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  1. someone PLEASE mod parent up!

  2. Original full report here on Some Children's Headphones Raise Concerns of Hearing Loss, Report Says (go.com) · · Score: 1
  3. What's wrong with using COBOL? on Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's all I have to say.

  4. Re:Why do you hate America? on Software Error Releases Up To 3,200 Inmates Early (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Many prisoners released early may not wind up being re-incarcerated, according to Brown. The law requires the state to give day-for-day credit in most cases to a prisoner who has been released early and hasnâ(TM)t been found to break any laws since, he said."

    Find me anyone who hasn't broken any laws in a given day, week, or month! As many respectable sources point out, you break the law every day without even knowing it: e.g. http://www.washingtonsblog.com... If you don't feel like reading, watch here from 5:18 to 6:18, or even further until to 7:18 for some fun examples. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  5. Re:If you think war is preventable on Doomsday Vault Opens To Give Seeds To Syria (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    War is not preventable - rather it is an everlasting tool of last resort to prevent any other undesired action of an adversary.

  6. Re:Microsoft on Behind the Microsoft Write-Off of Nokia · · Score: 1

    I'm fucking stuck with Android or that other piece of turd with a fruit logo.

    There's always Blackberry.

  7. No on Is Microsoft's .NET Ecosystem On the Decline? · · Score: 1

    No, it is not on the decline.

  8. Re:How will this compete? on Russian Company Unveils Homegrown PC Chips · · Score: 1

    Most new disruptive technology players start out with an offering that is in some way weaker than incumbent players. But after a few years, having taken some market share and having built up some cash, they end up with an offering that is better than what's available from pre-existing companies.

  9. Alien power plant on Mystery "Warm Blob" In the Pacific Ocean Could Be Causing California's Drought · · Score: 1

    This could be the side effect of an underwater alien power plant.

  10. Re:Fault of the walled garden on WhatsApp vs. WhatsApp Plus Fight Gets Ugly For Users · · Score: 2

    if your friends run off a cliff, do you follow them?

    See the relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1170/

  11. Re:only viable in small countries on Volvo Testing Autonomous Cars On Public Roads · · Score: 1

    There you go, you've solved the problem. Put the "dodge the pothole" rule above the "stay between the lane lines" rule, but below the "mow down little timmy" rule.

    Sucks to be little timmy.

  12. Re:"Is This News"? on How I Cut My Time Warner Cable Bill By 33% · · Score: 1

    E911 does not negate the key advantage of POTS, which is that it will work when electrical service it out. All the new-fangled phone service over cable and FIOS will be dead in a power outage.

  13. Re:OUCH on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 1

    He was a child to his parents. He would have remained a child to his parents into his old age. Children should not die before their parents, not matter their age. The fact that you cannot grasp these simple truths leaves me completely stumped.

  14. Re:OUCH on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would imagine that anyone making jokes about this has no children. To anyone with kids, the thought of something like this happening is simply gut-wrenching. But since relations with the opposite sex are required for procreation, I guess the tasteless jokes and, what's worse, modding up of such, is to be expected here.

  15. Re:wtf on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 1

    So how does the sequence of (1) "Am I Under Arrest", (2) "Can I Go Now?" work during a traffic stop?

  16. Re:California has done this for a almost a decade on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    WOW, amazing. Just checked the site. Just....amazing. Since 2004, about 2 million probes taken. Based on DNA test, about 28000 were convicted. Translated, about 1% positive hit. Money collected for this purpose: 280 million dollars. No comment....

    So about $10K per conviction. Not a bad rate.

  17. Re:Uhm, so we're at war now with Iran? on Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran · · Score: 1

    From Starship Troopers written by Robert A. Heinlein (1959):
    "The historians can't seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the "Fourth"), or whether "The First Interstellar War" fits it better. We just call it "The Bug War" if we call it anything, which we usually don't and in any case the historians date the beginning of "war" after the time I joined my first outfit and ship. Everything up to then and still later were "incidents," "patrols," or "police actions." However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an "incident" as you are if you buy it in a declared war."
    P.S. the book is nothing like like movie

  18. Re:Alright! on MPAA-Dodd Investigation Petition Reaches Goal · · Score: 1

    This here looks like a very realistic response. Mod it up!

  19. Slashdotter already on Apple AirPlay Private Key Exposed · · Score: 1

    Or was it taken down by Apple's request?

  20. Re:Suing for what exactly? on Racy Danish Tabloid May Sue Apple For App Rejection · · Score: 1

    What exactly is the tabloid suing for? Apple's policies are very well known, and I cannot believe he didn't know what the outcome would be before he submitted his app. Sounds like someone just wants come money and free publicity.

    The probably knew exactly what Apple's response would be and are simply following a publicity strategy. Good for them.

  21. Re:Makes sense on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    The studies that show breakfast being the most important meal of the day - who was behind them? Right. The breakfast cereal manufacturers.

    Irrelevant. In Soviet Russia, before they allowed breakfast cereals in, it was common knowledge that a good breakfast was important, much more so than a good dinner. Therefore, the implication that cereal manufacturers are pushing breakfast is irrelevant to the importance of the first meal of the day.

  22. Re:Optical light? on Intel Shows Off First Light Peak Laptop · · Score: 2, Informative

    Torch is the standard British term for flashlight.

  23. Re:Bruteforce on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 1

    It's interesting that the video linked in parent is from RT = Russia Today = Russian government's English language propaganda channel for the West. A Voice of Mother Russia.

  24. Re:MJ is a SCAM folks on MagicJack Femtocell Gates Cell Traffic to VoIP · · Score: 1

    The link above points to an article about the regular wired MagicJack. Is there one for the GSM one?

  25. Re:Forget environmentalism-what about Int'l Relati on The Economic Development of the Moon · · Score: 1

    As with all other territory, the Moon will belong to whoever can get there and defend their right to hold onto it.