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  1. Re:Because it was Ford on Star Wars Production Company Fined Almost $2 Million For Harrison Ford's Injury (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ford's lawyers are irrellevant. This action was taken by the UK Health and Safety Executive.

  2. Re:Never knew the guy on Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks Dead at 82 · · Score: 1

    The world doesn't revolve around you, buttercup.

  3. Re:Responses on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Passwords Transmitted As Cleartext? · · Score: 1

    http://www.merriam-webster.com...

    Definition of PRECAUTIOUS

    : using precaution : precautionary

    — precautiously adverb

    — precautiousness noun

  4. Re:Internet of Hype ... on Nest Will Now Work With Your Door Locks, Light Bulbs and More · · Score: 1

    > If you turn the thermostat up too high, you will be likely to start a fire.

    Luckily, Nest also make smoke detectors!

  5. Re:In other news... on Britain's GCHQ Attacked Anonymous Supporters With DDoS · · Score: 1

    > That's because in the US people are citizens, in the UK they are subjects.

    This isn't true for most people in the UK for the last 30 years.
    See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

  6. Re:With the judge on Jury Rules Google Violated Java Copyright, Google Moves For Mistrial · · Score: 1

    > I find it unlikely the judge isn't already familiar with it.

    In fact, the Judge has already asked Oracle and Google to submit briefs on how they think the EU ruling has bearing on their arguments.

  7. Re:Why is this moderated down? on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    Except that would be Shinto, not Buddhist.

  8. Re:Gadhafi's military rank on UN Backs Action Against Colonel Gaddafi · · Score: 1

    He did. He was only a Captain when he took over the country. He promoted himself to Colonel.

  9. undo. on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If a 6 year old could do it in Photoshop, then the same 6 year old probably could undo it too. Just run the distortion with opposite paramaters (shrink where you stretched, and stretch where you shrank) and you end up with the original image again.

    I seem to recall a few years ago, a police agency cracking a child pr0n case by undoing a distortion made on the perpetrator's face in the images.

  10. Re:Seriously... on France Bans Use of 2.0 · · Score: 1

    This sort of thing usually happens around once per year. Not as odd as you'd think.

  11. Re:Breaking News on Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers · · Score: 1

    The USA's own intelligence isn't good enough for it? Or they didn't bother doing their own legwork?

  12. Re:So, correlation is now causation? on Sunspots Reach 1000-Year Peak · · Score: 1
    From http://peakoildesign.com/blog/peakengineer/global_ warming_myths_and_lies


    1. Mars is undergoing global warming, therefore humans can not be causing it on Earth.


    No. Mars is not undergoing global warming. The Mars Global Surveyor detected a decrease in the mass of the South Polar Cap between 1999 and 2005. First, this is a regional (not global) warming localized to the south pole of mars. There is no similar data for any corresponding temperature change at either the north pole or any other part of Mars. Secondly, since a Martian year is 687 days, this represents only 3 data points, which does not equate to the long-term trend we see on Earth. (Indeed, we see dramatic peaks and valleys in the yearly temperature data on Earth.) Lastly, research has shown that Mars' climate is far more volatile than our own, and is quite sensitive to changes in dust storm activity and orbital variations. If most of the planets and moons in the solar system were exhibiting warming trends, that would be a valid point for argument.



    Enough explanation for you?

  13. Re:the era precision cosmology on Newton's Second Law, Revisited · · Score: 1

    I bet you just looked that up on google.

  14. Re:24 on Aqua Teen Stunt Costs Turner and Agency $2M · · Score: 1
    Funny how no show ever shows us how our money is wasted. Real life in an agency would probably be just too boring to air on TV. Who's interested in losers ending up working for government, or in endless bureaucracy wars and moronic projects wasting lots of money?

    I guess you never watched the British series, "Yes, Minister" (later "Yes, Prime Minister.")

  15. Re:None on Spamming Google Maps · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did they really fail? What was the point of the "experiment" that Google tried? What was the purpose behind them announcing the flyover in advance? Perhaps this is what Google wanted? Perhaps they wanted something else? What makes one action a success and another a failure?

  16. Re:Its 7:00 AM and its slashdotted on Sun Releases First GPLed Java Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And here was me thinking that the domain name would be more relevant to where the server was hosted/run rather than where its users came from.

  17. Old News on Adult Brains Grow From Specialist Use · · Score: 1

    This research was reported 6 years ago - why is it surfacing again?

  18. Re:As a fat man... on French Scientists Link Higher BMI with Lower IQ · · Score: 1

    "Wooosh!"

    That's the sound of the obvious joke going straight over your head. It was a bit of a give-away that he/she started the next paragraph with "Seriously"...

  19. Re:If this is true on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Japanese subs do not contain nuclear weaponry.

    Their constitution forbids them from producing nuclear weapons, and the country has signed up to the various non-proliferation treaties.

    They did have a program to accquire nuclear weaponry during WWII, but nothing eventuated from it.

  20. Re:Uhm, no? on Dunc-Tank To Help Meet Debian Etch Deadline · · Score: 2, Informative
    Well, if you'd checked out the site, you'd have see on the project page that it states as one of the criteria:
    • Must meet Debian's usual standard of releasing "when it's ready"
  21. Re:British banks ? on Bank Accounts of 5,000 UK Terror Suspects Tracked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hongkong and Shanghai were British colonies when the bank was founded.

  22. Re:Smug Linux World vs Reality on The Self-Modifying EULA? · · Score: 1
    > What part of not being able to run OSX on non Apple hardware is a myth !?!

    The bit where you say it can't run on non-Apple hardware. http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/os/0,39024180, 39235916,00.htm

    True, there are legal considerations to be had... but OS X can run quite happily on a PC from a technical standpoint.

  23. Re:I answered this years ago as well: on Chicken and Egg Problem Solved · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So if a chicken lays an unfertilised egg, that just contains yolk and eggwhite and no developing chicken, what sort of egg is it? I'd suggest it is still a chicken egg. Therefore it's not just what's inside the egg that defines what the egg is.

  24. Re:ummm.... on Advice on Learning Japanese? · · Score: 1

    "Specially" is a word.

    http://www.webster.com/dictionary/specially

    But yes, "especially" would have been a better choice in this case.

  25. Re:Bitcom too on Symantec Users, Start Your Keyloggers · · Score: 1


    I used to encapsulate the "+++ATH0" into the data segment of a ICMP ping packet - it would get echoed back by the tcp stack - thus traveling in both directions.

    Remember also that the above posts are talking about messages posted on a bbs. At some point the bbs has to display that message to callers, so the BBS host computer will originate the +++ATH string to its own modem, hanging up the BBS end, rather than the end user's modem.