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  1. Re:Best way to force an upgrade on Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mainstream support ended on April 14, 2009. They've been pumping the dead horse full of adrenaline ever since to keep it from falling over.

  2. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    And yet the only Supreme Court Justice to be impeached was in 1805.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase

    Oh, and they acquitted him.

  3. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Supreme Court: "We don't recognize the standing of this 'Everybody' of which you speak. Next!"

  4. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    There's this comical belief that Congress should have the ability to approve of War Powers, which the constitution clearly states are those powers reserved to the President.

    Throughout history, there tends to be a problem when the president can do whatever the fuck he wants without legislative oversight...

  5. Re:But will it repel deer? Enquiring minds want to on Next-Gen Windshield Wipers To Be Based On Jet Fighter "Forcefield" Tech · · Score: 1

    We need to combine it with some sort of forward-firing sonic ram, then! Just imagine if you could turn that fucking deer into a fine bloody mist just prior to impact! And then the winshield jets take over :D

  6. Re:What happens when it can't keep up? on Next-Gen Windshield Wipers To Be Based On Jet Fighter "Forcefield" Tech · · Score: 2

    You're the third person I've seen so far in this article to mention McLaren, and the first to actually spell it correctly. 2 points :)

  7. Re:Ice insects? on Next-Gen Windshield Wipers To Be Based On Jet Fighter "Forcefield" Tech · · Score: 1

    leaving you with only one possible recourse: recalibrating and shooting it with the main deflector dish.

    FTFY

  8. Re:It's just like JavaScript or NoSQL. on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    Oops, I read "all out nuclear war." How embarrassing.

  9. Re:You are so adorable ! on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 1

    'Gender' and 'sex' are considered different things these days, yeah, so someone can be 'biologically male' but 'cognitively female' (or whatever the terminology is they use for the latter). And, as some love to point out, a wide range in between.

  10. Re:On Racism and Hate Speech on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 1

    Yes. It is 100% agreed that the use of that word by non-blacks in the present day is grossly hateful and in fact a "fighting word".

    Ooh, ooh, I know this one! Now I just have to find one person in the country who disagrees. Give me a couple minutes here...

    All "ha ha only serious" joking aside, I think it would be a hell of a lot simpler if EVERYBODY just stopped using the words instead of "reclaiming" them. Then we wouldn't have these "colored" vs. "person of color" problems where one is horribly offensive and the other is what they actually want to be called, and the difference is a trivial preposition.

  11. Re:Perhaps not on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 1

    It doesn't seem to technically be inciting anything either...it's saying this is already happening.

  12. Re:Depends on what they said on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 1

    I would assume "Yid" is short for "Yiddish"...which is a historical and cultural fact...so why is this offensive? Because it's said angrily? Does that mean that I can go running around calling people "filthy chocolate-loving whiteys" and if I do it with enough conviction, I can get arrested?

  13. Re:Cold Pastuerization on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 1

    Can anyone explain to me why it is supposedly so hard to keep (literal) shit from getting into processed meat?

  14. Re:Do these projects OpenBSD, FreeBSD matter anywa on Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security · · Score: 1

    Features implemented specifically to be difficult to add to Linux are difficult to add to Linux. News at 11.

  15. Re:Framing the debate on Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security · · Score: 1

    It's definitely not pure bullshit if the output displayed to the user matches, which it sounds like it does.

  16. Re:It's just like JavaScript or NoSQL. on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    Nobody can beat nobody in all out non-nuclear war. Not on this planet. US can't control iraq, or afghanistan, same goes for russia.

    Funny, I don't remember any nukes being used in Iraq or Afghanistan.

  17. Re:And where are we now? on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to take the "Thus Spake Zarathustra" tape along.

  18. Re:US propaganda machine behind Hollywood moon lan on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    There's a reason they said "let's nuke the site from orbit" :)

  19. Re:A conspiracy to ruin Slashdot? on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    Technically it's usable; it just makes me want to gouge out my eyes with a dull spoon.

  20. Re:Seriously? on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    It seems that in the same way the "end state" of communism is not, in fact, communism, the end state of capitalism is not, in fact, capitalism?

    People are greedy bastards regardless of the economic system.

  21. Re:What about accidents? on NuScale Power Awarded $226 Million To Deploy Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Apparently I made the mistake of thinking that the article link referring to the 5-million-gallon pool would be more technically informative than the one talking about how they were going to fund it. How silly of me.

  22. Re:Already There on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a case of 'correlation is not necessarily causation' to me. There were a lot of different contributing factors.

  23. Re:How about warrants with probable cause? on NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata · · Score: 1

    As I said, if another country was doing this to America on this scale, it would be deemed an act of war. And yet somehow Americans seem to think that it's OK when they do it.

    While we're talking about unfair generalizations...I would not consider it an act of war. I would want 'our boys' to figure out some way to get them to stop doing it if they can (and it doesn't cost a hojillion dollars and make us look like asses), but I wouldn't say it's cause for war. Of course, I don't speak for the U.S.; we have representatives for that.

  24. Re:How about warrants with probable cause? on NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata · · Score: 1

    If countries could work together to make people in both countries happy, why would we need to have separate countries in the first place?

  25. Re:duh on NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata · · Score: 1

    Okay, so thought experiment: Say the U.S. government declared Islam to not be a religion, and therefore not protected under 'free speech.'

    Wait...maybe that's a bad example...okay, let me start over...