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  1. Re:For Christ Sake on Music From DNA Patented · · Score: 1

    God damn Slashdot seems to get more and more inaccurate every year.

    And yet you are still here, still reading, still posting, why would that be, Mr. Coward?

  2. Re:Begs the question on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 1

    By begs the question I think the poster meant 'this question begs to be asked:...'

    The answer to the question he begs is, hiding has become incriminating by definition.

  3. Re:Remedial High School English Lesson... on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 1

    This form of 'life' is a tumor, kill it. Misuse of language leads to confusion, better that one learn how to use language correctly, but sadly this mostly requires the ability to think.

  4. Re:Slashkos aka kdawson the political hack on Federal Science Gets More Politicized · · Score: 1

    I get it, we are supposed to think everything is OK and just go back to sleep. Why didn't you say that to begin with?

  5. Hello! on Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment · · Score: 5, Funny

    America! Are you still there?

  6. 165 tons? My God on Digitizing 100 Years of Astronomical Data · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's astronomical!

  7. Re:Opaque Society on New York Plans Surveillance Veil For Downtown · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Exactly

    And consider an example that came up a couple of months ago in a Texas city, I think it was Austin. The police lobbied for cameras at intersections because 'if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear'.

    Shortly after that, the police themselves started getting tickets for driving through intersections on red lights, when they weren't in persuit of an evil dooer. Boy did they scream like stuck pigs!

  8. May not be a great idea on Team Builds Viruses To Combat Harmful "Biofilms" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We exist in a symbiotic relationship with a heck of a lot of bacteria. Attacking biofilms indiscriminately may have serious negative consequences. Hopefully there will be a lot of study before these are released into the environment.

  9. The 'why' is easy on FCC Rules Open Source Code Is Less Secure · · Score: 1

    Our government has become an extension of the profit motive. Everything for someone's profit. Period.

  10. Re:The list can change on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The US sponsers a hell of a lot more terrorism than Cuba. For example, what exactly did you think 'shock and awe' was supposed to be? George Bush has now killed far more innocent people that Castro could if he lived to be 200.

  11. Re:Good. on No OLPCs for Cuba, Ever · · Score: 1

    Wow that post is really informative, you've help me meet my quota of learning something new each day.

  12. Re:Support Costs on ISPs Inserting Ads Into Your Pages · · Score: 1

    pay a subscription fee to have ads removed

    Thats what it is going to come down to, adds will eventually be in front of your face every waking minute of your life, unless you pay to not be advertised to.

  13. Ready in 5 years? on "Bear" Robot to Rescue Wounded Troops · · Score: 1

    Great, that means it will be ready to use in Iraq.

  14. Re:In the words of the Terminator Gene on Terminator Gene Ban Suggested in Canada · · Score: 1

    ... I'll be back.

    In this case, shouldn't that be "I won't be back"?

  15. Re:Is it all about the name on Terminator Gene Ban Suggested in Canada · · Score: 1

    What you say makes perfect sense from the propaganda point of view. Like the "Keep America Beautiful" group of container manufacturers that fought tooth and nail to kill container deposits, I can't belive this isn't the "Every Body Deserves To Eat" gene.

    Of course, if you happen to be old fashioned and think that words should actually convey meaning, 'terminator' is a good term.

  16. Re:Efficiency? on On Diamond-Based Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the energy, but my back of the envelope, using Avogadro's number, density of diamond etc. gives me 1.66 x 10^18 carbon13 atoms in a 1mm^3 diamond, and if 1% can be used, thats 16,600,000,000,000,000 quantum bits, not bad.

  17. How do you spell 'broken'? on 'Eolas' Browser Plug-in Patent Case Rises Again · · Score: 2, Informative

    USPTO

  18. Re:Ahhhh The Free Market on McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq · · Score: 1

    Funny, here on the west coast, where the oil companies purposely charge more because of the higher incomes on the drivers, I still wait for gasoline prices to go down to parity with the rest of the country, but it doesn't seem to be happening.

  19. Re:Geologists are indeed conservative. on Did an Exploding Comet Doom Early Americans? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I remember picking up and looking over a geology text book circa 1950 at a garage sale. It said plate tectonics was full of crap, and said the same about another theory that escapes me. The other theory is also standard belief today. I didn't buy the book.

  20. Re:Finally on Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow, you really freak out when someone suggests we don't know the truth about 9/11.

  21. Re:Yup! on Has Cosmology Been Solved? · · Score: 1

    "I wonder how they are going to explain a bunch of the population of the world disappearing all at once, scotty beamed them all up?"

    Dude, where have you been, sleeping in a cave? It already happened and only 3 missing persons reports were filed! And you got left behind! Doesn't that make you mad? Your god didn't find you qualified.

  22. Re:What's the point? on 26 Common Climate Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    That's funny, I was going to say the same thing about you. In this corner we have 10,000 scientists of various employment that say global climate change is a fact and is significantly caused by human activity. In that corner we have a small handful of scientists mostly employed by the oil industry that say global climate change or at least the contribution by humans is a myth.

    Then we have knuckleheads like you that refuse to listen to anything that disagrees with their own point of view, and in a serious case of projection, say things like "People like you are beyond reason and rationality, and there's no point in even pretending you exist on a sentient level". And you talk about denial? About agressive and insulting? Dude, you are the poster child for why thinking people get angry at idiots.

    Please write if you decide to get a brain, perhaps I can find a used one that will fit in your empty head.

  23. Just another reason on Disney Says, You WILL Watch the Ads · · Score: 1

    to shoot your TV

  24. Re:Pretty hypocritical on Soldiers Bond With Bots, Take Them Fishing · · Score: 1

    "but soldiers killing people on their own land" says nothing about killing the 'enemy' unless you consider everyone the enemy. If that is the case, just who are we 'liberating' to enjoy democracy?

  25. Please post the URL, on Are End Users to Blame for OS Flaws? · · Score: 1

    while you are at it, to make a bug report to Microsoft. I have never been able to find it. If they want to hear from the users, how about opening a channel?