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  1. Re:Sense of entitlement much? on Facebook User Satisfaction Is 'Abysmal' · · Score: 1

    No, he's saying you're perfectly free to move along if you don't like it. Who the hell forces you to use facespace?

  2. Re:Sense of entitlement much? on Facebook User Satisfaction Is 'Abysmal' · · Score: 1

    Really, why don't they ask for their money back? Whiny bastards.

    Hey Slashdot! Fix your stupid website!

  3. Slashdot on Vaccine Patch Removes Needle Pain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot is turning into a twitter knockoff. How about creating a PR release section?

  4. Recycling on IEEE Looks At Kevin Costner's Oil Cleanup Machines · · Score: 1

    Costner had to do something with the left-over props from that august movie venture, Water World.

  5. Re:Law School. on Cool, Science-y Masters Programs For Software Devs? · · Score: 1

    Those are dumb ideas. Those problems are not only undecidable, but they are actively discouraged by the profession.

  6. Hey Slashdot! on WISE Discovers 95 New Near-Earth Asteroids · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Try to make yourself useful and see if you can score an interview with Amy Mainzer, one of the people running this project. She's a brainy babe.

  7. Re:As an IT worker in the healthcare industry... on Feds To Help Train 50,000 Health IT Workers · · Score: 1

    "I doubt it's killed anyone, but it has caused unnecessary delays and confusion."

    I doubt that statement.

    You think your typical corporate setup is messed up, you have not encountered big hospitals, run by for-profit "health care systems" battling and colluding with unions, doctors, ungodly regulatory regimes, MediCare/Medicaid bureacracy, drug companies, medical schools, insurance outfits, and, of course, lawyers. Throw in a pervasive ethical ambiguities, too.

    Medicine seems to be one of the few sectors still expanding, but seriously, it's not much better than finance bubble. Can't build economy by treating diseases.

  8. Re:Not temperature - density on Thermosphere Contraction Puzzles Scientists · · Score: 1

    Another milestone victory of green zombies in science.

  9. For the rest of us... on Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What do we need to do on our side, the DNS client side?

  10. Re:India is the 5th country... on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, all these BS javascript nonsense but not even a half decent unicode handling. Yous are one sorry buncha of "nerds".

  11. TFA is a PR note. on First 'Malaria-Proof' Mosquito Created · · Score: 2, Informative

    I sacrificed myself and RTFA. No need to click on the link - there is no more info than that in the summary.

  12. Re:Meat, Dairy, and shellfish?? on Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. Those people usually get run over by trucks.

  13. Re:Isn't his the opposite approach? on Man Repairs Crumbling Walls With Legos · · Score: 2, Informative

    They say it's art. Did you expect something useful?

  14. Re:How long since last time on Sun's Dark Companion 'Nemesis' Not So Likely · · Score: 1

    Would that make you happy?

  15. Re:How long since last time on Sun's Dark Companion 'Nemesis' Not So Likely · · Score: 1

    Haha, missed m..*(#$&*@#_$*_(&*(_#@*$

  16. Re:How long since last time on Sun's Dark Companion 'Nemesis' Not So Likely · · Score: 1

    That sounds pretty improbable...

  17. Re:And we can only blame ourselves on ScienceBlogs.com Deals With Community Backlash Over PepsiCo Column · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you're cool with your admittedly questionable practices, that's your issue, but don't rationalize it by accusing others that they would have done the same with no qualm.

  18. Re:Parser generators on Groovy For Domain-Specific Languages · · Score: 1

    For non-trivial languages, parsing is half the battle, often good deal more. How is Groovy superior to using a parser generator? Or is it only for trivial/simple languages?

  19. Re:Well, not quite... on Groovy For Domain-Specific Languages · · Score: 1

    I was gonna mod the parent up, but it's already at the limit. So I'll post a question instead. What about Groovy makes it good to write/generate lexer/parsers?

  20. Re:What about the other scientists? on Free Clock Democratizes Atomic Accuracy · · Score: 1

    And practice saying this out loud:

    MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! HA. HA.

    Stupid filter (no, not this bit).

  21. Hypocrites on Inside the Fake PC Recycling Market · · Score: -1, Troll

    As if Europeans don't shipping off toxic/nuclear wastes off to India and other places, not to mention blowing up nukes in the middle of Pacific Oceans (the cheese monkeys, who else?).

  22. Wrong category on Survey Says To UK — Repeal Laws of Thermodynamics · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This belongs in the idle section, and the first respectable one I've seen at that, unlike most of the crap samzenpus dredges up.

  23. Moronic buzzwords "carbon footprint" on IBM Supercomputer Cooled With Hot Water · · Score: 1

    when there is a perfectly straight-forward clear phrase: energy efficiency.

  24. Of course not on World Cup Prediction Failures · · Score: 2, Funny

    Games are decided by refereeing as much as anything. Did they throw that into the model?

    FIFA make UN look like a girlscout.

  25. Re:I don't understand on Diaspora On Schedule, One Month In · · Score: 1

    Haven't thought this through, but P2P with multiple handle trackers (like Pirate Bay for torrents) combined with PGP auth/encryption seems a good strategy for such a project.