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  1. Morphine on Researchers Discover an "Off Switch" For Pain In the Brain · · Score: 1

    "Someday, they'll be a Cure For Pain.
    That's the day I throw my drugs away." RIP, Mark Sandman

  2. Re:Aerial or underground ? on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    No - it's not even a question. Bury the lines and you will remove a large number of causes for power outages.

    I can only assume there is never any storm / flood water in these utopian locales, or that it remains so pure as to be incapable of conducting electricity.

  3. Dependency on Coal Plants Get New Lease On Life With Natural Gas · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It gives us a foundation on which to build our economy. It gives us hope.

    , said the addict.

  4. The final nail on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I think the final nail in the anti-system movement [a proud member] was Torvalds' non-chalant, I-can't-be-bothered-with-such-trivialities response when asked about this virus. I can't be the only one that was stunned by his attitude, assuring the rapid takeover of Linux by the Red Hat / NSA consortium.

    They will be coming for your kernel one day, Linus, but there will be no one left to speak up.

  5. Who's gonna freak out more? on Millions of Spiders Seen In Mass Dispersal Event In Nova Scotia · · Score: 1

    Ricky or Bubbles?

  6. Follow the money on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 1

    It appears RedHat has realised that, through systemd, it can readily provide preferential support for its own projects, and place roadblocks up for projects it does not control, thus extending its influence broadly and quickly. By using tenuous dependencies amongst its own projects it can speed adoption even faster.

    And who is one of Red Hat's most lucrative customers?


    The National Security Administration

  7. Internet 3 on State Department Joins NOAA, USPS In Club of Hacked Federal Agencies · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's time for FedGov to build their own Internet that is intentionally incompatible with the foundational building blocks of the Internet (except at well-controlled, secure interface conversion gateways).

  8. Don't be thick in front of me, Al. on Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable · · Score: 1

    "Can I build around 50 miles of Tehachapi mountains?"

  9. Warning Tag on Debunking a Viral Internet Post About Breastfeeding Racism · · Score: 2

    I recall stories tagged with OhNoItsFlorian; well past time for a OhNoItsBennett tag.

  10. Ten bucks a month on How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music · · Score: 1

    Nope. I'll carry on with free Pandora and my own collection, thanks. I really don't see a $120 annual bill appealing to the same stressed economic group that is now 'cable-cutting'.

    Plus buying music from YouTube just sounds like the equivalent to shopping at Dollar General: embarrassing.

  11. Pointless on Linux Foundation Comments On Microsoft's Increasing Love of Linux · · Score: 2

    In light of them strong-arming every manufacturer that dared to use Android with threats of supposed IP infringement (that has not and probably never will see the sterilizing judicial light of day), this 'change of heart'... isn't.

    Satty first needs to don the hairshirt and make quite a few public apologies for past AND CURRENT actions against FOSS.

  12. Moby Dick on Philae Lands Successfully On Comet · · Score: 1

    "Had his chest been a cannon, he'd have shot his Philae upon it." Or something.

  13. The American Way on FCC Confirms Delay of New Net Neutrality Rules Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    Seriously. U.S. has worse speed AND higher prices than most of the Western world, including pretty much all of Europe.

    This also succinctly describes Amercian health care and prescription drugs. I'm sensing a pro-corporate trend here.

  14. I hope on Amazon's Echo Chamber · · Score: 2

    I just hope it can read back your writing to you.

  15. Mains on Raspberry Pi A+ Details Leaked · · Score: 1

    I've never understood the British use of the word 'mains' when talking about household wiring; it seems to imply there was / is 'secondary' or 'auxilliary' wiring.

  16. The Government God Forbids on Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    The Government God forbids mere mortals from being allowed to escape their just punishments of soberly enduring the stupidity and drudgery of Western life - with the exemption of booze and prescription meds like Jesus would want, of course.

  17. Re:Underwater will face the same challenges as Tid on Scotland Builds Power Farms of the Future Under the Sea · · Score: 1

    Every underwater generation scheme is toasted by the life problem. None of them are tolerant of all the sea life that will grow on and around the facility.

    Simple: coat everything in paint with Transuranic waste additives!

  18. Such as on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crashes · · Score: 1

    Things being cheaper makes them more accessible to all.

    With the exception of universal health care, housing, clean water, living wages...

  19. Useful Idiots on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 0

    Many of the poorest and most rural states in the country tend to favor Republican politicians.

    Lord, don't I know it. Fitting that today is Halloween, as during All Hallows Eve when Obama was first running, all the Obama yard signs (and only the Obama yard signs) went missing from all the front lawns in my little burg located deep inside a deep Red State. "High school kids playing a prank", said the cops. Sure. Sure they were. But even if they were, they learned their blatant racial hatred from Mom and Dad.

    It's part and parcel of the severe mental illness of poor GOP voters: "If I vote to let billionaires become trillionaires, I myself will magically become a millionaire solely because I'm White!"

  20. Nanoparticles? on Google Developing a Pill To Detect Cancer · · Score: 1

    You mean the particles so tiny, they can easily pass thru the blood / brain barrier and do unimaginable neurological damage? Those particles? #WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong

  21. Puckered on LAX To London Flight Delayed Over "Al-Quida" Wi-Fi Name · · Score: 2

    People are living life with their assholes puckered.

    Well, I'd certainly hope so.

  22. Well, pardon us! on "Police Detector" Monitors Emergency Radio Transmissions · · Score: 1

    Because I have better things to do with my life than sit in my car, and because speed limits are always set far below the speed at which I feel safe driving.

    Make way! Someone more important than our safety is coming thru!

  23. Avoid foreign entanglements on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 0

    It's beyond time for Harper and his coven to stop acting like the GOP farm team and disengage both domestically and internationally from Canada being nothing but 'loyal', unquestioning Storm Troopers for American Empire (TM).

  24. Please on DHS Investigates 24 Potentially Lethal IoT Medical Devices · · Score: 1

    the complete range of devices under investigation has not been disclosed, it is reported that one of them is an "implantable heart device."

    Please let it be the same one DICK Cheney uses. Though if it is on the list, he'll just switch back to yet another heart of a forsaken orphan.

  25. PARC monument on Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    There really should be an august monument to noble accomplishments Xerox achieved.

    Stylish, classic, with a simple inscription:

    "On this spot, Steve Jobs stole all his good ideas."