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  1. What if... on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    ...the sample was encased in tree sap at death and it turned into amber? Would that preserve the DNA?

  2. I'm all for... on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    ...wearing a helmet if you feel you need one. What I'm against is government forcing me to wear one.

  3. Feed them... on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1

    ....Soylent green.

  4. Re:Unionize on Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? · · Score: 2

    OR... you could just find a new job.

    Have you ever changed jobs? I'm not talking about moving from one Starbucks to another three blocks away. It can initially be quite expensive to do so. It could require new commuting expenses or even moving expenses, even if you get help from your new employer, multiplied by the number of people in your family. Unless you're expecting a giant increase in pay, and especially if you aren't, you'd better have an appropriate surplus of cash available to you because you're surely going to need some for both seen and unforeseen expenses.

  5. Re:Good on Ecuador To Grant Assange Political Asylum · · Score: 5, Insightful

    South America has gone a long way from the time it was easily manipulated by US. If anything it is getting more hostile to US as time goes, and if US decides to push it too hard it may end losing a lot more than it can possibly win.

    Especially with the rise of Brazil as a regional regional economic powerhouse there may be less need to South American countries in general to put up with perceived U.S. bullying.

  6. Role reversal on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    I work for a company where the majority of IT pros are women, including the director. Needless to say we don't have a problem with sexual harassment since the ratio of women to men is something like 4:1. We're also fully matured adults who come to work to make a living, not to play mind games with people who are extremely intelligent and not about to take any foolishness from some horny male who can't think because he's got his dick in hand most of the time.

    You're headed for a world of legal grief if you clowns don't grow up and can the Mad Men-style harassment.

  7. Re:It's called satellite on Canadians To Get Unbundled Cable TV Channels · · Score: 1

    I could be mistaken, and please correct me if I am, but I do believe Canada has its own satellites. You don't point your dish South there.

  8. Re:Just as long as they don't monitor on ISP 'Six Strikes' Plan Delayed · · Score: 1

    I'm with ya. But there have been a recent rash of DMCA takedowns, so somebody somewhere has finally caught on...

    How do you "take down" something that has been propagated to servers all over the world?

  9. Re:Why Canadian? on 'Nuclear Free' Maryland City Grants Waiver For HP · · Score: 1

    For the same reason Canadians buy from Maryland.

    "Maryland sells more goods to Canada than to any other country in the world"

    http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/commerce_canada/fact_sheets-fiches_documentaires/md.aspx?view=d

    Do your research. It took all of two minutes.

  10. Re:Teach English on Ask Slashdot: Find a Job In China For Non-native Speaker? · · Score: 1

    While teaching English is a fun way to meet people, it's not a serious career choice for well educated, technical people. The time I got suckered into going to an English corner at an all girls school in Beijing was not bad, though.

    Tell that to my college pal who's been living and teaching English in Asia for over 30 years, has a beautiful Thai wife, and an equally beautiful home fully paid for.

  11. work from home on Ask Slashdot: Find a Job In China For Non-native Speaker? · · Score: 0

    Apply to North American companies that have a need for programmers in China.

    Try Apple.

  12. Re:Wonderful, but... on How James Cameron Pumped Volume Into Titanic · · Score: 1

    Not my wife or girlfriend, thankfully.

    Pictures or they don't exist!

  13. Re:Apple forcing IT shops to buy elsewhere on Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die' · · Score: 1

    Just about the last thing a successful company needs is an IT department that dictates what tech can be used. That's akin to a tail that wags the dog.

  14. Re:them and us. on Fighting Mosquitoes With GM Mosquitoes · · Score: 2

    The effort to warm the planet will increase the population of mosquitos. We have to eradicate them to enjoy our swan song.

    Ever been to Winnipeg?

  15. Re:Riiiight on HP Slate 2: Brilliant or Bust? · · Score: 1

    But career politician Jerry "Governor Moonbeam" Brown and his 5 or 6 government pensions, owned by the unions, and who created the CA public employee collective bargaining mess in the first place, he's "in touch?"

    Did I say Brown was better? Show me where I said that.

  16. Out of touch on HP Slate 2: Brilliant or Bust? · · Score: 2

    Most voters in California could see that Whitman is out of touch with reality, but apparently the board of HP is equally out of touch. She is yesterday's player and proves it with this product.

  17. not all games suck on Are Games Worth Complaining About? · · Score: 1

    I have played (and finished) Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II (on the Mac, thanks) several times each. A play through for me takes from 100-120 hours. I simply LOVE these games. There are only a couple of valid criticism of either IMHO. I consider them the best RPGs I have ever played.

  18. Court not Judge on Canadian Judge Rules Domain Names Are Property · · Score: 1

    TFA explains that it was a panel of three judges, so it was the Court of Appeal for Ontario's decision, not the decision of a single judge.

  19. Re:Beats getting sued... on Media Companies Create Copyright Enforcement Framework · · Score: 1

    "...then I suspect that overseas torrent dropboxes will get even more popular."

    Or people will simply switch to using NZB files pointing to Usenet servers.

  20. Re:Not sure what the big deal is on Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yup, I do the same thing. I have a Slingbox hooked up to my sister's cable service in Canada so I can watch programming I can't get here in the states. Works like a dream, yet I don't hear any bitching by the content producers.

  21. Re:Need a bigger knife on Jerry Brown Confiscates 48,000 Cell Phones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's really easy to anonymously call for the destruction of bureaucracy without citing a single specific example and providing alternative, less costly solutions to the services provided.

  22. Re:oh gee on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    Moore doesn't work to expose anything, he works to further his own pocket - both Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 911 were driveling pieces of shit with huge gaping lies throughout.

    I'm eagerly awaiting your own movie exposing these "lies" for all to see.

  23. Re:Categorically not be allowed in the UK on UK Pressures the US To Takedown Extremist Videos · · Score: 3, Informative

    "They used to say "the sun never sets on the Brittish [sic] empire". Now there's no empire hance no K in UK. I never did understand the united (what with the troubles and such) part either so it's just as well they did away with that."

    It's called the Commonwealth of Nations, which is a free association of independent states, sixteen of which retain the British monarch as the head of state. Read about it some day. The K in Kingdom has no relationship other than historical to the old British Empire, but it is still applicable to the Commonwealth and to all British territories.

  24. Best coverage on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    Can you hear me now?

  25. DAO on Are Games Getting Easier? · · Score: 1

    I'm nowhere near a hard core gamer, but I have played Dragon Age: Origins and the sequels for months on end. I play it on Nightmare and have played nearly every race and class because the origin stories are different for each one. I really love this game because it just seems to have such deep content. /flame on gamer.