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  1. Re:Why talk on GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think it's a little more like, you invaded Iraq, you pay the price.

  2. there's already too much Skepticism on How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism? · · Score: 1

    At least in things that have been shown to be true. Just talk to most of the spiritual folk, they all seem to have a very sceptical view of science when it comes to proving what they believe in.

    Maybe what we need is a better way of teaching a grounding in reality.

  3. Re:Of course they don't violate ... copyright ... on Mod Chips Legal In the UK · · Score: 2, Informative

    More over,
    DRM isn't copy protection, any one (with the tech) can copy/clone the disk physically and it will work just fine. It's playback protection.

  4. I'm waiting. on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm waiting until flash is ready and all of my addons work with Firefox 3, it's only half a browser without them

  5. Re:what's a measurement. on Testing Quantum Behavior — From Earth to the ISS · · Score: 1

    what are you doing by looking? taking some energy away? converting the photon into something else? you must be doing something what is that something?

  6. what's a measurement. on Testing Quantum Behavior — From Earth to the ISS · · Score: 1

    Could you please explain what a measurement is, since clearly interaction with something isn't enough or it would be measured by the air.

  7. Re:count me out on RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI · · Score: 1

    ah, you're one of those people who enjoy going through the list of 500 applications they've installed trying to find the correct one.

  8. count me out on RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI · · Score: 1

    I prefer the nice hiding menus in earlier versions of office, after you've been using them for a while you only see the functions you use not a whole mess of stuff you don't want taking up loads of real estate.

  9. Re:Why blame the Internet? on NASA Employee Suspended For Blogging At Work · · Score: 1

    it's more or less the same in the UK. Though looking at playboy would probably get you fired on the spot.

  10. N1 on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 1

    the maximum range of N1 is 425 meters, not too far off the 500 meters your dad requires, maybe you could make something work using N1 kit.

  11. Re:The first problem is on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    as in cunt stubble

  12. Re:ummmm on Falling Microsoft Income Endangers Yahoo Bid · · Score: 1

    well they could look for people with strong experience in the industry but no a Ph.D, shouldn't take them too long to pick up the research bit if a recent graduate can complete a Ph.D course in three years.

    I work with people taking their Ph.D's, I don't have a Ph.D (or any formal qualifications for that matter) but I train them and could quite easily do the research work.

    But I doubt I'd make the cut because I don't have a Ph.D. on the same grain if they took someone like me on a few years ago as an employee (not doing research) and had trained them up inhouse (Like I trained myself) then they would have a reasonable number of employees without Ph.D's who could do the job. And if they can't do the job then the training isn't waisted because they can still do the job they were employed to do (either that or they should have been sacked years ago)

  13. I love Jesus. on UK to Ban Possession of Certain 'Violent' Pornography · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I love Jesus, I Love that blood dripping from his wounds, I like the way he's scantly dressed, I wank over his image so much I could become a nun.

    Now that their banning this kind of imagery it looks like my Jesus wanking days are over.

  14. Re:and now for something completely different on UK to Ban Possession of Certain 'Violent' Pornography · · Score: 1

    seeing as only a few nuts committed gun crime (with legal guns) and those nuts that would commit crime otherwise could buy illegal guns anyhow. And the first set of nuts could have (and have) use kitchen knives instead it all seems nuts to me.

    Personally I think it was to stop people from overthrowing the government in the guise of preventing a few nuts from going on the rampage.

  15. Re:The FAT defence on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Maybe she was a fat 16 when he meet her and a fat 32 when he killed her, maybe she should have stayed off the pies.

  16. just how big is it? on OQO Hacker Claims World's Smallest OS X Machine · · Score: 1

    The artical doesn't give dimensions or shoe something in the picture for size comparisons, so it may be the smallest but is it the size of a football pitch or the size of an apple?

  17. ummmm on Falling Microsoft Income Endangers Yahoo Bid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When I was a lad companies used to do something called training to get their employees up to scratch, Why can't Microsoft/ Yahoo/ IBM do this?

  18. Re:So.. shall the bets begine on First Psystar Mac Clones Ship · · Score: 1

    since when have EULA's been legal? (or illegal for that matter) anyhow there not end users.

  19. Re:speach synthasis. on Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap · · Score: 1

    actually I was thinking of the opposite, do you have speaking difficulties (I realise that hearing and speaking difficulties can often go together)

  20. speach synthasis. on Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap · · Score: 1

    It should be fairly easy to write an audio CAPTCHA you just have to get someone to read some text. Computers are very poor at speech synthesis at the moment.

  21. google on Aussie Reserve Bank Eyeing eBay's PayPal Policy · · Score: 1

    Isn't is about time that google put out a auction site and linked it into the search. EBay needs a real competitor.

  22. well it's all relitive on Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Surely the argument should be that the west is successful with a goodish human rights record and can't china be equally successful with an equally good human rights record.

    poor branwashed masses.

  23. Re:Open letter to PayPal on PayPal Plans To Ban Unsafe Browsers · · Score: 1

    1: Install a botnet client on your machine.
    2: Install a CA Certificate on your machine
    3: Make paypals address point to the ip of a proxy machine with a certificate for paypal on it that's signed with the CA I've just installed.
    4: wait for you to type in the valid paypal address that's now going through my proxy.
    5: profit.

  24. Re:Its pretty simple, really on Brain Study Calls Free Will Into Question · · Score: 1

    well there's a large body of evidence for free will and god not existing and there's absolutely no evidence for them existing. I would say that they live in the land of fiction so I'm going to call them that.

  25. Re:Slashdot ID... on Dealing With an IT Bully · · Score: 1

    you've obviously never been there. do you really think fat people want to be fat, do they eat even though they know it's bad for them etc.... that's what an addiction is.

    As someone who's been addicted to crack cocaine and to food I can tell you the addiction to food it a lot worse and harder to kick.