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  1. Re:China? on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That is why the riots continue every night, because the looters discovered that the government won't stop them any more.

    No, the riots continue because the looters discovered that Londoners can't defend themselves against a group with just a knife or a cricket bat. The police can never defend anyone in a riot, especially if all the police normally carry is a stick.

    Now the citizens are banding together to protect themselves. To the government this is even more frightening than the looters themselves.

    Indeed. It's why the British government took their citizens' pistols, and why the English took the Scot's swords.

  2. Re:China? on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 2

    calling their friends & neighbors to arms to help them protect their families, homes and businesses.

    Are you sure that isn't part of the reason they want these networks shut down?

    No doubt. People that can organize against rioters can organize against oppressive regimes.

  3. Re:Sounds Fishy on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    Could a person survive if all cells containing a virus were killed off suddenly? Could a very small dose kill off some of the diseases while not overlaoding the person with dead cells?

    I suppose the question is how quickly do the viruses kill off cells on their own. If it's essentially the same rate, then it's better to kill the cells with the drug.

  4. Re:It's called Kalocin. on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    It's almost like Halo: Osmosis Jones Edition.

  5. Re:It's called Kalocin. on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    So did she maybe.

  6. Re:Not sufficent on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    This is the problem with all anti-biotics, unless they are 100% effective, they will essentially weaken the host to the infections evolutionary future whenever it eventually comes back to them (if it does) and they will get reinfected. And depending on the infection itself, it could very well be lethal the next time.

    Okay then. How about if everyone takes this drug worldwide all at once? The only new viruses would be crossover from other species.

  7. Re:Macs on Apple Now Offering Free Recycling For PCs · · Score: 1

    Pink Lady. I think it's a Granny/Fuji hybrid. Plus there's the potential for double entendre.

  8. Re:Anybody... on Orange Goo Invades Alaskan Village · · Score: 1

    We're not allowed to remember.

  9. Re:Lipid Oil = Energy? on Orange Goo Invades Alaskan Village · · Score: 1

    They have to hatch to be renewable...

  10. With Better Service? on Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook · · Score: 1

    Are they planning to make a better, open service where people can remain anonymous and only give the information they choose to give? Compete with Facebook and deliver this new, better product on November 5th? Or are they going to DDoS and just annoy some soccer moms who can't harvest their Farmville corn for a couple hours?

  11. Re:Just a matter of compute power on Breaking Motion Capture Out of the Studio · · Score: 1

    "Why is that Orc carrying a badge?" "Who cares? Kill it!"

  12. Re:Warning: RETCON! on Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes · · Score: 1

    The original story is that a disease killed off all the cats and dogs and such. So we took in apes as pets. Then we started using and treating them more and more as helpers, laborers, and eventually, slaves. Apes became more numerous, more intelligent, familiar with human tools and machinery, and angry. Humans became weak, dependent, and lazy. When the uprising started, humans were caught with their pants down facing a dumber force, but one that was numerous, in their homes, and physically superior.

    I think you forgot about the part where two Chimps from the future escape back in time (Escape from the Planet of the Apes) just as the planet explodes from the Omega Bomb (Beneath the Planet of the Apes), and they have a child which is adopted by a circus owner, and that child grows up to become the leader of the enslaved Apes.

  13. Members of anon attending on Building a Better 'Anonymous?' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Did they wear Groucho Marx glasses or Guy Faukes masks?

  14. Re:It took this long to "find" a contract? on Facebook: We Have Proof Ceglia's Contract Is Fake · · Score: 1

    And you'd have to be a complete idiot to sell half interest in your taco stand for a thousand dollars, let alone half your internet startup, unless you thought the company had zero chance of succeeding.

    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2368770&cid=37017536

    Facebook was worthless at the time. Kids don't have the greatest filing habits.

  15. Re:Diamond Age on Making Microelectronics Out of Nanodiamond · · Score: 0

    You and the GP are both misunderstanding "digital" and "analog".

    What? I was talking about the leap in tech provided by using transistors instead of tubes; ie computers and other electronics became portable. Thus, diamond based nano-stuff might be enough to make people refer to the next tech age as the diamond age. Ne'er did I mention analog.

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

    Awesome question as it is possible to recreate digital logic without silicon, using only analog components (in fact, that's what vacuum tubes were, sort of). We are now in the "digital age", but i'm not sure if the substrate matters as much as the impact it has on every day lives. Though "diamond age" is really sexy and seems like it would represent the new marriage of social lives, work, and electronics. It might catch on, it might not, depends on what marketing droids think.

    Silicon made all the difference because no one was going to ever carry a vacuum tube radio in their pocket. Nor would they carry a computerized pacemaker with vacuum tubes in their chest. Transister Radios were the bee's knees back in the day. If diamonds make microelectronics work well enough that we can get in-eye HUDs or disease-fighting nanites, then there might be a big enough shift to proclaim a new "diamond" age.

  17. Hey Baby, on Making Microelectronics Out of Nanodiamond · · Score: 2

    Don't turn the ring down. All the best electronics are made out of diamonds this size.

  18. Re:Are grades really meaningful? on Computers Could Grade Essay Tests Better Than Profs · · Score: 1

    why are you working so hard at doing things you don't really believe are worth doing?

    Because if everyone works hard at pretending to be firemen, cowboys, and ballerinas throughout their childhood, we'll end up with a lot of disillusioned firemen, cowboys, and ballerinas. Very few people end up doing things they really believe are worth doing. Even in IT, we may believe in our immediate goals (fix computers/design systems/plan networks), but few of us probably are 100% gung-ho about the company's products or goals. Thus the constant tests to make sure people would be good at following distasteful orders from distasteful managers.

  19. Re:Flash Mobs Are Nerd News Now???? on Philly Answers Youth Flash Mobs With Curfew Enforcement · · Score: 1

    the only thing this does is give cops carte blanche to stereotype and make assumptions based on age

    No, this codifies in law that anyone young enough outside without supervision past a certain time of day is breaking curfew. Nowhere in the statute does it say that police are to taze or shoot any pre-teen on sight. This does allow cops to stereotype by perceived age, so younger looking folk will have to carry valid ID to prove their age.

  20. Re:Flash Mobs Are Nerd News Now???? on Philly Answers Youth Flash Mobs With Curfew Enforcement · · Score: 1

    this law only applies to kid under 13! Does Philly actually have troubles with kids that young committing violent crimes?

    Yes. And pre-teens don't have any reason to be out past the curfew hours in the middle of the city. Job? Illegal to hire someone so young.

  21. Re:There's a battle between M$ and Google? on Computer Scientist Calls For Web Search Shake-Up · · Score: 1

    It's how it worked when I used it the first time. Their initial bad design made me realize that I'd never use Bung and would tell others about my experience.

  22. Re:The problem isn't poverty on Philly Answers Youth Flash Mobs With Curfew Enforcement · · Score: 1

    The problem is that no one takes any responsiblity - the liberal elite have pushed all these garbage social programs on us, claiming that this will fix the problem - and it hasn't. We OVERSPEND on stuff like this to fix poverty - and it doesn't fix the problem - you know why - ZERO PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Giving people unearned government benefits is essentially giving them NOTHING - people don't view these benefits as a gift, they start to believe that someone owes them something for nothing - instead of getting a job and taking some responsibility for themselves, they throw temper tantrums and demand the fruit of someone elses neighbor.

    Did you mean the fruit of someone else's labor?

  23. Re:We just have to trust NDT on FOX To Host New Cosmos · · Score: 1

    From the article: "The deal with Fox is reportedly due to MacFarlaneâ(TM)s long-running relationship with 20th Century Fox, which helped him create the Family Guy franchise."

    You mean the show that had this version of Cosmos? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE_OehRLH3s I suppose that's okay then, because Mt. Dew is the best soda everï made. Throwback Dew if you're a Fundamentalist Dew-head.

  24. Re:Get ye some 802.11a. on Ask Slashdot: Overcoming Convention Hall Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I second this. We had one of those cheap plastic Faraday cages, and it did not work worth crap. Last time I try to pinch pennies with the Faraday cage I tell ya.

    Unless he bites, it's often easier to just put your Faraday on a leash.

  25. Re:so if someone in the US where to hack china wha on China's 5-Year Cyberwar Met With Western Silence · · Score: 1

    so if someone in the US where to hack china what will happen?

    I suppose that depends were in china they hack. Their probably not going to hack Chinese government wear there going to notice. That was harder to right than it is for you all to reed.