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  1. Bloody Idiot on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Speaking as someone who contracted measles before I was inoculated and suffered mild brain damage from the same I can only say this woman is a fucking idiot. Personally I was lucky just to survive! When measles go bad they KILL!!!

  2. Re:And there was much rejoicing on Anyone Can Buy Google Glass April 15 · · Score: 1

    Surely the glass is half ERROR Redo from start

  3. Re:Probably typical on 44% of Twitter Users Have Never Tweeted · · Score: 1

    No it just means they are all following Nadine Dorries and can't get a tweet in edgewise!

  4. Re:Whatever you may think ... on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    Agreed! Bearing in mind this was an open source and therefore a community project how come no one spotted this sooner? I mean shit its not like there aren't a thousand decent programmers who have downloaded the source!

  5. Re:If done well... on Future Airline Safety Instructions Will Be Given By Game Apps · · Score: 1

    It's probably just Snakes on a Plane & Ladders

  6. Whinging & Complaining on Theo De Raadt's Small Rant On OpenSSL · · Score: 2

    is not helping!! What would be useful is a list of popular services affected by this issue the BBC is at least making a start here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

  7. Re:Ummm, probably not on Skydiver's Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor · · Score: 1

    Probably its a piece of the aircraft he just jumped out of that fell off

  8. Re:Ah another seemingly benign NIST approved stand on New US Atomic Clock Goes Live · · Score: 1

    I just wonder what the Prompt Zone (Blast Radius) will be when the alarm goes off

  9. Re:Don't bother. on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it's a bunch of politicians making decisions they either have no idea about or are only there to sabotage take the UN Human Rights comittee for instance http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodi... 1/2 of these countries haven't exactly got a clean record on Human Rights to start off with.

  10. Re:play their game by their rules on What's In a Username? the Power of Gamer Tags · · Score: 1

    Well judging by my Slash Dot handle I'm punching above my weight :)

  11. Re:Obviously a working model for some companies on A Third of Consumers Who Bought Wearable Devices Have Ditched Them · · Score: 1

    You've got remember most of these people still think the digital watch is a pretty neat idea :D

  12. Re:Op Out Knowledge? on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    Wow is there an echo in here?

  13. Re:This is a TRAVESTY! on Darth Vader Runs For President of Ukraine · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome......... Seriously had to check the date on this one!!!!

  14. Re:HDD != Cloud on Western Digital 'MyCloud' Is Down 5 Days and Counting · · Score: 5, Funny

    it is a cheap and easy way to get your mass storage online.

    Or off-line as it is at the moment

  15. Re:Can't get past the name on Typo Keyboard For iPhone Faces Sales Ban · · Score: 1

    Ahh yes John Wayne Toilet Paper :)

  16. Re:If any slightest illness was ever even *suspect on Million Jars of Peanut Butter Dumped In New Mexico Landfill · · Score: 1

    Just waiting for someone to spot an Anaphalctic Shock cluster around the land fill :)

  17. Re:Can't get past the name on Typo Keyboard For iPhone Faces Sales Ban · · Score: 1

    Softer, Stronger and thoroughly abrasive?

  18. Re:Well, that took a while on Microsoft Launches Office For iPad: Includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint · · Score: 1

    Yes one wonders if this new office suite includes outlook? If so does it still insist in wrapping all attachments in MS Mailnotes?

  19. Re:Old idea. What makes it possible now? on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 1

    Don't know but there was some interesting studies done by Mark Roth using Hydrogen Sulphide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

  20. Re:Um no on Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age · · Score: 1

    Never mind that the Indian & Islamic worlds each have their own Calender! Pol Pot anyone?

  21. I write spaghetti code on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just like everyone else

  22. Re:Smelling more fishy every day. on MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet · · Score: 1

    What next Bitcoins dow the back of the couch?

  23. Re:Why worry - its natural selection in action on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    I wish I could MOD this up :D

  24. Re:"LONG extinct"? Hah. on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 2

    Could we bring enough back with a diverse enough gene pool to actually repopulate a reserve?

  25. MMR Outcry? on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hmm was there a major outcry by people who knew **** all about vaccines regarding MMR and the unfounded notion that it might cause Autism? We had a large outbreak of Measles in the UK recently because people had stopped getting their kids vaccinated. Perhaps the same thing happened on your side of the pond.