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  1. prior art? on Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools · · Score: 2

    This is retarded. I have a melanarus wrasse (same family as tusks, Labridae) that, on a regular basis, picks up snails and bashes then against the rocks in the tank or the glass. It's a well known behavior in the reefkeeping community, too, which makes me wonder what kind of research he did before going "First pic!".

  2. Re:No Carrier on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access? · · Score: 1

    Depends on whether the magazine in question is some bullshit like a gossip magazine or Playboy, or something like Coral or Time.

  3. Re:Largest economy? on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 1

    For my two previous cars (Honda Civics), the only part labelled as made in Japan was the transmission.

  4. Re:You are such a tool on News Corp. Subsidiary Under Fire For Hacking Dead Girl's Voicemail · · Score: 1

    The fact is, there were no death panels whatsoever. That's a fact, yet Fox News knowingly and openly lied about it with a specific agenda.

  5. Re:for the city on Toyota Scion IQ Electric Car To Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    European cars are not larger than a town car.

  6. Re:Well doh on Despite Controversy, Federal Wiretaps On the Rise · · Score: 1

    And in areas with greater ethnic diversity, to boot.

  7. Re:Excellent! on Irish Judge Orders 13-Year-Old To Surrender Xbox · · Score: 1

    Crack and heroin are really cheap to get messed up quickly too...

  8. Re:Excellent! on Irish Judge Orders 13-Year-Old To Surrender Xbox · · Score: 1

    You can also say that the life expectancy in Shakespeare's time was far lower than it is now, likely half or less of what it is now.

  9. Re:Skeptical on Among the Costs of War: $20B In Air Conditioning · · Score: 1

    It's more like $2 billion per week....

  10. Re:The fall of the free empire on US Supreme Court: Video Games Qualify For First Amendment · · Score: 2

    He whooshed so hard, my house almost collapsed.

  11. Re:You can already do this! on EVE Online Players Rage, Protest Over Microtransactions · · Score: 1

    Only by buying them from players who created them. That makes the PLEX exchange much less detrimental to the economy than direct buying.

  12. Re:Sounds geeky to me... on Google and MIT Enable Task Transfer Among Devices · · Score: 1

    I've browsed web pages on the way from my car back to my house, and then had to surf to the site again once I got in front of a desktop. That would be pretty much the only task I'd love to move from phone to PC.

  13. Re:I'm not anti-police but what legitimate reasons on LulzSec Document Dump Shows Cops' Fear of iPhones · · Score: 1

    The public doesn't have the power the cops have. The public doesn't have a given duty to strip others of their rights - which, incidentally, is largely done when people without said authority do so. So, the public is supposed to be leaving everyone else to their own business, but an on duty cop is supposed to be keeping a small segment of the public from interfering with the lives of the other, larger portion of the public.

  14. Re:Oy on LulzSec Document Dump Shows Cops' Fear of iPhones · · Score: 2

    Then all politicians are bad for making those laws, and all people are bad for voting in those politicians.

  15. Re:I don't get it... on BioWare's Neverwinter Nights Forum Server Hacked · · Score: 1

    I used to play NWN, but never signed up on the forums. I have played ME, ME2, DA:O, and others, though, so I think you're right.

  16. Re:Android (Java), Flash (Flex), Objective-C (OSX) on Learning Programming In a Post-BASIC World · · Score: 1

    Computer Science electives at my high school started us off with Java, if that says anything about the language's friendliness.

  17. Re:Don't doubt the experts on "Expert Body" To Decide Which Sites To Block For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Opposition to the opinions of the educated based solely on the ground that they are educated is anti-intellectualism.

  18. Re:the difference is on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    The leader of the US was a moron when the chance to attack a country his father didn't finish off when he had the chance was seen. The country is now led by someone who has at least half a brain and considers his actions deeply, at least as far as foreign policy is concerned, as far as anyone can tell.

    As for Yemen, it's a far, far different situation than having involvement in Libya, where we were actually asked to intervene by the leaders of their revolution. You can say we're unwelcome all you like, but it's just not true in all circumstances across the region. I realize they're not quite the middle east, but the generalization doesn't apply everywhere there either, as we've even provided the basic infrastructure for large portions of these rebellions and revolutions to continue when the governments shut down other communication methods. See the /. article a few days ago for details on that one.

  19. Re:the difference is on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    You're very much stretching both on the point that we "invaded" the nation of Pakistan (with a full team of 40 men or so), and on the point that they're really our ally.

    We're not in Syria because the situation is a bit different there. Look at the ethnic makeup of the regions of the country, and see what happens when that regime falls. We are already researching to see if we can charge them with war crimes - something we didn't even do to Gaddafi.

    Yemen is unique because our presence there would not be welcomed, as Al Qaeda is very strong in Yemen. Tunisia and Egypt were largely nonviolent (especially relative to Syria and Libya), and thus didn't require military intervention. In Egypt, the army even vowed it was going to protect the people and not slaughter them - as Mubarak likely wanted to happen.

    All in all, the reaction to the situation in the middle east has largely been tailored to each specific country, rather than running with the kind of blanket strategy that you imply should be implemented. A blanket strategy may be more outwardly consistent, but it will not be as effective in achieving the end result.

  20. Re:Part timers? on Apple Store Employee Attempts To Form Union · · Score: 1

    That would be the only reason they're able to kick the asses of the working class to begin with.

  21. Re:Also a pony and a flying car for everyone. on White House To Announce IT-Powered Smart Grid · · Score: 1

    We don't need to increase usage. If you increase efficiency while keeping the same amount of usage, our total work done increases, and is thus the same as stagnant efficiency with increased usage.

  22. Re:You Know... on English City Council "Not Ready" for Zombie Attack · · Score: 1

    The AR15 is far better than an AR50, for a whole host of reasons, from semi auto operation to fairly wide availability of the ammo. I'm pretty sure the OP just mixed it up with the AR15, to be honest, which is why I posted at all.

  23. Re:You Know... on English City Council "Not Ready" for Zombie Attack · · Score: 1

    A stockpile of AR15's would be a much better choice for the zombie invasion. Just sayin'

  24. Re:And of course... on Data Review Brings Major Setback In Higgs Boson Hunt · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, unless they give the particles crazy names and describe the observations in certain ways, there won't be funding to perform more observations in different (in this case, high energy) environments.

  25. Re:Sounds like they're got inside access on Daily Sony Hacking Occurs On Schedule · · Score: 1

    They don't all include violence. They do include inducing fear in people to force them to act in a certain manner, though.