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  1. Re:sounds risky on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    What if the US gets involved in a real war and wants to switch off civilian GPS to prevent it being used to guide missiles? If it's all that's preventing mid-air collisions, that option will not be open to them.

  2. Re:Photos on Slashdot. on Food Activist's Life Becomes The Life of Brian · · Score: 1

    Bother, submitted instead of previewing...

    ... and people are more likely to play with it if they're completely sure it will only read.

  3. Re:Photos on Slashdot. on Food Activist's Life Becomes The Life of Brian · · Score: 1
    I am aware of the UUOC, but it's there because more people know what

    cat

    does than what

    string

    does

  4. Re:Doesn't this contain Quake 3 Code? on Nexuiz Founder Licenses It For Non-GPL Use · · Score: 1

    The original Quake, not Quake III, but your point stands.

  5. Photos on Slashdot. on Food Activist's Life Becomes The Life of Brian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Shame you started using photos in stories. Never has the foot icon been more appropriate.

  6. Don't use Windows on the Internet on How To Avoid a Botnet Infection? · · Score: 1

    Don't let your Windows boxen have Internet access. If your users just use web and email, give them an HTTP proxy server, an internal email server, and no real Internet gateway.

  7. Place your bets? on IE Not Faring Well In the EU Ballot · · Score: 1

    I presume the summary means "bets on the winner".

    I'm hoping for no winner: a heterogeneous market where people use one of a number of standards-compliant browsers, and I think it could actually be what happens.

  8. Re:Lie on Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The whole point of the article is that the logical failure in the system would cause it to consider the crocodiles basically harmless because the fall was greater than six feet.

  9. Copyright infringement on Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So, how does this fit in with the plans to disconnect the families of people who are accused of copyright infringement? I guess media companies are going to be able to get anyone they don't like prosecuted for tax evasion too?

  10. Re:Someone tagged this FOIA on ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones · · Score: 1

    Because there are some US citizens that are actively working with the Taliban. If US citizens are working as enemy combatants then they should be eligible as targets as well.

    "Enemy combatant" doesn't mean anything. If an enemy combatant is somebody that can be summarily executed, anyone they want out of the way can be an enemy combatant.

  11. Re:It will be interesting to see... on Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Tissue Regeneration · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Scarring is much faster, and probably carries a lower risk of infection for creatures that don't have access to medical care.

  12. Re:I'm debating if this thing really counts as a c on The Bloodhound Will Stay On the Ground At 1,000 mph · · Score: 1

    Aside from the fact that that is a different world record in itself

    So are "fastest vehicle with an FM radio" and "fastest blue vehicle". However, they aren't interesting records.

  13. Re:It's not like someone just made this up on Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again · · Score: 1

    There were some fascinating correlations about autism rates before and after the mixed injections.

    That is because the age at which children are given MMR is about the age autism is typically diagnosed, in vaccinated and un-vaccinated children alike.

  14. Re:Vaccine Related? on Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A vaccine has about as much mercury in it as a tin of tuna. Mercury is indeed cumulatively toxic, but the amount in all the vaccinations a person will ever have is irrelevantly tiny.

  15. Re:Go go Nanny State... on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 1

    Now, even most people who are highly specialized in one particular field will know of salt's role in cooking.

    Perhaps this is an indication of how far from reality the ruling class is: it would seem that many of them have never had to cook for themselves.

  16. Re:Good for PF...but also...bad for PF? on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 1

    Some albums are like a collection of short stories, where each story can stand alone. Some are not, because the tracks are not supposed to stand alone. Pink Floyd is firmly in the latter category.

  17. Re:Witless stenographers? on Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am dyslexic, and writing on paper at any decent speed pretty much takes my full attention, but I can type faster than most without thinking about it. I'm sure a lot of other people are like this.

    I wonder how long it will be before someone challenges this as discrimination.

  18. Re:LOL on Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down · · Score: 1

    The only people who can play the game right now are pirates.

    *Waits for the shills to arrive and tell us that the hack is not real.

  19. Re:My 0.02 on Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking · · Score: 1

    Looks like I accidentally posted as AC... Anyway, the parent is me, not that anybody will read it now.

  20. Re:Is the atmosphere dense enough? on Could the Tumbleweed Rover Dominate Mars? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But the funny thing is that it would be technically possible to land a winged aircraft on Mars.

    I seem to recall reading something interesting about that several years ago - it claimed that a Martian aircraft would have to look pretty interesting - due to the lower density of the atmosphere and the lower speed of sound, a prop-driven fixed-wing or helicopter would have to break the sound barrier with the tip of its blades, which is a little impractical.

    P.S. Found the article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17022932.700-flight-of-the-martian-bee.html

  21. Re:Please, no! on Real Settles Lawsuits, Will Stop Selling RealDVD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's no point in hating RealNetworks, just use a competetitor

    I remember when all online video was RealVideo.

  22. Please, no! on Real Settles Lawsuits, Will Stop Selling RealDVD · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please Slashdot, don't make me decide whether I hate Hollywood or RealNetworks more!

  23. Re:Tech for the future on 3D Graphics For Firefox, Webkit · · Score: 1

    Maybe this tech will be big when 3d monitors are out... just imagine the pop ups really poping out of your screen :)

    Just imagine the Goatse...

  24. Re:Not Israel on Banks Accept Dubai Assassins' Stolen IDs · · Score: 1

    Everyone does this when asked "is so-and-so an agent", or "do you operate in such-and-such a country". "Did you organised the murder of so-and-so" is a different matter.

  25. Re:Not Israel on Banks Accept Dubai Assassins' Stolen IDs · · Score: 1

    But there's no evidence it was Israel behind this. All your comments are just reiterating accusations by Dubai. Maybe they were behind it, but no one posting here knows.

    The official Israeli line appears to be "we won't deny we did it, but there's no evidence it was us". From where I'm standing, that sounds a lot like an admission.