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  1. Re:Applications for virtual sex? on Remotely Pat Your Pet With Kinect and a Wiimote · · Score: 1

    Don't even need a robot or a woman, just a server with a script cuing short video clips depending on user action. maybe such a thing has already been done, the porn version of the original christmas light controlling scam.

  2. Re:Speed of light says the latency will be bad. on ViaSat Delivers 12 Mbps+ Via Satellite · · Score: 5, Funny

    that's why I use straight path neutrino beams through the planet. I quit using CERN's neutrino source though, because of the negative latency. It's annoying to get the results of a command while I'm still typing it.

  3. Re:Fucking ground this fleet. on World's Largest Passenger Plane May Be Unsafe, Some Say · · Score: 1

    an economic downturn kills far more people in one year than plane crashes ever will. U.S. life expectancy is declining now, for example.

  4. Re:Unemployed averaged in? on IT Salaries Edge Up Back To 2008 Levels · · Score: 2

    could also factor those forced out of IT altogether since the massive downtown around 2002....imagine a government shooting half the poor people. then saying, yay average income just went up!

  5. Re:Underpaid IT worker... on IT Salaries Edge Up Back To 2008 Levels · · Score: 1

    no, you're the hero who balances out the person making 150% of average. I don't feel good either, I'm making less than 10% above average. ah well, beats zero and lately the work is really fun because I get to create new things.

  6. Microwave SETI a waste, ET won't use it on No, SETI Has Not Detected Alien Signals From Space · · Score: 1

    Optical SETI has higher gain and better SNR due to higher EIRP. We will soon identify worlds likely to have life and within a few decades be able to target them with laser systems (of infrared or higher). We should assume some ET life has already done the same. We don't even have to worry about "magic frequencies" in the optical realm, can do observations of wide swaths of optical or higher frequency spectrum to first find signal, then later worry about decoding it.

  7. Re:Beh on No, SETI Has Not Detected Alien Signals From Space · · Score: 1

    Indeed, his dear son has the girth of two gods

  8. Re:What rights? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Deal With Roving TSA Teams? · · Score: 1, Troll

    they can also assassinate you. thank you mr. obama, for showing not just old white guys can wipe their ass with the constitution.

  9. Re:Well... on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Deal With Roving TSA Teams? · · Score: 1

    our lawmakers are in the pockets of multi-billion dollar mega-corporations, you aren't going to compete with that. They serve their customers

  10. Re:Human-chimp hybrids coming soon? on Researchers Create First Genetically Modified Monkeys · · Score: 2

    197 out of 200 bonobo owners and their family members surveyed couldn't answer, as they were being penetrated in all their orifices by bonobos. The other three were busy spitting out bonobo semen.

  11. Re:Make your mind up! on Ohm's Law Survives To the Atomic Level · · Score: 2

    no, it is just an approximation that is useful. Some materials have negative resistance, others complicated nonlinear functions. ohm's law is not universally true. Many other so-called "laws" are this way,Boyle's, Hooke's, Charle's., etc. Just useful approximations for some common cases with plenty of exceptions and even some things acting the opposite way.

  12. Re:And so begins... on Researchers Create First Genetically Modified Monkeys · · Score: 2

    Beware the beast Man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, or lust, or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death. -- The Sacred Scrolls

  13. Re:Human-chimp hybrids coming soon? on Researchers Create First Genetically Modified Monkeys · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, Chimps are not great playmates nor nannies. If they get it into their head to attack, for many times unclear reasons, they instinctely follow a pattern of destruction of the enemy primates body. first they will gnaw off your child's fingers. Then they attack your precious little one's face by biting off parts. They then start to dismember, ripping off limbs.

    Chimps are unpredictable and extremely dangerous. Many people have been maimed or killed by their pet chimps.

  14. Re:Apple is filing this? on Apple Threatens Steve Jobs Doll Maker With Lawsuit · · Score: 4, Funny

    you didn't know? Steve was just a droid running the iI app

  15. Re:Next step... on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    that used to work for me. but then when i upgraded my ubuntu I got this crapware called Unity......a friend of mine had a different distro and got crapware too, called GNOME3.

  16. Re:Mozilla Unclear on the Concept on Firefox 3.6 Support Ends April 2012 · · Score: 1

    1990s??!! Let me tell you about serious corporate applications for most the 1990s, they mostly weren't on a PC. Those that were, like the spreadsheet and word processing, didn't change every year.

  17. Re:Linux = 1/2 as good as Windows 7 on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    speaking of which, Clem's Cinnamon project (GNOME 3 under the hood but usable and configurable and not forcing an idea of workflow on user, yay!) is coming along very well, Mint 13 will have this. They're still adding the base features, but they have the right goals: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1910

  18. Mozilla Unclear on the Concept on Firefox 3.6 Support Ends April 2012 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're talking about x weeks after y weeks....what business need is z YEARS, with z>=2, with only bug fixes and security updates. This pandering to out of control bloat, bugs, eye candy and gee-whiz nonsense needs to stop. Business and many people like myself want a stable, secure, predictable, and useful browser, not a petri dish for every brain fart a mozilla developer has.

  19. movies aren't ok on Makers Keep Flogging 3D TV, Viewers Keep Shrugging · · Score: 1

    I only know a couple people who enjoy 3D movies, out of a couple dozen I've talked to about it. My kids didn't even want to see 3D version of Transformers, their favorite entertainment subject. They said it "bothers their eyes after a while."

  20. Re:Cure worse than disease? on Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future · · Score: 1

    cops seem to also assume things about people for certain hair style or facial hair styles, visible tattoos, body piercings....

  21. Re:Wow on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    that was part of it....but I'm sure there was more.....

  22. Re:Linux = 1/2 as good as Windows 7 on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    I don't like 12, Clem is trying very hard to get the suck out of GNOME 3, but he's not their yet.

  23. Re:no on EU Moves To Ban Iran Crude Oil · · Score: 0

    we'll just harass one of their naval vessels until a reaction is provoked. then we'll declare they are attempting to blockage the Straight. Then War Powers are used.

  24. Re:helps boot stubborn thin clients on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 2

    no, we're talking about genuine full frontal nudity GRUB, with menu.lst, stage1, stage2 and fat_stage_1_5 in a c:/boot/grub file. FreeDOS gives a place to land and edit the menu.lst without invoking other operation systems, and do thin client bios updates and flashes.

  25. Re:Linux = 1/2 as good as Windows 7 on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    My Linux Mint goes all the way to 11!