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  1. Re:makes no sense to me on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 4, Funny

    How dare you bring logic into this argument. This is an emotional appeal, damn it!

  2. Re:I wait until it quits printing on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 1

    What's sad is that I can actually see this happening, when someone points out that simulating failure at the preprogrammed time will cause people to buy ink sooner instead of still using it.

  3. There will inevitably be a group of people who seem to always pick things that don't work, it's the nature of huge numbers. If you get a hundred million quarters, you'll find that there are probably close to a million of them that flip tails a dozen times in a row. Human nature would skew this somewhat, but I doubt this demonstrates people who are attracted to trends that fail - more like they're simply not following the mainstream trends.

  4. Re:Why not just kill them all? on Sex-Switched Mosquitoes May Help In Fight Against Diseases · · Score: 2

    I seem to recall reading a few articles in the last year where it's been determined that, while mosquitoes have a relatively large percent of the planet's biomass, removing them would have very little consequence; the things that eat them don't eat them primarily.

  5. Re:Parallel universe not new time line ... on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 2

    It's been an alternate parallel universe ever since Tasha Yar went back in time with the Enterprise C, ended up being captured by Romulans, and had a half-Romular daughter who went on have her own warbird in the fleet; the ship was supposed to be destroyed with all hands and it was definitely not. Hell, it's been an alternate timeline since Kirk went back to San Francisco if you want to get technical. Which means it's actually been an alternate timeline since the eighties. And that's not even counting the stable time loop involving the 19th century and whatnot.

    The Trek timeline is a convoluted knot. Why should the latest movies be any different in that respect?

  6. The thing about space programs on Iran Forced To Cancel Its Space Program · · Score: 2

    Is that they're great to simultaneously develop accurate ICBMs.

    Iran no longer having a space program means that its neighbors in the region don't have to worry about missiles being developed under such a banner, at least; anything they develop will be made for military use. Also possibly badly photoshopped.

  7. Why not give her a crack at Ed-Tech? on Better Learning Through Expensive Software? One Principal Thinks Not · · Score: 2

    Because we already have a secretary of education and that should be HIS damned job.

  8. Re:I think the bigger issue on Net Neutrality Comments Overtaxed FCC's System · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering how long until someone just finally snaps and tries to go after the Koches.

  9. In Other News... on Study: Light-Emitting Screens Before Bedtime Disrupt Sleep · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Related studies have found that the main reason light-emitting screens keep people from sleeping is because they don't ever fucking shut them off and the next thing they know it's 5:36 in the bloody morning!

  10. Re:Shattered on Elite: Dangerous Dumps Offline Single-Player · · Score: 2

    Frontier is going to fold, and you know it.

    What you need to do is pay attention to who is in charge of this, and find ways to boycott any products they have anything to do with in the future. Especially the bastards who were involved in the marketing.

  11. Re:Should be backwards.. on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 2

    And the right latitude.

  12. Re:evil versus evil on Twitter Sues US Government Over National Security Data Requests · · Score: 2

    And that which is not evil will die in the crossfire.

  13. Of course it does. on Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For anything in the solar system to be YOUNGER than the sun, it would have to be MADE by the sun, or as a byproduct of the sun achieving fusion. Our planet is younger than the sun itself, but the elements that comprise it are much, much older.

  14. Re:So... on Toxic Algae Threatens Florida's Gulf Coast · · Score: 3

    Fertilizer is among its many byproducts, but raw petroleum is not going to work as fertilizer and requires quite a bit of processing in order to split into the products that we use today.

    This has been an ongoing problem, periodically, if you'll recall. And the use of fertilizers is only increasing. The oil spill didn't contribute, it's causing its own problems but this is not one of them.

  15. Re:So... on Toxic Algae Threatens Florida's Gulf Coast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unlikely. Fertilizer runoff from farms being dumped in a body of water will help algae growth, that's a very large part of what happened in Ohio, because apparently farmers in Ohio are fucking retards who think dumping manure on fields that are FROZEN OVER is a good idea and that it won't just all wash out into the lake there.

    Petroleum isn't going to have the same effect by a long shot. There is no algae that eats oil.

  16. I've merely pointed out that there is nothing that is absolutely without risk. The approach that one should take is properly measuring those risks, then deciding. Not trying to stir up fear.

  17. You want risk free? Lock yourself in a padded room and make sure to eat nothing but what you get through a feeding tube to make sure you don't choke.

  18. Re:Don't look for logic on Ask Slashdot: IT Personnel As Ostriches? · · Score: 1

    Local user, you twit. It doesn't mean 'loser'.

    The fact that the end users tend to look at IT as utterly useless except when something goes wrong, in which case it should have been fixed and prevented from going wrong even when it was the end user's fault, does however tend to promote such an attitude. But the IT guys would have to be idiots to use that term openly.

  19. For all we know, there's been a few. on The Department of Homeland Security Needs Its Own Edward Snowden · · Score: 2

    Likely they were discovered earlier than Snowden and became the subject of an extrajudicial execution, much as some have clamored to have done to Snowden.

  20. Re:I owned one (several) on The Almost Forgotten Story of the Amiga 2000 · · Score: 1

    Because his delivery of lines in Stand By Me was so good? Honestly? Ugh.

  21. Re:Right to face accuser on "Internet's Own Boy" Briefly Knocked Off YouTube With Bogus DMCA Claim · · Score: 1

    More importantly, if they're outside the US, why does the DMCA apply to them?!

  22. Well, of course he did. He used them to part the red sea! Just, zzzap!, and now there's a huge hole big enough for everyone to run to the other side through!

  23. Re:but that's the problem with the turing test... on Was Turing Test Legitimately Beaten, Or Just Cleverly Tricked? · · Score: 1

    The Turing test was not conceived with text messaging in mind. Or the machine intelligence being on par with a thirteen year old with ADD from a distant land that knows nothing of ongoing current events and is terrible at the language because it is not their native tongue.

  24. Re:Turing Test Failed on Turing Test Passed · · Score: 0

    David Copperfield doesn't try to tell me that I just don't understand his act because it's something he picked up overseas while he clumsily goes through it with obvious stunt doubles.

    Penn and Teller don't try to convince me that I shouldn't be wearing my glasses when I watch them on stage and that I just don't "get it" and that I should believe they really are wizards.

    Your reasoning is flawed, and this test was fundamentally flawed.

  25. Re:Fucking ads on Star Within a Star: Thorne-Zytkow Object Discovered · · Score: 2

    ...yo dawg, I heard you like ads...