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  1. Re:Sign me up on Google Patents Fooling Friends With Snooping, Chatbots · · Score: 1

    And more seriously, sometimes you want to talk to someone but don't know what to say. You may not have noticed the person changed jobs. The suggested text can give you ideas for what to write yourself.

  2. Sign me up on Google Patents Fooling Friends With Snooping, Chatbots · · Score: 2

    So I can appear polite and social to annoying random people and avoid burning bridges without having to waste any time on them. What's not to like?

  3. Re:I Used a Popular Online Tax Service... on Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software? · · Score: 2

    Illustrating again that if you're rich there's always a way out of your taxes, if you're poor you pay every cent.

  4. Re:This is how you switch to Linux in the workplac on How Munich Abandoned Microsoft for Open Source · · Score: 1

    Dear Employees, We will be sticking with Windows XP and IE 6. Whining about this change will not be tolerated. You must learn how to tolerate this ancient system. Period. That is all there is to it. No complaining allowed. Sincerely, The person who can fire you

  5. Re:Mars life sciences payload on Why Not Fund SETI With a Lottery Bond? · · Score: 2

    Sorry, but you'll need billions for a Mars lander. Powerball might get you an orbiter from India.

  6. Re:News? Stuff that matters? on Ancient Egyptians Created "Meat Mummies" So Dead Could Continue To Eat · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ancient Egypt was definitely not rain forest, can't imagine where you got that idea. It was, of course, farmed on a large scale -- just as it is today, by using the Nile.

  7. Re:Not Magnetic Fields on MAVEN Ready To Launch Today · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Venus does have an induced magnetosphere which limits its atmospheric losses... and it has lost its water content to solar wind.

  8. Re:Looks like they are porting Clang features... on GCC 4.9 Coming With Big New Features · · Score: 1

    Being open with your changes is all the LGPL requires, but the GPL requires being open about all the unrelated stuff you've done when you integrate a GPL component.

  9. Re:Futility of certain laws on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    A self-respecting terrorist wants to prove they can do things the hard way. It's not about killing the most people, it's about showmanship.

  10. Re:AQ's smarter than that... on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    You overestimate Americans. The response would be mandatory anal probes to enter an airport, not rational perspective.

  11. Re:Liberty is the only thing in danger here. on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 2

    Gun battles in schools are quite rare compared to the huge number of fist fights, so apparently it's pretty effective.

  12. Re:Statistics on Google and Microsoft To Block Child-Abuse Search Terms · · Score: 1

    Those stats don't say anything about how many of the acquaintances are motivated at least partially by profit from selling photos/videos. There's little reason to think they'd be any more or less likely than strangers to have that motive.

  13. Re:Stupid and shortsighted on Google and Microsoft To Block Child-Abuse Search Terms · · Score: 1

    This is probably about the casual pedo who hasn't really gotten into it deeply and is exploring to see what's out there. A scary message can make them stop exploring by triggering guilt and fear. Most of them aren't technical enough for the underground.

  14. Re:Well, it's something. on Google and Microsoft To Block Child-Abuse Search Terms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People that look at such images are the ones who make the crime profitable. Without the profit, the crime decreases -- obviously not as much as in the case of say drugs, since a lot of abusers do it for their own enjoyment, but there are still plenty who do it for profit who can be put out of business.

  15. Re:Stop stopping fires on Scientists Propose Satellite Early Warning System For Forest Fires · · Score: 1

    I live near the El Dorado National Forest in California. There are frequently notices of controlled burns. I've yet to ever hear of a problem or controversy about it. Seems like a solved problem to me.

  16. Re:That's cool on Scientists Propose Satellite Early Warning System For Forest Fires · · Score: 1

    Controlled burns happen all the time for that purpose already. We don't need to have uncontrolled burns.

  17. Re:Nuclear as it stands is horrible on Fukushima Disaster Leads Japan To Backpedal On Emissions Pledge · · Score: 1

    The moon is pretty, leave it alone, build them in Nevada instead where they won't bother anyone. By the way just how many entire countries have been evacuated due to nuclear disasters?

  18. Re:OK, enough on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    The earth is warming, but your experience gives you zero indication of that. Your experience only tells you there's local warming, which can happen even when the world is cooling. Just as there are places on the planet which have been cooling even as the earth as warmed.

  19. Re:Intellectual property is a hoax. on WikiLeaks Releases the Secret Draft Text of the TPP IP Rights Chapter · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I make my living on copyrighted software, but would happily support copyright terms as short as 5 years and expanded fair use. I don't support criminal penalties or excessive fines for software/media piracy either. In most cases, ideological extremists are fools who only hold onto their extreme positions by their inability to comprehend alternative points of view.

  20. Re:Old silent SIM firmware on The Second Operating System Hiding In Every Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    Borrow someone else's phone at your destination, use a pay phone (yes they still exist), or just realize that you don't actually need your phone. Actually if you want full phone use without tracking all you need is a group of friends with which you randomly exchange phones frequently.

  21. Re:Old silent SIM firmware on The Second Operating System Hiding In Every Mobile Phone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please. Anyone paranoid enough to take the battery out of their phone to avoid being tracked would simply not bring the phone with them, which is both easy and effective.

  22. Re:Um.. on 25,000-Drive Study Gives Insight On How Long Hard Drives Actually Last · · Score: 4, Funny

    This would explain why I've never had a hard drive fail on me yet in my life: I've never registered for a warranty on one. If you don't get the warranty, the reptiles don't bother sabotaging you.

  23. Re:Those damn socialist! on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 2

    That's because they are nationalist bigots. PC would be to give them a nicer label and pretend they're not.

  24. Re:Why livestock? on AgriRover Brings Mars Rover Technology To the Farm · · Score: 2

    Humans may cause weeds to evolve to look like desirable plants, but robots could perform a chemical analysis of the plant instead of using eyes.

  25. Re:How to detect a really bad science writer... on Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists · · Score: 1

    Because it's proof of god! Stupid science is dumbfounded by size tailed asteroids, so god must make them.