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  1. Re:American Culture on Mad Cow Disease Confirmed In California · · Score: 1

    Yes, it can be a random mutation. However, when you deliberately grind up the carcass of a cow with said mutation and feed it to other livestock, you are then transmitting this mutation. Then it becomes an infection. Lather, rinse, repeat... we have an epidemic.

    The math isn't hard here.

  2. Re:I guess you could say... on ICANN Approves .XXX · · Score: 1

    YEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!

  3. Re:encrytion issues on Google Officially Brings Voice To Gmail · · Score: 1

    It actually works to/from Canada just great, so long as you signed up while it was still Grand Central.
    I suspect that this will be made available to us in the not so far future...

  4. Re:Depends on the location on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    Never indicated the part about doing so safely, but you are correct.
    Here in Ontario, you can be fined $180 for running an amber when you could have stopped safely. The point of that particular rule is very simply to prevent speeding through the intersection.

  5. Re:Depends on the location on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    According to the Oregon Driver's Manual of 2010-2011, "Round Yellow – Do not enter the intersection if you can stop safely. Pedestrians facing a yellow light must not start across the street unless a pedestrian signal directs otherwise."

    In your instance, then it's considered valid since to stop would be unsafe. In most instances (i.e. when jackasses plow through instances to beat the red), a traffic violation has been committed when the motorist is entering the intersection on the yellow.

  6. Depends on the location on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 0

    In some places, it's illegal to enter an intersection if the light is already yellow. That always made sense to me - yellow was the 'head's up' for cars behind the line to slow and stop.

  7. Re:Sure, 17 year-olds believe this because of a ga on Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction · · Score: 1

    You know it's flamebaiting to speak about people respawning millenia ago.

    Or that Jesus would camp the same site.

  8. Just use TOR on YouTube Adds Full-Length Television Shows · · Score: 1

    Download Vidalia and View the Network. Select half a dozen US relay nodes and jot them down. Edit the configuration file 'torrc' and add the following:
    ExitNodes server1, server2, server3
    StrictExitNodes 1

    (where server1 is the first relay node, etc)

    Reboot TOR and surf as a defacto US citizen.

  9. Re:What a pity on Open Wi-Fi May Become Illegal In India · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking the same. Seems to me that if you want anyone to be an 'authorized person', the above doesn't matter.

  10. Keep your cardio up on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    Remember that it doesn't matter how many sit ups you do - if you aren't keeping the fat down, you'll just look chubby. I run 8.5K every couple of days and that makes a huge difference.

    Granted, regular sit up and push up routines are required as well... just make sure you are doing your push ups with push up bars (or three even chairs). For sit ups, I love the bicycle and jackknife techniques when I feel like alternating my routine.

  11. Re:As a member of the Church of FSM on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    ...protect teachers who simply ACKNOWLEDGE the fact that not everyone believes ToE is correct

    In science, evolution is fairly universally believed theory. No self-respecting biologist can study bacteria, viruses, mammals, hell - life in general, without expecting change resulting from mutation as generations pass. We quite clearly see evolution daily in the health/medical world - just consider the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and HIV.

    The dominance of genetic drift verses natural selection is perhaps more subject to debate, but don't confuse pretty much all of legitimate, mainstream science with 'militant Atheist sites' and 'D-Kos'.

  12. I'd rather see Edwards on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 1

    The reality is, there are still quite a number of racist people in the voting population. Shoving a successful southern white man on the ticket as the VP might help some of those voters see past what could be considered a drawback for Obama.

  13. Mod parent up! on Amazon Fights Back Against NY Online Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    The argument almost always follows this route:

    Person A: I don't want to pay taxes

    Person B: You have to to pay for social services. It is your civic duty and it's the law. Otherwise you're ripping everyone else off

    Person A: But the government just wastes my money, and anyone who has worked in the government can attest to this. Why should I give them my money (a very small percentage compared to large-income taxes) when they waste it rather than re-investing it?

    Person B: If you don't like it, elect someone who will do something good with your money.

    Person A: Wow, there's an option. Except we have a 2-party system of people who will do essentially the same thing with our money, just through different avenues. Either way it won't be invested properly. Good luck getting a third option in there...

    See, Person B spews the rhetoric we all hear... but the reality is, no matter what an individual does, his tax dollars are going to waste (unless you can invest massive amounts in a charity like Bill Gates). In a country like Finland, where the money gets invested properly, fewer people bitch. It's not greed that's driving most of us to complain about taxes - it's need. If we had the proper social services established to lower our 'need' for float income, then we would feel the pinch less come tax time.

  14. Re:Once the government's bitch, evermore their bit on Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know that I would mod this funny... insightful, perhaps.

  15. Re:Funny,,, on Microsoft Responds to 'Save XP' Petition · · Score: 1

    :(

    Ahh, Windows ME... good times.

  16. Re:But first... on Congress To Investigate FCC · · Score: 1

    So we start a Consumer's Television Council and complain about the FCC decisions made as a result of the Parent's Television Council. Slashdot alone would give it a nice healthy membership.

  17. Re:I'm running Vista Home Premium ...so what? on Vista Shipped On 39% of PCs In 2007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It has it's upside, it has its' downside.

    The grammar check on it sucks.

  18. Re:I am in AWE on The LCD Panel vs. The Crossbow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It would be cooler to have mini video cameras on the back of the cop routed to the chest monitor so that it looked like you were looking right through him. In dark lighting that could be really interesting.

  19. This is news how? on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    A good friend who shall remain nameless completed his Masters on speed/methamphetamines. As he recalled, everyone was doing it at the time... and this was in the 70s.

    This is not new.

  20. Re:Semaphores and smoke signals are ancient on Email In the 18th Century · · Score: 1

    Ahh yes, but can it do Wuthering Heights?

  21. Re:I have a better idea on Australia Plans to Censor the Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    [W]e prefer to teach our children about sexuality and reproduction by keeping them in the dark as long as possible, then lying through our teeth to them, and then letting them learn about it via the always-accurate medium of hardcore pornography.

    You mean, you don't whack-a-mole the face after you're finished? *shocked*

    Seriously though, that's due to our religious association. Major religious institutions figured out long ago that the control of sex was a wonderful way to keep everyone feeling guilty, hence returning to the church for 'salvation'. Because this is all indoctrinated at such an early age, it continues to persist in society. Abstinence teaching is one of the fastest ways to get your child pregnant. What happens when the parents find out? Guilt! Lather, rinse, repeat.

  22. Re:24/96? on Speculation On a Lossless iTunes Store · · Score: 1

    Thank you for solving that for me. I've always wondered

  23. Re:Asking for disaster? on CDN Forces Reactor Online Against Safety Regulations · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's upstream from Camp Petawawa (large and mostly empty Cdn Forces base)

    So what the government is saying is:

    All your base... *ducks*

  24. Re:Not very different on Canada Opens Wireless Industry To Competition · · Score: 1

    Rogers gets that too with 3web. It's a great deal, and when the tech support begins to suck, people switch back to Rogers.

  25. Re:Not very different on Canada Opens Wireless Industry To Competition · · Score: 1

    Usually they either undercut it or buy them out. Worked on Fido...