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  1. Re:A list of such products on EFF Offers an Introduction To Traitorware · · Score: 1

    If you don't trust your own printer, you can try looking for them yourself.

  2. Re:let's hope on New Tech Promises Cheap Gene Sequencing In Minutes · · Score: 1

    I'm going to have a Kinkos print this GCTA crap from my genome into a big holy book for everyone to study once I get around to setting up that religion where everyone worships me which is going to be after they set up an app to read your genome with a smartphone. I'm hoping to have it start with the book of AAAAAA.

  3. Re:What's not to like? on Hacking Neighbor Pleads Guilty On Death Threats and Porn · · Score: 1

    "Good child porn", if not oxymoronic, is probably not hard to find. Once I saw a Wikileaks story on the "secret" blacklist of websites that Norway was firewalling. Somehow the list got out to Wikileaks, and all the URLs were published there as links. I clicked on a random one from the list, thinking "he he he, this wouldn't work if I were in Norway." Except the site was kind of gross so I clicked Back and tried another one. That was gross too... I started to think, hmmm, I can see why these sites pissed off the Norwegians! Then I suddenly had an epiphany: don't load websites that have been banned in Norway.

  4. Re:Coverage? on Labor Lockout Lingers At Honeywell Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    An acquaintance of mine once opened a valve in a tubing system that was supposed to be empty. A little pocket of HF that was sitting in a pipe whooshed out onto his fingers for a split second, and he whirled around and stuck his hand under the faucet immediately.

    A week later, the hand had fallen off, but he ended up getting a house out of it.

  5. Re:Yeah, it was too good to be true... on Free Radicals May Not Be Cause of Aging · · Score: 1

    Don't worry- I'm saving the permanganate for mixed drinks.

  6. Re:Yeah, it was too good to be true... on Free Radicals May Not Be Cause of Aging · · Score: 1

    I'll just sprinkle potassium permanganate on my corn flakes this morning.

  7. Re:This is AMERICA! on Periodic Table of Elements To Get an Update · · Score: 2

    Our sulfur doesn't stink.

  8. Re:Stupid on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    You're considered "talking" if someone snitches on you. Straight soldiers don't also live in fear of the army finding out they have girlfriends, as if the army is a jealous bitch.

  9. Re:THIS IS NOT NEWS FOR NERDS!! on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    If this topic is so important, why has slashdot never posted a story about this before this?

    It must be under the control of repressed homosexuals.

  10. Re:Low-income living. on Exposing the Link Between Cell Phones and Fertility · · Score: 1

    But low rent has nothing to do with vaccination rates!

  11. Re:Cause of living near highways found on Exposing the Link Between Cell Phones and Fertility · · Score: 1

    And where you come from there tend to be a lot of retarded people!

  12. Cause of living near highways found on Exposing the Link Between Cell Phones and Fertility · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is, why are families with autistic children so keen on living near highways? I think it's because they're hoping their kid gets run over.

  13. Re:This is tech news? on North Korea Says War With South Would Go Nuclear · · Score: 1

    Everything that gets published on the site has already appeared in a newspaper, so technically Wikileaks has not "released" anything.

  14. Re:You thought the GOP/TP represented regular peop on Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality · · Score: 0

    You make it seem like the Democrats have something better

    Better than negative infinity? I think so.

  15. Re:Co-workers who use speaker phone on America's Cubicles Are Shrinking · · Score: 1

    You think you've got it bad... I have TWO people in adjacent cubes on loud speakerphones with clients somewhere and every idiotic thing they say echoes three times.

    Then there's the guy faintly humming weird music in the adjacent cube on the other side, along with the chick nearby whose phone rings some awful song whenever she leaves it on her desk.

    Should I appreciate the sight barriers, even if I don't get a noise barrier? It's hard to say.

  16. Re:chromium 48? on Hands-On With Google's Cr-48 · · Score: 1

    Whoops, double post- "this resource is no longer valid." I have to remember to check my lists of posts after Slashdot's "Preview" hangs the browser.

  17. Re:chromium 48? on Hands-On With Google's Cr-48 · · Score: 1

    Who's the goof who stuck a hyperlink on 48-Cr in the isotope table?

  18. Re:chromium 48? on Hands-On With Google's Cr-48 · · Score: 1

    Who's the goof who stuck a hyperlink on 48-Cr in the isotope table?

  19. Judge Hudson: gracious and professional on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1
    From the Washington Post:

    Jonathan Shapiro, a Fairfax defense attorney who first met Hudson when the two attended law school at American University, called him "gracious" and "professional," although he said he's always found Hudson to be a conservative thinker who tends to side with the government against criminal defendants.

    In a 1983 Washington Post profile of Hudson, Shapiro recalled that he and Hudson were enrolled in a class called "Legal Problems of the Poor."

    "I got the impression he thought it was supposed to be 'Giving Legal Problems to the Poor,' " Shapiro said then.

    Shapiro remembers the quote now with a laugh. Hudson never seemed to hold the quip against him, he said.

    See, he doesn't always rule against the government.

  20. Re:News for Nerds? on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Nerds don't get sick; they're too smart.

  21. DNA Encryption on Scientists Create Programmable Bacteria · · Score: 1

    The ability to encode arbitrary information in DNA has applications in security and encryption.

    Let's say Alice wants to send a plaintext message to Bob. Except with DNA it's always Bob sending plaintext DNA to Alice. OK I have to correct a little bit and replace "Alice" with "Bob" and "Bob" with "Alice"... eh, that didn't work because it replaced all the strings with "Alice".... ctrl-Z ctrl-Z ok let's do this right... first replace "Bob" with a swap like "Sue"... replace "Alice" with "Bob"... wait a second, Bob is sending his DNA to Sue. OK that's fine with Bob and Sue except halfway through the final replacement, Alice is going to find out that Bob has been sending DNA to Sue. How can we effectively hide this information from Alice? Start the swap by replacing "Alice" with "Peter". Oh no that really causes problems because still, Alice will start to wonder about Bob.

  22. And the obvious question on Diabetic Men May Be Able To Grow Their Own Insulin-Producing Cells · · Score: 2

    If I grow my own insulin-producing cells at home can I sell them to diabetics in other states?

  23. This is getting boring, Titanic on Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic · · Score: 1

    I'm beginning to suspect we'd be better off had this ship never hit an iceberg!

  24. Re:M.A.D. on WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pretty much. There always an "ist" of some sort to battle against.

    Christ!

  25. Re:Even if it only raises temperature 1.64 degrees on Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? · · Score: 1

    Well DUH the scale is logarithmic and approximately linear for partial pressures of CO2 within one order of magnitude around 400-800 ppm of normal atmospheric pressure (0.0004 - 0.0008 atm). Since I'm obviously not considering extreme pCO2 like 0.000001 atm or 1.0 atm, I can assume a linear approximation is approximate enough, so I interpolated between pH values at 350 ppm and 1000 ppm. The other reply to you points this out (although he then has the linear pH going the wrong way with a sign error).