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  1. Re:immature=no java on Apple Updates Java To Include Flashback Removal · · Score: 1

    Apple has washed its hands of Java and turned over the code to the community.

    It is about fucking time. Java developers rejoice the world over.

  2. Re:immature=no java on Apple Updates Java To Include Flashback Removal · · Score: 1

    What in the hell are you talking about?

  3. Re:immature=no java on Apple Updates Java To Include Flashback Removal · · Score: 1

    Or a Macbook Pro....

  4. Re:IRA Method on University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats · · Score: 1

    bastards?

  5. Re:Defense on University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats · · Score: 1

    One amateur bomb will hardly kill anyone.

  6. Re:Defense on University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats · · Score: 1

    Then start up with the threats again, and now what do they do?

    Police work.

  7. Re:Defense on University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats · · Score: 1

    Mainstream logic: sword handle->weapon->school->gun!!!!

  8. Re:Defense on University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats · · Score: 1

    None of them. Whoever it is, faculty, students, whoever, is just playing on the stupidity--and now insanity--of the administration who will keep evacuating buildings like a computer that receives a command. Just ignore them, no one is going to tell you they installed a bomb--it would not be effective at that point. You would think that a university would have smart people at the helm, but no.

    In lieu of your headline, those people would have been dead anyway. The whole thing is logically pointless, but the majority of our society is not cognizant of logic. The whole Spock character is starting to make sense to me.

  9. Re:Sexism on Etsy Hacker Grants Support Female Programmers · · Score: 1

    I think this post rightly ends the discussion.

  10. Re:Sexism on Etsy Hacker Grants Support Female Programmers · · Score: 1

    yo dawg....I put some discrimination in yo discrimination so you can discriminate while you are discriminating

  11. Re:Men get "discouraged" then told to stop complai on Etsy Hacker Grants Support Female Programmers · · Score: 1

    My English professor (white, male) was told he would never get into OU's journalism school by his high-school professors and advisers. He did, and he graduated. When he was done with that he went on to accomplish some of the most amazing things most people will never come close to. He, for some reason, decided to walk the entire globe--which resulted in him becoming an internationally published author. He traversed the globe with no money, relying only on the generosity of people he met along the way. To date, only two people have ever been known to do this--and the other is not an author. Oh yeah, his dad thought he was crazy too.

  12. Re:Means != Ends on Etsy Hacker Grants Support Female Programmers · · Score: 1

    , little girls are not encouraged to be scientists, programmers and physicists.

    You've obviously never seen Star Gate SG1. Turn in your geek card.

  13. Re:Bad Slashdot on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    I knew it....a big fucking boolean flamewar.

  14. Re:what's the difference on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Uh, you get Os updates for free, or very cheap--no?

  15. Re:what's the difference on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Indeed, XP is a train-wreck. They could have updated XP with the measures used in Windows 7, but they did not. I got malware the other day while browsing with Opera--a driveby! WTF!?

  16. Re:I would like to take a moment on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    Sadly, it takes a child dying to unearth this sentiment. I felt this way before anyone died.

  17. Re:Here's an idea on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    No, not at all. Child abuse is direct action on an defenseless person with a clear outcome. Shirking vaccinations hardly compares, because most children will survive and thrive without them--everyone here knows this. Your logic exercise is an epic fail. Now curl back into your corner, the government is going to keep everyone safe--nice and safe.

  18. Re:Vermont. on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    Why bother? No one is forcing YOUR child to forgo vaccination, are they? You simply cannot force vaccinations on people. If you go with the "it's for the children" excuse you step into a whole new territory where forcing vaccinations on everyone is acceptable. Irregardless of the benefit or safety of the current vaccinations, you create an industry where drug companies create vaccinations under the assumption that everyone is forced to accept them regardless of their benefit. Are you going to argue that the same reasoning you use to force vaccinations will not be used to mandate those which are of negligible benefit other than the profit of those tasked with manufacture and administration of the drugs?

    My children are vaccinated VOLUNTARILY under the direction of a medical professional, who's opinion drives my choices of which vaccines are necessary. No other model is acceptable--whatsoever.

  19. Re:For this you want a professional product on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    "Send you to jail?" My god, the stupidity that has erupted in a thread over taxes is phenomenal. Having grown up working in a tax service, reading through these comments makes me wince in pain. Most of you just need to shut up--or risk appearing like a buffoon.

  20. Re:Darn that dirty hydrogen on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Electric cars will never be popular--unless of course oil is not available (then what do you use? wind? coal?). I would love to see a serious study of the environmental impact if current automobile production was switched to electric vehicles. Hydrocarbons I can handle, industrial pollution in our waters (remember PCBs?) makes me much more nervous.

  21. Re:Darn that dirty hydrogen on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Yes, hydrogen has do be derived on the spot or it is not an appropriate energy source. I have been interested in examining Stanley Meyer's work for years and I have actually started training in an EENG program to explore this technology.

    He is "fully discredited," but I have yet to see proof that his "invention" will not work. The schematic for his circuit includes various points of variability in frequency and induction. Although the entire circuit is available for anyone to see, it appears the frequency/amplitude and other settings (variable inductor, choke value) are not available--leaving millions of combinations to test. Those are the key to managing an induced chemical change. This is basically a circuit that will setup/vary the applied voltage and frequency to change an electrolytic process--of course. I feel there is no serious research done in this area because of a blanket assumption that it is impossible to efficiently crack the water molecules.

    The man was granted patents. So, if it was that ridiculous of a contraption, the patent examiners should have shot him down. I have a British documentary video interview of Stanley describing his interactions with the patent office--among other things. Good stuff.

      If it proves fruitless, well, then, I will have learned a great deal.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer's_water_fuel_cell

  22. Re:Talk to a Lawyer on Ask Slashdot: My Host Gave a Stranger Access To My Cloud Server, What Can I Do? · · Score: 2

    You can talk to many lawyers without spending a dime. When I get into a problem and need a lawyer I don't go with the first or even the fifth. I shop until I find the one with my attitude on the subject. There are a *bunch* of lawyers all with varying degrees of ineptitude/competence. Your post is a load bullshit.

  23. Re:Talk to a Lawyer on Ask Slashdot: My Host Gave a Stranger Access To My Cloud Server, What Can I Do? · · Score: 2

    Also, don't assume this process will lead to you getting absolutely everything you think you deserve.

    Wrong, when a lawyer is involved, and threatening litigation, the amount you get has to cover legal fees and all the other PITA bullshit.

    Got a slight bump in the rear from a lady while at a stop light one day. No one hurt, barely any damage. I asked the insurance "adjuster" for $3500 to settle, he said no. Result: $3500 in cash for me, $3500 for the dealership body shop, and $3500 for the lawyer.

  24. Re:easy on Robotic Squirrels Battle It Out With Rattlesnakes · · Score: 1

    You're the Adam Smith of the snake world.

  25. Re:Its not a message, its a decoy on Robotic Squirrels Battle It Out With Rattlesnakes · · Score: 1

    I think you just wrote a Randall script. Good job.