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  1. Re:aliens are for real on NASA Hacker Wins Right to Extradition Hearing · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Exactly. And since the only way to feed yourself is to run your own farm, you need quite a few farm hands to carry out all the necessary tasks. The only free labour (no money to hire anyone) is your own children. Add in the fact that there's no way in hell you're going to have savings for later life (and thus you need a progeny), that most of your kids will be miscarried, die in childbirth or early life, or get shot by/recruited into a gang or child army, and you realise that your only option is to have kids, and lots of them.

  2. Re:Oh, the irony on Malaysia Uses Anti-Terrorism Laws To Stop Bloggers · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how I redefined this -- please, do define for me what the Nazi's did if it wasn't a heinous act of terrorism.

    Run a fascist totalitarian government, very violently?

    I'm not sure a government can be terrorist. If it kills people in its own country for having certain beliefs or being a certain race, that's racist tyranny. If it sends people to other countries to kill people there, that's an act of war. I don't think the method of attack matters - one man or many, gun in hand or bomb in rucksack, it's still an act of war. If the government claims to be doing it in the name of religion, that's an act of war backed up with some propaganda.

  3. Re:Mid air mouse. on Five Ideas That Will Reinvent Computing · · Score: 2, Informative
    I'll just quote what SoulShift said to some other idiot up there about 25 minutes ago:

    Do you even know how the Soap pointing device works? Hint: you don't wave it around in mid air. It's essentially the guts of an optical mouse put into a smooth, clear container and stuck into a sock. The optical sensor tracks the grain of the enclosing sock, and you manipulate it by squeezing the sock gently, causing the "mouse" inside to rotate - much as if you were squeezing a bar of soap (hence the name)

  4. Re:ET Game on Bigelow Aerospace Deploys Genesis 2 Space Module · · Score: 1

    I agree. The faster we can fling all the existing copies of that game away from Earth, the better.

  5. Re:A campaign on CallerID Spoofing to be Made Illegal · · Score: 1
    http://www.usps.com/websites/depart/inspect/statut es.htm

    Mail fraud is a criminal scheme where the postal system is used to obtain money or anything of value from a victim by offering a product, service, or investment opportunity that does not live up to its claims.

    I'm afraid he's right.

  6. Re:Lines need to br drawn. on Cyberbullying Gains Momentum in US · · Score: 1

    I'd just like to concur, but also add that bullying should always be sought to be eliminated by those in authority; allowing it to go unchecked would see bullies running riot, having an effect much more unpleasant than character-building.

  7. Re:Nothing unusual on Microsoft Pays Bloggers to Tout MS Slogan · · Score: 2

    I hope the consumer is intelligent enough (or will become so over time) to realise that anything a company's advertising presents as fact is usually massaged or outright inaccurate.

    This is more or less the reason I stopped believing anything I read.

  8. Re:Everything old is new again on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 1

    Uh, I think he's joking, mang.

    At least, I hope he is.

  9. Re:Need an enforcement structure, though. on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 1

    The system varies around the Kingdom, though, with local authorities determining what they do. The system you describe isn't common practice yet.

    In London, for most boroughs, the recycling scheme involves having two boxes, collected along with the rubbish, once weekly. One box is an open-topped grocery-crate-like thing, in which one puts inorganic recyclable materials (including newspapers, bottles, batteries and cans, but not plastics). The other is a lidded container with a handle, for food waste. I'm not sure of the sorting procedures.

  10. Re:Let's just say... on Review of Ergonomic Evoluent VerticalMouse 3 · · Score: 1

    Interesting point. The hand spends most of its time in the handshake position during the activity you're implying...

    Uhh... so I've heard...

  11. Re:Gaming addiction != Alcoholism, etc. on Experts Oppose Classifying Gaming Addiction As Mental Disorder · · Score: 1

    Heroin addicts dream about being in their favourite video games?

    Cool. Rockstar should put that sort of playability into the next GTA.

  12. Re:isn't everyone? on Koreans Advised to "Avoid Vista" for Now · · Score: 1

    You mean... Slashdot doesn't always tell the truth?

    You must be new here...

  13. A many-splendoured thing on MIT Labs Moves Ahead In Synthesizing Spider Silk · · Score: 1, Interesting
    "This material, like lycra in many ways..."

    Ok, I get that...

    "...has a number of unique properties."

    Wait. So, is it like lycra, or mostly unique?

  14. Re:PERFORM ??? on Senate Bill Again Aims to Restrict Internet Radio · · Score: 1

    COVERUP: Censorship Of Voyeuristic Explicit Reporting on Underhanded Politicians Act. KEEPING CORRUPTION QUIET: The KEEPING of CORRUPTION in the government QUIET Act.

  15. Re:Make the ads a game themselves! on In Game Ads May Just Not Work · · Score: 1

    They already sort of do that with Flash banner ads. Adblock has long since removed them from my view, and good riddance to them.

  16. Re:The Ultimate Comment on The Ultimate Blog Post · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot to mention it was already on digg.

  17. Slightly confused... on Interview With Linux Flash Player's Lead Engineer · · Score: 1

    Why does everyone say these adverts are unblockable? I've used AdBlocker's Flash overlay function to select any Flash banners and block them at load level, just like any other banner. Anyway, on topic. Whenever I'm wanting to watch Flash movies, I'm usually on Windows (Linux, for me, isn't for fun and games). But when I do use Linux to view them, I can usually view even movies I thought were restricted to Player 9. Me being dense, no doubt, but maybe someone could clear the air as to version compatibility?

  18. Re:Who needs this thing, on 50th Anniversary of the First Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Phew. You know, I thought I was weird or something, my hard drive never seems to fill up - I'm always deleting unnecessary stuff. I've had the laptop I'm working on now for more than a year, having one 80gb hard drive, with 5 partitions on it (including swap). None of them are full yet.

    Come to think of it, you know, I am weird.

  19. 'Superchickens' on The Physics of Superman · · Score: 1
    In other words, they were superchickens.
    No, they weren't 'superchickens', they were just stronger chickens with larger bones and muscles, like TFA says. Not unlike putting a human being in a training program at high altitude, the only thing differentiating these chickens from normal ones is that they get slightly more action.
  20. Re:Manglish is taken on MDN presents 'Manglish - Manga in English' · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's also the Malaysian dialect of English. I thought that was pretty widely known as the first meaning of the word, actually. Apparently not.

  21. Re:happy birthday and a hip hip! on CmdrTaco becomes An Old(er) Man · · Score: 1

    Hurrray!

  22. Re:Using Diamonds Over FIber for Key Exchange? Huh on Growing Diamonds for Better Information Security · · Score: 1
    Your second case is a little harder to find a concrete example that shows it's incorrect but I think I can still build a case.

    Well, I can think of one prime example right here.

  23. Technical error on CUTEST WEB SITE EVER DISCOVERED!!! · · Score: 1
    The title should read 'CUTEST WEB SITE EVAR DISCOVERED!!!'.

    Oh yes, also, I have just poured hot grits down my pants. Thankyou.

  24. Hmm... on Creative Commons License Upheld by Dutch Court · · Score: 2, Funny
    I don't know why, but it seems every link in this article is covered by the Creative Commons licence!

    Maybe it's something to do with this new Greasemonkey script I'm running...

  25. Re:organisation? on .eu Domains to Go on Sale in a Month · · Score: 1
    (unfortunately, not that intuitive, since london.police.uk does not even exist)

    Not the only one, apparently - a quick lookup shows that metropolitan.police.uk doesn't exist, either, it's met.police.uk. Odd.