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  1. neglected infections of poverty on Developing World's Parasites, Diseases Enter US · · Score: 1

    neglected infections of poverty

    How pathetically Politically Correct can we possibly be?

  2. The Non-Sexist Games on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    Lots of suggestions above.

    Or you could quit considering gender, which is a crutch anyway for the weaker members of the race, and just say that the fastest or strongest human wins regardless of apparent gender. "Men" would win some events easily, while "Women" would likely do well on other events.

  3. If Every Website in the World... on Google Brings SVG Support To IE · · Score: 1

    If every website in the world would check the browser being used and if they were using a feature that IEx didn't support inserted a message: YOUR BROWSER DOESN'T SUPPORT SOME OF THE FEATURES OF THIS WEBSITE - SOME ITEMS MAY NOT DISPLAY CORRECTLY then Microsoft would get the word. Until then, MS has successfully made this issue Everybody Else's Problem.

  4. Re:If they get hit enough like that..THE PROB HERE on Federal Court Grants Microsoft Expedited Appeal · · Score: 1

    And I don't blame them. It isn't up to them to bring about patent reform. It's ultimately up to We, The People.

    The problem is that We (Most of) The People don't have a clue on why this should matter to us.

  5. Expedited Appeal on Federal Court Grants Microsoft Expedited Appeal · · Score: 1

    Everything coming out of East Texas should be granted an expedited appeal.

    If there was ever a reason to allow Texas to leave the union it is because of the far out of the norm patent case decisions coming out of that East Texas district court.

  6. Maybe Just Maybe... on EVE Bans Exploiters; Dropping 2% of Users Cuts Average CPU Usage 30% · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe just maybe if you didn't create a game that cries out to be exploited in this manner in the first place then you might not have all of these problems. To create the opportunity for the otherwise smart or unemployed to make money in your game -- and then expect them not to because you said just don't do it -- indicates great stupidity on your part.

    After you've made this mistake you end up having to go in on a massive cleanup operation that you hope won't bury you in bad press and collateral damage.

  7. Why Would I Want This? on Twitter Developing Location-Based API · · Score: 1

    In a world obsessed by privacy otherwise, why would I want this -- unless I'm incapable of tweeting more than: I am here!

  8. Typical Bad Title on Big Bang Could Be Recreated Inside a Metamaterial · · Score: 4, Insightful

    an event analogous to the Big Bang.

    Analogus To is not the same is Identical To. This article's title is badly in need of an accuracy correction.

  9. Re:Working For The Man on Apple Allegedly Sought Non-Poaching Deal With Palm · · Score: 1

    The guy cared about the people under him, and would try to help them advance their careers.

    I'd work for a guy like that - having worked for so many who aren't at all like that.

  10. If I Had Worked For Any Of These Companies... on Apple Allegedly Sought Non-Poaching Deal With Palm · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I had worked for any of these companies and found out that I was now a pwned slave to them with no ability to move to another strong company worth working for I'd want the Feds to clean their clocks out -- and give me my share of the damages!

    How many PHBs here were rubbing their hands together with glee at review time knowing that the employee they were about to dump on had no option to move to any other comparable company no matter what they were told?

  11. Re:Disbarment IT IS COUPLED WITH MONEY on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 1

    if it's coupled with monetary demands (doesn't seem to be the case here).

    But it is coupled with money since it seeks to cut off this young man's income from selling and supporting his app.

  12. Calling NYCL on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This sounds like a case for New York Country Lawyer - Defending the innocent and the oppressed against the ungodly weight of the CCI - Combined Copyright Interests! A force for good wherever he goes.

  13. Re:copyright length insanityKNOCK THEM OFF on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 4, Funny

    This means that *NOTHING* created by artists, musicians, or *ANY* of the culture created today will move into the public domain in your lifetime (expected lifetime) unless the people or companies who control the rights let you have access to it through licensing or sales.

    Time to start knocking off the creative element in our society so that we can get that 70 clock to start ticking.

  14. Re:Disbarment--ONLY AFTER PAYING HIS FEES on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 1

    The MTA lawyers ought to know that they're persecuting the blogger beyond what copyright law allows. They should be disbarred.

    They should be disbarred only after paying all his legal fees as the prevailing party in the lawsuit.

  15. Re:No Story = Fantasia, OH, DON'T FORGET... on Cameron's Avatar Trailer Posted · · Score: 1

    Oh, and don't make one side all wise while the other is totally stupid. Let both sides be intelligent and capable and that this is conflicting motives where both sides are both right and wrong. Then you'll really have something.

  16. No Story = Fantasia on Cameron's Avatar Trailer Posted · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping for a great story, because otherwise it's just Fantasia. And while I like Fantasia very much, that's already been done.

    And I want a complex story where neither side is completely good, and neither side is completely bad, and neither side is completely all powerful and neither side is completely helpless. Let the decisions to be made be hard ones, not obvious choices, but I still won't mind a HEA ending.

  17. If They'd Only Had This For Token Ring on Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep · · Score: 1

    If they'd only had this for Token Ring maybe one of its shortcomings wouldn't have hurt it so badly.

    (Yes, I know they were supposed to close a pass-through relay on power loss -- and how often somehow they didn't.)

  18. Something Missing Here on Relativistic Navigation Needed For Solar Sails · · Score: 1

    sending the sail roughly 1 million kilometers off course by the time it reaches the Oort Cloud.

    Haven't these guys ever heard of the mid-course correction? I mean, really...

  19. Sell it on Kindle on Advice On Creating an Open Source Textbook? · · Score: 1

    Sell it on Kindle for $9.95. Students can read it on the Kindle reader, or with a free reader for their iPhone or iPod touch. $9.95 isn't free, but it's pretty cheap for a text book.

  20. Balance is Easy on The Challenges of Class Balance In MMOGs · · Score: 1

    Balance is easy. Any character with a 3-level or more advantage or more should win 90% time when played by players of relatively equal skill. That advantage should go up to 99% with a 10-level advantage. Now how hard is that to implement?

  21. Re:Not worth readingAOL NOT TOTALLY WORTHLESS on The Press Releases of the Damned · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Originally, they were a distributor of 3.5" floppies that could be re-formatted and re-used. They changed their business model when floppies fell out of favor and CDs became popular...became the #1 polluter in the US by distributing millions of useless shiny plastic coasters...

    Hey, they didn't become totally worthless then. Those tin containers containing those coasters are the best thing yet to reuse when putting your own precious CD/DVDs into the trunks of the elephants employed by the U.S. Snail Service.

  22. Re:Not worth readingPOWERPOINT on The Press Releases of the Damned · · Score: 1

    The stupid "article" is spread over 8 pages. Slashdot should have some standards for posted articles... and no, I'm not new here.

    You're obviously new to the Power Point mentality and Twitter attention span.

  23. Re:Windows 7? 8 ANYBODY? on XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance · · Score: 1

    7 is a lucky number.

    Except in China. There they prefer 8.

  24. Re:Try Windows 7? WEAPONISED LEVEL on XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance · · Score: 1

    to a weaponised level

    I have not seen that usage of that word before. I presume you mean it in the context of being capable of doing significant damage.

  25. Re:Try Windows 7? Everything Else Broken??? on XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance · · Score: 1

    Most noticeably, it has a user interface which doesn't look like it was designed in the mid 1990s.

    So are you saying that UI's from the 1990s (your words, not mine) are broken, always were broken, and are essentially unusable now?

    Or that you want the latest and greatest eye candy, ribbons, or whatever which is exactly what MS and Apple are selling you in every new treadmill iteration of their operation systems?