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  1. Re:common carrier on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 1

    That tired blinkered old line again. Is Obama supposed to wash his hands off anything that started before he came into the office?

  2. Re:common carrier on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 1

    You compromise to make sausage. If you end up with scrapple, you've done worse than nothing.

  3. Re:common carrier on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 1

    I really don't like this pattern in Obama administration - always seems to go for a convoluted roundabout approach to get at the goal without tackling the fundamental issues involved. Obama care, gay issues, NSA, appointment/corporate lobbying, and this thing.

    The man is a lawyer-thinking machine.

  4. Re:Eurasian? on Kazakh Professor Claims Solution of Another Millennium Prize Problem · · Score: 2

    Shut the fuck up. Europe isn't even a real continent anyways.

  5. Re:The most insightfull part of TFA on Physicists Claim First Observation of a Quantum Cheshire Cat · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they have got it wrong; time will tell. I think it's safe to assume that at the very least they remembered to rule out the obvious alternative explanations before publishing.

    I highlighted what you considered "insightful". Listen to your own advice and keep your jabbering within your pay grade.

  6. Keep digging on How Do You Move a City? · · Score: 2

    keep digging and it will move vertically (generally, on the whole).

  7. "Next-generation firewall maker..." on Firewall Company Palo Alto Buys Stealthy Startup Formed By Ex-NSAers · · Score: 1

    Well, that's better. Why bother pretending to be something other than a paid-off PR/click-bait site?

  8. Re:News of the World on First 3D Printed Liver Expected In 2014 · · Score: 1

    You outta pre-order their 3d-printed brains with express shipping.

  9. News of the World on First 3D Printed Liver Expected In 2014 · · Score: 1

    This site has turned into the successor to the News of the World.

  10. Re:NIl Sociological Value, IMHO on Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? · · Score: 1

    Mod up.

  11. God damn drums on Researchers Use Electroconvulsive Therapy To Disrupt Recall of Nasty Events · · Score: 1

    Where they are going, the drums don't stop... :)

  12. Do part-time on-site? on Ask Slashdot: Working With Others, As a Schizophrenic Developer? · · Score: 0

    I'm not a schizo, at least not officially, although I've been called as such often (and a lot of other things).

    But I assume you worked alone before because it had some beneficial aspects in the way your work. Maybe you wanna consider part-time on-site working arrangement, assuming you're allowed the flexibility.

    You know, familiarity (and proximity) breeds contempt, as well as bonhomie. Perhaps you can modulate the accompanying stress this way.

    What the hell is schizo anyway? Is that like manic-depression? Damn psychobabble quacks.

  13. Re:Pictures are public, but the index isn't. on DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years · · Score: 1

    And when DoD processes request for documents, they would pass on the charge imposed by T3, effectively allowing T3 to set the price of access.

  14. Keep it up on DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years · · Score: 2

    Keep exposing these slimy backdoor deals. For every one exposed, there's gotta be hundreds more.

  15. On the other hand... on Microsoft Security Essentials Misses 39% of Malware · · Score: 1

    89.376% of stats from "security" outfits are crap with 99.9118000042% confidence interval.

  16. Re:Time for some really new physics on "Perfect" Electron Roundness Bruises Supersymmetry · · Score: 1

    Except on Tuesdays. Tuesdays are whack.

  17. Re:Layman interpretation (generally) on Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU · · Score: 1

    Yours is the most useful comment on this fascinating story. Since you RTFA (sucka), what is the source of the CPU noise? What are its characteristics (frequency range, dynamic range) such that it can cut through other noises to register onto an at-distance audio mic?

    BTW, I would have thought it bunk but for the name Adi Shamir in the author list, you know, the S of RSA.

  18. This administration on Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Obama administration is getting uglier by the day.

  19. Re:Then start by rounding up the journalists with on NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove · · Score: 1

    Why do you hate America? You should be sent to gitmo and waterboarded.

  20. Non-issue on NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove · · Score: 5, Insightful

    NSA has nothing to worry about if it has done nothing wrong.

  21. Slashdot wins Nobel on Nobel Winner Schekman Boycotts Journals For 'Branding Tyranny' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nobel editorial prize.

  22. Your call on Spotify's Own Math Suggests Musicians Are Still Getting Hosed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pull your tunes out of their service if you don't like it.

  23. Wanglish on Bursting the Filter Bubble · · Score: 2

    We found that recommending topically relevant content from authors with opposite views in a baseline interface had a negative emotional effect. We saw that our organic visualization design reverts that effect. We also observed significant individual differences linked to evaluation of recommendations. Our results suggest that organic visualization may revert the negative effects of providing potentially sensitive content.

    Reads like somebody trying to write in English, and utterly failing.

  24. Re:Honesty is never treasured in corporate world on The Best Way To Blow the Whistle · · Score: 2

    Nah, you are just getting bit older, more bitter, and perhaps bit wiser. It has always been thus more or less, in the corporate world, academia, or anywhere else.

    20-30 years in the "grown-up" society, more honest/perceptive among us geezers come to recognize our own dirty hands in the messy state of things.

    Wiser still would be to try to make things a tiny bit better for the young'uns...

  25. Re:Psychology on Psychologists Strike a Blow For Reproducibility · · Score: -1, Troll

    The ironic thing about statements like these is that they usually come from people with no scientific training in any field, nor any meaningful training in statistics...

    See, spewing bogus claims like this is why people come to see you as the fraud that you are.