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  1. Re:FBI Ignores Internal Govt corruption on FBI Says They're Now Working 24/7 To Investigate Hackers and Network Attacks · · Score: 1

    Since I have no mod points to give, I offer you my earnest agreement. Funny, how the internal stuff just slips by, and how much the legal-system and the sports industry have in common. But I must correct you on one minor detail; they don't ignore it so much as they protect it.

  2. Re:Fecal Transplant? on Gut Bacteria Cocktail May End Need for Fecal Transplants · · Score: 1

    You almost sound like a creepy control freak. From my initial impression, I envisioned you having a new pair of trousers reserved for every set of mod-points you receive. Maybe you have a grudge for some reason, in which case I would recommend from experience "a mirror" as the best therapist. But that is probably my imagination getting carried away, so I dismiss it entirely and offer you the following instead:
    Regarding the dismissal of information, the comment was jocular; it was the wording, e.g. "Fecal Transplant" which hit my funny-bone. From what I've learned so far, it is less "fecal matter" than the beneficial cultures of feces which is transplanted. Arguably, the term could be reworded in a fashion less susceptible to humor by something like "Intestinal Culture" transplant. I am not a biologist though. I still suspect that "Fecal Transplants" should be unnecessary, and see no reason (yet) why such cultures couldn't be propagated in labs - without involving human feces, or any feces. And on the subject of mod-points, aside from never having received any myself, I admire the advice given which suggests modding up rather than down as a general rule. If I made a stupid comment (which I may have), it seems too kind to mod it into "oblivion", where it is spared by obscurity, of public rebuke.
    If you can tolerate the touché above, I'll only say that I don't strive to be a pig or an asshole. If that's what it seemed, it was not my intention.

  3. Re:Harris Corporation or Harrison Corporation? on Secret Stingray Warrantless Cellphone Tracking · · Score: 1

    Admittedly, I put too much on the editors with this one. It's a lesson learned and I think I'll write my submissions in something other than Geany next time. That's it! From here on, it's vim only.
    But to the angry AC above, it's not a matter of "mind" -- more so, it's a cognitive issue, and I apologize for making it a problem for others. And yes, it is an IMSI catcher. I wanted to embed a wiki url in it, but I've seen readers complain about including too many links. Regarding summaries, I don't know; try it sometime.

  4. Re:Harris Corporation or Harrison Corporation? on Secret Stingray Warrantless Cellphone Tracking · · Score: 4, Funny

    That was a typo; it is Harris. You are correct.
    I have bad momentson' good ones, like some mad vacillating, deliriouson Ferrison wheel.

  5. Re:Fecal Transplant? on Gut Bacteria Cocktail May End Need for Fecal Transplants · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info. I got a hearty belly laugh from your last line though. Very well put! ...still smiling.

  6. Re:Big news to our family on Gut Bacteria Cocktail May End Need for Fecal Transplants · · Score: 1

    I remember encountering some research strongly supporting pre-biotics over pro-biotics. From my own experience, a blend of the two can be very effective. "Pro-biotics" are things such as kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi, strains like lactobacillus, etc.
    "Pre-biotics" are, for example, raw garlic, raw onions, raw leeks, certain bitter raw leaves and so on. Kimchi seems to fit both profiles, to me, especially if made with green onions. When both are included in a regimented diet, a lot can happen. Another factor in maintaining healthy cultures seems to involve avoiding things like corn, most sugars and even gluten. For starches, better than modern wheat seem to be brown rice, millet, or other grains with lower or no gluten content. Many people born with perfectly healthy internal flora are afflicted at some point by antibiotics. To rehabilitate their innards, a new and sometime radical diet is often required. Anyway, I wish you good luck with your son. I think there are many things that can help.

  7. humbled by poo on Gut Bacteria Cocktail May End Need for Fecal Transplants · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hell, so it really is an actual treatment. I would never have surmised it. Pardon the crassness in the first sentence of my original comment, but it seemed ludicrous at first. Inadvertent education, ..who'd a thunk it.

  8. Fecal Transplant? on Gut Bacteria Cocktail May End Need for Fecal Transplants · · Score: 1, Troll

    In regards to why anyone would need a shit transplant, I willfully remain ignorant. According to legend, there's a version of fecal transplant called a Happy Meal, which comes with free bread and sauce and a nice bag with some plastic item or something in it. It's said to be safe for children, but I'm no expert.

  9. Re:Prepared vs Extemporaneous on Slashdot Asks: Are You Preparing For Hurricane Sandy? · · Score: 3, Funny

    'cause even a zombie won't fuck with a can of Spotted Dick sponge pudding.

  10. Prepared vs Extemporaneous on Slashdot Asks: Are You Preparing For Hurricane Sandy? · · Score: 2

    Whatever you do, folks, do not be prepared. For preparation is terrorism and extemporaneous is patriotism.

    Do not be seduced by the evil temptations of self-reliance. Trust in the one, the only, Authori tuh.

  11. Re:News For Nerds? on Slashdot Asks: Are You Preparing For Hurricane Sandy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Living in Florida, I hope your disappointment has at least some credibility to it. From all the buzz, it seems this may be a big one. I've been here most of my life and have seen more than a few hurricanes. Aside from awe-inspiring and occasionally catastrophic, they are fascinating. Also, in case you were unaware, CENTCOM is located in Tampa, FL.
    I don't know what things used to be like 'round here long ago, but this particular topic seems pretty ripe for interesting conversation. Meteorology isn't exactly for morons, and colossal storms are one of its more exciting elements. And if you are sorely nostalgic for political polemics, there's already a fuss on the "tubes" about the hurricane and what it implies for presidick1 vs presidick2.

  12. Simple Answer on How Do You Eat a Triceratops? Start By Ripping the Head Off · · Score: 1

    - Primordial Bath Salts

  13. How many pokes does it take to screw a face? on Facebook Patents Pokes-Per-Minute Limits · · Score: 1

    Ask Douglas Adams:
    But first: When will people finally get sick of being "poked" in their social fannies by Faceclamp? With just a little consumer discretion, these 'creative geniuses' could easily be patenting their own obsolescence and isolation. For fucks sake, my fellow primates; is this the Personality Banquet At The End Of The Universe?

    Face7809904123: ""Good millennium," it lowed and sat back heavily on its Faceclamp poker , "I am the gullible Digit of the Day. May I interest you in the attributes of my psyche?"

    It harrumphed and giggled a bit, shuffled its mind quarters in to a more accessible status and gazed submissively at them.

    Its gaze was met by looks of startled bewilderment from Pokerberg and the NSA, a resigned shrug from the CIA and naked hunger from Marketers.

    "Something off my children perhaps?" suggested Face7809904123, "compressed into a PDF and spreadsheet ?"

    "Er, your whole family?" said Pokerberg in a juicy whisper.

    "But naturally my family, Lord," mooed the Face eagerly, "no other is easier to offer."

    The Marketers leapt to their hooves and started prodding and exploiting the Face's family salaciously.

    "Or my Friends© are very good," murmured the Face. "I've been conversing and receiving lots of "likes", so there's a lot of personal data there."

    It emitted a feeble mew, giggled again and started to divulge the data. and so on and so forth

    *Theme borrowed from some writer who anticipated the future of social media.

  14. Re:Source on Huawei Offers 'Complete and Unrestricted' Source Code Access · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid Australia is China's back-door; i.e., resources.

  15. Rectifying Nomenclature on The Most Detailed Images of Uranus' Atmosphere Ever · · Score: 1

    Considering that Uranus (Ouranos) in ancient Greek implies "sky"; would it not have been simpler to have just named it Urasterisk? Assuming the Greeks - in mirthful, strategical anticipation - consulted the Pythia prior to selecting the name, and that the root "asteriskos" actually implies "little star", we could've had our planet and our jokes too. The asterisk arguably resembles the southern latitudinal extremity of the head, but also carries etymological connotations of a star. Win/Win.

    Moral of the comment: After Alexander and Uranus, don't trust Oracles.
    Pardon, folks; I could resist no better.

  16. Re:NOC? -- Unleash the Acronyms on Captive Beluga Was Able To Mimic Speech · · Score: 1

    Apparently someone had to write a Nautical Object Compression GUI interface, probably in Visual Basic.

  17. NOC? -- Unleash the Acronyms on Captive Beluga Was Able To Mimic Speech · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While I've spoken with many Narwhals Orating Cryptically, this is one Narratively Ostentatious Cetacean I'd really like to have a word with.

  18. Re:LOL on Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement · · Score: 2

    To the gallows with this barbarous binarian plagiarist beast!

  19. Cages | Expediting Evolution on Pirate Bay Co-Founder In Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    The act of caging any individual without a high probability of recidivism, is essentially spite. It is a form of archaic, wanton penalization probably not even presumed to have any preventive or rehabilitative effect past its end. More practical would be an imposed condition for a ruled duration that would make repeating the crime wildly unlikely or impossible -- preferably while improving rather than weakening the subject. A cage is an efficient method of preventing people from doing anything that cannot be done in a cage with the limited resources at hand. Under typical conditions beyond basic toiletries and tattered books (if they are so lucky), such resources are their own forms and little more, thus leaving violence, idleness and anticipation of food as the majority of very few options. Solitary confinement might actually be more widely practiced for the betterment of society, but only for the violent or voluntary. Otherwise, it makes little sense unless one thinks like a criminal their self.

    I have never observed any value (beyond monetary) in caging anyone who poses no imminent threat to themselves or society. However, as displayed by the practice, it is not ethics that guide such tyrannical policies; it is often pettiness, laziness, or profit. The cage is the gangrene that handicaps society -- by placing problems out of sight and out of mind, sweeping them under the carpet to fester and haunt us any time but now. But it haunts us now despite.

    Of course the answer to this comes from the very fiends who cultivate this gangrenous rot. In the US especially, prison-labor is on the rise like never before. Next time you eat your potatoes, you might ponder what crime the man who harvested them committed.

  20. Achtung ! on Scientists Link Deep Wells To Deadly Spanish Quake · · Score: 0

    Yeah, all fun and games. Just keep digging. Have a little fiesta and call it cute. Then, watch, ..just watch -- as after you puncture the pristine hymen of New Swabia, a vicious horde of extremely irate Vril ascend from the holes, sporting swastikas and saucers -- and turn you all into subterranean bratwursts. Ja? You get it? Trust me, we don't want to start this shit again.

  21. Yonder 'n FL on Smartphone Mugging More Popular Than Ever · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Here in south-western Florida, it seems purloined phones aren't too popular among thugs. Two friends who were mugged on the same street on separate occasions both still had their phones after they'd been beaten lightly (I love that string). They both lost their wallets and one lost his bike, but not their phones. Others have lost their lives, but I don't know about their phones. This is, after all, the place where two British tourists were killed for no apparent reason.

    Perhaps it's time to begin integrating some serious self-defense attributes into these otherwise worthless "smart"phones. Yes, I despise smartphones. But I may consider one if it were mounted to a solid stick, or if it shot lightning and pepper-spray.

  22. UC-Car vs UC-Cop on Facebook Won't Take Down Undercover Cop Page In Australia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seems it aint so easy to do the same in the YouEssay -- at least not with an actual officer: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/melissa-walthall-texas-undercover-cop-facebook-arrest_n_1970479.html
    So far, two people have been caged for that.

  23. Miranda = Obsolete on Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets · · Score: 1

    After seeing so many comments on Miranda rights, I couldn't help drop this link: http://www.salon.com/2011/03/24/obama_rolls_back_miranda/
    I think it pretty well shows that Miranda warnings aren't what they used to be, if they are anything at all.

  24. Re:Argument on Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal · · Score: 1

    Normally it would be necessary to provide greater detail. However, in this particular situation, mostly because of the individuals involved, it isn't practical. To gather an adequate understand of the comments throughout this thread, one need only read the first and last paragraphs. Therefor, it is my earnest suggestion that a most comprehensive understanding of the content must be acquired through blah bleh blah, buy cheap Nikes. Buy them now.

  25. Re:1 hour later, only 2 comments on FSF Opens Nominations For Free Software Awards 2012 · · Score: 2
    I guess not all subjects inspire comments. It is still a worthy bit of news though, and I'm sure it's being read. Have an adage or two if it helps:

    "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear..."

    - Backtrack Linux

    If an article breaches the firehose and nobody leaves a comment, does it make a thought?

    - Penurious Tzu