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  1. Re:Fools! on Old Subway Cars As Artificial Reef · · Score: 5, Interesting

    they could probably make 88mph o_o what has science done?!

  2. Re:Looks good and free (for 500MB worth) on Google Previews App Engine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it's anything like Photoshop Express, you have all the rights to your code to lose (even with their revised EULA). If it's anything like the rest of google's services, you'll have to accomodate text ads.

  3. Re:Dawkins may may a renowned evolutionary biologi on Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's because it's only an important distinction when talking about God. Because some people really do believe that it's impossible for a god to exist and they operate under that assumption. Some people (like Dawkins) don't accept that and call themselves agnostic, but it's just intellectual and they're really atheists.. their world would be shattered completely if they learned that they were wrong. Agnosticism isn't just some technicality, it's a completely different way of thinking.

    By the way I'm not promoting agnosticism; I think that you have to make a leap of faith somewhere, and on this issue the options seem to me theism and strong atheism.

  4. Re:Dawkins may may a renowned evolutionary biologi on Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who · · Score: 0, Troll

    I never really understood atheism anyway. They mock theists for their faith, but there's certainly no way to prove that there's not a god, so aren't they also believing in something independent of scientific proof? IMO agnosticism is the only tenable position for the non-theist.

  5. Re:Ungrateful Lucas? on Imperial Storm Troopers Skirmish in Latest IP Battle · · Score: 0

    I think that they're allowed to protect them under law, but that that law is wrong.

  6. Re:crack smoker on Yahoo! Rejects Microsoft's Offer, Says 'Still An Option' · · Score: 1

    the value of yahoo is a redirect to google and nominal competition.

  7. Re:Really? on 3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License · · Score: 1

    This is weirdly like a thought I had the other day.. a holographic holodeck. How many layers deep could you go?

  8. Re:Or some of us are just busy, on Instant Messaging For Introverts · · Score: 1

    OP here- I'm saying that a virtual social life and a real social life both involve legitimate communication, but you have to have at least one.. you can't just be dedicated to your work or family and never communicate. Self-discipline is one thing, and people these days really need to learn to turn off their cellphones and sit by themselves for awhile.. but you're being unrealistic trying to be self-contained and self-sufficient. You might be mostly successful, but that's a trauma response, not a healthy state of mind, and it's going to be painful on some level. You can't defy the social need built into the way your mind works.

  9. Re:Or some of us are just busy, on Instant Messaging For Introverts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have fun "getting things done" while life passes you by. A virtual life is a fine replacement for a real life, but you have to communicate somewhere or you're living out some phychological damage or something...

  10. Re:Whaa? on More DMCA Censorship at Yahoo! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No.

  11. Re:Good! CS is a pseudo-subject anyway on College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB · · Score: 1, Insightful

    bring mathematics under the umbrella of cs..

  12. Re:Waving the white flag on College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB · · Score: 1

    That's taught in BC.

  13. Re:Pay no attention to this. on CTIA Wireless 10 Coolest New Devices · · Score: 1

    You must be completely retarded. The crashing of a stable os like XP or Vista is ALWAYS the user's fault. Always.

    You must be a 3-digit-uid in disguise to be using such outdated criticisms of windows.

  14. Re:Disingenuous on Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying · · Score: 1

    modern hardware, not new machines with 5 year old specs

  15. Re:Vista is dying you say? on Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying · · Score: 1

    Because the specs on those laptops are terrible! What do you expect? Run Vista on a modern machine and you'll get good performance, run it on an XP machine and you'll get crappy performance. Slashdot seems to be having a hard time understanding this.

  16. Re:Comparison to social networking on University of Washington Tracking the Edge of Privacy · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the pressure not to deactivate it. If you have 4000 workers submitting to be tracked, why did 1 just turn theirs off before entering a secure area? Make the arrest first, ask questions later.

    And what language is ${THAT}?

  17. Re:Sprint TV this... Sprint Music Store that... on CTIA Wireless 10 Coolest New Devices · · Score: 1

    No, it was too slow for """Sprint Speed"""

  18. Re:Pay no attention to this. on CTIA Wireless 10 Coolest New Devices · · Score: 1

    into an interactive product What are you a cell phone salesman?

    I can't talk and browse photos at the same time. How would you see the screen?!

    9 times out of 10 the phone or the computer crashes when I try to interface through the USB cable. That's your fault; either you're trying to do some retarded itunes-style sync with WMP or your system is unstable already. Just mount the device as a removable drive and copy whatever pictures and music to the appropriate directories.
  19. Re:Fair use on Lecture Notes Considered Infringement · · Score: 1

    Teachers have that right, not students.

  20. Re:As an American, I would like to know on Bell Wants to Dump Third-Party ISP's Entirely · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're going to be modded up by people who don't get to your last sentence o_o Also I was using "insane" as one of those cool kid words, not like how you 4-digit-uid geezers think it means.. highly regulated not unfairly regulated

  21. Re:As an American, I would like to know on Bell Wants to Dump Third-Party ISP's Entirely · · Score: 1

    Yeah right; america has always been insane on government regulation of telecoms. Yeah they get away with all sorts of abuse, but they do not own their own networks; they operate completely at the mercy of congress and the FCC, and there's no way that they'll let them just cancel the terms of their lease contracts that they don't like.

  22. Re:Yes! on Will Twitter Join Podcasting on the 'Net Sidelines'? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is twitter anyway?..

  23. Re:Screws to HDTV? Not exactly on Comcast Puts the Screws To HDTV · · Score: 1

    Wow you're retarded. When I use x264 to encode a VOB file at high bitrates I can get a pixel perfect reproduction of the original video at a quarter of the file size.

  24. Re:Not going to work.... on Blocking Steganosonic Data In Phone Calls · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Obviously if they modify the background noise then no amount of ECCs could recover anything from it since they're modifying all of the ECCs too.. unless you knew exactly what shifting frequencies they were using or something, but that's just reversing the damage, not working through it.

  25. Re:lol on Summer of Code Deadline Extended 6 Days · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Well this is it- this comment posted 12:00AM EDT April 2, no april foolery on slashdot this year. Fail.