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  1. Re:How can it be fair? on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    How would the Olympics make it fair for him to compete? Either he's too fast with the new artificial leg and he can't compete or they could tell him to use a leg that isn't as good and then he may not be fast enough.


    The entire argument is stupid. How can it ever be fair? It's like saying fit people can't compete because it would be unfair for the obese chainsmokers, or that people with healthy genes can't compete because they get an unfair advantage over people with Parkinson's disease.
  2. Policy on AT&T's Plan to Play Internet Cop · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing new. Just the usual corporate policy of "Why aim for the sky when you can shoot yourself in the foot?"

  3. Re:Patriotic??? on OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students · · Score: 1

    I think the word you're looking for is newspeak. In accordance with administration ideals is patriotic. Conversely, terrorist means anyone who disagrees with said ideals. War became peace back when they declared perpetual, unwinnnable war against a concept.

  4. Modern keyboards are the worst on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    Modern keyboards are honestly worse than those they listed. These old keyboards don't even begin to compare to the horrors of a modern keyboard. These days, there is a keyboard standard, which nobody follows. Every manufacturer has their own ideas on how to make a keyboard more ergonomic. Which basically means shuffling the keys around in a fashion where you repeatedly hit the wrong key, and adding bizarre and seldom used special keys in the middle of the keyboard. All this does is make you throw the keyboard in the garbage, and break out your old PC keyboard from 1993.

    There can only be one modern keyboard attached to your computer, and it is the Logitech UltraX. Besides the extremely cheesy name, they are quite wonderful. Handles like a laptop keyboard, but with no "fn" key or touch pad. There are special keys, but they are located in a place where they never get in the way. The layout is as PC-standard as it gets. All keys are properly dimensioned and situated. It's sleek, it's beautiful. Truly, one of the best keyboards ever to be made.

  5. Re:Suprise on Gaming Google a Gateway To Crime? · · Score: 1

    How about, "People who don't think about what larger effect their actions will have are amoral, while people who recognize that their actions will have larger, detrimental effects on others and still engage in those actions are evil."


    How about "People who don't think abou the larger effects their actions will have are reckless, while people who recognize that their actions will have larger, detrimental effects on others and still engage in those actions are moral, immoral or amoral, depending on whether they think it is right, wrong or neither, respectively."
  6. Re:3.9%! on Mars Asteroid Impact More Likely Than Before · · Score: 1

    That's almost 5%!


    Are they 95% certain?
  7. Fishing line on How and Why Knots Spontaneously Form · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fishing line is epic.

    It can be straight, but the moment it comes into contact with anything, or disappears outside of the line of view, or for no apparent reason at all, it's a virtual loom of spontaneous knots.

  8. Re:Computers just aren't ready on Ohio Study Confirms Voting Systems Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    In a two-party system, what's the point of voting at all?


    Wait,... you're saying that there are more than two types of people in America? The walls of this binary paradise are crumbling! And outside is a disturbing ternary landscape, where "dunno" is a valid opinion, and you always have exact change. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS PLACE!
  9. Whoa! A supersonic laser! on Boeing 12,000lb Chemical Laser Set to Fry Targets · · Score: 3, Funny
    TFA:

    Both systems employ a Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) that is made by combining a bunch of nasty chemicals - potassium, peroxide, chlorine, iodine and other stuff and then fired at supersonic speeds.

    Would be a pretty crappy laser if it was slower than the speed of sound.
  10. Re:Is linux for homos? on Spam Trap Claims 10x-100x Accuracy Gain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Linux is not gay, homosexuals are gay.

  11. Re:That's stupid on The Universe Damaged By Observation? · · Score: 1

    The irony is that, since Schroedinger's cat and wave superposition is an unfalsifiable statement (by it's very nature), it is both true and false at the same time.

  12. Re:Lower death rate? on Causes of Death Linked To Weight · · Score: 1

    So, less than 100%?


    I, for one, welcome our new big boned undead overlords.
  13. Wurm on What Are The Best Free Games Online? · · Score: 1

    Not flash, but wurm online is _very_ addictive.

  14. Obligatory Man from U.N.C.L.E. reference on ICANN Elects Peter Dengate-Thrush as New Chairman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I expect Illya and Napoleon to already be on their way to foil T.H.R.U.S.H's evil plans to infiltrate I.C.A.N.N, no doubt to build some sort of massive death ray to blow up buildings from across the planet.

  15. Photoshopped on Giant Atmospheric Waves Filmed Over Iowa · · Score: 1

    That film was obviously photoshopped! I mean, come ON! [/today's xkcd]

  16. The nerve! on 'Bionic' Nerve To Repair Damaged Limbs and Organs · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can't believe these people have the nerve to do such a thing!

  17. Re:System shock 2.... SYSTEM SHOCK 2?! on The Making of System Shock 2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    system shock 2 is a completely overrated game loved only by fat basement dwellers


    Hey! I'm a fat SS2 loving attic dweller, you insensitive clod!
  18. Why is this news? on XKCD 327 — Exploits of a Mom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's humor. It's good humor. But how the heck does this make front page on slashdot? I mean, the guy releases three comics a week, and has been doing it for quite a while. Where's the new part of the news?

  19. Re:Round edges.... on Space Money Invented For Space Tourists · · Score: 1

    Paper's flammable (or at least, easier to light than plastic).


    But plastic emits noxious gases when burned. The kinds you don't want in an enclosed space with limited means of ventilation.
  20. Re: Orange Box Turns Gold on Orange Box Turns Gold · · Score: 1

    I ordered a golden orange box
    I thought it was Fort Knox
    With quite a lot less locks
    Turns out it was all a hoax
    Got someone's dirty socks
    They gave me chicken pox

  21. Smart move on Hellgate London Beta Signups Begin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Smooth move posting the beta signup link on slashdot. Now, the hordes upon hordes upon hordes upon hordes of slashdot users that will sign up for the beta will ensure that the likelihood of actually getting accepted are rapidly approaching zero ;-)

  22. Oblig. IT crowd reference on Has RIAA Abandoned the 'Making Available' Defense? · · Score: 4, Funny

    It felt appropriate to say

    You wouldn't steal a handbag... You wouldn't steal a car... You wouldn't steal a baby... You wouldn't shoot a policeman, and then steal his helmet... You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet, and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow, and then steal it again! Downloading films is stealing!

  23. Re:Cry me a river over 350 Russians on Cleaning up the Most Toxic Pollution in the World · · Score: 1

    too bad, we failed to crush them completely.


    You completely missed the part in the book that dealt with how it's stupid to mess with the guy with the thousands upon thousands of nukes aimed in your direction.
  24. Re:Best way to get a quick answer. on Numerically Approximating the Wave Equation? · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could try putting your question online as an Ask Slashdot post. Use the Submit Story link on the left. Good luck finding your answer!


    No use, I can already foresee the answers you will get!

    * In Soviet Russia, Wave Equations approximate YOU!
    * 42
    * Re: 42 - But... does it run Linux?
    * I've got Dyscalculia you insensitive clod!
    * Frost Pist

    etc.
  25. Re:Partially Zero? on Green Cars You Can't Buy · · Score: 1

    300 g/km co2

    See, it's partially zero... ;-)