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  1. Re:Amazing on Grilling For Geeks · · Score: 1

    I don't think poking grilling steaks with your dick is a prudent idea....

    Guess you're eating vegetarian if you come over to my house.

  2. Re:Use your WoW character's cooking skills! on Grilling For Geeks · · Score: 1

    If some geek hadn't figured out that meat over a fire > raw meat, you'd still be wandering the veldt, trying to figure out what the big black monolith is up to. Sure, it happened a few years ago, but we don't talk shit about Tesla because he's an oldfag.

  3. Re:UK isn't England on Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off · · Score: 1

    Trust me, most Americans in power only consider CA, NY, and occasionally TX and consider that the entirety of the US. (Politicians also look at IA for a little while.)

  4. Re:Am I going to get rolled over? on Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test · · Score: 1

    As a pedestrian, longboarder and cyclist, I wonder how do those AIs fare with obstacles that are moving but are not cars.

    Why are you walking, longboarding, or cycling on the freeway?

    Cocaine is a helluva drug?

  5. Re:Anonymous? on Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test · · Score: 2

    Who else read "Anonymous Road Train Project"?

    Picturing guys in business suits with Guy Fawkes masks on.

    Reminds me of the demotivator I threw together the other day.

  6. Re:I wonder how well it handled agressive passing on Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test · · Score: 0, Troll

    or, you know, stay in line.

    You know who else liked to stay in line? Nazis. Think about it.

  7. Only a video game? on World Cup Memo Written By Steve Jobs Going Up For Auction · · Score: 1, Troll

    Damn, it's only a memo about improving a video game? I thought it was going to be a memo about how to improve the snoozefest that is soccer/futbol. (Yeah, and here come all the non-Americans to talk about how superior it is to basketball/baseball/football. I don't care. Any game that ends in a 0-0 tie is not entertaining to watch.)

  8. Re:Sun Tzu on Backdoor Found In China-Made US Military Chip? · · Score: 1

    A shot? When did Sun Tzu live? Were there guns then? Or do you mean "a shot" metaphorically?

    One shoots bows and bolts in addition to bullets and shells.

  9. Re:BORING on Is Facebook Working On a Smartphone? · · Score: 2

    TL;DR - Don't care.

    Yet concerned enough to post.

  10. Re:Just buy RIMM on Is Facebook Working On a Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    RIMM had sales of $18.5B and earnings of $1.5B for the year ending March 3rd 2012. They also have $1.5B in cash. The company has a ton of issues but they are far from dead.

    Just wait a bit.

  11. Re:What would be the point? on Is Facebook Working On a Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    Your wife bitches too much. Facebook for iOS (unfortunately) doesn't update nearly as often as it could. Far less than plenty of other programs I use. It does tend to get horked up from time to time. I prefer to avoid it unless I'm mid conversation while AFK.

  12. Re:Legal system too on The Race To $1,000 Human Genome Sequencing · · Score: 2

    Plenty of guys paying for kids who aren't theirs. My favorite is that when a putative father began having doubts a few years later, he got a test. It showed he was not the father. Court said "tough shit, we already decided you are". Here's one case. It's not the one I was looking for, but it's close enough. My favorite is the case where DNA proved man A was not the father. Further testing showed it was man B. Man A and woman got divorce. Man A pays child support. Woman marries man B. Man A turns up the above mentioned DNA results. Man A still stuck with the bills, even though the biological father is now married to the mother and raising the child.

    Condoms men. Seriously. Or vasectomy.

  13. Re:Designer Humans? on The Race To $1,000 Human Genome Sequencing · · Score: 1

    They should use lossy compression. What could possibly go wrong?

  14. Re:Designer Humans? on The Race To $1,000 Human Genome Sequencing · · Score: 1

    Troll? WTF?! Slashdot moderation is even more broken than APK's fragile psyche.

  15. Re:Quick Summary on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 1

    Rough study. ~200 people. Self reporting. 'Feelings' of violation. Doesn't seem very rigorous to me.

  16. Re:Quick Summary on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 1

    Then why issue the former if they don't do anything? Will take a look at the link you provided. Thx.

  17. Re:Quick Summary on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 1

    The purpose of a restraining order is not to prevent a person from hurting another person. It's to prevent a person from harassing another person.

    Never heard that one before. All I ever hear about is the violence bit.

    And why are you scored zero? Makes no sense.

  18. Re:Dilemma on Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation? · · Score: 1

    The percent of women who would prefer a stable provider to a bad boy is small enough so as to be inconsequential.

  19. Re:gmhowell = the "SiDeWaLk-'ShRiNk' of /." lol on Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I have an MD in Psychology. You'll never know.

  20. Re:The BSA should sue the BSA on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. I suppose my text could be inflammatory to some.

  21. Re:A lot of words on Apple Fires Back At DoJ Over eBook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    I can't recall the ins and outs either :) My understanding is that they were trying to fend off Sony and B&N and prevent others from coming to market. There's lots of conjecture, but I'm not sure if anyone has any real numbers or merely analysts' interpretations.

  22. Re:Given up AC post "stalking" me, gmhowell? on Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security? · · Score: 1

    Hard to keep one's word when dealing with a lunatic such as yourself.

    So, if it isn't your meds that has you on your monthly freakout cycle, what is it? Phases of the moon?

  23. Re:A lot of words on Apple Fires Back At DoJ Over eBook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    the Court established that for prices to be predatory, they must be below the seller's cost.

    So Amazon is perfectly entitled to do what it's doing. It's just not allowed to operate at a loss (razor-thin margins are ok) in order to drive competitors with a smaller war-chest out of business.

    Somewhere in this discussion there is a link to an interview with Scott Turow, author and head of some writer's guild, who claims that's exactly what Amazon is doing. Should be rather trivial to find out whether or not this is the case when things go to trial. Unfortunately, it involves accounting, so it will be anything but trivial.

  24. Re:That Moment on 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Also he solved it without mooching off a company for 2 months (and still having nothing to show for it) or asking for $500,000! No $$$$ up front and he still brought results! This 16 yr old will go far, I would happily donate to this kid's next .... whatever he wants to do, since he's already earned it in my opinion.

    As far as Ted Kacinsky? Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. Let the kid live his life.

  25. Re:Off-Topic illogical ad hominem attack FAIL agai on Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security? · · Score: 1

    'Stuck in a loop' by the copy and paste troll, APK? There's a bit of irony.