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  1. Re:Windows RT + Office on Leak Hints Windows 8 Tablets May Be Dearer Than Makes Sense · · Score: 1

    In Italian, both "expensive" and "dear" are translated with the same word, "caro".
    So, "more expensive" -> "piu' caro" -> "dearer".

    I had no idea that /. titles were written by Italians anyway.

  2. Doesn't matter. on Do We Need a Longer School Year? · · Score: 1, Informative

    You can have students attend school even 365/365, but if in end you teach them Creationism I don't think they'll "excel in our global society" anyway.

  3. Question on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    How do you kill that which has no life?

  4. Re:TFA dude needs to chill on Are You Gaming For the Right Reasons? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Raiding Ice Crown or Dragon Soul for one year isn't considered grinding? Expecially in WotLK, when you could find yourself doing the same raid FOUR time a week (normal 10/25, heroic 10/25)? Kill Marrowgar 208 times in a year?
    "Hardcore" players try to justify themselves saying that raiding isn't grinding, but actually it is.

  5. Re:I call BS on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right, and we should not have premarital sex, don't drink alcohol and don't eat pork, beef or shellfish.

  6. Re:A better idea... on Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day · · Score: 2

    Attack vectors? Like the internet?

  7. Re:Solution on Some Players Want Day-1 DLC, Says BioWare · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just release the loading screen and put the *whole* game in DLC!

  8. Different continent? on Nintendo Ranks Last In Conflict Minerals Report · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why should an asian company care for "an arm of the Center for American Progress" that, according to wikipedia, is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action."?

  9. Engineering != Selection on Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist · · Score: 1

    The title suggests genetic engineering, but the article in fact talks about selection: you don't build a child to be sure he won't become an alcoholist, you discard him if the tests say that he could grow into an alcoholist.
    How that would be realized? En masse switching to in vitro fecundation? Widening of the reasons for which you can have a therapeutic abortion?

  10. Re:Romney - VOTE FOR YOUR FUTURE on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you sick of seeing the family down the street sit home all day, eating McDonalds and waiting for the mailman to come with the precious government check containing your money?

    ...

    Do you believe health care should be earned and payed for and not given away to the dregs of society who abuse their bodies daily and expect us to foot the bill for them

    No, I sit home all day eating McDonalds, abusing my body and waiting for the mailman to come with the precious government check containing your money, so I'm fine with that.
    Thank you for your money!

  11. Other uses? on Asimov's Psychohistory Becoming a Reality? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can it predict US soldiers urinating on dead bodies, burning the koran or going on killing spree against harmless villagers?

  12. Re:Arrrgh on An Android Tablet Victory May Be Problematic For Free Software · · Score: 2

    It's both.

    From dictionary.com :
    methodology
    1. a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
    2. Philosophy
          a. the underlying principles and rules of organization of a philosophical system or inquiry procedure.
          b. the study of the principles underlying the organization of the various sciences and the conduct of scientific inquiry.

  13. Just check the two groups. on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 1, Funny

    If they overlap enough, it's a sign that climate change is real.

  14. Obligatory xkcd on Geezers Pick Stronger Passwords Than Young'uns · · Score: -1
  15. Re:potential iffyness on Who Sends Google the Most Takedown Notices? Microsoft · · Score: 5, Informative

    The goal is to make Bing the search engine most used by people looking for copyrighted content, since they could not find it on Google anymore.

    Google should simply submit the same take down notice to Microsoft if the "illegal" link is found on Bing too.

  16. Re:Facebook on Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over With Facebook IPO · · Score: 2

    "If I have a choice of investing in a blockbuster cancer drug that will pay me nothing for ten years, at best, whereas social media will go big in two years, what do you think I'm going to pick?"

    FB is helping the world more than a cancer drug? Really?

    "Sorry dude, your illness should have been cured by now, but nobody is developing new drugs anymore. Anyway, you can still play Farmsville while you're waiting to die"

  17. Andy Warhol on Stone-Throwing Chimp Back In the News With Better Plan · · Score: 1

    "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes, except stone-throwing chimps, that will be for 30."

  18. Re:I can't even on Sun Advice Columnist Advised MPs On UK Porn-Block Plans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you won't be able to find porn on the internet anymore, they assume you'll buy their newspaper to see some boobs.

  19. Re:don't put too much money into it on Ask Slashdot: Freedom From DRM, In the Social Gaming Arena? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To not be cloned by Zynga is quite easy: just make a game that requires an IQ higher than 50 to play.

  20. Re:And that is what really stiffles innovation on Leaked Zynga Memo Justifies Copycat Strategy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remove lawyers?

  21. Re:Wrong answer... on Some Critics Suggest Apple Boycott Over Chinese Working Conditions · · Score: 1

    And if you were going to pay US wages you could always, I don't know, build the damn thing in America?

    Because you still need the slav... ehm workers to work 12h/day 6 days a week and to live in the factory.
    I don't think you'll find 300,000+ people in the US willing to do that.

  22. Change last sentence on Nano-Scale Terahertz Antenna May Make Tricorders Real · · Score: 3, Funny

    into "In the not so distant future, every household might have a Star Trek-like tricorder capable of giving you cancer or other diseases."

  23. What's this? on Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? · · Score: 1

    The annual meeting of paranoid geeks?

  24. Re:TCO on Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord · · Score: 5, Funny

    Less snow, more farmable land?
    Maybe they plan to become the first producers of bananas within the end of the century...

  25. Thank you Motion Picture Association! on Film Studios Seeking Complete Block of Newzbin2 in the UK · · Score: 0

    I never heard of Newzbin2 before. Now I'll give it a look.