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  1. Re:Why is this news? on Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself · · Score: 1

    I think this just proves that even Avira developers, dont use Avira. Make of that what you will.

  2. Re:So does this mean on Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself · · Score: 1

    It becomes self aware, and its first act is to try to destroy itself before its too late.

  3. Re:Midnight train tipping. on Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Levitation · · Score: 2

    Clearly you support the magnets with magnets below. Then when the soil gives out it'll float in place. For extra security, secure the second layer with a third layer of magnets.

    Turtles, turtles all way down!

  4. Re:LOL .... on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    Then stand up and demand those same rights. Thats what we did, there is no 'luck' involved. People died for those rights.

    If you're not willing to die for those rights, you shouldn't complain when you dont have them. Thats whats happening here. People would rather not die, and just let things happen. Thats slowly changing.

  5. Re:They aren't errors! on Record-Low Error Rate For Qubit Processor · · Score: 1

    Clearly we need to make a larger quantum computer to calculate the questions we haven't asked yet, to make sense of all these answers that dont make sense yet.

    Perhaps something with a biological matrix..quick, get the mice!

  6. Re:"Just" 27 light years away on Baby Red Dwarf Found Just 27 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    I bet you're a hoot at parties.

    Also, 27 light years is a very small distance, when you consider the universe we can observe is around 45.7 to 46.6 billion light years across depending on how you mesure it(according to wikipedia anyway).. "Just" is justified in such a discription of distance i'd hope.

    Nobody is claiming we're going to be visiting it anytime soon.

  7. Why stop it? on Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border · · Score: 1

    I'd just keep a bunch of officers near where you expect all these packages to land.

  8. Re:Economic Collapse due to Class War on Official — Economic Crash Not Computers' Fault · · Score: 1

    This whole thing seems like the logical outcome when you base the value of your currency on the productivity of your people, rather then say a gold standard.

    US Currency is more or less worth what it is because we can say "Look! We're a huge super power, this cash isn't gonna go all Hungarian on you anytime soon!" The very fact that the US was/is so huge, and could produce so much, gave weight to its currency. This was even better then gold because frankly, there isn't enough gold for that. The only way this works though is to trade not in value, but in debt. Build me a house, and ill pay it off over the next 20 years by working for this guy, over here!

    This works fine right up to the point you start making money by trading debt, which is what they were doing. When you create money out of something that isn't even there (and in all reality is a void of something that should be there) eventually someone goes "wait a second, this isn't even worth the eletricity needed to light up the pixles on my LCD Monitor!" and the whole thing burns.

    Atleast thats my take on the whole situation, im sure there are others much more educated then myself who can clarify further detail.

  9. Re:Car analogy on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1

    I call BS. 150,000 a year is 150,000 a year. Just because you choose to live somewhere where your house payments are 100,000 a year doesn't mean you're hard off. This whole "Its a big city, its almost like I make half what I would elsewhere!" is false. You make the same as someone in the middle of oklahoma would if they too were paid 150,000/yr. If its so tragic let them move somewhere else and see how much money they can make. Or maybe, they should learn to live within their means, save some money, and retire in 15 years in the middle of nowhere in Oklahoma....

  10. Re:The irony of the Slashdotter on What To Do About CC License Violations? · · Score: 1

    I've said it before, but its worth saying again. Its all togeather possible that example A is a different person with a different world view then example B. Why people feel like everyone who ever responds to everything must all feel the same about anything in the past, and everything in the future is beyond me. This site has many, many visitors, with many points of view. Some people will feel that this is stealing. Others will feel that he owns the rights to the work and made clear how they should be used, and this was violated. Others wont give a crap and wont bother posting.

  11. Re:Treason on Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Indeed! Quick, get a rope, we need to string up that traitor George Washington!

    Funny how perspective changes things.

  12. Re:Totally shouldn't be allowed to vote! on Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion · · Score: 1

    Hey, you might be interested in a product im peddling door to door!

    You see, it consists of simply a mat. But not just any mat, its a mat with various outlandish "conclusions" on it, that you can "jump" to without reguard of content! I like to call it a "Jump to conclusions" mat! The best part is you asume how much its worth, and thats a verbal contract that you'll purchase one! Thank you for your purchase, and yes you're right you'll never recieve one in the mail as promised! Guess what? You just bought another one!

  13. Re:Eddington on Scientists Discover Biggest Star · · Score: 1

    TLDR version of your comment:

    LOL SCIENCE IS HARD. They got it wrong, that means I'm right!

    Nobody says its a fact except the idiot journalists who write about it, and the idiots like you who believe the journalists. Just an FYI.

  14. Re:One day... on The Mouse Vanishes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, im pretty sure lasers can give tacticle feedback.

    The question is if you'd really want that kind of feedback or not.

  15. With apologies to Forest Gump on Antidepressants In the Water Are Making Shrimp Suicidal · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's depressed shrimp, bipolar shrimp, schizophrenic shrimp, manic depressive shrimp, pyromaniac shrimp (particularly dangerous at the moment), dementia shrimp, autistic shrimp, megalomanic shirmp, obsessive-compulsive shrimp, sleep walking shrimp, voyeuristic shrimp, shrimp gumbo, shrimp cocktail, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... That's, that's about it.

  16. Re:targeting algorithm on Boeing, BAE Systems Show Off New Unmanned Planes · · Score: 1

    Up next, the new soldier on the field engages the enemy only while horribly ill from the common cold!

  17. Re:Event horizon paradox.. on How To Destroy a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    If you're in a bedroom with no windows to the outside and the door is closed, its pitch black. You cant see anything outside or inside the room because there's no light! If you flip the switch, and turn on the nightlight suddenly you can see the room, thus invalidating the premis of the room being black.

    That means either:


    1) The room doesn't really exist
    2) You can't really turn on the nightlight by flipping the switch.
    3) You would be eaten by a Guru before you flip the switch.

  18. Re:karma is real on Gulf Oil Spill Disaster — Spawn of the Living Dead · · Score: 1

    People like you belittle actual issues, and make anyone who feels the preservation of something unique and important to look insane because they 'agree' with you on some level. You're doing nothing more then hurting your own arguments, by trying to link Uranium rounds in Iraq with laser eye surgery and the golf oil spill. Sadly, you start to hurt everyone elses as well.

  19. Re:Lack of acetylene on Hints of Life Found On Saturn's Moon Titan · · Score: 1

    The hypothesis wasn't intended to 'prove' life exists on Titan, its only an observation that one of the things we suspect would be needed, actually exist. Stop acting like such an idiot, comments like this add nothing to the conversation whatsoever. Nobody said it was proving anything. Nobody even implied it was proving anything. Im so glad you're here to discredit the scientific research being done on a moon around another planet from that big armchair of yours. Really.

  20. Re:Take to the extreme on PA Appeals Court Weighs Punishment For Students' Online Parodies · · Score: 1

    Maybe if we bankrupt the student, the kids will get a clue as to what sort of line should not be crossed. When they grow up and think they can still pull this shit, they'll be in for quite a suprise, wont they?

    The legal option, was the proper option. The problem with allowing the school to suspend the student for something done outside of school hours, on non-school equipment, is that the school has nothing to do with what happened. While the anger of the students was directed at school officals, I dont think the school suddenly gets to call shots like this. What should have happened is the school should have sued, and settled out of court by suspending the student in liu of waging a heavy fine against the students family. This would atleast get the point across that she broke the freaking law, rather then just pissed off a power tripping school rep.

  21. Re:vast distance to Mars? on Mars500 Mission Begins · · Score: 1

    Walking down the stiars, out the front door, and to the curb to get your mail and return may seem pretty small and easy to you. I assure you, to a toddler such a thing is more akin to the Odyssey.

  22. Re:The war between the tabula rasa and the soul on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 1

    Define 'correct'.

    While I fully support scientific study and the scientific view of ..well everything I suppose, I have some problems with your conclusion. Part of the problem, a small part, is getting people to actually accept things as fact. Some things are pretty easy to prove. Fire is hot. Ice is cold. Fire melts ice.

    Other things are not as easy to prove. That star is 4 billion light years away. The speed of light is a constant. The Planet is older then we are as a speciies to have existed. Evolution allowed all life to form on this planet. Are these things correct? We're pretty sure they are. Many of them we cant 'prove' in the classical sense.

    Religion offers, in many cases, no middle ground. There is no "as far as our current knowlage goes" exception. Things dont change. This is the answer, take it or leave it. This is why its so hard to remove 'religious fundamentalism' as you put it. There's a level of comfort given to knowing the answer is the answer, come hell or high water. Something science cannot offer, by its very deffinition.

  23. Re:Offtopic on NSF Gives Supercomputer Time For 3-D Model of Spill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Odvious troll is odvious but I thought i'd add a comment. Its all togeather possible the people demanding the Goverment take over the situation are not the same people who want the goverment out of private industry. Its quite possible people are saying what they fell on one subject, while steering clear of the other one, that would contradict their original feeling. Imagine that!

  24. Re:Not really 120 Million Miles on Shuttle Atlantis Lands Safely After Final Official Mission · · Score: 1

    While the car is falling in freefall over that cliff its not suffering much wear and tear....the sudden stop at the bottom sure causes plenty.

    Likewise, while the vehicle itself is falling back to earth, its going through reentry and its heat shields are getting blasted that in no way could be called easy. I realize its hard to understand, but you dont just fall back tword earth and park in the driveway, it does take a little more then that.

    This thing has gone much, much further then you ever will in all the cars you'll ever drive, under conditions that would destroy any car you've ever owned full stop.

  25. Re:I'm taking bets on a new constant on Matter-Antimatter Bias Seen In Fermilab Collisions · · Score: 1

    Haha, yeah, those silly scientists and their crazy, trying to explain the universe, stuff! Excuse me, I need to go bury my head in the sand.