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  1. Re:It's true on You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School · · Score: 1

    "Audit" means to attend a class without receiving credit. You'll still receive a grade from the professor, but it will not be reflected on your transcript.

  2. Re:You might have to pay to get the records on US Banks That Offer Transaction History? · · Score: 1

    I'd have to say that yours wasn't a great system because it relied on the bank's processes. While the bank is at fault, using them as a scheduled payment service without knowing whether they could handle it is asking for trouble. I'm sure that incident predates the existence of online bill payers, but that's what I would recommend to tenants now in order to make sure they don't forget to pay their rent.

  3. Re:It was only a matter of time. on Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority · · Score: 1

    SSL can be cracked rather easily

    Which cipher? I'm sure you don't mean RC4-128 or triple-DES.

    even AES in certain forms may contain weaknesses.

    Of course. I'm sure Fort Knox has some kind of weakness as well, but no one's ever broken in.

  4. Re:There's a Difference? on Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not backing any party in particular, but Prohibition was essentially a non-partisan progressive movement-- it wasn't a Republican amendment. The GOP recognizes that regulation of the manufacture and sale of alcohol is currently a state right.* Plus, I don't think the Republicans are actually against anyone eating anything. Heck, half of registered Republicans will basically eat anything as long as you either deep-fry or put barbecue sauce on it.

    * I would like to know exactly what part of the Constitution authorizes the bureau of ALCOHOL, tobacco, and firearms.

  5. Re:as an american, i am intrigued on Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck · · Score: 1

    Dude, you were in DC. That's the city that had a mayor get caught on video smoking crack with a hooker-- so they reelected him.

  6. Re:Women can land any man they want on AMD Offers Women Geek Dating Advice · · Score: 2, Funny

    He has a sister.

  7. Re:So sad, but it's time on Blockbuster Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Huh huh, you're OLD.

    You forgot, "now get off my lawn!"

  8. Re:I'll miss them on Blockbuster Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    I won't send Netflix a dime until they stop buying pop-under ads and send their CEO over to my house to personally apologize for wasting my time.

  9. Re:Has Slashdot turned into the Drudge Report? on In Case of Emergency, Please Remove Your Bra · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As opposed to the tabloidy pseudo-populist, mostly-left-wing takes on the news that we normally see?

  10. Re:Budget grocery stores on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 1

    Aldi makes you pay for bags to avoid bringing more plastic bags into the world

    Maybe that's one reason, but they don't offer recycled paper bags.

  11. Re:Overpriced beef? on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 1

    Beef prices seem to fluctuate wildly depending on area. I lived in the western suburbs of Philly where ground sirloin was at least $3.99 a pound. I moved 23 miles to the NE and it's never more than $2.99, which used to be an awesome sale price on the "main line".

  12. Re:Forward thinkers on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 1

    For one thing, they're not mandatory

    In some supermarkets, they effectively are past a certain time. At one store near me, that time appears to be 10 PM, at which point zero registers are open. If you ask nicely, they'll call a cashier back from reshopping to ring you up. I'm not lazy, but if I do need to fill a cart late at night, I HAVE to do this because a self checkout doesn't have any counter space on which to empty the cart, and I can't really put anything in the cart until it's empty. Meanwhile, the counter past the scanner can only hold about four bags. Since for now, the USA still has a capitalist system, I voiced my displeasure and eventually stopped shopping there when they didn't change the policy. I guess I could have put on a purple SEIU shirt and complained about the potential jobs lost instead.

  13. Re:Hmmm that'll do... on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 1

    feet of concert

    Would dancing shoes qualify? (spell checker FAIL I presume)

  14. Re:bullcrap on Countering a DMCA Takedown In the Magnet Wars · · Score: 1

    It's non-trivial to change out a dishwasher.

    I'll say. It took a recip saw to remove mine because the installer saw fit to screw the legs to the floor (a properly installed dishwasher shouldn't move; the counter screws should be enough to hold it in place) before installing the countertops. They were rusted away, besides being in an almost inaccessible location.

  15. Re:So they can just keep stolen property then? on UK Man Prevented From Finding Chipped Pet Under Data Protection Act · · Score: 3, Informative

    An in-law of mine did TIME for receiving stolen property... and no, she didn't even know it was stolen. Obviously, we don't really want to prosecute the new owners, but the fact is that a crime was committed, and the police are ignoring a lead to the criminals. How does this mouthbreathing judge expect the man to file a civil case when he can't get the company to divulge the whereabouts of the dog?

  16. Re:This is why science rocks. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 1

    How about backing up any of that ad hoc tripe with some empirical evidence?

    Empirical? This is literary analysis, not a science experiment. He should have provided citations, but the Gospels and Paul's epistles explain these concepts.

  17. Re:This is why science rocks. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 1

    As we all know, we grow older and our bodies essentially break in at least some ways almost from birth. Before the fall, we did not. Afterward, we began to die ON THAT DAY.

  18. Re:This is why science rocks. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately, it's also wrong and misguided. But whatever makes you feel better.

  19. Re:This is why science rocks. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 1

    The rib thing is already wrong, because it insinuates that women can be created from men, when it's been proven that the natural default gender of a human is female, and you become male later.

    Who's sillier: someone who literally believes the Bible, or someone who thinks God is going to use some sort of cloning machine that meets Slashdot specifications?

  20. Re:This is why science rocks. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 1

    Wow. Not only are you wrong in assuming the ark needed to be made of steel, you speculated that it would be too small (there are lots of studies existing on this; the ones that use actual numbers claim it's plausible) and we have, indeed, found lots of evidence of flood levels around the world in the proper time frame. The best physical evidence is in the Middle East, which lends credence to the theory that it was only a local event, but we have flood narratives from many, many religions.

  21. Re:This is why science rocks. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 1

    You do realize that you equated belief in creationism with suicide bombing, right? Just wanted to check.

    People's differing beliefs don't harm you, in and of themselves. It's what they do with them. Let's not have a Minority Report, thoughtcrime society.

    Gravity is also "only a theory" but that doesn't mean you can fly if you don't "believe" in it.

    No, actually it's a law in the Newtonian model. Too bad slashdot is apparently loaded with people who never passed third-grace science and have mod points.

  22. Re:This is why science rocks. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 1

    But then when one says: "Well stop thinking there; nobody created God; God just is", the how can't the Big Bang just be?

    Because we already have determined the law of conservation of mass and the second law of thermodynamics.

  23. Re:This is why science rocks. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 1

    No, and he's busy destroying all those worthless old MS written by ancient historians. Complete rubbish! We should rely only on the empirical research of science to determine history!

  24. Re:This is why science rocks. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 1

    What would the zealots hate more, the idea that our universe sprang out of nothing

    I'm not a zealot, but considering that Genesis says the universe was without form before it was created, it's much the same.

  25. Re:This is why science rocks. on LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe · · Score: 1

    Modding that comment down was decidedly an anti-Christian thing to do; "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

    Actually, if I made a dumb post like that, I would rightfully expect the decidedly lenient punishment of having it modded down.