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  1. Re:It Hurts on The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Decoded · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sorry, but the Bible is not a good example of this. There is not a single disproven event in the Bible, although there are many that appear embellished (that is, we haven't found a corroborating source). Frankly, I think you're trolling but there's so much of that on Slashdot that I can't be sure.

  2. Re:Congratulations on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1

    Surely your cities have evolved with untaxed fuel

    It's been taxed for decades.

    For us in Europe climate change is going to be an inconvenience

    If you implement a cap-and-trade system, it will destroy small business and people will have to depend on the government to even pay for the energy to heat their homes.

  3. Re:Oh, hey, on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1

    How can it not be bloody warmer?

    Locally, perhaps. We're talking about global warming. Also, air pressure contributes to what you're seeing, in addition to temperature.

  4. Re:Sounds like an open-and-shut false-arrest case. on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 1

    That's because the lone positive provision of the DMCA requires that a takedown notice be sent before taking legal action.

  5. Re:Sounds like an open-and-shut false-arrest case. on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 1

    The only thing that courts might have to decide is if the police can compel you to say something for the public safety (the 1st amendment doesn't protect your right to say things that endanger the public, so I don't see why they shouldn't be able to force you to tell a dangerous crowd to disperse).

    Because they don't explicitly have that power?

  6. Re:Score another for the hygeine hypothesis on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 1

    But families often drive emission spouting SUVs believing they are 'safer',even though the kids breathe the fumes and get injured.

    We have minimum emissions standards in the US. SUVs emit fewer pollutants that your typical econobox of the 1980s, and your kids won't be directly breathing them unless you have some kind of rust hole in the floor.

  7. Re:We're adapted to a hunter-gatherer society on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 1

    I don't know what this guy is eating, but I go for lean meats in all but special occasions (we're talking once a year or so), and my potato chips don't have "artificially-concentrated" fats-- unless that's something you call "frying".

  8. Re:old news? on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 2, Funny
    This one's even better:

    Last weekend I went on a movie date with a very nice lady. During the coming attractions I managed to get a piece of popcorn down the wrong pipe. I started coughing. People nearby glanced at me nervously. Then, as the movie was about to begin, I got a tickle in my nose and sneezed. Twice. The young couple sitting to my left immediately got up and moved across the aisle. The old lady directly in front of me leapt to her feet and literally vaulted over her husband in order to sit further away from me. For some reason, I was a little miffed. But then I realized the newfound power I had. I got up, crossed closer to the old lady and young couple and coughed again. They all glared at me and once again moved their seats. The game was on! Maneuvering like a knight on a chess board, I countered their move by moving two rows down and one seat over. I looked at them. I smiled. I coughed. They were stunned. How could this be happening? How had their simple movie outing turned into an Edgar Allan Poe short story? But it had! In a matter of minutes, they had become Prince Prospero and his noble cohorts, while I, I had become the Red Death! The old woman covered her mouth and nose with her hand and cried out, "Why are you doing this to us?!" I laughed and said, "Why? You want to know why? Because death, my dear woman, is the inevitable end for us all! And there is no hiding from it. Even at the AMC!" A horrible silence hung over the theater, no one moved, no one breathed. Then the movie started and we all settled down to enjoy the whacky, 3-D antics of Jim Carrey. Oh, and I'm hoping to go out with the nice lady again, but she has not returned my calls.

  9. Re:Federal Govt Shutdown Is Highly Unlikely on US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s · · Score: 1

    Also, because I can't see this administration doing anything that could possibly reduce the size of the government or take away any of its ability to control out lives.

  10. Take your meds! on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 1

    There are an amusing number of messages to "take your meds". That's NYC for ya.

  11. Re:News to me on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 1

    That's why when I finally convince my superiors to switch from pagers to cell phones, I intend to simply use the messaging system to send text messages to the phones. We are not a 24-hour shop, so answering live calls from customers is not something we can support at this time.

  12. Re:News to me on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 1

    Frankly, paging is now less reliable than SMS from my experience. If your pager doesn't receive a page, it's gone; whereas, if an SMS is delayed, at least it will be resent once your phone is within range of the network. My business unit still uses pagers for on-call, although we have advocating cell phones for some time because they don't even cost any more.

  13. Re:The comment may also be complex.. on If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly · · Score: 1

    ... until the drug pump started administering lethal doses.

  14. Re:Bide your time on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Oh he could just report the company, collect the big "finder's fee" from the BSA, and find a new job. I'm just saying...

  15. Re:No Good Deed on Cops Mistakenly Donate 25 Pounds of Pot to Prison · · Score: 1

    1 in 10? That's too low. If the health care bill passes, by 2014 people will be imprisoned if they don't buy health insurance. It's in the bill.

  16. Re:Just turn off image loading on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1

    I think we just slashdotted a Gopher site.

  17. Re:Before you click! on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1

    You need to stay away from fleabag hotels. Even Super 8 has wireless internet now.

  18. Re:Oh that's wonderful on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow... how long has it been since someone was modded UP for goatse?

  19. Re:Verizon is doubling the phone-subsidy to $350.. on Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was able to port the number from a Tracfone to an AT&T phone about a year and a half ago.

  20. Re:For everyone who is going WTF who is Glenn Beck on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    Neither is "Overrated" equal to "I disagree."

  21. Re:The judge seems to be entirely right on Judge Rules Web Commenter Will Be Unmasked To Mom · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh sure you'll probably say, but that was the Cold War, many years ago and 10,000 miles away. No actually it was right here just a few months ago. "Bush is a lousy president, and this war is a war against my people - Muslims." (knock knock knock). "Open up! You're going to Gitmo where you will be held without trial for many years."

    [citation needed] Heh, heh... that's cute. But seriously, look at what Wilson did to WWI protesters using the Sedition Act for a documented example.

  22. Re:The judge seems to be entirely right on Judge Rules Web Commenter Will Be Unmasked To Mom · · Score: 1

    The only reason that anonymity should be permitted is when wrongdoing is being exposed and there is a possibility of extra-legal repercussions, or when a person with a public position needs to be able to express a view not representative of their public persona - as when, for instance, a politician wishes to contribute to a rational debate on drugs or abortion in a way that is not in accordance with the opinions of Rupert Murdoch.

    Here I thought you'd be talking about someone squealing on a mobster, or speaking against the government. Here, you seem to think that the government needs to be protected from the free media. Thanks for your opinion, Mr. President, but the rest of us know that the Constitution is designed to protect the people from the government, not the other way around.

  23. Re:Yay, tight integration of browser with OS... on Microsoft Plugs "Drive-By" and 14 Other Holes · · Score: 1
    So the history of the kernel is:
    • Windows NT 3.x: GDI in userspace. Really slow.
    • Windows NT 4.0 through Windows 2003: GDI in the kernel. Really unstable. (Remember how the defacto standard in 4.0 was to run servers in VGA to keep them from crashing due to video driver bugs?)
    • Windows Server 2008/Vista: GDI in userspace (again)
    • Windows 7: GDI in kernel (again)

    I think Windows really just needs to run on a console terminal.

  24. Re:For everyone who is going WTF who is Glenn Beck on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 0

    Hey mods: "flamebait" isn't a synonym with "I disagree".

  25. Re:For everyone who is going WTF who is Glenn Beck on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    It's a parody of what he does when he reports "news". He makes ridiculous statements, but phrases them such that when people call him on his bullshit he can say "I'm just asking questions".

    Beck's show is not news. He says it is not news. It is opinion, like Olbermann's show. No one in the Obama administration ever had refuted anything. They don't even mention his name; they play game like referring to his and Hannity's time slots on Fox News. I don't think Beck reads every blog so that he can see that some guy refuted something he said.