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  1. Re:The 1% are insulated on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    And 97% of us wish that that other 1%......

    Don't be a hypocrite.

  2. Re:Android? on Google Starts to Detail Dart · · Score: 1

    No, it's designed to run on web servers. Full Java replacement perhaps, but not J2ME.

  3. Re:Units per unit on ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' · · Score: 1

    Chances are that it's 1.

  4. Re:whistleblower gets 40 million!! wow on Oracle To Pay US Almost $200M To Resolve False Claims Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Personal security.

  5. Re:What??? on Firefox Advises Users To Disable McAfee Plugin · · Score: 1

    Or, FF assumes that the plugins written for it return valid data. Not too bad an assumption, hmm?

  6. Re:Why does this matter? on Russian Software Company Says Its App Can Crack BlackBerry Security · · Score: 2

    Dunno. Here in South Africa, everybody has a BB. In an average week I probably see 3 people posting their new BBM number on facebook. Just because the US all went iPhone doesn't mean the rest of the world particularly agrees.

  7. Re:It would be cool.... on Mercury Turns Out To Be a Weird Little World · · Score: 1

    You could always just risk your life to get them to snap out of it.

  8. Re:faster than the speed of light??? on Faster-Than-Light Particle Results To Be Re-Tested · · Score: 1

    On the second one, the compression wave will propagate through the rod at less than C, assuming the rod is made from any existing material. That's how they calculate the theoretical maximum stiffness/weight ratio, by putting the compression wave speed equal to C.

  9. Re:The future is here at last on AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    In South Africa people have discovered that injecting the ARVs makes you high. So now the HIV+ people who DO get medication are at the risk of being mugged for their medication.

    This world...

  10. Re:Break energy conservation? on Physicists Devise Magnetic Shield · · Score: 1

    According to the laws of thermodynamics, the power to create the shield would be the same or more than the power you could gain there. Makes sense, really.

  11. For Once on Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement · · Score: 0

    An unbiased, mature look at a piece of new technology.

  12. Governments on US Gov't Lobbied EU To Approve Oracle-Sun Merger · · Score: 1

    By the people, for the people!

  13. Re:Those Kids in the Garage on Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer to be a leader, not a follower, at least among my own group of friends. This requires finding things *before* my friends do. So I'll never be someone to use a FB-based webpage linking.

  14. Re:Stay in Gear and look ahead on SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Just lots of oil.

  15. Re:It won't work here on SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights · · Score: 1

    The result is that there is no correct speed to catch the green light because there is no direct coordination between lights.

    It's easy, you wait for somebody who insists on driving pedal-to-the-metal away from each light, then braking hard at the next one. Just follow along in their wake of green lights.

  16. Re:Those Kids in the Garage on Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network · · Score: 1

    You mean because of all that money FB is making?

  17. Re:Sounds like a load of Web 2.0 bullshit to me. on Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network · · Score: 1

    Sorry, your sig gives you away.

  18. Re:The good old days of evolution... on Neanderthal Sex Boosted Immunity In Modern Humans · · Score: 1

    Fascism = Right Wing. Sorry to burst your bubble.

  19. Re:Dayum.... WTF on After Rick Perry's Stem Cell Treatment, Misplaced Enthusiasm? · · Score: 1

    That's a deal as long as the US stops taking the money out of my check. Call my bluff. As to my community, it's not Uncle Sam so I'm not going to do that.

    I hope you don't expect any roads to be fixed, any borders to be enforced, any gas to be subsidized or any laws to be upheld. I hope you don't want a firetruck to come when your house is on fire. I hope you don't mind of every little bit of forest being clearcut. The government is there for a reason. Fool.

    But I'd rather have gators in office than the current load of tapeworms. Tapeworms eat what you just ate, consuming you from the inside; skimming a little off the top of everything you make; making your life a little harder and you a little thinner.
     

    This sounds like a quote from Team America. But to continue the metaphor, I'd rather have a tapeworm problem than an alligator problem, thank you very much.

    And if the gater gets a bit too hungry? There's 2014 and 2016 to keep the gators in line. That's the hope and change I believe in.

    Do you really think you could hold out the US military if it descended into a Nazi-Germany style government? Alligators kill you. Your argument is invalid.

  20. Re:God fearing men... on After Rick Perry's Stem Cell Treatment, Misplaced Enthusiasm? · · Score: 1

    He never said no value. Perhaps better stated, "They *were* garbage". There is no other possible use for them *except* stem cell research. Really. This is the only place where they might otherwise have value, and they are instead being thrown away because of religious nutcases who are arguing the same points that you are.

  21. Re:To M$: Your point is irrelevant in this context on Google Accuses Competitors of Abusing Patents Against Android · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but Samsung, Motorola and HTC don't own them.

  22. Re:3 Cheers for Entrepreneurs with Testicles. on London Could Soon Get Free Wi-Fi Everywhere · · Score: 2

    You install AdBlock Plus in the web browser that Google designed, and those ads disappear. Unless you want to wear tinfoil hats...
    Seriously.

  23. Re:3 Cheers for Entrepreneurs with Testicles. on London Could Soon Get Free Wi-Fi Everywhere · · Score: 2

    Ok. I keep hearing about them, but never see any examples. Could you please give a few examples of these actions they've taken that make their "Do No Evil" slogan invalid? Customizing ads based on email content? Facebook starts giving you ads for wedding rings if you've been in a relationship for over a year. Truth to tell, I'd rather have relevant ads, because then I might actually find them useful. The censorship in China? If I remember correctly, Google fought against it long and hard. Eventually they agreed, rather than being booted out of China, and it is the Chinese government that is doing the Great Firewall of China, not Google. Patents? Google doesn't go around threatening to sue little people.

    So, what are all these bad things Google has done?

    If anything, the real error Google has made is not having a team to cover up all the FUD that the internet tends to spawn...

  24. Re:That's no Asteroid on First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered · · Score: 1

    Neil Asher's 'Prador Moon' has an entire moon being used as a KE weapon...

  25. Medical Applications on Human Astrocytes Developed From Stem Cells · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Astrocytes are linked with the repair of spinal cord injuries. And as of 2008 stem cells can be made from pretty much any normal adult cell http://www.nature.com/stemcells/2008/0810/081030/full/stemcells.2008.142.html .

    The possibilities for the rehab of spinal cord injury patients is enough to make this an easy application of stem cell research, which might just earn the stem cell researchers some much needed good publicity from Washington.