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  1. Re:Quite interresting on Experiment Will Determine Dinosaur's Skin Color · · Score: 0, Troll

    No need for spectacular skin if feathered and probably need for colored skin if not feathered.

    [citation needed]

  2. Re:Lots of good reasons. on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 4, Informative

    No DRM means no income for the artist.

    Right. Without DRM no-one would be able to make money selling CDs.

    Wait a minute...

  3. Re:No - that is called Fantasy. on Politician Wants Sci-fi To Be Mandatory In School · · Score: 2

    stick with only one violation of physics (frequently the speed of light, other times just that something is easy to do - such as neural implants).

    What's so physics-defying about neural implants?

  4. Re:Troll Alert on Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes · · Score: 1

    Only responding to ask people not to feed the troll.

    With a Score:2 post leading more people to learn of the existence of the troll who otherwise wouldn't have. Brilliant.

  5. Re:Belief system on Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes · · Score: 2

    Then as I age, I get to see a repeat --- cases of, how shall I put it, "miracles" --- where patients that the medical doctors have given up on, made drastic recoveries

    I'm going to go out on a limb that you can't put a number on that, and that you also can't put a number on the times a patient was told they'd be fine and then unexpectedly dropped dead.

    Perhaps, just perhaps, deep inside our psyche, there is a force that we have not yet touch upon, a force so great that it can fight whatever illness the body has been infected with

    A force which is a combination of an immune system honed over millions of years, modern scientific understanding, and pure dumb luck.

    Till now, our human scientific knowledge is still very limited, there are still a lot of things that we do not know

    That's no reason to start making shit up while grasping at straws for an explanation.

  6. Re:What? on Salesforce, a Pillow Maker and a $125k AmEx Bill · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't seem complex if someone had bothered to write a comprehensible summary, instead of chucking together a few sentence fragments with no attempt to link them into a cohesive description of the dispute.

  7. Re:Of course on Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real · · Score: 1

    because people are in fact ...
    Idiots.

    FTFY. Also MILR.

  8. Re:Other useful devices on Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real · · Score: 2

    Perhaps they would have benefited more from a gullible idiot detector.

    Good news. These devices are equally effective at that as they are at detecting bombs!

  9. Re:And we aren't putting them in officer homes. on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: 1

    So why are you proposing to put it in the OP's home?

    I didn't say that.

  10. Re:no problem on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the bit about them planning further attacks? Protip: criminals only commit more crimes if they don't get caught the first time!

  11. Re:no problem on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: 1

    as long as camera's are also installed inside police department in every office and interrogation room and are completely accessible by public.

    Why? No-one's proposing to put cameras in your home or office. They're proposing cameras in public places where people can already publicly gather and watch things with their eyes. Planning to do something you don't want people to know about? There are plenty of places more suitable than the middle of Times Square - with or without cameras.

  12. Re:no problem on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: 2

    If I ever get arrested for something, I certainly do not want people to be able to bring up the video.

    You would if you were innocent.

  13. Re:costs still too high on Lawrence, KS To Get Gigabit Fiber — But Not From Google · · Score: 2

    That's still way too high.

    Don't buy it then. Duh.

  14. I want a 3D printING gun on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want a 3D printing gun. *pow* Hoberman sphere! *pow* Strandbeest! *pow* 3D printing gun!

  15. Re:in joules. please on Scientists May Have Detected Neutrinos From Another Galaxy · · Score: 1

    We don't know what the mass of a neutrino is, but we do know they're light

    I thought that was photons.

  16. Re:Why? on WWDC Sells Out In 2 Minutes; Ticket On eBay 45 Minutes Later · · Score: 1

    You get access to Apple engineers, a free concert

    I do not think that means what you think it means.

  17. Re:Researchers find: Primates don't likebeinglocke on Harvard To Close New England Primate Research Center · · Score: 2

    Used to live right around the corner from this place.

    I live right around the corner from a lot of places, and I have no idea what's going on in any of them.

  18. Re:Don't give a shit about space... on NASA Lets Us Watch the Sun Spin For 3 Years In 4 Minute Video · · Score: 1

    Goddamn hippies.

  19. Re:I don't get it on LHCb Experiment Observes New Matter-Antimatter Difference · · Score: 1

    The universe would still exist even if it was empty; there'd just be no-one around to observe it (unless you want to get ridiculously philosophical about that). So no, it wasn't required to be that way, it's just lucky for us that it was.

    There may well be other universes (sidebar: there are several different classes of things you can call "universes") where there is no matter or antimatter, but there are probably no conscious beings in there.

  20. Re:What if light travels REAL SLOW on LHCb Experiment Observes New Matter-Antimatter Difference · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What if monkeys can actually talk but refuse to do so because they don't want us to know?

    What if quarks are actually microscopic doughnuts, and we can fly through them into an alternate universe where Snooki is president?

    What if... ah, screw it, if you can't see where I'm going with this by now there's no hope for you.

  21. Re:Sequestration is a gimmick on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 1

    I think what's really important here is... when did everyone agree to start calling them "pubs" and "dems"?

  22. Re:You're lucky on The Dark Side of Amazon's New Pilots · · Score: 5, Funny

    Funny, those were the only two I liked.

    I know, right? It's almost like different people like different things.

  23. Re:30 workers over 4 years? on Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners · · Score: 1

    Duffy is a genius, so you'd expect him to show common sense

    I don't think the link between genius and common sense is as strong as you seem to think it is.

    Though I may only be saying that because I definitely don't have any of one of those.

  24. Re:correction on Crowdsourcing Failed In Boston Bombing Aftermath · · Score: 2

    Damn straight. There have been zero witch attacks since Reddit got on the case.

  25. Re:Already read about this on arstechnica.com on BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45 · · Score: 1

    Kids today... what ever happened to dip switches with your chips?

    We'll have none of that smut here, thank you very much.