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  1. Re:Tragedy on Advertisers Co-Opting The Lorax With Half-Truths About Conservation · · Score: 1

    I here by claim patent and copyright on the term BioTribbles.

    This patent covers Farming of and processes to breakdown and refine them into a environmentally friendly fuel alternative.

  2. Re:Why are people surprised? on Facebook Denies Accessing Users' Text Messages · · Score: 5, Funny

    But the T in Facebook Stands for Trustworthy.

    Oh wait,,,.

  3. Re:I'll need to tell that to my employer on What Beer Can Teach Us About Emerging Technologies · · Score: 1

    beer jokes aside, it does sound like a fun combination.

  4. Re:It’s still fraud. on Nigerian Scam Artists Taken For $33,000 · · Score: 1

    Seems like the Nigerians should be required to appear in court.

  5. Re:In a not so distant future... on Where Next-Generation Rare Earth Metals May Come From · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I suspect mining landfills is going to be a major industry in the century to come.
    I wonder how you would go about looking to see who, if anyone, has been buying up mineral rights on landfills?

  6. Lava Tubes on Moon May Not Be As Dead As We Thought · · Score: 1

    Weren't they saying last year that these were ancient lava tubes that had collapsed?

  7. Re:Business Model on Oracle's Java Claims Now Down To $230 Million · · Score: 1

    yep.

    "you see more buzzards where it's green and lush than you do in the desert"

  8. Re:The problem with outlanding numbers on Oracle's Java Claims Now Down To $230 Million · · Score: 2

    but, "Billions and Billions" does have a nice ring to it.

    "Millions and Millions", not bad, but it's just not the same.

  9. lots of hidden Bases on Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? · · Score: 1

    The attack vehicles would be unmanned drones, small single purpose.
    Reconnaissance the same, small single purpose.

    but you'd have control centers hidden through out various moons and asteroids to keep communications time/distance to a minimum.
    these as well as any defense systems would be manned.

  10. Re:Change Universities on Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency · · Score: 4, Funny

    eh

  11. last words on A Look At Microsoft's 'Mini Internet' For Testing IE · · Score: 1

    "As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station! "

  12. Re:And people ask me why I don't use Chrome on Google Accused of Bypassing Safari's Privacy Controls · · Score: 2

    ROTFL

    +1 funny

  13. Re:And people ask me why I don't use Chrome on Google Accused of Bypassing Safari's Privacy Controls · · Score: 4, Informative

    another cool trick is to set up a host file.

    http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

  14. Re:And people ask me why I don't use Chrome on Google Accused of Bypassing Safari's Privacy Controls · · Score: 2

    Try Ghostery

    I first started using it because of facebook, but after using it and seeing all the stuff that everyone else is tracking, i'm hooked.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/

  15. Re:Study in texas.... on Study Says Fracking is Safe In Theory But Often Not In Practice · · Score: 1

    +1 for being educated on the subject.

    it's rare here on /.

  16. In other news on Apple Seeks Court Permission To Sue Kodak For Patent Infringement · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple has filed suit over it's patent on a free market.
    "This open competition by others with products in a market we want and deserve is a clear violation"

  17. Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck? on Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution · · Score: 1

    I haven't tried them, but after posting yesterday i was back checking out knoppix. I'll add them to my list.

    BTW, there was no need to go AC, i always appreciate a good tip.

  18. Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck? on Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution · · Score: 2

    Knoppix was awesome.

    the shocker should be that the first thing everyone(everyone i know) does when they install Ubuntu is to switch from Unity back to classic Gnome.
    yet they use it as an example.

  19. BREAK IT on What Does a Software Tester's Job Constitute? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Go down a list of features.
    make sure they work one at a time.
    then try to break them anyway.

  20. Re:Sounds like a tool for P I R A T E S !! on Tor Tests Undetectably Encrypted Connections In Iran · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wasn't it the Government that first created it?

    from their about page:

    "Tor was originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a third-generation onion routing project of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. It was originally developed with the U.S. Navy in mind, for the primary purpose of protecting government communications. Today, it is used every day for a wide variety of purposes by normal people, the military, journalists, law enforcement officers, activists, and many others. "

  21. Re:A Real Jedi on Jedi Master's Hand-Made Lightsaber Stolen · · Score: 5, Funny

    A real Jedi could use the force to find it.

  22. Re:Of course it is. on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    you missed my point.

    there exist on all sides of the spirituality divide people of open and closed minds.

    you are welcome to take the Atheistic view. there is nothing wrong with that.

    it's when Atheists as a group start thinking that only they can be right, condemning others saying everyone else must see things their way that they become no different then the other religious fanatics.

    the condition that many(not all) Atheist take that religion is the source of hate and war is slowing showing itself as a trait of not religion but human nature.
    it's called Tribalism. "it's ok for me to be that way, but not you".
    as the numbers of Atheists have increased so have the group tribalism behavior.

    I have friends and family on different sides of this and see the same traits(good and bad) in each group.

  23. Re:Of course it is. on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    I hadn't heard of this, thanks.

    I'll look it up.

  24. Re:Of course it is. on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    +1 if i had it

    They are no different.

    Last year there was an article i think where the scientist described himself as a Possibilian, because no scientific evidence existed either way.
    this should be the approach of any true scientific mind.

    a hardline Atheist is no different from any other hardline religious zealot. given the chance they condemn those that don't see as they do.

  25. Re:Possible app... on Computer Program Reconstructs Heard Words From Brain Scans · · Score: 1

    LOL, they said audible words not visuals.

    you are evil.