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  1. Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It says a lot about this country that a one term Senator can become President... and it doesn't speak well.

  2. Read the free sample chapter on Book Review: The Tangled Web · · Score: 1

    From the sample chapter, this does look to be a readable and informative book. That seems to be rare for tech books these days.

  3. Re:He deserves it on Indonesian Man Faces Five Years For Atheist Facebook Post · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is true for most of USA too. While you probably won't get jailed for saying such, there are just as ridiculous laws and customs based on Christianity...

    Agreed. The US has many outdated laws based on the Old Testament. For example, did you know that murder is actually illegal in many states (particularly in the Bible Belt). And theft has many restrictions placed on it. Please, keep your tired old religions out of our law books!

  4. SlashPol? on The Iraq War, the Next War, and the Future of the Fat Man · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why not spin off SlashPol now?

  5. Re:Whos asking? on Who's Flying Those Drones? FAA Won't Say · · Score: 4, Funny

    These are not the drones you're looking for.

  6. Re:Moglen is right on Eben Moglen: Social Networking "Creating Systems of Comprehensive Surveillance" · · Score: 1

    ... If they have gay values, not traditional Christian values, let's get 'em jailed as terrorists. We are already forcing our religion upon them now, let's take it home, back to the good ol' days of the crusades.

    So how many "gay value terrorists" (by your count) are in jail now?

  7. Re:This should be fun... on Tech Industry Reps To Speak Before Congress About SOPA · · Score: 1, Troll
    He's a Republican, so Slashdot users cannot officially indicate support.

    So who's paying Issa for this?

  8. Re:dumb question... on ASF Lays Out Its Plan For OpenOffice.org · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And what would Open Office that is "target at developers" look like, in contrast to plain ol' vanilla Open Office?

  9. Monoliths on Is Jupiter Dissolving Its Rocky Core? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just need to toss in several hundred thousand black monoliths, and we'll have a new star in the firmament.

  10. Re:The truth slowly comes out on US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was a "die-hard apologist" - up until "Live Free or Die Hard". I just couldn't do it anymore.

  11. Re:Pirate attitude on Louis CK's Internet Experiment Pays Off · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who is forcing you to read or watch anything? :'-( You should report their actions to the proper authorities post haste!! ~:-O

    It involves Beethoven and eye drops, my dobby droog.

  12. Re:Municipal broadband is on its way, then on Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way · · Score: 2

    Planking is so early 2011... "Batmanning" is where it's at now!

  13. Re:I think we've been over this before on Does Telecommuting Make You Invisible? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Short answer : "Yes" with an "If", long answer : "No" with a "But"...

  14. Re:Website /.ed on Dual-Core Android PC Now Comes On a USB Stick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps they're using the device as the server?

  15. Re:Gibson's a cyberpunk pioneer.... on Computing Pioneers Share Their First Tech Memories · · Score: 1

    I was shocked by the very considerable noise the floppy drive (a separate box) made. I had assumed these machines had no internal moving parts... The whirring and clicking of the IIc's drive seemed Victorian, disappointing.

    I quite liked the "thunka-thunka-thunka" of disk drives and printers.

  16. Re:Woo hoo! on DOJ: Violating a Site's ToS Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    It would be good enough to say "Thou shall not breed."

    In many cases, redundant.

  17. Re:I'm starting to want to work at Microsoft Resea on Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol · · Score: 2

    Fairly large? Second only to Microsoft. And it's one of the best places you could work at.

    IBM spends really a large amount of money on R&D. I wish the coffee were free, tho. Google does that right.

    How can they expect to do R&D if the coffee's not free?

    I'm serious!

  18. Re:It was that way in the U.S. in the late 80's on One Tenth of China's Farmland Polluted With Heavy Metals · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heavy metal was everywhere back then.

    If you need to get rid of it, just bring in some grunge and hip-hop groups.

    The cure was worse than the disease!

  19. Re:Because on Why Microsoft Embraced Gaming · · Score: 1

    No, it was because of * Developers! * Developers! * Developers! * Developers! * Developers! * Developers! * Developers! * Developers! *

  20. Re:Can we say... on Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself · · Score: 1

    WoW! Anti-virus programs do Work.

    Anti-anti-virus.

  21. Re:Couldn't be bothered to edit this? on William Shatner Answers, in 826 Words · · Score: 1

    You are right, my sentence construction as atrocious.

    "Or is it Slashdot policy to present an interview exactly as they receive it?"

  22. Couldn't be bothered to edit this? on William Shatner Answers, in 826 Words · · Score: 0

    Or is it Slashdot policy to present as received for interviews?

  23. Re:Moderation system on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    When they changed the meta-moderation system I stopped meta-moderating. I'd be surprised if I were the only one that stopped. The older system of an up or down vote was a lot easier to do, without actually spending huge amounts of time, it's just too hard to figure out what the moderation should have been.

    Agreed, 100%!

  24. Re:I think you meant "bile"... on Phelps Clan Tweets Intent To Picket Jobs Funeral Via iPhone · · Score: 1

    "Vileness," on the other hand, can be spread.

    The "Creamy Vileness" is easier to spread than the "Crunchy".

  25. Re:Her Defense Was Pretty Good Too on Phelps Clan Tweets Intent To Picket Jobs Funeral Via iPhone · · Score: 1

    "God made you to miss that ball for a reason. We just don't know his plan for us..."