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  1. Re:Outperform? on MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models · · Score: 1

    But I've seen motorcycles with seatbelts, airbags, radio, and can hold more than two people.

  2. Re:So, which do you want? on Scientists Turn Used LCDs Into Medicine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does that mean I can either keep living the dream, see how far the rabbit whole goes, or take the placebo?

  3. Re:Doing your job? on Keeping Up With DoD Security Requirements In Linux? · · Score: 1

    Sorry to sound like a jerk, but isn't this what you're paid to do?

    What, create time?

  4. Re:Aiding and Abetting? on Australian Police Plan Wardriving Mission · · Score: 1

    They can just stick in in neutral, tow it off with a truck and drill out the key well later.

    Anyways, some cars are a little less secured against hotwiring than others; I installed a switch and pushbutton in someone's late 80's Camry because they broke the key in the keywell. It took over an hour but most of that involved drilling, fitting, soldering, cleaning up...

  5. Re:You jest, but... on Australian Police Plan Wardriving Mission · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thank you, Judge. I'm so happy you're here to tell us we can't be impressed by someone's paint job or check out their bobblehead.

  6. Re:I thought they.. on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 1

    Or they'll just forget they ever saw the 10 butterflies with daggers and flames at all.

  7. Re:I thought they.. on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 1

    You can't have a double-blind study with abstract observation; you have to have some way to put cold, unambiguous results on a paper you can pass between two people without talking to each other otherwise.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_experiment

    I mean, you can, but it really doesn't help prove the point. To be unbiased you have to eliminate the possibility of differing interpretations (but not by throwing other interpretations out).

  8. Re:I thought they.. on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 1

    Isn't it beautiful?

  9. Re:I thought they.. on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your post is funny but it's even more hilarious someone modded you offtopic. That tag just shouldn't exist on Slashdot.

  10. Re:I thought they.. on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, that's exactly what I thought they all were!

  11. Re:Photog? on Obama Photog Says "You're Both Wrong" To AP & Fairey · · Score: 1

    Then the lunatics I've had at it with were wrong.

  12. Re:Afro-American Racism Against Whites and Asians on Obama Photog Says "You're Both Wrong" To AP & Fairey · · Score: 1

    I think they both work, I feel pretty diluted.

  13. Re:Afro-American Racism Against Whites and Asians on Obama Photog Says "You're Both Wrong" To AP & Fairey · · Score: 1

    I voted for Obama because he's black and I'm white.

    It's easy to assume this makes me racist or narrow minded, but consider I didn't vote for him because he was black -for him-, I did it -for everyone else-.

    Anyways, racism in America is pretty watered down compared to racism in the rest of the world. Here we have a history of slavery and the occasional racially motivated murder, theft, arson, whatever. Other parts of the world have mass genocide, constant war, competent adults mutually hating each other even when they have the same-colored skin but different bloodlines, refusal of medical care, food and water... slavery appears relatively benevolent contrasted to modern racism.

  14. Re:Photog? on Obama Photog Says "You're Both Wrong" To AP & Fairey · · Score: 1

    "Photog" is the stupid new way some people say "picture taken with a camera", and when you try to tell these people they sound like idiots they defend their use of the word with the observation that they've seen plenty of other people use the word, disregarding the possibility that they also sound like idiots.

  15. Re:Whoa, they invented the maintenance-free plane? on Eye In the Sky For City Crime Fighting · · Score: 1

    Taking pictures of classified material is a big no-no and I agree with this.

    Which universal constant explains this as absolute?

    We are not people housed by a government, we are people who -are- the government. There is no naturally granted power that some people who claim to protect us deserve some form of technology or strategic superiourity the rest of Humanity is not allowed to have.

    In the deepest, most meaningful sense of reality, there is no right and wrong, there is no yes-yes and no-no, there is only what someone is capable of doing and what other people can do to stop them.

    Don't let them control your thoughts.

  16. Re:Next step on Eye In the Sky For City Crime Fighting · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you'll see a person is there, under the umbrella just fine, but FLIR will not do much to tell you who they are.

  17. Re:Next step on Eye In the Sky For City Crime Fighting · · Score: 2, Funny

    With a strong helping of facism throne in.

    I thought for a moment you should have wrote "thrown" but I decided "throne" is more fitting.

  18. Re:New stuffs on Bethesda Speaks On Gamebryo Engine, Final Fallout 3 DLC · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I love the Chinese Stealth Armor but it kind of made the game too easy after that. The only thing I had any trouble with at that point were Albino Radscorpions when on Very Hard

  19. Re:Complete Member Company List on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 1

    And now they all look like one collective muppet...

  20. Re:BILLY MAYS HERE... on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 1

    As long as I'm making a copy I don't see anything wrong with it!

  21. Re:Major browser vendors on Examining the HTML 5 Video Codec Debate · · Score: 2, Funny

    It doesn't have to be an exhaustive list, it just has to have a few big names in support to mitigate the toppling effects of change.

    Because Mozilla are obviously the good guys because they're the ones I like, personally, Apple and Google need to cave into the will of the commons. The commons, of course, being myself.

  22. Re:Translation on Examining the HTML 5 Video Codec Debate · · Score: 1

    Not fascists, but it is frustrating to see them so stubborn about such a Good Idea when they've been the leaders of innovation for over a decade.

    I guess the problem is that they won't be making tons of money off an obscure and clever design.

  23. Re:Yeah but.... 1/4 the price alternative on Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Save your energy. Most Slashdot posters are not "car" people and simply don't get it. No amount of argument will penetrate their opinions.

    Yeah, I'm 25, don't have a license and the most I know about cars is how the engine works and the dynamics involved in physical movement. As far as drooling over prismatic paint jobs or masturbating to numerical ratings of performance I just really don't get it.

  24. OMG kill it! on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The FDA has determined that Tylenol enhancing pain killers are dangerous enough to potentially be pulled from the market. Drugs including Vicodin, Hydrocodone, Lortab, Maxidone, Norco, Zydone, Tylenol with codeine, Percocet, Endocet, and Darvocet"

    1. Vicodin is Hydrocodone

    2. None of these painkillers require APAP to function, the anti-inflammatory effects of acetaminophen are auxiliary. The primary reason APAP is added to these drugs is to make them difficult to take in doses addicts can appreciate.

    3. Acetaminophen is STILL effective at what it does and despite the misuse of it from ignorant users it is less harmful to the lining of the stomach than aspirin, does not increase the risk of people taking lithium or have sodium sensitivity like naproxen, and is not as definitely fatal in case of overdose as ibuprofin.

    Acetaminophen is not perfect, but there's no perfect alternative and that is the very reason why we need to sustain as many options as possible for the diversity of medical needs people have.

  25. Re:Nice to see the worst elements of /. are here on Secrets of Schizophrenia and Depression "Unlocked" · · Score: 1

    I'm 25 and I try my damnedest to be on my best behavior.