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  1. Re:I have problems with this on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 1

    I always wondered why we can't just claim evolution is a self-regulating intelligent design system created by God and we should learn as much about it to bask in His glorious miracle of life.

  2. Re:Star Trek on 'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Limits are necessary, or are they? on NH Supreme Court To Rule On Bigfoot Video Shoot In Public Park · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try busting out a video camera anywhere in LA these days. A kid filming himself skateboarding will get chased off without a permit.

  4. Re:It's only fair use if you go to court... on Universal Uses DMCA To Get Bad Lip Reading Parody Taken Down · · Score: 1

    Sure, we would no longer have a culture and all music would sound like perfect shit, but hey, a small price to pay for making sure all music is original!

    This plan must have already been put into action, since we currently have no culture and all modern music sounds like perfect shit. :)

    ... all modern music sounds like perfect shit covered in glitter and corn syrup.
    FTFY

  5. Glad to see Slashdot got Shat on. on William Shatner Answers, in 826 Words · · Score: 1

    Who wouldn't be? He's The Shat!

  6. Intelligent Design... on Scientists Discover Mechanism That Gives Shape to Life · · Score: 1

    I think stuff like this should be touted as proof of Intelligent Design... not to prove God exists but to reconcile American fundamentalist Christian ideas with science. And from there push the meme that God wants us to examine the world and understand his creation so we can bask in the wonder of His glory. Then maybe they'll ease up on trying to oppose science sometimes.

    Question: How do the Jesuits feel about biological science vs. intelligent design? I assume (with total ignorance of their ideas on the subject) that they acknowledge evolution?

  7. Re:Hindsight on UN Bigwig: The Web Should Have Been Patented and Licensed · · Score: 2

    Funny you say that. When I first tried the web in July of 1994, I thought it was a stupid bandwidth hogging ripoff of gopher and would go nowhere. This was back in the NCSA Mosaic days and a 14.4k SLIP was a badass Internet connection. When web pages were black text on grey backgrounds.

  8. Who is One One? on iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out · · Score: 0

    Who is One One and why are they surprised? Since when haven't iphones sold out when first available for purchase??

  9. Re:...the dock. on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    Dock is fine, In fact I pin windows programs to my taskbar, though I preferred the ability to stack them on a menu (quickstart) on the taskbar like in XP. But I do agree with the "no option" perception of OSX. Except for one thing... Serato, it runs more stable on a mac and a macbook pro is built like a tank. That's the only reason I got one. Well that and the command line in OSX is better than Windows CMD. But damn, there are a quite a few OSX apps that have dumb interfaces compared to their Win counterpart. Which is why I dual boot/Vmware.

  10. Starbucks saw this coming. on Coffee-Powered Car Breaks World Record · · Score: 1

    Well, now we know why Starbucks has been opening franchises on every street corner possible, they apparently saw this tech coming. Next item on the agenda... sponsor NASCAR & Rally cars.

  11. Re:Maybe the conquistadors brought it WITH them on Origins of Lager Found In Argentina · · Score: 1

    Their best bet is that centuries ago, S. eubayanus somehow found its way to Europe

    How do they know it wasn't the other way around? Maybe we Europeans brought it as a gift to our New World brothers.

    You're probably right, I bet it was time traveling Nazis on a quest to hide their ill gotten gold.

  12. Re:DJ Hero was quite good on Activision Trying To 'Reinvent' Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    DJing is a party activity for sure. Also DJs do get together and throw down all the time. Qbert has a octagonal table with 8 decks on it so each DJ can scratch on one at the same time. More commonly DJs will play together in a 2x4 setup which is 2 DJs on 4 decks. DJ hero could have been more of a community game if it had a more interesting scratching interface and some sorta contest mode. But it was generally laggy and a bit too constraining on what you could do. As an actual DJ it bored me to death and I felt like they could have made it a bit more interactive or DJ like. They could have taken more advantage of the mashup fad.

  13. It's always easier to destroy than to build... on Microsoft: No Botnet Is Indestructible · · Score: 1

    I suppose much like there's no 100% secure server there's no 100% invincible botnet. It's almost always easier to destroy than to create/build something.

  14. I hit caps w/ on Clear Wireless on Will Capped Data Plans Kill the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    Between Netflix, Pandora, Hulu and gaming... especially buying games I hit the Clear 4G cap. Even though they advertise "Unlimited 4G" service they throttle me down to about 20kbps after I use 6 gigabytes per month. Which you can easily go over by downloading 1 game from Steam. It's terrible...

    When I called support to ask if they were throttling me they said I was "using an unreasonable amount of data". They didn't dance around the issue they said I was being unreasonable by using their so-called "unlimited" service. I guess I'm free to use up as much data as I can at whatever speed they want to give me.

    I was mistaken when I thought I could use it at home and while on the road during my daily commute and trips out of town. I also got caught up in a 2 year contract. I signed up at Best Buy with a sales rep who explicitly told me there were no contracts and the brochure he handed me had no mention of one, he also wrote "no contract" on it, which is worth nothing. But when I tried to cancel they said I was on one.

  15. Re:Just get laid already on Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women · · Score: 1

    Usually when our favorite sports team loses, at the next TSA checkpoint or in this guy's case... when he meets bubba as the GP pointed out.

  16. Re:In Apple's defense on Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women · · Score: 2

    Isn't it cheaper to visit a strip club? Considering lawyer fees and punishment vs a few drinks .... Oh and better resolution, I mean, a webcam is crap, no matter who makes it.</p></quote>

    Who plans on getting caught? All criminals are tactical masterminds with ninja-like stealth and silver tongues.

  17. Re:Electrical Tape on The Next Phase of Intelligent TVs Will Observe You · · Score: 1

    I see you've covered the camera with electrical tape. Would you be interested in these other privacy related products?



    They'll simply hide the camera in the center of the TV between some pixels to discourage that kind of behavior.
  18. Re:Not If You're a Banker on New Bill Ups Punishment For Hosts of Infringing Video Streams · · Score: 1

    If you're a banker, you can rob $TRILLIONS, steal whole counties worth of homes, fund genocide, take down governments, delete pensions. I'm sure that if you also pirate video streams there's some way to forgive that, too.



    Yeah, it's called having lawyer machine powered by fat stacks of cash.
  19. Re:Band... on One-Way Sound Walls Proven Possible · · Score: 1



    <quote><p>Imagine a room where a band is playing. Neighbors can't hear the music, but if someone outside the room is talking, the musicians can hear it.</p></quote>

    <p>They can't be a very good band if they can hear somebody talking in the next room while they're playing...</p></quote>

    Maybe the drawback is it amplifies sounds on the other site... or you can only hear someone if they speak vuvuzela.

  20. Perfect for the expressway on Block Adverts Outside of the Browser · · Score: 1

    Great! I hate looking at all those snarky bumper stickers on cars and advertisements on container trucks while commuting to and from work.

  21. Re:Yahoo Web hosting should be fixed on Yahoo Seeks Open Source Community Support · · Score: 1

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/perl/perl-03.html

    Q: Where is my cgi-bin directory?

    A: Yahoo! does not support or require a cgi-bin directory to run Perl scripts. You may place Perl scripts anywhere in your site directory structure. Be sure each script includes the file extension .pl or, if you are calling a Perl module, .pm. If your Perl script uses the extension .cgi, please rename it with the extension .pl..

  22. Re:Yahoo! Hates Linux. on Yahoo Seeks Open Source Community Support · · Score: 1

    They will never answer your question because Y! Answers is answered by other Y! users and not some geek with an encyclopedia in one of their offices.

    Yahoo! hates Linux so much that they run all their servers on FreeBSD, maybe you should switch to that OS. Also, I'm not sure why they have that message, some engineer was probably afraid of some weird javascript/ajax problem and having to deal with support requests. I know it's pretty complex in there and there are certain things like the Signature settings that won't work in Firefox and some other things I'm not exactly sure about that doesn't work in Chrome or Safari on OS X.

    No idea why they malfunction in weird little ways.

  23. Re:mod parent up on Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant · · Score: 2

    It's funny you say that because I have come across people who think NPR/PBS is some kind of liberal propaganda machine. It's sad but true.

  24. TSA airport security dosage on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would like to have seen the dosage given by using the backscatter machine at an airport listed.

  25. Most don't realize phone/address info is shared on 41% of Facebook Users Willing To Divulge Personal Info · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that most people using Facebook don't know that their phone and address info is shared w/ their "friends". I'm pretty paranoid about that stuff and didn't know until I stumbled on the address book feature which wasn't too obvious on a computer be easy to find on the iphone/pod app.

    Luckily for me I never put that kind of info in there anyway and had already gone through the security settings to turn off sharing of most things and made my profile private to non-friends.