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  1. Re:Go after the real thieves lol on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 1

    Sorry-- we were all confused because Slashdot told us that wanting a free market meant we had to be like Somalia.

  2. Re:Radio Shack Ad Best So Far on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 1

    I assume that commercial announced they're not even going to bother to sell parts anymore.

  3. Re:Shitty content. Shitty beta site. Stagnant traf on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 1

    But has Netcraft confirmed it?

  4. Re:Ads are toxic. on Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time? · · Score: 1

    The Broncos really need to draft defense and running backs.

  5. First, the government gets to regulate our breathing because it contains a greenhouse gas. Now, they're going to regulate our urine because it contains a precursor to ammonium nitrate!

  6. Not really. The layman's version: instead of performing lab testing, they're going to feed the urine to the crops and hope for the best.

  7. Re:Ick is right on Researchers Try To "Close the Nutrient Cycle" Through Better Waste Recycling · · Score: 2

    Reverse osmosis is not running it "through a charcoal filter". If you look at bottled water that is taken from a municipal supply, it's always been through reverse osmosis and had a tiny amount of salt added to it so that it's not totally tasteless. Of course, better bottled water comes from springs, and that information is also on the label.

  8. Re:Priorities on Feds Grab 163 Web Sites, Snatch $21.6 Million In NFL Counterfeit Gear · · Score: 1

    This. A few hundred pets die from melamine every year, and life goes on.

  9. Re:Feed your kids, people on Peanut Allergy Treatment Trial In UK "A Success" · · Score: 1

    Peanut allergies were almost unheard of in the mid-20th century Western world-- which was quite well developed. But it didn't have triclosan, disposable diapers, soy formula, take-out and heavily processed food at every meal, and shut-in kids.

  10. Re:Feed your kids, people on Peanut Allergy Treatment Trial In UK "A Success" · · Score: 2

    You thought playing in the dirt in 1964 was safe? Brother, that's when we were dumping the nastiest stuff.

  11. Re:Standard practice... on Peanut Allergy Treatment Trial In UK "A Success" · · Score: 1

    Seriously, this advice never made sense to me. Some children are hypersensitive to a substance, so the idea is to NEVER EXPOSE THEM TO THAT SUBSTANCE? It defies both common sense and, as has been proved several times now, science.

  12. Re:Standard practice... on Peanut Allergy Treatment Trial In UK "A Success" · · Score: 1

    Don't worry-- it is very likely that your old plan did not meet Obamacare regs and was cancelled.

  13. Re:Standard practice... on Peanut Allergy Treatment Trial In UK "A Success" · · Score: 1

    The whole point is this treatments is for people whose immune system CATCHES THE SUBSTANCE TOO WELL. The peanut proteins should be ignored, but instead the body basically loses its shit, if you will. We're not trying to develop a resistance to iocaine powder, here-- that would be inconceivable.

  14. Re: Curious where he'd draw the line on California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps · · Score: 1

    We already have laws against fraud.

  15. Re:He who does not learn from the past, is doomed on Meet the Electric Porsche From 1898 · · Score: 1

    Efficiency means nothing if you don't have energy density. These vehicles have to move people around in a practical manner. If efficiency was all that mattered, we could use lead-acid batteries.

  16. Re:I'm an electric car! on Meet the Electric Porsche From 1898 · · Score: 1

    It's spelled "Camaro".

    And handling performance, unfortunately for you, is easily measured. I don't have skidpad and slalom times on hand for your 356C-- probably because no one tested them then. But we could now, and it will be quite hilarious to watch you try to match the .89G skidpad performance of the bone-stock Camaro SS in your 356C on 185mm tires with 14" wheels. And then the slalom, with your swing axle jacking the rear wheels... hah.

  17. Re:Um... on Meet the Electric Porsche From 1898 · · Score: 0

    At least the ones who voted for him.

  18. Re:Generalizing much? on Meet the Electric Porsche From 1898 · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's because they sucked compared to ICE engines then, and they suck compared to ICE engines now. Only desperation, in front of an unholy alliance between government and "green" corporations, has resurrected the technology.

  19. Re:Generalizing much? on Meet the Electric Porsche From 1898 · · Score: 1

    It could be worse. Jon Katz could run out of dog material.

  20. Re:Blah Blah Blah on Red Team, Blue Team: the Only Woman On the Team · · Score: 2

    If women make up the minority in one field, then they make the majority in another.

    I'm not sure where we got this idea that even distribution among all possible occupations was optimal. 15% is a bit low, but not a red flag like, say, 1.5% would be. Is anyone super-concerned that most nurses and schoolteachers are still women? Or that most construction workers and truck drivers are still men?

  21. Re:Blah Blah Blah on Red Team, Blue Team: the Only Woman On the Team · · Score: 1

    I can't remember many female role models of my own, except that I was a goth/punk in high school, so Abby from NCIS was a frequent comparison when I told people what I wanted to do with my life.

    I was a daft/punk in high school. I didn't do well because the electronica blasting inside my helmet made it hard for me to hear the teacher.

  22. Re:Blah Blah Blah on Red Team, Blue Team: the Only Woman On the Team · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It takes a special kind of cognitive dissonance to claim women can do anything men can do, then ask for special treatment so that you can prove it.

    I wouldn't laud her her success as a female security professional-- because that's BS-- but because she has done so at the age of 21. That's the more impressive part.

  23. Great summary, guys. on IE Drops To Single-Digit Market Share · · Score: 2

    9%... out of the user agents connecting to w3schools. I guarantee you that Chrome is not the majority browser among the public (yet), either.

    The only surprise was the 82% in 2002... those IE 6-only sites back then didn't seem to designed with any open standards in mind.

  24. Re:lol Bush.Lincoln, Roosevelt. Obama unilaterally on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    If you'll read the post I responded to, the point is that Lincoln and Kennedy didn't have any kind of authorization. They needed Congressional approval to "suppress Insurrections". I'm not talking about the sliminess of Congress allowing the President to assume his power of Commander in Chief without a declaration of war (or to repel an insurrection or invasion).

  25. Re:5 years? That's not a given. on Hard Drive Reliability Study Flawed? · · Score: 1

    If those arrays were running RAID-5, I'm sure the stress under the rebuild is what caused the next already-marginal drive to fail.