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  1. Re:The Cloud will save us all! on The Cloud: Convenient Until a Stranger Nukes Your Files · · Score: 1

    Yeah right. Companies do that all the time. "Fire so and so or we'll pull our business."

  2. Re:How Does One Become an Editor? on Wikipedia's Participation Problem · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you post anything at all expected it to get deleted.

  3. Re:How Does One Become an Editor? on Wikipedia's Participation Problem · · Score: 4, Funny

    Switch them to Slashdot's system? Ha. You must want to take all of Wikipedia and flush it down the toilet. Good idea.

  4. Re:Why I don't edit on Wikipedia's Participation Problem · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I converted a paragraph that looked like it had been run through Google translate a few times into actual English. It was reverted. The people that claim Wikipedia entries as their own are generally some of the dumbest people on the internet. The YouTube commenters are the ones in charge.

  5. Re:1988 Version: Life & Death on Surgeon Simulator: Inside the World's Hardest Game · · Score: 1

    That's awesome. I'd show my patients the game and tell them that's where I learned most of my technique.

  6. Re:1988 Version: Life & Death on Surgeon Simulator: Inside the World's Hardest Game · · Score: 1

    Always wished they made a modern version of that game. I killed so many people because I didn't click on exactly the right pixel. You had to make a 24" cut just to get at the appendix. And apparently cutting off blood flow in the aorta is ok for five to ten minutes.

  7. Quantum stuff is too weird on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    Even though I trust that the scientists have a decent idea of what they're doing, any story that involves quantum mechanics just sounds like bullshit. This is simply a result of the way it needs to be dumbed down to be understood at all. It's just too weird for me so it sounds like something Data would say, just a bunch of buzzwords.

  8. Re:The Land Of The Negative Option on Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising · · Score: 1

    I remember way back when they (I think it was Rogers) doubled everybody's cable package and just started billing them for it. They got the crap kicked out of them for that one.

  9. What's new? on Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising · · Score: 1

    Every other provider is looking around thinking "we've been doing this for years."

  10. Re:Holy Fucking Shit on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    The point is that there shouldn't be any laws about having to have independent car dealerships.

  11. Re:Who cares on Scientists Induce New Hair Growth In Balding Men · · Score: 1

    So I can get a +10% with the ladies if I had a full head of hair? That sounds like it'd be worth quite a bit of money.

  12. Re:Who cares on Scientists Induce New Hair Growth In Balding Men · · Score: 1

    I shave my head once a week. I don't understand why some guys do the combover. I've even seen young guys do it. They don't realize how completely ridiculous they look - it's easily as bad as all those 'people of Walmart' pics.

  13. Re:The view would be spectacular ... on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    Being weightless is the primary reason people want to go into space. Taking a balloon up there will give you an ok view, not quite as grand as being in a low orbit, but the normal gravity will turn people off.

  14. Re:Obvious question on Sleep Is the Ultimate Brainwasher · · Score: 1

    Did you use drugs to stay awake? (caffeine counts) I've never been awake more than 40 hours.

  15. Re:Ummmm... on Square Debuts New Email Payment System · · Score: 0

    Instead, they just email the person they'd like to transfer money to (with the amount as the subject), and CC 'cash@square.com.' Square asks the sending for their debit card info, and then sends a link to the recipient, who can transfer the money into any account they want .

    Looks to me like they ask for the debit card info by email. But that's apparently not what they do so whatever.

  16. Re:Ummmm... on Square Debuts New Email Payment System · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The summary makes it seem like it's all done over email. Why would I read the article? Nobody does that.

  17. Re:Blame Canada on Square Debuts New Email Payment System · · Score: 1

    In that case you don't send anything insecure over email other than a link to the interac site. You also set up a password that you share with the receiving party by phone or some other method.

  18. Re:Ummmm... on Square Debuts New Email Payment System · · Score: 4, Informative

    You shouldn't send that kind of account info by email.

  19. Re:Catheter? on Tiny Pacemaker Can Be Installed Via Catheter · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, it's a urinary catheter. To get to the heart. The two are directly connected, similar to your case where the brain is directly connected to the asshole.

  20. Re:choice doesn't *require* bad defaults on Is Choice a Problem For Android? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Makes me think there's a tech-journalist troll-list that rotates with standard topics.

    It's called Slashdot.org

  21. Re:Different Source Code for Different Versions? on Security Researchers Want To Fully Audit Truecrypt · · Score: 1

    And a higher number. Software gets better as the number goes up, which is why Mac OS X is better than Windows 8.

  22. So it's by donation. They're advertizing on Slashdot for donations. I can't believe I have to explain this to you people.

  23. Not every discussion about an app is a Slashvertisement. True. However, this posting is clearly an ad.

  24. Re:Pitiful on Facebook May Dislike the Social Fixer Extension, but Many Users Love It (Video) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I can just barely tolerate the Slashvertisements. But main page stories about some stupid Facebook add-on tells me this is pretty much a site for teen girls now.

  25. Pot please meet Kettle on Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior · · Score: 1

    I'm not a programmer but I use Oracle products regularly and I guarantee that the source code is so full of WTF moments it would make your head explode.