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  1. Re:So, the whole privacy thing to me is kinda mute on Lawsuit Claims WGA Is Spyware · · Score: 1

    The point is mute when it falls on deaf ears.

  2. Re:There is another option on Can the Ares Program Be Salvaged? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No way we'd purchase foreign engines, though they are very nice ones.

    Lockheed Martin already use the RD-180 engine on the Atlas III and V, so using the RD-171 makes a lot of sense - strapping astronauts to a solid rocket booster does not.

  3. Re:That Analogy Falls Apart on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Start with the Moon first. It takes less resources to get there, and a rescue mission if something goes wrong is feasible (though still unlikely.)

  4. Re:Good news. on Utah Law Punishes Texters As Much As Drunks In Driving Fatalities · · Score: 1

    So what's the point of this story?

    Sounds like a green light for portable cell phone jamming devices to me.

  5. Re:Actually, I'm kinda getting nostalgic ;) on Microsoft Holding 'Screw Google' Meetings In DC · · Score: 1

    I have no idea what optimisations Adobe has made in the native 64 bit linux plugin.

    "We hope it works..."

  6. Anachronism on Crime Expert Backs Call For "License To Compute" · · Score: 1

    The Australian Computer Society is an self-serving, unrepresentative old boy's network; I'm surprised they haven't died out yet along with the other dinosaurs. I was a member for a year or so when I graduated in the early 90's; I found them to be arrogant, pompous, elitist (if you're a member, you can put "Professional" on your business card!) and frankly worthless as a "professional organisation". SAGE-AU is far more worthy of that title.

  7. Re:The termitethingie on What Is the Best Way To Track Stolen Gadgets? · · Score: 1

    He's lucky the would-be thief didn't sue him.

  8. Re:Puhlease! on Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate? · · Score: 1

    I mean your chance of dying in an accident goes to near zero once you stop going outdoors ...

    Spoken like a true Slashdotter. :-)

  9. Re:isn't this obvious? on A Broken Heart Really Does Hurt, Scientists Claim · · Score: 1

    Obviously you've never had a vampyric, somatic narcissistic woman sink her fangs into you.

    Garlic, dude - and lots of it.

  10. Re:Bloody difficult. on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    It's just freak sports.

    Fixed that for you.

  11. Re:38 C ain't that hot on AMD's Phenom II 965, 3.4GHz, 140 Watts, $245 · · Score: 1

    ... including a smashing new case ...

    Pete? Is that you?

  12. Re:Self-incrimination becoming mandatory on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Bear in mind that the State can force Alice to hand over keys in relation to an investigation on Bob, so it's not even a case of prosecuting the guilty, just the forgetful.

    Alice my claim she's "forgetful", but that won't fly when the police present the judge with logs showing Alice and Bob were engaged in encryption communications the day or so prior to arrest. There may be situations where you can legitimately refuse to cooperate, but consult a lawyer before "doing a Hans".

  13. i4i ... on US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word · · Score: 1

    ... tooth4tooth.

  14. Re:Nose picking? on Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the author equates nose picking with eating one's boogers, Mucophagy. I would really like to know why people do THAT.

    Snort or pick, it's still the same booger.

  15. Re:Murdoch - not your average supervillain on Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites" · · Score: 1

    "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of (Neo)Conservatives cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

  16. Re:Great goals on Windows 7 RTM Reviewed & Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Then you know that there's something seriously screwy going on. It sounds like all the press outlets are creaming themselves for Win7, and I can't figure out why.

    Payola.

  17. Re:Don't Settle on Large Hadron Collider Struggling · · Score: 1

    Do both. Run it for a season at 4 TeV (or whatever will work) and see what *other* bugs need to be ironed out. When the traditional winter shutdown period comes around, work on fixing the bugs and aim to run at 5 TeV or whatever next season. Lather, rinse, repeat. Some science is better than no science; the latter runs the risk of a bean counter pulling the plug on the entire project.

  18. Re:AES crack on Another New AES Attack · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like the cryptographers need to do their belts up a notch; nobody likes to see AES cracks.

  19. Trains on The Rocky Road To Wind Power · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Trains better than trucks - film at 11."

  20. Re:Fake on How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 · · Score: 1

    Fast forward to 2001. Instead of HAL9000, we have (or had) Clippy. "In space no one can hear you scream."

  21. Re:Great for hype, not great for teaching on Med Students Get Training In Second Life Hospitals · · Score: 1

    I agree. I've seen one or two of these things before and it usually seems like it'll turn into more of a social playground than a training environment.

    Many doctors would do well to learn some social skills.

  22. Re:sigh... on Court Appoints Pro Bono Counsel For RIAA Defendant · · Score: 1

    I have been saying for *YEARS* (long before the RIAA was pulling the bullshit they are now) that you should be listening to free music.

    Free as in beer, or free as in speech?

    There are plenty of bands that allow the release of their live stuff on the web and no, we're not talking about crappy Indy artists that you've never heard about before.

    You should get out more often. ;-) You've probably never heard of them because they are independent - or not American. Nor does that make them "crappy". My favourite band of all time, The Gathering is unknown in Australia; if it wasn't for the Internet and a lot of digging, I would never have known they existed. Most of the bands I've bought CDs etc. from recently are from The Netherlands and Finland - whatever they're doing over there, they're doing it right.

    We're talking real bands that care more about their fans and who actually tour rather than live off the royalties of overprocessed studio shit.

    Real bands care about their music first, and everything else a distant second.

  23. Re:Knock, knock... on Australian Police Plan Wardriving Mission · · Score: 4, Funny

    Change your SSID to "DontTazeMeBro" - it's safer that way.

  24. Blob, severed feet... on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 1

    ... coincidence? I think not.

  25. Re:Incredible on NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Given Hollywood's lack of original material of late, it wouldn't surprise me if they do a remake of the Apollo 11 landing.