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  1. Re:I call bullshit on Technology Blamed For Helping UK Rioters · · Score: 1

    Satire detector not working so well today?

  2. Re:In this post-9/11 world, we can't be too carefu on Science Fair Entry Shuts Down Airport Terminal · · Score: 1

    The best don't want anything to do with the political system.

  3. Re:About time. on Drought-Stricken Texas Town Taps Urine For Water · · Score: 1

    In the U.S.? You are not aware that the population of the U.S. is increasing not due to birth, but due to immigration? Yes, many people still want to come here despite how terrible it is.

  4. Re:Yes on Are Google's Best Days Behind It? · · Score: 1

    Probably not lazy. Probably logged out to make the pedantic post, to avoid the negative mod points, of course.

  5. Re:Diamond Age on Making Microelectronics Out of Nanodiamond · · Score: 1

    By weight (or by number of atoms), oxygen is more abundant in rock than silicon. FYI.

  6. Re:A strike? Oh, No! on 45,000 Verizon Workers On Strike Over New Contract · · Score: 1

    That didn't fix anything. It took a joke that almost all of us got, and turned it into a straight question - a straight question that is no more likely to yield a correct answer that the joke did.

  7. Re:antimatter on Anti-Matter Belt Discovered Around Earth · · Score: 1

    2000 *is* in the '00's, not the nineties. Nonetheless, it is also in the twentieth century, not the twenty-first century. A century is a hundred years starting whenever you decide it starts, but 'the sixties", for example are a set of years, ending in "sixty-something", so obviously 1959 or 1970 could not be a part of them.

  8. Re:Interesting on Saudi Arabia Constructing World's Tallest Building · · Score: 0

    Sumimasen, watashi wa wakarimasen.

  9. Re:Seriously? on Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK · · Score: 1

    Well, it's safe to say that I will not live forever, thus I cannot violate such a law.

  10. Re:Simple on Limits On Growth of Energy Use and Economies · · Score: 1

    We have to bottle up the heat and shoot it into outer space on rockets.

  11. Re:The "exposure" scam on Amazon App Store 'Rotten To the Core,' Says Dev · · Score: 1

    But what if it said:

    Artor3's To Do List, 3.5 stars, 150k downloads
    oGMo's To Do List, 4.5 stars, 20k downloads

    Then which one would they go for?

    I don't disagree with your point, I'm genuinely curious, and I don't expect you to have an answer.

  12. Re:want to see something really scary? on How Face Recognition Can Uncover SSNs · · Score: 1

    The scanners have been adjusted for radiation levels

    Oh, really? How did they do that?
    The showing a "cartoon" software change has been done to SOME scanners, not all, AFAIK.

  13. Re:want to see something really scary? on How Face Recognition Can Uncover SSNs · · Score: 1

    They are not using it as identification. They are using to check your credit history, and if they hire you they need it to withhold and pay taxes, etc. I would expect them to want a birth certificate, driver's license, passport, or the like as ID.

  14. Re:FUCK Google on Google Running 900,000 Servers · · Score: 1

    That's googol, not Google.

  15. Re:I have a similar firefox extension... on Chrome Extension Helps Find Noisy Tabs · · Score: 1

    Because NoScript is doing evil?

  16. Re:Innovation will kill you in the U.S. on Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Somebody in China is going to innovate eventually. Someone's got to.

  17. Re:On the bright side on Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1
  18. Re:The sad thing is... on Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009 · · Score: 1

    He didn't mean ridiculous. He meant redicutonic, as in, "This broccoli is redicutonic. Have you got any that's more brassicaceous?"

  19. Re:Police Academy on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    No, I was thinking of Leslie Nielsen in Police Squad (a funny police movie) being much funnier than Steve Guttenberg in Police Academy (another funny police movie). Also, see my other comment (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2353746&cid=36915366).

  20. Re:I'm still Calling BS on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    Yes, and in the case of covalent bonds, or hydrogen bonds, breaking bonds is not ionizing anything, so what is your point?
    DNA is not an ionic solid, in case you are confused about that. In fact, I'll say that there are *no* ionic solids in the human body under normal conditions (i.e. you didn't just eat some table salt which has not yet fully dissolved in your mouth), just to be safe.

  21. Re:Sigh on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. The term 'visible light' refers to a particular, defined wavelength range of electromagnetic radiation, not whether or not some animals eye is capable of detecting it.

  22. Re:I'm still Calling BS on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    Breaking bonds != ionizing.

  23. Re:Non-ionizing on Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges · · Score: 1

    So is UV 'B' ionizing radiation?
    See the problem with your argument now?

  24. Re:This is easy on Linguists Out Men Impersonating Women On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Except when it's not.

  25. Re:The difference is... on Girls Go Geek Again · · Score: 2

    Either way, he's probably not going to work tomorrow, right?