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  1. Re:Lol on Living Free With Linux, Round 2 · · Score: 1

    Swear at it and threaten it with a hammer, of course.

  2. Re:It doesn't matter for me on ISS To Become Second Brightest-Object In the Sky · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yet there still seem to be a finite number of them, and they are thus countable. Not even enough to have to determine if they are a countable or uncountable infinity.

  3. Re:How many bones on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1

    Q: How many bones are in the human body? A: Did the human in question have a recent encounter with 2 mafia men and a baseball bat?

  4. Re:remove the Mormons tag on Utah Trying To Restrict Keyword Advertising ... Again · · Score: 1

    Old, funny joke, but most Jews don't see Jesus as being any kind of prophet.

  5. Re:"open world" games are all action RPGs, simple on Building a Successful "Open" Game World · · Score: 1

    I'd call EVE online an open game world. You're still constrained to the eve galaxy, but all interesting content is pvp, and thus changes quite a bit. Since players can hold space and space is so big (with so many players) there's always some other system to conquer.

  6. Re:Just around the corner... on Advance In Making Stem Cells From Skin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Embryonic stem cells are not that useful for treatment, even though they are very useful for research. The advantage of stem cells is that they let you grow tissue that won't be rejected, since it's identical to that of the host. Embryonic stem cells aren't the same, and thus get rejected. Thus, adult stem cells are what we want for actual treatments. Embryonic cells are just easy to do research on, IE "finding ways to use stem cells to tread medical conditions." Once you know how to do it with the embryonic cells you can use the adult cells to actually implement the treatment.

  7. Re:There ain't no free lunch on A New Way To Produce Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Oxidation is expected, but doesn't normally happen when aluminum is put in water. The structure of these clusters is the interesting thing, since they change the result.

  8. Re:purell on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 1

    Because the forest would cease to be as valuable as the fuel used to cut it down.

  9. Re:Obligatory Headline Quibble on First Solar Eclipse Recorded From Moon · · Score: 1

    That's not a problem, they just moved the moon really far away to observe it.

  10. Re:Micropropeller? on Motor Made From Liquid Film · · Score: 1

    Yup. EvilMadScientist did a short series of articles on making them.

  11. Controllers with fans. on New Medical Disorder Linked To Gaming · · Score: 1

    There are console controllers with airholes and fans built in now, to help prevent sweaty palms. So there's been a solution for years, she just failed to use it.

  12. Re:What does xenophobia mean? on Gamer Claims Identifying As a Lesbian Led To Xbox Live Ban · · Score: 1

    Homophobia SHOULD mean fear of that which is the same. The fact that it means hatred of homosexuals is due to people who don't know any Latin inventing Latin terms for points of view. "Odihomosexual" would be a better term.

    Part of the problem is that fear and hatred are often intertwined. Xenophobia can also mean fear of strangers, and often does. Some people described as homophobic may actually fear homosexuals, but not all of them necessarily do. The term is used where odihomosexual should be used so often that it is now seen as the correct term. Any descriptive linguist would say that it is, in fact, the correct term because of the frequency of use (for English, not for Latin.)

  13. Re:No - Not at all on Authors Guild President Wants To End Royalty-Free TTS On Kindle · · Score: 1

    The kindle creates extra value for the work, not the people who created the work. Thus, the makers of the kindle should be the ones profiting from the extra value they are creating. And look, they are!

  14. Re:Half-assed on Whither the 19th IOCCC? · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the case of the IOCCC, you have to wade through shit to get to the good shit.

  15. Re:Thunderbird Public Service Announcement on Outage Knocks Gmail Offline For Many Users · · Score: 1

    Just tested that, doesn't seem to work.

  16. Re:I followed it and it was fun! Thanks! on Outage Knocks Gmail Offline For Many Users · · Score: 1

    I followed it in W3M and it was fun.

  17. Re:Apropos of nothing on Startup Threatened Into Settling Over Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    Asshats. They are asshats.

  18. Re:FUCK ARTISTS on Pirate Bay Day 3 — Defense Requests Dismissal · · Score: 1

    H&K predominantly makes guns used to kill people, or threaten to do so. They sell mostly to military and law enforcement, not hunters.

  19. Re:if you think the 1st amendment is over... on Pirate Bay Day 3 — Defense Requests Dismissal · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is in Sweden, not the USA. The US constitution does not apply.

  20. Re:Only on Slashdot! on Mars Winds Clean Spirit's Solar Panels Again · · Score: 1

    I don't get watt-hours. What's wrong with Joules? Or kJ? Why have two units for energy?

  21. Re:What if you bypassed the EULA on Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them · · Score: 1

    The EULA isn't a copy-protection mechanism, so probably not.

  22. Re:Apple's reality-distortion field on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    The EULA only causes problems if you install the software before you modify it to remove the EULA. If you never agree to it you're just bound by copyright law.

  23. Re:One Word on Moonlight 1.0 Brings Silverlight Content To Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes. The Yiddish "Nu" also works.

  24. Re:Encrypted traffic... on New Tool Promises To Passively ldentify BitTorrent Files · · Score: 1

    If the public key is altered, your secure connection will fail. The private key need not be transmitted. So no, I don't see your point. Unless, of course, they redirect traffic to a fake tracker with its own public key, but that's not a MITM attack anymore.

  25. Re:Jenny McCarthy on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Immunization stands out. So does McDonalds, clean water, and having airplanes. Standing out means nothing.