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  1. Hmmm... on Coffee-Powered Car Breaks World Record · · Score: 0

    So do the researchers realize that coffee is almost as expensive as gas? What is next cars that run on gold or other precious metals? How about a car that runs on rare earth metals? Or maybe a car that runs on inkjet printer ink. Or human blood...

  2. Re:I hope so! on Is Apple Moving iPad Production to Brazil? · · Score: 1

    To be honest, in some cases no - not from afar. But the penis is kind of a dead giveaway. Same with the Adam's apple.

  3. Re:I hope so! on Is Apple Moving iPad Production to Brazil? · · Score: 2

    I have also lived in both countries and can attest that Brasil has a much higher concentration of hot women than the USA does - speaking in general. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder I suppose.

  4. Re:at least the Lion firewall is on on Aussie Researcher Cracks OS X Lion Passwords · · Score: 1

    Yes, and we all know that if there is no malware today, there can never be any in the future either. Because nothing in the world ever changes. And real security is just continuing to pretend like problems do not really exist even if they do.

    Brilliant reasoning, I am sure it will never cause any problems for you.

  5. Re:Obligatory movie reference for milking on Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons · · Score: 1

    MALK - Now with vitamin R!

  6. Re:Fascinating... on Wild Parrots Learning To Talk From Escaped Pet Birds · · Score: 1

    I agree with everything you say, however the notion that Fox News is alone in doing this is what I was trying to dispell.

    I think Fox is doing exactly what you claim, but so is MSNBC, CNN, etc. - Fox certainly doesn't have a monopoly on quasi-yellow journalism or not getting all the facts correct. (But they certainly do it well,possibly even the best.) I just try hard not to fall into the trap where things I don't agree with are "wrong" and things I do agree with are "right".

  7. Re:Glad I never bought from them. on Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History · · Score: 1

    A DA riffling through what people bought in his district finds that certain people bought rolling paper, grinders, and an occasional scale.

    And anybody foolish enough to buy that combination of items, on Amazon, is an idiot. Those are all items you buy in person, with cash.
    That being said, those are all legal items and no sane judge would issue a search warrant based on this type of flimsy circumstantial evidence alone.

  8. Re:Fascinating... on Wild Parrots Learning To Talk From Escaped Pet Birds · · Score: 1

    It isn't that simple in my world. You see Fox news often offers opinions, of which there are no "right" or "wrong" ones. I don't just label anything I don't agree with "wrong". But I certainly believe that Fox News definitely has an agenda and a bias. But then again so does every other news source as well. I don't agree with Fox on most things, but I am not going to single them out as the only news channel that operates that way.

  9. Re:Slashdot on Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement · · Score: 2

    Newer Dell BIOS allows you to use a mouse.

  10. Re:Should we disable TLS 1.0 in browsers? on Hackers Break Browser SSL/TLS Encryption · · Score: 1

    Maybe those numbers will change after this exploit becomes more known.

  11. Re:But How Many $$? on A Fifth of Telecommuters Work Less Than An Hour Per Day · · Score: 1

    Who says it is their primary source of income? Maybe they also have office jobs and telecommute for a part-time job. Maybe they have 20 different jobs they all work for 1-2 hours per week. You are really making a lot of assumptions here...

  12. UPS on Smart Meters Reveal What You're Watching · · Score: 1

    And using a UPS should easily defeat this. Move along, nothing to see here.

  13. Re:Norton Disk Doctor on Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? · · Score: 1

    And if the disk is full? Or even half full would prevent you from writing all recovered data to empty blocks on the same diskette.

  14. Re:and it's thwarted with...... on Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use? · · Score: 1

    Well, business class connections are being offered in guaranteed speeds that happen to be not that fast. But your speedy line could potentially be slowed down to even slower than that pathetic trickle because you have no guaranteed minimum bandwidth.

    That said we have some outrageously fat pipes where I work and I still lock down workstations so users can't stream Pandora, Skype, and surf YouTube all day long. That policy has zip to do with bandwidth. If employees here are not interested in being productive while at work, we are not really interested in paying them.

  15. Re:Fascinating... on Wild Parrots Learning To Talk From Escaped Pet Birds · · Score: 1

    Living in a place made of many shades of gray, not just black and white.

  16. Re:and it's thwarted with...... on Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use? · · Score: 1

    And I am guessing your father-in-law's business line has a guaranteed throughput of X while yours depends how many of your neighbors are also sharing your connection. Business connections are generally more becasue they are dedicated circuits and are not shared among however many customers the cable company has signed up for their "unlimited bandwidth" connections on a limited bandwidth pipe. You get what you pay for in general. There is a reason non-business class connections are cheaper.

  17. Re:Fascinating... on Wild Parrots Learning To Talk From Escaped Pet Birds · · Score: 1

    No, they cover the entire government as a fuck up.

  18. Re:Is it my imagination... on "Wi-Fi Refugees" Shelter in West Virginia Mountains · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but back then you would have been labeled "hyperactive" and given a bunch of amphetamines as the cure.

  19. Re:Sinofsky, Ballmer - am I sensing a pattern here on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    You may have missed the "in proportion" part. What percentage of the entire Russian population was killed? I was only referring to WWII deaths - obviously there have been plenty of other madmen bent on killing millions of people. But have any of them managed to wipe out 20-30% of a given ethnic group?

  20. Re:Sinofsky, Ballmer - am I sensing a pattern here on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    Ok, sorry but I really can't have a serious discussion with an anonymous coward who is a Holocaust denier. Doesn't really matter to you I suppose - just keep rambling on your nonsense. I wasn't really paying attention anyway.

    P.S. I happen to personally know two jews that were in concentration camps, and have told me of firsthand accounts of what happened there. I would dare you to look either of them in the eye and call them liars, or tell them that they are "over hyping" their time spent there.

    P.P.S. I am not jewish, so your anti-semitic comments really have no effect

  21. Re:Sinofsky, Ballmer - am I sensing a pattern here on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    Um sure except I wasn't saying any ethnic group is not racist. I was commenting on the post stating that jews stick together and offering an opinion as to why I think they would tend to stick together.

    But I do find you fanciful stories of "food supply problems" being the reason millions of jews were killed in WWII quite humorous. Sure "a lot" of blacks, homosexuals, POWs, etc. were also killed in the war, but if you can point to any other group that was killed in the proportions jews were, I would love to have a link to your sources.

  22. Re:Sinofsky, Ballmer - am I sensing a pattern here on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    And if everybody had been trying to kill off your people for several thousand years, wouldn't you tend to stick together too? And possibly have a small bit of distrust for "outsiders"? Who would you believe - thousands of years of history, or what some person is currently telling you?

  23. Re:Fatal assumption: people as reasonable on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    Except the reality is that there have only been 2 major nuclear accidents that have resulted in radioactive material being released in to the public in the last 60 years - and with thousands of nuclear reactors word wide. How many health problems do you suppose the mining for and burning of coal have produced in the same time period? Do coal plants need to pay for this mythical insurance as well, or are you just going to give some of the biggest air and water polluters on the planet a free pass becasue they are "nuclear free" power?

  24. Re:Impracticality on Artificial Skin Made From Spider Silk · · Score: 1

    Is the name of the company "Hey Fuck You Mother Nature, Inc." by any chance?

  25. Re:Modified, Harmless HIV Used on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 1

    This sounds like it could turn into a "yield vs escape" issue during manufacture, where one escape becomes a case of AIDS.

    HIV != AIDS
    HIV can lead to full blown AIDS, but getting HIV does not mean you will necessarily get AIDS. Just ask Magic Johnson if you need further proof. He has been HIV positive since 1991 but has not contracted AIDS.

    They are not actually injecting HIV virus into the patients either. They modify white blood cells with the harmless HIV strain, and then grow more blood cells from them that get put into the patirent.