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  1. Re:Milk? on How Litigation Only Spurred On P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1

    OTOH, we were considering going to the unpasteurized stuff but we know someone who grew up on a dairy farm and he said that he would never drink the unpasteurized stuff. He's the kind of person whose opinion you tend to respect.

    However, the government has no business banning it and, indeed, in certain segments of the population, the banning of it is likely to increase demand.

  2. Re:All in a bucket on How Litigation Only Spurred On P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think that would more likely be Monsanto.

  3. Re:In name only on Motorola Reinvents the RAZR · · Score: 1

    Agree. If anything, it's closer to the SLVR.

  4. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on Commercial Space: Spirit of Apollo Or Spirit of Solyndra? · · Score: 1

    One thing you don't understand is that exploiting space will make little difference to earth's population. The human race will simply become 7 billion and growing plus whatever is in space in addition, in fact, earths population may possibly grow faster while earth is a direct beneficiary of those resources.

    Note that I don't necessarily share your pessimism about population issues either.

  5. Re:Forgiveness at no cost? on Student Loans In America: the Next Big Credit Bubble · · Score: 1

    Reality is, does a government want a more educated populace they knows more about the society is a part of and how it functions or an ignorant mob.

    Given that the government already has its hands on people for the better part of up to 14 years in public school, I think the answer is obvious.

  6. Re:0 is heavier than 1? on The Weight of an e-Book · · Score: 1

    Uh, Apple, of course.

  7. Re:0 is heavier than 1? on The Weight of an e-Book · · Score: 1

    Careful, you might get sued by apples. That's just rounded rectangles taken to their logical conclusion.

  8. Re:For their next performance on Ohio Emergency Responders Stage Mock Zombie Invasion · · Score: 1

    No one owes you a living. Losing your job is not a valid reason to riot. Good gracious, that's the kind of attitude that's causing the problem in the first place.

  9. Re:For their next performance on Ohio Emergency Responders Stage Mock Zombie Invasion · · Score: 1

    This also ignores the reality that those government workers are also a "PRODUCTIVE part of the population". They pay their bills, buy things, and go to work just like everyone else.

    Sorry, paying bills buying things and going to work does not make one productive, it just means one is consuming resources. c.f. the broken window fallacy. This is why the whole stimulus thing is so tragic, wasting needed resources on a huge scale.

  10. Re:I was not impressed by it on Making a Learning Thermostat · · Score: 1

    Not just psychologically. Besides humidity differences, your body also adjusts somewhat. In fact, the ubiquitousness of AC in the States actually forestalls some of those adjustments, leading to AC being a self-fulfilling requirement (Though it definitely is an actual requirement in some locales, it could probably be used a lot less).

  11. Re:Learned Stupidity on Making a Learning Thermostat · · Score: 1

    "Would you like to be toasty?"

  12. Re:Women on Making a Learning Thermostat · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. In a car, you also have a huge heat source so you can actually dehumidify and have hot air. This is basically what happens when you select the front windscreen demist (ignoring those cars with the embedded wires)

  13. Re:code styles on Is Perl Better Than a Randomly Generated Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Clearly, all languages should actually encode the programming to XML and save that and then the choice of display is up to the settings of the editor.

    I say that somewhat tongue-in-cheek but it's something I've considered from time to time. Having to mess with the formatting whether it be from differing company standards, different ways editors handle tabs vs spaces or simply moving code around just seems like a waste of human effort to me.

  14. Re:Quorum looks a lot like Pascal on Is Perl Better Than a Randomly Generated Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Though using the equals sign as an assignment operator was definitely a bogus move.

  15. Re:Before anyone else says it... on Cutting Open a Heatsink Heatpipe To See Inside · · Score: 1

    That's certainly an irrefutable argument you've got going for you there.

  16. Re:not trying to defend these actions... on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: 1

    It likely varies by locality but I've heard of at least one case of someone getting ticketed by a cop for parking in a disabled space in a private car park. While regular traffic laws don't apply, I think the disabled parking would be a special case.

    (The actual violation was that it was a motorcyclist parking in the striped area outside of the actual space. Apparently he wasn't aware that it is considered part of the space since some disabled vehicles need extra space for ramps etc. Just something to bear in mind)

  17. Re:I drove with no plate in CA for months on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: 2

    Probably, like so many laws, license plate laws mainly cause issues for the law abiding. Expired tags? Get a fine. No tags at all? Cop probably assumes you just bought the vehicle and moves on.

  18. Re:Brilliant on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: 1

    Yes and no though. I personally never park in handicapped spaces but it can be annoying driving around looking for a space when there's a whole bunch of perfectly usable empty ones that just happen to be painted a little differently. It's a waste to have a static allocation like that. But it is what it is I guess.

  19. Re:Parking in Handicap on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking the compex is way bigger than somewhere an American would walk around

    FTFY

  20. Re:Parking in Handicap on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: 1

    Pfft. It would have been worth paying some disabled people for a couple of hours of their time to fill all the disabled spots and see what happened when he turned up...

  21. The usual... on Official "Firefox With Bing" Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mozilla and MS are clear that this is a joint venture

    RIP Mozilla

  22. Re:its the time frame which matters on Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is, the TX was almost there. All they needed to do was add phone hardware and upgrade the WIFI and a few other small changes and it would have been set to occupy the space that the iphone happily slid into. Unfortunately (though deservedly) Palm imploded instead.

    I still used my TX up until the day I replaced it (and my regular mobile phone) with an Android phone.

  23. Re:wha.. on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    A-level= "advanced", O-level= "ordinary", CSE= "Certificate of Secondary Education", GCSE= "Watch as we totally fuck up the British Educational System:

  24. And nothing of value was found. on Lost Hour-Long Jobs Interview Found · · Score: 1

    Just kidding, it's probably interesting enough.

  25. Re:So this is /. related in what way? on Reuters Reports Death of Gaddafi In Libyan City of Sirte · · Score: 1

    And, at the end of the day, nobody forces us to come to Slashdot. And if they persist in posting irrelevant stories, we won't.