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  1. Re:When I was a kid we thought America was free on Iranian Players Blocked From World of Warcraft Due To Trade Sanctions · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Congrats, NASA! on Curiosity Transmits First 360-Degree Panorama From Mars · · Score: 2

    Skip the military comparisons. At least some science and improvements come from that area. Instead compare the costs of the superPACs and other assorted political spending.

    Personally think there's more value in the 2.6Billion or so rover than the 4B+ spent baby-slinging and shit-kissing

  3. Re:Congrats, NASA! on Curiosity Transmits First 360-Degree Panorama From Mars · · Score: 1

    Now we know we can send them there safely. Reduces the poverty level on both planets. :)

  4. Re:Why seperate competions by gender anyway? on The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing · · Score: 2

    I thought it was what Heracles yelled at the end of each cartoon.

  5. Re:I tried this this morning... on Google Wants You to Use Your Real Name on YouTube · · Score: 2

    I feel your pain..one of my computers at work has a history of Beiber and OneDirection for pretty much the same reason, Thankfully: headphones.

    "Why are you signing out first?"
    "Some shames you just cannot live with."

    Amusingly though, even if you're not signed in youtube still knows what that computer has seen from which to draw recommendations.

  6. Re:Native Americans? on Earliest Americans Arrived In Waves, DNA Study Finds · · Score: 2

    You're kidding right? It's a poke at the Mormon candidate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamanites

  7. Re:Previously Smallest Shadow on Scientists Capture Shadow Cast By 1 Atom · · Score: 4, Funny

    Um, no duh they treat the Higgs-Boson like a religious event: it holds mass fer christ's sake!!

  8. Re:You don't. on Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network · · Score: 1

    Well..if you can make your self-destruct look like a forest fire...

  9. She's *nine*. Why hold her to a higher standard of journalistic integrity than we do the other bloggers, or newspapers, or television news or...

  10. Re:And then ... on New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Personally be more amused if just after it breaches the boundary we lose contact with it...
    only for some amateur astronomer to detect a tiny object entering our solar system from the exact opposite side.

  11. Re:Maybe not Gypsy or Jew... on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 1

    test for the Irish gene?

  12. Re:Anything Else? on Dungeons & Dragons Next Playtest Released · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a cartoon in some magazine or such about a high level fighter could survive reentry?

    Yeah, realism..where you fight as well at 1hp as you do at full health. Sure there were supplement books for adding in hypothermia, exposure, fatigue, and so forth but um.. core books?

    Honestly though, how much fun is rerolling a character because you got sepsis after fumbling your roll cleaning your sword? 'Realism' was the mocked word in our fantasy games: "Seriously? You're arguing tumbling physics for the MINOTAUR dodging your FIREBALL spell?"

  13. Re:Noone read the articles on GMU Prof Teaches How To Falsify Wikipedia — and Get Caught · · Score: 1

    Someone
    Anyone
    Everyone
    ...only follows that 'no one' would be assumed to also be a singular word. That is incorrect, but does follow a sort of logic.

  14. I'm Confused... on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    If you pirate movies you support terrorists...

    On the other hand if you support the MPAA you're against the troops and for the terrorists...




    Won't someone tell me how I'm supposed to feel? :D

  15. Re:It's a perfectly valid on CBS Uses Copyright To Scuttle Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II Episode · · Score: 2

    Rephrasing: You can sell to someone and give away what exists within your mind. Turning profit from daydreams.

    Sounds like a goldmine to me. When the State holds a gun to your head and forces you to give up your daydreams, then I'll consider it dystopian.

  16. Re:PI song on Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dur? Isn't it common for everyone to want their slice of the Pi?

    *blames lack of coffee for inability to resist bad pun

  17. Re:Your generation is not special, more will follo on 2000x GPU Performance Needed To Reach Anatomical Graphics Limits For Gaming? · · Score: 2

    Nono, totally unrelated: 68% of the people won't repost. 42% who have vision will. So 32% of the people who repost are of the 76% that can see, meaning he considers 24% of the populace to be blind. Apparently there is a high level of head injury in his area resulting in eye trauma.

  18. Re:I approve on Cell Phone Jamming Devices Enjoy an Increase In Popularity · · Score: 1

    This is true, but this would also be karma :D

    More worrisome would be if he was ONE of the ones that needed help and couldn't turn it off e.g. a bus flips on an empty road, jammer dies though the device is intact, and no survivor can crawl out of the jamming range to call out.

  19. Re:Winter/mud/etc. on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You also run over less bikes that way. If you also kick the tires, look at the lights and (in winter) make sure your plates are clear...lot of hassle avoided simply by a quick loop around the vehicular before entry. Lazy man's circle-check.

  20. Re:Should be 'Opt-In' on Internet Giants To Honor the 'No' In 'No Tracking' · · Score: 0

    Bullshit.

    If they really felt it was a hot political topic*, they'd not have it discovered by happenstance or independently-researching users, but by informed users. During installation (be it the patch introducing it or original install of browser) they'd have a page explaining tracking in an unbiased manner then present the options. Seeing as they don't, the resultant statistics are meaningless-an added hurdle to filter and skew results. Comes off more as an attempt to appease their customers while not angering their sponsors-valid approach for a business, but don't patronise us so.

    *By this meaning they seem to want it to make a statement about people choosing to not being tracked, that eventually a critical mass will result and tracking be a relic of a bygone age

  21. Re:Pretend they are real on $6 Trillion In Fake US Treasury Bonds Seized In Switzerland · · Score: 1

    But you see...the US owes 15 trillion, and the bonds are for 6 trillion...

    ...so I give the US the 6 trillion bond, forgive them the 6 trillion, they apply it to the 15 trillion and voila~ six and six is twelve against fifteen...

    ...now the US only owes 3 trillion!

  22. Re:Summary please on A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 · · Score: 2

    Crap. Didn't see the one sentence part! Just replace all periods with semicolons or something :P

  23. Re:Summary please on A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 · · Score: 4, Funny

    A bunch of man-haters try to kill male magic users because they go crasy. One reincarnated guy get magic, picks up a harem and adds pool cleaner to the magic well. Meanwhile sniffing in disdain, clothing derumpled and beards being stroked fill the books while female chauvinism abounds.

    Think I made it to book..six? seven? before failing to care.

  24. Re:you're a troll but even so.... on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 3, Informative

    Were you intentionally being ironic? (thinking of certain racist politicians, covert-sponsored terrorism and such of a particular nuclear power-immaterial to the gp's post, but curious nonetheless).

    Anyhow, rather sure when Russia and China were developing the bomb a lot of freaking occurred, but as no one was in a position to stop them, nothing came of it. Also, there are also several 'brown' nuclear powers currently existing who behave rather 'immaturely' and are verging on war, but we don't hear talk of taking their nukes away.

    The difference here is that Iran does NOT YET have the nukes and so can be stopped from joining 'the club'. If they somehow manage to make it to the field testing stage, (my guess is) interest in intervention will fade rapidly by several powers to the point of just stern lectures...albeit Israel might take a different response. The seem to potentially have the most to fear.

    Personally, I don't see this so much a race issue so much as a "let's stop nuclear proliferation, it dilutes our own power, and it is scary in the hands of non-allies'.

    - - - -

    Wonder why they just don't drop two bombs if they can't reach deep enough. Are the bombs not precision guidable, or is hitting rubble mitigating the penetration capability?

  25. Re:Name on Foreign Data Unsafe From US Patriot Act, Says American Law Firm · · Score: 2

    Curious: do you also type L.A.S.E.R. and R.A.D.A.R. and so forth?