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  1. Re:Ah, the era of homepages on Jurassic Web · · Score: 3, Informative

    Funny how porn was one of the first major uses of the 'net.

    Not really. Porn is often one of the first major uses of a new media. Videotape built its success on porn.

  2. Don't settle for the mining barge... on Cold-War Era Naval Vessels Up For Grabs · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...hold out for an exhumer, man!

  3. Re:There once was a day on AP Considers Making Content Require Payment · · Score: 1

    when newspapers were free.

    Um. No, there wasn't. The major daily papers *always* charged for a copy.

  4. Re:And I'd like a pony. on AP Considers Making Content Require Payment · · Score: 1

    Who pays for the news broadcasts on NBC, ABC, and CBS?! Who pays the anchors, the journalists, and the cameramen? Who pays for your local news broadcasts?

    Despite their claims to the contrary, NBC, ABC and CBS and your local station don't have news broadcasts. Just celebrity information services occasionally broken up by a few pictures of people shooting at each other.

  5. Re:Publicity on Microsoft Secret Prototype Phone Stolen · · Score: 1

    This is gorilla marketing.

    So Microsoft is monkeying around?

    Perhaps you meant *guerilla* marketing...

  6. Re:Another one! on Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala · · Score: 5, Funny

    They tried, but it had a bad effect on reliability. The system would come and go, would come and go-oo-oo...

  7. Re:Equal Protection? on Accused Rogue Admin Terry Childs Makes His Case · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like my job, but preserving it comes pretty damned far behind "my freedom" in order of my priorities. Jail vs giving out the keys to the kingdom? "Would you like the portcullis up or down when you arrive, Mr. Barbarian?"

    "I have no gate key."

    "Fezzik, tear his arms off."

    "Oh, you mean THIS gate key!"

  8. Re:Government should not compete on CRTC Mulls Canadian Content On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Third base!

  9. Re:Stay away from root on Malware Threat To GNOME and KDE · · Score: 1

    Well, the author here seems to emphasise that that won't help because on a single-user account, your priority is your data.

    Which you have backed up, RIGHT?

  10. Stay away from root on Malware Threat To GNOME and KDE · · Score: 0

    And moral of the story is:

    Only use root when you have to, and never, EVER log into a desktop as root. If you do this, and there's no problem in doing it in Linux, the vulnerability can't hack your box, it can only hack your account.

  11. Re:A boon to higher education on Drug Deletes Fearful Memories · · Score: 1

    I don't even HAVE a little dog Toto!

  12. Oh no... on Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets · · Score: 1

    It's the Comet Empire! Where the Argo when we need her?

  13. How many Open Source licenses do I need? on How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? · · Score: 1

    Well, that depends on how computers I need to install it on, doesn't it?

  14. Re:Yay! on Sea Sponge Extract Conquers Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
    Antibiotic and yellow and porous is he!

  15. Re:Vaporware Alert on UC Berkeley Lab Examines Cloud Computing Obstacles · · Score: 1

    Do you want to risk that company tanking and your work going away? I don't.

    It's a serious risk. So serious that TFA listed it first in their list of 10 obstacles to cloud computing. Their suggested solution: common APIs and interfaces so that you can actually do your cloud computing on two providers with each providing full failover capability.

  16. Re:Correlation is not causation on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wrong.

    1) Vaccines are never 100% effective. But if every one is immunized, the chances the bug will get to someone whose vaccine fails is very low.

    2) Like any other species--in fact, *more* than just about any other species--bacteria and viruses evolve. Give them a reservoir to evolve in, and the vaccine can become useless.

  17. Re:Correlation is not causation on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People do have a right to their beliefs, even if they are paranoid delusions, they have a right to refuse to get their kids immunized.

    No, they don't, because unimmunized kids are a health risk for the entire community.

  18. Re:Mercury on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Sooo the court is saying that putting Mercury (used as a preservative), a known toxin, into vaccines, didn't cause autism?

    Yes, that's correct. There has never been evidence that thimerosal has ever harmed anybody. The amount in any given dose is incredibly tiny.

    Even though now they no longer do that and there is still risk that maybe some shady or ignorant vaccine makers still do that?

    They no longer do that mainly to placate paranoid know-nothings like yourself, since it was simpler to just remove it then to try to convince people with no interest in actual evidence.

    Sure there is no 100% correlation but if a vaccine changes your risk from 0.006% to 2% then that is something I doubt scientific evidence nor professional experts are going to be able to prove.

    That huge of an increase would have been screamingly obvious to the first person to glance at the statistics.

    My girlfriend while studying to become a nurse met an instructor...

    "I'm not a researcher, but my girlfriend who's a student met somebody who, well, isn't a trained researcher either..."

    ...if is not the vaccine its something environmental that wasn't around that much 100 years ago.

    Possibly. They haven't been able to pin anything down yet, and a lot of people think it's just that we successfully diagnose autism a lot more now (100 years ago, your average GP had never even *heard* of autism--effect of no autism, or cause of no autism being found?). The one thing we do know is that it isn't the freaking vaccines, because they've studied them to death.

  19. Re:How ridiculous. on Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unlike the republicans, the democratic party has a lot of people with their own views.
    --snip--
    I hate feinstein and always considered her a wolf in sheep clothing.

    "Unlike the Republicans, we have true diversity. Of course, I despise all the ones who don't think like I do."

  20. Re:How ridiculous. on Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because there are no rules at all as to how the conference committee should go about formulating the compromise bill.

    Note that the compromise bill *does* have to be voted up or down (but no amendments) by both the House and the Senate afterwards. That is in fact the purpose of the conference committee--it resolves the paradox that the House and the Senate amend bills *separately* while they are on the floor, but must both vote in favor of an
    *identical* bill in order for that bill to advance to the President for his signing or veto. If the conference committee gets too cute in abusing their powers to write whatever they want, the chambers can vote not to pass it. It doesn't happen often, but it *does* happen, and almost the only time it happens is when the conference committee strays too far from making an actual compromise between the House and Senate versions of the bill.

  21. Re:I didn't know Feinstein was a Republican.... on Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Given that that phrase isn't in the Constitution to begin with, it'd be pretty hard for an Amendment to change it. (hint: Gettysburg Address)

  22. Re:In Soviet Russia on Slashdot.org Self-Slashdotted · · Score: 1

    But in the West, it's the other way around!

  23. Re:TrueCrypt or Wait for On Drive Upgrades on How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything? · · Score: 1

    TrueCrypt in an enterprise? Hahaha!

    What happens when somebody loses their password or keyfile? Or you get an subpoena for a laptop or usb key's content?

    You appear to be complaining that TrueCrypt doesn't have a backdoor to allow access by someone without the passphrase. If it had one, it would need to be taken out back and shot.

  24. Re:"Only" 500,000 on Vanguard Dev Talks About the Game's Future · · Score: 1

    Wrong, wrong and wrong.

    Everquest: Online Adventures came out for the PS2 less than a year after FFXI's JP release (and before the NA release). FFXI is perfectly well supported on the PS3. And as far as supported only by Japanese--not hardly. The past several Vana'diel Censuses have shown that the big peak for log-ins is during NA prime time. At JP prime time, there is a distinct spike, but a much smaller one. This has been true for years.

  25. Re:Important issue missing in TFA on German Bundeswehr Recruiting Hackers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you want the Stahlhelm or the Pickelhaube?