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  1. Re:The candle that burns half as bright... on Changing a Single Gene Allows Mice To Live 20 Percent Longer · · Score: 1

    That's a Batty comment you just made. (and he didn't like it much, if his response was anything to go by)

  2. Re:Major Misread on Changing a Single Gene Allows Mice To Live 20 Percent Longer · · Score: 1

    burn more calories than you consume. Hell, most people (or countries) don't understand 'spend less than you earn' - WTF am I bothering?

  3. Re:They're not trolls on Taking the Battle Against Patent Trolls To the Public · · Score: 1

    Lets call it "the war against patent trolls" - that seems accepted phraseology these days.

  4. Re:Pot calling kettle black on Online Law Banning Discussion of Current Affairs Comes Into Force In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The US government wants everyone to talk about current affairs online, so they can easily flag and monitor the trouble-makers.

    Where " trouble-makers" is the set of people trying to use truck bombs, car bombs, and suicide vests, plus various experiments with poison gas and plague, to kill masses of innocent people, yes.

    Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

    We've certainly 'progressed' since then.

  5. Re:Pot calling kettle black on Online Law Banning Discussion of Current Affairs Comes Into Force In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    The US government is all for fundamental freedoms, providing your use of them can be logged, queried at will and used against you later.

    Indeed. The US government wants everyone to talk about current affairs online, so they can easily flag and monitor the trouble-makers.

    The Vietnamese alternative is just so honest.

    Fixed.

  6. Re:uhuh sure on Apple Now Relaying All FaceTime Calls Due To Lost Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    The watchers are wanking themselves, it's a variation on rule 34

  7. Re:I never understood the principle. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    I meant as defined by christians, and for that matter, Dante.
    To those advocating war, I'll agree with them, if they are the first to go over the wall and get a face-full of white phosphorous.

  8. Re:not applicable in Hong Kong on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1
    The definitions vary. EG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)

    The term public school refers to a group of older, more expensive and exclusive fee-paying private independent schools in the United Kingdom, particularly in England, which cater primarily for children aged between 13 and 18. Traditionally, these were boys' boarding schools, although most now allow day pupils and have turned either partially or fully co-educational.

    I know, it's like us Aussies and our "Liberal" party - who are the more conservative of the two. :)

  9. Re:Why read past the second paragraph? on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    THis is /. aren't we meant to comment based on the abbreviated post at top here?

    More people telling us what we should do and think. Lady, if you think this, send your child to a public school, don't try and force others to.

  10. Re:Not P2W on Mechwarrior Online Developer Redefines Community Warfare · · Score: 1

    That is assuming chess is a fun game now, but I take your point.

  11. Re:.com is still king on Dotless Domain Names Prohibited, ICANN Tells Google · · Score: 1

    you start typing netba and it autocompletes to https://www.my.commbank.com.au/netbank/Logon/Logon.aspx - and then lights up in green to tell you it's got a valid ssl cert match with the site. Typing it manually... there's more likelihood you will mispell it, and end up visiting all the one letter off dodgy websites.

  12. Re:It is almost as if... on UK High Court Gives OK To Investigation of Data Siezed From David Miranda · · Score: 1

    I'm curious if it works the other way (reducing temperature) - or would hypothermia set in? Do frogs suffer from hypothermia? (cold-blooded)

  13. Re:Not P2W on Mechwarrior Online Developer Redefines Community Warfare · · Score: 1

    if you can pay to xp you can p2w.

    pay to xp is pay to win. practically all of so called free social games nowadays do it.

    Humans are inherently lazy, if their real job pays more per hour by factors of 100's and lets face it, most do, they'll go for p2w. If your real job doesn't, I pity you, and you're probably not playing games.

  14. Re:spamassassin on Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters? · · Score: 1

    Look back over previous comments on email certification if you want the more considered response. Hell, someone's even made a form for it.

  15. Re:spamassassin on Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters? · · Score: 1

    Mod the parent up. Stable software beats weekly releases.

  16. Re:I never understood the principle. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    THere is no hell.

  17. Re:I don't get it. on Tesla Model S REST API Authentication Flaws · · Score: 1

    "All hands, brace for impact!"

  18. Re: Government vs terrorists on Lord Blair Calls for Laws To Stop 'Principled' Leaking of State Secrets · · Score: 1

    Different system. The US president isn't regarded as part of the house or senate in the same way our PM is regarded as part of the parliament. For instance your house likely would not hold a spill motion against the president, and then elect one of their number to be president.

  19. Re: Government vs terrorists on Lord Blair Calls for Laws To Stop 'Principled' Leaking of State Secrets · · Score: 1

    Same as ministers. It usually means they have a delegate minister of some kind in the lower house. (for example, until recently, Stephen Conroy was the minister for Communications in Australia, and Anthony Albanese answered questions put to him in the lower house (now Albanese is the minister, after the Rudd inspired reshuffle))

    I'd imagine for the PM, it'd be someone like the deputy PM answering on his behalf. Like happens when the PM is not present.

  20. Re:of course on Ask Slashdot: Good Ideas For Creative Gaming With Girlfriend? · · Score: 1

    read that as www.furryadultgamesplay.com - I have no idea if that resolves, if it does, tis likely NSFW.

  21. Do you want to keep her? on Ask Slashdot: Good Ideas For Creative Gaming With Girlfriend? · · Score: 1

    If not, I'd suggest grinding GL rep together.

  22. I'm waiting... on Omate TrueSmart Watch Stands Alone — No Phone Required · · Score: 1

    For a watch that doesn't require watch hardware. IOW, a bluetooth implant.

  23. Re:It's about time... on Wall Street Traders Charged With Copying Code To Start Their Own Company · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is pretty much just a story of idiots.

    ... Where did that model come from? ...

    I guess it depends on the firm. The ones I worked for based their model on Black-Scholes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes) But that may have been specific to the instruments they were trading. The models were well known and based on published work and any edge they had was based on application or speed.

    I agree they were idiots as Sarbanes-Oxley requires the retention of all company email.

    For some definitions of company email. It's not all by any means. (having just done a mandatory records keeping training course) - of the past 100 emails in my inbox, perhaps 10 meet the criteria to retain.

  24. Yes, the cat got my tongue. on Only One US City Makes "Top Ten Internet Cities Worldwide" List · · Score: 1

    Having 1 of them (privacy) automatically set to zero because of the NSA should mean that you don't have any of the top ten, or indeed the top one hundred. The only reason you do is that the NSA spread its tendrils internationally.

  25. Re:Don't wanna be first... on Dispatch From the Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google · · Score: 1

    I blame the stationary give way sign that totalled one of my cars completely. (It still seemed a trivial amount of damage for a write-off)