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  1. Re:I'm amazed... on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    Nonsense,
    Killing may have be justified, but if the person holding the gun is a decent human being they will still seek a non-lethal outcome.

  2. As said last time... on A New Benefit For Logged-In Readers: Meet Slashdot's ROT13 Initiative · · Score: 1
  3. Re:except..... on The End Is Near for GameStop · · Score: 2

    That would be a clear and definite restriction on the right to resell (Specifically, the deliberate crippling of products to disrupt the standard commercial rights of the purchasers) which would near certainly be a case rapidly lost by the crippling companies in the EU.

    American courts, somewhat trickier to call. Precedent, law and logic all say this is unacceptable behaviour, but it's unacceptable behaviour by a rich corporation, so...

  4. Re:Err ... on New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers · · Score: 1

    Ah, along the lines of "Dutch [x]" then?
    (x being any element of a sizable array including "Wife", "Courage" and "Oven")

  5. Re:Sir Isaac Newton Was a True Blue Christian on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Most American Christians think of Catholicism as a totally different (i.e. fundamentally non-Christian) religion

    Except, of course, when wanting big numbers to claim the moral right of majority.

  6. We're with the government... on Man Fired For His Online Customer Service Game · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're with the government. We don't have a sense of humor.

  7. Re:Actually on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    Probably. As I understand it, the test only reveals that it was 29% horse DNA, not 29% horse meat.

    Actually, it was 29% of the burger patty, by weight, determined to consist of meat containing horse DNA rather than the expected cow DNA.

  8. Idiotic Yanks... on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    Hey, Samzenpus, plus editors!

    Ireland is not part of the UK. Unless you lot want to go back to being good little colonists too?

  9. Re:IOW, we're making it harder get a response... on We The People Petition Signature Requirement Bumped To 100,000 · · Score: 1

    I've been meaning to look this up for a while, but is there a proper term for the act of applying logic to a nonsensical proposal?

    I believe that would be "Nerd Humor".

    It was discussed in about 2 pages worth of detail in the Yellow Book.

  10. Re:Apartheid on Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women · · Score: 1

    In China right now.
    Chinese nationals require a visa to exit the country, unless willing to take the cargo container trip out of Wenzhou.
    This visa can be obtained by legitimate means only in rare circumstances.
    If you actually want to get it you need legitimate reasons and a moderate bribe (8 to 12 thousand yuan) or a major bribe (20 to 50 thousand yuan) and suitable connections.

    Us foreign types are thankfully able to leave at will.

  11. Re:Apartheid on Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >> back then the average life expectancy was about 35. So if you didn't have kids young, you wouldn't be around to raise them for long.

    Slight side note there. The average life expectancy may have been 35, but remove all the infant deaths (those dying aged 0-2 years old) and the average bounces way up into the mid-60's, not so massively different to today's.

  12. Better than the alternative... on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    But still pretty crap.

  13. You can't afford it, by your own admission. on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Collecting and Storing User Information? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you can't afford the expert then you can't afford to collect such data. Move away from this project to something you have the ability to do.

  14. How is this news now? on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every reputable medical doctor, along with every pundit even slightly knowledgable about medicine or even basic biology has been warning of this issue ever since the antivaxxer morons got their idiotic campaign going.

  15. Cat Tongue Denying Text Here. on Software Engineering Has Its Own Political Axis From Conservative To Liberal · · Score: 1

    So, the main message from the article (Despite the "Author"'s efforts to slant it othewise) is that bad design and programming practises should be called "liberal" as opposed to simply ignorant?

  16. Re:But... Didn't that already happen? on How Madefire Is Changing the Visual Grammar of Comics · · Score: 2

    Looking at the example they have out ( http://vimeo.com/44280691 ), it appears they want to make really bad powerpoint presentations.

  17. Re:Amazing! on How Madefire Is Changing the Visual Grammar of Comics · · Score: 3, Informative

    More like "Powerpoint" really.

  18. Re:Counterespionage on Chinese Censors Accidentally Block Shanghai Index · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Speaking from China, unproxied, I think I can safely answer that with "Nope".

  19. Re:What does the net look like from the PRC? on Google Highlights Censored Search Terms In China · · Score: 1

    I live and work in China.
    The standard Great Firewall error is displayed as "Connection Reset" in Firefox.

    There are two (commonly known) sets of blocking. A lengthy list of domains that never work, and content scanning temporary blocks.
    The scanning works on both outgoing and incoming traffic, and once triggered for a domain will block that domain in its entirety for a given user/connection for between 5 and 30 minutes.

    In essence if you search for something using the key words then you get a connection reset immediately. If your results contain key words then you will see the result list, but further access to that domain is blocked and gets the connection reset message.

    In either case the block is frustrating and unpredictable enough to encourage people to modify their browsing habits.

  20. Re:Best Motivator on Is Gamification a Good Motivator? · · Score: 1

    Seconding the motion.
    If I'm good enough to draw special note, then I'm damn well worth an actual award of value, not some freaking 2-cent "Badge".

  21. Toh-may-tow / poh-tah-toh on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You call it wasting and procrastinating.
    I call it living.

  22. Who wants to live forever? on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... Ask me again in 300 years.

  23. Re:The usual way on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1

    Zip ties. Soooooo many zip ties.

  24. Already been done on Space Invaders: The Movie · · Score: 1

    Already been done, or as near as makes no difference.

    Flight of the Navigator

  25. Re:Its a very serious issue... on Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Theater Gives Texters the Boot · · Score: 1

    Good for you. Were any theaters to implement and enforce such rules in my city I would make them my sole theater choice from then on.