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  1. KS Early voted 2 weeks ago on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 0

    Thankfully, my lil' county still uses paper ballots & #2 pencils. I did have to show my drivers' license to prove I wasn't one of the billion brown horde flooding up from Mexico. Being Kansas, I wouldn't be surprised it they nightly toss out the early ballots deigned not RED enough.

    Prelude: About 2 months ago, I went into make sure I was still registered even though I had not moved or changed anything. The lady behind the counter found me in the roles and announced "Here you are: DEMOCRAT!" out loud, with the party said even louder, akin to a scene out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. W.T.F.

  2. Re:These are not smart meters. They are remote rea on Some Smart Meters Broadcast Readings in the Clear · · Score: 1

    Finally, the readers cost us roughly $8k each.

    Which means the BOM cost is probably around $400. The massive markup is passed along to the suck^H^H^H^H customers, so MomCorp doesn't give a crap about being soaked.

  3. Deja vu on Some Smart Meters Broadcast Readings in the Clear · · Score: 1

    Boy, this story is so familiar... just can't quite recall where I saw it before.

  4. Fines on Should Hacked Companies Disclose Their Losses? · · Score: 2

    The SEC should start doling out stout fines for publicly-traded entities that do not release information that impacts their returns; to say massive security breaches don't hurt the books is a lie so large as to be indictable.

  5. Downstairs on Climbing 103 Floors On a 'Bionic' Leg · · Score: 1

    I would think going *down* 103 flights would be far more taxing on the leg and the owner, given the far higher decelerations involved. If this was done, forgive me for the glass half-empty 'tude. But if it was explicitly ruled out as part of the test, they're not done yet.

  6. Urectum on Has the Mars Rover Sniffed Methane? · · Score: 0

    ...just trying to fit in.

  7. Downside on Self-Driving Car Faces Off Against Pro On Thunderhill Racetrack · · Score: 1

    As self-driving cars age, their reaction times slow down, they leave the turn signal on, and they mistake the farmers' market for the mechanics' service bay.

  8. Breaks / Brakes on Self-Driving Car Faces Off Against Pro On Thunderhill Racetrack · · Score: 1

    That has to be in the top 5 of incorrect word usage; fingernails on a chalkboard. Perhaps TFS needs to be written by bots too.

  9. Re:Mechanical pencil on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 2

    Yup. Koh-I-Nor Rapidomatic 0.5mm - 5635, same one I used in college in the early nineties.

    /Sits back, breaks hip.

  10. DCP on NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy · · Score: 2

    According to a blog post from Fog Creek Software, one of the clients at the building, about 30 customers are lifting buckets (or cans) of diesel fuel up 18 flights of stairs.

    Ahh: Diesel Control Protocol

  11. Nationalize on Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Seasonal Flu vaccines of today are an enormous headache for the pharma industry. Profit margins are extremely tight...

    This is why they should have nothing to do with it. It should be solely the job of public sector professionals (being PUBLIC HEALTH and all), working on nothing else - say boner pills - but vaccine production and research; all well-funded and isolated from horseshit from any part of the political spectrum.

    Some things are far more important that filthy lucre, air-headed 'stars', and pissing contests: preventing pandemics should be chief among them, FFS.

  12. Mint on EFF Wants Ubuntu To Disable Online Search By Default · · Score: 2

    In about 3 or 4 years, Mint will eclipse Ubuntu mainly due to OSX me-too shenanigans like this. Move now; I'd recommend LMDE.

  13. The weight of the average American passenger.

    /awkardly raises own hand

  14. Re:The French will come back on France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets · · Score: 1

    I just wish Google News allowed end users to filter out sources that are more propaganda than anything (Drudge, Newsmax, Fox...)

  15. Hear that? on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 1

    That faint buzzing? That's the sound of Freedom (being utterly destroyed by the Military-Fatherland-Industrial Complex)!

  16. I can see the line item charge now on Increasing Wireless Network Speed By 1000% By Replacing Packets With Algebra · · Score: 2

    "Algebraic packet reconstruction fee: $.01/kb"

  17. My browser timed-out the first time I loaded this page.

  18. Phone Sanitizers on Bill Gates Talks Windows Future, Touch Interfaces · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure touch interfaces are such a great idea. We risk oblivion if we ignore Douglas Adams' dire warning.

  19. Google Earnings on Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google News En Masse · · Score: 0

    I wonder if all this news silliness is starting to affect their bottom line.

    Personally, I gave up on Google News, given that any story even remotely connected to US politics always has an incendiary, right-leaning headline from Fox 'news', Newsmax, Drudge, or other GOP propagandists. I doubt Google is conspiring, but if they can't be bothered to guard their algorithms from obvious manipulation, eff em.

  20. Corollary on Standard For Electric Car Charging Announced · · Score: 1

    The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

    The real thing about standards is that the biggest corporate swinging dicks dominate the committees and have full control.

  21. Figs on Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol · · Score: 1

    Pay no attention to the delicious but highly radioactive fig pudding byproduct.

  22. Etsy on Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol · · Score: 1

    This is nothing; I personally hand-craft individual gasoline molecules and sell them on Etsy. Each one includes a certificate of authenticity and a knitted wool cozy.

  23. Toot-toot on Below-Expected Earnings For Google Posted Early, Trading Halted · · Score: 1

    From risk, comes opportunity.

    Your greed is boring.

  24. You shouldn't HAVE to turn it off on User Tracking Back On iOS 6 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If Apple had any respect for thier customers, this would default to off. But just like Facebook, even Apple has decided their customers are the advertisers, not the mere users (aka product). But the Samsung ads speak a bit of truth and among the devout, this will not even stir a teapot-sized tempest, for Cupertino knows best.

  25. Furthermore on Paypal Slips 'No Class Action' Clause Into Policy Update · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Lastly, the agreement must be accompanied by six Unobtainums (TM) breakfast cereal boxtops (15 lb. boxes only), each featuring a Notary Public seal from the Third Bank of Neptune. The agreement must have been written on parchment during the reign of Charlemagne."