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  1. Re:Common sense.... on FDA Approves HIV Home-Use Test Kit · · Score: -1, Troll

    They can sue. That is what the courts are for...

  2. Re:seriously, the USA is just making a martyr on Icelandic MP Claims US Vendetta Against WikiLeaks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you are killing unarmed civilians and claiming a camera is a weapon, you are committing an assassination. Any questions about that?

  3. Common sense.... on FDA Approves HIV Home-Use Test Kit · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you go around doing stupid things, you are likely to die. Werther it is playing with explosives, driving carelessly or having unsafe sex. Just make sure you know who you are with and don't be stupid enough to get into drugs. Then you will be fine.

  4. Re:seriously, the USA is just making a martyr on Icelandic MP Claims US Vendetta Against WikiLeaks · · Score: 5, Informative

    A video that shows how crew of an US helicopter assassinated people is far from "mundane"

  5. No surprise there on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 1

    After all, Texas is home for creationists and arms dealers. Anything that smells like science and will not translate in creating bigger explosions is considered irrelevant.

  6. This cannot be serious. on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 1

    The GUI is the equivalent of the automatic gear box for computers. Like the automatic gear box, it has been created to assist people that cannot do things correctly. the initial reason for developing automatic gear boxes was to help disabled people to drive. Something similar could be said about the GUI. The CLI is invaluable for anyone that whishes to use the real power of a computer, without it users lack power and control. It could be said that the GUI is a tool for "intellectually incompetent" people. There are a range of activities that I perform daily that would require much more time if i had to navigate through countless drop-menus and click on buttons. Scripting alone (Bash is such a wonderful thing) would be near impossible. By all means, keep your weak ineffective GUI for those less capable, but if you want power, well, you know what to do with this article.

  7. Re:Really? on Targeted TV Ads: Silver Bullet Or Privacy Nightmare? · · Score: 2

    Even with that, I watch TV using mythbuntu. I record first and watch later. I also skip the adds. No adds in my own time. Marketing companies are not allowed to provide me with their opinions on how my life shlid be like

  8. A good waste of money on Robots To Search for Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane · · Score: 1

    With all the people starving to death in Africa, it is nice to see that someone can find ways to waste money in something absolutely useless

  9. Uncle Billy.... on Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education · · Score: 1

    He will say that any product his company does not succeed with is not good for anything. It is MS-Marketing v0.1

  10. Watch TV? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Watch TV In 2012? · · Score: 1

    Sit in front of the box and open your eyes

  11. If Nessie were going to exist.. on Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution · · Score: 1

    Assuming Nessie to be real and assuming proof of it’s existence to be available, I find it would be quite improbable anyone could use such proof as a basis of an argument to refute evolution. It would only mean that since the alleged Nessie has been in a more or less isolated environment, it has had no stimulus that could favour an evolutionary change. By the same token, there are creatures alive today that have remained with little or no perceptible change since the days of the dinosaurs (All reptiles obviously). I see this as just another desperate attempt by people that lack the courage to live life accepting responsibility.

  12. Gambling...... on Microsoft Blocks FSF Donation Website As a 'Gambling Site' · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess M$ is taking a gamble at trying not reduce the money goint to FSF.....

  13. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 1

    Poetic Justice? That is an oximoron if I have ever seen one! The alleged development of nuclear weapons is backed up by the same intelligence (Actually lack of intelligence) that claimed that Iraq had chemical, biological and nuculear (Mocking W. here, not a typo) weapons. As for financing terrorist groups, let me remind you that was an order signed by Jimmy Carter that provided the firsst finance to what would later be al quaida. The US government also finances that CIA that is by any standard deffinition a terrorist group. They conduct assasinations and kidnapings all over the world and proudly announce it. I think that the US should stop and look at themselves before labeling any other countries. Also if they stop trying to interfere, perhaps in the long term they would earn some respect.

  14. Democracy? on Kaspersky Says Lack of Digital Voting Will Be Democracy's Downfall · · Score: 1

    If I were going to look at "democracy" as it stands today, I would say that if is not dead yet is at least at it's death bed. And is not due to lack of digital voting, but due to lack of education. Most people lack basic abilities to perform any kind of analysis, let alone to be thorough and analytical enough to determine if a person is fit to represent them politically or take control of the government of a country. Until people learn to analyze and question the motives behind the words and actions of the politicians, we have little (If any) chance of democratic success. Machines are certainly not the answer, but most likely a significant part of the problem. We have incompetent voters, result of a mediocre educational system and they are producing mediocre governments.

  15. Re:Training! on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    Training? You must really be a dreamer. I have had managers telling to my face that they will not spend money on training me because if they do, they would expect me to take my newly acquired knowledge to some other organization for higher wages. My response was to save some money to pay for my own training, as soon as I had the money, took two weeks of holidays and the course. Two month later, I had a different job. because my boss was an ass hole!

  16. Re:Just in case nobody noticed.... on Belief In Hell Predicts a Country's Crime Rates Better Than Other Factors · · Score: 1

    So, you are telling me that your wonderful, benevolent wise, perfect and almighty god intentionally created human beings to fail? That sounds kind of cruel to me. Sounds like your alleged god is a sadistic bastard that created kids with the intention of them dying of starvation and disease in Africa and other of the poorest regions of this magnificent and beautiful world. And by the way, I have not define perfection. The whole concept is rather ancient and is an absolute. You cannot be “almost perfect” you either are or you are not and your concept of god is either perfectly evil by creating those disastrous situations or an absolutely incompetent imbecile or most likely the consequence of the imagination of groups of primitive people living in fear looking for some comforting idea of some protector that makes promises about an ”afterlife”. Crawl back into your religious hole and leave rational people to live using reason and science. We do not deserve the torture of your lack of sense.

  17. Perhaps I should file a patent application..... on Time Warner Cable Patents Method For Disabling Fast-Forward Function On DVRs · · Score: 1

    A patent to be able to work around Time Warner rubbish. It requires a tin of petrol and a box of matches ;-)

  18. Re:Duh - Who else would have done it? on US, Israel Behind Flame Malware · · Score: 1

    Get your facts right. The following link points to the IAEA factsheet in Iran. No evidence of any weapons there http://ola.iaea.org/factSheets/CountryDetails.asp?country=IR

  19. Introducing to star trek? on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Get Scotty to beam them up!

  20. Re:Duh - Who else would have done it? on US, Israel Behind Flame Malware · · Score: 1

    The USA has veto rights in th UN and constantly pressures every other country to get it's way. the IAEA, beign part of the UN is just under as much control of the US and Israel as any other organization that pretends to have any independence.

  21. Re:Duh - Who else would have done it? on US, Israel Behind Flame Malware · · Score: 1

    Are you with mossad?

  22. Re:Just in case nobody noticed.... on Belief In Hell Predicts a Country's Crime Rates Better Than Other Factors · · Score: 1

    Well, since heaven is the alleged creation of an alleged god (Chuckles here) and hell is the alleged creation of an alleged fallen angel (Beelzebub) that was in turn allegedly created by the alleged god, all I need to do is disprove the existence of the alleged god and all the alleged creations could by deduction have never been created..... So, here we go, for that god to exist, will have to have some basic qualities. This alleged god is allegedly perfect, almighty, eternal and furthermore full of love and goodness (More chuckles here). This alleged god in its infinite alleged wisdom, created the universe and everything within it, being perfect, this alleged god could have not committed any mistake (Perfection must be absolute after all), therefore, this universe is perfect and everything within it is perfect. Also, since this alleged god is the most loving and wonderfully good entity in the whole universe, everything in this universe is perfectly good and wonderful. That includes child molesters, rapists, assassins, and all other kind of wonderful people that this god full of goodness and perfection created (Ops, did we just arrived to a contradiction?).

  23. Re:Duh - Who else would have done it? on US, Israel Behind Flame Malware · · Score: 1

    Evidence provided by either the USA or any country associated with or influenced by the USA lacks credibility, specially after all the evidence that the USA, UK and NATO provide about the so far non existing weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein allegedly had. (In short, their evidence was bullsh#$t

  24. Just in case nobody noticed.... on Belief In Hell Predicts a Country's Crime Rates Better Than Other Factors · · Score: 2

    Both heaven and hell are fictional places from mithologies and supersticions (Organized supersticions are usualy refered as religion, but that is no indication of the accuracy of their adsurd ideas). Basically if you believe in either of them, you are an idiot.

  25. Re:Duh - Who else would have done it? on US, Israel Behind Flame Malware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What scares me most, is Israel's nuclear weapons, not Iran's. Iran does not have any yet and so far, no proof has been provided that they actually are planning to produce them. Furtermore, if such a "proof" were provided by the US would have the same validity as the proof that Saddam Hussein had chemical, biological and nuculear (It is not a typo, I'm mocking W.) weapons. Would most probably be just another lie.