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  1. Re:little shop of horrors on Russian Scientists Revive Plant From 30,000-Year-Old Seeds · · Score: 2

    Apparently they haven't seen this movie in Russia yet

    Do you suppose it was considered anti-Soviet?

  2. Re:Based on your requirements... on Best Language For Experimental GUI Demo Projects? · · Score: 5, Funny

    really? based on those requirements, i think origami would be a bit much for him.

    The project might fold.

  3. Re:ReCAPTCHA needs to be retired on Researchers Break Video CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    I sometimes type "whatever" when one of the images is unreadable.

    You're missing an opportunity to add words to past texts. I always type "bunga-bunga". My hope is that someday in the far future, a scholar of historic literature will be scratching his head wondering why all these old books have the phrase bunga-bunga thrown in at random places.

    To screw things up?

  4. Re:what does waiting have to do with anything? on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 2

    Are they going to prosecute first posters?

  5. Re:Is this some sort of joke? on Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency · · Score: 1

    Apparently it's also equivalent to seeing the full page, as if merely sharing the title of a paper was all you needed to share a document.

    Maybe if you are Edgar Cayce.

  6. Re:Poor Google? on Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency · · Score: 2

    Did I understand this correctly, linking to content is the same as providing a copy of the content and requires a fee? Does that mean that Google Canda is next?

    Yes, and then the world.

  7. Re:Well the government spies on you anyway. on Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies · · Score: 1

    Privacy is a self-validating principal.

    The "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care" line of reasoning, is the primary tool of tyrants, and how can you be sure you have nothing to hide from that type? Depending on their whims, the time of day you go to bed may be a black mark.

    Principals tend to be self validating. Principles OTOH not so much.

  8. Re:two feet deeper in my basement was 60 cubic YAR on Man Digs Out Basement Using Radio Controlled Toy Tractors · · Score: 1

    It took two huge dumpsters to take the dirt away. It was done with no power equipment at all, in 2 days, by 4 guys.

    It is a great idea though, I can imagine remote controlled smaller equipment being used by real contractors in the future.

    Would it be easier to use a truck to take the dumpsters away?

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    Lawrence of Arabia would have trouble with such dust.

  9. Re:I'm confused about the backups. on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 1

    No! That's stealing! You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a policeman's helmet and go to the toilet in it... would you?

    Sir, I need you to step away from the paper cup.

  10. Re:Scientists Charged For Not Being Psychic on US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case · · Score: 1

    If they did "properly" assure them, they would have been called quacks, or they would have been sued for causing a hype if nothing happened and still could have faced fines or jail time.

    1) You can't be put in jail for losing a civil case. Ask O.J.

    O.J.'s butler said something about him being in the Yard, and his calls were held.

  11. Re:I hate to defend Monsanto somewhat, but on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    The biggest advantage of the popular GM crops is that you can drown them in pesticides without killing the plant.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_(herbicide)#Genetically_modified_crops

    Speaking of drowning, you can grow rice with a lot of pesticide, or you can flood the field and drown the weeds.

  12. Re:I hate to defend Monsanto somewhat, but on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Yes, I have no doubt that some organic farmers are being caught up unfairly in the dragnet. But I also can't blame Monsanto for having these much-maligned "seed police,"

    Holy contradiciton batman

    Geseedpo?

  13. Re:The real questions should be different on Is Agriculture Sucking Fresh Water Dry? · · Score: 1

    It's not like water is hard to purify - but it is energy intensive, which is what this all boils down to.

    I saw what you did there.

    BTW has anyone combined reverse osmosis with a high dam.

  14. Re:What? on Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime · · Score: 1

    [...]has shown early signs of success, though the numbers are so small as to be statistically insignificant [...]

    In other words, no significant effect of the music on crime statistics has been measured. Or am I missing something?

    Does the MAFIAA know about this?

  15. Re:Kids have no taste in music? on Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime · · Score: 1

    ...subway.. elevator.. is there a real difference?

    Elevators go nearly straight.

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    If the rails were laid end-to-end, it would be a big improvement.

  16. Re:Not a new - or a particularly great - idea on Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime · · Score: 1

    But maybe it is in fact just driving the youth away and not just criminal types

    Fine by me, children are obnoxious.

    Now if they could play something to get rid of all the slow walkers too, that would be perfect!

    Pushers. No, not that kind; the kind that shove.

  17. Re:Yeah...thanks, I guess on Hungary's Needy Given Money to Burn · · Score: 1

    It's more cotton and denim than wood-pulp paper IIRC.

    Denim is cotton that is dyed in one direction with indigo.

  18. Re:Up in smoke on Hungary's Needy Given Money to Burn · · Score: 1

    No, they would probably be burning something else, perhaps coal which might be more of a pollutant. There is not enough wood in the country to serve as fuel source for the entire populace. In some cases they may be simply using fireplaces rather than stoves.

    But the point remains that wood, and coal aren't composed of a billion tiny slivers of paper that can smolder and fly out the chimney. And combustion is bound to be incomplete, lots of fragments lifted by the updraft. potentially plugging any spark arresters in place.

    Seems to me that blowing the shredded paper (not bales) into large coal fired electric generation facility might yield more clean and complete combustion, and electricity to boot.

    I think you are onto something. Electric vehicles are not powered by coal; they are powered by money.

  19. Re:@ISS on Twitter Gets Satellite Access · · Score: 1

    Clearly that kind of information is only relevant for your closest friends.

    Be honest. Are you the sort of chap who enjoys a hearty Cleveland steamer?

    I would guess that the "platform" would be very cross after that.

  20. Re:Rude words on Why Microsoft Developers Need a Style Guide · · Score: 2

    What if you are actually writing software for a pimp or dog breeding?

    Use string variables.

  21. Re:Watch it be sold off for a song on All-IP Network Produces $100B Real Estate Windfall · · Score: 1

    I thought you used hot air balloons, rainbows, big storms, and magic shoes to call Oz. Just don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain...

    Somewhere Orders of Magnitude,
    Bluebirds fly.
    Why then, oh why,
    Can't I?

  22. Re:How well was it tested? on From the Nuremberg Toy Fair, a New Linux System For RC Cars · · Score: 2

    Have there been any public trials?

    Nuremburg is famous for trials.

  23. Re:By Definition on Boiling Down the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    In an extensional definition (exemplar listing) of the "over-definition" flaws inherent in intensional definition (attribute listing), one might cite this..

    He's dead Jim.

  24. Re:Ok ok...I'll tell you! on Boiling Down the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    "Undeniably, however, most of them do have a point, one or another or several, and common sense suggests that, probably, one could arrive to a consensus, if only the authors, some two centuries apart from one another, could be brought together."

    Forget water boarding: just use that sentence.

    Will it get you elected to the Water Board?

  25. Re:Not much about RSA on Tools, Techniques, Procedures of the RSA Hackers Revealed · · Score: 1

    The majority of the known callback domains for Murcy malware were used in the March 2011 RSA
    breach. This suggests that the attackers responsible
    for the RSA breach also use the Murcy malware.
    Given that the malware is reportedly not in
    widespread use, the Chinese server communicating
    with ‘path.alyac.org’ may have been compromised by
    the same attackers responsible for the RSA breach

    A Chinese site hacked, is nothing sacred?