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  1. Re:Film at 11 - but Fox made it, so... on Can Time Slow Down? · · Score: 1

    I would be surprised if the rational knowledge of safety overrides the the rush of alarm hormones that falling gives; I feel that the brain goes into a hyper-focus mode, which causes the perception of time passage to feel slower. I know when I caught on fire time seemed to move slowly, even two short instances of amnesia.

  2. Re:Bleeding hearts on Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? · · Score: 1

    the perfect example isn't what TFA talked about, the perfect example is the ones we don't hear about because the papers don't report that the innocent guy was murdered because someone used his address for the list instead of their own.

  3. Re:Duh. on Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? · · Score: 1

    So what punishment is TOO much for a person who is so evil, sick and twisted that they could do such a thing to another human being?

    You do realize the the prison system categorizes offenders and sex offenders, the evil, sick and twisted that you speak of are incarcerated with other similar evil, sick and twisted offenders, so frequently those who rape are in turn raped. A shocking number of those evil, sick and twisted people got that way by being raped themselves.

  4. Re:Duh. on Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? · · Score: 1

    The real reason that sex-offenders serve less time is there is almost always no physical evidence so the prosecutor offers a plea bargain, if you were offered 5-12 for a guilty plea vs. life without parole if it goes to trial what would you chose?

  5. Re:Duh. on Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? · · Score: 1

    The problem you overlooking is the address on the list is only checked while the offender is on parole, after he/she gets off parole they can list any address they want; the majority list an old address and will feign forgetfulness if caught, a minority will use an address that is for a vacant lot or public place. Personally I think everyone should check their state's list if just to make sure that the next time a whackjob goes pervert hunting that they are not hunting at your address.

  6. Re:he's got a point. on Dvorak Slams OLPC As 'Naive Fiasco' · · Score: 1

    I see him in this article as a grumpy old thoughtful and compassionate man.
    Except these people aren't starving because there isn't enough food, they are starving because of the religious, tribal and political situation there allows the rulers to profit from their misery. Giving people effective communications could start to bring an end to these perennial problems. Besides if you really want to help impoverished Africans send them mosquito nets so they don't get malaria and can actually tend their farms and grow their own food. The kind of "thoughtful and compassionate" Dvorak is pushing is the kind that has failed since colonial times.

  7. Re:Interference on Nanorobots for Drug Delivery? · · Score: 1

    Oh come on even a mobile processor sucks up 20 watts or some, to get a cpu shrunk down to fit in a "nanobot" the circuit traces would have to be smaller than electrons! If i had an antimatter reactor strapped to my back I'd have a plasma rifle like in Doom then I'd shrink down like in "Fantastic Voyage" and just blast the cancer manually! It's all science-fantasy designed to suck up gullible grant money, pure hucksterism.

  8. Re:Can we have the exercise ones, please? on Nanorobots for Drug Delivery? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know this woman that likes to dress in black leather corsets, fishnet stocking and silleto high-heels that will attacfh some electrodes to your muscles and make you dance like a puppet; more exercise than you can handle!

  9. Re:Couple Thoughts on Where are Wii? · · Score: 1

    I think what's throwing everybody is they are comparing the wii to game systems for gamers, but the wii is a game system for non-gamers. This is what apparently even fooled nintendo.

  10. how NIMBA can you get? on New Wave Power Research Rising Off Oregon Coast · · Score: 1

    Your breathing is "unnatural" too because your sentient, so just hold your breath until you die.

  11. Re:Wow shortest Ask Slashdot ever. on Old Software or Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Any "graphic artist" that can't switch back and forth between PS and Gimp doesn't deserve a job.

  12. spamming and murder on High Earning Spammers Face Tougher Sentences · · Score: 1

    Do you honestly think spamming and murder are morally equal?
    well ok, people only live for a finite period of time and any time spent dealing with spam is time you'll never get back. The chance of any given person being murdered is relatively small, but everyone has received a spam; assuming a spam consumes 5 seconds, 250,000 spams is likely killing a person 57 days early. So really the question is how long did Kervorkian go to prison for?

  13. Re:Answer on Secret Mailing List Rocks Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Actually most of us thought the in-group fighting with the out-group was pretty pathetic; in reality the in-group was a small number of the "elite" by definition , and you didn't want the out-group to large because there is powers in numbers. I just went to my high schools 35 year reunion and all the pretty sexy in-group people aren't, the cheerleaders are fat homily and worn-out from 6 kids and three marriages; the jocks are fat, borderline alcoholic, and have had a heart attack or two. The out-group got their teeth fixed and otherwise have bloomed and the average people are still average; so overall life evens-out.

  14. Re:FSF has little to do with it. on MPAA Forced To Take Down University Toolkit · · Score: 1

    A surprising number of developers assign their rights to the FSF, that way if they are personally sued the court can't auction off their work ect. also the FSF is large enough that they unlikely to run out of resourses to pursue a matter like an individual might.

  15. Re:Encouraging result on MPAA Forced To Take Down University Toolkit · · Score: 1

    Because now the ball is in their court,they either admit they violated copyright law and leave it down, or counter and puting it back up and letting the legal chips fall where they may by take legal responsibility. It'll be impossible for them to say "sorry, we didn't realize we were infringing" if they counter claim.

  16. Re:aww... on MPAA Forced To Take Down University Toolkit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    they still distributed in violation of the license and therefor copyright law! You can't make stuff up this funny, the MPAA in violation of copyright, LOL. The FSF can still go after them if they want to.

  17. Re:You are free to say anything you want on NJ Blogger Fights for Anonymous Free Speech · · Score: 1

    But if you are slanderous or libelous, you should be held accountable
    but nobody suing for libel/slander, the suit is about legal malpractice. The township is saying the daTruthSquad is the lawyer, Muskovitz, that they are suing. Muskovitz says he is not daTruthSquad but the township says it wants Googles records to "prove" he is, but most likely they just want to know who daTruthSquad is.

  18. Re:You are free to say anything you want on NJ Blogger Fights for Anonymous Free Speech · · Score: 1

    I didn't think a government agency could sue for libel/slander anyways. I've heard of "Boss Hogg wannabes" trying, but usually they crash-and-burn in appeals.

  19. Re:You are free to say anything you want on NJ Blogger Fights for Anonymous Free Speech · · Score: 1

    LiveJournal was just bought by Russians, that co9uld make serving papers interesting.

  20. Re:You are free to say anything you want on NJ Blogger Fights for Anonymous Free Speech · · Score: 1

    On June 13, 2007, the New Jersey Township of Manalapan filed a malpractice suit against its former attorney Stuart Moskovitz, alleging misconduct regarding the Township's purchase of polluted land in 2005.

    that I understand, what I don't understand is what the John Doe AKA daTruthSquad has to do with the malpractice suit. Does a third-person's opinion about the financial wisdom of a government agencies' litigation make him a party to the litigation?
  21. Re:A prediction on Publishers Seek Change in Search Result Content · · Score: 1

    It's actually the other way around, for the simple reason that news aggregators produce no useful content of their own.
    The news aggregators produce what I want, links to topics I'm interested in so in return they produce my eyes; if you and the rest of the fucktard in the moron-media can't get that through your thick skulls it's your loss. The majority of what passes for new is the lemmings regurgitating that which wouldn't be worthy of a High School news paper; of course the only one that came even close to getting it right was the one local stringer that the lemmings are following, but what he did was lost because the nationals edited it to death in order to make it "news worthy".
    How much of "it's a tense situation at blank, little is know about the blank, the press conference scheduled for blank is late" can you stand?

  22. Re:As a Non-Expert on Helium Leads to Geothermal Energy Resources · · Score: 1

    of course Yellowstone is a caldera volcano, and when it blows, and it's due any millennium now, it'll probably wipe out most of humanity so anything that reduces it intensity might let more humans survive and we can't have that now can we?

  23. Re:Actually Canada is the number one supplier of O on Helium Leads to Geothermal Energy Resources · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... called Celine Dion

  24. Re:Why does Israel continue to be a pariah in the on New Nerve Gas Antidotes · · Score: 1

    point taken, but still you'd think that their "Arab Brothers" and fellow Muslims could have found better accommodations after all these years for them

  25. Re:You'll share a pipe somewhere on Is Comcast Heading the Way of the Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    Cable on the other hand will roll out DOCSIS 3.0 later next year....but ...it will cost them 4 6MHz channels....and the resulting channel loss.
    yeah right we have 95 6 MHz channels, internet and 250 digital channels squeezing through a 500MHz coax do the math we'd need to upgrade to rg-6 that could handle a GHz or two, but what we'll get is more of the ol' "No baby you look sexy in the jeans, just don't go to the potty and you'll be fine"