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  1. Related on How Viable Is Large Scale Wind Energy? · · Score: 1

    Talked to a landlord recently that also does his own water heater replacements. Some recent EnergyStar requirements (worthy sounding in spite of his complaining) have increased the prices enough that he'll probably switch to tankless systems on the next replacement cycles.

  2. Oh, please on Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE · · Score: 1

    I've said for a while now that desktop Linux's biggest problem is that the de facto primary consumer distro doesn't use KDE by default.

    Does KDE still have an OCD-like insistance that programs and apps start with the letter K? Until that childishness stops, no thanKs.

  3. Alibaba OS on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    A backdoor about the size of an airplane hangar.

  4. Linux ad on Microsoft Disrupts Nitol Botnet · · Score: 1

    Newspapers landing on the front porch with headlines of this story.

    Voice-over: "This is why you should have a right to buy a computer without an OS."

  5. Second, actually on World's First Color Moving Pictures Discovered · · Score: 3, Funny

    He made one even earlier of a mouse piloting a steamboat, but that one was lost in a mysterious fire...

  6. PotKettleBlack on House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act · · Score: 1

    But you're right, clearly both sides are equally as bad. But the Democrats are worse, so you should vote Republican to be safe, amirite?

    While still in the Senate, Obama voted to give AT&T a free pass for enabling NSA warrantless wiretaps (there's your ex post facto), solely to insulate him against 'soft on terrerism' charges during his run for the White House.

    While I'm glad he won (considering the horrific alternative), from that vote forward, I knew he didn't stand for anything but winning. Exactly like everone else.

    Death to America? Patience, sir; we're taking care of that ourselves.

  7. In November the choice is yours! on House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act · · Score: 1

    Coors or Coors Light.

  8. GOP and Mother Theresa on Stem Cells Turn Hearing Back On · · Score: 1

    Both are/were of like minds on one account: they have/had an innate desire to make sure the poor suffer, for that brings them closer to God. This includes going blind, deaf, paralized, senile, dying in childbirth...

    The wealthy are exempt from this rule, of course.

  9. Rendezvous With Rama on Europe Sets Sights On Asteroid Tracking Radars · · Score: 1

    Man, I love that book. One moment I would love if they made it into a movie; the next moment I am terrified they will make it into a movie.

  10. Focus where it belongs on GAO Slams DHS Over BioWatch Biological Defense System · · Score: 1

    Moving an animal infectious disease lab from a remote coastal island to the campus of a midwestern university in the heart of beef country (and within sight of the sports stadia) is craven pork-barrel politics and its most insane.

    Via Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center:

    "On September 11, 2005, the United States Department of Homeland Security announced that the Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center will be replaced by a new federal facility. The location of the new high-security animal disease lab, to be called the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), has been recommended to be built in Manhattan, Kansas.[11] However, this plan has been called into question by a recent GAO study which states that claims by the DHS that the work performed on Plum Island can be performed safely on the mainland is not supported by evidence."

  11. In other words on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 1

    Conserve as much as possible so your fat-ass, lazy, consumerist neighbors can live in profligate comfort just a bit longer.

  12. "So lock-in your futures bids now to guarantee the biggest profits!!!"

  13. Assurance on The Fight To Reform Forensic Science · · Score: 1

    And what assurance can you offer us poor peons that DNA collected will not be kept forever - to be snythesized and planted for a future case?

    And given that you're in the belly of the State beast, what is your personal opinon of 'voluntary' collection of DNA samples (he didn't submit anything? GUILTY) from a community or neighborhood (obviously never one with fancy gates)?

  14. 2nd App Developer on App Developer Says Stolen UDIDs Came From Them, Not FBI · · Score: 1

    Two Guys From Quantico Pizza

  15. Hey, what ever it takes on White House Circulating Draft of Executive Order On Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    to abbrogate the rule of law and the rights of the people.

  16. Perfect on Group Behind 'Aurora' Attack on Google Still Active · · Score: 2

    Yes; let's rely on the same folks that can reduce any computer to a glacial, zombified, disk-grinding nightmare.

    Sleep tight.

  17. Effing Police State on FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Face Recognition System · · Score: 0

    And may the ghost of Benjamin Franklin sodomize anyone stupid or disengenuous enough to disagree.

    "In order the save the village, we had to destroy it."

  18. Agenda Item #2 on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I know I'll get flamed for this since it goes against the Linux philosophy, but how about getting rid of competing Gnome and KDE (and now Unity)

    This will be done after Agenda Item #1: Unifying Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism. They've all preliminarily agreed Scientology has got to go, so the rest will be smooth sailing.

  19. Hear, hear on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1

    Seems obvious to me we're talking about a group of people who are willing to believe what they are told to believe or give in to ideas because one makes them feel better or less uncomfortable. It kind of describes a lot of people, but primarily, it describes the religious faithful.

    Absolutely. 'Killing in the name of' explains a fair chunk of all human misery.

  20. Funny, that on Judge Approves Settlement In eBook Price-Fixing Case · · Score: 1

    They are resisting being pulled into an endless loop of lower retail prices leads to lower wholesale prices, which leads to lower retail prices and again to further reductions in wholesale prices, et infinitum.

    ...you mean like every 'Stockholm Syndrome'-ed supplier to Walmart? The giant corporations more than willing to debase themselves for increasingly less profit to appease the 600-pound gorilla in US retail?

    But I'm not surprised the publishing industry isn't already aware of this, given that the only book genres in Walmart are Christian Fantasy and Right-Wing Fiction.

  21. EPA on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    The EPA should set up emissions testing along this stretch. IIRC, trees along the Autobahn in the unlimited speed areas are quite a bit sicker or outright dead due to the above average emissions. The risk is though, folks working for the EPA run a good chance of getting got by 'sovereign' Texans.

  22. Finney County on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    Every resident of Finney county should be given a 80 in a 65 speeding ticket once a year, just to approximate the average behaviour of the cars passing me with 'FI' on the tag.

  23. Cinnomom on GNOME 3.6 To Include Major Revisions · · Score: 1

    Cinnomom [my personal preference]

    Mine too. She sounds hot.

  24. Oh, suuure on Dutch Police Ask 8000+ Citizens To Provide Their DNA · · Score: 1

    Sure, the cops will throw your DNA away. After you've been framed for the next crime they're too stupid to actually solve.

    Bonus: refusing no doubt will put you on a permanent 'Persons of Interest' list.

  25. LTE Buildout on AT&T Promises To Expand LTE To More US Markets · · Score: 1

    Knowing AT&T, the NSA will be underwriting their expenses.