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  1. Re:Some People on A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy · · Score: 1

    Well, 50 flights per carrier was just a starting point. It was just an arbitrary number. It could easily have been 500 or 5,000. The point is to give people the choice. Everyone would rather the TSA just stop fondling our junk or looking at us naked, but that's not happening any time soon without somehow showing that it is not necessary. Without a compromise allowing evidence to come about, we'll be stuck with the fearmongers forever.

  2. Re:It has never been about security on A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Some People on A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think the government should allow each airline to offer, say, 50 flights per day in which you don't have to go through all the security theater. That way people can take a calculated risk on whether they want to be molested, photographed nude, or none of the above.

  4. Re:First post, for the umpteenth time on One Night Stands May Be Genetic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, he or she has cheated on you for the umpteenth time and their only excuse is: 'I just can't help it.'

    If he or she is getting anywhere near "the umpteenth time" it's not a them problem, it's a you problem. If it happens once, forgiveness is certainly acceptable. If it happens twice forgiveness starts to become questionable. If it happens a third time, what the hell are you still doing with this person? Send them packing for Christ's sake.

    Obviously this argument is based on the assumption that you have a moral objection to your significant other sleeping with other people. If not, then cheerio mate, say hello to your wife for me.

  5. Re:List of US facilities? on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 1

    I found some of those locations to be quite interesting. I really do wonder what they are doing at these places:

    * Cobalt mine in Congo
    * Anti-snake venom factory in Australia
    * Insulin plant in Denmark

    I seriously doubt they are just looking for cobalt, anti-venom, & insulin from those places. That said, this is one of the leaks that I find a little questionable in its ethicality. In the swarm of information that was released, however, this is a small misstep, and I'm really quite in favor of pretty much everything else I have read being released.

  6. Re:slow news day? on Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be grammar Nazism?

  7. Re:uh...what? on Single Software Licence Shared 774,651 Times · · Score: 1

    I think Avast about it *because* they have the free version available. They know that they are losing next to nothing because, at best, most of these people would be using the free copy anyway.

  8. Re:It's official on Denver Bomb Squad Takes Out Toy Robot · · Score: 1

    Reading stories like this makes me want to leave random luggage all over major cities.

  9. Re:Why not wait ? on NASA Finds New Life (This Afternoon) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that? I think they probably just wanted to . . .

  10. Non Sequitur on Sarah Palin 'Target WikiLeaks Like Taliban' · · Score: 1

    She wrote: “Assange is not a 'journalist', any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine Inspire is a 'journalist'." But in a 2008 US television interview with presenter Katie Couric, Palin herself appeared unable to name the newspapers she reads.

    Did anyone else notice this non sequitur in the article? What do her views on Assange's journalistic credentials have to do with her ability to name the newspapers she reads?

    I'm no fan of Palin, but what the hell is this garbage?

  11. Re:Anti-bacterial soap will kill you all. on Being Too Clean Can Make People Sick · · Score: 1

    Heck, if you can convince adult males to do so, I'd donate half my wealth to your cause. I'm still astounded by the number of men in who, after using a public restroom, just splash a little water on their hands and walk out, touching everything on their way.

  12. Re:follow the money on Causing Terror On the Cheap · · Score: 3, Funny

    Clearly, it's George Soros! My bedroom is full of puppets and chalk boards that show evidence of this. Unfortunately, the world is full of idiots who can't see the logic behind it all.

  13. Re:Fear mongering 101 on Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School · · Score: 0

    [Citation Needed]

  14. Re:Fear mongering 101 on Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School · · Score: 1

    My assumption is that she had an issue in her class with students using pencils in ways that were unexpected by the manufacturers. Remembering fondly my middle school years, I have no doubt this is the case. Hell, remembering my high school years, I have no doubt this is the case. My classmates found all sorts of unique "uses" for writing implements and other school supplies.

    PS. Can we stop linking to articles which include sentences such as "Wendy is too uptight, one night with me she will loosen up, and she might even provide the students with switchblades." If you can't find a better source for a story than that, it's probably not worth being posted on Slashdot.

  15. Re:Bluffing? on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    I believe what he said was that he didn't want to send a letter to their parents explaining why they weren't going to graduate.

  16. Re:Ethics aside... How? on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    In the video he stated that he had used an exam bank to create the test. The first piece of evidence he really had, outside of statistical testing, was when someone anonymously dropped off the test bank at his office. One person found it, then it went viral.

    He said later on in the video that he had contacted all of the other professors at UCF, and all of the publishers that he dealt with and let them know that the exam banks were all compromised. Hopefully this incident "ruined it" for other cheaters elsewhere at the university or around the country.

    This goes to show you, though, that if you know something that is extremely beneficial to you and you don't object to it morally, don't tell anyone. Whether it's a good fishing hole or a test bank, some things lose their value as more people find out about them.

  17. Re:A link to Fox News? But not the CERN site? on LHC Scientists Create and Capture Antimatter · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because then we wouldn't be able to go laugh at (or cry because of) the comments at FoxNews.com.

    Some of my favorites from this article:

    Forget terrorists, nukes, and germ warfare. These guys are the real threat. I hope these a*holes dont end up messing everything up before my kid has a chance to live a whole life.

    They don't. The modern scientist is just an imaginative liar.

    Physicist and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Jason Lisle has proven that the earth doesn't have to be billions of years old for light to reach us from distant stars. His theory of Anisotropic Synchrony Convention proves that light traveled at an infinite velocity at the moment of creation. Thus, we can be comfortable with the fact that the earth turned 6,014 years old on Oct. 23. Thanks to the theory of Amyotrophic Lateral Convection, the truth of the Bible in verified.

    14 billion years ago? Where do they come up with that ridiculous number? The universe was made in 6 days by God, thousands of years ago. It is in the Bible. Now they claim to have the substance of Lucifer? End of the year is coming and I guess it's time to dole out new grants.

    The way it looks, some of these guys are just good trolls. However, I've been around long enough to know how hard it is to distinguish extremists from those pretending to be extremists.

  18. Re:Slavery isn't illegal on Organs of UK Nuclear Workers Secretly Harvested; Energy Secretary Apologizes · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure it isn't legal in the UK, though.

  19. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    I think there should -1 Godwin moderation. Anyone care to back me up on this?

  20. Re:No engineering? on Shadow Scholar Details Student Cheating · · Score: 1

    Hmmm.... it's a good thing he didn't say "and", or if I was the instructor I would have said "Nice try, but logically your exam assistant can't be on the front *and* the back of the paper at the same time".

    Just fold over a corner or something and make sure that part of your foot is on the folded corner. Problem solved.

  21. Re:Given that this is Slashdot on Palin E-Mail Snoop Gets Year In Prison · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What's the point in stating his middle name? I hear it all the time from conservative radio personalities, but hear it rarely elsewhere. You hear a lot about George W. Bush, but it's almost never "George Walker Bush." His father is regularly referred to as George Herbert Walker Bush, but only since his son was elected. Bill Clinton did use his middle name, often being referred to as William Jefferson Clinton, but a lot of people of all political stripes did that. I didn't even know Reagan's or Carter's middle names (Wilson & Earl, respectively) until I just looked it up, though that may just be because they were before my time. As I see it, however, no real convention exists for referring to a president by all 3 (or more) names.

    As for Obama specifically, if you look him up, on either Bing or Google, you'll see that referring to him as "Barack Hussein Obama" is almost entirely the province of the right. So I ask again, why do conservatives insist on using his middle name when neither he, nor most others refer to him in that manner?

  22. The peasants have no bread, so... on Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat · · Score: 1

    Let them eat steak.

  23. The Raft on Engineers Propose Lily Pad-Like Floating Cities · · Score: 1

    Or they could just lash a bunch of ships to a super carrier and let it float nearly aimlessly around the Pacific Ocean, picking up and dropping off refugees every time it stops.

  24. Re:Both are caused by an active social life on Sex Drugs and Texting · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if I had to spend any more time on Facebook or texting I think I'd shoot myself.

  25. Re:I propose... on Mob-Sourcing — the Prejudice of Crowds · · Score: 1

    My favorite part was this line:

    Craigslist claims that 98% of the flagged listings are, in fact, in breach of Craigslist standards. If that were true - and really, how can they know? - out of 1 billion listings that is 20 million who are wrongfully deleted.

    Since 2% of "flagged listings" shouldn't have been, then 2% of all listings are wrongfully deleted? Perhaps you should re-check your logic.