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  1. Re:I'm still waiting for the Tata Touch... on World's Cheapest Car Goes On Sale In India · · Score: 1

    It was Americans that set the low safety and environmental standards at the plant.

    Which is because why? Because Indians let the business owners get away with it, as well as owners of businesses from other countries.

  2. Re:nuts on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 1

    That's rather short-sighted. As the customers start disappearing, so does his income, which will force him to rethink his menu or go out of business.

  3. Re:Schwa? on Start-Up Genetically Modifies a Better Biofuel Bug · · Score: 1

    To suggest that all black people share one culture that needs to be understood is at best ignorant, and quite possibly racist as well.

  4. Re:I'm sure I read this a couple of days ago... on Brain Decline Begins At Age 27 · · Score: 1

    I thought the "best" age was supposed to be 39

    By that time, you've forgotten what 27 was like.

  5. Re:bill, don't throttle on Morality of Throttling a Local ISP? · · Score: 1

    A few fellas dropped by to "renegotiate the contract" by way of baseball bat.

  6. Re:argh on MacBook Modded With Second Monitor Inside Logo · · Score: 4, Funny

    A life-size, fully operational Death Star. This is installing a very small monitor into a tight place. Kind of neat, but utterly useless.

  7. Re:Translation on Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests · · Score: 1

    It's not like it's a hundred amps, it's a very small shock, and is an extremely common canine training method used around the world.

  8. Re:What the hell? on Suspect Freed After Exposing Cop's Facebook Status · · Score: 1

    the effect on the brain of being tired, often including the first minute or two after you wake up, is very similar to the effect of alcohol

    The lesson here is not to wake up if you are driving while asleep, or else you might start driving like a drunk instead...

  9. Re:... And Justice For All on Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album · · Score: 1

    Metallica Rocks, Pirating is wrong, and You suck.

    I can think of three things that are wrong with that sentence.

    Yeah, "rocks", "pirating", and "you" should not be capitalized. Three things.

  10. Re:Helped their evolution on Reversing Undesirable Fish Evolution · · Score: 1

    Luckily we have plenty of seafood restaurants around for us to find out which species are tastiest...

  11. Re:The Support and Training Issue on Open Source In Public K-12 Schools? · · Score: 1

    There's no substitute for a strong foundation in the fundamentals

    Hate to break it to you, but with the growth of technology, knowing how to use a computer is becoming fundamental.

  12. Re:the list is a total mess on The Most Influential Games In History? · · Score: 1

    You also need to consider that since SMB was included with the console (most of them, anyway), game purchases and copies owned are two entirely different numbers.

  13. Re:Sinfosky is right... on Are Windows 7 Testers Going Unheard? · · Score: 1

    Implement both and provide a toggle.

    Wouldn't that (potentially) lead to even more bloat than there is now? At the very least in terms of disk space usage.

  14. Re:There's no way they'll abuse this on Washington State Wants DNA From All Arrestees · · Score: 1

    I bet many people in that situation would be willing to offer a small sample of saliva instead...

    As long as they don't mind me giving my sample by spitting in their face, no problem.

    Hell no, they can't have my DNA, even though I've done nothing wrong.

  15. Re:He's Right on Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office? · · Score: 1

    I'm the AI previously known as CmdrTaco.

  16. Re:He's Right on Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office? · · Score: 1

    Most recent studies dispute that, stating that the USA is the largest source of spam. As far as continents, Asia is first, but still nowhere near "half".

  17. Re:He's Right on Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, if anyone had mentioned anything about a keylogger, we might be inclined to believe you had some fucking clue what was going on. But since he was talking about patching windows before being compromised from the Internet, a firewall is exactly the right thing to bring up.

  18. Re:He's Right on Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Could ye at least try for some *consistency* in your views?

    In case you hadn't noticed, there are more than two people on Slashdot (or so I'm told) which means there are different views that come up, and consistency across the board is nigh on impossible. It everyone's views were consistent with each other, it would be incredibly boring.

  19. Re:Firefox is a web broswer on Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    Some of us don't own a copy of Windows

    Then this doesn't directly affect you.

  20. Re:malware.... on Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    On a related note, has anyone ever added software through add/remove ?

    When installing software on Windows Terminal Server (2000, at least) you have to use that control panel.

  21. Re:malware.... on Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    agree.
    if an extension is not there, with public comments. then something is wrong.

    Correct. Just like no one could possibly be opposed to Apple doing something similar with their App store, making iPhone programs only available in one place...

  22. Re:But how good an objection is that? on Making Magnetic Monopoles and Other Physics Exotica · · Score: 1

    parallel universe where everything is the same except that evil is good and they all have goatee beards.

    At first I read that as "goatse beards" and though "Boy, that is evil!"

  23. Re:But how good an objection is that? on Making Magnetic Monopoles and Other Physics Exotica · · Score: 1

    I mean it is true we do not OBSERVE much antimatter in this universe, but that doesn't mean it is not present in some sense:

    Perhaps it's all clumped together at another point on the time loop. Once the largest antimatter clump and largest matter clump come back together in the time loop, there's a big bang.

    What? No, I don't have any idea what I'm talking about, thank you.

  24. Re:I've got a better idea on Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    What else is there?

  25. Re:I've got a better idea on Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It doesn't cost you more $2000 in equipment and then your elbow grease.

    Sure, as long as you:
    * have no Hi-def widescreen
    * don't want multiple shots of the same scene
    * use low-quality audio
    * use non-pirated software
    * have no CG effects
    * don't include computer costs
    * don't pay anyone
    * consider working time worth nothing

    That $2000 will cover a single halfway-decent camera.