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  1. Re:Hmmm on Israel Passes Photoshop Law To Combat Anorexia · · Score: 1

    Maybe they just have a lot more anorexia.

  2. Re:Rearranging the Equation on Biochemist Creates CO2-Eating Light That Runs On Algae · · Score: 2

    Using this new technology, you can easily produce negative algae by not shining light on CO2.

  3. Re:Rearranging the Equation on Biochemist Creates CO2-Eating Light That Runs On Algae · · Score: 1

    Only if you breath in multiples.

  4. Re:Rearranging the Equation on Biochemist Creates CO2-Eating Light That Runs On Algae · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even better

    Light - Algae = - CO2

    a cheap way to produce antimatter!

  5. Aimbot on Verifying a User By Following the Movements of Their Mouse · · Score: 2

    Finally, using an aimbot will get you banned from your own PC.
    About time.

  6. Cash in no matter what? on Cash For Tweets and Facebook Posts? Aussie Startup Pays You to Astroturf · · Score: 2

    Anything I write must tickle at least someone's fancy.

    Either I like a product, it makes the company happy, or I don't like it, it makes their competition happy.

    So either way, I should get my money right? No need to get influenced by money.

    Can I cash in retrospectively for all the things I ever wrote? There must be a lot of money in there. Just need to pitch it to the right 'clients'. $_$

  7. Re:What the hell do you expect? on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 2

    I would expect them to use their cable services to get money from the people who want cable and then use Hulu to make even more money from all the other people who don't want cable.

    But maybe that makes too much sense to be a valid business model.

  8. Re:Way too confusing on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu is horrible for the common user.

    It nags you about upgrading and if you agree, good luck, you will need it.
    Every version upgrade breaks something essential. And I'm not talking about 3rd party software.

    How am I supposed to tell someone, they have to reinstall their whole system every few month, or live with an ever increasing number of errors?
    That is, if the system boots up after one of those dreaded upgrades at all...

  9. Re:Followup about sound. on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 1

    Haha, so much this. :)

    I had to work my way through all that pulse bullshit in combination with HDMI over a year ago. Tested a new release last week and it still does not work.

    Also the whole thing got worse, because in order to simplify things, they completely removed essential options from the system settings.

    So far I have had no Ubuntu version that survived more than one version upgrade. Something broke, every time.
    I had more luck with xUbuntu now, but let's see how that long that holds if I ever have to upgrade...

  10. Online black market not so bad on How Online Black Markets Work · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's where I do my grocery shopping.

    But these aren't organic farmed tomatoes! Damn you, shadyPeasant67!!

  11. Re:WTF am I supposed to call this thing? on New Particle Discovered At CERN · · Score: 1

    After giving it extra thought, I am sure it's actually USB 1.5.

    (which, as they also found out, is 3/2)

  12. Re:chi b star on New Particle Discovered At CERN · · Score: 5, Funny

    So it was named after a Sailormoon character?

  13. Re:WTF am I supposed to call this thing? on New Particle Discovered At CERN · · Score: 4, Funny

    USB quark (1.0)

  14. Re:The big fix... on Engineers Ponder Easier Fix To Internet Problem · · Score: 2

    So what if the IP does not belong to the router, but to another router behind this one, which is where the info originated?

    This is a network after all.

    If the internet was only 2 routers head-to-head, the problem would be trivial.

  15. Re:Surely just any thinking at all would do it on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    All these 'well duh' reactions make sense, if you are thinking of the typical amercian bible thumpers.
    Those people make being an atheist easy.

    But the thing is, all the christians I know also think american christians are crazy. The idea of taking the bible for literal truth gets the same reaction of bewilderment and amusement out of them as it would for me.
    Yet they are still believing christians.

    Arguing with these people on an analytical level is not easy. They can use a theoretic construct that has been built on for centuries, by a lot of smart, analytical thinking people. The same people that have pushed science in the past, have also worked on making the christian theology a bulletproof theory.
    Any argument you can think of, has been fought of at some time, by theologists.

    It is very hard work to go against all this with reasoning. It is possible, but certainly not 'duh' worthy.

  16. Re:Some clarifications on German Court Rules That Clients Responsible For Phishing Losses · · Score: 1

    The difference as I see it is, that before, as in this case, a whole number of one time codes (called TAN) was issued to a customer at once.
    Any one of these TANs (by free choice of the customer) would be enough to permit a single transaction. After that it would be 'used up'.

    Nowadays, the banks (that I know of) still issue a lot of TANs to their customers. But when an order needs to be authorized, they now ask for a specific TAN.
    As in "give us TAN number 42". Any other TAN, even though not used yet, won't do.

  17. Determination. on Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $500k In Venture Capital · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Spending 500k$ just to troll Slashdot hard.

  18. Re:FULL universe simulation on First Full Observable-Universe Simulation · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's right there, in particle 4153341989.

  19. An election may have an effect on politics? on French Elections Could Affect HADOPI, ACTA · · Score: 5, Funny

    What a bold idea.

  20. Re:Ohhhhhh! on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Being named "xxx yyy Jr." does however mean you are related to "xxx yyy".
    Now which specific "xxx yyy" that may be, is another question.

  21. Re:When Paul Martin was Prime Minister of Canada on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Get Through To a Politician By E-mail? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, rite..

  22. Re:Can they fix the problem? on Pioneer Anomaly Solved · · Score: 1

    Shoot it with a laser from over here, heat up the other side too.

  23. Re:Not Logically Complete on Japanese Researchers Create A Crab-Based Computer · · Score: 1

    Inverters are easy with crab-tech.
    See some posts above.

  24. Re:How do you get an inverter? on Japanese Researchers Create A Crab-Based Computer · · Score: 1

    An inverter would be a swarm of crabs channeled in from outside through the VDD line, that run down the OUT line, as long as there are no crabs on the IN line.
    As soon as crabs come down the IN line, they would merge with the crabs from the VDD line and the path of the combined swarm would be altered such, that they run down a third line instead of OUT, which I'd call GND.

  25. Re:Only Fools and Horses did this on Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle" · · Score: 1

    God made the water leak.