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  1. Re:What's a ballistic missile? on Why Iron Dome Might Only Work For Israel · · Score: 1

    Proportional would be wiping Palestine off the face of the Earth

    Don't forget that Arabs and Jews are both Semites, and someone already talked about wiping the Semites from the face of the Earth just about 80 years ago. It didn't work out so well, for anyone involved.

  2. Re:This makes it easier for terrorists on UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo · · Score: 1

    Why would they be looking for Muslim non-whites? They're not terrorists. They'd be looking for Irish people.

  3. Re:It Believes on UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, by making the cockpit door out of slightly thicker plywood and fitting a bolt to it - similar to the one you are familiar with from your bathroom door - we can eliminate that threat entirely, for about 20 quid a plane. Less, really, because the DIY store will give you a discount on a large order of bathroom door bolts.

  4. Re:Shocking. on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    So were you actually injured, or did it just hurt a little?

    You should see some of the really horrific injuries that electrical burns cause.

  5. Looks interesting on Linux Mint 14 Is Out · · Score: 2

    But when is it going to ship with Unity? The desktop is so old-fashioned and clunky looking.

  6. Re:Too bad... on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    I'm surprised Palestine has survived as long as it has. Bit by bit, Palestinians are being forced from their homes as Israel expands its lebensraum.

    The Palestinians are defending themselves against an invading army. What would you do if the Canadians surrounded your town, marched you out of your home at gunpoint, bulldozed it flat, and told you to get the hell out of Canada?

  7. Re:828 flashing Dekatron valves on The World's Oldest Original Digital Computer Springs Back Into Action At TNMOC · · Score: 1

    Round about the time the WITCH was current, it looked like transistor-based systems wouldn't scale either. It's all down to which way you apply technology.

  8. Re:War and Pacifism on 'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch · · Score: 1

    What should France have done when Germany invaded them in the blitzkrieg?

    What they *should* have done was seen that coming and improved their defences to the north and north-east, but they didn't and they got invaded.

    So, what they did then is what anyone else would have done - they fought a blistering campaign of guerilla warfare against the Germans. Despite the fact the Germans had all kinds of powerful weapons (including the ones seized from captured French forces), tanks, aircraft, and rockets, the French battered seven bells out of them with improvised explosives, petrol bombs and rocks and sticks. With Britain supplying as much aid as it could, the French Resistance kept the Germans busy. Eventually when the Americans got their heads out of their backsides and stopped supplying guns and oil to the Germans, and started helping, they provided the final push to get France over the hump and start beating the Germans.

    It's a bit like what Palestine is doing to the invading Israeli forces, except that this time the Americans are on the wrong side.

  9. Re:none on Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? · · Score: 1

    Doom is kind of the Rule 34 of gaming - if it exists, and has a framebuffer and fastish integer arithmetic, there is Doom for it.

  10. Re:I don't get it on NASA Discovers Most Distant Galaxy In Known Universe · · Score: 2

    Okay, so the universe is expanding, right? So that means that the light from a distant galaxy takes a certain amount of time to reach us - but as time passes it takes longer and longer for the light to reach us. The light that has already left is being stretched out, which is why we get red shift.

    Have you ever seen the things they use to put a 10-second delay onto radio phone-in programs? It's basically a big digital delay line, with a read pointer and a write pointer that can be moved separately. About ten minutes before the phone-in starts they switch on the delay unit, which records sound into memory at (say) 44100Hz but plays back at 43600Hz - just a wee shade slower. The read pointer falls behind the the write pointer by a little under one second per minute, and although the pitch is also shifted down a little it's not enough that anyone would notice. This shift down in pitch means that the ends of the "journey" that the audio makes through the delay line gets longer and longer until you've got your desired delay and can beep out rude words.

    Because space itself is expanding, the light from a distant galaxy keeps having further to travel even just by a tiny fraction, which shifts it down in frequency and allows this delay to build up.

  11. Re:PETA agrees! on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    No, what I'm saying is after I made my post saying "You do get vegetarian cat food, but it's not a particularly good or healthy idea because either the cat suffers from dietary deficiencies or from eating chemical crap" and two people have replied saying basically "No, you'er wrong, you *do* get vegetarian cat but it's not a good idea because the cat will suffer from dietary deficiencies".

    Obviously, I'm paraphrasing slightly.

  12. Re:PETA agrees! on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    Like I said to the other poster that replied, you need to work on the reading. Did you actually read beyond the end of the line you quoted?

  13. Re:PETA agrees! on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I think you need to work on your reading comprehension a little there. You appear to have just restated the points I was making, and phrased it as an argument against my post.

  14. WARNING! DAILY MAIL! on David Cameron 'Orders New Curbs On Internet Porn' · · Score: 1

    So here we have a right-wing broadsheet reporting on a story that only appears to be covered in a right-wing tabloid. Are we going to start seeing stories on slashdot about other things the Daily Fail covers, like women apparently being impregnated by aliens (space aliens, not Polish lorry drivers, of course) and the police having the audacity to arrest people for making indecent phone calls?

  15. Re:PETA agrees! on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Jains would likely agree. Beliefs in the 'sanctity of life', for lack of a better term, typically have a level of life they respect. For a lot of religions, its a fetus. For a lot of PETA followers its animal life. The problem is you usually end up having to defend where you decide to draw the line and there don't seem to be any scientific arguments for a particular view, it comes down to whatever your faith or your gut or your conditioning tells you. Unless you refuse to draw the line...and then you get a virus with a right to life. One way off of a slippery slope is to slide all the way to the bottom. On a toboggan. With bells on.

    I know one PETA representative who keeps trying to convince me that I should only feed my cat vegetables, despite the pretty strong evidence that cats don't naturally eat vegetables. By observing this particular cat, you can see that left to her own devices she mostly eats bugs and squeaky things, although she will attempt to eat anything small enough to jump on top of (say, around the size of a small dog) and too slow to get out of the way - albeit with a fairly variable degree of success. If cats don't eat meat they develop all kinds of horrible problems and die a pretty unpleasant death. You can get vegetable-based cat foods that contain these supplements, but it would be like you trying to live off Cheetos and ramen - it's not a healthy or balanced diet and it will make you ill, even if it theoretically has all the stuff you need.

    I've long been of the opinion that PETA just don't care about animal welfare at all.

  16. I'd better watch out... on German Police Stop Man With Mobile Office In Car · · Score: 1

    You'll see "Police Stop Man With Mobile Workshop in Van", although I tend not to actually leave stuff I'm working on sitting on the front seats.

    Fiddling with this stuff while driving sounds a bit dangerous, but who here hasn't used Google Maps on their laptop to work out where they are?

  17. Re:Thanks on Gentoo Developers Fork udev · · Score: 1

    If I could only get that sorted out on my laptop, I could save myself as much as five minutes a year!

  18. Re:Increase your sample size. on In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail · · Score: 2

    I don't think I've tried Applebees, but Sam Adams is much the same as the better end of the mass-produced beers we get over here. It's drinkable, but not great.

    The whole microbrewery thing is fairly recent in the US. I could hit about a dozen breweries that have been running since before I was born within an hour's drive of where I'm sitting - roughly half of them have been on the go for over a century. Stick at it, you'll get some brewing heritage yet ;-)

    Oh, and while it may be true that the French have been chilling their beer for a couple of hundred years, have you ever actually tried drinking French beer? It's awful. They need to stick to wine.

  19. Re:So, what are we meant to do? on In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail · · Score: 1

    Look at how it turned out - he got off with it. If he'd been in the US, he would have been "disappeared" to Guantanamo Bay, and he'd still be there.

  20. Re:Increase your sample size. on In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail · · Score: 1

    As for American Beer, try our microbrews

    I have, and many of them are pretty good - but you don't chill them to the point where they freeze your mouth into numbness. The whole "chilled beer" thing comes from the US, where thanks to Prohibition (and after that, laws banning brewing without prohibitively expensive licences) people pretty much forgot how to make beer until about five years ago.

  21. Re:So, what are we meant to do? on In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail · · Score: 1

    Go ahead. I can even give you the phone number of my local police station if you want.

    The police will tell you that "no reasonable person would find that offensive", and hang up on you.

  22. Re:Yet another reason NOT to visit the UK on In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail · · Score: -1, Troll

    Heh, obviously an American - have you ever seen even *one* American with healthy teeth? Nope, they're either all rotten and squint because they can't afford dentists, or dead white and covered with artificial veneer to prevent them decaying. Lovely.

    Can you think of *one* example of good American food? Oh, yeah, chitlins and grits! Pig intestines boiled until they don't taste of piss any more, and corn boiled in drain cleaner, mmmm...

    Oh and lets' not forget American "beer", which has to be chilled to the point that it freezes your taste buds before you actually taste how vile it is.

  23. So, what are we meant to do? on In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail · · Score: 0

    Just leave people to continue making threatening and abusive phone calls, emails and posts on social media?

    I wonder if timothy would be happy for me to phone his house at all hours of the day and night and threaten to murder him? Probably not, I imagine.

  24. Re:Further Evidence on Honda's "Micro Commuter" Features Swappable Bodies · · Score: 1

    If you pulled out in front of a Hummer, you'd kill its occupants. You might wonder why you were suddenly facing the wrong way, surrounded by body parts and fragments of cheap crappy 4x4.

  25. Re:And the downside? on Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses · · Score: 1

    1) Where's your partner's footage?

    2) Do that again and you're sacked.

    3) Sacked.