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  1. Re:What?!? on Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video · · Score: 1

    The ISP would be the sidewalk one uses to get the newspaper. Google would be the delivery truck.

    The user poster of the video would be the publisher.

  2. Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo on NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee · · Score: 1

    I assume those grass shots were Wheatgrass pulp shots, which are herbal remedies (full of vitamins and minerals) for many things.

    That is not homeopathy or what this article talks about.

    Neither is herbal medicine from a Homeopath, homeopathic.

    Homeopathic is a specific process proven to be a placebo. If what your child was given a homeopathic remedy, it wouldn't have disliked the medicine because the medicine would have been water.

  3. Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo on NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee · · Score: 1

    You have to be one of the greatest trolls to ever grace this board.

    Despite numerous explanations that herbal medicine and medicine that primitive cultures use are not the same thing as Homeopathy, you still insist in trying to prove the usefulness of it with unrelated medicinal practices.

    I'm surprised more people haven't simply dismissed you as a troll already.

  4. Re:Source code? on Chuck Norris Attacks Linux-Based Routers, Modems · · Score: 1

    Maybe they decompiled/de-assembled it?

  5. Re:on positive side on Switzerland Pursues Violent Games Ban · · Score: 1

    Why is that a positive side? I genuinely don't get why people on this forum are heralding pure democracy as better than other types of government.

    I mean, from a discriminatory perspective, this could be "On the negative side, Switzerland has more direct democracy than most countries".

    We know pretty well now that pure democracies and pure dictatorships both have their significant share of flaws.

  6. Re:Part of a general pattern on Switzerland Pursues Violent Games Ban · · Score: 1

    "A mayor factor why these people voted for the ban is the christian party in the country..."

    Actually, that initiative was spearheaded by the Swiss People's Party, which is simply a conservative party, and not to be confused with the "Christian Democratic People's Party".

  7. Re:Impossible! on Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't make a false dichotomy here.

    Many Slashdot readers are also Anonymous members.

  8. Re:How isn't this a form of terrorism? on Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks · · Score: 1

    This is what's called "Hacktivism".

    It's no more a form of terrorism as is honking a horn at a car that cuts in front of you. (car analogy, just for you)

  9. Re:Impossible! on Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, that was not your point. Your point was that because the person was a nobody, they are unqualified to speak for the whole (your citizen speaking for a government analogy). Either you have a crap analogy or you didn't get AC's point.

    The AC's point was that since everybody is equal in Anon, every body therefore has equal qualification to speak for the group.

    The article suggests that the Anon member's views are shared by the AC, that he is qualified to speak for the group as an equal member, but was not chosen or designated to do so by the group.

  10. Be careful about what you take away... on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1

    While it may be that spiritual feelings can be manipulated in the brain with surgery (just like they can be with LSD), it would be ignorant to trivialize or dismiss those experiences.

  11. Re:I always wait for a while on Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens · · Score: 1

    My rule of thumb is to only install updates once per year, on a Friday before a dull weekend, so that I can spend the rest of the weekend fixing corrupted profiles, registry errors, and driver failures that the patches cause.

  12. Re:Ooh...ooh, pick me! on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    *highfive* for a Blacksburg Brother!

  13. Re:Boomerang on Hackers Attack AU Websites To Protest Censorship · · Score: 1

    This needs to be modded up, as he's right, the rationale had nothing to do with the reasons listed in the article.

    Instead, legal adult sites were able to be blacklisted for the reason above, and there were cases of this happening.

    That sort of BS is what sparked off the Anon vs Australia issue.

  14. Re:Dear Quinn Dombrowski... on Statistical Analysis of U of Chicago Graffiti · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "while simultaneously wondering why none of them are desperate enough to actually ask you out..."

    That's because she's married you fool.

    http://www.quinndombrowski.com/

    What's really sad is that you took the time to troll this slashdot article without even googling her name.

  15. Re:David Lynch movie was innaccurate but was ART on Dune Remake Could Mean 3D Sandworms · · Score: 1

    I found it entertaining for the most part. I think their depictions of Arrakis were brilliant.

    However, I felt that the constant attempts at explaining the deep background of the Dune universe with little blurbs was misguided and awkward.

  16. Re:China must be having some effect on China Is Winning Global Race To Make Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    If you go to the website that the 60-watt, bulk buy 0.98$/watt panels are supposed to be listed on, they aren't to be found. The site doesn't even carry that manufacturer.

    That's likely an error in the survey and nothing more.

  17. Re:You think so? on China Is Winning Global Race To Make Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    We aren't going to find more coal and oil in space.

  18. Re:And this is how we die on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I would say that it would be more likely that proper English would be taught in the same way that cursive is: cool to know and useful in rare circumstances but not relevant most of the time.

  19. Discovered for myself a few weeks ago... on The Web Way To Learn a Language · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I found this for myself a few weeks ago, and have been slowly working on learning Scottish Gaelic.

    It's a lot more fun than when I was forced to learn Spanish in high school.

  20. Re:Not really on MSI Will Launch iPad Alternative · · Score: 1

    Not only requiring us to buy tablets, but requiring us to buy very high end, and very expensive tablets.

  21. Re:Not really on MSI Will Launch iPad Alternative · · Score: 1

    "I think that's more logical than requiring students to buy tablet computers."

    That's probably true, but at the school I'm at, we try to use as little paper as possible.

    I don't know about a kickback, it's a large public university and there were multiple vendors selling tablet PCs.

  22. Re:Not really on MSI Will Launch iPad Alternative · · Score: 1

    "I've yet to see a compelling reason to pay more for a tablet."

    How about, "You're required to purchase a tablet PC."?

    I'm in an engineering major, and part of the requirements in our year for the College of Engineering and the College of Architecture was to purchase a tablet PC.

    It ended up costing about 3.5x what a comparable laptop did, but I can't say that I don't enjoy using one or that it hasn't satisfied my artistic side.

    It also proves very useful for school work where multivariable calculus, differential equations, and circuit diagrams are the basis for most of the E.E. side of the courses I take.

    Obviously, most people couldn't find even a tenth of a reason to buy a tablet, and most of the reasons that I own one aren't all that great either, but I'm sure the iPad and its MSI competitor will both find a fruitful market among college students.

    Also, I want to point out that not all tablets are gimped touch screens with greatly reduced notebook functionality. The Fujitsu T series and the Dell Latitude XT2 are good examples of tablets designed with the full capabilities of notebooks, as they *are* notebooks with a tablet screen. The price isn't too bad either, as the XT2 is priced at a full thousand dollars less than what my Fuji was three years ago, and that's with options.

  23. Re:Heroes, not criminals. on Scientology Attacker Will Be Sentenced To Jail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You should watch more Scientology documentaries. Its members are consistently under the delusion that they are being criticized or attacked (even before Anonymous) by "criminals".

    In their delusion, Scientology censorships are just their ways of fighting criminals to protect their "religious freedom".

    Just like how Islamic Fundamentalists (Taliban) abuse their freedoms of social control and power to take a way social freedoms of the societies they oppress.

    Terrorists or freedom fighters both have a tendency to take away freedoms.

    In that regard, Scientology is no different than any other terrorist organization.

  24. Re:Heroes, not criminals. on Scientology Attacker Will Be Sentenced To Jail · · Score: 1

    Do you not watch South Park?

    That slur no longer has anything to do with homosexuality any more.

  25. Re:Failure of thought on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 2, Informative

    That doesn't exempt you from the laws of the country where your company is located.