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  1. Re:I have a dog that can growl "sausages" on Singing Dolphins Do Batman · · Score: 1

    Fish.

    However, rational argument does not apply no more.

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  2. Re:Overpriced and vulnerable on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is weird. Take a century.

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  3. Change of moderation on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The comment I posted was rated 2:interesting. No, I do not care. It has changed. Given the the overload of political articles we observe recently does this not give raise to the idea that /. is bought out to eliminate the dissidents?

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    P.S.: Editor: Explain, if you can! Never mind, be sure we meet at Guantanamo, you are leaking as well!

  4. Re:I have a dog that can growl "sausages" on Singing Dolphins Do Batman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, you are a stupid American. Perhaps you are bribed into discovering me as a teereerist, Good luck to you. You will not accomplish anything, you are stupid, and me is certifiedly insane,

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  5. Re:I have a dog that can growl "sausages" on Singing Dolphins Do Batman · · Score: 1

    Yes, I admit that I was too fast on "delphinic" (not doing any research on that), but I was too much aroused by the notion that dolphins are "fish". (English is not my first language, so I should not discuss. I know. Experience, however, leads me to the conclusion that I usually win. This time I failed. Hard luck, but a gain anyway.)

    "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"

    Excuses,

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  6. Re:I have a dog that can growl "sausages" on Singing Dolphins Do Batman · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Dolphins are highly intelligent aquatic mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin

    Yes, you may be right with regard to "delphinic". But the stupidity involved in regarding dolphins as fish beats my ignorance with regard to the English language.

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  7. Re:I have a dog that can growl "sausages" on Singing Dolphins Do Batman · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dolphins (not delphins, BTW) are not fish - mammals. Go educate yourself before posting blurbs. It seems like you cannot even replicate the headline of the scoop.

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  8. Re:OMG! on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 1

    The US, for example, could buy these for defending Guantanamo, and remove the land mines we have placed there.

    It could get worse though if some off-shore programmer detects a way to detect U.S. citizens. (like in: analyse what they are carrying, detect the passport, shoot em). Rounds up to being quite confined. </cynical>

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  9. Re:Insert... on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 1

    corrcted

    You just shot the "e" by mistake. Not a big problem, it is a quite redundAnt letter (at least with regard to western languages). OH, WAIT, ANOTHER ONE: korian. Now this is a case of friendly fire. You did not qualify.

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  10. Re:Overpriced and vulnerable on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 1

    It's all about not exposing your soldiers to enemy fire.

    Though I am a completely different mind than you are, I rate the analyses you give rather precise. I am just wondering how you came to your position, no insult intended, sir. No, this is not meant cynical. I truly believe that you, as it sounds, will become a good instrument within the war business, again, not cynical, just a thing to think about.

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  11. Re:Mod parent down "missing the point" on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Take another look at the context of where this thing will be actually used, then try commenting again.

    Mexican border? OTOH, there were these elections.

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  12. Re:I WANT ONE! on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 1

    That's way uncool.

    Browsing through BBC news each day, it seems way cool these days. </cynical>

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  13. Re:Insert... on Machine Gun Sentry Robot Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Within the sitetuaitonal context, you missed [overlords] :)

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  14. Re:Are they kidding? on New Zealand To Allow 'Text-Speak' On Exams · · Score: 1

    Ever tried to achieve 60 uncoded WPM on a cell-phone?

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  15. Re:Are they kidding? on New Zealand To Allow 'Text-Speak' On Exams · · Score: 1

    May I perhaps draw Basil Bernstein to your attention? Excuse me if you already knew.

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  16. Re:Suspicion on Top 10 List of Worldwide Internet Censors · · Score: 1

    Remember to cap the L when referring to the party.

    Which party? Did I miss something? Or did you mean Libertarian Party (like in Republican Party)?

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  17. Re:Well, you can still see it. on The Web Is 16 Today · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_search_engine

    As we all know, search engines do not matter with regard to the web ... wait, Google?

    dot.com bubble - not in a way connected to either the web or money and no bang at all; uucp - no relation to the history of the web either.

    http://www.lemonodor.com/

    Semantic web and LISP? Never heard of either.

    Public domain? GPL? Licences? What is that all about.

    Go educate yourself.

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  18. Re:Well, you can still see it. on The Web Is 16 Today · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For the real historian:

    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.archives/msg/a 77343f9175b24c3?output=gplain

    There you have it all (and there is not much new yet :)

    bang "gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wis c.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu !math.lsa.umich.edu!emv " for the bucks ?)

    a public domain version of Lisp

    and, of course

    "Don't forget to send in your license form. Enjoy."

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  19. Re:Solaris - GPL'd? on Sun Considering GPL For OpenSolaris · · Score: 1

    I can imagine a future where linux has been effectively preempted ...

    It is like attacking the enemy from the front (Novell/M$ with a SCO preevaluation) and alongside (addressing developers attention) as well. Now wait who will further back and patronize (IBM?).

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  20. Re:Slashdot user decries copyright. on RIAA President Decries Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Aristotle wasn't necessarily opposed to prostitution, he was just pointing out the analogy.

    Perhaps, prostitution these days was viewed in a different way. Imagine the (perhaps intellectual) centre of Ephesus (from Wikipedia) "The Library of Celsus, whose façade has been carefully reconstructed from all original pieces, was built ca. 125 B.C.E. by Gaius Julius Aquila in memory of his father, and once held nearly 12,000 scrolls. Designed with an exaggerated entrance -- so as to enhance its perceived size, speculate many historians -- the building faces east so that the reading rooms could make best use of the morning light. An underground tunnel, marked by the simple figures of a woman, a heart, and a price, leads from the library to a nearby building believed to have been a drinking establishment or brothel." Yes, a bath is nearby (I have been there, sorry it was not in these days then :)

    Yes, I believe this adds to your argument: Love, knowledge and wisdom are all best when shared freely.

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    P.S.: For the pedantic: I know Aristotle lived before, but they did have only tunnels and not tubes to let information and views spread.

  21. This Nail ... on OLPC Wins Popular Science Award · · Score: 1

    ... looks a lot like that (c) Colornagel.

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  22. Re:Bücherverbrennung on UK Woman Charged As Terrorist For Computer Files · · Score: 1

    Bücherverbrennung

    It is modern times. Let us start with movies - Fahrenheit 911, perhaps.

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  23. Re:Enough on Microsoft's Patent Pledge "Worse Than Useless" · · Score: 1

    I know it is not normal to RTFA

    Who cares? This is normal as well.

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  24. Re:huge number of patents on Microsoft's Patent Pledge "Worse Than Useless" · · Score: 1

    from the link: "and the United States has made more leaps forward in information technology and biology because of a strong patent regime that rewarded ideas"

    Yes, retrofitting. Dear poor relatives!

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  25. Re:Your Mom would! on Preview of Vista On Old Hardware · · Score: 1

    Don't.

    The real capability has vanished in the (bitter) course of time.

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