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  1. Re:Welcome to the future, get your vaccine! on Hybrid Human-Animal DNA Experiments Raise Concerns · · Score: 1

    Which ones?

  2. Re:Irresponsible? on Anonymous Releases Restricted NATO Document · · Score: 1

    I am not affiliated with these Slashdot pedants to whom you refer!

  3. Re:Why no releases of secrets from potential enemi on Anonymous Releases Restricted NATO Document · · Score: 1

    First, I'm not American, nor do I live in the US.

    Second, my post was just a joke, which managed to fly way, way over your head apparently. While we're talking about "smartening up", please go and read up on the uses of quotation marks, and the definition of irony before reading my previous post. Then read them again and read your own post. Then hang your head in shame.

  4. Re:Why no releases of secrets from potential enemi on Anonymous Releases Restricted NATO Document · · Score: 1

    Because they're not "technologically advanced" enough to digitise their top secret files and make them available to any interested script kiddies?

  5. Re:Irresponsible? on Anonymous Releases Restricted NATO Document · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You do know that Anonymous isn't one grandly unified body, and that it's made up of individuals who may have slightly differing opinions to the rest? Why do they all have to subscribe to the groupthink?

    Anyway, we're talking about Anonymous, not Wikileaks.

  6. Re:Irresponsible? on Anonymous Releases Restricted NATO Document · · Score: 1

    What if the documents were all garbage that had been rejected? What if those who had created the documents were fired?

    There are people who would actually like to start WW3. We don't need to give them a semi-legitimate excuse to start it.

  7. Re:Sellouts on Oracle Acquires K-splice For an Undisclosed Amount · · Score: 1

    Fork time! Can't be all that bad. I wasn't even sure it was open source, but Wikipedia claims it is (was?).

  8. Re:Frist Pots on Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot if you think it has anything to do with skin colour. There are violent and retarded cultures all around the world, gangs and drug users in every major city.

  9. Re:I did a double-take on Anonymous Creates Its Own Social Network · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They also know all the people Googling for open proxies.

  10. Re:No Android gear stolen on TSA Employee Stole $50k Worth of Electronics · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what kind of idiots enjoy choice and variety in their lives?

  11. Re:Problem on Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you think about it, it really is no different from other activity.

    Why is having sex with other people different from other activies, like for example mount climbing?

    Bullshit. The pregnancy part is a pretty big indicator. Think about it in evolutionary terms. We want to propagate our own genes, not help to propagate the genes of our wife's "mountain climbing" buddy. We have contraception now, but we also still have natural feelings of love for our wife and our own kids, jealousy of anyone who tries to edge in on our family, etc.

    Have you ever had sex with anyone? As another commenter said, there is a lot of associated biochemical crap going on in that situation, especially if it's not just a one night stand. You're not going to be able to help feeling upset if you find out someone was cheating on you, unless you both agreed to an open relationship. Even if you both agreed, it won't always be easy unless you're a sociopath.

  12. Re:online games on Sony Introduces 'PSN Pass' To Fight Used Game Sales · · Score: 1

    I don't hate Facebook either nor do I care much about Google plus, but I always get suspicious when someone posts a large and measured first post in the same minute as a new story.

  13. Re:online games on Sony Introduces 'PSN Pass' To Fight Used Game Sales · · Score: -1, Troll

    The difference is that that guy submitted that (rather large) first post on a new account in the same minute as the story was submitted, ie he's a marketing shill. His language is better than that of the ones I've seen before, but look at all his posts and they're all very pro Facebook, pro MS, anti-open source.. there have a been a spate of these marketing guys for the last few months. I can't remember the name of the company that does them, but someone slightly more interested than I am was documenting it in their journal.

  14. Re:Oblig. Question on A Million Node Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    If an algorithm can be split between 50,000 cores, it can run on one core. I see no reason why the number of cores makes any difference. Sure it will be slower, but computation is computation, whether it's happening usefully fast on a 50,000 core behemoth, or pointlessly slow on a 50Mhz 486..

  15. Re:Geeks and BBQ on Using Old Linksys Routers to Control BBQ Smokers · · Score: 1

    I didn't mean social life. I just meant all living things are attracted to BBQ. I bet even vegetarians enjoy BBQing up some plants. BBQ itself involves death of course. Tasty, tasty death.

  16. Re:Geeks and BBQ on Using Old Linksys Routers to Control BBQ Smokers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    BBQ attracts life.

  17. Re:Honestly... on Geocaching Shuts Down British Town · · Score: 1

    I presumed that this would actually be considered to be littering.

    Well, that's because it is littering.

  18. Re:Spoken like someone.. on Tilting Bike Uses Google Maps To Simulate Routes · · Score: 1

    I wasn't trying to be efficient (well, time efficient maybe), I was doing it at first as a challenge, and then after a while it was actually not that difficult, but still good fun.

  19. Re:Spoken like someone.. on Tilting Bike Uses Google Maps To Simulate Routes · · Score: 1

    Damn. That sounds hilarious :) Keeping it interesting is definitely the way to go, then you don't even realise you've been "exercising". Which is why I stopped going to the gym and prefer instead to do Parkour.

  20. Re:Spoken like someone.. on Tilting Bike Uses Google Maps To Simulate Routes · · Score: 1

    I haven't done muchdistance riding, but I use to cycle to work every morning, which was uphill most of the way, and I could do the whole thing in the hardest gear - on the really steep bit I just stood up to get more power. It took something like 30 minutes to get in in the morning, and 5 minutes to get home.. :)

    Exercise bikes can simulate hills fine without needing to vary the angle, just by increasing the resistance.

  21. Spoken like someone.. on Tilting Bike Uses Google Maps To Simulate Routes · · Score: 1

    Spoken like someone who apparently has ridden neither exercise bikes, nor real bikes. You can vary the resistance of exercise bikes, and you are also free to vary gears and/or pedalling effort on a real bike. The news here is the Google Maps routes for exercise bikes bit.

  22. Re:But the Best Buy guy said it does on Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam" · · Score: 1

    Not an expert, but if you have a poorer quality cable, you get more noise and therefore a lower maximum bandwidth, so I expect you would be more likely to see artifacts similar to if you were getting a poor signal from a digital TV/satellite receiver, or losing packets when streaming, etc. The cables that are guaranteed at higher bandwidths are apparently only really necessary for including networking, 3D, etc. Cheap Amazon cables are doing fine with my PS3 and Xbox doing 1080p.

  23. Re:Another nail in the Coffin of the Hard Drive on IBM Creates Multi-Bit Phase Change Memory · · Score: 2

    I don't think it needs to be cheaper at all. Just cheap enough. I like having no moving parts in my netbook, tablet, phone etc. I also don't have any need for more than say 300GB to be comfortable on anything but a media PC right now.

  24. Re:i oppose Bezos' patents... on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 2

    Defending against patent trolling competition, yes.

  25. Re:Only one way to fix this on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't need to retrieve the device if it just uploaded info to a public website or temporary email account, etc.