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  1. Riiight on Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Prosecutors argued that Google should have sought the consent of all parties involved with the video before allowing it to go online.

    And should I get permission from the cop that I catch tasering someone for no reason before I post that video as well? That statement is ripe for abuse.

  2. Buzz off on Two Scoops of Buzz · · Score: 1

    I prefer to keep my social networking account and the email I use for purchasing goods online separate, thank you very much. Get this shit out of my "secure" email.

  3. Re:Imagination? Please. on Lego Creating Multiplayer Online Game · · Score: 1

    Actually I was thinking the same thing but there is a Lego store near Chicago in Woodfield Mall that sells individual colored blocks by the pound I believe. They also started going back to their roots a bit and remade a lot of the pirate, space, town, and medieval sets that were the cornerstone of my childhood.

  4. Re:BRING IT ON !! on Ubisoft's Constant Net Connection DRM Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Besides, it's not in their interests; the scene groups largely do what they do for kudos and churning out malware-infected releases would seriously damage their reputation.

    Which is the funniest part. Companies used to use this very strategy to keep customers and make new ones. Now it's the "pirates" that are using it and the legit companies are the jagoffs fucking up your computer. It may not technically be irony but the juxtaposition is astounding.

  5. Won't happen on FCC Proposes 100Mbps Minimum Home Broadband Speed · · Score: 1

    Until we repeal the government mandated monopoly. Or they'll just redefine 6 Mbps as 100 Mbps. I certainly wouldn't put such douchebaggery passed Comcast, I mean Xfinity, to do so.

  6. Re:Nuclear waste on US To Build Nuclear Power Plants · · Score: 1

    We have the technology already. The US just doesn't use it because it tends to enrich the waste into weapons grade material. And we gotta watch out fer ter'ists. It's FUD.

  7. Re:This beta should be...fun? on StarCraft II Beta To Begin This Month · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ok, so one $60 game and two $50 expansions. (plus DLC or some other asinine way to milk more funds out of the customer, er, consumer.)

  8. Re:This beta should be...fun? on StarCraft II Beta To Begin This Month · · Score: 1

    And for these exact reasons I anticipate it topping Spore for one of the most pirated games ever.

  9. For the love of all that is good... on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 2, Informative

    in the world, please compete with Comcast and the other monopoly ISPs. The speeds in Chicago finally got upgraded a bit but the throttling, bandwidth caps, and retarded pricing shenanigans still have to go. Comcast is still one of the leaders in customer service douchebaggery so any competition is greatly appreciated. (RCN and Verizon FIOS are the only thing even close, speed wise, but they have never been available in any of the areas I have ever lived in in Chicago.)

  10. Re:what about cinnamon on Virus-Detecting "Lab On a Chip" Developed At BYU · · Score: 4, Informative

    Probably none.
    Normal animal cell size: 10-30 micrometers
    Normal plant cell size: 10-100 micrometers
    Normal virus size: 10-300 nanometers

    Not to mention the gap in the detector is smaller than plant and animal cells entirely:

    They formed the third dimension by placing a 50 nanometer-thin layer of metal onto the chip, then topping that with glass deposited by gasses. Finally they used an acid to wash away the thin metal, leaving the narrow gap in the glass as a virus trap.

  11. cue grammar nazi twitch on Pluto — a Complex and Changing World · · Score: 1

    Astronomers were very surprise to seen that Pluto's brightness has changed over a few years.

    Looks like Discovery News needs a new editor.

  12. Re:Like a House episode? on "Vegetative State" Patients Can Communicate · · Score: 1

    That "black man" as you put it, was Mos Def (the actor/rapper). Granted being the nerd website this is, you may not be into rap/hiphop/whatever (I'm certainly not), you should however recall that he was in Hitchhiker's Guide. I will have to be confiscating your nerd card now.

  13. Re:Venus on ESA Conducts Mars Terraforming Experiments On ISS · · Score: 1

    Methinks the sulfuric acid rain and immense pressure at the surface might disagree with you there...

    Due to the extremely hostile conditions on the surface, current technology disallows any possibility of colonizing the surface of Venus soon. However, there have been recent speculations about the possibility of developing extensive "floating cities" in the atmosphere of Venus in the future.[125] This concept is based on the atmospheric conditions approximately fifty kilometres above the surface of the planet, where atmospheric pressures and temperatures are thought to be similar to those of Earth. Proposals suggest that manned exploration can be conducted from aerostat vehicles, followed in the longer term by permanent settlements.[125] The existence of dangerous quantities of volatile acids at these heights, however, precludes any short term settlements.

    -wikipedia

    Not to mention plants tend to not want to uptake CO2 anymore above certain concentrations (concentrations much less than 97%). Look into a protein called RuBisCO. Mars has a better potential for being colonized using current technology.

  14. Re:The next line states... on Heavy Internet Use Linked To Depression · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that was in reference to the "sexually gratifying websites" in the article. Depression is obviously more serious than that.

  15. Re:The next line states... on Heavy Internet Use Linked To Depression · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seconded. Could it be that perhaps people are depressed by not getting the attention they desire and thus go to the internet for it? The study is a failure if it finds both ends of the argument plausible and no concrete evidence for either.

  16. Re:Another reason not to fly via Heathrow on "No Scan, No Fly" At Heathrow and Manchester · · Score: 1

    You're more likely to die from falling down your basement stairs, and far more likely to die at the hands of your own family than a terrorist.

    What are the odds that your family will turn out to be terrorists who push you down your basement stairs?

  17. orly? on A Look Into the Chinese Hacker Underworld · · Score: 1

    [hacking is illegal in China]

    Um, isn't hacking illegal pretty much everywhere?...

  18. Re:Dear FSF on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 1

    You can fully understand a phone being locked down to phone applications delivered by the manufacturer and the same with mp3 players.

    Speak for yourself. I can't think of one legitimate reason for locking down these devices other than greed and power over customers.

  19. pathogens on Darwinian Evolution Considered As a Phase · · Score: 1

    Horizontal gene passing is what make several organisms have strains that go from harmless to pathogenic.
    Some useful info for the curious masses:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilus
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer

  20. Re:Dead already? on Asus Says Netbook Is Dead, Hello Wearable Computers · · Score: 2, Funny

    But hey, if you filter out editorial stupidity from slashdot we will have only one or two "news" every week or so.

    You appear to have accidentally a whole word there...

  21. Re:Secret to life on Sitting Down Too Long Is Bad Even If You Exercise · · Score: 1

    Alright, here's a little secret for all of you:

    Everyone dies, once.

    Depends on your definition of 'death.'

  22. Re:Sense Of Perspective on HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format · · Score: 1

    Just a quick look through the latest 100 movie file on TPB show 1 MKV, 1 MP4, 98 AVI.

    That has nothing to do with handbrake, and everything to do with filesize (ie. bandwidth issues).

  23. Re:foot.shoot(); on HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format · · Score: 1

    Personally I like mkv.

    Why? Because I can download it, [unnecessary steps removed] and watch the video on my TV.

    And before you start asking "How?" My computer(s) are connected to my TV in the room with the comfy sofa, and a screen almost 3 times the diagonal of my monitor. However, it is very important to me that 3-year-olds stay the hell away from the expensive toys in my man-cave.

  24. Re:foot.shoot(); on HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format · · Score: 1

    So THAT's why there's a second set of shift, alt, and ctrl keys next to the arrow keys on the keyboard...

  25. been a while since bio class on One Variety of Sea Slugs Cuts Out the Energy Middleman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In a normal plant cell is the chlorophyll produces by the cell and then shuttled to the chloroplast to be used or does the chloroplast itself produce the pigment within it's own membrane? If the latter, I would imagine this gene in the slug is redundant as the creature has to eat algae for the chloroplasts anyways.