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  1. Re:why a phone, why not an ipod touch? on The Ultimate Geek Christmas Card · · Score: 1

    If it's cheaper, then it won't be the most expensive expensive Christmas card. Thus, it doesn't do the job.

  2. Close the loop on Hackers vs. Phishers · · Score: 1

    If you can get the phishers to concentrate on the hackers, while the hackers are concentrating on the phishers, maybe they will leave the rest of us alone.

  3. Move definition up on Yale Researchers Find New RNA Structures · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the article: (Move definition up) RNA molecules are best known for carrying information from genes encoded in DNA to ribosomes

    Are there (Move definition down) RNA molecules too?

    Do these articles use the same editors as slashdot?

  4. Re:What does a book offer that a reader doesn't? on Barnes & Noble's Nook, Reviewed · · Score: 1

    "No book burning has ever deleted an entire work from the culture"

    That we know of.

    It's come very close. Look for the Maya codices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codex

  5. Re:OMG yes! on Children Using Technology Have Better Literacy Skills · · Score: 1

    Ewe hav too bee more better 2 mak it n2 colege. Eye have scene some badder righting coming from gooder students, but they are soon made sum more better aftre reeding my righing. I'11 tech ur kids howl 2 bee the goodest. U'll see.
    Sighned: Pubic Skool Teecher.

  6. Re:grammar offsets on Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets · · Score: 1

    If there were such things as grammar offsets, then slashdot would be bankrupt within a day.

  7. Re:Richard Garriott's take on carbon offsets on Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets · · Score: 1

    In order to do "something" about overpopulation, lets all hire out a bunch of prostitutes.

    It may not be something positive, but it is something. Same thing about carbon offsets. Are they really a positive effect? Pay someone to plant some trees, then later burn them to get them out of the way.

  8. Re:Not realistic on Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets · · Score: 1

    Microsoft will simply follow the same methods used by the carbon offset people.

    You pay your money to a carbon offset company, that you yourself own.

  9. Re:I'm selling carbon offsets! on Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets · · Score: 1

    Algore, is that you?

  10. Is this related... on Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets · · Score: 1

    Are these payments received related to the programs used for global warming calculations?

  11. It's a real pain on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 1

    The current state of the documentation for most typical Linux packages are:

    Man pages: Out of date, and refer yout to the info pages for more recent information.
    Info pages: Starts with copyright, then covers everything you don't need to know.Doesn't cover anything beyond the man pages, even though you were refered here. Usually just an exact copy of the man pages, spread over several pages.
    Tex pages: The same as the info pages, just paged differently. /usr/share/doc: Copyright information. Exact same information for every package, but exists seperately for all of them.
    HTML info: Either copies of man pages or info pages.

  12. Angelic Layer on Brain-Control Gaming Headset Launching Dec. 21 · · Score: 1

    One step closer to being able to play Angelic Layer.

    I claim dibs on the electric shock whips!

  13. Re:Science on Scientists Step Down After CRU Hack Fallout · · Score: 0, Troll

    You act as if the deniers have nothing to gain from ignoring the science. No matter what the science says, everyone that has a stake in industries that produce large amounts of CO2 will tend to fight tooth and nail against anyone claiming that CO2 does any harm. Simple selfish interest.

    These "deniers" are trying to get a massive gain: The truth.

    What "science" are you talking about? The faked data? The munged programs? The attacks on opponents?

    I have a program and data set that shows that if you don't send me all of your earnings for the last 10 years, then the world will be destroyed. Sorry, the programs and data have been lost, but the proof is in this paragraph, so you better start writing that check right now before the Earth is destroyed. You need to do it right now, any delay could be devistating. If you want collabration, just ask any of my partners in this scam.

    The "Climate Change" business has smelled like those Nigerian letters for a long time now. Send us money right now, or something terrible will happen.

    Unless they can rewrite this into a real scientific study, it's just going to be yet another moderately successful scam that went bust. They need to get usable, reliable, verifiable data sets. They need to do analysis in a way that others can reproduce. They need to prove that man is causing it, and that it is not a natural event.

    All they have right now is a political/religious propaganda effort.

  14. Re:Science on Scientists Step Down After CRU Hack Fallout · · Score: 0, Troll

    See: homeopathy, cold fusion, n-rays, scientology, and other fun digressions.

  15. Re:Science on Scientists Step Down After CRU Hack Fallout · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Science is done when you get a polition who flunked out of a religious college to make a power point presentation on a subject he barely understands. You then give him a Nobel Prize.

  16. Here's the translation on The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Decoded · · Score: 1

    One pages translation:

    Somebody set up us the bomb.
    Main screen turn on.
    All your base are belong to us.
    You have no chance to survive make your time.
    For great justice.

  17. Re:Not our fault on Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault · · Score: 1

    I*s*n*'*t* *V*I*S*T*A* *s*u*p*p*o*s*e*d* *t*o* *b*e* *s*e*c*u*r*e*?*

    * Windows has determined that
        someone is attempting to type
        using the keyboard.
          [Allow] [Deny]

  18. Re:Malware, still? on Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault · · Score: 1

    In other words, this problem will never be solved until people finally get over the baseless notion that they need administrator rights to check their email and read the news online.

    But, a lot of the time you do need administrator rights to do simple things. If all you do is use mspaint, then you may be Ok, but if you want to do any real work, you're stuck with logging in as administrator, or the programs won't run.

  19. Re:Really? on Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault · · Score: 1

    A little more than 0 is what?

  20. Re:malware... on Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is George W Bush's fault!

    Well, that seems to be the cause of all Obama's problems, so why can't Microsoft use it too.

  21. Think of the movies on LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure · · Score: 1

    Think of all the movie plots that this thing is generating. Soon we'll be enjoying such films as:

    Attack of the Bagle Birds.
    Revenge of the Bagle Birds.
    Bagle Birds do Dallas.
    The sound of Bagle Birds.
    The Bagle Birds of Madison County.
    Power Rangers: Bagle Bird Transformations.
    Sailor Bagle Bird.
    White Christmas.

  22. Re:The real reason on What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Obviously, Google is planning on copying Scientology and making all of us their slaves. We will all be forced to view advertisements on web pages without ever being paid for our work.

  23. Re:Classified as a religion? on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 1

    Since they are classified as a religion (thanks to infiltration of CoS into the IRS) wouldn't his service be considered 'worship' and 'volunteering'. However it wouldn't surprise me if they actually were actually doing much worse than just killing people.

    Well, there is the annual reenactment, where they stack thousands of people on a volcano, then blow it up with a nuclear bomb.

  24. Re:What is an AUP? on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1

    Don't worry about it. Just slap another shrimp on the barbie, smear it with vegemite, and pull out a big knife.

  25. Offtopic? on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I don't post an off-topic post to this article, am I off-topic?