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  1. Since we're mostly bacteria ourselves on Scientists Put an End To Smelly Socks · · Score: 1

    We're all gonna die!

    BAH - They've been promising this stuff for over ten years now. I remember seeing it on that show "Beyond 2000" back in '98... Still waiting for it

  2. Re:This was the logical end on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It was precisely what the terrorists wanted in the first place..

    Stop with the script reading, please... With its credibility in the shitter, it's what the government wanted in the first place. They had to use the terrorism angle to get us wimps to go long without questioning anything and distract attention away form its other abuses. Anybody who disagreed was immediately tagged.. Worked like a charm.. Exploitation of natural instincts always does

  3. Re:idiot on Star Wars Landspeeders Are Here · · Score: 1

    I thought the singular was "Jedus"

  4. Re:Amazing. on @Whitehouse Hosting Twitter Town Hall On Wednesday · · Score: 0

    ...opposition party...

    You misspelled 'tag team partner'.. I could have believed there was an 'opposition party' if the democratic faction had taken any initiative to actually oppose the other sects in 2009... But what happened was that they only expanded their powers.. This has been standard operating procedure for a very long time.. That you believe these people oppose each other only plays into their scheme.. Despite all the feigned anger, they enjoy a 95% approval rating in every election.. Read up on "rotating villain" to see how they do it

  5. Re:I knew it! on How Apple Came To Control the Component Market · · Score: 0

    That's one of the advantages of being a subscriber

  6. Re:Interesting... on How Apple Came To Control the Component Market · · Score: 0

    The only place where you'll find laissez-faire capitalism is in contraband, and the graveyards are full of its practitioners... Everything else has always been regulated

  7. Re:You gonna end prohibition? on @Whitehouse Hosting Twitter Town Hall On Wednesday · · Score: 1

    One may think that getting out of Afghanistan and Iraq...

    And Libya and Germany and Japan etc etc etc...

  8. You gonna end prohibition? on @Whitehouse Hosting Twitter Town Hall On Wednesday · · Score: 1

    I don't see so well.. Will that fit into a twitter post?

  9. Re:Removed from "real time" search on Facebook Blocks Google+ App, Google Removes Twitter From Real Time Search · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with advertising...

    ?? Google's entire premise is based on advertising. That's what put them where they are today.

  10. Re:Removed from "real time" search on Facebook Blocks Google+ App, Google Removes Twitter From Real Time Search · · Score: 1

    results by Bing
    built with Yahoo

    Thanks, but no thanks

  11. New game for iPad on NYT Update Breaks iPad App, Annoys Subscribers · · Score: 2

    Angry Users... all chattering like a bunch of parakeets

  12. Removed from "real time" search on Facebook Blocks Google+ App, Google Removes Twitter From Real Time Search · · Score: 1

    This kinda proves that Google is not really a "search engine" per se, as if we needed any verification of that.. I guess we all have to send out our own crawlers to actually find anything outside the advertising realm. It's not that I mind seeing Twitter or similar removed, but I always wonder about the truly valuable stuff that's not being indexed because there's no ad link or contract involved.

    Are there any useful alternatives?

  13. Re:I'm no longer conerced about it on Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I guess I meant 'concerned'.. Kinda wished the speel checker worked up there :-)

  14. I'm no longer conerced about it on Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The law will provide great incentive to develop new technologies to work around it.

  15. Their confidence is overwhelming on NASA's Next Mars Rover · · Score: 3, Funny

    From #4:

    "If it works, it will be spectacular,"

    If it doesn't , it will probably be more so, but we won't see it.

  16. Re:So... on Japanese Team Finds New Source of Rare Earth Elements · · Score: 1

    No cheap way... yet. Once you remove the human effort, all bets are off.

  17. Re:false flag! on Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead · · Score: 0

    So the government is unable to prevent people leaking sensitive diplomatic cables and embarrassing videos and documents...

    Honeypot? I mean please, we're talking about Anna Nicole Smith here.. National Inquirer should sue for unfair competition, but they'd run up against sovereign immunity.

  18. Re:false flag! on Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead · · Score: 0

    Ad hoc WI-FI.. a little slow maybe, but still faster than Pony Express, or even Federal Express...

  19. I remember numbers better than names on Ask Slashdot: Which Registrars Support DNSSEC? · · Score: 1

    It would be a good idea to throw both GoDaddy and any other kind of centralized DNS out the window. In the long run, only ad hoc networks will be truly robust. Client-server of any kind is just too frail

  20. Re:Patents on Google's Six-Front War · · Score: 0

    In some ways it confirms my suspicions of how it was designed to maintain social/economic stratification. I do remember reading some things on how it was for protecting the publisher/distributor where the authors were completely written out of the deal. Thanks for that. Much appreciated!

  21. War number 7 on Google's Six-Front War · · Score: 1

    Let's hand over the "War on Terrorism" No doubt they could deal with it more competently than the government. Their spy powers are unmatched. They can redirect all communications to some honeypot. I believe there's even a Google jail...

  22. Re:Who gives a shit! on Samsung Withdraws Counter-Suit Against Apple · · Score: 0

    Gee, I didn't think I could have made it more obvious... Oh well, I'm not about to spoil it for the rest :-)

  23. Re:Patents on Google's Six-Front War · · Score: 2

    ...but that was in fact the spin

    :-) Sorry, had to do it.

    Actually I could see the the point of these laws to minimize plagiarism, but beyond that they are an anathema to progress.

  24. Re:Patents on Google's Six-Front War · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not about society. It's about protecting specific interests, to protect industry from the effects of new technology that threatens its existence. From Gutenberg's printing press right up through the present and into the future. There is very little difference between these rules and the "Red Flag" laws that attempted to interfere with the use of the horseless carriage. Imagine having to to disassemble and hide your computer or TV set every time you wanted to read a newspaper.

  25. Re:Patents on Google's Six-Front War · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...their original intention...

    That's the part that everybody has gotten wrong so far.. Patents and copyrights are designed from the beginning to restrict the transfer and sharing of knowledge. If people are going to continue to claim property rights, they should pay a property tax. They should not be permitted to deny a license to use the property, and the government should be allowed to determine a reasonable price. Divulged knowledge is public property, exclusive privileges over it should come with a cost.