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  1. Re:There might be hope for a decent adaptation on 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' Coming To the Big Screen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The director of Starship Troopers didn't read more than two chapters of the book, and had no intention of a faithful adaptation. With any luck, the people involved might actually read the book and manage to get past the premise that the Earth can't make enough food to feed itself and therefore the Moon must be farmed.

  2. That sounds nice... on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They only report the bugs they find, not the ones they create.

  3. Slave Jewelry on Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use · · Score: 1

    Unless it's recognized that all your personally owned sensors cannot be used against you in court you have to realize that the laws you violate routinely are now being recorded by your electronic minions for anyone with a faked warrant or excuse to peruse. In the morning after your drunken spy-gadget buying frenzy, enjoy the perp-walk of shame to your personal gitmo.

  4. Not this again. on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    When I got my CS degree I had to learn FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal, Ada, C, and three different varieties of assembler 6052, 80386, and VAX.

    I need to buy some suspenders.

  5. Re:Real Programmers don't use GC on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    68% of statistics are caused by smoking.

  6. Epistemic closure on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    Because on the Internet you get called out for pretending to know something you don't know. Well, unless you pretend to know something or someone trendy.

  7. bkerensa on Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic · · Score: 1

    When it comes to writing about Ubuntu (and Canonical) bkerensa may be a new submitter to Slashdot, but is an established writer in the area.

  8. Re:Never hacked? on HP Discontinue OpenVMS · · Score: 4, Informative

    VMS was hacked, but it is certainly rare. https://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1989-04.html

  9. Re:doesn't work on Why Your Users Hate Agile · · Score: 2

    The customer has just as much of a right to experiment and be wrong about things as the developers do, but they can be trusted to say what is most important to them at the time.

    The theory is that if you are always delivering what is most valuable as fast as possible, you are getting a better result in the short run, and will probably be just as good as rigorous design up front in the long term.

  10. Correlation or Causation? on Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Breaking the law on a regular basis with a decent chance of being caught and treated harshly by the system probably correlates with a low IQ too, doesn't it?

  11. Re:Don't Be Evil? That's just a lie on Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network · · Score: 1

    Not for "Google Apps For Your Domain", though, since we still can't have Google Profiles on that service. (Feature?)