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  1. Benzene? on Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean 'gasoline'?

  2. 6 errors? on Future Directions Proposed For Mozilla · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're complaining about 6 errors, all of them trivial (except forgetting to close <head>, which is a bit odd).
    That's nothing in comparison to the code soup IE has encouraged on the web.
    Just for fun, let's try to validate http://microsoft.com

    (http://mozilla.org validates just fine, incidentally)

  3. Mike Hawash? on Total Information Awareness, Disguised And Alive · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Mike Hawash.

    He eventually pled guilty, but that doesn't justify his being held in solitary confinement without charges.

  4. Re:MADD is mad (we need YRC: "your rights in a car on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1

    Please don't use the term "God-given rights" unless you have evidence that they were actually given by a god.

  5. Re:That would BLOW (pardon the pun.) on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1

    You are absolutely correct.
    I grew up in a rural area and practically everybody on the roads between 0000 and 0500 on a Saturday or Sunday was drunk. Most of them were teenagers driving 4x4 trucks; the kind of people who would go to the gravel pits with a 2-6 of whiskey and see if their trucks could climb up the sides.
    Nobody in my high school ever got into a serious accident due to intoxication.

    Of course, this was only during weekends; during the week and during the day people weren't drunk, just stoned.

  6. Re:You people should be ashamed of yourselves. on Freenet Project More Stable, In Need · · Score: 1

    While the production of child pornography may hurt others, I doubt you can demonstrate how the distribution of it does.

  7. Re:Evolutionist propaganda on HMS Beagle (Possibly) Found · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it wasn't very clear what my point was. Bats use their wings as legs; it isn't at all true that good wings are bad legs.

  8. Re:Evolutionist propaganda on HMS Beagle (Possibly) Found · · Score: 1

    Bats crawl on all fours when on the ground.

  9. Re:Evolutionist propaganda on HMS Beagle (Possibly) Found · · Score: 1

    Please show me a living trans-species
    And here you utterly destroy any of your credibility. Everything is a trans-species.

  10. Re:Great, it only takes a gallon of fossil fuel... on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    This fertilizer comes from fossil fuels.This fertilizer comes from fossil fuels.
    I'm skeptical about this. Most fertilizers are based on nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium, aren't they? And fossil fuels are composed mainly of hydrocarbons?

    It makes sense to pour oil into cornfields
    Unless you meant this metaphorically, I am very skeptical. Remember way back before kerosene was widely used, when people like JP Morgan were able to buy up land with oil for pennies because it was useless to everybody else?

  11. Re:Mars Defense System on Spirit Rover Communications Error · · Score: 1

    BURN!!!!

    oh, wait - no it's not, it's just an anonymous moron on slashdot.

  12. Re:Planting Life on Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water? · · Score: 1

    ...except that things which decompose animals aren't likely to exist on a planet where there are no animals to decompose.

  13. Re:Bubbling frustration on Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural Divide · · Score: 1

    damn you, html formatting and the lack of an edit option!

  14. Re:Bubbling frustration on Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural Divide · · Score: 1

    on the intuitiveness of Ctrl-X/V/C: X looks like scissors V looks like the nipple at the end of a glue bottle C stands for copy I have no idea whether this is coincidence or not, but I found it interesting when I noticed it.

  15. Re:Norbert Weiner true (?) story on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 1

    His name is Norbert Weiner. That's a joke in itself.

  16. Re:Trust them on Rules for Teenage Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    For example, I would not want my child to join the KKK
    If he believes he has something in common with the KKK, you have bigger problems than his ability to access their website.

  17. Re:Not likely ..... As long as Hemp is illegal on The End of the Oil Age · · Score: 1
    I find it interesting that hemp is illegal just because it resembles a marijuana plant.

    Yeah? I find the number of commonly believed myths about hemp far more interesting.

  18. Re:American fanatics on Next Major War in Space? · · Score: 1

    It's "Thou shalt not commit murder", actually.
    Which would excuse war.

  19. Re:Oh no, not yet another fear on Next Major War in Space? · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it's just feels that before USA has seen some phenomenon, it's like it never existed.
    I heard somebody say that they thought the word "terrorism" had been invented to describe the attacks on September 11, 2001.

  20. Re:News for nerds? More like news for fags. on The Substance of Style · · Score: 1

    Dressing in good style is polite?!
    Is my refusal to drop $50 on a pair of jeans rude?
    I'd say it's rather rude to spend more than ~$CAN 30 on any outfit. Take the amount you'd spend at American Eagle to Value Village and drop the difference at a charity for starving children or something...

  21. Re:News for nerds? More like news for fags. on The Substance of Style · · Score: 1

    Where is the creativity in dressing stylishly? 95% of those who "have style" only do so because they couldn't get uncool clothing at the Gap if they wanted to. (it certainly helps that the places selling style are the same as those that define it)
    The only difficulty a person who cares might have is continuing to afford hundreds of dollars to keep a wardrobe current.
    If it were about creativity, it might be worth the effort. "Style" today is nothing more than yet another way to show everyone else how much money you have.

  22. Re:More fucking? on The State of Violent Gaming · · Score: 1

    Children might end up emulating sex?
    The horror!

  23. Re:gizmodo on Expensive Geek Toys Roundup · · Score: 1

    WOW! I never knew about *that* URL.
    That will save me two characters whenever I type it. Thanks!

  24. Re:Polite Canadians!!? on Canada Immune From RIAA? · · Score: 1

    I have to admit that, as a Canadian, I see a lot of American-bashing around. Rick Mercer (a Canadian comedian) did many sketches and a 1 hour special devoted to it.

    Unfortunately, most of it is justified. Apologies to the grandfather, as he is the exception rather than the rule.

  25. Blaster worm? on Translated KDE/Linux Usability Report Available · · Score: 1

    Does it reboot with a countdown and something about an RPC service?
    Here, slashdot just did a post about it.