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  1. Re:I'm sorry, what? on Helena Airport Manager Blocks TSA From Taking Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 1

    You can always get blown up. That's what shoulder-based missile launchers are for.

  2. Re:Download Linux on Copyright Alert System To Launch Monday · · Score: 1

    And Spotify.

  3. Re:how cares about meteorites? on Residents Report Bright Streak Over Bay Area Friday Evening · · Score: 3

    Actually, yes, a few. Like here, at 1m11s. Not the first one I've seen, just the first one that popped up on Google.

  4. Re:May be an honest mistake! on Feedback On Simcity Gets User Banned From EA Forums · · Score: 1

    So, translation would be: "We banned someone and got smoked in the media, UNDO UNDO UNDO"

  5. Re:Useful for weeding out non-programmers on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    Look into the "modulo" operator (Wikipedia has a somewhat cryptic page about it). Basically, your multipleof3 function can be replaced by (0 == (i % 3)). Your main loop contents is somewhat messy and redundant, too.
    But it look like it'd work.

  6. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? on Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas · · Score: 0

    Male lions are known to kill the cubs of male lions they killed, so that they can impregnate the female lion, which will then spend her time taking care of his kids, instead of the kids of the now deceased lion.

    Nature gives quite a few reasons for murder, really.

  7. Re:Translated on Ariane 5 Has No Chance, Says Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    "Mr Musk said that the cost of producing the current European rocket would kill it as a commercial entity."
    Translates as "Give us a subsidy US military or we can't keep competing on price!"

    Fairly sure by "it" he means the Ariane, not SpaceX. I.e. the Ariane is too expensive to be cost-effective.

  8. Re:along those lines: Fade to Black... on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 2

    Yes and no. You cannot travel through space faster than light. However, space can expand at any speed it wants to. Then end result is that distance between start and finish increases, making it look like faster than light travel (if you'd take the distance at the end divided by the time taken). However, at no time during the travel between start and finish can the object travel faster than the speed of light. (If you'd take the distance at the start divided by the time taken, the object will seem to have travelled slower than it actually did.)

  9. Re:I've been using it since the beginning... on Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers? · · Score: 1

    Same here. One of the things I like is the "Allow Cookies From This Site" option. I can just disable all cookies, and if I want to allow a site to set cookies, it's in the menu. In Firefox I have to go to options, and then either copy/paste or type in the domain name. There's dozens of things like that.

    I'm at 2.0.14, mostly because the Gecko engine (as seen in Firefox) had a issue where it rendered images incorrectly (wrong colors, seems to be fixed now). I was also a bit afraid they'd add things to make it more like Firefox. From this thread I guess I should be safe to upgrade it \o/

  10. Re:Murder joke thread! on Reiser4 File System Still In Development · · Score: 2

    A couple celebrating their 75th anniversary was asked if they ever considered divorce. "Divorce?" said the one, "no, never. Murder, sure, but never divorce."

  11. Re:Fighting Piracy is Good for Open Source on Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties · · Score: 1

    Assuming you can smuggle a second computer into the country after the border patrol verifies all digital equipment to match the signatures.

  12. Re:The goalposts is too mobile. on Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties · · Score: 1

    Those colors are really hard to match. Am I right in reading that recorded revenue is down for both labels and artist, but much more so for labels? And that artists get a heck of a lot more for live revenue than they get for recorded stuff?

  13. Re:In coming calls are free in India. on Indian Minister Says Telecom Companies Should Only Charge For Data · · Score: 2

    Because more often than not it's the caller who wants to contact you. Since they're the one in need of the product, why should someone have to pay the price?

    Especially for texts (which you can't, AFAIK, refuse), it's downright maddening to consider the idea that someone else could charge you for capacity you don't want to use.

  14. Re:That's nothing; think how they store the passwo on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 2

    It's been trimming password to the first 16 chars for a while now. I only found out because Messenger only allows 16 chars in the password field, and when I would paste from KeePass my (longer) password I had set in the website, I'd get a beep.

  15. Search term on Google To Start Punishing Pirate Sites In Search Results · · Score: 1

    Do we get a search modifier / term for that? So we can find sites that have get high numbers of these notices?

    You know, for, uhr, research purposes? :)

  16. Re:It's ugly on The Rise of the Junkweb and Why It's So Awesome · · Score: 1

    They are REALLY EASY to share though. You can't do that so easy with a HTML file with embedded image. If it's so popular, maybe we should design an image file format it that makes the text parseable by browser and search engine. Though really, who'd go through the trouble to use that?

  17. Re:how 'bout some gun control... on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 1

    And then another armed citizen, who didn't see what happened (dark after all), and sees they're sitting next to a shooter....

  18. Re:Let's just be clear about that. on Some Hotspot Operators Secretly Intercept, Insert Ads In Web Pages · · Score: 1

    And if you're that paranoid, you shouldn't have any CAs in your browsers anyhow.

  19. Re:Hello, context here on Cook County Judge Says Law Banning Recording Police Is Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the tape then count as evidence?

  20. Re:Still not set-and-forget democracy on Open Ministry Crowdsources Laws In Finland · · Score: 1

    Bad laws, good laws. What's good for you is bad for someone else. You made it sounds like "It's a good idea when it helps me it but a bad idea when it helps others."

  21. Re:Open development of Open ministry on Open Ministry Crowdsources Laws In Finland · · Score: 1

    Hack the law!

    First we could hack the source code, and now we can hack the law too? If this goes on like this, someone will make it possible for us to hack the planet!

  22. Re:Still not set-and-forget democracy on Open Ministry Crowdsources Laws In Finland · · Score: 1

    which is intended to function and serve the same purpose as this new process in Finland. It's been abused repeatedly to pass laws that had far less chance of being enacted through the traditional process.

    I'm a little confused. I thought passing laws that have less chance of being enacted through the traditional process is the purpose of this new process?

  23. Re:This has been around for a while on Open Ministry Crowdsources Laws In Finland · · Score: 1

    I'm curious, why was it closed down? Tried searching for it, but couldn't find much about it (in English at least).

  24. Re:One shouldn't mock the religious or retarded bu on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 1

    Stop making it sound like a good thing...

  25. Re:Just once... on BTJunkie No More? · · Score: 1

    You wanted debate? That's two doors down the hall on your left. This is slashdot.