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  1. Re:Nah on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    Plus because people feel safer when driving a tank they're likely to be less prudent & defensive - or become outright agressive.

  2. Re:Nah on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    what economical vehicle can carry someone who is 6'6" with a 60" chest?
    Maybe you could walk somewhere once in while. Hey, do that often enough and you'd miraculously be able to fit into a normal vehicle rather than needing to be transported on a low-loader.
  3. Re:Hiding on Memory Tools for Password Management? · · Score: 1

    If I'm not mistaken, there's no need for those websites to store your password
    How else can the compare it when you try to log on?

    And yes, there are some that do it like that, because on ocassion I've forgotten my password and I recognised the one emailed to me - it wasn't a new random one.
  4. Re:Does that mean on Judges Rule Google Search by Employer Not Illegal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well in Soviet Russia, that did happen once.

  5. Re:News is wrong! on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 1

    I go there too, and you're a lying cunt.

  6. Re:Ah yes, Pennsylvania on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 1

    I'll tell you what, I'd rather my kids were taught be her than by someone with your incredible lack of critical faculties and logic.

  7. Re:Die of dehydration? on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's different is that the page (at least the photo I saw) shows nothing of the sort.

  8. Re:It's just a machine on Soldiers Bond With Bots, Take Them Fishing · · Score: 1

    Listen up, orders are to clear that minefield. Either tinhead over there does it or you do.

    Sincerley,
            Your C.O.

  9. Re:Royal Family on Thailand Sues YouTube · · Score: 1

    You could say that about anything. I bet you're a hoot at parties.

  10. Is it me on Randomized Maps in Team Fortress 2 Explained · · Score: 1

    Is it me, or was that (including the video clip) not really much of an explanation?

  11. Re:French bashing? on Conservative Sarkozy Wins Presidency of France · · Score: 1

    If anyone's confused, it was either the person who wrote "Or who are the Allies of the US during Napoleon's time you refer to?" or the person who can't follow a thread, i.e. you.

  12. Re:Better Safe Than Sorry, Eh on Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was telling myself that if I was a spy and my target was american, I think I'll try using something that looks like a nickel, not an odd-looking foreign commemorative special edition coin.
    Yeah, especially coloured bright red. You'd make it, I dunno, the same colour as the rest of coin so it doesn't stand out.

    What I want to know is why it didn't occur to anyone to 1) call Canada and ask them or 2) call a coin collector and ask them or 3) use google, rather than running around like headless chickens.

    Pity it wasn't the one dollar coin, then we could have had a cheap jibe about loonies. Oh well, eh.
  13. Re:French bashing? on Conservative Sarkozy Wins Presidency of France · · Score: 1

    War of independence was in 1776. Napoleon was a kid at the time. Maybe you're getting confused with the war of 1812, in which case Allies probably refers to Britain, Austria, Prussia - pretty much every European power other than France.

  14. Re:Ever ever? on What's The Greatest Web Software Ever? · · Score: 1

    At risk of dating myself
    This is slashdot ... it's better than not dating at all.
  15. Re:Nice to see Google taking the heat on English Premier Football League Sues YouTube · · Score: 1

    Given that most great artists were poor, did not have children, or relied on patrons just shows that copyright laws were not needed to create great works of art throughout history.
    Indeed. You just need a society with extreme inequality of wealth such that certain individuals and institutions are so rich they'll chuck a painter a crumb or two when they need something to show off.
  16. Re:"Terroristic threat" != "terrorist threat" on Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    I don't know what the correct term for the logical fallacy is, but it goes like this: if an error is made one way (nothing done to prevent the VT shootings) then you can correct it by making an error in the opposite direction (overreacting to the Nth degree over idle chat).

    Or in slashdot terms: if you drive your car in first gear for four weeks before realising it's a stickshift, you can cancel it out if you drive it for the next month constantly in fifth.

  17. Re:Also on Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    For all you know this guy spent several hours a day shooting the shit with the clown in the next cubicle and had half the productivity that they expect.
    And for all you know, he didn't.
  18. Re:The Rape of Ma Bell on AT&T Dumps VOIP Customers · · Score: 1

    Bell wasn't a natural monopoly, it was a de jury monopoly
    Unanimous or split?
  19. Re:Free Hans Reiser on Reiser Murder Case Gets Stranger · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm starting the "Free Hans Reiser" movement.
    Is that free like speech, or free like beer?
  20. Re:You degenerates get what you deserve. on Reiser Murder Case Gets Stranger · · Score: 1

    ... you're really kinky?

  21. Re:Bad line wrapping! on Reiser Murder Case Gets Stranger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What if she went by land to Mexico or Canada and took a flight from there, bought in cash?

  22. Re:Why? on openSUSE Survey Results Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't be silly, Google already know.

  23. Re:What is it made of? on India Hopes to Make $10 Laptops a Reality · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they're blue LEDs!

  24. Re:side note: on India Hopes to Make $10 Laptops a Reality · · Score: 1

    a subsidy can change the cost. The government could subsidize the labor, material, or basically any other input that goes into production of this laptop.
    Is that truly changing the cost, or just moving it around?
  25. Re:James Doohan WW2 Vet on Ashes of Doohan Sent Into Space · · Score: 1

    Peter Falk has a glass eye - are you serious?