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

    Sue the Supreme Court? Sue the American people for not supporting them (cue "Coupon: The Movie")!

  2. Re:Hmm on Cornell's Creative Machines Lab Lets Chatbots Interact · · Score: 1

    A more insightful a reply, I could not have asked for. Good point. :)

  3. Re:Hmm on Cornell's Creative Machines Lab Lets Chatbots Interact · · Score: 2

    Sometimes the bots' data are poisoned (temporarily) by invasions by teenagers, dorks, and jerks from websites I'd rather not name. So occasionally they become racist, anti-semitic, or just insane.

  4. Re:Hmm on Cornell's Creative Machines Lab Lets Chatbots Interact · · Score: 1

    No... I'm sure they are networked in the background and the two programs are sending the statements to each other that way, rather than each one using voice recognition and proximity detection. We're just seeing the resulting output.

  5. Re:Data centers on Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm not a big fan of all this "cloud" stuff, especially after the Amazon outage... They should be incredibly embarrassed about that.

  6. Re:Data centers on Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets · · Score: 4, Funny

    The virtual world has no natural disasters!

    Just virtualize your virtual servers so your system is 100% virtual with no hardware, and you have a completely unusable system that can't be damaged because it doesn't exist! Wait, what was the question again? ...to the cloud!

  7. Re:Police report is pretty darn damning on Collar-Bomber Tracked By Gmail Accesses · · Score: 1

    Why bother even trying given the evidence? Save your money or whats left of it for buying your way out of inevitable ass-rapage in jail.

    Umm... paying a lawyer to argue against the evidence is exactly how you buy your way out of that.

  8. Re:Arrogant and zynic on Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts · · Score: 1

    The people who do such actions seem to view themselfes as morally superior.

    How do YOU know that THEY aren't laughing their asses of for trolling a bunch of NN's? That's pretty arrogant of YOU to suggest you know their intentions. Fuhrermore, maybe they are morally superior. I don't know anyone involved, so I can't say for sure.

  9. Re:That is awesome on Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for mod points.

  10. Re:in other news on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    That was my source :)

  11. Re:in other news on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    No, the result will be better, but it will NOT be premium vodka.

  12. Re:WTF? on South Korean Scientists Create Glowing Dog · · Score: 1

    Thank you, I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who read that sentence correctly, as-written.

  13. Re:What fun! on South Korean Scientists Create Glowing Dog · · Score: 1

    That quote seemed suspicious to me. So if they can add something to food to trigger the "glow" gene, that quote means they can also add something to food to trigger the "fatal disease" gene... That's a TERRIBLE idea!!! (Yes, I know the individual would need to have the gene encoded before birth, and it's not just the food additive...)

  14. Re:Seriously, making excuses? on Court Filing On How 2004 Ohio Election Hacked · · Score: 1

    The only major difference I can see is that the electorate would have (mistakenly) blamed Kerry and the Democrats for the collapse instead of (mistakenly) blaming Bush and the Republicans.

    Yet somehow, they are now trying to blame Obama... the bunch of freaking weasels.

  15. Re:Working People on Court Filing On How 2004 Ohio Election Hacked · · Score: 2

    Or you can cast people who disagree with you off in to a position that isn't theirs, but you don't have to think about and can reject on its face. That's political discourse, right?

    It seems you have been paying attention to the world around you. Yes, that is the essence of politics: trying to demonize the "other side" and try to get the idiot populace to hate and/or look down upon them.

  16. Re:First Post on Sheikh Carves His Name In Desert So It's Visible From Space · · Score: 1

    Please: I can see my house from space with a satellite, but to proclaim it's "visible from space" with a Slashdot headline is pretty damned misleading.

  17. Re:First Post on Sheikh Carves His Name In Desert So It's Visible From Space · · Score: 2

    Looking at that, I would hardly say it's "visible from space" In fact, I would say that without a decent telescope and exact instructions, no one in space would have a chance of seeing that.

  18. Re:I don't recall... on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    Is someone legally obliged to unlock a safe for police?

  19. Re:Fuck Microsoft Research on Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    So if I invent something really cool and innovative, but it uses some materials that are too expensive for me to actually purchase myself, I can't safely sell it to a company that CAN make it? If I try to sell the idea without having a patent, they can just rip off my idea after I demo it, tell me to bug off, and I have no legal recourse. But if I DO have a patent for it, the company is less likely to want to make it if they don't own the patent on that item, so it never gets made, and my bright idea is gone forever -- unless I decide to forego all personal legal protection on the idea.

  20. Re:Microsoft Research on Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    But if it isn't backed by law, that help is less likely to be given, usually.

  21. Re:Turrorists. on America: Like It Or Unfriend It · · Score: 1

    Or do you just think that those facts that don't fit your opinions must be fabricated?

    I believe your signature points out the issue here...

    I don't think that word means what you think it means.

  22. Re:Premise of story is bullshit on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    Bingo.

  23. Re:Premise of story is bullshit on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    If circus freaks were so unlikeable why would the circus have them in the first place?

    Why do people slow down to stare at crashed cars? Not because dead bodies look cute, but morbid curiosity. The same reason rotten.com and ogrish exist[ed?].

  24. Eiffel on Learning Programming In a Post-BASIC World · · Score: 1

    What, no love for Eiffel? I thought it was supposed to be the greatest first-language ever! Can't blame anyone though... I started learning it a few weeks ago, and it's an irritating mess.

  25. Re:How about newspapers? on Tennessee Bans Posting 'Offensive' Images Online · · Score: 1

    in total the bias cancels out (IMO)

    Often when people see no bias existing, it just means that the bias most closely reflects their own. Not trying to judge, or say you are wrong, just an observation. For instance, some people -- many of whom are not mentally handicapped -- still believe that the Fox News channel is balanced. Easy target, I know, but it's true.