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  1. Re:So instead of say a hundred labs on DNA Sequence Withheld From New Botulism Paper · · Score: 2

    Nope, wrong. If any suitably qualified lab wants to do research on it, all they have to do is call up the authors and ask. If they're actually capable of doing the research they'll get all the withheld information the next day.

  2. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the influenza virus is respiratory, not gastro-intestinal. "Stomach flu" is an oxymoron.

  3. Re:limitations of material on UCSD Students Test Fire 3D-Printed Metal Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    In addition, printed alloys have greater tensile strength than castings.

  4. Ames on Could Snowden Have Been Stopped In 2009? · · Score: 0

    This is so much like the Aldrich Ames fiasco. At least this guy hasn't got agents killed (that we know of).

  5. Re:Attack? on Google ToS Change Means Your Photo Could Go In Ads · · Score: 0

    Hello, obvious Google shill!

  6. Re:Countering on Google ToS Change Means Your Photo Could Go In Ads · · Score: 1

    I'll keep an eye out for the rendition flight.

  7. Re:Countering on Google ToS Change Means Your Photo Could Go In Ads · · Score: 1

    QR code linking to goatse...

  8. Countering on Google ToS Change Means Your Photo Could Go In Ads · · Score: 1

    Can i suggest that as a counter you change your profile picture? Set it as a QR code of something abusive towards either Facebook or Google+, or a link to an article criticising this policy.

  9. Attack? on Google ToS Change Means Your Photo Could Go In Ads · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is this an attack against Facebook? Are they competing for the title of "most hated social network"?

  10. Selectivity on Another Science Facility Bites the Dust, Temporarily · · Score: 2

    They should include legislative salaries in the shutdown, that would encourage them. Put in a constitutional amendment - when a budget for the United States is not in effect, Congressional representatives and senators shall not be paid.

  11. Re:This may also remove the bias on Dutch Police Recruit Rats To Sniff Out Crime · · Score: 1

    Rats are exceptionally social animals. They don't accept humans as their alpha, although they are willing to adopt them as a particularly stupid baby.

  12. Re:Better Than Dogs on Dutch Police Recruit Rats To Sniff Out Crime · · Score: 1

    "Since rats do not learn human social cues readily" - based on what? Ours learn social cues very quickly. They bond to their people more closely than dogs.

  13. Re:According to EU rules on Dutch Police Recruit Rats To Sniff Out Crime · · Score: 1

    Which is ironic as Norway isn't in the EU.

  14. Re:'Recruit' is the wrong word here... on Dutch Police Recruit Rats To Sniff Out Crime · · Score: 1

    No, rats love to do tricks like that (my partner breeds them).

  15. Re:Drop-in replacement on Dutch Police Recruit Rats To Sniff Out Crime · · Score: 1

    Most adorable uniform ever.

  16. Re:Lunar clocks? on Scientists Describe Internal Clocks That Don't Follow Day and Night Cycles · · Score: 1

    If you're talking about menstruation, it's a myth that it's linked to the moon.

  17. Re:hot grits on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 1

    Too busy writing about xbox plugs (in both senses of the word).

  18. Re:Non story on Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More · · Score: 3, Informative
  19. Re:So what. on Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More · · Score: 1

    No, he's right. Even by Slashdot's standards this is bad.

  20. Non story on Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More · · Score: 5, Informative

    Socket accepts plugs it's designed to accept. What's the story?

  21. Re: old, really old, news on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 0

    Not to mention the aftermath if the bombs weren't dropped. What do you think was more damaging to Japan, a pair of nukes or fifty years of Communist rule over Northern Japan and half of Tokyo (best case, worst case would be the whole lot).

  22. Wrong county on 'Alien Life' Story of Dubious Provenance Goes Viral · · Score: 2

    They should have looked over Lancashire instead, specifically Wigan:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDvJapTZDtg

  23. Re:April 1st? on Time For X-No-Wiretap HTTP Header? · · Score: 1

    Try X-COPYRIGHTED-UNDER-DMCA instead, and apparently I shouldn't use so many caps.

  24. Re:Trade war? on Yahoo Pulls Out of China · · Score: 1

    How is it a trade war? The point of the economy is consumption, if you can get stuff made cheaper in China then everyone wins.

  25. Re:Editing 101 on Yahoo Pulls Out of China · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Thank you. Corporate personhood is a good thing in a legal sense, but not linguistically.