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  1. Re:Please let it be!! on WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level · · Score: 1

    ManBirdPig

  2. Re:Police Abuse Videos on Cops To Start CrimeTube To Report Offenses · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Someone just needs to start their own YouTube style site specifically for uploading and sharing videos of police brutality, corruption, or any other type of malfeasance. You could search by city, state, names, etc and link it to Google Maps. I think the fallout of such a thing would be interesting to say the least.

  3. Re:Time to stop enabling spoiled brats on The Real Story Behind Gaming Addiction · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pedophiles, who should be took out back and shot IMNSHO, are hard-wired to be attracted to children. They can not be re-wired. You may modify their behavior to an extent(BTW, my solution actually does modify their behavior) but you cannot alter their attraction to children.

    At the risk of being labeled as someone who sympathizes with child molesters, I would just like to point out that there is a very large difference between being attracted to something and acting on that attraction. In my day to day life I find myself to be very attracted to a number of women that I consider "hot". This however does not create some uncontrollable urge for me to hit on them or follow them down a dark alley and rape them. There is a distinction between those who are attracted to children and those who act on that attraction. If you had your way, a lot of innocent people who haven't actually done anything wrong would be executed.

  4. Re:you can buy Android apps from outside the marke on Google Bans Tethering App From Android Market · · Score: 1

    Unlike the iPhone, there is more than one market for the Android platform.

    Wrong. With a jail-broken iPhone, you can buy apps from the new Cydia Store. If you have 10 minutes and can press two buttons at once, you can jailbreak an iPhone.

  5. Re:Americans Get the Short End of the Stick, As Us on Cold War Standoff Over ISS Toilet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is why I love Slashdot...
    In response to a relatively humorous post, an uptight and humorless reply about an event 17 years ago that is completely unrelated to the discussion gets modded +5 Informative. On that note, I suggest I'll be modded +5 Insightful, but -1 Troll would be more probable.

  6. Re:Been following this for awhile. on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    In all honesty there is probably some clause in the paperwork you fill out when enrolling your child in the district that states that you agree to let the school strip search your child in circumstances where the administration feels it is necessary. I'm not saying that such a clause is moral or even legally enforceable, just that schools and districts are known for making people trade their rights for certain school privileges.

  7. Re:IT'S NOT THE MUSIC on 17 Million People Stopped Buying CDs In 2008 · · Score: 1

    My complaint is that almost all the music on the radio today sucks and there is little variety. I was only born in 82, yet most of the music I listen to now, especially on the radio, was recorded long before I was born. That said, there is a lot of good, new stuff out there, the problem is finding something you like. Who cares if there is new music gushing out of every social orifice every day of the week if none of it appeals to you. Pandora and Last.FM are good ways to find what you like, Clear Channel is not. The last two albums I bought on CD were "10,000 Days" by Tool and "Attack and Release" by The Black Keys and I was actually lucky enough to see The Black Keys the last time they were in town.

  8. Re:Add-ins on Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now · · Score: 1

    There is certainly a toolbar for IE that adds DOM Inspection and a few other tools. Surprisingly enough, it is called the IE Developer Toolbar.

  9. Re:There are some things we shouldn't see on Activists Use Wikipedia To Test Aussie Net Censors · · Score: 1

    if you insist on using the bastardised version of the language that is American English

    The war ended over 200 years ago man, let it go! Besides, I'm sure Poe or any 19th century literati would consider your English to be a bastardized version of the King's English. But don't fret too much about it, I'm sure all of us across the pond here will be speaking Spanish within the next 100 years and then you can have your precious blue-blooded language back :)

  10. Re:It's wrong that.. on USB Tethering Working On iPhone 3.0 Through Hack · · Score: 1

    Its also sad that those open platforms have such shitty marketing, aside from the G1.

  11. Re:Or they're terrified on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    I prefer to think of them as fighting evil in another dimension

  12. Re:False positives? on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    It should be trivial to legally force all state approved insurance providers to comply. In the event of a false positive, the state could just require you to mail in a copy of your valid insurance information. You could even go as far as fining the insurance provider for not updating their records.

  13. Great! on Brain Decline Begins At Age 27 · · Score: 1

    I just turned 27 on Steak, Blowjob, and Pi day! I just thought my rapid mental decline was from watching too much TV

  14. Re:He should go to prison, but not for... on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is why (FTFA) they arrested him with weapons drawn like he's a dangerous thug. What, might he at any moment whip out some freaky pirate-fu and delete them, their kittens and their backups using his bluetooth remote? And this in the same country where any suspected white-collar criminal will receive a phone call from the DA or chief of police to arrange for surrender at their earliest convenience."

    I think that is a little more accurate.

  15. Re:But March 14th is already taken! on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 3, Informative

    Its also Einstein's birthday.

  16. Re:You really know when its a business... on Cybercrime-As-a-Service Takes Off · · Score: 1

    Most people stay out of the business because of the high risk of being caught or things turning violent. High risk = high prices = high reward.

  17. Re:But IE8 doesn't work with Slashdot correctly. on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 0

    I have the same issue although I uninstalled NoScript because I got tired of nothing working without me approving a billion scripts on each page I visited.

  18. Re:Creationism was created as a childish response on Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not posting to argue for or against your point but to simply ask why you felt it was necessary to make your entire paragraph a hyperlink. Is it 1994 again?

  19. Re:Different OS on 9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features · · Score: 1

    While hard numbers would be useful, it's painfully clear to anyone who's used it on both platforms that Firefox on windows is far faster than Firefox on linux.

    Not only that, but some of the buttons are in different locations, the Options menu is accessed through the Tools menu in Windows and Edit menu in Linux (and OSX). Also, in every version of Linux I have run Firefox on it for absolutely no discernible reason takes at least 5 minutes of "Waiting..." before it will start downloading an extension or extension update.

  20. Re:An was an even Bigger mistake: on Null References, the Billion Dollar Mistake · · Score: 1

    I know you were joking but people throughout history have shared this view of the number zero. Back in college I read The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero and apparently the number zero was considered to be evil by some since it symbolizes nothingness. Some cultures simply used a blank space to represent "nothing". It has been a while since I read the book but I remember it being very interesting and even insightful for a book about the history of a number.

  21. Re:Who the hell is Ma.gnolia on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    What is with the st.upid name?

  22. Re:Why is that annoying? on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Its called a "subject" field, because you're supposed to enter a short description of the subject of your message, not an introduction or forward. Do you email people by putting the first line of your message in the subject?

  23. Re:Playing devil's advocate here... on Apple Claims That Jail-Breaking Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    The most successful jailbroken apps, free or not, are ones that provide functionality that you cannot buy through iTunes. Just look at SwirlyMMS, PdaNet, WinterBoard, Terminal, etc. Apple doesn't like it because it allows people to use their phones in ways they weren't intended to. It completely removes Apple's control of what can be installed on your phone and I'm sure they don't like that either.

  24. Re:Correlation is not causation on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Its called a mutation. Why do you think we haven't eradicated the common cold or the flu? There are a large number of strains and mutations. If one kid at a school doesn't get vaccinated then they could contract a disease that most people have received the vaccination for. The reason this is dangerous to the vaccinated crowd is because theoretically the non-vaccinated bodies are a breeding ground for the disease to mutate until the vaccination has no effect on it and then everyone is in trouble.

  25. Re:Rational on Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study · · Score: 1

    I will merely point out that according to the FDA rules for a schedule 1 narcotic, something has to meed all of the following requirements:

    • The drug or other substance has high potential for abuse.
    • The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
    • There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.

    If you need any more proof that the sole motivation behind marijuana being illegal is political, lets see what happens when you apply the same rules to cigarettes which are of course are still legal:
    Check, check, and checkmate.