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  1. Re: Hormone therapy? on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: 1

    If it bothers you bad enough, see if a temporal agent can take you to the 24th Century delta quadrant and drop you off on the Voyager. Hitch a ride on that warp 10 shuttle they built. That would fix your problem, but you might not enjoy the side effects :)

  2. Re:There are only a few choices... on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    In the 20th century, the number of people killed by their own governments far outnumbered the people killed in war. Google Democide to see what I'm talking about.

  3. Open Source Protest on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    The reason there is not one coherent set of commands is that anybody can join the protest using the platform. Some demands are bigger than others, but opinions differ wildly among the protestors.

  4. Re:You know what? on AptiQuant Browser/IQ Study Was Likely a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Are you an IE user?

  5. PRESIDENT OBAMA WANTS MOMS TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL on Cellphones Get Government Chips For Disaster Alert · · Score: -1, Redundant

    AND GET CARS AND REFINANCE THEIR MORTGAGES.
    Yup, just wait until the unscrupulous internet advertisers get ahold of it :)

  6. Unlocked iPhones on prepaid about to go dead on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 2

    I know several people using 3G and 3GS iPhones on T-Mobile. While the coverage is abysmal, the prepaid plans offer unlimited service for reasonable prices. One of them tried to put an unlocked iPhone on AT&T prepaid, and they detected it and said either convert to postpaid or get shut off. As soon as AT&T gets in control itll happen again.

  7. "I asked for a car.... on Top Student Charged With Fixing Grades For Cash · · Score: 1

    And got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign?". Meanwhile across town..."...nine times......GRACE! GRACE!"

  8. Re:Probably "brute forcing" the facebook accounts on Is Algeria Deleting Facebook Accounts? · · Score: 1

    True, and the more people they wrench, the more the resistance multiplies as people see the authoritarian government for what it really is.

  9. Probably "brute forcing" the facebook accounts on Is Algeria Deleting Facebook Accounts? · · Score: 2

    Algerian .gov is probably just hitting them with wrenches until they give up the passwords.

  10. Re:California law "protects" consumers... on Court Says California Stores Can't Ask Customers For ZIP Codes · · Score: 1

    You realize that consumer privacy protections and gun control are not mutually exclusive, right?

    I realize gun rights can coexist with consumer privacy, but in today's polarized political environment the two rarely coexist in any given state. In an ideal world you'd get both, but we don't live in that world. I choose to live in a place where the human right to defense of self and family is respected and address the privacy issue by not patronizing businesses that don't respect my privacy. YMMV :)

  11. California law "protects" consumers... on Court Says California Stores Can't Ask Customers For ZIP Codes · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nice to know that the law is there to protect you in case a retailer commits the horrible crime of asking you for your zip code. Now, if an armed robber shows up to kill you for the paper and plastic in your wallet or to rape you at knifepoint, the law was also there prohibiting you from carrying the best tools for self defense. Officers will be by in 5-10 minutes to help load your dead meat in the wagon or check for a DNA sample that will take 3-4 months to process.

    I'd much rather give a 5-digit code that the retailer can use to narrow my location down to a large geographic area than give up my sidearm. I'll stick with living in an inland state.

  12. Re:case on George Washington Racks Up 220 Years of Late Fees At Library · · Score: 1

    The founding fathers as slave holders argument is a variant of Reductio ad Hitlerum.

    It's the absurd idea that anything Hitler did is automatically bad, for example the Nazis created Volkswagen, so therefore VW is evil.

    In the case of the founding fathers, the fact that they were slave owners is supposed to mean that everything they did was bad and should be changed. Often it's used to justify the illegal behavior of current politicians because the old rules they are breaking were written by slave holders. The next time you encounter this argument, apply the same standard to Bill Clinton and watch them take an ideological 180 degree turn. Sometimes they switch from slave ownership to using the behavior of George Bush (senior or junior, take your pick) as justification. Inform them at that point that you are not a Republican and then the real olympic backpedaling begins.

  13. Nothing New, USAA on Deposit Checks To Your Bank By Taking a Photo · · Score: 1

    USAA has been doing this for quite a while. Their iphone app allows remote deposits.

  14. Re:So, what next? on Herschel Space Observatory Finds Precursors of Life In Orion · · Score: 1

    Depends...did the spectrometer find any signs of unobtainium? If it did, we form a quasi-governmental corporate entity to kill the rats and harvest the minerals.

  15. Strategic Attack On Banks? on PayPal Freezes Cryptome's Account · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There was also a recent story about a blogger who had his Citi account closed because he was controversial. Could this be a new trend? Could there be a back story here? I mean law firms of the big players might threaten to sue the bank of an enemy to make life difficult. Let's call this BLAPP, Banking Lawsuit Against Public Participation.

  16. It's a free country, FSF can make their own pad on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 1

    Seriously, they could make their own Linux version of the iPad, or even make a Linux distro that can install on the iPad. Nobody's stopping them.

  17. David McKay? on Martian Microbe Fossils, Not So Debunked Anymore · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that Rodney McKay's brother? Can't they just take an F-302 and look at Mars directly?

  18. Screw TSA on Three Lawmakers Ask For Enforcement Against Leak Sites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I will not fly in a commercial flight until TSA is dismantled. The 9/11 attacks did not warrant federal intrusion into air security. You may disagree, but that's fine. I will continue to vote with my dollars as I see fit. I'd rather drive several days than go through airport security.

  19. Simpsons Did It! on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    [Native American #2 sees a small piece of trash and begins to cry.]
    Native American-Indian #1: Do yourself a favour. Don't turn around.
    [camera pans across to show the old Spingfield as a huge land of rubbish and waste]
    Native American-Indian #2: [off-screen] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
    Native American-Indian #1: [off-screen] I told you not to turn around.

    The entire town gets relocated five miles away.

  20. Treating 4A like 2A... on Federal Judge Says E-mail Not Protected By 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    It's funny how people are all happy for 'reasonable' restrictions of the right mentioned in the Second Amendment, but when 'reasonable' restrictions are put on the Fourth Amendment, more are willing to fight. It's time to work to protect ALL of our rights, including our Ninth Amendment rights to everything else not mentioned.

  21. Atlas Shrugging? on Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? · · Score: 1

    Nobody wants to invent or invest because the looters will take it all.

  22. At least it's not Strong Badware! on Digsby IM Client Quietly Installs Badware · · Score: 1

    It will make your computer like used! Slightly shotgunned!

  23. By 'Social Security victims' do they mean... on Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the people who are forced to pay into the unsustainable scheme?

  24. Re:Krugman called FOR the bubble on Charlie Stross, Paul Krugman Discuss the Future · · Score: 1

    Ayn Rand and Peter Schiff....that would have been more interesting.

  25. Hi kettle, this is pot... on Malaysian Government Wants Internet Filtering · · Score: 1

    flag@whitehouse.gov - why apply blanket censorship when you can selectively harass the important opponents?