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  1. Re:At least no censoring on Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but K-Mart's stuff sells cheaply at least, while Seagate drives go for a premium. I'd rather compare them to Jaguars.

  2. Re:Whatever, it's a great service on Pandora Trying Out Invasive Commercial Breaks · · Score: 1

    Unless it's Star Wars.

  3. Re:Whatever, it's a great service on Pandora Trying Out Invasive Commercial Breaks · · Score: 1

    I go for the stuff with > 30% protein so at least it's not all corn and silage. That being said, my cats preferred Fancy Feast even though some Purina high-end stuff has more protein and cats are supposed to be little predators.

  4. Re:First Post! on Battlestar Galactica's Last Days · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our technologically-superior-Slashdot-poster overlords.

  5. Odd... on Get Out of Sprint Free · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems to me, that since they are breaching the contract, you can terminate at any time. What's with the time limit? Once they increase the fee, all contracts with Sprint are, by law, NULL AND VOID.

  6. Re:Mmm, copypasta. on Ricardo Montalban Dead At 88 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Walked the walk, but did not talk the talk.

    That's fine, but does it mean that you're OK with the religious as long as they never talk about it?

  7. Re:Obligatory. on Ricardo Montalban Dead At 88 · · Score: 1

    He's dead, Jim.

  8. Re:Obligatory. on Ricardo Montalban Dead At 88 · · Score: 1

    I only hope in heaven that his plane's cockpit is appointed in Rich Corinthian Leather.

  9. Re:Something lost on The Presidential Portrait Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    In the early 70s the motion picture industry (including television) began to move away from film and towards video tape as the recording/storage medium. You can really see the difference in quality as the video tape lacked all the subtlety and clarity that film had.

    Almost no movies were shot on videotape as the difference in appearance is jarring and was considered less "artistic". It's every easy, even today, to see the difference between film (which "colors" the print like analog recording "colors" sound) and videotape.

  10. Re:Mod Up on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches · · Score: 1

    Turns out you had a bunch of links from obviously biased websites like "heartland.org" who seem to be some bullshit about how the free market is the solution to all problems, forces.org which has some bullshit "scientific evidence" that smoking is not really that bad for you, a republican senator's speech as some type of authority on the subject (not to mention that Jim Inhofe has a history of citing the Bible as support for his stance on issues...how scientific of him), and a blog.

    Just because you don't like the sources of this information doesn't mean it is false. That's called "poisoning the well" and in this instance it is a fallacious line of reasoning. The point is that good research has been done, but it often doesn't get published simply because it doesn't align with the established "truths". This is the point of what some believe to be a conspiracy of intellectual dishonesty within the very heart of the scientific community.

  11. Re:Mod Up on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches · · Score: 1

    Actually, he said that he lived in an area served by hydropower and indicated that he had seen the impact first-hand.

  12. Re:The key words are "graceful degradation" on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 1

    Surely your NDA has expired after 10+ years?

  13. Re:Ban the Reply All Function on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 1

    Some people feel the same way about the "Caps lock" button. Sane people realize that placing the blame for misuse of these features on the technology instead of the misuser is absurd. Holding down the shift key if you need to type a long work or a sentence in capitals is cumbersome, as is manually reentering all the recipients of an email instead of pressing "reply all".

  14. Re:Server wipe on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't Slashdot drop the pretense of legitimacy and simply add a "+1, Paranoid" moderation?

  15. Re:How many times does this need to be said??!! on Researchers Apply P2P Principles To Car Traffic · · Score: 1

    always slower and more fragile than pedestrian cycling transport for the shortest most common trips that people take - ie going to the corner store)

    Works great, as long as you are only going to the store for milk and a "squishy"-- because that's all that will fit in a bicycle basket.

  16. Re:Affects highways, but that's it on Researchers Apply P2P Principles To Car Traffic · · Score: 1

    None of this will happen because large cities now live off of red light camera ticket revenues. No one is interested in safety, or else they wouldn't purposely make yellow lights so short.

  17. Re:It is worse than that on The Inexact Science of Carbon Neutrality · · Score: 1

    With all this coal, you could cook your sushi. Why are you eating it raw?

  18. Re:Prosecute the parents on 6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive · · Score: 1

    Did you read the part where he said the gun was locked up? A gun is as dangerous as the family jewels when it's locked up in a safe.

  19. Re:Prosecute the parents on 6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive · · Score: 1

    Issues concerning the former often result in the latter.

  20. Re:The reason for SI units on The Technology Behind the Magic Yellow Line · · Score: 1

    Fuck Canada? By the way, they're all either North or South Americans. There is no continent "America".

  21. Re:The reason for SI units on The Technology Behind the Magic Yellow Line · · Score: 1

    Actually, North America and South America are continents. You sound like an arrogant Eurasian.

  22. Re:The reason for SI units on The Technology Behind the Magic Yellow Line · · Score: 1

    So I need a calculation. My calculation (200*17) is easier than yours (6*17 then convert to pounds).

    As he mentioned, if you are too lazy to divide by 16, it's perfectly acceptable to leave the quantity in ounces... just like you left yours in grams instead of insisting that the "correct" answer is 3.4 Kg.

  23. Re:The reason for SI units on The Technology Behind the Magic Yellow Line · · Score: 1

    You don't know how to divide by 16, then? I think the work involved in making an entire nation switch to different measures under threat of fine and imprisonment is greater than that of continuing to divide by 16.

  24. "Progressive" on Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    A "progressive" against progress? Shocking!

  25. Re:"Least popular"? What about "Bob" on Ballmer Sets Loose Windows 7 Public Beta At CES · · Score: 1

    Bob wasn't an OS.