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  1. Re:I expect so... on Did the US Take the Back Seat In Science In 2009? · · Score: 1

    Right but pick a random Eastern European country and chances are it will have a homogeneous majority with the particular religion intricately woven into the country's culture.

  2. Re:I expect so... on Did the US Take the Back Seat In Science In 2009? · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that Europe has a far far stronger and more homogeneous religious majority, which leads to people being more comfortable with "leaving it at home," calling it private, etc. Just you watch though what would happen if someone tried to ban prayer in your schools or ban mandatory religion classes.

  3. Re:I expect so... on Did the US Take the Back Seat In Science In 2009? · · Score: 1

    Meh, scientific progress has historically only been useful as a means to military dominance. I'd say another nice bloody world war would set things straight.

  4. Re:One person's myth is another person's fact. on Myths About Code Comments · · Score: 1

    I really hope you don't write code comments like you write slashdot comments ;) You lost me after 3 paragraphs...

  5. Re:Despecialization isn't an objective. on Revisiting the "Holy Trinity" of MMORPG Classes · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of the awesome auras available to paladins in Diablo 2. Without the lower resist aura it was hard for mages to deal damage at hell levels.

  6. Re:Bathing? on NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space · · Score: 1

    The secondary mission is to rotate the lens toward Earth and take pictures of the terrorist camp at Bandar Abbas.

  7. Re:Is the Submitter Jesse Hirsh? on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    It seems that we have converged to a similar conclusion. If only his actions were reversible! But if he keeps posting new information the search results will never reach a steady state.

  8. Re:And here's the payback coming to the Internet G on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    Actually at that time if you *don't* have plentiful personal information and details of private life on those sites you might be ostracized. So post away :)

  9. Re:Nothing you can do... on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    Not for long, once this Slashdot post gets indexed ;)

  10. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    As trends come and go, they tend to follow the grandparents. People like to rebel against parents, but find grandparents cool. So if you have kids push crap on them and get grandparents to teach them the healthy stuff.

  11. Re:Classic Super Villain Birth on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If there is anything that being a punching bag taught me, it is that you don't need muscle mass to be a dangerous, angry asshole- a temper and a set of abusive parents is quite enough.

  12. Re:And FTL, too on New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Whether it's a feature or a bug depends on whether it reflects reality.

    Clearly with FTL travel it cannot reflect reality, so it must be false.

  13. I'm gonna be rich! on Recession Pushes More Workers To Steal Data · · Score: 1

    Once my company's competitor learns I know how much Bob from accounting or Joanne from HR make, I'm sure they will shower me with Andrew Jackson's business cards.

    And then I woke up :)

  14. Re:Technically... on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I am *expanding!* It is so much *squishy* to *smell* you!

  15. Re:Bribery on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    To nitpick, most people I know, myself included, ask for a 'tissue,' make a copy of something, and ask for a soda :)

    But the google one is dead on. So I guess that makes your point even stronger.

  16. from discarded circumcisions on The Mass Production of Living Tissue · · Score: 4, Funny

    So when you rub your scars you induce swelling!

  17. no deterrent??? on US Cybersecurity Plan Includes Offense · · Score: 1

    how about "cease your cyberattacks or we unplug your country from the internet"

  18. Re:Reminiscent of the Cold War on US Cybersecurity Plan Includes Offense · · Score: 1

    tanks??? what about the m1 abrams? what comes even close?

  19. Re:Client or server? on Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming · · Score: 1

    what is the example in TFA? some please post :P

  20. Normal for this crew on Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go" · · Score: 1

    If Ken Thompson and Rob Pike were designing it, they probably didn't care about getting fired / marketing implications / public backlash etc. They have a history of choosing provocative names, just look at the plan9 stuff.

  21. it's the apps, stupid on Android 2.0 — Competition Against the iPhone and the Rest · · Score: 1

    This happened before, with Windows. Any platform that doesn't run the enormous legacy app base will have a hard time getting market share.

    The situation is now even worse- there is an entity which controls the hardware (AT&T, not Apple!), far different from the free-for-all PC ecosystem.

  22. Re:who's to blame. on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 1

    It is not surprising. The ALSA API seems like a very complicated API to use, with lots of redundant functionality and various legacy interfaces. If I were writing a driver for it I would probably cut corners and get the bare minimum working.

    I hear that OSS4 is much cleaner in this regard.

  23. Re:Activity on Sonar Software Detects Laptop User Presence · · Score: 1

    Thank god I'm already old and not born in to this shit.

    Another benefit of being old is that you won't hear the annoying ultrasonic chirps like us young people do :)

  24. Re:Data management problem on Getting Students To Think At Internet Scale · · Score: 1

    Now I think these guys are spouting buzzwords. But if you want to process 100PB of data on

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  25. MUD! on Linux Games For Non-Gamers? · · Score: 1, Informative

    You could try MUDding :) See my sig