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  1. Re:Ya, I'm not so sure... on Why Exercise Boosts Brainpower · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see some scientific evidence your generically termed "body builders" are dumber than an average population sample.

  2. Puritans can rest easy. on Piracy Forced id's Hand To Multiplatform Gaming · · Score: 1

    Here I was waiting for piracy to force id's hands to their crotches.

  3. Pfft, this move is pure self-preservation. on New Mexico Might Declare Pluto a Planet · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're just arguing on a slippery slope fallacy. First Pluto is stripped of its title, and before we know it, there will only be one Mexico again.

  4. Let me save the Apple Fanboys some time. on Apple Care Efficiency When Macs Break? · · Score: 2, Funny

    User error!

  5. With the right definition... on Vint Cerf on Net Security, Hacking, and Acting · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'd say he's been a fairly significant actor on the international stage.

    Now he's just strutting and fretting his last few minutes on it though.

  6. Like many other environmental policy... on Growth of E-Waste May Lead to National 'E-Fee' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's well-intentioned and poorly conceived. Now we'll get a new tax for the government to "just increase a little bit" at a time, so we don't notice how our total tax burden increases at absurd intervals every year. Just like wage withholding and social security actually costing you 15% of your paycheck, but only having us ever see 7.5% taken.

  7. Re:I think you misunderstand on Campaign Sites Full of Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you're right, I did misunderstand the hell out of your intention.

    This is why Slashdot needs an edit/delete post option. That and my oh so clever failure to close that italics tag.

  8. Re:There are a lot of things that can be done on Campaign Sites Full of Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Exactly my point. Hackers (term used very loosely) won't want this "feature" enabled in their browsers, and thus there will be plenty of browsers ignoring this tag. All it takes is one browser ignoring said tag before it becomes useless.

    I'm no programmer, but even I know you don't blindly trust input from a client. This feature might give web developers a false sense of security and lead to further security holes while offering zero real benefit.

  9. Re:There are a lot of things that can be done on Campaign Sites Full of Vulnerabilities · · Score: 2, Funny

    This plan sounds about as effective as protecting your website's content by disabling right-click with javascript.

  10. Short sighted. on A Developers Security Bugs Primer · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is an extremely narrowly focused article. He doesn't account for anyone else's choice of apparel, and Netcraft has recently confirmed that Kimonos are dying anyway. There can't be that many users of such an outdated technology.

    Next time take into consideration those who choose to wear sweatpants, moo-moos, and the increasingly popular among furries peanut butter suit + placard.

  11. Broken. on For Unlucky 360 Owner Seventh Time's the Charm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your polling method, that is.

    I don't own an xbox360, and nothing is keeping me from skewing your sample.

  12. Re:Nintendo never at fault! on Clover Vets Open SEEDS, Capcom Clears The Air · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, if there's one way to get downmodded, it's trash talking Nintendo in articles that have nothing to do with Nintendo.

  13. First elective use? on Regrowing Lost Body Parts Getting Closer All the Time · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    2 chicks at the same time, man.

  14. Re:Pics of the mice on How A "Superbaby" Is Helping To Find Muscular Dystrophy Treatments · · Score: 1

    The supplements don't actually work at all. There are currently no myostatin blockers available that actually work, or many, many more people would know about them.

    And he's right about the baby not being news. It was born in 2000 and people in the industry have been keeping an eye on it since near-birth.

    This is just a case of Forbes picking up on an old story that not many people knew about and sensationalizing it.

  15. Re:Still a great relief for me on How A "Superbaby" Is Helping To Find Muscular Dystrophy Treatments · · Score: 1

    Don't count yourself out yet. As a fan and student of the human body, I keep up with a lot of stuff like this, and it might surprise you to know that there is in fact a myostatin inhibitor that has recently undergone testing, and scientists are currently analyzing the results.

    Positive results could have this thing to market quickly, considering its intent is to treat terminal patients in the first place.

  16. Non-haiku poem post. on Haiku Tech Talk at Google a Success · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wanted to go against the grain.

    There once was a man most true
    Who came to talk in Haiku
    His OS was dead
    The workers felt dread
    Their business might soon be too

  17. Netcraft now confirms: Captain Copyright is dying on Captain Copyright Expires · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Captain Copyright is dying


    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Captain Copyright community when IDC confirmed that Captain Copyright market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Captain Copyright has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Captain Copyright is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.


    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Captain Copyright's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Captain Copyright faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Captain Copyright because he is dying. Things are looking very bad for Captain Copyright. As many of us are already aware, Captain Copyright continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

  18. Hackers would love a site like that. on RIAA Admits ISPs Have Misidentified "John Does" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Giving the RIAA a real presence on the internet beyond their press release regurgitating main site will give everyone the world over a big red bullseye on which to lock their sights.

    I can't wait to hear about the hilarious exploits of various hackers having their way with those servers.

  19. Re:I figured I might read something about it. on The Pirate Bay, Featured in Vanity Fair · · Score: 1

    I appreciate replies more than moderating anyway, since funny mods don't count towards karma.

    I admittedly do my fair share of trolling, so I think there are plenty of kneejerk mods out there who just mod me troll post unread.

  20. I figured I might read something about it. on The Pirate Bay, Featured in Vanity Fair · · Score: 2, Informative

    But I thought it would be an article about Kiera Knightly's vagina, not copyright infringement.

  21. Why is everyone so afraid of change? on Geo-Engineering to stop Climate Change · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Personally I think it'd be kind of nice for a greater portion of the world to be upgraded to tropical and sub-tropical.

    Cheaper vacations. And the superhurricanes would take out all of those damn snowbirds in Florida.

  22. Re:Dupe on Cheap, Safe, Patentless Cancer Drug Discovered · · Score: 1

    Where is he complaining about it? Looked to me like he was bringing it to people's attention.

  23. Re:Many thanks to the north east and north west! on More States Challenging National Driver's Licenses · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow. The fact that you were upmodded to +5 for such a pedantic troll is a testament to the fact that the moderators think they're a lot smarter than they are.

    Your post's most obvious and absurd fallacy is that states only worry about one issue at a time, but I have a funny feeling Kansas has never put the majority of their resources into debating evolution.

    Second on the list is the false premise that the northern states are fighting for "the last remnants of freedom." They're fighting for their last remnants of freedom from the feds.

    This isn't an altruistic action. The states will always fight for their own rights because if they don't, their jobs get made harder, and the fact that we happen to occasionally benefit doesn't do much to make it more noble.

  24. Re:What a solution. on Install Vista Upgrade Without Preexisting XP · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're arguing on whatifs using a rumor as your basis for argument. Until it's proven, it sounds like a bunch of bull to me.

    WHAT IF MICROSOFT REQUIRES US TO SIGN OVER OUR FIRST BORN IN THE EULA? WHAT IF WE IMPLICITLY AGREE TO ALLOW BALMER TO DINNER AT HIS CHOOSING BY CLICKING THROUGH?

    There are all sorts of horrible hypotheticals out there, but until any are proven, you can't really make a case against Microsoft using one.

  25. Re:What a solution. on Install Vista Upgrade Without Preexisting XP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I admittedly haven't installed Vista since the Beta 2, but at the time its installer was absurdly slow. I'm honestly impressed if the Vista install is now as quick or quicker than an XP install.

    And everyone needs to shut up about XP keys being invalidated. Currently, it's a rumor, and a bunch of anti-MS idiots are running around spouting it like its gospel because they want to believe it.