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  1. Re:Batshit on Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee · · Score: 1

    Hitler maintained they still had a chance after the Rhur valley (industry center) had been taken and the Russians were closing from the East of Berlin.

    The citizens weren't stupid they moved towards the allie's lines because they were pretty scared (who wouldn't be?) of Russia's lust for revenge after operation Barbarossa (seige of Stalingrad/Moscow).

    Funny thing about facts, they're true whether you believe them or not. When A=3 she and her delighted side has finally shown A > 3 = $$$

  2. Re:A 12 year old me would never have believed this on Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was impressed when John Huntsman (R) plainly said "I believe in evolution and I trust scientists on global warming."

    It's sad you have to make sure you say that so people don't mistake you as the typically wrong thinking (in this aspect and much more) republicans.

    He's a Mormon but he also created Dream Theater day in Utah when governor and is the ambassador to China. Funny thing is if he had been made VP you would alinate the far right but gain so much at the middle. Instead their strategy was to alienate not just a political spectrun but 47% of Americans which includes a large part of Republicans. Maybe they just didn't want to vote after that.

    Funny thing, Paul Ryan maintained he loved Rage Against the Machine and it was funny how Tom Morello called him out and basically told him he was a hateful ass they didn't want as a fan. Bitch slapped by your favorite band, and a guy with a Harvard education.

  3. Re:A little bit of history repeating... on Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    Wrong. You're just discriminating by age. Many people my age are quite idealistic and appalled, just like I was when I was a teenager with Bush.

    You don't even need to live through a time of supression to understand. Just know history well enough to see things like how Hitler and Stalin became authoritarian, (moved to the controls) and what the reprucussions are. Plus many more examples.

    Just reading quotes like Jefferson saying he'd rather suffer the results of to much liberty, than not enough.

  4. Please... on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please don t be a be a "Donald Trump" announcement.

    "We're offering 5 million dollars to the charity of your choice if you can prove Mars accepted any of the vanquished troops Rome offered."

  5. wooooshhhh on Windows 8 Sales Below Projections · · Score: 2

    Seems to me this is a brilliant strategy just like New Coke. Not only can they see how far they can push customers, they will revert back to the old UI with a choice to use metro or not, and then be able to claim they listen to customers!

    It didn't matter that in blind taste tests more people preferred New Coke, same here. (I am not claiming Windows 8 is better liked or the opposite just the strategy)

  6. Re:this is my surprized face on Windows 8 Sales Below Projections · · Score: 2

    Did a bullet just pass by cause I just heard a wooooshhhhh

  7. uhuhhh... on How Data Center Operator IPR Survived Sandy · · Score: 1
    They're built for redundancy, if any integral systems went down in both THAT would be news. They could have lost one complete physical location and their clients would be upset but not out cash....

    This isn’t a sales pitch, but if you do it yourself, you only have yourself to yell at, to complain to.

    Then why does it read exactly like that with no real substance and mediocre answers?

  8. They may call it a cursor... on A Better Thought-Controlled Computer Cursor · · Score: 1

    They may call it a cursor but this is evil bioengineering where they turn monkeys into mice!

  9. Re:Change.org - what a strange site! on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 2

    I believe they remove the petitions after a certain time. Each one has X signatures needed by Y date.

  10. Re:no on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 1

    Unless the karyotype shows trisomy on a particular chromosome.

  11. Re:So what are they? on Australia's Biggest Telco Sold Routers With Hardcoded Passwords · · Score: 1

    12345

  12. Re:"private sector" on The Cyber Threat To the Global Oil Supply · · Score: 2

    This is a good point when comapring U.S. transportation to Europe. The country is bigger than Europe. Alaska alone is the size of many small European countries combined. Things here are newer and the country was developed in the forge of the industrial revolution not in the days of pure horse travel and monarchs.

  13. I hear.... on Director General of BBC Resigns Over "Poor Journalism" · · Score: 1

    He really resigned because people found out that he raped children.

    My bad, that's completely wrong.

  14. Re:Not surprising but the data is flawed on Geomapping Racism With Twitter · · Score: 1

    Lost the Civil War and rank among the poorest and least educated.

  15. Re:Standby in Three... Two... One.... on UK Court Sanctions Apple For Non-Compliance · · Score: 2

    Quality is the Tao.

  16. Re:slightly off-topic on Foxconn Denies Plans For New US Operations · · Score: 2

    Except in many American Indian's folklore where they are evil and thought to be the animal embodiment of shape-shifters/Indian sorcerers.

  17. Re:Guess what? on China Blocks Google.com, Gmail, Maps and More During 18th Party Congress · · Score: 1

    Mindless garbage, unless you think the communist party of Texas ( http://tx.cpusa.org/) can't define socialism.

  18. Re:Slashdot not popular enough to matter on China Blocks Google.com, Gmail, Maps and More During 18th Party Congress · · Score: 1

    Is /. even relevant enough to block it in Texas? I mean, really, Texas?

    You know, that backwards state where TI helped create the integrated circuit and founded a research university (UTD) which is at the top of the game in nanotechnology and carbon nano-tube research? Around the corner from Lockheed Martin and up the street from Raytheon?

  19. Re:Fluff patents on Patent System Not Broken, Argues IBM's Chief Patent Counsel · · Score: 1

    wow, there are a few. it is not just.moving a laser pointer, it's for potentially creating a device that moves a laser pointer. I personally think not controlling it by hand is potentially dangerous:

    Referenced by Citing PatentFiling dateIssue dateOriginal AssigneeTitleUS6505576Mar 15, 2001Jan 14, 2003Barbara NathansonPet toyUS6557495Jul 5, 2001May 6, 2003Laser pet toyUS6651591Dec 9, 2002Nov 25, 2003Automatic laser pet toy and exerciserUS6701872Oct 30, 2002Mar 9, 2004Method and apparatus for automatically exercising a curious animalUS7066780Mar 25, 2004Jun 27, 2006Pet entertainment device

  20. Re:Not logical reasoning on Patent System Not Broken, Argues IBM's Chief Patent Counsel · · Score: 1

    I think both reasons, in this case owning MM would protect android and potentially be used offensively (I believe those battles have started).

  21. Re:If overlap is now causality... on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Broken code, a message here?

  22. Re:So it's come to this. . . on Foxconn Sees New Source of Cheap Labor: The United States · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Hu received the sceptre of power in the first peaceful transfer in communist party history.

  23. Re:oh stop it on Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    The Universe won't be changed all that much; it's quite large.

    Yeah, at least it will change our star system.

  24. Re:Sponsored by on Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars · · Score: 5, Funny

    While I concur completely, your at-at provides a delightful mental image. Instead of people on the train tracks you'd hear:

    "Suzy A., 16 was flattened today when she supposedly ignored the warnings and an A.B.C. Advanced Bipedals Car) stepped on her. This is the fourth flattening of a teenager this month, up from two over the last three months. Police believe this is linked to a social media meme where children attempt to use the A.B.C.s to smash walnuts with the word 'illiteracy' written on them, and upload the video. This is Sean Parsons with KDRT 42."

  25. Rove on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    I just watched Karl Rove argue with Fox's results analyst about how calling a state early hurt the team, the "news"caster who introduced them refered to it as cage match 2012. I know whos pocket fox is in but they usually refer to it openly.