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  1. Re:Seen this long ago for Mac OS X on Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Watch him grow a character at a time:

    http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200805/css_homer_animated.html

    (apparently the site is down, someone must have already linked it from somewhere that drives traffic)

  2. Re:Takedown not controversial... on Google Pulls Open Source CoreAVC Project Over DMCA Complaint · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the correction.

  3. Re:I figured this might happen. on Google Pulls Open Source CoreAVC Project Over DMCA Complaint · · Score: 1

    Companies may well miss-perceive what information wants to be free means, but they weren't doing so in an organized fashion more than 10 years ago when the DMCA written, and that's what 'intent' means, it means that it was written for such purposes.

  4. Re:I figured this might happen. on Google Pulls Open Source CoreAVC Project Over DMCA Complaint · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's insane.

  5. Re:Thousands of lives? on Electronic Warfare Insects Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Nice job reading half the sentence and getting upset about it. Notice the next part of the sentence where I said "the real reason"? That implies that I don't believe that they weren't/aren't wars.

    Maybe look up 'snark':

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snark

    (That's not a real dictionary, but the definitions given there are accurate regarding my use of the word)

  6. Takedown not controversial... on Google Pulls Open Source CoreAVC Project Over DMCA Complaint · · Score: 1

    There isn't anything controversial in the fact that they responded to the takedown notice. If they don't, they can lose their common carrier status and become liable for all content on their servers, which they surely do not want. If they fail to put the project back up given appropriate counter notice, that's controversial.

  7. Re:Thousands of lives? on Electronic Warfare Insects Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The op was decrying war as something that never had to happen, if only we all just got along. WWII is a sterling example of a war that happened because the other side didn't want to get along. The point is that while it is unfortunate that there are aggressors that are willing to go to war, it isn't stupid or war mongering to defend yourself from an aggressor, it is necessary.

    The snarky reason why Tonkin and Vietnam and Iraq don't get mentioned is that they aren't wars, but the real reason is that they aren't nearly as morally unambiguous as WWII was, especially after the extent of the crimes against humanity was uncovered.

    What it comes down to is that one unjust war doesn't prove that all war is unjust.

    The point about the fake incidents not being bilateral is that side B can't do a whole lot about the actions of side A (other than fight back) once side A starts rolling in tanks.

  8. Re:Thousands of lives? on Electronic Warfare Insects Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    That wasn't bilateral fakery. The aggressor is looking for a reason to go to war and finds one, but there isn't a whole lot the other side can do about that, which is why there is often a good guy in a given war.

  9. Re:Thousands of lives? on Electronic Warfare Insects Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    How about instead of making a handwavy generalization you name some wars that were started by an incident that was bilateral in its fakeness.

    I mean, WWII would have been so much less of a problem if the Third Reich hadn't invaded Europe, somebody should have explained that to them so that the world could have avoided all that fighting.

  10. Re:...And killing them? on Electronic Warfare Insects Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Yes, when the military is spying on you with covert high technology, the first thing to do is worry about them suing you for breaking it.

  11. Re:Murdoch! on MacGyver Film In the Works? · · Score: 1

    From his appearances on Atlantis it is apparent that he has been eating quite a lot of lunch since he left Stargate.

  12. Re:Must be the right person on MacGyver Film In the Works? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you stapled it on, I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't be able to pull off the mullet.

  13. Re:Soon being a surgeon will be worth nothing. on Bringing Surgical Robots Into the Mainsteam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Early machines will *only* replace technicians. It will be a long-ass time before a machine is actually coming up with new surgical procedures and ideas.

  14. Re:Autodocs on Bringing Surgical Robots Into the Mainsteam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There are experiments or ongoing efforts(don't remember which) towards robots that can operate on a beating heart, something a human surgeon simply can't do. So some of the technology is actually additive, rather than simply useful as an emergency backup.

  15. Re:Google can do what they like... on Google To Be Sued in UK For Trademark-Linked Ads · · Score: 1

    The DVD has the text?

    Googlefight suggests that it should be Tasticles:

    http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Tastecicles&word2=Tasticles

    Note that a good number of the results for Tastecicles are posts by a certain /. user.

    I also found a transcription that showed tasticles. Everything2 has Tastecicles. It's probably just a different interpretation of the pronunciation that comes out of Bender in the episode, but tasticles is certainly more reminiscent of testicles when written as text.

  16. Re:flawed on Modeling Supernovae With a Supercomputer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So if you have a model and you run what you think is a simulation and then it turns out that the prediction from your model was incorrect, you should have been calling your simulation speculation?

    How is that not just hair splitting semantics?

  17. Re:Still torture on Taser International Wins Lawsuit to Change Cause of Death · · Score: 1

    If hundreds of people were getting tranquilized with darts each year, some of the would die due to drug sensitivities or interactions. Also, there are accuracy and rate of fire issues with tranquilizers.

    Plus, the US has embraced a gun culture(let's just not argue about whether that is a good thing), so the police sort of need to be able to respond with equivalent force.

  18. Re:Stealing & More on Dan Rutter Suggests Tossing Some Wi-Fi At the Neighbors · · Score: 1

    Restrictions on watering outdoor plants are common in utility service agreements(in areas with water supply issues). That is, they sell the water for a specific purpose and you will get a big fine if you use it contrary to the sale.

  19. It's a...! on Dan Rutter Suggests Tossing Some Wi-Fi At the Neighbors · · Score: 3, Funny

    Make sure to include a nondescript box and some blinking lights in the setup, we wouldn't want anybody to mistake it for any sort of improvised device.

  20. Re:Google can do what they like... on Google To Be Sued in UK For Trademark-Linked Ads · · Score: 1

    Should be "Tasticles" though, Not Tastecicles

    http://slashdot.org/~Tasticles

  21. Re:For A Ransom of...$1. on Google To Be Sued in UK For Trademark-Linked Ads · · Score: 1

    How many types did it take you to times that please?

  22. Re:Cant say I didnt expect this. on Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Takeover Offer · · Score: 1

    If you have a rock that you think is worth $5 and I offer you $7 for it, are you going to worry about what I do with the rock?

    Some shareholders might have an attachment to Yahoo, but there are plenty who don't.

  23. Re:Bird Flu 2.0. on EV71 Outbreak In China Sparks Fears For Olympics · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Conspiracy comments in... on EV71 Outbreak In China Sparks Fears For Olympics · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's purely food safety related, there isn't any sort of trade politics involved at all.

  25. Re:Bird Flu 2.0. on EV71 Outbreak In China Sparks Fears For Olympics · · Score: 1

    But they're CHILDREN.

    Anybody who found this comment excessively callous or crass, please see the number of pediatric influenza deaths in the United States on this page:

    http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

    If you look at this chart:

    http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2007-2008/IPD17.htm

    you will see that it is not uncommon for their to be 15-20 child flu deaths in a two week period.