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  1. Re:Disadvantages on RFID Personal Firewall · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Er, did you even *read* the summary?

  2. Re:The best apples I have ever tasted on Apple Gene for Red Color Found · · Score: 1

    Things like this make me consider dropping out of the sciences.

    Science isn't the problem - allowing non-technical coked-up greedy managers control of scientists is.

  3. Re:That's why there's a Search button on Slashdot on Ancient Astronomical Computer Decoded · · Score: 1

    "3. Relink to a copy of the story on your own advertising supported blog"?

  4. Re:Also for PS3's "older crowd"... on Grad-School Thesis Becomes PS3 Game · · Score: 1

    Snowball fight!

  5. Re:Wonderfull on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    Dude, reading it from a book of myths, legends, and popular fairy tales doesn't count as observation, regardless of how many magic mushrooms one takes.

  6. Veering slightly off topic... on Drivers License Swipes Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry, but I live the lifestyle, and even I think intoxicated driving is fucking stupid. It's not for the children, it's common sense. Even at ones most selfish, it's still retarded - if you get pigged, or worse, end up killing somebody, then that's going to put the kaibosh on living that lifestyle. Self preservation, people, self preservation - does a cab home really cost that much?

  7. Re:My List on Best 2+ Player Video Games? · · Score: 1

    I second Bubble Bobble - truly awesome 2 player.

  8. Re:Actually on Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company · · Score: 1

    Um, isn't that what Wake-On-LAN is for?

  9. Re:This system is dirt cheap on Inexpensive EEG Devices? · · Score: 1

    "Sugar", eh?

  10. Re:MS gives EU 8 days until no Windows on EU Gives Microsoft 8 Days Until Fines · · Score: 1

    Wow, you Septics really don't understand the European mind set, do you?

    Even your bestest friends the British don't actually like you, and the Europeans proper despise you even more.

  11. Re:love? on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 1

    Which also nicely explains away this complaint:

    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=205615 &cid=16778289

    Being as mtDNA only comes from the mother.

  12. Re:cool on Wave-Powered Desalination · · Score: 1

    In the US, water suppliers answer to federal, state and county environmental agencies.

    The particular subthread is about the UK, not the US.

    Here, the privatised water companies do intentionally allow their product to leak away. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Water#Criticis m for details - the same applies to many other regional water suppliers. The fines for allowing water to leak away are minimal, they're practically regional monopolies, they can freely shaft the customer, and so it's more profitable for them to allow the water to leak away than to fix the 100+ year old pipes that have been leaking for decades.

  13. Re:cool on Wave-Powered Desalination · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or you could just heavily fine the water companies 'til they fix their pipes, rather than letting such huge amounts of water leak away.

  14. Re:Gibson on AIDS Can Fight AIDS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you've already got HIV, what have you got to lose?

  15. Re:What next? on The Dolphin With Leftover Legs · · Score: 1

    Who needs opposable thumbs when you have prehensile genitalia?

  16. Re:Images on Bot Nets Behind Recent Spam Surge · · Score: 1

    The spammers have nothing to do with the company they're advertising. It works like this:

    1) Spammers buy penny stock cheap
    2) Spammers spam "tip"
    3) Gullible spamees buy stock, causing price to rise
    4) Spammers sell stock at a profit
    5) Everyone else, often including the company, is screwed

  17. Re:Source code is NOT enough on Viral Videos That Really Are Viral · · Score: 1

    Far out reading disc E:

    (T)urn on, T(u)ne in, (D)rop out?

  18. Re:Another check on How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe they're more compressed - perhaps analysing the distortion characteristics of the sound could be helpful?

  19. Re:need cable anyway? on Next Generation of iPods to have Wi-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Surely they're linked through the DRM system anyway?

  20. Re:Materials © 2006 on Intellectual Property Discussion in the Classroom? · · Score: 1

    They'd just assume they'd fallen asleep, and couldn't remember the lecture.

    After all, it's not unlike students to sleep through lectures.

  21. Materials © 2006 on Intellectual Property Discussion in the Classroom? · · Score: 1

    Just dose the class up with Rohypnol.

    Afterwards, you can claim fact that the course you gave was, in facty, stunning, but that due to licensing constraints, the students weren't allowed to take a copy of the information away with them.

  22. Re:10 reasons why the US is hated all over the wor on US Slips Again In Freedom of the Press Ranking · · Score: 1

    Condoms?

    Because AIDS can be spread by methods other than sex, believe it or not.

    You don't even need to be homosexual to get it.

  23. Re:Huh? on SGI Sues ATI for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Perhaps because, when they did it, the cost of doing FP arithmetic was phenomenal? Because at the time, the idea was madness, not obvious?

  24. Re:Fishy? on Lik-Sang Is Out Of Business · · Score: 1

    It's because it knows it can't weather the storm of lawsuits about to be launched at it.

    At least if they quit while they're ahead, they'll be able to refund customers orders. If the lawsuits went ahead, the customers wouldn't see a penny - it'd all go to Sony.

  25. Re:Don't understand on Lik-Sang Is Out Of Business · · Score: 1

    Why do you think the hippies don't like globalisation? It's not because it's inherently evil, but because it's been twisted so that it only benefits the exceedingly rich. This is a prime example.