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  1. Word of the day on ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search · · Score: 1

    antitrust

  2. Word of the day on California's Santa Clara County Bans Happy Meal Toys · · Score: 1

    unconstitutional
    -adjective
    not constitutional; unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution, as of a country.

  3. Re:I don't see the relevance... on Climate Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 1

    That is simply not the consensus of the experimentation and modeling I've seen to date, by a huge margin.

    The biggest difficulty with this issue is that no "experimentation" has been performed, only modeling. Experiments give you facts, but experimentation here involves cloning an exact copy of the Earth and running different scenarios for thousands of years. Models are unreliable because they give you whatever answer you program them to give you. You can say that we have one experiment running now with the real Earth, but we don't know the results of that experiment; we are only guessing about the final outcome. This is the biggest difference between evolution and AGW; evolution has millions of final outcomes but AGW has zero.

  4. Re:Learn 2 math on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 1

    You're complicating it.

    136/206 = 0.660194...

    This is clearly less than 0.666666...

  5. Both sides are guilty on Seattle Hacker Catches Cops Who Hid Arrest Tapes · · Score: 0

    The cops are guilty of destroying evidence. The golfers are guilty of assault, public drunkenness, obstructing traffic, and other shenanigans. The cops were right to arrest these assholes for the charges listed here. (Not that you'll hear one peep of disapproval about these hooligans from any other Slashdotter.) The cops were wrong to obstruct justice and should be fired and prosecuted.

  6. Re:Raw data can be useless on UK University Researchers Must Make Data Available · · Score: 1

    Everybody else's products have been "value added" i.e., cooked, homogenized, and adjusted.

    ... and pruned and faked to fit their pet theory.

  7. Phone [their] home on SETI To Release Data To the Public · · Score: 2, Funny

    E.T.'s signal-processing technology should be much better than ours. Just ask them for help.

  8. Re:Gotta love... on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, sane people don't burn themselves at all.

  9. Re:And So Al Amrikee Invokes The Streisand Effect? on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 1

    Canada, which recently threatened Anne Coulter when she was going to speak at a university

    That wasn't "Canada", that was the president of the university she was going to speak at.

  10. Re:More nonsense use to justify immoral action on UK Scientists Create a Three-Parent Embryo · · Score: 1

    Listening to a rightist lecturing about "morality" is almost as funny as listening to a leftist lecturing about "responsibility".

  11. Re:Get a credit card on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Also, you got skimmed.

    I saw a news show recently reporting that lots of crooks have been breaking in to stores to steal the hard drives out of the cash registers. Lots of the registers store your debit/credit card information unencrypted and criminals can recover and use tit. One more reason I always use cash for minor purchases.

  12. Re:My wife asked for one for her birthday... on Woman Claims Wii Fit Caused Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome · · Score: 1

    Good luck finding one after other women read this story.

  13. Re:Oh great... on The Pirate Party of Canada Is Official · · Score: 1

    My riding always goes to the NDP (a party I do not support), so I will be voting Pirate in the next election. There is no danger of my riding going Conservative (another party I do not support -- specifically because of what they will do with copyrights if they ever get a majority).

  14. Re:And if they are after the hardware on Explaining Oracle's Sun Takeover — "For the Hardware" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's that, or they really don't know how to try and run a competitive hardware business.

    That's okay -- neither did Sun.

  15. Re:They explain why on Evolution, Big Bang Polls Omitted From NSF Report · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They don't wish outsiders to think Americans are ignorant when in fact they are wilfully stupid.

  16. All aboard the sinking ship! on Explaining Oracle's Sun Takeover — "For the Hardware" · · Score: 1

    Isn't Sun's ridiculously overpriced and underpowered hardware the reason they went bankrupt?

  17. Re:from the article on Largest Sodium Sulfur Battery Powers a Texas Town · · Score: 1

    Solar power may not work as well in Alaska but wind power may do the job instead. Combine that with a BoB and you have a good reliable power supply.

    ... for only fifty times the price of diesel.

  18. Process/Objective Inversion on Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The purpose of the 'process' is to serve the 'objective'. When serving the process becomes the objective, you're boned.

  19. Re:Um..no on James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World · · Score: 1

    Bugger off — Senator Palpatine has our best interests at heart. You should vote for him like you'll never vote again!

  20. Re:Um..no on James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World · · Score: 1

    Don't worry... Senator Palpatine will save us from this Phantom Menace. It's not like he's making this shit up just to seize power.

  21. Re:Um..no on James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World · · Score: 1

    Look up the word "immigration". You should be able to find it in any dictionary.

  22. Re:Um..no on James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World · · Score: -1

    There seems to be a certain type of person who simply can not conceive that there are people who are not essentially humanitarian. These people simply assume that everyone has your best interest at heart. The criminal mind is entirely foreign to them.

    They're called "leftists".

    evertheless we have a man intelligent enough to earn a PhD, yet dumb enough to think that power won't be abused

    This smart-dumb duality confused me for a long time, but I finally realized the cause. University professors tend to be idealists. Idealism makes you stupid.

  23. Cha-Ching! on Good SAT Scores Lead To Higher Egg Donor Prices · · Score: 3, Funny

    Each woman has two ovaries with 300,000 eggs each. At $35,000 per egg, that's $21-billion per woman. You'd think more women would cash in on this.

  24. Re:Cannonical is just trolling us on Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release · · Score: 1

    Only if you're using 8 bit bytes.

    Name one platform manufactured today that doesn't use 8-bit bytes.

  25. Re:Look at Evermore. It's got lots of potential to on SoftMaker Office 2010 For Linux Nearing Release · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Germany is a first-world democracy. China is a paranoid third-world totalitarian dictatorship. Do the math.