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  1. Re:Over hyped on Did Neandertals Paint Early Cave Art? · · Score: 1

    Yes, the art for the most part is perfect and done in such a way as to make the animals appear animated when moving through the cave with a torch. There are no mess-ups, such as an image that is started and then erased. The pictures were created in one go by someone who knew exactly what they were doing. It is no more primitive than a comic book drawing.

  2. Re:This summary is terrible on Microsoft To Sell Its Own Windows RT Tablet · · Score: 1

    I've seen this used in another article recently and I found it confounding enough to launch me into a grammar nazi rage. If it reads like crap it is WRONG! If I have to reread the fucking sentence or phrase 4 times and ask myself if it is a typo or is the person just following a rule when they shouldn't be, it is WRONG!

  3. Re:Hard truth on Why VCs Really Reject Startups · · Score: 1

    Man, there are a shit-ton of people who couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag, with no business experience, and no working product who are trying to get VC funding. Most of the ideas are simplistic or just plain stupid. Even the better ones make you want to wince. These VC incubators get the advantage of a bunch of people working FOR THEM--coming up with ideas and testing them out. The ones they think have a chance they give some money to for a stake.

  4. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    What the fuck does this have to do with Facebook!? Seriously, I'm trying to make the connection here.

  5. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of those brain teasers from my management classes.

  6. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    I know, we got off the subject quickly. I was immediately going to make a comment like that, but I was distracted with the visual of a cute, fanged penis.

  7. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1, Funny

    or vagina?

  8. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the Black Plague to penis fangs, god I love slashdot.

  9. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    No, we're talking about growing teeth on our penises!

  10. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    You mean the early days of THIS civilization. Humans have been smashed into the stone ages at least a couple of times. There have been signs of civilizations uncovered from under 30+ feet of earth in some areas. There are also many underwater cities yet to be examined or discovered.

  11. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is the "lamer curve" again.

  12. Re:Check your Internet Acceptable Use documents on Ask Slashdot: Security Digests For the Home Network Admin? · · Score: 1

    Where in the hell do you get a VPS for $15?! I think they put you on a shared plan and called it VPS.

  13. Re:Reliability testing... on Ask Slashdot: Security Digests For the Home Network Admin? · · Score: 2

    Dude...get ready for a full-time job. I hope you have a decent firewall just to start. It will cost you thousands of percent more money to secure and host your own site, but if you are into it there can be great fun. Get ready to battle Chinese and Russian assholes nonetheless.

  14. Re:Erm... on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 1

    You mean 10 other browsers!

  15. Re:Erm... on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 1

    Maybe IE10 is nice, I haven't used it, but IE9 is an absolute random suck-fest of usability. I'm eager to try IE10.

  16. Re:I am safe. on Spokeo Fined $800K By FTC For Marketing Its Services To Employers · · Score: 1

    and the other family has yet to use my first name for one of their sons.

    I think a patent is in order.

  17. Re:I am safe. on Spokeo Fined $800K By FTC For Marketing Its Services To Employers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, according to them, I'm a millionaire. Oh yeah, Nevermind.

  18. Re:Okay then... on Police Using YouTube To Tell Their Own Stories · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've known of officers who played it straight and refused the buddy buddy system. The Chief will put them in check. One guy I know got suspended for trying to arrest a fellow officer, or deputy, forget which--he was DUI.

  19. Re:Okay then... on Police Using YouTube To Tell Their Own Stories · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of "the second set of books." Google it.

  20. Re:What about cops? on Police Using YouTube To Tell Their Own Stories · · Score: 1

    It sucks. I got stopped by a redneck cop with a serious attitude problem. This guy kinda scared me as he was very unstable. When he went to sit in his car to fill out paper work his dog would bark and he kept screaming at the dog to shut up. Very freaky, his face was all red and seemed extremely stressed out. Somehow I was able to convince him to let my friends come and pick up my motorcycle (I had fictitious tags, no license, and no insurance). Funny thing is, I got stopped earlier that day in a nice neighborhood doing 70 in a 35. The cop was super nice and we just talked about my bike. He didn't check insurance, license, or my tags! He just said, "Be careful." The redneck pulled me over because I was sitting at a stoplight with my goggles pulled up onto my forehead. He said I didn't have eye protection. WTH!?

  21. Re:What about cops? on Police Using YouTube To Tell Their Own Stories · · Score: 2

    I always thought Cops was propaganda to condition people to acquiesce to authority.

  22. Re:What about cops? on Police Using YouTube To Tell Their Own Stories · · Score: 1

    With fiction and news the same formula applies: no conflict == no story

  23. Re:How about ... free? on Journal Offers Flat Fee For 'All You Can Publish' · · Score: 1

    There is nothing to read! WTF?!

  24. Re:Very smart people ... on Why Smart People Are Stupid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There is nothing wrong with posting AC. STFU

  25. Re:Both Ways on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1

    you lost me at "my" "investment" referring to social security. It is not an investment. Even the most anemic PERS fund outperforms SS. Slap it in a decent 401 at Fidelity and watch it smoke both of them. Social security is a tax, not an investment.