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  1. Re:politicians are evil bastards on SOPA Goes Back To the Drawing Board, PIPA Postponed · · Score: 1

    This guy seems to disagree with you that SOPA was bad. lol.

    http://johndegen.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-your-kids-were-taught-to-hate-sopa.html

  2. Re:Moratorium and Research, or War on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    Copyright is like medicine; too little is ineffective, too much will kill you, and an incompetent doctor will kill you no matter how much you take.

  3. Re:Oblig XKCD on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    Here's a funny comic from DA:
    http://fav.me/d4mrb78

  4. Re:Right to submit future domains, but on Dutch Court Forces ISPs To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Holly - A green plant with berries used for festive purposes and slightly toxic to humans.

    Hollywood.

    By George, you're right!

  5. The ever escalating war... on Repurposing Anti-Spam Tools For Detecting Mutations In HIV · · Score: 1

    So the war on spam and computer viruses has become as or more complex than figuring out how HIV mutates? How soon before it reaches cancer-level? lol

  6. Re:Pirate Party Australia not Impressed on Australian ISP's To Crack Down On Piracy · · Score: 1

    Somehow, I doubt they will be avoiding efforts to regulate. Just look at how copyright has slowly but surely increased over the years. Music and movie cartels will always keep pushing and pushing to get more and more. I'm hoping that government will wake up, realize that this will eventually stagnate their population's creative juices, and slap them down hard but I'm realistic enough to realize that won't happen until enough people are screaming in hordes at their doors.

  7. All that data... on Palantir, the War On Terror's Secret Weapon · · Score: 1

    Now all they have to do is turn all that data into pictures, feed it into a tech nerd working at a tech store, and then recruit them as a super-spy.

  8. Canine intelligence on Airport Security: Thermal Lie-Detectors, Cloned Sniffer Dogs · · Score: 1

    Cloning dogs is interesting but just wait until selective breeding makes them smart enough to use bark-to-speech devices.

    "Woof." *Cocaine.*
    "Grrr..." *Explosives.*
    "Bark bark bark! Whine, whine, whine." *Milkbone!!!*

  9. Re:for those not in the know: on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' · · Score: 1

    Ahhh.... Yes, that would be... bad.

  10. Re:Easy to spot on Hosting Services May Be Breaking Syrian Sanctions · · Score: 1

    Yes, let's add '.eh!' with '.ca' for Canadian domain names. I'd say just '.eh' but it seems that while it isn't assigned there are is some confusion:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eh

  11. Re:ohshi- on Of Mice and Cancer · · Score: 1
  12. Re:ohshi- on Of Mice and Cancer · · Score: 1

    Thus explains Rufus. Always wondered how he got so darn smart.

  13. What would you put on it to make it look evil? on Designers Build 35-Foot Robot Snake · · Score: 1

    I'd have bright red LED eyes installed with optional lasers and, oh yes, silicon lubricant dripping from mounted fangs.

  14. First comment that came to mind: on Designers Build 35-Foot Robot Snake · · Score: 1

    Holy Serpent Slinkies, Slashman!

  15. Re:Time to replace DNS on EU Speaks Out Against US Censorship · · Score: 1

    Make it an add-on with Angry Birds. That ought to get the required user base.

  16. Re:I dub thee... on Hiding Messages In VoIP Packets · · Score: 1
  17. Re:AC vs DC? on Working On Man Made Lightning · · Score: 1

    I put in my guess as to 'why'.

    Lightning causes the 'starting' bolt up in the air to ionize and creates some plasma. Now, lightning is electrons which, when moving, create magnetic fields. Even straight copper lines can cause RF interference when voltage oscillates because of this effect. The thin 'coating' of plasma around the lightning could be creating an electromagnetic field of it's own due to induction that only becomes strong enough when enough plasma is created -- 200 ft or more. Thus, the lightning bolt creates a electromagnetic plasma 'pipe' that the lightning bolt can use to fly down the long journey to earth. Once the tunnel is complete the ionizing trail remains long enough for the bolt that goes up.

    Naturally, this plasma is unstable and too much lightning might break through the plasma tunnel to create new tunnels repelled by the other branches.

    Eh, that my pop theory.

  18. Re:A sad necessity on Hiding Messages In VoIP Packets · · Score: 1

    Yea. DVD not cams. lol

  19. I say... on Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System · · Score: 1

    Aye, aye! The eyes have it!

  20. Re:A sad necessity on Hiding Messages In VoIP Packets · · Score: 1

    Two different theaters with two different sets of watermarks. Run them through a digital comparison and filter away the differences?

  21. Re:It should be a fun hearing on SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby · · Score: 1

    Ah, the Lobby Licker Lackeys at work.

  22. I dub thee... on Hiding Messages In VoIP Packets · · Score: 2

    Deep Tone.

  23. Re:Working as intended on Microsoft Shareholders Unhappy After Annual Meeting · · Score: 1

    What goes up...

  24. Sweet. My dream Halloween costume comes closer. on Raspberry Pi PCB Layout Revealed · · Score: 2

    If I could ever easily design a non-expensive Sci-Fi armor suit that has redundant, networked computers, streaming video-to-internet from a helmet, real-time video display in helmet, easily detachable web cam/mic/speaker modules that can be used on or off armor, and able to be worn from -50C to +50C I would build it for my Halloween costume and stream visiting Halloween parties to a web page. Reusable for comic and anime cons too. Heh.

  25. Re:Same thing as violence against people in games on Mario's Raccoon Suit Enrages PETA · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that the fur is _magical_ and from a _magical_ animal. If PETA can prove the existence of magic to protest this cruelty then more power to them.

    Of course several churches will then be after them at that point but that's just a bonus. :D