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  1. Re:Does this mean on Nanocar Wins Top Science Award · · Score: 1

    Shamelessly stolen from Thinkgeek

  2. Re:Whatever. on Thieves Take the Cake · · Score: 1

    Oh, and it went to my brother-in-law the next year.

  3. Re:Whatever. on Thieves Take the Cake · · Score: 1

    I ate that cake a few (5?) years ago. It nearly killed me, but I needed the calories and I wasn't thinking straight.
    I didn't know people could swallow (or excrete) whole bricks.

  4. Re:Averages on NSA Patents a Way To Spot Network Snoops · · Score: 1

    Maybe it is also their way of proving that they did this first, in a way that cannot be doubted. Remember, the builders of the Colossus didn't get much credit for their work.

  5. Re:I saw this on tv years ago (fiction) on NSA Patents a Way To Spot Network Snoops · · Score: 2, Funny

    siphoning off date...

    What? They could hack a government agency but they couldn't figure out NTP? I call shenanigans.

  6. Re:.. and .. on VirtualBox 2.1 Supports 64-Bit VM In 32-Bit Host · · Score: 2, Funny

    In integrated desktop mode I'd like to make the windows taskbar and windows look more gnome like and scrap the bottom taskbar for gnome.

    Some poor souls use KDE, you insensitive clod!

    (such as Linus)

  7. Re:Correlation is not causation on Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV · · Score: 1

    You mean that just because you have no personality and like HDTV, that does not prove that you are related to octopi?

  8. I know! on US Government Responds Harshly To ICANN gTLD Plans · · Score: 1

    what they'll do with all the extra money since they are a non-profit.

    1. Allow creation of generic TLDs that are very lucrative for you.
    2. ???
    3. Not Profit!

  9. Re:And how did it get there? on Water Detected At Record Distance From Earth · · Score: 1

    More like out-of-this-world's largest.

  10. Re:Distros Cause Spartacus Syndrome on New Contest Will Seek the Best "I'm Linux" Video · · Score: 1

    It bears too much resemblance to MS's ad, IMHO.

  11. Re:What about post-9-11 era? on The Post-Bilski Era Gets Underway · · Score: 1

    Since when did prior art count for something again?

  12. Re:Ad I got... on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 1

    -- Insert witty question feigning ignorance of the existence of ads on Slashdot, in a not-very-subtle reference to Adblock Plus, here --

  13. Re:Missing the Point on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 1

    That will likely be the subject of the trial.

  14. Re:What the hell? on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 1

    Really? I prefer the printing press in the corner.
    Or having nice conversations with my bank's (and the banks of people I don't like) computers.

  15. Re:How? on Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Sure, we have put stuff in space... But we usually had a rocket or a shuttle handy to do that. This thing won't launch powered by hopes and dreams. One of your siblings mentioned outsourcing the launch, but that seems like a stop-gap measure without long-term sustainability.

  16. Re:Life imitates art on Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power · · Score: 1

    I see two ways of doing this: The Simcity way, or using a very large mirror to direct light down to the solar panels.
    Would the either method be able to burn through cloud cover?

  17. How? on Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And how exactly do they plan on getting the panels/mirrors/whatever up there?

  18. Re:What about post-9-11 era? on The Post-Bilski Era Gets Underway · · Score: 1

    While you're at it, why not extend the patent to *ALL* hate crimes? And WAR? Be nice if hate crimes and war were impractical because of potential patent violations.

    Sad as it may be, you might be able to get away with patenting it. Assuming there aren't rules against patenting what is already illegal. I say someone patents "A Method For Hiding Illegally Obtained Moolah By Utilizing A Shell Company."

    We could all use a sudden outbreak of common sense.

    There. Fixed it for you.

  19. Re:Media AI source code on Watergate "Deep Throat" Mark Felt Dead At 95 · · Score: 4, Funny

    } else {
    ignore(politician);
    }

    Good for you, accounting for those rare, one-in-a-million occurrences.
    Huh. I can't get the non-breaking spaces to work.

  20. Re:Hold the phones! on RIAA Claim of Stopping Suits "Months" Ago Is False · · Score: 4, Informative
  21. Re:heh on Tech Firms Oppose Union Organizing · · Score: 1

    Both sides have to give ground...The current crop of ideologues simply figures that they can out-wait the other.

    Wait too long, and hopefully their constituents will get peeved with their representatives and both parties will give ground...to minor parties.

    Ok, wishful thinking session terminated. The voters will conclude this entire mess is the other party's fault, and will not change their minds even after the whole state has descended into anarchy.

  22. Re:What the heck on CSIS Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Depends. Has the foreigner in question been recruited as an agent? And are they the source of the data in question? If so, I don't have a problem with them accessing it (at least up to the point that they hand it to you).

  23. Re:Tough choice on Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer · · Score: 1

    Hence the "err on the side of caution" part of my statement.

  24. Re:Tough choice on Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer · · Score: 1

    But there is no point that a fetus can be said to have passed the miscarriage hurdle, until birth. I doubt moving the child a few feet, from womb to outside, fundamentally changes it's humanity. I was born 2 weeks late, by C-section. Was I not a human being, simply because I wasn't going to come out on my own?

  25. Re:Tough choice on Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer · · Score: 1

    As I pointed out elsewhere: Malaria and tapeworms are parasites, but nobody questions that they are not a part of the host's body. Malaria is genetically not human and therefore not it does not matter if we exterminate it. Tumors genetically are part of the host and are as subject to the host's authority as a limb that needs amputating. Zygotes are genetically distinct from the host, and they aren't insects.