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  1. Re:Genesis on Syrian Social Hack Co-Opts Fighter's Computers · · Score: 2

    No, it's God's fault. He's omniscient so he knew exactly what was going to happen when he created the tree, the serpent and the fallible humans who wouldn't be able to resist the temptation, but he went ahead and did it anyway. It was a goddamned setup from the very beginning.

  2. Re:The sad part? on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    They didn't murder and rape the people at the gun stores, so the comparison is still offensively stupid.

  3. Re:The sad part? on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    It's different for two reasons. First, surveillance is not even remotely the same as rape and murder. Second, there were no plans, just a suggestion that didn't go anywhere.

    Let's make your analogy more accurate. The local gang has one member suggest "Hey, why don't we go hang around in the parking lot at the gun store and write down license plate numbers so we can find out who might have guns" and the rest of the gang responded with "No, we aren't going to do that" and then they didn't do it. Why would anyone other than a paranoid asshat be the slightest bit angry, apprehensive or afraid? They didn't do anything and didn't even make plans to do anything. It was just a suggestion that got dismissed.

  4. Re:Wrong way around on The "Cool Brick" Can Cool Off an Entire Room Using Nothing But Water · · Score: 1

    Easy. Just install something like this and something like this and you're set.

  5. Re:Evaporative cooling in nothing new... on The "Cool Brick" Can Cool Off an Entire Room Using Nothing But Water · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh, and by the way - do you know what the gas is that is responsible for 95% of Global Warming? No, not CO2. Water Vapour. I wonder why no one has called for this invention to be banned out of hand...?

    First, most water vapor in the atmosphere comes from natural sources. Unless you're planning on eliminating oceans, lakes, rivers, swamps, wetlands and rain (and thus killing all life on earth), the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere isn't going to change.

    Second, Water vapor condenses and precipitates out of the atmosphere naturally, so it doesn't build up beyond the levels that are already there It's not a problem. CO2, on the other hand, does not condense and precipitate out of the atmosphere naturally (unless you drop the earth's temperature to -147ÂC, that is, which would kill almost all life on earth and leaving it for the tardigrades to inherit). It does build up and it is a problem.

  6. Re:White privilege of Craigslist on Police Stations Increasingly Offer Safe Haven For Craigslist Transactions · · Score: 1

    It's amazing that you've managed to check up on every hookup, prostitute/escort transaction, car sale, etc. and verified the exact number of murders that have occurred related to craigslist transactions.

    Please share with us how you do it. It will make the world a safer place when everyone can pitch in on those days when you're feeling a bit under the weather and can't quite manage to keep up with the 80+ million posts per month on craigslist.

  7. Re:Regular users only on 'Anonymized' Credit Card Data Not So Anonymous, MIT Study Shows · · Score: 1

    you're robbing yourself of 3% in order to give yourself 1% and you're so enamoured with it, you're trying to do this as much as possible.

    As opposed to your plan of not using credit cards while paying the same price and getting nothing back. You are so SMRT.

  8. Re:even when it is powered off. on FSF-Endorsed Libreboot X200 Laptop Comes With Intel's AMT Removed · · Score: 1

    Not at all. It still makes a great paperweight and can be used to bludgeon enemies in a pinch.

  9. Re:More ambiguous cruft on The Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No one has genomic techniques to successfully create a protein from whole cloth.

    That used to be true, but science marches on...

    http://www.princeton.edu/main/...

  10. Re:For all of you USA haters out there: on Why ATM Bombs May Be Coming Soon To the United States · · Score: 0

    Commercial success is not a factor in determining whether someone invented a device. The person I responded to is still full of shit.

  11. Re:For all of you USA haters out there: on Why ATM Bombs May Be Coming Soon To the United States · · Score: 1, Insightful

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

    The first ATM in the US was installed in 1960. The first ATM in the UK was installed in 1967.

    In other words, you're full of shit.

  12. Re:Huh what? on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 2

    No. The digestive process breaks protein down into amino acids. The process described here is meant to keep the protein intact.

  13. Re:Wow .... on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 2

    It would be an interesting way to eat a "raw" egg without having to worry about salmonella.

    Not really that interesting since pasteurized eggs are already available for sale and relatively easy to find.

  14. Re:Office 2007 started the move into alternatives on Microsoft Announces Office 2016 and Office For Windows 10 Coming Later This Year · · Score: 0

    You know, I like my steaks cooked medium well and I hate broccoli, but I don't blather on like a self-absorbed idiot telling everyone to get over their own personal preferences and adopt mine.

  15. Re: Wow... Just "no". on Healthcare.gov Sends Personal Data To Over a Dozen Tracking Websites · · Score: 1

    This is said repeatedly, and yet the previous administration, with a Republican house and senate, never advanced a bill for it

    http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/B...

    No, the previous administration didn't introduce the bill. It was introduced back in 1993 by a group of about 20 Republican sponsors. It didn't get enough traction to go anywhere.

    There are a lot of similarities between the ACA and HEART, but there are differences too.

    http://www.politifact.com/pund...

  16. So what? on Facebook Will Let You Flag Content As 'False' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This changes nothing.

    Facebook isn't a reliable news source. It was never meant to be a reliable news source and will never be a reliable news source.

    Nobody should ever rely on Facebook to provide reliable news in the first place, so making it less reliable and more biased should have no effect on anyone who isn't a complete fucking idiot.

  17. Re:Thanks...Justice Scalia on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not so strange. He doesn't want anyone to find out about the hookers chained to the wall in his basement, so he's big on privacy.

  18. Re:Last laugh? on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 1

    Now who gets the last laugh?

    Everyone who knows that the openings in the Faraday cage have to be smaller than the wavelength of the signal you're trying to block.

  19. Re:Panic attacks pandemic on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's funny. These implants are already used to control certain forms of epilepsy and the problems that you're so certain will happen haven't happened.

  20. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The implants have been used to control certain forms of epilepsy for some time. The side effects are known, which is how the possible use for weight control was discovered.

    This isn't some random shit that someone started doing, so take your idiotic fear-mongering elsewhere.

  21. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    It's not exactly a new idea. Focusing on your breathing and controlling it distracts you from whatever is stressing you out and calms you. Pipe breathing is just a slightly different way of taking deep breaths to calm and relax yourself.

  22. Re:iPhone only on 'Be My Eyes' App Crowdsources Help For the Blind · · Score: 1

    You apparently live in a magical world where your stores are staffed by perfect beings who never make a mistake like overlooking an expired product on the shelf.

    Unfortunately, the rest of us live in the real world where stores are generally staffed by teenagers making minimum wage and, as it turns out, they're fallible and do make mistakes.

    Perhaps you could invite all the blind people to come live in your world so they can benefit from perfection of the angels you have stocking your grocery stores.

  23. Re:iPhone only on 'Be My Eyes' App Crowdsources Help For the Blind · · Score: 0

    And I'm sure the grocery store won't mind you opening a few jugs, sniffing them and putting them back if you don't feel they smell fresh enough.

  24. Re:Mmmm.. on Deep-Frying Graphene Microspheres For Energy Storage · · Score: 1, Insightful
  25. Re:Uh. on Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? · · Score: 5, Funny

    He said he's written drivers. He didn't say they compiled or worked.