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  1. Re:Never officially announced policy on Australian Government Backing Down On Censorship · · Score: 1

    No, Beazley announced a Labor policy of mandatory ISP-level filtering in March 2006. I remember writing to the party and saying "kiss goodbye to my vote forever".

    http://www.efa.org.au/censorship/mandatory-isp-blocking/

  2. Re:Amici Curiae Briefs (or Boxers) on Church of Scientology On Trial In France · · Score: 1

    Other religious groups might want to render an opinion to the courts defending Scientology. How many religions can't be accused of targeting vulnerable people?

    Scientology is not a religion in France. It's just another "enterprise".

  3. "maps are never neutral" on Google Earth Raises Discrimination Issue In Japan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "they always have a certain point of view"

    What the fuck sort of postmodern bullshit is this? Let me guess! Maps are a social construct and are a tool that the patriarchy uses to oppress womyn/minorities/gay whales?

  4. Re:bipedal robots are not impractical on Terminator Salvation Opens Well, Scientists Not Impressed · · Score: 1

    This shouldn't need to be said given the first movie, but the best and most obvious reason to have bipedal robots is so that humans will have emotional responses to them.

  5. Re:1TB from ten years ago? on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article says "data from the Clinton administration", not "hard drive from the Clinton administration".

  6. Slashdot jumped the shark today on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    This article, really, it's embarrassing. I feel guilty for visiting now.

  7. This thread is useless without pics on FMRI Shows Man Loves Wife More Than Angelina Jolie · · Score: 5, Funny

    of his wife.

  8. Re:minefield, hard to prove on Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? · · Score: 1

    Cannibalism has historically been one of these scientific issues that are just hard to study because emotions run too high.

    As a New Zealand Maori, it's likely that my great-great-grandparents were cannibals, as the practice was not uncommon even well into the nineteenth century. A transcribed oral history of my immediate family contains some pretty bloodthirsty shit.

    And you know what? Meh.

    All this discussion of "high emotions" seems to be more eurocentric anthropological bullshit, because I don't see anyone other than white Europeans getting all emotional about it. If someone came up to me and accused my ethnic group of being cannibals until quite recently I'd blink and reply something like "Well, duh."

  9. Re:I stopped reading... on Top 10 Disappointing Technologies · · Score: 1

    There's a name for UNIX systems that are designed for how end users actually work. They're called "Macs".

  10. Re:Wait, what? on MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use · · Score: 1

    My policy is, every time I see a "DOWNLOADING IS STEALING" message, you know the sort of thing that comes on at maximum audio volume and that can't be skipped, on a DVD that I legitimately own, the movie industry owes me another movie. Displaying said message is regarded as agreement to these terms.

  11. Re:Why so long? on NASA Moon Launch May Be Delayed After 2020 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    funding for Ares V and other projects fell from $4bn through 2015 to just $500m

    In other words, the amount cut from the NASA budget for the next six years is about the amount spent on the Iraq war every two weeks.

    U-S-A! U-S-A!

  12. Re:Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy... on A Cyber-Attack On an American City · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So is the answer to nationalize our fiber infrastructure? Is that the only way we can make our systems secure?

    Why don't you just move to Sweden, socialist!

  13. um... well, it's kinda similar, sometimes, I guess on Bohemian Rhapsody On Old Hardware · · Score: 2, Informative

    The sweet sweet melodies of Queen and the late Freddie Mercury are reproduced by hardware almost as old as the song is.

    This statement holds true only if you use a very broad definition of "sweet".

    And "melody".

    And "reproduced".

    There were large segments where, if I didn't know in advance that it was supposedly "Bohemian Rhapsody", I would have had no idea wtf I was listening to.

  14. Re:Hmmmmm on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    After the third shot of tequila she's fine.

  15. Re:Any news on lost Apollo 11 tapes? on Volunteers Recover Lunar Orbiter 1 Photographs · · Score: 4, Informative
  16. Re:"commercial UNIX" on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    * sed * awk * Bourne shell * cut, head, tail, join, tr, and other text tools * vi * troff OS X comes with all these installed by default. Plus emacs, but I'm still not sure if that's a good thing.

  17. "commercial UNIX" on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the deal goes through, only IBM, HP, and Fujitsu will be left as major competitors in the market for commercial Unix.

    Really? I'm posting this comment from a workstation running a commercial UNIX. I'm using a Mac.

  18. Re:How the fuck is this legal? on CSIRO Wins Wi-Fi Settlement From HP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The CSIRO has been chasing the hardware companies for years. The paper trail is a mile long. The CSIRO should be complimented for only pressing the SUE button as a last resort.

    The hardware companies, on the other hand, deserve a swift kick to the nuts. But a payout will have to do.

  19. April saves me money on Microsoft Asks Fed For Bailout · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because every year I get a regular reminder of why subscribing to Slashdot would be a waste of money.

  20. Re:kids and AI's... on Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told · · Score: 1

    I second the motion. I'm learning more about AI by watching my daughter grow up than any academic experience. She's 19 months old now, and it's been a true education for me to see what is learned behavior and what is innate.

    Word.

    Last week I explained to my three-year-old that if he ate the two cookies in front of him now, there would be none left for later. I asked him if he wanted both now or one now and one later. He paused and said "one now one later", took one cookie, and ran off.

    It blew my mind. I was totally unprepared for him to imagine a hypothetical future situation.

    The joys of parenthood...

  21. Re:Translation on YouTube Music Content Takedown Continued · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sorry, did I just hear Pete Waterman complain about not having any money?

    Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a UK songwriting and record producing trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions. The three can be considered to be the most successful songwriting and producing partnership of all time, scoring more than 100 UK top 40 hits, selling 40 million records and earning an alleged $104 million).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_Aitken_Waterman

    To date, Waterman has scored a total of twenty two UK number one singles with his various acts and he claims upwards of 500 million sales worldwide (inclusive of singles, albums, compilation inclusions, downloads, etc). Pete has also appeared in the Steps video "Tragedy".

    Waterman is worth £30 million[4] according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Waterman

    We're talking about a guy who collects railways. Not "trainsets" or "model trains", he collects railway networks.

    So, yes. Translation: "I started doing coke off hookers' tits every day in the nineties and I'd like it to continue indefinitely please."

    Fuck off Waterman, fuck you and all the other McMusic parasites who turned popular music into fast food. Rather than demanding money from me you should be thanking me that I don't spit on the ground at the mention of your name.

  22. lemme get this straight on German Police Raid Homes of Wikileaks.de Domain Owner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    His house was raided by the cops because he was listed as the registrant for the domain wikileaks.de? Is that what passes for probable cause in the Fatherland?

    WTF?

  23. Re:get shitcanned, its good for character on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 1

    your casual use of the word rape is offensive

    Yes. Call it "surprise sex" instead, you can use that phrase casually without being offensive.

  24. Re:Democracy on New Zealand Halts Internet Copyright Law Changes · · Score: 1

    I could go to bed in bright-red Che Guevara pyjamas beneath a signed portrait of Vladimir Lenin, and that wouldn't make some of the Labour Government's later laws any less crazy. When you have a dental nurse as Minister of Justice and a teacher as Attorney-General, BAD LAWS HAPPEN.

  25. Re:Democracy on New Zealand Halts Internet Copyright Law Changes · · Score: 2, Informative

    This (and other crazy laws which have been repealed) was passed by the left-wing Labour Party government, which got voted out in a landslide in December.