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  1. And why not? on Microsoft Patents Looks-Are-Everything Dating · · Score: 1

    Finding the type of women/men you're physically attracted to is a good place to begin in the search for personalities you're attracted to.

  2. Re:A soapbox for armchair gender theorists? on Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion · · Score: 2
    If I had Mod Points I'd mod you up. Today it's become so taboo to even hint that there are any differences between males and females that doing so social suicide. It's ridiculous. Perhaps we can subvert this by calling men testosterone and women estrogen.

    New summary:

    No one really knows why the best estrogen players are typically not as good at chess as the testosterone players. One theory, common among some top testosterone players, is that testosterone usually induces more aggressive behavior by nature than estrogen, and is therefore the better suited hormone for a game that simulates warfare. Another, cited in at least one university study, is that the talent pool among estrogen filled players has not been big enough to produce many great players."

  3. Re:land of smelly retards, and proud of it on Indian Launch Vehicle Explodes After Lift-Off · · Score: 1

    While I agree that the GP's behavior is silly, rude and detestable, it is almost just as rude to assume that he's an American (less so because this site is predominately US inhabited).

  4. Re:Airplane tickets. on How the Free Market Rocked the Grid · · Score: 1

    ... chiropractor required...

    Wait a minute..

  5. Re:Microsoft immediately shot down any speculation on Microsoft Puts the Kibosh On Kinect Sex Game Plans · · Score: 1

    woosh

  6. Re:People don't watch Fox News to become informed. on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    ...having already made up their minds and not wishing to be confused with the facts, they go there to have their preconceptions re-enforced.

    This is true, and the exact same thing these "surveyors" were doing.

    On a side note, how is the title of this slashdot summary any better than what Fox News does?

  7. Re:Seriously? on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    +1 Makes me feel good

  8. Re:I saw a more indepth version of this some time on Watch 200 Years of Global Growth In 4 Minutes · · Score: 5, Informative
  9. Lets replace this 'Hacktivism' on 4chan Declares War On Snow · · Score: 1

    with a more accurate portmanteau 'Actiscriptm'

  10. Re:So? on One Night Stands May Be Genetic · · Score: 1

    Note that I said that everything you do is genetic. Getting hit by a car is not something 'you do' (unless it was intentional), its something done to you. How that affects you is something you do.

  11. Re:So? on One Night Stands May Be Genetic · · Score: 2

    And how you respond to these environments is purely genetic. The real question is what genetic determinations are more ductile to environmental influences.

    Infidelity is despicable (obviously subjective), as it is deceit. Infidelity is being unfaithful- if your contract never included sexual exclusivity then not being exclusive isn't infidelity.

  12. So? on One Night Stands May Be Genetic · · Score: 2

    Spoiler alert! Every thing is genetic.

    Everything everyone has ever done was determined by their genetics; that doesn't make infidelity less despicable.

  13. Re:Reasoning? on People With University Degree Fear Death Less · · Score: 1

    Create a living will stating that in this situation, and in similar situations, that you don't want to be kept alive. Boom, problem solved.

  14. Nine months after Thanksgiving on Pumpkin Pie increases Male Sex Drive · · Score: 1

    If the parents and in-laws didn't come in each Thanksgiving the August 20s would probably be a lot like November 14th.

  15. Sigh on Wikileaks Vows Release '7x the Size' of Iraq Leak · · Score: 1

    Or they could cut to the chase and follow one of those penis enlargement cream spam emails.

    Honestly, releasing statements like this does Wikileaks no credit. Its hard to appreciate the foundation with such a narcissist doing the PR.

  16. Starwars I, II, III on FPS Games That Need a Remake · · Score: 4, Funny

    Done by someone who can actually direct, like Christopher Nolan.

    Oh, FPS games, nevermind.

  17. Re:Tsunamis on Engineers Propose Lily Pad-Like Floating Cities · · Score: 1

    I don't have the engineering degree to say with any authority that this is true, but:

    As far as I can predict, I believe it would be perfectly safe from tsunamis. In typical tsunami situations the people most safe are the fishers off shore, as for them they simply feel it as a brief wave rolling under them. Once the force hits against the land mass, however, it gets ugly and destructive.

    I'm sure your standard violent ocean torrent/storm is still a great danger.

  18. Re:In Reverse? on Scientists Turn Skin Into Blood · · Score: 1

    I'll get Ben Affleck on it right away.

  19. Re:Duh on FTC Taps Ed Felten As First Chief Technologist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Researchers are noted for a certain disconnect from triviality, not reality.

  20. Wait a minute on Zeus Attackers Turned the Tables On Researchers · · Score: 1

    I thought we agreed to not use the word 'cybercrime' !

  21. Re:Real bug: changing the time on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 1

    [Citation needed]

  22. Do you want to form an alliance with me? on Intel, Toshiba, Samsung To Form Chip Alliance · · Score: 1

    Absolutely I do.

  23. Re:Maybe Return of the Jedi on New Video of Apple's Enormous iDataCenter · · Score: 1

    Palpatine's got both.

  24. Awesome story on Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life · · Score: 1

    Who says 'delta difference'? 'Difference in speed' or 'delta speed' please. This could've been really bad if the truck driver was actually just leaned down to pick up some fritos off the floor.

  25. Re:Wal-Mart should follow suit on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    Sad, isn't it? That the majority of the voting populous is working for the one thing that seeks to control them and one of the things this country was founded against...

    Being the largest employer does not mean you employ the majority of the populace.