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  1. Totally bogus on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1

    The supporters of Prop 8 at least had the decency to push their viewpoint through legislative channels, giving the electorate a chance to vote on the issue

    The backers and financiers of Prop 8 were not even Californians, FFS. They were citizens of Utah; specifically, members of the Mormon church, meddling in the affairs of another state.

  2. This is basically the EU saying "you've shown you can't be trusted to not take the piss, so we're taking your ball and going home".

    FTFY

  3. Stop, Go, Loop on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    Stop
    Go
    Go To 20
    20 Go Faster!

  4. Facebook on FWD.us Wants More H-1B Visas, But 50% Go To Offshore Firms · · Score: 1

    This is exactly why Zuck and his coven are such scum. It also proves that being filthy rich makes you more of an addict than a heroin user; you can *never* get enough money, and you'll fuck over your own fellow citizens to gain more.

  5. Re:Human guided missile? on Tesla Model S Gets Titanium Underbody Shield, Aluminum Deflector Plates · · Score: 1, Troll

    More like a human-guided scythe, cutting through damn near every obstacle during an accident - especially human bodies that are outside of the precious Tesla cockpit.

  6. Barbequed Proles on Tesla Model S Gets Titanium Underbody Shield, Aluminum Deflector Plates · · Score: 2

    In the event of a crash where there is grinding across the titanium shield, there would be a lot of sparks on the outside,

    So the folks in the other involved vehicle(s) will be quickly torched by leaking gasoline ignited by the long-lasting sparks from the shield designed to protect the rich man's batteries. Aces.

  7. If it were me on 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted In Woman · · Score: 1

    I'd have made damn sure they slipped a layer of tinfoil atop my brain before buttoning up.

  8. Re:Take 'em offline on Ask Slashdot: Preparing For Windows XP EOL? · · Score: 1

    For many of my clients that run milling machines that still run XP, I am just making sure that they are not connected any longer. In that scenario, continuing XP is sensible and cost effective, with little to no risk.

    Unless they also epoxy all the USB ports closed, they run the real risk of it becoming a viral reservoir, created and spread by harried machinists sneaker-netting CNC code back and forth to various machines and even home and back again after a little custom tweaking. Most machinists I know ain't overly concerned about security - nor are their smallish companies.

  9. Step One on Hacking Charisma · · Score: 1

    If male: be an asshole.

    If female: be attractive.

    Thus endeth the lesson. I take Visa or MasterCard.

  10. LMDE on Canonical's Troubles With the Free Software Community · · Score: 2

    I think rather quickly, Linux Mint Debian Edition will rise to greater prominence, eclipsing even the Ubuntu-based Mint for the same reasons.

  11. Que the Lee Greenwood on Jimmy Carter: Snowden Disclosures Are 'Good For Americans To Know' · · Score: 1

    For the last two or three years, when I want to write a highly personal letter to a foreign leader, or even some American leaders, I hand-write it and mail it, because I feel that my telephone calls and my email are being monitored, and there are some things I just don't want anybody to know except me and my wife.

    "And I'm proud to be an American, were I know that I am free..."

  12. Oh, take a wild guess on Remote ATM Attack Uses SMS To Dispense Cash · · Score: 1

    Symantec has demonstrated it with an ATM in its labs, though it is not revealing the brand of the vulnerable machines.

    Gotta be Diebold. Yes, they changed their name. No, those thieves should never be allowed to remove the albatross of crooked voting machines from their scrawny, corrupt necks.

  13. Bad assumption on White House To Propose Ending NSA Phone Records Collection · · Score: 1

    Or, more appropriately, the NSA is part of the executive branch.

    Obama is the Chief Executive.

    If he really wanted to stop this shit, he could issue an executive order stopping this shit.

    You've made the assumption he's actually in charge. Look at how much he campaigned for, that he's now against in deed and action, and to a far greater degree of just a 'typical lying politician'. For all practical purposes (other than his tepid healthcare plaything), he is a Republican. Gitmo, Wall Street, on and on and on.

    Knowing what they've already done (with more to come unless they kill Greenwald first), is it really tinfoilism to think the NSA threatened the POTUS and his family to retain all their limitless power?

  14. Yes and on Adam Carolla Joins Fight Against Podcast Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    the download compiliation 145 is transferred to the program data store 107 in the player 103.

    Um, like me, I think most people use a podcatcher or iTunes to download the 'casts, not the actual player. I suppose phones can download them directly, but it doesn't explicitly mention phones, does it?

  15. Did I write down 'acid'? I meant 'base'. I'm always getting those two confused!

  16. So on Google Glass Signs Deal With Ray Ban's Parent Company · · Score: 1

    Not just Glassholes, but stylish Glassholes.

  17. Simple explanation re metered billing on AT&T Exec Calls Netflix "Arrogant" For Expecting Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Ironically, a lot of US customers are vehemently against metered Internet,

    Because we US consumers know innately if such a billing method were come to pass, the 'minimum balance due' each month - even if no device was even hooked up - would be within 90-95% of our current three-figure cable bill.

  18. Obvs on Twitter Turns 8; May Drop Hashtags and @replies · · Score: 1

    #NewCoke

  19. Step up your game Sparkfun on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next week, order some Chinese cars that look suspiciously like Bugatti Veyrons.

  20. Brinksmanship on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt this; it's all about getting better pricing from Microsoft, period.

  21. Empty Wheel on Officials: NSA's PRISM Targets Email Addresses, Not Keywords · · Score: 1

    The blogger Empty Wheel had a pretty good running account of this. Naturally, most of the time was taken up pinning the weasels down on their florid and disingenuous definitions of terms such as 'search' and 'query' and even 'bulk', FFS.

  22. Never understood this on More Troubles For Authors of Controversial Acid-Bath Stem Cell Articles · · Score: 1

    How the hell did they think they'd get away with lying about something that, if true, would be world-changing?

  23. Short of on Church Committee Members Say New Group Needed To Watch NSA · · Score: 1

    Short of them being allowed to stick their manifesto in his breast pocket during a press conference, jack-shit is going to happen, all justified by permanent war and 'National Security' - the same garbage they've increasingly used to stop FOIA requests (which will probably be repealed in a few years anyway).

  24. Bingo on A Call For Rollbacks To Previous Versions of Software · · Score: 1

    No (or none worth considering) 3D CAD programs offer backward compatibility (i.e., 'save as') because added features and methods change the core file format.

  25. Sure it was on St. Patrick's Day, March Madness, and Steve Jobs' Liver · · Score: 1

    on the weekend of March 21, 2009, a young man in his mid-twenties was killed in a car crash, and his organs were made available.

    Accident. Sure it was.