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  1. Re:How does it get any light? on Solar Power On the White House · · Score: 1

    Don't poke me there!

  2. Re:Slacker on Copyright License Fees Drive Pandora Out of Canada · · Score: 1

    Wow. 45% of gross revenues? Holy crap I read 45% of gross revenues as profit. I think my mind did a substitution without realizing it to account for the stupidity of that value.

  3. Re:...huh? on Security Lessons Learned From the Diaspora Launch · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Because a piece of software is just like a relatively simple structure.

    How many times have volunteers come to put up a steel building?

  4. Re: Re: Hmmm that'll do... on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 1

    Everything is a poison, there is poison in everything. Only the dose makes a thing not a poison.

  5. Re:Wasn't this predicted on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 1

    And humans do live in the exclusion zone.
    Not many but some do.

    I like to call them stalkers.

  6. Re:Nice car on Meet the Virginia-Built 110MPG X-Prize Car · · Score: 1

    First off, it's run on E85. That means it gets something like 50mpg and they say "theoretically" the car gets 110mpg in "gasoline numbers." i.e. if you switch it to pure gasoline, you should get 110mpg by some magic due to additional fuel density. (Imaginary, I'm convinced this won't happen; otherwise why wouldn't you just build a gasoline engine?)

    To be fair, I constantly see E85 marketed as a green fuel not a more energy efficient fuel. Some quick reading says that on average E85 is 25-30% less efficient than gasoline. Is it possible that a car could be 50% less efficient when running on E85? I would say yes if the car was specifically engineered to increase MPG and ignored other features.

  7. Re:Wrong model. on Stanford's Authoritative Alternative To Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fool-proof method to fool that...

    Step 1: Use wikipedia for information
    Step 2: View cited sources for wikipedia.
    Step 3: Cite cited wikipedia sources.
    Step 4: ???
    Step 5: Profit!

  8. Re:This is why on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    But if we don't, they'll just become the newest generation of lobbyists.

  9. Re:Already used in the UK on Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices · · Score: 1

    At first I read "grant theft auto" instead of just "theft". I thought to myself, "How does grand theft auto occur more often in prison than outside of it."

    Now I realize we can create a new spectator racing sport using miniature cities with a bunch of cars and prisoners. Didn't they already make a movie about this?

  10. Re:Ah yes, Wertham on Library of Congress Opens Records of Anti-Comic Book Shrink · · Score: 1

    What could Superman do against BP or the RIAA?

    Given that Superman has been documented on many occasions to be a super dick, he'd probably destroy Earth to deal with BP and the RIAA.

  11. Re:Who pays taxes? on State Senator Admits Cable Industry Helped Write Pro-Industry Legislation · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, at least Slashdot continues the tradition of not naming the party of a politician when it's a Democrat and making sure to note when the politician is a Republican.

  12. Re:Sauce for the goose on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    Specifically, the law in question if passed would allow the President to nominate a new Justice to the court for every justice that was at least 70.5 years of age and had served at least 10 years on the Supreme Court. Six of the justices met that requirement. If the law had passed, which the Democrats had massive majorities in the House and Senate so they just needed to corral the party, you would have six new justices that would have been rubber stamps for FDR on top of the three justices that pretty much rubber stamped him already. At the time public opinion was also against the Supreme Court because it was seen that their striking down of law after law "designed" to help the public was not a desire to get the country out of the depression.

    FDR came very close to destroying one branch of our government and completely dissolving the checks and balances we had.

  13. Re:Why stop there? on RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How does this affect the porn industry?

  14. Re:This doesn't seem very scientific... on 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail · · Score: 1

    My kit contains the following.

    x1 Bruce Willis

  15. Re:so that bigger then going after rapist in DNA l on FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And remember to hit preview.

    How can I forgot to hit preview? It's required before you can post the comment.

  16. Re:Forever. on The Second Age of Airships · · Score: 2

    It does feel like we're getting closer to the FF6/FF9 style of airship....

    Personally I would prefer a more FF7/FF8 or FF12 style of airship....

  17. Re:Profit on Radioactive Boar On the Rise In Germany · · Score: 1

    Bacon that cooks itself, what's better than that, other than bacon with ketchup.

    Bacon coated bacon that cooks itself in bacon fat.

    (With a side of ketchup)

  18. Re:Conditions Apply on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 1

    I know. The major manufacturing sectors don't use night shifts.

    Oh wait....

  19. Re:Close one on The Titanic In 3-D · · Score: 1

    The show "Lost" fucked up my definition of the word lost.

    Now I don't know what it means anymore.

  20. Re:Meh on Why You Never Ask the Designers For a Favor · · Score: 1

    It's not really asshats as much as the people around them feel as though they're entitled to free tech support for their computer woes just because they know someone who can do it.

  21. Re:Oh no. on Sony's Blue-Violet Laser the Future Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    Maybe we could attack a friggin laser to Steve Ballmer's head so that he can have warm meals.

  22. Re:It's infringing on future product on Apple Doesn't Appreciate Toilet Humor · · Score: 1

    Nah, he's going to release the iPee in honor of Will Wright's Pee.

  23. Re:iLaughed on Apple Doesn't Appreciate Toilet Humor · · Score: 3, Funny

    iLaughed because they don't like the latrine/bathroom link to their products failing to realize that the iPad has forever been linked to feminine hygiene products.

  24. Re:Good Idea on Leaving a Comment? That'll Be 99 Cents, and Your Name · · Score: 1

    Considering that Battle.net 2.0 is pretty much Activision's idea, I expect that Real ID and the real names with it are Activision's idea.

  25. Re:Wha? on Copyright As Weapon In US Senate Campaign · · Score: 1

    Fair Use is defined under the four criteria of Fair Use. The fact that its intent is for comment, criticism, or educational purposes does not matter if the stated purpose doesn't meet the criteria for Fair Use.