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  1. Re:Blood on the tires? on Yes, an Armadillo Can Give You Leprosy · · Score: 2

    Ah, you misread the quote. When he said "If an armadillo's blood got on my tires of my car from running [the animal] over, I would wash it down", the "it" referred to the armadillo and not the car tire. He was suggesting you wash off the armadillo before eating it which is good advice for any roadkill.

  2. Re:Leprosy can be cured. on Yes, an Armadillo Can Give You Leprosy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Correlation does not imply causation. It could be that the patient took some effective homeopathic medicines after seeing her Chiropractor and that's what cured the leprosy.

  3. Re:EPub and PDF versions available at packetpub.co on Book Review: R Graphs Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Recursive Slashdot spamming... nice one!

  4. Re:500 million users? on The Facebook Obsession · · Score: 1

    My dog already has one. The 500 million users number is crock.

  5. Re:Audio on Apple in Talks to Improve Sound Quality of Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    >> If you've got someone telling you that the only good wines cost over $80 a bottle then you can be certain he doesn't know a damn thing about wine. That's right. The only good wines cost over $100 a bottle.

  6. Re:The Economist pricing... on The True Cost of Publishing On the Amazon Kindle · · Score: 1

    If you have an iPad, The Economist offers their app to subscribers is free.

  7. Re:False Positives. on Israeli Company Trains Security Mice · · Score: 1

    The bigger question is why 22 out of a 1000 random shoppers in Tel Aviv were carrying mock explosives? Is this a representative sample of the entire population?

  8. Re:Causation is not Correlia on Self-Control In Kids Predicts Future Success · · Score: 1

    Makes sense -- who wants to stay in a home with a twitchy kid? One of the parents clearly drew the short straw and the other got to leave.

  9. Re:Happy Birthday! on Happy 10th Birthday To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Please pay us a royalty now. Yours truly, Robert A. Iger

  10. Re:Only 4.5 million seeds? on How the Global Seed Vault Aims To Fight Future Famine · · Score: 1

    Tupperware.

  11. Re:$2 micropayment? on Google Patent Proposes $2 Fee To Skip Commercials · · Score: 1

    It came when they discovered there were so many morons willing to pay $1.99 for ringtones.

  12. Re:Too close to the subject... on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 1

    That's why Microsoft lets its end users do all the code testing.

  13. Re:Perhaps if pentagon had guns or something on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    Ninja star

  14. Re:Get ready to Bend over America on Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know where you live, but highways here aren't restricted by how much you. They are a public resource and encroachment by a company is a crime.

    How about New York State Thruway? Or Ontario's 407ETR? These are toll roads... you don't pay, you take a slower route. The car analogy holds this time!

  15. Re:So, *will* it be missed? on Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed · · Score: 1

    I wonder what my grandfather was able to experience that I'll never get the chance to?

    Your grandmother.

  16. Re:Kindra Arnesen's speech on BP Robot Seriously Hampers Oil Spill Containment · · Score: 1

    And here's the thing: when you get down to it, the shareholders invested in a company that was behaving unethically. It's the shareholder's investment that allows BP to function this way. When CEOs act unethically, they do it in the name of serving the shareholders. Don't the shareholders bear some responsibility? Isn't part of the problem that the "owners" of the company failed to ensure that their company was "doing the right thing?" I'm not sure that we should be seeking to punish shareholders, but I also don't see why they should take a pass.

    Shareholders have lost $100 billion of wealth since this thing started... I think they've been somewhat punished.

  17. In Soviet Russia on AMD Phenom II Overclocked To 6.5GHz · · Score: 1

    Every day is -232 degrees Celsius.

  18. Stupid statistics on Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Conclusion: 100% of our users aren't at all concerned about their privacy (based on our 1% voluntary sample size). -Mozilla Labs