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  1. Re:Taxes suck. on In Australia, Google Pays Just $74k Tax On Claimed Revenues of $200 Million · · Score: 1

    "What good is this Intertubes anyway?"

    "Sir, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it. With attendant posturing and outrages."

  2. Re:not much of a hologram on Researchers Create Life-sized 3D Hologram For Videoconferencing · · Score: 1

    Remote control telepresence robots are way cooler. Proof?

    They can stand in the hall and mock their immobile colleagues.

  3. Re:How convenient... on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 2

    It's like the W.O.P.R. trying all these different initiatives. "Class warfare as argument for control faltering. Try ecological initiative. It falters. Emergency memetic evolution -- attempting merge with war on terrorism meme..."

    I'll risk the extra damage from warming. Sounds like a deal compared to the damage from government.

  4. Re:No surprise on Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Aren't people who make false claims supposed to go to jail?

    Aren't people in government who seize things without cause, or who deny timely prosecution supposed to go to jail?

  5. Everybody's favorite TV show "No, Minister!" on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 1

    It's time for people who like porn to announce British Prime Minister-blocking plans.

  6. Tonight... on Syrian Government Uses Skype To Push Malware To Activists · · Score: 1

    Next, on Real TV: When script kiddies go bad -- Real bad.

  7. Good on Nanoparticles Heated By Radio Waves Switch On Genes In Mice · · Score: 1

    Hurry it up peeeeeeze!!!

  8. Re:Mandatory on European e-ID Announced · · Score: 2

    And that happened by *stopping* governments from tracking and controlling people and knowing, indeed, "permitting" all activities.

    Wait. "Think of the children!" n/m. I'm sure you'll get it right this time, if 2000 years of history teaches us anything.

  9. Russia is our friends. They are a freedom-loving democracy, right? Why would they worry we would worry they might attack us? If they remain free, there is no issue. If they collapse back nto dictatorship, then why does Mr. Putin care? Is he defending Russia-qua-dictatorship?

  10. Re:So, they returned a server on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 1

    If the IT department has any competency they will have a standard "corporate load" for their server and should be easily able to delta the os, drivers, apps, and configuration.

  11. Re:So, they returned a server on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 1

    Yes, in the pecking order of shit people, complainers on the Internet are way, way behind government people abusing their power.

  12. Ok, then. on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard

    Well, programmers have been getting fatter over the years. I suppose this applies to the female ones, too.

  13. Re:Comcast == Evil on Sony Put Video Service on Hold Due to Comcast Data Caps · · Score: 2

    Thank you. My dad lived in a test city for a second cable provider way nack when. AT&T came in to challenge Comcast. Cost plummeted and suddenly the cable box was replaced wih a nice modern digital one with fiber optic.

    In a lot of places businessea and politicians gang up using the old socialist fraud that tere isn't enough market for something and therefore government gets to pick one business to win, and uses its guns to keep competition out.

  14. Re:Next they'll turn off the power on BART Defends Mobile Service Shutdown · · Score: 1

    And this has what to do with why they actually shut it down?

  15. Ehhhh. on Microsoft Invests $300 Million In Nook e-Readers · · Score: 1

    Ehhhh...I wuz gonna ger a Kindle anyway.

  16. Oh! on UK ISPs Ordered To Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Oh, no! My right to download gigabytes of awesome music I would never actually pay for so they aren't actually losing money is being impinged!"

    I await my downmod with mathematical certitude.

  17. Re:Whay would Marx say? on Mistreated Foxconn Brazil Workers Threaten Strike · · Score: 1

    Finish Marx' sentence, please. "The workers can't afford what they build, so grant me power over everybody, and I will make sure the products never get built at all."

  18. Re:Lots of left-handed people on The Science of Handedness · · Score: 2

    You're looking the mirror. It's just you in the IT department.

  19. Re:So why the right hand? on The Science of Handedness · · Score: 2

    Both arguments sound spurious.

    Don't overthink it -- probably putting the vital heart further away from the hand that does most of the work (and fighting) gave those organisms slightly higher survival rates, especially with respect to danger, since it was less likely a bite, punch, whack, or, hell, a severed artery in the arm, for that matter, would cause the heart to stop.

  20. Story summary on Engineers Ponder Easier Fix To Internet Problem · · Score: 1

    "Gee, hardly nobody is using the new, super-duper complicated system to securely verify this stuff. Oh wait, we already have a secure way to do this in place. Let's use that!"

  21. Quake on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Way back when, yust before 3D cards took over he world, I fired up old Quake on my more modern machine and ran the software renderer.

    I got some godlike fps, but more importantly, the 320x200 image, though blocky as hell, was smooth, baby, smoooooth. It felt like looking through a window at a weird blocky world.

    For some reason, no 3D card game has ever done this, though they all tend to push the limits until they're back scraping 30 fps again.

    I might try it on CoH or something, turn down options until fps is way back up.

  22. Re:Is it "too real"? on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    I hate the average idiot, too.

    3DFX, the first consumer 3D card maker went out of business with their latest product, about to be released, having a frame motion blur "feature" to make the 3D look like movie frames.

    I fealt...cleansed when they died.

    Maybe 48 FPS isn't quite fast enough so frame blurring, an artifact of ancient tech, not your eyes, is still necessary to pass the stop motion computer-generated equivalent uncanny valley, but I doubt it.

  23. Re:It's all up to the people employing it. on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    Once a thing has been done it will be done again? Not true. I have seen many movies where the secret weapon plans were stolen, then recovered, then destroyed, and the Earth was saved for ever and ever.

  24. Re:Win win? on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    Ummm, the 'A' in AGW is geo-engineering, or terraforming, or whatever you wanna call it, already.

    Why wouldn't there be other, clever solutions that don't involve the left's wet dream of deep control of the economy?

  25. Re:Sad for NASA on World's Largest Digital Camera Project Passes Critical Milestone · · Score: 1

    Well, at .003 million megapixels, they've got a long way to go to catch up to the 5 million megapixel cameras for sale at Best Buy, according to the illiterate, innumerate salespeople.