein what Einstein did to Newton?

    Or did Hawking find solutions of Einstein's equations which prove surprising things? Has relativity predicted the outcome of every experiment for a century?

    "I don't pay much attention to how journalists describe me. I know it is media hype. They need an Einstein like figure to appeal to. But for them to compare me to Einstein is ridiculous. They don't understand either Einstein's work, or mine." - Stephen Hawking

  17. Re:grown? on MIT and the Constant Robotic Gardeners · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't worry, the robots would never get more energy out of us than they put in to feeding us! We would just be mercilessly slaughtered when we outlived our usefulness.

  18. Re:Growing "tomatoes" on MIT and the Constant Robotic Gardeners · · Score: 1

    Keep prices down. Plant your seeds.

  19. Re:Have to see on Violent Video Games Can Improve Vision · · Score: 3, Informative

    Samuel-Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) is the source of the myth that masturbation leads to vision loss. He attributed a host of health problems to masturbation in his 1760 book L'Onanisme, based on the belief (which persisted into the Victorian era) that semen is a vital fluid, and the loss of it weakens a man.

  20. Re:Dull on Dell's Smartphone Rejected — Too Dull · · Score: 1
  21. Re:In related news... on 17 Million People Stopped Buying CDs In 2008 · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that there's a chance that statement would be wrong? It sounds to me like a textbook example of income elasticity of demand.

  22. Re:Disturbing on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 2, Informative

    He's not saying that this is so because humans are made of electrons. From the premise "If people have free will, then particles have free will" (proved), and the premise "Particles have no free will" (they being incapable of thought as we know it), it follows that people do not have free will. If they did, particles would certainly have free will.

  23. Re:kdawson's new catchphrase? on Original Shakespeare Portrait Discovered, Disputed · · Score: 1

    That New York Times article by itself makes it pretty clear that the authenticity of the portrait is disputed.

  24. 5-sided snowflakes on New Ice Structure Could Help Seed Clouds, Cause Rain · · Score: 2, Funny

    If the ice crystals are pentagonal, they will form pentagonal snowflakes. This will give us a better chance of finding the snowflake with magic properties depicted on page 00062 of the Principia Discordia.

  25. Re:You know what would suck? The Y2038 Problem on Long-Term PC Preservation Project? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that equivalent to "number of milliseconds since 0001-01-01"?