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  1. Re:CO2? on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 1

    Hybrids are 100% lithium? No wonder they catch fire so quickly when exposed to water! You'd think they'd use plastics and carbon fiber frames and have something like leather for the seats.

  2. Re:Your Tax Dollars at Work... on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 1

    I shouldn't have my taxes go to produce cars that only people like Justin Bieber and Ashton Kutcher can afford. It doesn't benefit me or the economy in the least.

    Even exploding cars? That could benefit everyone (but only if people like Justin Bieber and Ashton Kutcher drive them).

  3. Re:FiskEr, not FiskAr on Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy · · Score: 1

    And Finland's chock full of water. How has this not happened before?

  4. Re:Apples' response to the reprimand on UK Court of Appeal Reprimands Apple Over Mandated Samsung Statement · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did he use an X-ray colored background or something?

  5. Re:Humor on Researchers Crown Buddhist Monk the World's Happiest Man · · Score: 1

    Yeah, one makes you happy, the other makes you angry.

  6. Re:It's worse than that on "Badass" Bug Infects and Kills Borderlands 2 Characters · · Score: 1

    Never trust the client. The server should not take data from the client for a disabled feature. Passing this setting on to the other clients is a lesser mistake, but one which should have been considered as well.

  7. Star Wars leaving Dark Horse? on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    What are the chances that Star Wars comics come back to Marvel now that Disney owns both? I bet Dark Horse lawyers are running on pure caffeine right now.

  8. Re:Episode V on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    They also enjoy releasing all but the last season of a television series, so well never get a DVD of the final season of the Clone Wars (whenever it ends). For reference, check gargoyles, duck tales, darkwing duck, talespin, rescue rangers, etc. it's a catch 22 scenario with all of them: collectors wait until a complete set is available, but Disney won't make the last DVD if the initial buzz for the others isn't enough (doesn't matter how many are purchased later; initial buzz is everything to their decision).

  9. Re:What could possibly... on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    You win an internet. A new shiny one, not the leftovers from the 90's.

  10. Re:What's the plot? on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    But the epic space opera story ends there. The rest is political machinations and warfare ("I have to watch episodes 1-3 all over again?").

  11. Re:What's the plot? on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Heck, I just finished reading the Legacy series of comics (140~ years after the Battle of Yavin). Cade Skywalker, the drug abusing piratical bounty hunter descendant of Luke, is the protagonist.

  12. Re:"Starting from -infinity, got nothing to lose" on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 2

    Holy Conception for Anakin?

    Unholy, actually. Darth Plagueis created him from midiclorians, so he was intended to be a soulless bastard who would replace Sidious/Palpatine from the get-go. Palpatine recognized him for what he was after having already slain Plagueis and worked to corrupt him (it didn't take much pushing to make him slaughter innocents).

  13. Re:Marijuana/Drug Laws on Want a Security Pro? Get Politically Incorrect and Learn Geek Culture · · Score: 1

    If you don't give a fuck what someone does off-duty, they can't be blackmailed for it.

    They can be blackmailed as long as someone they care about cares what they do off duty. "Get us the secret plans or your WoW girlfriend will find out you still live in your Mom's basement."

  14. Re:and the band played on. on Hurricane Sandy Nears East Coast · · Score: 1

    It probably would have autocorrected *to* thru. Thru is often used in texting as a shortened version of through. Autocorrect on phones usually has texting (mis)spellings built in, and when they don't they can train to favor them with just a few texts.

  15. Old News from 1992 or earlier on Camera Technique Captures New View of Space & Time · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://cs.iupui.edu/~jzheng////RP/index.html
    "A route panorama captures and displays miles of scenes along a route optimized to use as little data as possible. It captures scenes with a slit in the frame of a camera moving along a certain route. This presentation details new techniques which do not require image stitching and thus simplifies the input process."

  16. Ignorant or dismissive? on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting · · Score: 1

    People who claim to be Creationists are almost always ignorant of evolution. That's just a statement of fact

    As much as I hate to quote Dwight Schrute: False. Sort of. Well, technically true but presenting a false non-equivilancy.
    Creationists who are well versed in creationism are usually also well versed in evolutionary theory (they are the most studious of believers, after all). There are a great many people who believe in creationism or evolutionary theory as origins of man who are not well educated in either and who are just following along with whatever someone in a robe or lab coat says. But these people aren't usually well educated in anything, so Dawkins' statement is true, but his unspoken implication ("most believers in evolutionary theory are well educated in creationism and/or evolutionary theory") is not. And I've seen more of the opposite of his statement: people who belief that the current diversity of life is wholly a product of the evolutionary process generally hold religion in such disdain that they don't investigate creation stories beyond the first sentences (or consider the possibility of a creation event which has been as yet unvoiced).

  17. Re:and the band played on. on Hurricane Sandy Nears East Coast · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it's an autocorrect of "they are getting the full measure of fright"

  18. Re:It's class warfare on Terrestrial Hermit Crabs Learning Social Tricks · · Score: 2

    He didn't build that! A snail did.

  19. Sounds like Microsoft needs better security on Rare Photos: Gnu Crashing a Windows 8 Launch Event · · Score: 2

    Well trained security guards would have quashed that right away, along with explanations of "You need to buy a vendor permit to distribute pamphlets/software at the show".
    Microsoft Security Fail!

  20. Re:three words, one hyphen: on Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid? · · Score: 1

    The only thing that improved in med school was his English.

    I would hate for there to be a miscommunication with my doctor. "You have positive result!"

  21. Re:three words, one hyphen: on Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid? · · Score: 1

    $15 in parts and $900,000 in costs for FDA regulation compliance.

  22. Re:Sell out on Slashdot Asks: Are You Preparing For Hurricane Sandy? · · Score: 1

    Turn the freezer temp down extra low before the storm, and pack with extra salt-water bottles (or regular water if you plan to drink it as it melts).

  23. Re:CRT's on A Proposal To Fix the Full-Screen X11 Window Mess · · Score: 1

    I'm still running a hugemongous CRT. It probably won't go bad for another four years.

  24. Re:It comes from being right. on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the deer/deers thing was a graded assignment, and not only was I losing points on the assignment, the teacher was teaching the class incorrectly.

  25. Re:Pay more for less... on Microsoft Releases Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 advocates a 4-day simultaneous time cube!