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  1. Why Male? on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: 2

    Maybe the males are all neutral and the women are just nagging the animals to perform and causing too much stress!?

  2. Re:Worst article ever... on How Concrete Contributed To the Downfall of the Roman Empire · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you confirmed what I was thinking too.

    Lets make a headline and then completely refuse to validate it with a reason.

  3. Re:In other news... on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    Wow, yall obviously can't take a joke!
    I don't really think the french are lazy. No, just a bunch of sissies.

    Well, come to think of it, yeah, lazy too.

  4. Re:What the French call la dolce vita? on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    without googling, isn't that "The Sweet Life" or something like that?

    I don't know any french or Italian, but it's close enough to Spanish.

  5. In other news... on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: -1, Troll

    France fails at having an Internationally competitive workforce.

  6. Re:how do you convince microsoft on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is a non-issue. It takes a lot more than a new harddrive to make it re-activate. And even then, it will almost always let you re-activate using the original key. And on the rare chance that it doesn't calling the 800 number has always got me back in business.

  7. Re:Back in my day on How Far Will You Go For Highest Speed Internet? · · Score: 1

    BBSs died off? That's why no one is playing Usurper with me any more!

  8. Back in my day on How Far Will You Go For Highest Speed Internet? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I remember how happy I was the first time I had cable internet. I was beta testing for comcast. Free for the first 6 months. So exciting. Now, I'm old (37) and bandwidth doesn't excite me the way it used to. I'm paying for 10MB I get 12MB... I could get up to 100, but why bother. I come home, sit on my couch and have a beer. The kids can and I can play all the minecraft we want on that 12MB connection.

  9. Any code that's not my code on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? · · Score: 1

    My stuff gets the job done.

    I generally put enough notes in that someone could come behind me and see what's going on. And where I don't I try to use pretty obvious variable/function names. But it's usually not to pretty. And it's in PHP so most of yall would say it's not even actually CODE.

  10. Mystery? on How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The cause of the crash isn't a mystery. It most likely ran out of fuel.

    The cause of why the whole damn plane went AWOL IS a mystery.

  11. Noah? No on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 1

    Most Christians are boycotting that movie. Including that on the list is disingenuous . Even the director said he doesn't care about what the Christians think.

  12. Instead of wiping on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 1

    How about, instead of wiping it, it just automatically sends all outbound calls to the carrier's customer service number for stolen phones?

  13. Re:Fine, if and only if it can be turned off. on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 1

    What if, for the feature to work, you had to contact the carrier and give them the phone's PIN. Only then would it wipe. The carrier wouldn't be able to wipe until you contacted them with said PIN.

    Or maybe when you set up the phone a 'wipe pin' that doesn't get reset when the phone is wiped?

  14. Re:"... as a means to reduce theft." on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 1

    what makes you think this isn't already available, on many, many levels?

  15. Re:Take That, Capitalists! on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 2

    Yes, it is. And I'd rather be hit by the one bullet than all 100 of them. I'd stand a much better chance of living.

    Especially since there's a much better chance of your body's natural defenses defeating that 1%

  16. Re:Pour water through the branch? on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 1

    Is a hopper a funnel? I could see that working.
    Or a bucket? I'm assuming this is only going to be gravity fed, branch isn't going to move it uphill.

  17. Pour water through the branch? on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Exactly how do you pour water THROUGH a branch? This sounds like the old boyscout prank of expecting someone to push a rope. Or maybe this is more like herding cats?

  18. Re:And when it doesn't fit on Your Next Online Order Could Be Delivered To Your Car's Trunk · · Score: 1

    I'm more concerned about when they put something small in a rediculously oversized box.

    Now me personally, I drive an Armada, so I'll take any sized TV!

  19. And when it doesn't fit on Your Next Online Order Could Be Delivered To Your Car's Trunk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You end up with a nice large expensive thing sitting on top of your car until you get there to deal with it.

  20. Car Virus on 1870s Horse Flu Epidemic Brought US Economy To Its Knees · · Score: 1

    Some of you guys are joking about a car virus, but it's not a stretch of the imagination at all.

    15 years ago that couldn't happen, but now cars have built in cellular data. Some have built in hotspots. Not just high end cars but cheap cars can get on facebook now either through dedicated cellular data or tethering off your phone. We saw just a few weeks ago that they're trying to make cars that talk to each other for 'safety' reasons. Once they can do that a car to car virus is even easier.

  21. Re:Can we just mine the dark side? on NASA Now Accepting Applications From Companies That Want To Mine the Moon · · Score: 1

    Well, if they use a lot of industrial lighting to illuminate the operations a new moon could easily become a sparkly moon...

    May be pretty at first, but I like the way it looks now.

  22. Re:Can we just mine the dark side? on NASA Now Accepting Applications From Companies That Want To Mine the Moon · · Score: 1

    blah blah blah, you know what I'm talking about. Stop being pedantic :p I think everyone knows what I'm talking about... Mine the side that we don't have to LOOK at.

  23. Can we just mine the dark side? on NASA Now Accepting Applications From Companies That Want To Mine the Moon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I mean I'd rather not look up at night and see a strip mining operations on the moon.

    Or maybe all mining has to be underground, no above ground mining. You're allowed one small area to be your entry point and that's it.

  24. Re:To require? on Government To Require Vehicle-to-vehicle Communication · · Score: -1, Troll

    They want to Propose the requirements by the time Osama leaves. If the proposal is approved then the requirement can go into effect.

  25. honey boo boo on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    This prize has become a joke. Next year just give it to honey boo boo or any old random person. It makes about as much sense. Matter of fact, next year they should pick a city that needs some 'peace' and send it up in a balloon set to pop after a 5 minute run.