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  1. First use of fertilizer on Researchers Discover First Use of Fertilizer · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the researchers use fertilizer for... making bombs probably. It took them quite a while to figure out what it's really for. :P

  2. Re:Fertilizer... on Researchers Discover First Use of Fertilizer · · Score: 1

    Yeah we definitely learned from that! As soon as the aliens land we'll bomb them to oblivion as fast as we can. Good riddance!

  3. None on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 1

    None. Just don't use Outlook and IE. And teach the users not to click on anything they don't know. Works much better than antivirus programs which are viruses in themselves. They make your computer feverish and sluggish...

  4. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 0

    You ask us to assume that a gun is the same as any other weapon.

    Excuse me, perhaps you do not know what a gun is.

    A gun is a device that is pretty much guaranteed to maim or kill--with a single use--a selected target, at a distance and almost instantly. It requires almost no real physical effort on the part of the user. Multiple uses can be accomplished pretty much as quickly as you can point, squeeze your finger, release, and point again.

    This works really well for cancelling out advantages of size/weight/strength such as otherwise might be of concern to... I dunno... say, a skinny 16-year-old kid who's got a very big grudge against a high school teachers' lounge full of adults half again as big as he is.

    Or a middle aged man who's got a grudge against black youngsters who are clearly unarmed.

  5. Re:How about alt roots instead? on Citing Snowden Leaks, Russia Again Demands UN Takeover of Internet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No government can be trusted with control over the internet. There should be a separate body for that, 'manned' only by robots. Or something else completely separated from anything that even remotely has to do with real world politics.

  6. Re:serious problem on Microsoft Slashes Prices On Surface · · Score: 2

    OK but when Microsoft says it "Plays for sure" you can be sure that it doesn't, otherwise they wouldn't put so much emphasis on a simple thing like playing music.

  7. Re:Airbus CEO was on hand for a comment on 787 Dreamliner On Fire Again · · Score: 1

    Hm, you're right. My hypothesis is dismissed.
    I heard on the news that the fire didn't have to do with the batteries this time.

  8. Re:Why make it sweet? on A Scientist's Quest For Perfect Broccoli · · Score: 1

    I was wondering about that too. Americans must have everything sweet, it seems. And sweet veggies are just wrong...

  9. Re:Airbus CEO was on hand for a comment on 787 Dreamliner On Fire Again · · Score: 1

    The batteries are kept below the passenger compartment, and the damage appears to be along the top of the fuselage (just in front of the vertical stabiliser) - I can see no visible visible damage around the area of the aft batteries.

    That is because the fire was on the inside of the plane. Hot air goes up, so you would see damage on the top of the plane first in that case.

  10. Negative reviews on Are Amazon Vine Reviews of Technical Books a Joke? · · Score: 1

    I always read the negative reviews, with one or two stars, first. It will learn you much more about the product than all those fake 4 or 5-star reviews.

  11. Tired on MS Handed NSA Access To Encrypted Chat & Email · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm getting a bit tired of news like this. Can we just conclude that the NSA listens to and collects as much data as it can from the US's allies as well as their enemies? And that the US's allies probably have known that for a long time but now Snowden has reveiled it they have to act surprised and angry so their citizens don't panick?

  12. Re: how about on House Democrats Propose National Park On the Moon · · Score: 2

    We Europeans did that all the time during the great exploring days. No matter if there were other people living there, if we found it it was usually ours.

  13. Illegal? on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 1

    Isn't a secret court illegal?

  14. Re:Going nowhere on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, let's see... what would make those people do these things? It may have to do with the way the Western world treats the Middle East... The pampering of Israel, two Gulf wars that cost hundreds of thousands of lives to make sure we will keep thick and rich streams of oil coming our way, the way we placed and removed dictators in that area... Maybe the locals there don't like us so much. And wit 'us' I mean not the US alone, but also most of Europe. As we all know, the EU is deep in bed with the US.

  15. Re:Nature uses life friendly.. on Improving 3-D Printing By Copying Nature · · Score: 1

    That depends on how long his second life is.

  16. Re:No shit on Snowden Claims That NSA Collaborated With Israel To Write Stuxnet Virus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, I remember how the US reacted as if stung by a wasp to Europe's idea of making a special independant court in The Hague for war criminals. War criminals could be caught in every country on Earth and then brought to The Hague to be tried. George Shrub was so shocked that he even made a law that allowed them to take American war criminals from The Hague with force. A few months later smelly pictures began to appear from the Ghraib prison.

  17. Tempora isn't new on Snowden Claims That NSA Collaborated With Israel To Write Stuxnet Virus · · Score: 5, Informative

    My government has been doing what the UK does for many years already, we learnt this weekend. I'm Dutch, BTW.

  18. Re:FOX-News-like propaganda on Improving 3-D Printing By Copying Nature · · Score: 1

    Anonymous Coward!

  19. Re:More important than using recycled stuff on Improving 3-D Printing By Copying Nature · · Score: 1

    UV light breaks them down but the molecules that are left are often also harmful for the environment. We ned together much better at making biodegradable polymers.

  20. Re:Nature uses life friendly.. on Improving 3-D Printing By Copying Nature · · Score: 1

    No they don't. You only die once, you know.

  21. Re:Evidently... on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 1

    But they won't spend it on infrastructure or other useful things because waging useless wars is more important.

  22. Re:Evidently... on EU To Vote On Suspension of Data Sharing With US · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Indeed, so we will have to do something with more impact, like not buying any US fighter planes anymore. That JSF is expensive rubbish anyway, so that's a double win for the EU. Bit of course nothing like those will happen. The lap dog will yap a few times, growl a bit and then curl up in the US's lap again.

  23. Re:This isn't metadata. It's just data. on What Does Six Months of Meta-Data Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I'm surprised that Obama used that term. He should know better.

  24. Re:This is years old on What Does Six Months of Meta-Data Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Which doesn't workwell on the iPad, unfortunately.

  25. Re:Friends on Snowden: NSA Spying On EU Diplomats and Administrators · · Score: 1

    Michael Moore was right. You really are a fear-driven society. We should all pity you.