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  1. Not surprising on Atomic Weight Not So Constant · · Score: 1

    Given that the relative abundance of isotopes is quite variable, you might say that this development was periodictable.

  2. Re:Sentience on Voyager 1 Beyond Solar Wind · · Score: 1

    Returns?

    "Has been was
    Has been might again"

    -William Shatner, "Has Been"

  3. Good on Sheriff's Online Database Leaks Info On Informants · · Score: 1

    Maybe this will help end another useless "War".

  4. Typo in summary on LHC Prepares Marathon Higgs Hunt · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider [CC] are preparing to run the collider until the end, in 2012.

  5. Re:What on BitTorrent Client Offers P2P Without Central Tracking · · Score: 1

    "A hug."

    Hilarious, heart-warming and creepy, all-in-one.

    FWIW, the text is quite obviously a machine translation from Spanish.

  6. Shunning on WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon · · Score: 2

    Shunning plus Direct democracy equals this.

  7. Altruism? on Why Money Doesn't Motivate File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    All human action is, by definition, motivated by self-interest. Now then, what a person deems desirable can be anything--this can be a sense of satisfaction from perceived selflessness or even masochistic suffering. Indeed, the only criterion for voluntary exchange is the ex ante prospect of mutual subjective gain. After all, one voluntarily gives up only what one values less that the thing received in exchange.

  8. How would Slashdotters know? on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 3, Interesting

    According to the latest poll (How much TV do you watch in a week, on average? ), we hardly watch any TV!

  9. Re:Great on Google Loses Street View Suit, Forced To Pay $1 · · Score: 1

    In most "loser pays" jurisdictions, loser only pays if winner wins on all claims. This provides a disincentive to overclaim, even if you are right on some aspects.

  10. Moonshine on Judge Berates Prosecutors In Xbox Modding Trial · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The modded XBox will be used almost exclusively to run stolen software. I don't believe you can say the same thing about vehicle customization.

    O RLY?

    From A Brief History of Nascar From Moonshine Runners to Dale Earnhardt Jr.: "Its roots go back to Prohibition when runners—people who delivered moonshine, a home-brewed whiskey distilled from corn, potatoes or anything that would ferment—souped up their cars so they could give the slip to the federal tax agents determined to bust them.

  11. Fire code violation on 8-Year-Old Receives Patent · · Score: 1

    I hope he earns enough to cover the class-action suit after someone trips on this thing and starts an electrical fire.

  12. Urine is clean on Being Too Clean Can Make People Sick · · Score: 1

    Sterile actually.

  13. Slashdot Poll on Cambridge Computer IDs World's Most Boring Day · · Score: 1

    That's my birthday, you insensitive clod.

    I was born on:

    The most boring day in history

    A different April 11

    April Fool's

    In 1954, and I'm still living in my Mom's basement

    A workbench in my Mom's basement

  14. Misleading headline on The Ethics of Social Games · · Score: 1

    I thought they were talking about those games called "elections" between teams called "Republicans" and "Democrats".

    That last line in TFS rang true though: 'People are so tricked into that that they'll actually spend real money on something that does absolutely nothing, nothing at all.'

  15. Re:The "enhanced" procedures are useless on TSA Saw My Junk, Missed Razor Blades, Says Adam Savage · · Score: 1

    On the upside killing enough people in one of those lines would probably push the average human IQ up for at least a tenth of a point.

    Not really, it would still be 100, by definition.

  16. Re:A license? on SpaceX Gets First Private FAA Space Reentry License · · Score: 1

    Without the need for a license, any average Joe could launch spaceships and make them land wherever after their orbital flight, causing havoc.

    There are already laws on "causing havoc". No harm, no foul.

  17. Huge variance on Oxford Scientists Say Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats · · Score: 1

    It's not about absolute brain size, it's "a link between the size of an animal's brain in relation to its body and how socially active it was".

    Even in a smallish human population, you can easily get a wide variation of (brain/body mas) x (sociability factor). How big is the intelligence variation?

  18. Better idea on FCC To Allow Texting To 911 · · Score: 0

    Learn CPR, carry a gun.

    Seriously, you do not want 911 in a crisis situation.

  19. Re:Define 'observe' on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    It boils down to this: position is time-independent (albeit with a big caveat--can't get into it right now, but you are welcome to subscribe to my newsletter), while momentum entails t.

  20. Einstein, Heisenberg... on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heck, they even hinted at Gödel. Why not throw in Monty Hall too... wait, they did.

  21. Re:Nasty "no cure, no pay" lawyers on Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents' · · Score: 1

    Conversely though, lawyers often charge extortionate hourly fees and then take their sweet time doing seemingly simple tasks.... I've been billed 3 hours time for 3 emails and proof reading a 1 page document... all at an eye watering rate.

    There's a middle ground between contingency-based and hourly-based fees: claim value-based fees. If a claim is worth x, lawyer get paid f(x) based on a preset formula, win or lose; losing party pays; reputation matters.

  22. Mod parent up. on Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents' · · Score: 1

    "No cure no pay" is illegal in most civil law countries. Oh, and most of them are also "loser pays court and attorney fees" jurisdictions.

  23. Why a cellphone? on Paying With the Wave of a Cellphone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My bank already issued me an RFID-fitted credit card... which I don't use.

  24. Blowback on Stuxnet Virus Now Biggest Threat To Industry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ain't it a biatch.

  25. Re:I dunno man on Swedish Court Orders Detention of Wikileaks Founder Assange · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Lawful coercion" does exist: it's called "arrest" or "detainment".

    Yes, also taxes, jury duty, mandatory school attendance, eminent domain...