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  1. Too cumbersome on UK Police Roll Out On-the-Spot Mobile Data Extraction System · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not just have all cell phone communications pass through government servers where everything can be easily skimmed and saved?
    Seems like it would save a lot of trouble.

  2. Re:Good news! on FDA Panel Backs First Rapid, Take Home HIV Test · · Score: 1

    Dude, don't lie. None of you Slashtards will ever have sex or touch a breast that's not attached to your own flabby cheeto filled body. Ever.

    Well I do like KFC extra crispy every now and then as a splurge.

  3. Don't do that. on Broadcast Industry Wades In On Dish Network's Hopper · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you skip ads, you stand with the child pornographers.

  4. Re:Better argument. on Canada's Internet Surveillance Bill: Not Dead After All · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well then it's even more fitting.

  5. Better argument. on Canada's Internet Surveillance Bill: Not Dead After All · · Score: 5, Funny

    He has previously stated this is the bill that you either support, 'or you stand with the child pornographers.'"

    How lame. He needs to spice this up: Either you support his bill, or you are a child pornographer.

    Now that has some zing.

  6. Re:I feel for the student, but... on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 1

    Free board? Like the board that they were beaten with?

    I prefer to call it deep tissue massage

    Free lodging? Like being hung by your wrists for days?

    You must be referring to the complimentary chiropractic regimen.

  7. Re:Nothing new here on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 0

    There was some reason why accused person A is accused.

    You've hit the nail on the head there. He was accused because he's guilty. That's why.

  8. Re:Nothing new here on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 1

    Hey that's not a bad way to go.
    Everyone starts thinking you were great guy, you get a memorial, etc.

  9. Re:Nothing new here on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 2

    Obama isn't as blatant about it, at least he pretends to be a good guy.

    Doesn't that make it worse instead of better? I figure an honest scoundrel is better than a guy who tells you he's on your side while he's stepping on your head.

    Not that I find it acceptable...

    Of course not.

  10. Re:Puts things in perspective on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 1

    If I were forced to choose (heaven forbid), then I think I'd take my chance with the secularists.
    You can at least reason with people who don't take orders from invisible friends.

    You think so? I wonder how many of the middle-class farmers in Russia thought the same way you did.
    They probably tried reasoning with the secularists right up til the time the bullet passed between their eyes.

  11. Re:I feel for the student, but... on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 2

    90% of the inmates at Gitmo were innocent as well, and they didn't even get a show trial.

    No, they got free board and lodging in a tropical paradise instead of scrounging for food in a war-torn desert.

  12. Re:Online Petition on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 1

    Didn't I see on the news today that Iran just hanged a student accused of working for Israel? The online petition idea didn't work out for that guy, so I doubt it will do much for this guy either.

  13. Re:Nothing new here on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 1

    Wait.. did anything change after Obama came into office?
    Didn't Obama just sign a law allowing indefinite detention without trial?
    Is there any real difference between Bush and Obama?

  14. Re:Ok, scratch that business plan... on LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sure the incumbent telecoms forced Lightsquared to purchase satellite-to-ground spectrum when they really wanted terrestrial spectrum.
    Yepper-de-depper!

  15. Re:It's a shame this couldn't be mutually resolved on LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there's one thing I've learned from management seminars, it's that "thinking outside the box" is a very powerful tool.
    In fact, since I've started applying this principle in my daily life I have been able to do all sorts of things that the average guy wouldn't think are possible, such as levitate, wall through walls, bend spoons with the force of my will, and build perfect notch filters.

  16. Re:It's a shame this couldn't be mutually resolved on LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If GPS is the key to driverless cars, then I can just imagine how much fun the future prankster can have by setting an appropriately-tuned radio transmitter next to the side of the road.

    Let's hope there's more to driverless cars than that.

  17. Re:It's a shame this couldn't be mutually resolved on LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 2

    Yeah but that spectrum that wasn't useful for high power terrestrial transmissions was so much cheaper!

  18. Ok, scratch that business plan... on LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) Come up with profitable idea that violates the laws of physics
    2) Use political influence to get around the laws of physics
    3) PROFIT!

    ... well maybe not.

  19. Let me guess on Researchers Conquer "LED Droop" · · Score: 5, Funny

    The solution is called "LED Viagra"?

  20. Keep it coming! on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The winter gardening this year was out of sight.
    If it stays like this, I might never have to buy veggies again.
    Hooray for warming!

  21. Re:As usual Slashdot summary is a mess... on The Rise of Chemophobia In the News · · Score: 1

    Endocrine disruptors have been shown to have serious adverse effects

    I've heard they disrupt endocrines.

  22. Re:As a former chemist on The Rise of Chemophobia In the News · · Score: 1

    I don't know of any dog who eats 100% "organic" produce, gets no "artificial" "chemical" vaccinations, etc. making it capable of producing USDA Organic dog shit, urine or tasty meat. These 'green freaks' should know this...

    Well the meat is tasty, even if it isn't USDA organic.

  23. Yum on Mini Mammoth Once Roamed Crete · · Score: 1

    A mini mammoth makes for a mighty fine steak.

  24. Re:Wrapped C lib, I hope on SciRuby: Science and Matrix Libraries For Ruby · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is why I'm developing "FORTRUBY".

    FORTRUBY is an all new implemenation of Fortran on top of Ruby.

    With FORTRUBY, scientists and engineers can jump right in and start programming in what they're most comfortable with, Fortran, but the Fortran code isn't actually compiled,it's interpreted by a Fortran interpreter written in Ruby.

    This allows scientists and engineers to transition gracefully to a modern language like Ruby. At first, they can just write in Fortran and insert calls to the Ruby library. When they're ready to move on, they can actually insert Ruby code into their Fortran programs that gracefully accomodates Fortran data types and arrays by using the special 'RUBY' statement like this:

    DIMENSION M(10)
    RUBY(FORMAT (5HSUM=0))
    RUBY(FORMAT (27HM.EACH DO /X/ SUM=SUM+X END))

    Finally, they can transition to full fledged Ruby by just writing the whole program inside RUBY statements. Finally scientists and engineers can move into the 21st century without leaving all their current hard-earned skills behind.

  25. Re:upgraded to include... on Astronomers Find Most Distant Protocluster of Galaxies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually look at the Subaru Car logo and consider the meaning of "Subaru" and you'll see why the discovery of a galaxy cluster is very fitting for the Subaru telescope...