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  1. also, on Online Storage For Lawyers? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where can I get a toilet seat designed specifically for lawyers?

  2. Maybe it would curb piracy, on ISP Capping Is Becoming the New DRM · · Score: 1

    but remember, you still have to pay for the bandwidth if you download from iTunes.

  3. Re:People just don't understand Linux on Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story · · Score: 1

    How can you criticize Linux for having too many proprietary repositories when Windows doesn't even have any? There are a number of problems with Linux, but the package system is one in which Linux (at least most popular distros) beats Windows hands down.

  4. magnetic on Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesive Set For Space · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's obvious that suction wouldn't work in space, but why would magnetic stickers fail?

  5. phew on Powerful Sonar Causes Deafness In Dolphins · · Score: 1

    I, for one, am glad that the military is working on weapons to defend ourselves from the upcoming dolphin invasion. I know (from various sources) that the dolphinkind have been planning their move for dominance for a long time, but their efforts have been thwarted yet again by that intelligence and heroism of the US navy.

    Go Humanity!

  6. Re:Temporary damage and singing under water... on Powerful Sonar Causes Deafness In Dolphins · · Score: 1

    Slashdot needs a mod option "incorrect" for stuff like this. Sound isn't the same thing as light and it isn't the same thing as 2.4 GHz microwaves. Sound travels better through water than air. Sound doesn't travel at all through vacuum.

  7. Re:The USA is kinda hypocrites, but not in Iraq on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    A major difference is that the Axis were the clear aggressors here.

  8. 80 hp is way more than you have available on Solar Powered Car Can Get Close To 60 mph · · Score: 1

    80 hp = 60000 watts, maybe 40-100 hairdryers
    I don't know what kind of point you are trying to make here, since you've totally left the ball field.

  9. explain on Google's Plan For Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So, is Google asserting copyright on the scans of the books whose copyright Google doesn't own? Could I just copy and redistribute Google's scan of the book? After all, I have as much claim to the book as Google, and the scan itself is not a creative work.

  10. Re:Interesting source code. on Data.gov To Launch In May · · Score: 1

    This is obviously just a temporary page. Who cares if there is CSS? That's just another layer of formatting nonsense for a short message, when the browser default format will do fine.

    Unclosed <p> tags? What's the point of closing <p> tags? It's just a few wasted bytes and a few moments of wasted typing time. Standards zealots should spend their time criticizing things that actually matter.

    Now, the image text, I don't get that one. That's stupid.

  11. here it is on Data.gov To Launch In May · · Score: 1

    <head>
    <title>Data.Gov</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    Nothing to see here, move along.
    </body>
    </html>

  12. Re:Standard on Graphic Artists Condemn UK Ban On Erotic Comics · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Correction: The difference it makes is that if you've never had kids then you can only reliably argue with facts, not emotions.

  13. Re:And will be unavailable anyplace else.... on World's Cheapest Car Goes On Sale In India · · Score: 1

    False dilemma. You forgot the option:
    - Mr. Fusion

  14. Re:And will be unavailable anyplace else.... on World's Cheapest Car Goes On Sale In India · · Score: 1

    What's more important, to be fair or to be right? The damage in the USA has already been done. It's a fucked up scenario. Admonishing the Indians for moving towards a more resource hungry society might be hypocritical, but to dismiss a message because it was delivered by a hypocrite is just ad hominem.

  15. Re:I'm still waiting for the Tata Touch... on World's Cheapest Car Goes On Sale In India · · Score: 1

    Canada, Australia, and Luxembourg are all up there with US on per capita greenhouse emission. It's a tight race.

  16. Re:Is anyone surprised? on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 1

    IIRC, polls showed that Americans strongly disfavored the bailout from the beginning.

  17. Apple? on Nintendo To Take On Apple With DSi App Store · · Score: 1

    So it's Apple Computers that invented the online store? Wow, Jobs is really a visionary!

  18. Re:Here's what I'd like on Believable Stupidity In Game AI · · Score: 1

    Sure, but that doesn't address my point.

  19. Re:Here's what I'd like on Believable Stupidity In Game AI · · Score: 1

    Well, I hope you like winning all the time. Because your fair AI will get trounced again and again in a complex RTS game. In chess, a fair AI can provide a challenge because the game rules are so simple that the computer can brute force it. There's no hope in brute forcing the simplest of RTS games. What you are asking for is something everyone wants, but isn't quite doable right now by a game team. (Although, if you open-sourced the AI, you might get some pretty wicked community-generated AI.)

  20. Re:if they do that on Intel Threatens To Revoke AMD's x86 License · · Score: 1

    oops, cancel that redundant mod. mouse slip.

  21. Re:Battery Aging on "Spin Battery" Effect Discovered · · Score: 1

    I dunno about a cat, but I got a rabbit with a little drum to stick them into.

  22. Re:Achem on "Spin Battery" Effect Discovered · · Score: 1

    what's preventing the battery from discharging?

    Same thing that keeps any battery from discharging. Time.

  23. Re:HUH? on UK To Mull High Video Game Taxes — To Fight Knife Crime · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a cook, I'd have to say that's a bad idea.

  24. Re:Casimir Force on Scale Models Can "Compute" Casimir Forces · · Score: 1

    What is your definition of sucking, if a vacuum doesn't suck?

  25. Re:Yo mama is so fat... on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    Pretty much the same joke was on xkcd not so long ago.

    (But it's simple :D)