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  1. C-x M-put-in-nail? on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 2

    How do you put a nail in somewhere the hammer doesn't fit?

  2. Re:There need to be costs on Qualcomm Takes Down 100+ GitHub Repositories With DMCA Notice · · Score: 2

    Now we just have to beat Qualcomm's campaign contributions so that this will be made into law.

  3. Re:How fitting on Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts · · Score: 3, Funny

    So we need to install this in prisons' solitary confinement. Then, after the novelty wears off, we'll finally know.

  4. And a knife? Why a knife?

  5. Re:But 7 works fine. on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, it has been some time now since there was an article on how large a portion of windows users who are still on XP.

  6. Re:Interesting... on Boston Trying Out Solar-Powered "Smart Benches" In Parks · · Score: 1

    Maybe not the initial cost, but who pays for maintenance and repairs? And maintenance and repairs ten years from now? And replacements, when they start breaking in a few months?

  7. Re:Be polite on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    On one hand, I specifically said that he did not have my permission to enter my house, on the other, since he knocked on my door, he'd get a meal out of me.

    Make the meal (or order a pizza if you're not allowed to leave) and bring it to him on the porch?

  8. Re:lock/encrypt on What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant · · Score: 2

    But how can you be sure that you have nothing to hide?

  9. Re:Good For Him on An Army Medal For Coding In Perl · · Score: 1

    Uhu, but did your program have a configuration file, you lamer?

    I take it Google and NASA are preparing offers for this guy as we speak. (Or Facebook. He obviously knows how to work the networks social.)

  10. The kickback must flow on FAA Bans Delivering Packages With Drones · · Score: 2

    ...ban an entire industry...

    That industry better make with the campaign contributions, then.

  11. Re:Amazon should know better on FAA Bans Delivering Packages With Drones · · Score: 1

    Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, dude. That's it. It's right there in the constitution. There is no right to life if you're an American citizen.

  12. Re:it was bound to happen on Thai Police: We'll Get You For Online Social Media Criticism · · Score: 4, Informative

    But was it really forbidden to critizise the ruling class in A Brave New World? Wasn't it just that no-one did, because constant fun-and-sport-and-sexytimes made every-one both content and shallow as puddles. (Except the protagonist.) I think you want 1984.

  13. Re:Oh the humanities! on Fixing the Humanities Ph.D. · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Maybe I need to nuance my view of the language department.

  14. Re:Oh the humanities! on Fixing the Humanities Ph.D. · · Score: 0

    So, we need the humanities department because that's the only way to learn foreign languages.

  15. Re: Because... on Fixing the Humanities Ph.D. · · Score: 1

    Of course not. The criteria should be "are enough people prepared to pay for you doing it, without them being coerced to?". But then again, I am from another planet.

  16. Simple. Wonder why no-one's thought of this before on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We ought to outlaw selfishness. Everyone should always work towards the common good.

  17. Re:flame away, but... on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    That's true, now that you mention it; you have to press tab also to get the program name. And possibly cycle through several if there is more than one match.

  18. Re:Dear Slashdot on EFF Tells Court That the NSA Knowingly and Illegally Destroyed Evidence · · Score: 1

    Based on certain real world experiences

    Like what?

  19. Re: the dog ate my homework on EFF Tells Court That the NSA Knowingly and Illegally Destroyed Evidence · · Score: 1

    If only there was some way to change a bad president, or a unresponsible congress, if The People felt that they didn't do their jobs the right way

  20. Re:flame away, but... on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    They shouldn't be changes at all, they should be options. (But then no-one would use the new designs, and we can't have that, can we...)

  21. Re:flame away, but... on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    The larger layout also creates much longer distances and reduces the information density so much that scanning available options takes significantly longer than with the more compact representation of the start menu.)

    Which is also true for the ribbon UI. Man, I can't wait until Microsoft reinvents the menu.

  22. Re:flame away, but... on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    ...hit the windows key and just type in the first few letters to the program I want and hit enter.

    I am never sure about comments like these. Actual Windows user who actually thinks so (or MS shrill who gets paid to think so), or UNIX/Linux nerd who is deeply ironic.

    Because UNIX-like OS'es has had that since, oh, the 1990's at least. It's how their so called "command line interface" works. Which was widely hated as a very newbie-unfriendly UI. But put gradients on it and suddenly the users love it. Apparently.

  23. Re:Activity Rewires the Human Brain on Parenting Rewires the Male Brain · · Score: 1

    ...in modern world - husband might be officially considered as the family's head...

    Where in the modern world do you live?

  24. Re:Yes! No more mandates! on Gun Rights Groups Say They Don't Oppose Smart Guns, Just Mandates · · Score: 1

    Why only man-shaped targets?! Do you need more equalism training?

    Sheesh. I suppose next you're going to tell us that you only shoot at white targets, or only black targets...

  25. Re:Yes! No more mandates! on Gun Rights Groups Say They Don't Oppose Smart Guns, Just Mandates · · Score: 1

    I'm more concerned that he seems to have problems separating fantasy and reality. What proportion of murderers are (were) members of the NRA, compared to the general public, by the way? Should the USAians ban the NRA or make membership mandatory to prevent murdering?