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  1. Re:It's Too Useful For the Public on Meet the Lawyer Suing Anyone Who Uses SSL · · Score: 1

    So if I come up with a great invention, which is so brilliant that the entire world starts to use it, my reward will be... having it taken away from me. That's not really much of an incentive, I think I'll just stick to my pentagon with rounded corners idea.

  2. Re:No, headline is right. on Global Warming Felt By Space Junk and Satellites · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, to be completely accurate, it's raining, but there's a drain that's only big enough for the rainwater to drain out. When the man comes along with his hose (it doesn't have to be a big hose, we can be patient) he breaks the equilibrium and it starts to rise.

  3. Dissapointed by headline on Little Miss Sunshine Screenwriter Gets Nod For Star Wars: Episode VII · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who misread the headline as "Little Miss Sunshine gets naked for Star Wars"?

  4. Re:Dear Leader approve this 1980's BBS! on The Information Age: North Korean Style · · Score: 1

    Dear Leader is dead, now we have Great Successor.

  5. Re:Haha on Romney Campaign Accidentally Launches Transition Web Site · · Score: 0

    Either that's complete flamebait, or you actually believe that rubbish. Either way I don't think I can help you.

  6. Re:+1 Australia on Australia Scales Back Internet Blacklist, Nixes Full-Scale Censorship · · Score: 1

    Most boners are down under, so yes. You're not thinking of an Australian kiss are you?

  7. Re:Just block? on Australia Scales Back Internet Blacklist, Nixes Full-Scale Censorship · · Score: 1

    I'm straying far from what we're talking about here, but just shutting down the sites doesn't do you much good, you need to find the people responsible for actually abusing the children and bring them to justice. Stopping the pics from flying around just makes you look like you're "tough on crime" (TM) but doesn't really help anyone.

  8. Re:+1 Australia on Australia Scales Back Internet Blacklist, Nixes Full-Scale Censorship · · Score: 1

    I get an Australia boner for Australian porn. (www.abbywinters.com)

  9. Re:This is why ... on Motorcycle App Helps You Ride Faster, Turn Sharper, Brake Harder · · Score: 1

    Wait a second, if you're hitting them with the /front/ of your car, how do you then justify that it's the biker who's crazy, or do you look for the crazies so you can run them down.

  10. Re:Time perspective on Discovery of Early Human Tools Hint at Earlier Start · · Score: 1

    You miss the point. They may not have been using it for energy, but we use oil for a lot more than energy too. Modern plastics and other compounds have a starting point of oil. It may be possible to come up with semiconductors etc. without plastics, but it seems unlikely.

  11. Re:Fermi's p on Super-Earth Discovered In Star's Habitable Zone · · Score: 1

    Because of course, high school science classes are not simplified in any way, they represent the truth exactly. I'm assuming the +5 came from the people who thought they were continuing their education by going to university, but really were just getting told lies by professors who wanted to make people believe them so they'd buy their books.

  12. Re:along those lines: Fade to Black... on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    Relativity says that you don't. You'd both observe each other to be travelling at 0.6c. (Did I just hear something whooshing over my head?)

  13. Re:The starcreators are pissed.... on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    The teabaggers are a separate beast to the neocons. The neocons want a law and order based theocracy and twice the military of the rest of the world combined, while the teabaggers want 0% tax, no social security, no gun control and free enterprise reigning supreme.

  14. Re:Does that mean on HIV Vaccine Safe Enough To Pass Phase 1 Human Trials · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Design Costs on iPad Mini Costs $24 More To Make Than Kindle Fire HD · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was wondering how they accounted for design costs and QA/QC in their teardown.

  16. Re:Needs a Catchy Name... on The Survival Machine Farm · · Score: 1

    Needs a catchier acronym, no one will get excited about MABORPF. Maybe Farming American Parasites.

  17. Re:St. Petersburg on A Fun Slashdot 15th Anniversary Get-Together in St. Petersburg, FL (Video) · · Score: 1

    I like Paris, Texas. They have a replica of the Eifell tower, but with a cowboy hat on top. ;)

  18. Re:I smell onions? on 80,000lbs of Walnuts Purloined In Northern California · · Score: 1

    And that's terrible.

  19. Re:How is this relevant for slashdto? on Ralph Nader Moderates One Last 3rd-Party Debate for 2012 · · Score: 1

    "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters." Nothing about technical or scientific relevance in the strapline. Whether this story fits either of the two qualifiers in the strapline is still up for debate, however.

  20. Re:They just need to... on Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse · · Score: 1

    It should. The word "literally" means that the literal interperetation of the statement is the intended meaning. In this case the word "drove" has some other meanings, so we are not necessarily talking about a car. Generally though, literally does indeed change definitons of idioms.

  21. Re:Happiness as a metric on Researchers Crown Buddhist Monk the World's Happiest Man · · Score: 1

    Because randomly measuring a portion of the population regularly to determine the value of this "happiness index" would be prohibitively time consuming and expensive.

  22. Re:I wish for on Researchers Crown Buddhist Monk the World's Happiest Man · · Score: 1

    When you say you want the US constitution restored, are you referring to the entire constitution, or the second sentence of the second ammendment. Given point 5, it seems you don't agree with the first half of the second ammendment, so could you give us an annotated copy of the constitution with the bits you'd like us to follow highlighted?

  23. Re:Kill the Buddha on Researchers Crown Buddhist Monk the World's Happiest Man · · Score: 1

    So we found the happiest man we've ever seen, and your first instinct is how to change him. Wow.

  24. Re:Why be happy? on Researchers Crown Buddhist Monk the World's Happiest Man · · Score: 1

    The best argument I heard to that is that if you define someone who feels good when they help other people as selfish, then we need a lot more selfish people in the world.

  25. Re:Seconds? on Self-Driving Car Faces Off Against Pro On Thunderhill Racetrack · · Score: 1

    Well the summary says it's a 3 mile track, so it sounds like they were using the long track.

    I would have thought oval racing would be where computers could completely kick humans' butts. It's all about getting your turn in point just right, hitting the apex at exactly the right point, then applying the right amount of throttle to get away from the corner as fast as you can without losing grip. I think in a couple of iterations no human would be able to keep up.