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  1. Re:What about Comcast? on Netflix Launches Its Own Content Delivery Network · · Score: 1

    Reminds me when Time Warner laid the smack down on North Carolina for even thinking of stepping onto their turf. Now us end users get to enjoy their monopolized service through the satisfaction of having a broadband connection that acts like a square wave.

  2. Re:Global leader in music sales... on Canada No Pirate Nation: Global Leader In Music Download Sales · · Score: 1

    "Change... do you have some change?"

  3. Re:Treadmill desk on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Standing/Walking Workstations? · · Score: 2

    I can start seeing companies adding these as incentives to meet quotas. The slower you write the code, the faster the treadmill goes. If you make a syntax error, that's an extra mph right there, and if your code fails to compile successfully in the end, your minimum speed for the next work week is increased.

  4. Re:Cool facts about the human body on Solar Geoengineering Could Lead To Whiter, Brighter Skies · · Score: 1

    This comment was so off-topic I was expecting that somehow they were going to weasel MyCleanPC in at the end.

  5. Here we go. on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: -1

    2000+ commented article coming right up.

  6. Re:it's worse that that! on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    Does the damages inflicted onto Shredder and his cronies accounts for most of W5921XA and W5921XD?

  7. Re:It's not the packaging, it's the seal on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    Clamshell packaging: the stocks of today.

  8. Re:Where are antitrust lawyers now? on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 1

    They're doing the same with IE, so they get to deal with two antitrust cases.

  9. Re:Clearly a very serious issue, but on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know what, I wholeheartedly concur. But before I extrapolate on your wisdom, let me first turn your attention to how I managed to successfully evade a viral attack with the help of an incredible product, MyCleanPC...

  10. Non-toxic smoke on Fire May Leave US Nuclear Sub Damaged Beyond Repair · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "It takes a lot of guts to go into a burning building. But the idea of going into a submarine full of hot toxic smoke — that's real courage."

    I wasn't aware burning buildings didn't involve hot toxic smoke, unlike submarines. Do burning buildings have warm aromatic vapors instead?

  11. Re:Poor Yahoo on Yahoo Includes Private Key In Source File For Axis Chrome Extension · · Score: 1

    Yah, no prob. To be honest, no matter how big or small a business is, I always feel dismayed seeing it go down. It means jobs lost, investments sunk, and lives altered. Even worse if the company is just trying to honestly make ends meat and ends up losing out. Obviously it always a risk for those involved, and they are well aware of it, but it doesn't make the process any easier.

  12. Re:Poor Yahoo on Yahoo Includes Private Key In Source File For Axis Chrome Extension · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nothing like what appears to be a genuine display of pity and compassion on a dying entity being modded up as "Funny". Certainly tells you how much of a laughingstock they are.

  13. Re:STFU and give us free music on New Music Boss, Worse Than Old Music Boss · · Score: 2

    Graphic and other visual artists should also screw it and stop making art for money as well. Don't forget writers, because writing is art, too! Monetizing expression is evil and selfish, so let all the artists take college educations and enter careers they hate like the rest of us so they can spend what little time they have left making stuff for our pleasure.

  14. Re:The Year is 2021 on Sales of Unused IPv4 Addresses Gaining Steam · · Score: 2

    Remember that such a complex task requires at least two individuals manning a keyboard.

  15. Exuberance on Yahoo Includes Private Key In Source File For Axis Chrome Extension · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did the hacker exclaim "Yahoo!" after he discovered it?

  16. Re:More of this, please on Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Muscle · · Score: 1

    This should be effective at accomplishing that.

  17. Re:I've tried MyCleanPC!!! Anal Sex!!! on Inventor of the TV Remote Control Dies · · Score: 1

    This is one of those times where I actually felt better reading the bot's spam more than the reply it provoked.

  18. I wonder... on Maryland Teen Wins World's Largest Science Fair · · Score: 2

    How many contestants entered in with volcanoes and solar system dioramas.

  19. Re:Tesla is revered as god here... on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    We need a balanced supply of each. What good does it profit man if you have nothing but a bunch of inventors but no manufacturers or marketers of which to inform the public of its existence and its subsequent production for the masses? Rather, it is necessary to have the inventor who revels in study and those assisting the inventor by creating a product out of it. Businesses currently run on that (businesses running with R&D departments), but often the inventor or the producer (typically the inventor) fails to garner the attention and gratification they deserve for their work and achievements. Of course, given that we're dealing with man here, that predicament will never come to an end. There will always be misinformation or lack of information about who accomplished what, formulated from either error or vanity, and embraced by the fallible and limited minds of the public.

  20. Well... on Vermont Bans Fracking · · Score: 1

    Frack.

  21. Re:20+ years ago... on Paralyzed Woman Uses Mind-Controlled Robot Arm · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a lot of obstacles that need to be overcome that would ultimately explain the slow progression. First of all, the brain is still being understood, and continues to surprise scientists with how it operates. In addition to this, you also have the deal with the body's reaction to invasive brain implants like this one, which they are attempting to avoid through use of more bio-friendly materials to substitute the gold and silicon. There's a lot of studies being conducted on attempting to workaround this through less invasive or noninvasive interfaces (like the consumer brand Emotiv product), but signal output at these levels is very noisy and vague. Don't forget that research is fragmented on this as there's several ways to achieve the same goal, such as either a replacement limbs that moves on neural stimuli, or the use of an external robotic arm as seen here.

    Intel is now just getting serious about putting heavy money towards brain interface research, so it's good a big microchip computer like them are putting their vested interest in this, and that will indeed expedite the process, but there's just so much that's still left to be learned and all of it must come together in an affordable package. It's no different than quantum computers - researchers are learning more on the mechanics behind it while at the same time creating working products on what they've learned so far. Things are going to start rudimentary, yes, but one needs to be positive on this that there's actually progress being done.

  22. Re:Facebook on Online Loneliness At Google+ · · Score: 1

    You can resolve the issue about having to post on both sites using browser addons like Streamified. However that still imposes a barrier of entry as people need to actually be aware of such addons and have them installed and running properly. It'd be nice to see G+ have the option to cross-chat to FB natively, but, hurr, like that'll ever happen.

    Oh, don't forget the pain of migrating stuff from FB over to G+. That wasn't a fun experience for me.

  23. Man + Slashdot = on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    No hope.

  24. Faces on Forbes Names Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Worst CEO · · Score: 1

    I wonder what Ballmer will pull out from his collection of ludicrous facial expressions to respond to this comment?

  25. Perhaps I should've better used, "To control my addiction for whiskey, I'll drink beer."

    The fact is you are substituting the urge for sexual release with sexual release. Regardless of whether or not it's with a partner, it's still satiating the desire. To those claiming masturbation gives them control over the urge, have them abstain from masturbation and they will realize it has only enforced the drive, not delivered them from it.