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  1. Re:SCIENCE! on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 1

    Uhh, so cigarettes (a.k.a. cancer sticks) are the result of 'science'?

  2. Re:Sucky thing about digital on Xerox Confirms To David Kriesel Number Mangling Occuring On Factory Settings · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is not brain dead. It is the only way the copier can efficiently forward the image to the NSA.

  3. Re:Never thought it would fly on Asus CEO On Windows RT: "We're Out." · · Score: 1

    Come on, don't insult man's best friend.

  4. YMMV on Samsung Caught Boosting Galaxy S4 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    I suppose the old car analogy now applies to phones too.

  5. No suit 'n tie - Blue Collar on Obama Praises Amazon At One of Its Controversial Warehouses · · Score: 1

    There is no Middle Class anymore. Since the Middle Class stopped wearing suits and settled for business casual, everybody became Blue Collar.

  6. Re:Remember the past? on Remember the Computer Science Past Or Be Condemned To Repeat It? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, so he also didn't understand CRCs, error correction codes, encryption and compression - anything in a Galois field. Where did he buy his CS degree?

  7. ANSII on a BBS on Remember the Computer Science Past Or Be Condemned To Repeat It? · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, Facebook is just a slightly improved BBS and a browser is just a slightly improved ANSI terminal.

  8. Honey and worms on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    We do use enormous amounts of honey and tons of insects inadvertently gets ground up in grain flour, not to mention the occasional half a worm in an apple...

  9. Foreign/Domestic Intelligence Surveillance Act on Most Americans Think Courts Are Failing To Limit Government Surveillance · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The proof of the overreach is that the *Foreign* Intelligence Surveillance Court (and Act) is used to approve *Domestic* surveillance. That is so totally obviously not what its intended purpose was, that the whole thing is rather quite hillarious to foreigners.

  10. Surveillance States and Entropy on Most Americans Think Courts Are Failing To Limit Government Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Maybe a Surveillance State is a better term for the USA and UK, where everything is monitored in the interest of National Curiosity.

    The big problem with a Surveillance State is entropy, leading to the collection of bad/false data, which causes innocents to be harassed and prosecuted in a Kafkaesque way.

  11. Re:railgun? on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    You can just put a solid plug on the exit point and burst through it like a giant pop-gun. Popping the cork won't make any calculable difference to the stresses on the cargo.

  12. Re:Wonder if it can be weaponized. on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, but Intercontinental Trebuchet sounds like a helluvalot of fun...

  13. Re:GMO is scary... for now. on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 0

    'Killer bees' are simply African honey bees introduced into South America. There is no genetic modification to this story.

  14. Re:But am I vulnerable? on English High Court Bans Publication of 0-Day Threat To Auto Immobilizers · · Score: 2

    "cassette player" I heard that 8 track players are in demand again with the over 70s nostalgia crowd...

  15. "Reasonable time" on English High Court Bans Publication of 0-Day Threat To Auto Immobilizers · · Score: 1

    Under English law 'a reasonable time' is usually 14 days. So unless the court put a date on it, the injunction will expire quite soon.

  16. Re:Run windows... with linux VMs on Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux? · · Score: 1

    Only a day? Man, I can remember the fearsome black screen of death...

  17. Help I am Classified Clueless on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 2

    You do government work and you are this clueless? No wonder the USA is in the state it is in. You should start by reading the ITSG.

  18. Re:Sigh. on Feds Allegedly Demanding User Passwords From Services · · Score: 3

    I agree that the USA is far from the classic fascist states, but it is running as hard as it can to catch up...

  19. Next: The Secret Seven on Five Charged In Largest Hacking Scheme Ever Prosecuted In US · · Score: 1

    So now that the Famous Five are in goal, the Secret Seven better look out...

  20. Re:Maybe that's why on HAARP Ionospheric Research Program Set To Continue · · Score: 1

    So? It snows on the equator too. Kilimanjaro for example.

  21. Advertisers pay to have advert broadcasted only on Court Upholds Ruling On Dish Network's 'Hopper' · · Score: 1

    Advertisers do not pay to have their adverts replayed in perpetuity.

  22. It has to continue on HAARP Ionospheric Research Program Set To Continue · · Score: 1

    The ionospheric sounding has to continue, since the data is used for military short wave radio planning. As the ionosphere is always changing, the sounding work can never stop.

  23. Re:By Thor's Hammer! on New Shrew Has Spine of Steel · · Score: 2

    Hmm, don't screw with this shrew.

  24. Re:Given the # of comments here it's already dead! on The Last GUADEC? · · Score: 1

    GTK is the Gimp Tool Kit. I don't see Gimp going away any time soon.

  25. Re:Are you kidding me? on US Gained a Decade of Flynn-Effect IQ Points After Adding Iodine To Salt · · Score: 1

    Well, if he really has uranium haxafluoride in his drinking water, then that alone will explain it all really...