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  1. Re:adaptation? on Humans Evolving 100 Times Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Weird. While there are many places in the Old Testament that encourage killing of non-believers, non offer a glorious reward for it. Dunno where he got that from. It was more of a prevention of contamination most of the time. (That is, contamination of being the same as the cultures surrounding them.)

  2. Re:So? on Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer · · Score: 1

    Australia should be soon reversing some of the stupid policies it has implemented to benefit the USA.

  3. Re:Whats the surprise? on Picture-Sorting Dogs Show Human-Like Thought · · Score: 1

    Yes, imagine saying "Double the killer, delete select all" to your favourite Doberman.

  4. Re:Speak for yourself... on Picture-Sorting Dogs Show Human-Like Thought · · Score: 1

    Dogs run in your family too? My sister married a bloke like that. It is annoying as hell to be related to someone who can't tell the difference between two species.

  5. Re:The medical center scene... on Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're right. I'm sick of our society pouring insane amounts of energy and money into non-productive endeavors such as sports. It is ludicrous!

  6. Re:Justification for India's old caste system? on Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Really? I have never heard that one. I have heard that he was disappointed that the British were taking umbrage against him; in his mind they should have been allies.

  7. Re:Now, for the most useful one on Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Come on! Surely even USA citizens can comprehend the inherent humour! DaDragon, you've won a fan.

  8. Re:The USA is the Best on Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Only the great are merciful. Not condescending, not paternal or egotistical. Merciful. Your nation may possibly under some assumptions be the best, but the evidence of the USA's greatness is only in the past.

  9. Re:Is Firefly the only SF show you've seen on TV? on Firefly Lives - New Comics in 2008 · · Score: 1

    Farscape. That was a puppet show not a scifi. CSI. It is obviously faking or making up science, and is boring to boot. Or try Numb3rs. Yeah I know they are supposed to be crime shows, but they portend to use/be accurate wrt scientific methods. They contain more fictional science than Firefly. I hear you with the bionic woman, it is crap.

  10. Re:I bet you really didn't see the series on Firefly Lives - New Comics in 2008 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ditto, hated Angel, meh for Buffy (girls in mini skirts is always eye-catching), but Firefly was almost British humour. I was impressed, and found the stories to be reasonably entertaining as well.

  11. Re:Obsolete Business Model on Microsoft Withdraws Vista's Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    It's not just some random website, it's a Merriam-Webster dictionary.
    You say that like it means something. Come on, man, this is English we are talking about!

    Yeah, and piracy is being hi-jacked to another meaning. Piracy didn't have that meaning until the ... okay, some bloke named Alfred Tennyson seems to have coined it. Stupid git.

    I apologise, I was mistaken. I understood it to be the workings of the PR department of MPAA

  12. Re:nice on Microsoft Wants OLPC System to Run Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to ruin Slashdot? This is their/there/their bread and butter!

  13. Re:Obsolete Business Model on Microsoft Withdraws Vista's Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Where did this definition come from? (I don't mean the website/'dictionary'.) Every common use I've ever heard of using piracy was more of the rape and pillage until our dear media companies started using it as a synonym with copying and it still seems to be only those have a secondary financial gain (of an original product) using it in that manner. Most original creators I've spoken to, don't use it in that manner. Sure, language is fluid, but this is more of a stupid business buzz word than a evolution of a word. And yes, I hate the substitution of Google for search. It however is an evolution of a word.

  14. Re:Acrobat or Reader? on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 1

    Bloke, 'incredibly fast' means it would have loaded before you have finished clicking the mouse button. 'Reasonably or not too bad' is what you are looking for.

  15. Re:ISO? on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 1

    Yes, what you say is true. However, some times the documents become dated or are incorrect since creation. It would be fantastic if one could strip the data out, modify it etc. Of course, the read only should be accompanied by a editable document to facilitate the modifications assuming the viewer needs to be able to edit. I think perhaps the problem is that people do either editable document or read-only.

  16. Re:Obsolete Business Model on Microsoft Withdraws Vista's Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Piracy is both theft and stealing. Copying is not stealing, theft, or piracy. It can be cheating as in being the 5th Ace of Diamonds in a pack of cards, but that is about it.

  17. Re:Why stop there? on Microsoft Withdraws Vista's Kill Switch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmmm... It wasn't putty, but I've had and still have the UAC popping up. "Always trust this executable" didn't work. Soo... I'll try Putty to run my own tests, but I'm inclined to believe gp.

    Imagine that...

  18. Re:Why stop there? on Microsoft Withdraws Vista's Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Slashdotters are the most hypocritical entities that God ever created.
    Yeah, they even whine about that...
  19. END MODERATOR ABUSE on KDE 4 to Be Released on January 11th · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Most people's disagreement with a matter is because they believe there is a more intelligent way of dealing with the problem. How could they mark something insightful that they don't agree with, unless it changed their way of thinking? Which of course means they agree... Maybe they disagree with what you call truth? On a side note I personally favour Interesting . And your rant was completely off-topic and didn't add anything to the intelligent conversation making you a troll. By the way, I have no problems with the IQ test idea, I'd probably not pass but have no problems with not being responsible for moderating.

  20. Re:Vote with their feet on States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    3. is too much. It will hurt the small retailers more than it would be successful in breaking up the monopoly. Besides, we don't won't the walmart clerks supporting linux... or we'll just end up with more problems...

  21. Re:Unconstitutional? on States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    One might suppose that proximity to a condition may have an influence on the vote. Thus, if people living in DC are voting, albeit for other states, they are unlikely to support a position that would be at their own residence's expense. It may be assumed that the voters would find the positions that suited both. In the worse case scenario, the voters would line their own pocket, but be voted out at a later date. However, I'm an Australian and only commenting on human nature, and measures taken to make that nature accountable.

  22. Re:I'll have whatever it is you are smoking on States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I was sent on behalf of the GNU Nerds Against Microsoft Products to inform you that no one will attempt your challenge. NAMP believes that your challenge was so severely lacking in facts it would be extremely unlikely to be achievable. They were suppositions and predictions. NAMP is also maintaining the position that BSD is the more free license however GPL is better for the majority. As you can see, my head is no where near an arse.

  23. Re:I agree on States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Err... isn't one 'company' controlling everything, with 'company' regulated activities more in line with more in line with socialism/communism than multiple 'companies' telling 'employees' everything in case 'employees' wish to use the information to build more commerce or interaction?

  24. Re:There we go again, shooting ourselves in the fo on States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Dunno about useful, intriguing maybe, but useful implies non-entertaining functions are the original purpose.

  25. Re:There we go again, shooting ourselves in the fo on States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    We haven't mass produced anything, but I'm know we have produced several good prototypes of ingenious devices. And we modified the F-111 to have a much lower visibility to USA radar that was significant in our triumph over them during the war games in the late 1990's. (It is rumoured that CSIRO were the first to develop the psionic na- Hey, what are you doing here! I'm calling the policddwearjkejks.wlfal;adls