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  1. Nuclear, GMO on Interviews: Stewart Brand Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I'm not opposed to nuclear because in theory it's a perfect energy source. In practice, however, it's built and maintained by humans, so it's not safe. Even a perfect nuclear plant wouldn't be earthquake proof, etc.

    In theory I'm not opposed to naturally-occuring GMOs, but in practice humans have been doing forced cross-breeding between things like plants and spiders. That's not natural and we can't really predict what the consequences will be because such things would never happen in nature.

  2. Re:Rekall on Electric Stimulation Could Help You Control Your Dreams · · Score: 1

    I'm telling you, AC, your brain won't know the difference. Guaranteed, or your money back.

  3. Rekall on Electric Stimulation Could Help You Control Your Dreams · · Score: 5, Funny

    Choose your ego trip:
    - Millionaire Playboy
    - Sports Hero
    - Industrial Tycoon
    - Secret Agent

  4. Re:Simple on Eavesdropping With a Smart TV · · Score: 1

    There, no physical spying inside your house.

    The Apple TV has no camera or microphone.

  5. Simple on Eavesdropping With a Smart TV · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Buy a plain, regular computer LCD display. Connect Apple TV to display via HDMI, connect Apple TV to audio with optical output.

    There, no physical spying inside your house.

  6. Re:Optimistic on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 2

    You forgot to mention all those useless telephone sanitizers.

  7. Re:can only speak for myself, but.. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Work even harder! on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 1

    At my previous job, I was in charge of a similar study. Turns out that all you can learn about such a study is how bad some people are at math.

  9. Re:People Aren't Robots on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 1

    Robots get 168 hours of work out of a 40 hour week.

  10. Re:Overreacting on Nintendo Apologizes For Not Allowing Same-Sex Relationships In Life Sim Game · · Score: 1

    I'm with you on the angel girls.

    Belldandy. /sigh

  11. Holy legalese crap Batman on Why Disney Can't Give Us High-Def Star Wars Where Han Shoots First · · Score: 2

    It turns out 20th Century Fox still owns distribution rights to the Star Wars films. Because of complex and irritating legal reasons, Disney was not able to acquire those as well. Thus, Disney will have to get Fox's approval and probably cut Fox in for some of the profits, if they were to re-release the series.

    If that's what happens when a studio buys something, I don't want to see the mess involved for Netflix to acquire streaming rights for different countries.

  12. Re:Let them have it on DOJ Requests More Power To Hack Remote Computers · · Score: 1

    Since they're doing it anyway (surely you're not going to believe their denials still, are you?), let it be public and provide incentive to build more resistant electronics.

    Resistance is futile.

  13. Re:Let them have it on DOJ Requests More Power To Hack Remote Computers · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right.

    I'm going to replace all my 1/4 watt resistors with 1/2 watt resistors.

  14. Re:What this means is... on Nintendo Apologizes For Not Allowing Same-Sex Relationships In Life Sim Game · · Score: 1

    No geolocation, the console's firmware would contain the ID for the country.

  15. Re:Overreacting on Nintendo Apologizes For Not Allowing Same-Sex Relationships In Life Sim Game · · Score: 3, Funny

    As an anime catgirl lover, I strongly oppose all games which don't offer me cute anime catgirls as a character choice.

  16. Re:What this means is... on Nintendo Apologizes For Not Allowing Same-Sex Relationships In Life Sim Game · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't it be easier to have the games check for the console's country setting and do things differently according to national laws?

  17. Re:Those poor bastards on Australian Government To Standardise On Drupal · · Score: 1

    Anything would be better than ColdFusion, eh?

    Let me introduce you to ExpressionEngine. Learn about its parsing order then go in the corner to cry. It's pure madness that a real coder cannot accept.

  18. Re:What an idea on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1
  19. Japanese version? on Nintendo Apologizes For Not Allowing Same-Sex Relationships In Life Sim Game · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, I can marry my purple tentacle with my demon-hunter magical schoolgirl?

  20. Re:Bwaaaahahahahah! on Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane · · Score: 1

    Damn, I should have read your comment before posting mine.

    I mean, not this comment that I just made, but the one before that.

  21. Re:Bwaaaahahahahah! on Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane · · Score: 1

    You've been swimming in raw sewage?

  22. Re:No 3D printing? on A 32-bit Development System For $2 · · Score: 2

    A 1mm 3D printer nozzle? What is this, 2007?

  23. Media companies are clueless on UK ISPs To Send Non-Threatening Letters To Pirates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Legal alternatives usually don't even exist, or are completely overpriced, or months late in other countries.

    Stop trying to educate, threaten or sue people. Clean up your copyright deals so that you do synchronous worldwide launches of your content. We're in the age of the Internet downloads and streaming. Try to keep up.

  24. So... on One Month Later: 300,000 Servers Remain Vulnerable To Heartbleed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What you're saying is that something has been bleeding for over a month and isn't dead yet?

    Does that mean Heartbleed is equivalent to four women?

  25. How about us north, eh? on The Mere Promise of Google Fiber Sends Rivals Scrambling · · Score: 1

    If this is what happens in the USA when Google Fiber is planned, I'd like to see what would happen in Canada. Bell and Vidéotron are so greedy, their reaction would probably be to increase the prices, lower the speeds and the monthly caps even more, with ads everywhere telling us "Stop Google Fiber or else we'll charge you even more".