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  1. M1 what? on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    There is lots of different US military hardware that has been named M1 (model 1.)

  2. It was the BSD license problem. on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 1

    Period. And BTW, Linux still blows chunks compared to any BSD.

    Which only goes to prove what idiots 95% of the /. community are. systemd anyone? LOL!

  3. Re: Who cares? on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 1

    Mod this up.

  4. Next up... on Giant Survival Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year On an Iceberg · · Score: 4, Funny

    going over Niagra Falls in a barrel.

  5. Re:Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    I never said I cared one way or the other what a "personal computer" ought to mean or be for anyone else. You can use a pencil, an abacus, and slide rule for all I care.

  6. Re:Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    I don't own a tablet nor do I own a smart phone. I was referring to all you millenials who use them as their personal computers.

  7. Re:Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    I get angry at Apple because the user interface keeps getting "flatter" a la IOS.

  8. Re:Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    I find it ironic then that nowadays "real" PCs run IOS and Android.

    Die Micro$soft, just die!

  9. Re:Dell, HP, Panasonic on We'll Be the Last PC Company Standing, Acer CEO Says · · Score: 1

    PC stands for "personal computer" numbnutz. A Micral N, TRS-80, and Commodore PET are all personal computers.

  10. Re:Easy explanation on Being Overweight Reduces Dementia Risk · · Score: 2

    Correlation may imply causation. This inspires scientists to develop testable hypotheses that might prove or disprove a connection between the correlated data.

  11. Re:The most likely end of the human race: Nuclear on Thousands Visit Trinity Test Site For 70th Anniversary of First Atomic Blast · · Score: 1

    Well certainly as far as European infantry platoon leader Paul Fussel is concerned!

    http://www.amazon.com/Thank-At...

  12. Shoot first... on Do Robots Need Behavioral 'Laws' For Interacting With Other Robots? · · Score: 1

    and ask questions later.

  13. EasyDNS on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Domain Name Registration? · · Score: 1

    They are inexpensive, provide a complete line of hosting services, and have been in business for years. Plus they are located in Canada.

  14. I like dexedrine. on Testosterone Increasingly Being Used To Fight Aging In Men · · Score: 1

    It gives me warm and fuzzies plus I can concentrate like a demon.

  15. The single most important factor. on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Great Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    IQ

  16. Re:Science, not a product on Deep-Frying Graphene Microspheres For Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    "this is interesting science research and nothing more."

    This is not science; it is engineering.

  17. Re:Yes. on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: 0

    Close, but people who use public infrastructure and paid for it should bethe ones who are allowed to vote. The contractors who built it though - no, that would be a conflict of interest.

    We haven't been victims of an unprovoked attack in 200 years. Now that we are being attacked by waves of mestizos the army is not defending us one whit.

  18. Re:Yes. on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Scientists are by and large sucking off the federal tit. They shouldn't even be allowed to vote. It's a conflict of interest.

  19. Re:Yes. on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Ooooooh, stardust!" - pass that joint please...

  20. Re:Yes. on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware they are trying to silence anyone. (Well maybe Dyson is in calling for the shut down of research into genetic differences between human subgroups.)

  21. Re:Yes. on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: 1

    His first wife Lynne Margolis was the one with the real brains. I totally concur that "consciousness" is an emergent phenomenon first demonstrated by the simplest organisms that first reacted to light or chemicals in their environment. Self-awareness is a matter of degree and not an either/or proposition.

  22. Re:Yes. on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: -1, Troll

    "I'd rather people listen to Carl Sagan"

    Ooh, ooh, we are stardust! No shit. I learned that during the International Geophysical Year when I was 9 years old.

  23. Re:Yes. on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: 0

    I wasn't aware that they were involved in Cosmological/Religious controversies, just that they are egomaniacal and overly dramatic narrators.

  24. Re:Yes. on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: 0

    Only because they act as if they do; and no, I am not a creationist like those string theorists who claim that vibrating strings appear spontaneously from the aether of space.

  25. This is obviously... on UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications · · Score: 1

    the reason we rebelled and wrote privacy into our constitution.