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  1. Re: Is this a cuteness thing? on 200 Dolphins Await Slaughter In Japan's Taiji Cove · · Score: 2

    Wild pigs are in an eternal state of war, if you see one make sure you know where the nearest tree is!

  2. Re:Is this a cuteness thing? on 200 Dolphins Await Slaughter In Japan's Taiji Cove · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, dolphins are much smarter than cows or pigs. They have advanced abstract thinking, language skills, and social structure. They also share a reciprocal recognition of intelligence with humans, and come to visit and view humans in boats or on beaches in a similar way to how humans will be excited to see a dolphin.

    A dolphin might even save you from a shark, is a wild pig going to save you from anything? Is a wild pig going to look you in the eye, recognize your intelligence, and respect you? What about an aurochs?

  3. Re:Nice subjectivity on 200 Dolphins Await Slaughter In Japan's Taiji Cove · · Score: 1

    If you see the horror of slaughter, then perhaps you are closer than you realize to seeing that we should only slaughter other animals when we must, and not casually. There are too many humans for that, we will slaughter the whole world.

  4. Re:Google plus on Bennett Haselton: Google+ To Gmail Controversy Missing the Point · · Score: 1

    Funny, you can't imagine google having a bug, or pushing out poorly optimized JS.

    In the old days I would have been suspicious too. But since the change in leadership a couple years ago... they just aren't interested in quality. Old machines should run webmail just as well in the future as in the past, it is not actually a harder or different problem than it used to be.

  5. Re:Lets simplify on Driver Privacy Act Introduced In US Senate · · Score: 1

    Because there is not a push for that.

    If you can convince people to care enough for it to be an election issue, then it will get changed.

    Whereas vehicle data can privacy can be added with less effort.

  6. Re:I know what this is!!!! on Mystery Rock 'Appears' In Front of Mars Rover · · Score: 1

    Or an NSA signal station

  7. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'd like to see hanging make a comeback.

    Well, it is quicker and less painful than these chemical torture regimens they're devising.

  8. Re:I'm not for driver's "rights" on Driver Privacy Act Introduced In US Senate · · Score: 1

    There is a whole lot of fail there. Driving is a privilege, so if we want to ban drunk driving, we can [did]. And if we want to regulate privacy of Event Data Recorders installed in vehicles, we can [will].

    And a private track is exactly where many regulations don't apply, not a place people go for regulated driving.

  9. Re:Can and Will be used against you on Driver Privacy Act Introduced In US Senate · · Score: 1

    I believe it too! Some thing happened... out there... somewhere... and it was described thusly. I believe it! Something happened!

  10. Re:Lets simplify on Driver Privacy Act Introduced In US Senate · · Score: 1

    Here in the US the data belongs to whoever collected it, not to who they collected it about.

  11. Re:And nothing will change. on Driver Privacy Act Introduced In US Senate · · Score: 1

    There is no way to know what they will do until they do it. They might consider what you describe to be too high-risk behavior. They might instead just drop the policies of the worst 2% of drivers.

  12. Re:Prior art on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot already makes distinction between content elements and advertorial elements impossible.

    The solution is obvious, don't risk reading the summary, just skip straight to the comments.

  13. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    KILL the ads! Just KILL them! KILL THEM ALL!!!!!1!!!! *pew* *pew* *pew*

  14. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    Because a lot opinion-sharpers in social circles have a lower than average tolerance for BS.

    If ads are the site's actual business... by definition you don't have any business to do there. If they're a newspaper, they need to be important more than they need the ad impressions from each visitor. And if they manage to sell you a subscription, at that point most people like them enough to whitelist them.

  15. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    Better chase him off the lawn before he taints the grits

  16. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 2

    And this same line of reasoning is what keeps Linux off the desktop.

    Linux is already on my desktop, and I don't imagine any way your reasoning will remove it.

  17. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    You're probably going to need to upgrade to links because a lot of sites are using CSS menus now

  18. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    The only good news is they aren't using table page layout

  19. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    It almost always comes down to a static layout element where it shouldn't have been, or "tricks" to try control the layout beyond what CSS provides. Sites that just follow the standards and make their site look nice within the toolset provided... just work. Even some google service logins manage to screw this up these days; and they used to be model citizens at this! These days they can doing login popups and menus and rollovers and all that with pure CSS

  20. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    The suckiest sites do stop working. At which point I praise noscript, and choose a better source.

    If you consume a lot of vapid commercial crap, I can imagine they will be able to force you to view the ads. They control their speech, their content.

  21. Re:Case has been dropped on Google Glass User Fights Speeding Ticket, Saying She's Defending the Future · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it's true, I'm just repeating what I heard on slashdot

  22. The cop will have an assistant DA coaching him before he goes up.

  23. Re:Any evidence? on NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day · · Score: 1

    Or even just, adding the data to the shared databases. The data is already shared, they don't have to ship it over. This loops back to their meaning of "collect," above

  24. Re:Afraid of bugged hardware? on Electrical Engineering Lost 35,000 Jobs Last Year In the US · · Score: 1

    You're lucky if we read the summary.

  25. Now cops know if they cite you for having google glass, just say it looked on in the report.