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  1. Re:correlation on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    A female one?

  2. Re:correlation on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I noticed the same comment and it struck me as incredibly stupid.

    USA post offices look for abnormal packages. Most drugs are sent in unusual packages so they are opened searched and resealed. If the tape said "GOD'S LAST STAND!" or "HAIL MARY!" you would have seen the same problem. One of those would have made for a better control.

    I have my doubts about the drug thing. Why would people send their drugs in packages that look suspicious? Of course, if the post office only searches suspicious packages, all the drugs they'll find will be in suspicious packages, so mabye they feel like they are on the right track...

    Now just because it is stupid, does not mean it can't be a real post office guideline.

  3. Re:Sorry if I sound dumb on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    All I can see is a plain white shoe.

    What feature identifies it as 'atheist'?

  4. Re:correlation on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now repeat the experiment with labels saying things like

    'porn'
    'lots of money inside'
    'this package contains: newest iPhone'

    I'm really interested in the outcome.

    New theory: people love atheist products, so they get snatched more often by the postman.

  5. Re:Much ado about nothing. on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 5, Funny

    Something with good enough QA that you do not need to pray it keeps working.

  6. Re:Gaming on Linux? on The End Is Nigh For the Linux Game Tome · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder why the site shuts down now, when it is finally the year of Linux on the desktop?

  7. Re:"stop using OSes"? on A Glimpse of a Truly Elastic Cloud · · Score: 1

    That would be called a bootloader.

    Many OS-less plattforms have bootloaders.

    The thing about them is, no matter what features the bootloader has, once it passes control, they are of no use to the loaded program (unless you do some adr jump magic... maybe).

  8. Mail it'? on Adobe To Australians: Fly To US For Cheaper Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If this was so easy, couldn't you call a 'friend' in the U.S. and make them mail you a copy?
    There has got to be more to this than that.

  9. Re:Obligatory car analogy on Schneier: Security Awareness Training 'a Waste of Time' · · Score: 1

    free car!!!

  10. Re:It's a good documentary on The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Revolution OS · · Score: 1

    And here I thought it was the xbox dashboard.
    I remember getting that from TBP around the time.

  11. Re:What? on How Scientists Know An Idea Is a Good One · · Score: 1

    goodness = (1 - p(random explosion))

  12. Re:Nobody will care on Seniors Search For Virtual Immortality · · Score: 1

    I thought we were going for the 'put their talking heads in a jar' solution.

  13. Re:Nobody will care on Seniors Search For Virtual Immortality · · Score: 1

    If you are old right now and do this thing, you might be one of the few out of your generation who has made these records available.
    That should set you apart from the other 127 not so tech savvy grandpas and grandmas.

    Being the most ancient entry in the digital family tree will surely draw you some attention. So grab the chance.

    Us younger people will just be another record in between.

  14. Re:Too late to run and hide now on Porn Troll Panics, Dismisses Pending Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Isn't the judge, who's now apparently target of homoerotic advances due to being so awesome, an absolvent of the same line of education you seem to despise so much?

  15. Re:In other news on Windfarm Sickness Spreads By Word of Mouth · · Score: 2

    A friend of my parents was an early adopter in this wind energy thing.
    Meaning he put up a 30m tall generator in his own front yard in the early nineties...

    I don't know what 'wind sickness' is supposed to be, but that thing was god damn annoying.

    It would go ....SHINGnnnnnn.........SHINGnnnnn...........SHINGnnnnnnn......... all day and night, never stopping. If you didnt hear it, you could feel it through the floor/bed.

    Maybe it would've been a good idea not to put the thing 15m in front of his house. And maybe a wind generator making a sound like that means it's damaged somehow. But I wouldn't say noise pollution from wind generators seems like such a far fetched idea. Not after living with that house for a couple of days.

  16. Re:Baseline and STIG hosting on US Vulnerability Database Yanked Over Malware Infestation · · Score: 1

    I can't post either.

  17. Re:True, sort of on Why Freeloaders Are Essential To FOSS Project Success · · Score: 1

    True.
    Also you can be (and most likely are) a freeloader for a lot of projects while also being a contributor for a few.
    No one can work on all projects at the same time and many will shift their attention to different projects over time.

  18. Re:Other uses for phone books on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    - drawing an above average length pageflip-cartoon
    - weight for flattening out crumpled pieces of paper

  19. Re:This is not a way *around* Heisenberg on Physicists Discover a Way Around Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    What if you send the single photon through a lot of 'weak' detectors placed in a row, before it finally hits the 'strong' one?
    Would that count, or would they cease to be 'weak'?

  20. Re:Sorry, little retro rockets won't work for that on Neil deGrasse Tyson On How To Stop a Meteor Hitting the Earth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because we are currently unable to judge the stability of the object, or it's internal mass distribution just by looking at it from long range.
    Pushing it at any point might just lead to breaking off a small piece, or the spaceship slowly sinking into and through it.
    If we miss the mass center, the push will mostly be transformed into rotation.

    All these problems are a non issue with gravitiational pull.

  21. Re:WoW for PS4 and Xbox Durango?!?!? on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 1

    In Application Programming?

  22. Re:Spin equal to mass? on Spinning Black Hole's Edge Rotates At Nearly the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    If dark matter is subject to gravity (which I assume it is, if it's a source of gravity itself), then wouldn't some of it eventually end up inside black holes too?
    In that case dark matter would not be able to escape from within the event horizon, just like anything else, right?

  23. Re:First purchase on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    (Older) glassdoors tend to do that.
    I almost cut off my own leg accidentely kicking one in as a child.

    Left a trail of blood too...

  24. Re:I hope they paid him a bajillion dollars.... on Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII · · Score: 2

    Indiana Jones was awesome.
    I loved the part, where Indy was on a plane and then he put an egg into the microwave, so that the stewaredess would come and clean it up.
    You know, she was blocking Indy's path to the toilet before. But he outsmarted her.
    Such an inspiring movie.

  25. Re:Wait, what do you mean, Star Wars VII? on Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I deleted Star Wars from my nerd card feed a couple of years ago due to negative personal experiences with this formerly subscribed channel.
    This must have made me miss further updates.