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  1. Re:Bad science or bad science reporting? on Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ever wonder why Nuclear Magnetic Resonance was renamed to Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
    People were scared that, like x-rays, they were going to be bombarded by radiation.

  2. Re:Anyone? on Matching Cancers With the Best Chemical Treatments · · Score: 1

    Paging Dr. Freud

  3. Re:*heh* on UK Rejects Extending Music Copyright · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's talking about talentless, unoriginal, sellout whores who are signed with a major label that often litigate against their customers. They make a lot of money and a good way to get signed with a major label is to know a guy who knows a guy whose dick you have to suck for a couple cool million.

  4. Re:Don't think so on Why Linux Has Failed on the Desktop · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Okay, I hear Microsoft, Sony, and Apple mentioned in the same sentence as "Stealing Ideas"- Who cares if they steal ideas or not? They're the most unpopular companies worldwide in terms of intellectual property; their stealing each others ideas is just a big corporate circle-jerk anyway.
    I don't think I'll ever forgive Sony for putting Lik-Sang out of business.

  5. Re:So that must be on Where the Wii Fits In · · Score: 1

    It's pulled enemies from LttP, which I really liked.

  6. Re:Error 500 on New Dynamic Updating Discussions · · Score: 0, Troll

    in before vista.

  7. Re:Not so fast on Humans Evolved From a Single Origin In Africa · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's fine, they just forgot that this single origin's name is Adam PRAISE THE LORD

  8. Re:Hrm... on Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So three hundred copies of an illegal operating system that steals code from Microsoft and SCO?
    *braces for impact*

  9. Re:Summary? on The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan · · Score: 1

    Never mind that, there's trolling to be done!

    Aside from a glaring error in chapter 12 where Abagnale erroneously writes that true authentication is impossible on the Internet

    What the fuck is this shit, slashdot?! Have you read YRO recently and have you heard the longstanding legal argument that a personal computer is far removed from a PERSON? I mean ffs, at the very least anything you do in code ignores the fact that a person may not be in control of their computer and its data!

    Furthermore: The ultimate identity theft prevention plan is to NOT HAVE AN IDENTITY. If you don't use credit, if you don't use banks, if you don't have social security, there's nothing to steal. Change your name to John Smith, erase your fingerprints with a chemical burn, and gouge out your retinas.

  10. Re:Wrong... on There Are No Games So Bad They're Funny · · Score: 2, Insightful
  11. Re:Only on Boeing Helping to Develop Algae-Powered Jet · · Score: 1

    Also, for clarification, the netherlands is 41,526 square kilometers

  12. Re:Only on Boeing Helping to Develop Algae-Powered Jet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tulips, Cannabis, Absinthe, Prostitutes,
    (on a more serious note): Oil, M. C. Escher, Vincent Van Gogh, Peace Treaties (a plurality, even), and Really Nice Airlines that could benefit from this technology.

  13. Re:Only on Boeing Helping to Develop Algae-Powered Jet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, also note they said the CARBON footprint. Algae uses photosynthesis (ie: CO2 + H20 = C6H12O6 + O2 + H2O), so the process itself, for 32,000 km^2, might be factored into their calculations. On the whole, it seems pretty damn green. Algae grows like nobody's business using only sunlight, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen. If you could streamline that process and generate energy from it at low cost with a decent volume-to-output ratio, it seems pretty plausible that it would have a pretty big impact on the environment.
    However, low-cost is KEY. The biggest bottleneck in travel prices right now is the fluctuating price of oil- if you can offer a low-cost alternative that happens to also be green, you may get a bloody nobel prize. Otherwise, you simply won't sell and we'll all still be S.O.L.
    Of course, the government could like, subsidize this initiative instead of giving more money to the sheepfucking corn farmers. D:<

  14. Re:Block TCP Port 80 on Cybercriminals Building New, Stealthier Networks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm waiting for a worm that exploits STUN and invalidates the whole "block any port you don't use" rule.

  15. Re:Block TCP Port 80 on Cybercriminals Building New, Stealthier Networks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is what Slashdot has become.
    Two years ago there would have been a frosty piss and a two-page discussion on how this douchebag OP was wrong to use the word "cybercriminals" (or cyberfoo for that matter), and how his article reads like a page out of the script to this flaming piece of shit. Where did we go? Since when did Slashdot become Eternal September?
    That's right point-bearing masses, mod me flamebait because nobody else has the balls to stand up to this kind of terrible quality news. FFS look at the damn article! It says nothing! It literally states something that was true ten years ago when the botnet was invented! News for NERDS? more like News for NEWBS.
    Christ alfuckingmighty.

  16. Re:It's not exactly mysterious. on Mitochondria and the Prevention of Death · · Score: 1

    But they notice Mediclorions also induce cell death. Especially when Vader finds your lack of faith... disturbing, admiral...

  17. Re:Analog hole to recordering Audio on Web Radio Negotiations Carry Poison Pill · · Score: 1

    Glass Houses, sir; Glass Houses.

  18. Re:great on Diamonds Are a Fuel Cell's Best Friend · · Score: 2, Funny

    posting to show how I don't have the points to mod you funny. I could lose my job laughing this hard you insensitive clod!

  19. Re:Bzzt! Wrong. on MIT Finds Cure For Fear · · Score: 1

    Not so much what the drug affects, but what you *want* the drug to affect. Soldiers need to be afraid of combat. Military training is basically the process by which they tickle your fight-or-flight response and bend you towards "fight". Without fear, you cannot get the rush of adrenaline, you lose the motivation to kill, and thus you are useless on the front lines.
    Furthermore, in actual response, "fear" and "anxiety" are two different things. I'll say that I certainly didn't get a bone-chilling foreboding feeling talking to girls as a boy, but I certainly was anxious. Fear of women is less learned, though, since the natural anxiety coming from the rush of hormones should be instinctive. I'd contend that fear of women is natural, and that overcoming it is a natural process that comes with becoming more comfortable with your body, which some [slashdotters] never do.

  20. Re:Great... on Adobe Flash Exploit Could Log Keystrokes · · Score: 1

    ftw

  21. Re:the man of carbon? on Springy Nanotubes Could Make Artificial Muscles · · Score: 1

    The Mushroom Kingdom isn't just some dump truck, it's a series of tubes!

  22. Re:I wouldn't worry about sullying your profession on Tech Writers Spreading FUD About GPLv3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Now Mr. Colbert, the left-wing critics love you... there are no right-wing critics."
                      -- Bill O'Reilly, "The O'Reilly Factor"

    Fox News writes their own jokes tyvm.

  23. Re:Unasked, unanswered question on Intel Core 2 Updates, QX6850 and E6750 · · Score: 1

    uh, you mean like, these bugs?
    I can't really blame you for speaking out of your ass, because the "related stories" section isn't working properly.

  24. Re:I am able on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    gottem!

  25. Re:Mossberg's quote on iPhone Battery Replacement An Unwelcome Surprise · · Score: 5, Funny

    What you call a review of the iPhone, I call a date with your mother, trebek.

    Connery-fixed.