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  1. That's expensive on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 2

    It's more than four times the price of a $0.99 song. Throw the ebook at him!

  2. Re:Phage treatments on Viruses In Mucus Protect From Infection · · Score: 1

    Unbiotic. Zombies and Vampires are both popular, so this name could be catching.

  3. Overuse of triclosan on Viruses In Mucus Protect From Infection · · Score: 2

    Perhaps the overuse of triclosan has another side effect beyond drug resistant bacteria? Reduced number of prey for the phages thus reduced number of phages, so a rapid influx of harmful bacteria might sweep past the low population of "defenders" before the phages have a chance to regrow their numbers?

  4. Who gets root? on Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Jolla, service provider, and/or device owner?

  5. Re:I don't get it... on Interviews: McAfee Says House Fire Was No Accident · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jobs doesn't have anything to do with Apple any more, but that doesn't stop all these articles about Jobs in tech, financial, and political news. Still not sure why he changed his first name to H-1B. Star Wars Droid fan?

  6. Re:No Amphibians Listed in Article on Mice, Newts Retrieved After a Month Orbiting Earth At 345 Miles Up · · Score: 1

    But they turned into newts! Science has met magic.

  7. Legislation addressing this on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Firms Leak Personal Details In Plain Text? · · Score: 1

    I email the relevant IT team as a matter of course to tell them it's not appropriate (mostly to no avail), but is there any legislation â" in any territory â" which addresses this?"

    They might be able to sue you for spamming them, but I doubt they have a case.

  8. Re:Sheesh on FBI Considers CALEA II: Mandatory Wiretapping On Every Device · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Florida has that covered. You can report your neighbors, family, bullies, and that nerd you bully as terrorists. Create a culture of fear, then let the citizens' bubbling paranoia do the rest. A system ripe to be rife with abuse.

  9. Re:Big enough sample size on Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns · · Score: 1

    A larger sample size is not inherently better.

    Incorrect. Else, why "sample" the entirety of a group when running elections? Note that you're talking about random samples, and as we all know, randomness does not guarantee heterogeneity.

  10. Re:Rights on Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns · · Score: 4, Informative

    Letting people have guns without being part of a well-trained militia is also not on the things the Federal Government can do, but here we are.

    Words change meaning over time. "Well regulated" means "well armed, provisioned", not well-trained, and "militia" means "ordinary citizens acting as makeshift military", not a formal military unit. And technically, "letting people do X" is not an action; the federal government has its roles rigidly defined, and "restricting citizens from owning armaments" is not one of those roles.

  11. Re:Personal Responsibility? on Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns · · Score: 1

    But I don't trust YOU to not misuse a gun.

    The reason why the second amendment recognizes a right to bear arms is because we (and the founders) don't trust ANYONE not to misuse government, which is a more powerful weapon than any gun.

  12. Re:Personal Responsibility? on Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns · · Score: 2

    If we replaced "gun owners" with "business owners" and "guns" with "dumping toxic waste," we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

    If we replaced "gun control" with "global thermonuclear war", we also wouldn't be having this conversation. Bad analogies are bad.

  13. Re:Personal Responsibility? on Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns · · Score: 1

    Maybe we'll sue the maker of the doormat too, just for good measure.

    Well, it did welcome a criminal in, didn't it?

  14. Re:Freshmen in high school, come on. on 9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers · · Score: 2

    Don't despair! You've found what makes you a special and unique snowflake!

  15. Re:Really??? on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 1

    I guess if you've got nothing better to do. Just remember they'll ruin your life in the process.

  16. Re:Really??? on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Jimmy, do you still want to be an architect? And you still shoot model rockets? Oh that was your brother, right. Could you help me with a website?"

  17. Re:No problem on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    So since owning stock in the robot companies first requires getting money from the robot companies via the government, this amounts to free robot companies. The introduction of money into this scenario would be like a nursing home where the residents are all taken care of, and are given "Monopoly money" that they can trade each other for TV time in the common room.

  18. Re:i think we will all be batteries on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    why would you use people as batteries

    Spite? The AIs seemed fairly emotional, and not very forgiving. Of course by the end of the second movie Neo proved that the "real" world was yet another Matrix anyway.

  19. Re:What? Again? on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    And that's to say nothing of the 10's of millions of farm animals that worked in the same period and were replaced as well.

    they weren't replaced. They were baked into meat pies as their usefulness waned.

  20. Re:No problem on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    Not a Headroomian dystopia?

  21. ...Wikipedia Editors Rejoice

  22. Re:Short yellow lights are a safety hazard on Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And this is Florida, so there is a higher percentage of people with poor reaction times.

  23. virtual reality glasses on Why We Should Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    Experience a brain other than my own? Me think better with VR goggles and fake brain? I'm not sure I understand what that sentence meant. Perhaps I need some VR goggles.

  24. Re:interesting stuff, but misleading on Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste · · Score: 1

    The "soy in everything" craze was a 90's thing. "Corn in everything" is a Monsanto thing, and it's already done, so no advocacy needed. Don't know who started the "silicon in everything" craze, but once we figured out how to dope it, there was a resurgence (it's not just stone and glass any more!).

  25. Re:When I search for Deutschland on In Germany, Offensive Autocomplete Is No Laughing Matter · · Score: 1

    it's not as offensive as an ostensible tech site that can't render Unicode characters.

    Yeah, that's über-offensive