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  1. Re:Global Warming? on Numerous Methane Leaks Found On Atlantic Sea Floor · · Score: 1

    I demand more research investigating this fart-rain connection. The fact that there is none proves a conspiracy by the fart-denialists!

  2. Re:Why not? on White House Punts On Petition To Allow Tesla Direct Sales · · Score: 1

    And, of course, if Obama suggests congress do something reasonable, they're CERTAINLY not going to wave their arms and scream about what a terrible idea it is, and how it would turn our country into a Socialist state...

  3. Re:Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole! on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1

    It's not illegal to be an irresponsible asshole, and they have the same legal rights as polite people.

  4. Re:Souls crushed, while you wait! on Futurama Cancelled (Again) · · Score: 1

    Personally I'm waiting for[...] "Oww my balls" to air

    That was an act on "America's Got 'Talent' " a few seasons ago. It even went through a few rounds. No $#!@. I haven't watched since.

  5. Re:A major flaw on Barracuda Appliances Have Exploitable Holes, Fixed By Firmware Updates · · Score: 1

    Correct: we have one of these, so I immediately went to perform the update just to find it was already done.

  6. Re:Dancing around race issue? on US Educational Scores Not So Abysmal · · Score: 1

    Thank you: that's the first reasonable explanation I've heard for why the data misrepresentation might occur. It seems obvious now that it's spelled out, but many others seem to have overlooked that reasoning as well.

  7. Re:Extinct? on Artificial Misting System Allows Reintroduction of Extinct Toad · · Score: 1

    Perhaps more "been given some helpful information" — are conversations really fights?!

    Them's fightin' words, buddy!

  8. Re:A very unusual toad on Artificial Misting System Allows Reintroduction of Extinct Toad · · Score: 1

    I don't think you can argue that building dams is a requirement of survival. It is disconnected from evolution.

    It is certainly not disconnected from evolution: they started doing for some reason, and continued to do it as they evolved. Maybe at some point it WAS a matter of survival, such as lowering down-stream water levels so larger water predators couldn't swim up-stream to get at them.

  9. Re:Who takes the minutes? on Ask Slashdot: Recording Business Meeting Audio On an Intranet? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The auto-transcribed document wouldn't be able to identify who is speaking at any given time.

  10. Re:Darn you Google! on RapidShare Urges US To Punish Linking Sites and Not File-Sharing Sites · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem isn't that I'm offering fake Rolexes for sale, it's that some law breaker is telling people about it!

  11. Re:Oh Canada! on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 2

    Well, there's another mark in the "pro" side of Vancouver!

  12. Re:Hackable? on Startup Aims For $99, Android-Powered TV Game Console · · Score: 3, Funny

    Racing stripes, a spoiler, maybe cut a hole in the side and add an LED or two. Water cooling is the next step after that.

  13. Re:Simple algorithm on Competition To Identify Sexual Predators In Chat Logs · · Score: 1

    Where's the badge pinned? Kinky.

  14. Re:Call me picky but... on EU ACTA Chief Resigns · · Score: 0

    There is no standard that mandates a web server to be on port 80.

    Mandated, no. But it is mentioned in RFC 2616 (HTTP 1.1) as the default port. To stray from defaults for no reason is inherently suspicious.

  15. Re:Another politician with half a brain? on EU ACTA Chief Resigns · · Score: 2

    grande Schettino

    Think I had one of those at Starbucks the other day: tasted like schettino to me, anyway...

  16. Re:Possible options for Amiga on Hyperion Promises An AmigaOS Netbook · · Score: 1

    The thing I heard is that Amiga's scripting language REXX was awesome

    On the Amiga it was ARexx, but yeah it was pretty sweet. It could interface live with just about any program that was open (plus launch any it needed) and operate them without your intervention, so it had similar power to Linux's shell scripts, but had the potential to be somewhat graphical and it was far easier to learn than figuring out the complicated command-line syntax of every program under the sun.

  17. Re:Meh, its just a name on Hyperion Promises An AmigaOS Netbook · · Score: 1

    "cooperative memory protection"? You mean "no memory protection".

    Exactly. The programs must cooperate with their shares of memory, or I take my red and white checkered ball and go home, and none of us get to play.

  18. Re:Prediction on Actress Sues IMDb For Revealing Her Age · · Score: 1

    Her birthdate has been on Wikipedia for at least a year.

  19. Re:What is the goal? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Are you really going to blame GE for, essentially, following the rules?

    Nope. I blame them for buying the rules from the politicians, and the politicians for selling the rules to the highest bidder.

  20. Re:NOT the 99% on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Given that around half the people that ever lived are alive now

    To reiterate the GP, a sense of scale would be useful, but your senses are apparently WAAAAAAYYYY OFF. Probably well over 100 billion people have ever lived, and that's estimated from 50k years -- just half of your timeframe. That would mean less than 7% of the history of human population is alive now, not 50% (nor the more asinine and more common 75% quote).

  21. Re:The 1% are insulated on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    You're fucking delusional.

  22. Re:Thank god on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    You forgot Steve the Breakfast Cereal, I believe.

  23. Re:So someone really did bang an ape. on Modern Humans Bred With Evolutionary Predecessors In Africa · · Score: 1

    What more do you expect from someone who calls people "dude"?

  24. Re:"Anonymous' actions appear particularly petty." on Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The summary takes two disparate things and tries to compare them in scale. I have no idea what the point is supposed to be here, other than to take any possible opportunity to sling some mud at part of Anonymous.

  25. Re:Realistically? on Novell Wins Against SCO Again · · Score: 1

    So sue congress for making a law that says they can't sue the supreme court? Sue the American people (again) for electing people who would limit their right to sue. Sue themselves for nearly bankrupting themselves in the crazy effort to sue everyone!