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  1. Re:Not Exactly Swiftian on Eternal Copyright: a Modest Proposal · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm talking about.

  2. Not Exactly Swiftian on Eternal Copyright: a Modest Proposal · · Score: 0

    Sometimes it feels like satire is a lost art.

    Here's a small hint: just putting 'horrifically' in front of the thing you're arguing for, does not make for a clever read.

  3. So what's in Southern Idaho? on Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US · · Score: 1

    The map shows a route going through there, but no military bases or plants/labs.

  4. Re:Nice! on Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US · · Score: 1

    Or at least a pretty solid episode of Spooks.

  5. IF you exclude the risk of being infected up the wazoo.

    On Pirate Bay? I suppose you could manage that, if you really put your mind to it.

  6. Re:Unintended Precedents on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    If your doctor wants you to be on the "caveman" diet, you should probably fire them.

  7. Re:No mods?... on An Open Alternative To Kickstarter · · Score: 1

    I'm not even sure how to differentiate a scammer from a legitimate "give me money for this thing I want" campaign.

  8. Re:Not so altrusitic... on Craigslist Donates $100,000 To the Perl Foundation · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's called 'enlightened self-interest', a much better position than altruism.

  9. Re:Lua on Wikipedia Chooses Lua As Its New Template Language · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wouldn't trust a programmer that waxes his balls. If he can't make good decisions involving his nutsack, can he make godo decisions involving language design?

    Seems like a perfectly good decision to me. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking; I suggest you try it.

  10. Re:The end of Facebook on Facebook Expected To Go Public Next Week · · Score: 1

    security breeches

    Is that some kind of Victorian chastity device for men? Sounds unpleasant.

  11. Well, that makes me feel better on Man Who Downloaded Bomb Recipes Jailed For 2 Years · · Score: 1

    'I also want to stress that this case is not about policing people's freedom to browse the Internet. The materials that were downloaded were not stumbled upon by chance â" these had to be searched for and contained very dangerous information that could have led to an explosive device being built.

    Great, so you can't get arrested for browsing the internet, only for searching the internet.

  12. Re:Free market has decided on Microsoft Pushes For Gay Marriage In Washington State · · Score: 1

    Do any large corporations/companies push AGAINST gay marriage? Or are they either for or quiet?

    WalMart and ExxonMobil come to mind (ranked 1 and 2 in Fortune 500, no less). There was a whole thing recently about Target and Best Buy making large campaign contributions to an extremely anti-gay candidate.

  13. So... on Three Tiny Exoplanets Suggest Solar System Not So Special · · Score: 1

    I think we're getting to the point where "Kepler detects planet" is just not newsworthy anymore. Even if it's a small planet.

  14. Re:Not genetically engineered? on Researchers Create First Genetically Modified Monkeys · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's no technical reason that we would want to create chimeras.

    Sure there is, most genetically engineered mouse models (for example) involve a chimeric step in their creation: stem cells with the desired modification are injected into 'donor' blastocysts and implanted into a host female, producing chimeras which are then bred for several generations to create homozygous offspring.

  15. Re:becoming resistant or... on Insects Rapidly Becoming Resistant To GM Corn · · Score: 1

    A perfectly reasonable parsing of the headline is that insect populations are becoming resistant to GM corn.

  16. I've always wondered on Apocalypse Tourism: Where To Celebrate Doomsday? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do these people also believe that our calendars are predicting the world will end in 9999?

  17. Excellent summary! on Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar · · Score: 1

    Using computer programs and mathematical formulas

    How informative, and here I thought they would use sheet music and baking recipes.

  18. Re:--Insert comment about war on drugs-- on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 1

    You really think you can find a pro "war on drugs" comment on Slashdot?

  19. Re:90% geek on 2011 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 1

    I do believe "nerd-rage rant" is the only correct answer to get the full 100%.

  20. Re:90% geek on 2011 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 2

    doesn't seem to fit in the realm of truly geekworthy

    I think you're supposed to take points off if you know this one.

    I used my massive geek intellect to figure it out, though. Using such subtle clues as vague knowledge of when the show ran, the word "forward", and guessing that it probably wasn't Valentine's Day.

  21. Re:Sinister deeds! on Diaspora Co-founder Dies At 22 · · Score: 1

    And if it were Linux they would have received plans for an elaborate machine gun (released under GPL V2 of course!) and a pile of pig iron and told to "Make it yourself, RTFM noob, its easy!".

    What's really sad is that that lame joke is probably older than this guy was.

  22. Re:Gender of countries on Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security · · Score: 1

    Not every country is a man either - for example Russia, China and my country all view it as motherland.

    Oddly enough, the Russian word for any father-/mother-land is closest to "fatherland" (comes from the word for "father", isn't specifically "land", though), so even when you're talking about "Mother Russia", you'd still call it a "fatherland".

    But yeah, grammatical gender probably has a lot to do with it, "Russia" happens to be feminine in Russian. The word for "homeland" is also feminine, but "fatherland" (above) happens to be neuter.

    In general, I don't think people spend a lot of time thinking about genders of countries (unless they're in the process of making WWII posters).

  23. Re:What, Ben Affleck wasn't available? on Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? · · Score: 2

    It could be a zany rom-com with a dog, a monkey using an abacus, and even fit in the gay angle somehow

    Don't be ridiculous, Hollywood would never acknowledge someone being gay in a biopic. Unless of course it's a Big Important Picture about them being gay (could still go that way, it's got the required ending).

    I expect Ellen Page will be the love interest.

  24. Re:And they called it... on An Operating System For Cities · · Score: 1

    I suppose that's exactly the kind of pedantry my comment invites.

  25. Re:And they called it... on An Operating System For Cities · · Score: 1

    Can't argue with that.