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  1. Re:There is no expectation of privacy on Recording the Police · · Score: 1

    If the better people in society don't procreate, the offspring of the worse will multiply. Worse meaning families who pass on dysfunctional relationships.

  2. Re:There is no expectation of privacy on Recording the Police · · Score: 1

    Just because you can use your freedom of speech doesn't mean you always should. I would personally prefer not to first amendment myself right into being "investigated" unless I actually have a reason. I seem to remember a couple recent operations where they nabbed some guy who was online bragging about how he was going to blow himself up.

  3. Re:1415 bugs?! on Firefox 4 Beta 8 Up · · Score: 1

    actually, it's "just" (one of) the EXPLOITABLE messenger(s).

    You're not an OpenBSD user by any chance, are you? Because even they've been on the /. front page recently about a few bugs that they had to fix. Any project with more than a few lines of code is bound to have problems, exponentially more as the LOC increase.

  4. Re:addons on Firefox 4 Beta 8 Up · · Score: 1

    Will 4.0 break compatibility?

    Have you been around for the last couple releases? The answer is "definitely yes." But there's a "STFU and run it anyway" setting in about:config apparently.

  5. Re:I love the awesome bar on Firefox 4 Beta 8 Up · · Score: 1

    If you turn it off, it stops giving any suggestions at all. It sounds like the problem isn't that some people don't want suggestions, it's just that they want them only based on the beginning of the URL they typed, like all the browsers used to do five years ago. Unfortunately, no easy option exists to set it to do that.

  6. Re:URL Bar on Firefox 4 Beta 8 Up · · Score: 1

    This and the memory leak thing. Anybody starting to see a pattern...?

  7. Re:KISS... on The Clock Is Ticking On Encryption · · Score: 1

    Three people can keep a secret only if two of them are dead.

    Assuming the last can't have it dragged out of him by torture. The only way to be sure is to nuke it from orbit...er, I mean, commit suicide.

  8. Re:Aluminium. Sulphur. on Periodic Table of Elements To Get an Update · · Score: 1

    "I saw a tramp smoking a fag the other day"

    Even better if you throw in the slang "cock-smoking."

  9. Re:What? on Periodic Table of Elements To Get an Update · · Score: 1

    If you're going to need to use a precise weight (like for chemistry work or something), I would think you likely already know it. This sounds like it'll just make coursework harder because you no longer have a single number to quote. Margin of error will need to be taken into account and all kinds of bollocks I expect.

  10. Re:but on Hackers Dual-Boot Chrome OS With Ubuntu Linux on CR-48 · · Score: 2

    If all you want to do is offered by a different OS with a better interface, you go with that OS. At least, that's in theory what the case is with Apple.

    I dual-boot Ubuntu. I use GNOME, not KDE, because I don't plan to ever utilize the option to set a bazillion different little things about my desktop manager, and I don't want said options to get in my way if all I want to do is move the taskbar to a different side of the screen (have you ever *seen* how many sliders their are when you unlock that thing in KDE?). Does that mean that, since I can do so with KDE, I shouldn't use GNOME? Sometimes simpler is easier to use. The whole point is that the people this is marketted to don't want the capabilities of a normal laptop. Again, at least if they did their homework and know what they're buying.

  11. Re:Can't see this standing on Hackers Dual-Boot Chrome OS With Ubuntu Linux on CR-48 · · Score: 1

    There's definitely some humor in the person who is trying to convince everyone that they should be morally outraged about something, only to have them not bother to listen.

  12. Re:Why dual-boot Chrome OS and traditional Linux? on Hackers Dual-Boot Chrome OS With Ubuntu Linux on CR-48 · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this is going to lead to a big spike in laptop thefts. If any given ChromeOS laptop is the same to a given user...it sounds like there's a (black) market in there somewhere.

  13. Re:How is that a solution? on Hackers Dual-Boot Chrome OS With Ubuntu Linux on CR-48 · · Score: 1

    I think any person who says "Wouldn't it just be easier to install dual-boot Linux on it?" is definitely not the target audience of ChromeOS.

  14. Re:um if it cant do what windows or linux can on Hackers Dual-Boot Chrome OS With Ubuntu Linux on CR-48 · · Score: 1

    Fill a niche. Evidently enough people find the current options in personal computers too involved so naturally someone came up with one that's even simpler.

  15. Re:Why only Ti-83/4 on Calculator Networking With CALCnet and Doors CS · · Score: 1

    Also, they don't let you use the higher-up ones on the ACT, SAT, etc. The qwerty 92, 92+, Voyage are too much like a PDA, the Nspire has just ridiculous math functionality, and I don't know whether 89s are currently okay. It might vary.

  16. Captain Willfully Missing the Point, Attack! on Calculator Networking With CALCnet and Doors CS · · Score: 1

    They stopped manufacturing the TI-86 in 2004. Regrettably.

  17. Re:They reconsidered on Oracle Asks Apache To Rethink Java Committee Exit · · Score: 1

    If he was in Antartica (and presumably mounted the sailboat on skis or something) he could technically get 25 weeks of summer. Although it's probably a stretch to say that Antarctica has any season other than "F**king Cold."

  18. Re:In b4 shitstorm on Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess it'll just even out with that article where they made sperm out of bone marrow.

  19. Re:In b4 shitstorm on Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers · · Score: 1

    Isaac Newton was not a homosexual.

    Actually, it kind of looks like he was. Why... would it be terrible for you if he was? You think the apple would have fallen up instead of down?

    This is Slashdot: we reserve the right to be pedantic and completely miss the point.

  20. Re:Mr. Black and White, meet Doctor Gray on Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers · · Score: 1

    Morally wrong, or just a very bad idea? If they don't hurt anybody else...but I'm digressing. I do agree with your original point, though.

  21. Re:In b4 shitstorm on Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers · · Score: 1

    Every one of your cells is alive, so every time you scratch an itch you're ending thousands of human lives.

    I see the difference is that if you didn't scratch the itch, the skin cells would never naturally develop into a new human being.

  22. Re:/scoff on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists · · Score: 1

    "Graunch" is my official word of the day now. Thank you :)

  23. Re:/scoff on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists · · Score: 1

    Exists as a Possibility

    Definite maybe?

  24. Re:okay thats great but on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure all alien spacecraft are required to have the coordinates of London before they're allowed to invade.

  25. Re:LIttle comfort on One Night Stands May Be Genetic · · Score: 1

    Guys who try to screw the alpha-males women tend to end up performing autofellatio after he's done with them.

    That was the most ambiguous-gender pronoun sentence I've seen in a long time. What was that again?