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  1. You're not jaded, you're simply ignorant on Battery Development Off The Beaten Path · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since we obey the 2nd law of thermodynamics in this house, young lady, by definition it will take more energy to synthesize a fuel that can be obtained naturally.

    The fuel that explodes, as you trollishly point out, has the nice property of having a remarkably high energy density, which means a little goes a long way. Again, those pesky laws of physics and chemistry rear their ugly heads.

    I'm sorry that reality is not which you wish, but maybe the problem is not with reality, but rather the wishing?

  2. Reminds me of Atlas Shrugged on The RIAA's Push for an Audio Broadcast Flag · · Score: 5, Interesting

    where the villains' scheme depended on the "fact" that no matter what type of regulatory and taxation hell the industries were put under, they'd still produce, and this provide power to the very people who were strangling them.

    How long until people just give up and listen to local music? Leave the RIAA to the sheep, and the sheep to the RIAA, and the sheep will get what they deserve. Remember, the only reason that ??AA organizations have any influence is that people buy their stuff. You have two options: buy their stuff, but don't complain, or don't buy their stuff, and try and support alternative markets - local bands, live concerts, low power FM, etc.

  3. Translation: on Weight Loss through Dance Dance Revolution? · · Score: 1

    Hi, I long for a way to be uber-trendy, and don't want to go outside so I'm asking for a technological solution to what really boils down to a human problem.

  4. Distributors on Snort up For Revamp, says Creator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Could this revamp be due to pressure from companies which have built commercial offerings on Snort? Guardent's SDA tool is basically a Snort box, x86 linux on commodity hardware. How many other money-making ventures out there depend on Snort, and what influence do they have over the Marty?

  5. But does it matter? on Vorbis And Musepack Win 128kbps Multiformat Test · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When everyone gets an iPod, dood, or the WinFooTunes player that you get with your Dell only works with WMA, or your in-dash CD player only groks 128kbps MP3s, whats the practical application of the other codecs? It's nice that we propeller-heads on Slashdot can smirk while we rip everything to FLAC and write custom Perl apps to transcode-on-the-fly to our wireless enabled MythTV box, but for John Q. Drone^H^H^H^H^HConsumer, none of this matters.

    So how do we get the word out? How do we start the revolution? Open-Source hardware?

  6. Sym?bian on The Future of Symbian · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess I need more coffee, I started reading this as the future of Sybian.

  7. Outdoors? on Computing Al Fresco? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't that the room outside the server room, where the ceiling is sometimes blue, and sometimes black with little white lights? The HVAC doesn't work to well there either.

  8. Need? on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 1

    Just because you need it, doesn't mean that I have to pay for it. Just because you're a poor student, doesn't mean that I have to give a shit about you. I was a poor student once, we all dealt with it - double up on housing, get a JOB, do something.

    Fuck you, communist. Your ends do not justify seizure of my means.

  9. It's not "rent control" on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's subsidized by the Federal Government, paid for by John Q. Taxpayer, don't pretend its anything different.

    And if he keeps taking speed, I say lock him up.

  10. Suck it up and buy a TDI VW on Alternatives to Cars? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And get > 40 mpg, 50 if you do all highway, but with the added benefit of things like a radio, a trunk, seatbelts, and your life if you ever get into a crash.

  11. And where were you when this all happened? on Intel Sued for Patent Infringement · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What did you do to stop it, besides troll on Slashdot? When you wake up one morning and realize that the world has turned to shit, don't you have to take some of the blame? To paraphrase Ed Howdershelt, which of the 4 boxes "soap, ballot, jury, ammo" did you every try?

  12. Re:Simple answer: no on Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ah, but who took the kids to the movie? Who bought them the plastic lightsabers? The Jar-Jar dolls? If, as consumers, we neglect the consequences of our actions, is that not the same as choosing their ill-effects?

  13. Simple answer: no on Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It can't be saved, because it is exactly what people demand. American culture makes this movie inevitably what it will be. Does this condemn Lucas, or the low standards of the viewing consumer?

  14. Surfing on lava makes sense on Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Heck, for a Jedi, WALKING on lava is possible. That might be a cool fight - each has to walk on the lava, then they're using the Force to stay walking on the surface w/o dying - Annakin somehow losing his concentration, and slipping into the lava.

  15. New prison parole scheme for lifers on Trained Rats for Mine Detection · · Score: 2, Funny

    Any prisoner for life can apply - you just have to run through a field potentially filled with landmines. If you make it, you're free. If not, well, too bad.

  16. In other news on Google to be Sued Over Name? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some dead Greek guy's relative sues MPAA over use of the word 'Pi' as a movie title.
    Roman mathematician's descendents sue Dr. Evil over the use of the word "Million"
    Parker Brothers sued over the name 'Mr. Green' in the popular "Clue" game by the guy who invented that word.

    This post brought to you by the number 3(TM), the letter P(TM) and the color yellow(TM).

  17. Re:They're *REQUIRED* to Provide GPL'd Kernel Sour on Suse 9.1 Reviews? · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. They are required to provide you the MEANS to acquire the source, i.e. a copy of the GPL, and a hyperlink or mailing address.

  18. America bashing poll options: on Indian Voting Machines Compared with Diebold · · Score: -1, Troll

    Diebold suxx0rs, Dubya shoulda lost!
    America sucks!
    India is great, they have a Communist party!
    India is great, they are poorer than we are!
    America is proud, they deserve to have egg in their face!
    America is too successful, they need to be taught a lesson!
    Whatever, I still want my tinfoil hat!

  19. WinNT doesn't support USB on Swedish Carbon-Fiber Stealth Ship Runs NT · · Score: 1

    You insensitive clod!

  20. Dance on the Volcano? on RFID Implants for Spanish Revelers · · Score: 1, Funny

    if society has decayed to the point where alcohol and absynthe-soaked sluts in Barcelona can wave their hand at a computer for more drinks, we deserve what we get.

  21. Scary on Nicholas Petreley Slams Gnome · · Score: 1

    How do you know this? Are there people out there (you) who keep scorecards on the pundit's opinions of (arguably) interchangeable GUIs for a fringe OS?
    I don't mean this is flamebait, I'm honestly surprised that these paper bloggers get this much 'cred'.

  22. Re:Tu quoque is a common fallacy on Project Grizzly Bear-Proof Suit Up For Auction · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You sound like a typical product of modern U.S. public education. Since you do not recognize it, tu quoque is a phrase of Latin, an ancient language, but one still used in literate circles. Identification of an argument as a logical fallacy is something typically learned by those who study logic, again, your public school failed you. What is it like going through life with such a limited understanding of reason, a foggy view of reality, and no literacy skills with which to extract yourself from the pit you wake up to each day, without the moral courage to post using your real ID? It must be awful.

  23. Tu quoque is a common fallacy on Project Grizzly Bear-Proof Suit Up For Auction · · Score: 0

    -1, Ad hominem

  24. Animals are not toys on Project Grizzly Bear-Proof Suit Up For Auction · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just as well if this thing flops. Animals are living beings, not toys, and wild animals, especially grizzlies, are nothing to mess with. Just because we CAN invade their territory, disrupt their ecology, and torment them, doesn't mean that we should.

  25. s/moblog/asshat/g on Camera Phone Tips · · Score: -1, Troll

    Title says it all. Nobody cares about making quality "moblogs" anyway, they're just a bunch of pee-pee touchers who talk about their cats, the weather, and what they had for breakfast.