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  1. Cops are above the law on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 1

    The stated rationale for not charging him was cop-specific; but he'd have gotten off just for being in a car.

  2. yet if we did it on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 1

    Maybe if there is a distracted driving law that you're violating when you do it. Otherwise, probably not. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11... http://blog.sfgate.com/bicycle... http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013...

  3. Beastly on New Nigerian ID Card Includes Prepay MasterCard Wallet · · Score: 0

    Every card will have 666 in its number.

  4. Re:Wine for Windows? on Microsoft Rumored To Integrate Android Apps · · Score: 1

    As good at Google generally is at search, it's surprising that it's so hard to filter through the crap in the Play store. If I'm looking for a specific app, I have to use the main Google search page with "site:play.google.com." The inability to sort through the crap within the Play storefront is just baffling, considering that's basically Google's core advantage; and it really degrades what is otherwise an excellent service.

  5. While you weren't paying attention on Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own · · Score: 1

    Cyberpunk happened.

  6. Dog names on Dogs Trained To Sniff Out Ovarian Cancer · · Score: 1

    Name the next dog in the program "Miggs."

  7. Re:Museums don't let you on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    There may even be textbooks that are out of copyright. Not sure their images would be good enough to use, though.

  8. Can you separate BPA from sugar on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    If much of the BPA in humans is coming from soft drink bottles, and soft drinks account for the excess sugar and most of the HFCS specifically, is it even possible to be sure which of those is the problem, even if you establish for certain that soft drinks are the problem?

  9. Re:Silly on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    Also, if you want to coat a bottle in plastic, you could put it on the outside of a glass bottle, so when it shatters it doesn't go all over.

  10. Re:These things happen on Wikipedia Scandal: High Profile Users Allegedly Involved In Paid-Editing · · Score: 2

    Seriously, they need ONE central rule-making body, not different standards for different subjects, categories, and admins. Fucking lock everything down for a month or two and rework the administration system.

  11. Wikipedia is a drama factory on Wikipedia Scandal: High Profile Users Allegedly Involved In Paid-Editing · · Score: 2

    Differing sets of conflicting rules, senior editors making their own personal information kingdoms, colliding and sometimes colluding with people who think they're editing UrbanDictionary.

    I only edit anonymously, and I do not talk to any other editors.

  12. Your local library on Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? · · Score: 2

    Friends of the Library. Your local library probably has one. You might become active with them if you want to promote technology access for those without...your local library is probably the only internet access for a substantial portion of the people who use it.

  13. Re:Want: Added to to the list on Hands-On Account of Amazon's Upcoming Color Kindle · · Score: 0

    Why do you need to ask stupid questions?

  14. Re:There will be a time... on Can Google Save Us From Slow Internet · · Score: 1

    My last ISP in the states served up ad pages for every bad DNS request.

    We are already under communications dictatorship, when someone comes along appearing to be a benevolent dictator, the worst it could be is a lateral move.

  15. Re:Dear Apple on More Photoshopped Evidence In Apple v. Samsung · · Score: 1

    That way was slapping an apple logo on it.

  16. Farming spiders: on Artificial Skin Made From Spider Silk · · Score: 1

    I was riding a bike in South Korea once when I saw a dumpster full of manure on a farm. It was underneath a roof, and between the rafters and the sides of the dumpster, there was a thick veil of spider webs. There were hundreds of spiders living on this web, taking the flies that went for the cow shit, I presume. I don't know the name of the species, but they look similar to what are called "banana spiders" in the midwest US. They are black and yellow, and the females have leg spans of something like 3-4 inches. Also, this story reminds me of a storyline in "Franken Fran," where a neat freak corporate exec who is deathly afraid of roaches is horribly burned, then Fran replaces her skin with skin grown on the chitin of cockroaches.

  17. Re:US cell system on Leaked AT&T Letter Damages Case For T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    Government is what makes our lives miserable! We need less regulation! Regulation is ALWAYS bad and always stifles business! Also, most of the US doesn't even have subways...because we like cars, which are the free-market, government-intrusion-free alternative!

  18. Hey yeah on Scientists Breeding Super Bees · · Score: 1

    I'm the one that you wanted. Hey yeah, I'm your super bees.

  19. Re:Ship in the babes! on China Begins To Extend High Speed Rail Across Asia · · Score: 1

    1. Not knowing what law he was talking about, LMGTFY was completely inappropriate
    2. That law did not shut down the mail order bride business
    3. The mail order bride business has not been shut down.

  20. Re:"the end" on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 2

    It is secretly supported by pharmaceutical manufacturers in order to support sales of migraine medication.

  21. Re:"the end" on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 1

    It highlights the assertion that there is actually value to BitCoins, thus possibly making them look appealing.

    How many Bitcoins can I get for my Flooz?

  22. Re:China to lose even more money on high-speed rai on China Begins To Extend High Speed Rail Across Asia · · Score: 1

    If you're delivering things or people into a conflict zone, you don't need to land there, you just drop them out and land back at home where it's safe.

  23. Re:China to lose even more money on high-speed rai on China Begins To Extend High Speed Rail Across Asia · · Score: 1

    Good news for hiking boot and mountain bike manufacturers, then, because that's about all that would be left without some kind of subsidy.

  24. Re:Ship in the babes! on China Begins To Extend High Speed Rail Across Asia · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. Americans won't be able to afford to import. We'll be a net exporter. (Probably the biggest, by weight.)

  25. Re:Ship in the babes! on China Begins To Extend High Speed Rail Across Asia · · Score: 1

    Which law?