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  1. What a surprise on German Court Rules That You Can't Keep Compromising Photos After a Break-Up · · Score: 2

    Well, women can already withdraw consent after sex (in some cases a long time after) and get men to prison for rape, this is just a milder case of that.

  2. A fucked up country on US Gov't Seeks 7-Month Sentence For LulzSec's Sabu · · Score: 1

    People like Snowden are hunted down or targeted for assassination but serial baby killer mothers or women who mutilate or kill their husbands get free without time served because "court has been traumatic enough for them to serve as a punishment".

  3. My subjective experience on Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? · · Score: 1

    I bought my first car shortly before Finland switched to fuel with ethanol in it and during summers I drove several times a trip that was around 200km in length (from the city where I studied to the city where my family lives). During the first summer (without ethanol based fuel) and trying to drive as fuel efficiently as I know how I got fuel consumption of 5.5l/100km, which was fairly nice for the car I owned. Then before the next summer we switched to the ethanol mix. I swear you could hear the fuel type change just from the motor sound. Next summer I continued to make that same trip using the same driving style but never got under 6l/100km with ethanol mix fuel.

  4. Just a thought on Quad Lasers Deliver Fast, Earth-Based Internet To the Moon · · Score: 2

    But wouldn't it be easier to have a satellite on earth orbit that was locked on the same apparent orbit than moon and then transmit data through that. By communicating with that satellite using radio and then from that satellite to moon using laser you wouldn't have to work the laser through the atmosphere and after you establish a stable station on moon with a line of sight to earth you would have a continuous beam channel going.

  5. Old news on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    Fans of Terry Pratchett see nothing new or interesting in this announcement,

  6. Considering the Wikileaks movie on Sony To Make Movie of Edward Snowden Story · · Score: 1

    ... I don't predict a high amount of accuracy.

  7. Re:Duck and cover on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Duck and cover is actually very sound advice in the situation it's meant for i.e. protecting you from the blast wave caused debris and shrapnel (just like in earthquake). It won't save you if you're close enough to be vaporized by the flash or the blast wave demolishes the whole building but that's not the situation where it's supposed to matter anyway.

  8. Not a problem on As Species Decline, So Do the Scientists Who Name Them · · Score: 1

    Since the classical Taxonomy based on physiological distinctions by an observer is a flawed concept anyway when you consider the DNA and evolutionary Taxonomy this is not a problem.

  9. Re:Firefox / Mozilla support privacy, support them on Mozilla Ditches Firefox's New-Tab Monetization Plans · · Score: 1

    And how much did Mozilla pay you for this little advertisement? Because I want in on that deal.

  10. Wouldn't go well with the community? on Mozilla Ditches Firefox's New-Tab Monetization Plans · · Score: 1

    And yet they went ahead with Australis... At least there are independent developers that provide options to go back from that horrendous mess.

  11. In Finland on Average American Cable Subscriber Gets 189 Channels and Views 17 · · Score: 1

    Average subscriber get's 10 and pays for 30.

  12. Re:Logical on Ancient Desert Glyphs Pointed Way To Fairgrounds · · Score: 1

    Hey, one of their most famous proponents is a Centauri, what do you expect.

  13. Re:Just the cost of doing business. on Steve Jobs Defied Convention, and Perhaps the Law · · Score: 1

    You sound like a creationist. Stating that because one term in certain context means one thing then the same term in another context means the same thing and therefore statements made of both are equal is a common fallacy tactic. I can't decide if you're trolling or not but just in case you weren't, the fact that physical laws are called laws doesn't relate them in any way to laws society has produced to govern itself. They should really be called 'descriptions' instead (for example: Newton's description of universal gravity) but instead some smart ass decided to call them laws instead and now we're stuck with the term. Just like we're stuck with the fact that 'theory' means one thing in common language and the complete opposite of that thing in scientific language.

  14. Re:Title IX Of Course on High-School Star League Brings Gaming As Sport to Teenagers · · Score: 1

    Title IX is also used to throw male students out of higher education based on rape claims that police have investigated and deemed fake or that have even been anonymous without any proof or involvement from officers of law. These men have been given no chance to defend themselves from these claims but instead their futures have been destroyed because of anonymous or provably false rape claims. It is a sign of our culture that a false rape claim can destroy mans future more thoroughly than false murder claim.

  15. There are a significant number of girls getting in on High-School Star League Brings Gaming As Sport to Teenagers · · Score: 1

    Why should we care? Why? If they want to join and play competitively as a hobby good for them, if they don't want to then it doesn't matter either way.

  16. Re:a better indicator suggestion on Proposed Indicator of Life On Alien Worlds May Be Bogus · · Score: 1

    Hey, they might be watching us from 2000 years ago, the continents would read "Romans go home" instead.

  17. Taste, always the taste on Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test · · Score: 1

    How hard it is to understand that what the substitutes lack is texture, not taste.

  18. This would go over so well on IT on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 2

    Seriously, I'm a programmer at least in part because I want to be as comfortable as possible during work. It's not a huge reason but it's a reason non the less. If I in any way liked the idea of physical discomfort during work I would have gone to do construction or something else instead of programming (the pressure and responsibility as a programmer/designer in a small or medium sized company is insane, you really need to like this job to do it).

  19. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Or you know, without socialised taxation providing services for those too poor to pay for their basic needs.

  20. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    So totally unlike the NRA then...

  21. Re:Rewarding the bullies... on Student Records Kids Who Bully Him, Then Gets Threatened With Wiretapping Charge · · Score: 1

    Hey, I remember that episode even though I didn't watch "The Outer Limits" that regularly (not that big a thing in Finland). Mutch better than the feminist world episode from around the same time (if you disregard the shower scenes).

  22. Should be done on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    As someone looking at US culture from outside, the attitude towards guns is one of the things I despise most. I can see how the "right to bear arms" made sense before modern weapons but seriously, the gun nut culture and weapons worship that I see from people from US whenever someone has the audacity to suggest that maybe there's too many guns too easily available is just insane.

  23. Re:The spokesman for the AHA said... on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 1

    Well considering how long he's been dead he shouldn't smell that much these days so possibly technically correct... the best kind of correct.

  24. Re:Not sexism, but bitchiness on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How? If the matter was about two men and AC had said "It's a tale of one man being asshole to another" you would never have raised the sexism flag.

  25. MtG sort on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? · · Score: 1

    While sorting through my MtG cards I usually start by sorting by color (easiest to notice), then I sort each pile by expansion. These two can go straight to their own piles. After that I sort within expansion by forming two piles, one with cards from A-N and second from O-Z (this point being the natural split for alphabets in my mind). Finally depending on the size of the remaining pile I either do an optimized bubble sort in my hand or continue splitting until I reach a point where bubble sort is easy enough to handle (no pun intended). This method I've found the easies to visualize and it provied many easy breakpoints when I get sick of sorting more cards.