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  1. Re:Only 16 weeks? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the Fifth Amendment mean you can't be compelled to give evidence against yourself?
    And wouldn't this include providing access to such evidence?

  2. Re:Summary Fail on Boeing Gets $89M To Build Drone That Can Fly For 5 Years Straight · · Score: 1

    You sir, will bring about the downfall of civilisation.

  3. Re:Cue increase in smothering on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I saw a documentary on TV.
    They have a truck which drives up to the white posts on the side of the road and washes them with big brushes like a car wash to keep them clean and visible.
    Now *that's* attention to detail.

  4. Re:Sickening on NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1

    Ok, I respect your opinion, but why aren't you protesting the creation of unused embryos for IVF?

  5. Re:Why, send them a nice letter... on ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds · · Score: 1

    You're being funny, but I have been waiting for someone to seriously suggest this.

    That is, why don't the ISPs test the line for maximum speed and pro-rata their charge appropriately?
    So if you could get up to 10Mbps, but can actually only achieve 5Mbps at most, the should only charge you half.

    Seems fair to me...

  6. Re:Religion? on Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Memory, Strategy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where were you during the World Cup?

    Soccer is a religion!

  7. Re:16 whole miles on battery? wow. on World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production · · Score: 1

    Which is another reason you should change over to litres/100km.

    My European car says "0.0" when coasting.

  8. Re:US abuse on WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets · · Score: 1

    I saw something about this recently too - I think it was a book about finding and exploring the wreck with ROVs.
    Anyway, apparently the wreck was badly damaged in places because the Royal Navy had used the site for target practice for years.
    Even though they didn't know where it was.
    Just a weird co-incidence, huh?

  9. Re:uh, samples? on iPhone DSLR Prototype 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I believe the later iPhones use a lens like this one.

  10. Re:Perhaps copyright needs to be more like tradema on AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' · · Score: 1

    If your song/phrase/work becomes an iconic symbol of something else

    Which song are you talking about here?

  11. Paying Twice on AU National Broadband Network Signs $11 Billion Deal With Telstra · · Score: 1

    That infrastructure already belonged to the people of Australia, since we initially paid for it (when the Government initially built it).
    Then it was given away as part of Telstra when the company was partly privatised.
    Now we have to pay for it again so we can replace it.

  12. Re:The problem with geothermal on Harry Reid Pushes Nevada As "Saudi Arabia of Geothermal Energy" · · Score: 1

    You mean you can't shut it off? Why that's no better than Deep Horizon!

  13. Re:It's all BS. on USPTO Lets Amazon Patent the "Social Networking System" · · Score: 1

    But is pre-dated by my patent upon a method of employing symbols in various shapes, sizes and spacings which in at least one embodiment may be used as a means of communication.

  14. Re:Who can I buy from on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Obviously Bogus on Glaxo Open Sources Malaria Drug Search Data · · Score: 1

    Well, I would suspect that some of these chemicals/drugs could be effective against Malaria.

    However GSK have looked at the large number of tests they would have to conduct, the price the potential buyers could afford to pay, and decided that it isn't worth their or any other pharma company's time as they wouldn't make their money back.

    Thus they release them for the goodwill instead.

  16. Re:Nature of Brownian Motion on Physicists Do What Einstein Thought Impossible · · Score: 1

    So, could the randomness of the particle motion be used for a random number generator, much like radioactive decay can be?

  17. Re:When did progress... on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 1

    And I think the rest of the world recognise that as mankind has progressed and society has developed, the size of the unit we consider "family" has increased. So, instead of only looking out for yourself, your direct relatives, your extended family, your church etc etc other countries look out for the entire country, or, as with the EU, a whole region made up of many countries, races and cultures.

  18. Re:Whatever happened to on House Votes To Expand National DNA Arrest Database · · Score: 1

    Nice image, but the even more insightful truth is that there is no such group of Al Quaeda operatives, yet this has still happened.

  19. Re:We are looking to tone ours down on House Votes To Expand National DNA Arrest Database · · Score: 1

    What event? Everybody knows that having all those cameras totally prevents crime.

  20. Best Headline Ever on Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Slashdot Headline · · Score: 1

    That I heard about was in a British newspaper.

    The story was about a lunatic who escaped from an asylum after raping some of the women in the laundry.

    The headline?
    Nut Screws Washers and Bolts.

  21. Re:Loooong term storage on Europeans Bury "Digital DNA" Inside a Mountain · · Score: 1

    A major problem with using non-corroding metals is that they are usually valuable. So, for very long term storage there is a good chance that someone will come along and "loot" your archive, valuing the materials over the content.

  22. Re:I wonder... on Europeans Bury "Digital DNA" Inside a Mountain · · Score: 1

    Which leads me to ask the question: Why would we want to seed other planets with organisms from the earth? Just to perpetuate ourselves? What a strange idea.

  23. Re:Wing length is a Really Big Deal on MIT Designs Aircraft That Uses 70% Less Fuel Than Conventional Planes · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your answer, but I don't understand, why wouldn't two wings provide twice the lift of a single wing (provided they are far enough apart not to interfere etc)?

  24. Re:The U.S. government has a history of violence. on US Supreme Court Upholds Indefinite Confinement · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.

    The USA is a failed experiment in democracy. In the same way that it seems that communism inexorably leads to dictatorship, it seems that democracy leads to fascism.

    Ironically, the only way to avoid this is to have a political system only weakly based upon ideology, leading to so many compromises that the system cannot organise itself well enough to become subverted.

  25. Re:In case there is any confusion... on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 1

    Your lies make Baby Jesus cry!