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  1. Mad Science on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    The Mad Science is the most dangerous form. Yes, the volcano fortress is cool, but eventually James Bond comes around and blows the place up.

  2. Re:Is there more? on Sun Advice Columnist Advised MPs On UK Porn-Block Plans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about this - Don't Buy the Sun. Those blaggards over at Murdoch's should have been sued out of existence years ago. They have not apologized for hacking phones and they have not apologized for calumnies about Hillsborough. Past behavior is the best predictor of future acts. So basically, this: Don't visit the Sun's website. Don't buy the Sun. Don't watch any Murdoch owned channel.

  3. Re:Why an app at all? on iTunes' Windows Problem · · Score: 1

    Yes. I don't know exactly how this is "unapple-like". Apple's products for the past decade have been increasingly unelegant. ITunes is massively bloated - look at all the add ons, like .aa files and the rest of that nonsense for details.

  4. Re:B-2 Spirit unit price - $3b? Said who? on Sixty Years On, B-52s Are Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    But Slim Pickens took a WAR (wild ass ride) when he drove a B-52.

  5. Re:Diesel on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 1

    WHat? What is more manly than a diesel engine? Petrol is for women in their SUVs. Diesel is an asskicking fuel. It's what truckers use, and what is manlier than a trucker?

  6. Re:Ask the mythbusters on Ask Slashdot: The Very Best Paper Airplane? · · Score: 1

    Comparing plunging fire into WWI battlecruisers vs. a 24 or 36 pounder is patently absurd. Your argument utterly fails.

  7. Re:So in this case where the government behaves on Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' · · Score: 1

    The Armalite action is garbage. You would have been better off with the Garand style M1A.

  8. Longest flying plane on Ask Slashdot: The Very Best Paper Airplane? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I was a kid, we had a longest flying plane contest. The rules were the plane had to be moving, and out of your hands. I attached a piece of string to it, and whipped it around for four minutes. The buggers DQed me, stating that I should follow the spirit of the rules.

  9. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Sources on the ground claim these were race riots. Of course, this is the sort of thing that would happen in Tottenham. In an area around an honest club, like Millwall, this sort of thing wouldn't happen. We are Millwall, Super Millwall, we are Millwall, from the Den!

  10. Re:Africans were not racist when I was there. on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Actually, your response is nonsense.

    Large populations of blacks, for various reasons, form majorities in cities, where political machines are at their worst. It's not due to race per say, but rather due to population trends and politics. It used to be the same with Irish and then Italians.

  11. Diesel on Hybrid Car Owners Not Likely To Buy Another Hybrid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd buy a diesel again in a heart beat. I get 40 miles to the gallon city in my Volkswagen Sportswagen. And diesel is 30 cents cheaper a gallon than petrol. Plus, the technology is robust. Diesel is definite the way to go if you want high gas mileage and low costs.

  12. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 0

    Except of course for the Tottenham Race Riots last year. And those in Paris the year before that.

    But we won't let facts get in the way of a good narrative.

  13. Re:Apologies... on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 2

    We apologize again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

  14. Re:I left and it's easy to do on Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That being said, the Supreme Court ruling specifically said he was still allowed to proceed in court for the wrongful arrest. They did not challenge that part. Granted, the ruling was abysmally poor otherwise.

  15. Re:Runs most ATM on 25 Years of IBM's OS/2 · · Score: 1

    Even if the End User pays for it, the cost still heavily outweighs the benefit for the EU, for the bank, and for people who want loans from the bank.

  16. Re:Runs most ATM on 25 Years of IBM's OS/2 · · Score: 1

    Not anymore. The ADA placed new rules on ATMs last year, requiring all ATMs to be blind compliant by March 15, 2012. Hundreds of thousands of perfectly good ATMs were removed from service, as they could not be upgraded. And this at a time when people bitch about banks not making loans. Talk about broken window fallacy....

  17. Re:Reputation on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    Hey, that's not true. If you got a spreader choke, you might be able to increase the size of the pattern to like, I dunno, 3.25" inches? Yeah, parent is right. There's a bunch of chuckleheads who posted above. Shotgun does not equal skill. If you do not practice, you will not hit.

  18. Re:Reputation on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but I have been told by multiple sources that a shotgun, being primarily a fowling piece and not a weapon, is more likely to get you off in court.

    Also, you need to learn how to use it. I'm not talking a little bit of range time, but rather practice to the point of where when your nerves are supertense, your fingers will not function, and your brain has shut down, you can still, through muscle memory, put the gun up to your shoulder and destroy that which you are aiming for. Otherwise, the gun is just as likely to hurt you as someone else. Think 5000 rounds a year of practice as a minimum. A trip to the range every two weeks, at the very least. You don't want to be like those pathetic police officers who shoot 80 rounds at a person (or cougar) at 15 yards and hit him twice.

  19. Reputation on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have the gun, and you have the dog. All you really need now is a reputation.

  20. Re:why do you have a northern accent? on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 2

    True, but no so far a cry from northern Gallifrey. Oh wait....

  21. Re:This has been going on on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    The Republican primary would suggest otherwise.... The conservative platform in the United States has been completely co-opted by the religious right. The Eisenhower / Nixon sane style of conservative (even Reagan) would be considered a RINO in today's GOP. Oh, and yeah, /. is an American site.

  22. Re:This has been going on on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 1

    I am referring to the actual school, rather than the goofy lib'rul sort of use of the word. (There should be a name for this phenomenon.) The idea of a lack of objectivity, or rather the subjectivity of everything, has poisoned the minds of university educated men. Good in the world is based on the ability to change that hard reality into a new and better reality through the use of science and industry. Further, the lack of objectivity has damaged what are potentially good ideas such as situational ethics.

  23. This has been going on on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This has been gradually leading up for a century and more. Conservatives have always been doubtful of science, preferring to believe what they had been told in their youth. For them, it is easier to believe in the mad ramblings of an old book than a system of thought that has borne the fruit of progress for four centuries. There is no fundamental difference between the Catholic Church's assaults on Giordano Bruno and Galileo and the Evangelical assault on Evolution in schools. (For people who condemn Popery so strongly, this is especially amusing.) That there was ever an embrace of science on the conservative side only reflects the reality of the world as was discovered in the Second World War. That is to say, even the most stupid of Evangelicals must acknowledge we are better off with atomic bombs and ICMBs than without. Of course, it might be acknowledged that this is only an extension of the conservative love of spreading doctrine through violence rather than rhetoric and scientific persuasion.

    Yes, the ones who call themselves liberals have their own problems with science. The stupid stupid lies of postmodernist thought destroyed a generation and a half of potential scientists, but the important thing is that science is pulling away from that abhorrent clap trap.

  24. Re:Perspective, people, perspective on Ask Slashdot: How Would Room-Temp Superconductors Affect Us? · · Score: 1

    The metric system is the tool of the devil! My Gabriel Fahrenheit mercury thermometer has 2 inches at freezing point, 16 inches at distilled water boiling, and that's the way I likes it.

  25. Re:Male companion on New Doctor Who Companion Announced · · Score: 1

    That would be the best. BBC probably couldn't afford both of them though. Or even one. But we can still dream.