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  1. Re:Woo hoo! on Non-Invasive Computer Control Through Brainwaves · · Score: 1

    Why does my computer keep going to straight porn sites now that I hooked up this brain control device?

    I'm not straight!!

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.

  2. Re:"Blame Bush" fails again on Consensus on Global Warming · · Score: 1


    "Just because Bush doesn't sign up to a program with name recognition, doesn't mean the US government isn't doing anything."

    Actually they are doing something. Removing global warming from schoolbooks. Without proof of global warming being a flawed theory.

    And adding creationist view of the world at the same time, which fully support the view that God will decide when the world ends and not some fully previsible eco-disaster or nuclear war against the "axis of evil".

    The civilian population has more done this year with the occasional solar panel at home than the Bush family has done in all its years of power.

    If you'd like to contradict me, please cite an actual exemple of Bush being eco-friendly.

  3. Re:Cranks on Consensus on Global Warming · · Score: 1


    If Kyoto is 100% BS, why didn't the Bush administration propose something better? Instead of pretending certainty of global warming being false (as opposed to claiming uncertainty, which might get some far-fetch support unlike total denial).

    Oh, right. Bush. Political donations from oil companies. Rats. It's the fault of the soft money loophole thingy again. It's a good candidate to the source of all evil. (-;

  4. Re:What about rejects? on Consensus on Global Warming · · Score: 1


    "how many were never submitted for peer review in the first place because of concern over the backlash?"

    You made me laugh. (-;

    Ask the Bush administration. If you can find a disproof in the first place, they'll hire you and help you on the spot.

    They're also looking for proof God created Earth to be published in scientific peer review journals. So it fits the change they've already did in school textbooks because they "know the bible is right".

    Unfortunately the reviewing peers seem, thru all cultures and religions and tongues and continents, to have seen proofs yet.

    Perhaps proof of a FALSE theory is hard to come by, Mr. Bush? (-;

    Even the DOD thinks we might be fighting over clean water rather than oil in twentyish years!

  5. Re:Here's how internet is more useful than TV: on Broadband Usage Up, TV Usage Down · · Score: 1

    *FREE* porn. If it was free (including freedom from corporate self-censorship) on every TV, why would we use internet for porn?

    Would the internet even be lucrative to ISPs if TV were to free porn for a year, bankrupting half the net? (-;

  6. Brain damaging style improving on Broadband Usage Up, TV Usage Down · · Score: 1

    So instead of getting brain damage from too much Pokemons, Digimons, Barney, and superbowl but actually getting a common culture and involontarily learning a grammatical rule or two...

    . ...we'll get the people's culture hyperfragmented into tiny online communauties which uses an INBRED grammar! K00L, the joys of teknoh-logi!

    At least the decentralisation will make us as hard to herd as cats when it comes to elections or Windoze. At least it's the tenets of the new relygionn that has catma instead of dogma.

    If you already know what "All your bases are belong to us" means, you're already affected. Go see an e-doctor.

  7. Evolution! on The Threat From Life on Mars · · Score: 1

    Because on Mars, there is no intelligent life to make your broad generalisation.

    Which may mean they've all been eaten by the biological equivalent of Microsoft!

    It's just that on Earth, our Bill Gates didn't find a way to have his software run biological entities ... yet!

  8. Re:Here's your chance, Mcaffee! on The Threat From Life on Mars · · Score: 1


    Mc Coffee seems to be confused with Macaffee here in that BrundleFly-like word, "Mcaffee". Sounds hot!

    I'm sure some old lady will sue for 79 million $ and win if we don't correct the mistake.

  9. At least it's not... on The Threat From Life on Mars · · Score: 2, Funny


    At least it's not a cure for which we have no known disease!

  10. Could someone inject Bush's brain on New Treatment Helps Cure Spinal Injuries · · Score: 1


    Could someone *please* inject Bush's brain, or at least the brains of the international observers of the elections (assuming they're not "enemy combatants" in jail without trial already)?

    I sense a great need.

  11. "we didn't have a good grasp of water" on Water Suddenly Becomes Mysterious · · Score: 1


    "we didn't have a good grasp of water" you said.

    Ever tried nailing water to a tree?

    Your arguments don't hold water. And I'm not getting myself wet by making another counterargument easily liquidated. It's not like drowning in non-solid arguments is going to flow anywhere.

    By the way. Shouldn't the huge litterature "on water" be "underwater"? Some books don't float you know.

    MOD me desinformative. (-;

  12. For the blind on The Nonphotorealistic Camera · · Score: 1


    If it allows depth perception to some degree, it can be truly useful for the blind's artificial vision (as in the brainports article).

    Even at a 16X16 image would avoid bumping into white chairs next to a white wall, something other vision systems don't do yet.

    Now if we could avoid annoying the seeing with constant quadruple flashing (perhaps using infrared light), we'd have something!!

  13. Re:Maybe better on Ohio Law Could Send Spammers To Jail · · Score: 1


    And what do you hope for? That the penis enlargement pills work so the spammer gets more pain??

    Geez. Not only it's sickening, but you have to realise those pills don't work!!

    Oh, maybe the cell mates would be angry at non-wroking pills? Not realistic. I think angry, violent and sex crazed is all potential rapists do anyway.

  14. Re:Things to ponder on Lying Makes The Brain Work Harder · · Score: 1


    Does it count as a lie if I MOD myself "-1 liar" for this message thru another account? Does it make me recursively tell the truth and lie infinitely, overflowing my karma in both directions?

    Surely that would be more likely than an accurate polygraph. (-;

  15. Professional liars on Lying Makes The Brain Work Harder · · Score: 1



    The best liar group aren't available for scans; they're too busy being in office. And as a plus they don't admit to lying even if caught red-handed.

    The second best liar group is trying to get elected, too busy for a scan. They also don't admit lying even when 5 year olds say "Dad, why is the presidental candidate lying?"

    The third best group of liars are millionaires on paper due to association with a software monopoly (*) backed by gigantic donations to the first two groups. If caught lying, they won't even admit being asked about it.

    (*) Yes, that's the company everybody is thinking about so I don't even have to name it.

    So how do you expect any world-class liar to submit to a scan so we know more about competent lying??

  16. clone that on sourceforge? on Lycos Declares War on Spam Servers · · Score: 3, Insightful


    How long will it be before we see an open source clone of that on sourceforge?

    Of course it will do nothing for zombie sites that are hosted on trojan/worm/virus hacked machines. That would just punish the technically incompetent victim of spammers. ...and script kiddies will try to annoy sites they don't like. Perhaps the teletubby site and Barney can be screensaved out of existence? (-;

  17. The choice... on CIA Researching Automated IRC Spying · · Score: 1


    The choice...

    -Get something secure

    Or...

    -Get some spything going, knowing script kiddies will hack it and spy on people for fun and profit. Politically-connected spammers might even buy 50 million valid Email addresses at once!

    I wish I was in Japan, where the right of encrypted communication is in the constitution or something...

  18. Re:This could help the trolls on BrainPort Allows People To Reclaim Damaged Senses · · Score: 1


    Just substitute your sense of humor by covering it with a brainport that feeds it dignity-sense type info. Your brain will eventually adjust.

    And then if you remove the device quickly enough, the slashdot funnies will make you proud for a few minutes!

  19. Re:Thats nothing on Microsoft Critic Received $9.75m After Settlement · · Score: 1

    This is the microsoft pattern:

    1- Do antitrust things.

    2- Profit

    3- Try to settle, but pay damages if sued. This is the cost of brib, er, the cost of doing business!

    4- Keep the market share obtained from antitrust tactics. Profit unhibited since you already got sued for those tactics!

    5- Keep reputation of crushing competition as a weapon as powerful as crushing the competition. You can't be sued for that, really, so half of microsoft's crimes are pure profit!

    The only way to stop that is to force some of their products to be freewares.

    If they'd lose Microsoft word and maybe solitaire on top of it, that would have been the beginning of a real fine that would really work!!

    And other lawsuits could start freeing parts of Office, or even parts of Windows!!!

  20. Re:Hmmm... on Microsoft Critic Received $9.75m After Settlement · · Score: 1


    Never trust a company or political party run by ex-CIA leaders.

    And be especially worried if they just use a name all too similar to the CIA. You know, like CCIA. It's not like anybody with two brain cells would accept a name like that. It attracts attention of conspiracy theorists too much!

    And now that the warning is passed, there was nothing wrong with the deal. Seriously. It's just a glitch in the Matrix. (-;

  21. Canada VS the USA - Due to Bush and MS alone! on Microsoft Critic Received $9.75m After Settlement · · Score: 1

    According to the transparency international web site, the USA is at 7.5 while Canada is at 8.5 (the most honest was Finland at 9.7).

    The difference between Canada and the USA is 1.0 which probably means Bush got re-elected using Microsoft's money and Kerry failed to get elected despite Microsoft's donations. Here is a link:

    "Microsoft used soft money to pour more than $2.7 million into the political process in the 2002 election cycle"
    http://marketwatch-cnet.com.com/2100-1001- 211734.h tml

    "individual Microsoft employees gave a total of $1.13 million dollars in this election cycle, an amount rivaling Microsoft"

    So I rest my case. The discrepancy between Canada and the US is due to George Bush and Microsoft Alone. For more info on how I reached the conclusion, see the warning about slashdot polls. (-;

    In any case, I'm buying a Nokia at Xmas. NOT an Xbox.

  22. Open source spaceware on Writing Code for Spacecraft · · Score: 5, Insightful


    If that was open source, there are so many space nerds who are programmers that flaws of that magnitude would never get by the army of testers.

    Many would help out simply because hey it's the *space program* and that's good enough for them. Other would want their name listed next to some obscure bug fix on a NASA site; it's good for the ego or your CV.

    Simply put, even a binary distribution of that code would allow unlimited free testing for crashes. Why wouldn't NASA do it?

    Because there are still people in washington that think code mysteriously get damaged by being public - even if such code isn't modifiable by the public who reads it.

    This is evidence of advanced cluelessness in Washington and maybe independant anti-free-source advocates (spelled M-i-c-r-o-s-o-f-t) are at cause.

    But I've learned not to bash. Never explain by Microsoft malice what could be explained by stupidity. Such as using DOS on a space thing...

  23. Re:Arms race against evolution on Robots to Rid Us of Cockroaches? · · Score: 1


    And mother nature isn't limited by the 640K limit or the GPL virus, either!

    Monsato will soon make GM cockroaches to compete, and if you don't manage to kill those off (superiorly pesticide resistant just like roundup) cockroaches you owe them money. (-;

  24. Re:At first I thought -Who will think of the roach on Robots to Rid Us of Cockroaches? · · Score: 1, Funny


    We need robot republicans.

    It's not that hard to program, republicans don't believe in moral ambiguity or accountability. So you don't even have to program the fuzzy logic thing.

    And make sure to make a Bill Gates Bot. (-;

  25. So Microsoft's business practices patent? on The Economist on Patent Reform · · Score: 1


    If Microsoft doesn't patent its business practices, I will!

    But if they do patent their business practices, then the conspiracy theories about microsoft will be laid bare for all to see (yuck!).

    So what will it be, Bill Gates? If you patent a business practice, I will patent doing the very same thing *at a remote location* just like you did. ...What? I'm trying to use FUD on Microsoft. You can't blame me for trying.