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  1. Re:Don't be evil on Google Backs Down On Maps Redirect · · Score: 1

    Can we please have one discussion regarding Google without somebody chiming in with the "Don't Be Evil" thing?

    no.

  2. Re:It's not dead. on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    it's not just that. they removed the RPEnabled registry key, that was available during beta, which allowed you to re-enable the win7-style start menu, and boot directly into the destkop.

  3. no surprises on Polio Eradication Program Suspended In Pakistan After Aid Workers Shot · · Score: 1

    look, these people support, and allow their children to succumb to, a toxic disease that criples their prospects and permeates their society. a disease that's been around for a long time, that we've only recently been aware that it's possible to eradicate, and they actively resist attempts to help them rid themselves of it - even killing those that attempt to help.

    and there's also polio.

  4. The EU is so screwed on EU Charges Samsung With Abusing Vital Telecoms Patent · · Score: 0

    So now monopoly powers are now granted solely according to the will of unelected officials? Let me know how that works out for you guys...

  5. Re:Simple on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    oh yeah. and require registration. good idea. let's do that, while we're at it.

  6. Re:Simple on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    i'm saying that the firearm would be inoperable within 1,000 feet of a school. one could take it into the school but it would not operate and could not be made to operate without destroying the firing mechanism.

    all registered firearms would need to conform to this restriction. any that don't would have to be destroyed or modified.

  7. Simple on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    How about making it illegal (except law enforcement, no grandfathering) any firearm that can be fired within 1,000 feet of a school.

    I'd you can ban magnetic balls then you can do this.

  8. Re:What a LFTR really means on Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    Water soluble? Your chemistry foo is zero.

  9. Re:NO on Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    So you'd rather have ready-to-blow-at-a-moment's-notice-and-have-done-so-repeatedly-in-the-past boiling water designs?

  10. Re:Really? on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 2

    No.

    Atheism is a statement of belief.

    Agnosticism is a statement of knowledge.

    They are orthogonal concepts.

  11. Re:Really? on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 2

    Lack of belief is atheism. Admitting lack of knowledge is agnosticism.

    The two are not mutually exclusive. Most atheists are also agnostics.

  12. Re:Really? on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 1

    Atheism is the lack of belief in a god, not belief that no god exists. The latter is a theological position, atheism is not.

    Belief without reason is faith.

    Please describe how you get from atheism to gulags. I'm asking for causality here. Not coincidence.

  13. WTFGA on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 5, Funny

    great. just waiting for laptops to follow this format as they inevitably will. then we'll be able to read up to 3 lines of text at a time!

  14. molten salt? on US Nuclear Industry Plans "Rescue Wagon" To Avert Meltdowns · · Score: 1

    isn't it time we switched to reactor designs that are inherently safe, don't require redundant backup cooling systems?

  15. Re:'Controlling' the internet? Good luck with that on Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Like the p2p mesh in your neighborhoods' smart utility meters?

  16. Re:Islamic extremist values on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 1

    pandering to outdated moralities in the name of political correctness is ludicrous.

    not only is it ludicrous it is a direct affront to the freedom of expression and, as such, should be outlawed.

  17. Re:Islamic porn on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 1

    Religious nut-jobs are nut-jobs. News at 11. The difference is that the American nut-jobs don't stone you to death for shit some guy wrote in a book.

  18. Re:Nothing new here on Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware · · Score: 2

    I think that depends on one's definition of cool.

    What's cool to me is dictated by ... me.

    I find it works out better for everyone that way.

  19. Re:It smells like Vanilla... on The White Noise of Smell · · Score: 2

    Vanilla isn't plain. IMO.

  20. Re:What can possibly go wrong? on Hosting Provider Automatically Fixes Vulnerabilities In Customers' Websites · · Score: 1

    i think the good intention here is letting a vulnerable site with vulnerable user data stay accessible from the internet.

  21. Re:Why not fix it immediately? on Hosting Provider Automatically Fixes Vulnerabilities In Customers' Websites · · Score: 1

    They may have some customizations in the code that break if you allow yourself to patch it.

    yeah, 'cos it's not going to break when someone hacks the shit out of it...

  22. Re:so what if they're minors? on Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts · · Score: 1

    Of course, we must all keep in mind that saying "I hope someone kills that guy" is not the same thing as saying "I'm gonna kill that guy."

    Of course, we must all keep in mind that saying "I hope someone kills that guy" instead of "I'm gonna kill that guy." does not mean you're not a racist.

  23. Re:My entire house uses less power than one of the on NVIDIA and AMD Launch New High-End Workstation, Virtualization, and HPC GPUs · · Score: 1

    unreal!

  24. Re:Are you an engineer? on Ask Slashdot: Developer Or Software Engineer? Can It Influence Your Work? · · Score: 1

    news flash. the term "engineer" was around long before people started passing laws about it.

  25. Re:See on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 1

    yeah, otherwise we'd all be overweight and up to our ears in debt!