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  1. Most people on Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns · · Score: 1

    Sometimes "most people" are just wrong.

  2. Re:Controlling infestations on Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US · · Score: 2

    Someone said they were all over pancake syrup. If so, try this: http://www.food.com/recipe/get-rid-of-ants-ants-ants-203233 (boric acid and sugar)

  3. Re:Stupid on New Zealand Set To Prohibit Software Patents · · Score: 1

    It's my understanding that Bill did invent peek() and poke().

  4. Re:Bleaker than you think! on Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants · · Score: 1

    More likely end up in a landfill.

  5. Re:True on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 1

    Adolph Hitler?

  6. Re:The expense isn't the license, it's support on Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source · · Score: 1

    Beats BSOD.

  7. Re:Microsoft loses nothing on Foxconn Signs Massive Android Patent Agreement With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Actually they both pilfered from Xerox who left their doors open.

  8. Re:Patent Cost on KEI Works to Make the World a Better Place in Many Ways (Video) · · Score: 1

    As did your cursory google search. A google search on "james love hiv aids" yields 1,750,000 results. What do you consider significant?

  9. Re:Patent Cost on KEI Works to Make the World a Better Place in Many Ways (Video) · · Score: 1

    Ask any of your "mayor players" about Jamie's role.

  10. Re:Lacked the barest of computer aids? on How NASA Brought the F-1 Rocket Engine Back To Life · · Score: 1

    The 1890 census was done using automated punch card equipment. Were they computers? I'd say we have a continuous spectrum from the Jacquard Loom to what we have today.

  11. Re:See... on NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs · · Score: 1

    I was interviewed once by the FBI concerning a programmer who had worked for me. He had applied for a sensitive job that involved inventory of nuclear weapons for the navy. When asked about drug use, I told them he had told me he had tried every drug known to man. On the other hand I told them he had always been forthright with me and that all they had to do was ask him. He got the job.

  12. Re:"good" on NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs · · Score: 1

    but, are they doing good?

  13. Re:Trade liberty for jobs! on NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs · · Score: 1

    Or Germany in the 30's.

  14. Re:Misleadingly framed poll (again...) on Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News · · Score: 1

    And, of course, you know this to be so, as you are fair and balanced, and know who is American and who is un-American.

  15. Re:Misleadingly framed poll (again...) on Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News · · Score: 1

    I think of it as the BSQ, or bullshit quotient.

  16. Re:having said that on Physicists Discover 13 New Solutions To Three-Body Problem · · Score: 1

    In the real world, there are only n body problems where n is a very very large number.

  17. Re:Gore Campaign Contributions on SXSW: Al Gore Talks Surveillance Culture, Spider Goats · · Score: 1

    For a lousy half million, as I recall.

  18. Re:Its hard to tell on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And some of us learned this in Vietnam. My thought as I left, "We make enemies faster than we can kill them."

  19. Re:Time for Microsoft to be sued out of existence on Nikon Buckles To Microsoft, Will Pay "Android Tax" For Smart Cameras · · Score: 1

    You might google F & G SCROLLING MOUSE, L.L.C. vs Microsoft.

  20. Re:Who benefits from teaching Anti-Science on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    I would like to thank David H. Koch for his $35 million Dinosaur Wing in the National Museum of Natural History in the Smithsonian, $15 million Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian and the $20 million Dinosaur Wing in the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. I've seen them all, and they are awesome.

  21. Re:because on Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? · · Score: 1

    This group will hold daily progress meetings until the project is back on schedule.

  22. Re:O'Reilly ? on O'Reilly Giving Away Open Government As Aaron Swartz Tribute · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  23. Re:Salesman Inventors and Snowed Investors on Crowd Funding For Crank Physics · · Score: 1

    We know, of course, that you are an industry shill placed to prevent us all from having cars that get 200 miles per gallon on tap water.

  24. Re:With one fire on Boeing Dreamliner Catches Fire In Boston · · Score: 1

    Woosh.

  25. Re:Why I doubt driverless cars will ever happen on How Do We Program Moral Machines? · · Score: 1

    The government will simply grant them immunity from prosecution.