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  1. Re:And? on MPAA Goes After More Bittorrent Site Operators · · Score: 1
    stop being a /. yuppy.
    Grow the fuck up moron.
    asshat lamerz

    It's called thinking of others...

    As long as the "others" are not people with whom you have issues, apparently.

  2. Re:Undermedication on Cognitive Enhancement Drugs · · Score: 1

    You spent a whole paragraph on not replying to what he said. He didn't say anything about best interests. He asked how you know that the ads do not prompt more people into seeing a doctor. Then you reply "common sense," and talk about something else. Well, if the companies are spending money to run these ads, and if getting the product requires seeing a doctor, then common sense tells me that it's likely that more people are seeing doctors because of these ads. Irrespective of "best interest."

  3. Re:Bundled Soon? on Microsoft Releases Toolbar Suite · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Microsoft first microcomputer software company?? No.. IBM maybe.

    Micro-Soft was the first commercial software company for microcomputers. And one of Bill Gates', sorry, "William Henry Gates III" first official acts was to send a whiney letter complaining about people not paying up for his BASIC interpreter.

  4. Re:... evolution has purposely kept them ... on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · · Score: 1
    There are also possible factors such as the "flinch response"

    That's pretty cool. I hadn't heard about that. But I see now that I would always flinch so that my left (dominant) arm was the "blocker." If I try to do it the other way it just feels weird.

  5. Re:... evolution has purposely kept them ... on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · · Score: 1
    we lefties are used to going against both.

    Why would that be? That you're left handed doesn't give you more experience against lefties. In fact, the pool of available lefty opponents for you is slightly smaller than it is for your right handed counterparts.

  6. Re:what were these guys thinking? on How Sony's HD Audio Player Falls Short · · Score: 1
    Retro cable in a briefcase

    That's unbelievable!

  7. Re:bah on Tim Bray's Top Twenty Software People in the World · · Score: 1
    Mitch Kapor (discovered the spreadsheet)

    Only if by "discovered" you mean that he ran visicalc and said "hey look at that! A spreadsheet!"

  8. Re:Slashdot's RSS blocking policy on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? · · Score: 1
    Slashdot blocks your IP from accessing RSS if you access our site more than fifty times in one hour. I think that's reasonable, don't you?

    I get blocked occasionally. And I check less frequently than the minimums. But I suspect that large parts of the country appear as one user, as I believe we all go through the same NAT. If that's the case though, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

  9. Opinion on EverQuest 2 Things You Wish You Knew · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Editor's Note: Story opinions do not necessarily represent those of Slashdot editors.

    What does that mean? When did the story ever implicitly represent the editors' opinions? Why the need for a disclaimer on this one?

  10. Re:That only works for smart spammers on De-spamming Your Inbox The Hard Way · · Score: 1
    'No habla espanol' is about all I know.

    You were telling him that *he* didn't speak Spanish. Perhaps that was your problem. He was pretty sure that he did, and so continued to do so ;-)

    No hablo, with an o, means I don't speak.

  11. Re:Shutdown on De-spamming Your Inbox The Hard Way · · Score: 1
    2 days/48 hours (4th Dec evening to 5th Dec noon).

    Not only that, but they managed to cram 48 hours in between one evening and noon the next day.

  12. Re:There's a preventive vaccine already on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 1
    Sexual behavior in human beings is voluntary.

    More or less. How many powerful men have blown their careers because of their desires? Sure, they *can* be resisted, but your brain and body are fighting against you. How many times have you done something out of sexual desire, when the instant after orgasm you couldn't believe how stupid that was?

  13. Re:There's a preventive vaccine already on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 1
    Don't have blood transfusions.

    Is that still an issue?

    Don't play contact sports with people who may be infected.

    Has anyone actually been infected that way?

  14. Re:The US's Space Program on Energia Reveals New Russian Spacecraft · · Score: 1
    other industrial countries' space programs are flourishing while ours stagnates.

    I don't think you can describe the Russian space program as flourishing. From the article: "will require funding levels that the Russian government has so far been unable to provide."

  15. Re:Countermeasures? on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1
    I thought I shot them all down in Castle Wolfenstein years ago.

    Did you save? That might explain it.

  16. Re:Countermeasures? on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1
    I noticed that several ./'ers use thier (pronounced 'theer'?) instead of their

    And two posts above you the guy wrote wierd instead of weird. There's something goin' on, I'm telling ya!

  17. Re:Countermeasures? on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1
    Uh, you do realize that Kinko's is open 24 hrs, right?

    Well ok. Break in after that, then.

  18. Re:Some of these things are valid... on Top Ten Persistent Design Flaws · · Score: 1
    So they won't figure out how to unmount network drives by themselves.

    In each finder window, right next to the drive there is an eject icon. I think they might eventually stumble onto its meaning. I haven't ejected a volume by dragging it to the trash since OS9.

  19. Re:Get the facts straight on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again · · Score: 2, Interesting
    None of that changes the fact Bush did not halt existing work

    Well then how about instead he actually do something to encourage more research? Stem cells are an extraordinarily promising medical tool. Anyone under the age of 40 now is likely sacrificing years off their lives by encumbering research. It may well be that if you can survive another 30 or 40 years that you will then survive another few hundred years beyond that. Oh, and your children too, and everyone around you that you care about. Opposing stem cell research is, frankly, medieval.

  20. Re:That's not a HL2 case. on Impressive Half Life 2 Case Mod · · Score: 1
    for those of you who don't know what this is about then listen to 3.5: "CARP License"

    Actually I was thinking about the original. I didn't know about the CARP version.

  21. Re:Drug-abusing terrorists? on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 4, Funny
    the Dalai Lama is out

    I think in his case the list would be

    1. does not abuse ANY drug.
    2. does not tries in any way to impose its will upon others.
    3. Prophet!!

  22. Re:That's not a HL2 case. on Impressive Half Life 2 Case Mod · · Score: 2, Funny
    That's not a Half Life 2 case mod! That's a Half Life case mod with 'Half Life' crossed out and 'Half Life 2' written in in crayon!

    The man didn't have the proper form.

  23. Re:To Quote Albert Einstein on Thanksgiving Bits · · Score: 1

    Ignore parent. I saw your reply to someone else.

  24. Re:To Quote Albert Einstein on Thanksgiving Bits · · Score: 1
    a white sheet and a flashlight

    I'm sure I'm missing the obvious, but I don't get it.

  25. Re:And you get it how? on Lunar Helium 3 Could Meet Earth's Energy Demands · · Score: 1
    I'm sure we could do it for less than $10billion nowadays

    But what is the reason for your sureness? It seems to be little more than "Well, ten billion is a lot of friggin' money!"