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  1. Re:Yes, different in the USA on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    How about the checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, TX? And then being told by my lawyer that they could strip the car down to the hubcaps and there wasn't jack I could do about it? How about the term "presumed to have crossed the border if within X miles"?

  2. Re:Don't you love it when... on Wikileaks To Publish Remaining Afghan Documents · · Score: 1

    Yes. It gives me time to pull out the iPhone and start recording.

  3. Re:It's America. on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    So all you have to do is save up somewhere in the vicinity of $20,000 (plus living expenses. You won't be working while you're campaigning.) just to get some low-level government position. You then spend 4-10 years escalating your way up the line till your somewhere that you can make decisions. Now if you're a clean and respectable politician, you will almost instantly be rejected. If you ARE elected, you be ostracized and put on some board overseeing the clam population in Nevada. So yes, you COULD make decisions if the entire system wasn't based around the fact that the people in charge don't want to give up the power or money they have accumulated.

  4. Re:Get ready to Bend over America on Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated) · · Score: 1

    What I love even more is that tollways were originally meant to pay for the construction of the roads that they existed on. And then the governments running them looked and said "Holy cow! That's a lot of money. Roads done...Hmmmmm." And now they're permanent features. Never feel bad for blowing through one of these money-sucking machines.

  5. Re:Bionic? on Bionic Cat Gets World's First Implant Paws · · Score: 1

    So every time Oscar takes a step, have it shine a laser point somewhere. Cyborg cat:). I mean all you're really missing is the electro part. He is definitely lacking a function (walking) and it's being replaced...just no motor/pistons/auto-turrets yet.

  6. Re:Nature's own GMO on Aphid's Color Comes From a Fungus Gene · · Score: 1

    I don't have a problem with us adding genes to plants. Hell, start adding genes to people! Put computer chips in someone else's brain first...then I'll jump in! Let the furries live their dreams!

    Where I have a problem is when Monsanto comes in after the fact and says "Well, well, well...awfully good looking crops ya have there. Be a shame is something were to happen to them. Like say our dominant gene with a kill switch enabled in it were to cross pollinate with your current crop....a reeeeaaaal shame. Guess we have no choice BUT to sue you. You're in cahoots with Mother Nature to steal our IP after all. Oh and your barn looks flammable too."

  7. Re:unemployment and homelessness on The Laidoff Ninja · · Score: 1

    You just need a cooler wife and kids. Deep six them and head down to the frat party across the block and pick some up there.

  8. Re:From the article on The Laidoff Ninja · · Score: 1

    I think even you have it a little wrong. Give me pure Darwinism/survival of the fittest as a government/economic system. We might be living in an apocalyptic wasteland but we'd be on the moon for sure! Plus I'd pay good money/barter good chickens/bash good heads to see the elections for the next President in the THUNDERDOME!

  9. Re:Yeeeeeehaw! on Texas Tells Cape Wind "You're Not First Yet" · · Score: 1

    1)You forgot your sarcasm tags.
    2)You stay the hell away from that bull's ballsack. We put up with a lot of shit here, but that's just not kosher. Except in the rodeo....
    3)My boss (who is foreign) makes cowboy references more often than I do.
    4)It's a joke. Move along citizen.

  10. Re:Is the software available to download anywhere? on Chinese Govt Spyware Puts Computers At Risk · · Score: 1

    All I can see in both of your sentences is the word "gaping" and then the idea of a bot-net that denies you service AND makes every picture on your HDD and background goatse.

  11. Idea on Stem Cells Restore Sight For Corneal Disease Patients · · Score: 1

    I've got a solution for both sides. We have IVF clinics making lots of little babies/not-babies. Now this isn't going to change unless you can find a cure for sterilization because if you even thought about trying to deny the biological ticking time bomb that is a middle aged lady with no bun in the oven.....well I'm gonna get popcorn and sell tickets to be quite honest.

    So here's my solution/idea: IVF clinics stop ALL work on ESC, if and only if every woman who opposes ESC opens her vag to accept these little squirts of God's love. Cause if I see one more horse-faced, wrinkly, angry, Bible/Qu'ran/Talmud/Whatever-Scientoligists-thump-thumping, screaming bag-woman holding a sign proclaiming some omnipotent being's wrath upon those who dare go against her religion and she's not about to pop out one more drain on the economy then I say you have no foot, leg or even soap box to stand on and gtfo.

  12. Re:Here's one reason the financial system failed. on The Coder Behind the Mortgage Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Most people aren't as educated as you give them credit for. The average person on Slashdot is usually more educated than your retarded monkey. And usually you're hanging out with your nerd friends. Recently I've been in the ghetto (non-sequitur I know) in Texas and Lousiana for my job. The large part of these people are uneducated about basic physics...stuff that affects them every single day. You think they're going to find the time to figure out this variable rate mortgage?

    I don't mean to be spiteful or derogatory but these people are woefully uneducated and a lot of them are stupid (which by this I mean they know they're ignorant but don't care and just want to continue like they have been doing). You place a higher value on people's abilities than I do obviously but I can only relate what I've seen (given my own biases of course:).

  13. Re:uhhh on Implant Raises Cellular Army To Attack Cancer · · Score: 1

    You had me at "invert the patient", "mild anesthetic" and oddly enough "evil choking as depicted by the film" O_o.

  14. Re:Oh Noes! on Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A non-valid argument is expecting a company to take blame for things above and beyond the call of what they're making. If you'll notice your xbox has a longer flatter side that should prove more stable than the shorter standing position. If you have pets and earthquakes...make the right choice.

    Normally I'm all for reaming MS. If you're Xbox is dying because of heat issues and can only run in the standing position that's a different problem and yes IS MS's fault. But scratching a game disc cause you're tango-ing with your Xbox cause of a geek-gasm over GoW2...not really their problem.

    It would be like expecting a hairdryer to deflect a bullet. Good thought. And with enough engineering would be damn cool. But a hairdryer was meant to dry hair. Not deflect bullets. An Xbox was meant to run games in a stationary position. Not a moving one. Deal with it.

  15. Re:bear. woods. pope. hat. on Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    You also own a broken sarcasm detector good sir :).

  16. Re:The thing about these lawsuits on FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations · · Score: 4, Funny

    (3) That the Court order Defendant to account for and disgorge to Plaintiff all profits derived by Defendant from its unlawful acts; [...]

    So am I the only one who thinks disgorge is an awesomely awkward word. All I can see is something like "2 Routers 1 Port!"

  17. Re:This is so cool! on Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can see this as being terrible. I mean really, imagine going through an airport and all you have to do is NOT think terrorist thoughts...I don't know about you but I can see many many Ghostbusters moments occurring.

    "Okay nobody think of anything!"
    "Your destruction has been chosen!"
    "Who though of something?! I didn't!"
    *Giant marshmallow blobs appear*

  18. Re:Dreaming Is A Private Thing on Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data · · Score: 1

    Asimov also predicted he would be able to touch the moon -_-. You good sir have been out-literaried.

  19. Re:Ahh, true democracy on Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They're smart enough to stay off the net. See examples: /b/, tubgirl, two girls one cup, pain olympics, etc etc. :)

    But on a more serious note I'll mangle and paraphrase a Sherlock Holmes story. Watson tell Sherlock they've landed on the moon. Sherlock's response "Oh really? That's nice." When questioned about why he doesn't place more importance on this momentous event he replies "A man's mind is like an attic. If you fill it with everything you find you soon find that it's filled with clutter and you have no idea where anything is. I keep only information that is important to me and I know where everything in my attic is at all times."

    The moral being just because someone has a narrow scope of knowledge does not in any way detract from them being brilliant.

  20. Re:What a tool... on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    I've been told point blank, by my old high school principal no less, that as soon as I come through those doors "...you [students] have no rights." No free speech, no right to property or privacy, etc etc...Learn on!

  21. Re:You need to explain on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    Yeah....about those words there....you sound elitist. And I'm American and don't consider myself unsophisticated but right now you're just whipping out your etymological schlong cause you feel slighted ;)

  22. Re:$30K donated to fight censorship, protests plan on Clarifying the Next Step in Australia's Net-Censorship Scheme · · Score: 1

    I think what you meant to say was "get in through the back door" ;D.

  23. Re:Awesome response posted on Washingtonpost.com on Send the ISS To the Moon · · Score: 1

    It's easy to punch holes in logic if you just look hard enough. So his idea was complete and utter trash but at least he's not sitting on his thumbs going "Well we have the ISS up there. What more do you want?!"

    Sometimes there needs to be batshit insane ideas for anything to get done. Have you looked at some of the planes they thought would fly back in the day? Of course with our complete and utter mastery of physics nowadays (sarcasm) we Obviously know such contraptions wouldn't work.

    Here's my idea. You make a death trap. No kidding. Make a shuttle that is pretty much all rocket and life support systems, zero shielding. Then you say to the public "You can fly this but you have to pass physicals and it has zero shielding." There will be at least a pair of people who will fit your bill. So they get bombarded with radiation and cosmic rays. Hopefully their offspring will be better suited to handle it :).

  24. Re:Some data 4 U on OMG Did U C What U R Paying 4 Texting? · · Score: 1

    Bust out the old ham radio and some battery packs :). But seriously, they can turn it off. You just have to be firm. And if they can't keep you from receiving messages you: A)need a new phone company, B)get reimbursed from them under the logic that you are receiving unsolicited calls and refuse to pay for them.

  25. Re:Some data 4 U on OMG Did U C What U R Paying 4 Texting? · · Score: 1

    Yes. I believe in the US you ARE charged for all incoming calls and texts. And yes, under our current system I do believe it's legal. Don't know bout the ramifications of not answering.