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  1. Re:Hope and change on U.S. Spy Panel Is Loaded With Insiders · · Score: 2

    You're not disagreeing with me, you're just saying that one right-wing religious crazy party has slightly different policies from the other right-wing religious crazy party.

  2. Re:Amen !! on U.S. Spy Panel Is Loaded With Insiders · · Score: 1

    If they were Christians, they'd both still fit the description of "rich right-wing religious crazy guy".

  3. Summary: jellypocalypse on New Threat To Seaside Nuclear Plants, Datacenters: Jellyfish · · Score: 1
  4. Re:You can never get the BIG BROTHER to change its on U.S. Spy Panel Is Loaded With Insiders · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So you're advocating violent regime change then?

  5. Re:Hope and change on U.S. Spy Panel Is Loaded With Insiders · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's no difference between the two parties that run America. The last election was between the rich white right-wing religious crazy guy and the rich black right-wing religious crazy guy, each of them representing their rich right-wing religious crazy organizations.

  6. Predictable on U.S. Spy Panel Is Loaded With Insiders · · Score: 5, Insightful

    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

  7. Re:Third World Governance on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 2

    The women are hotter in Venezuela.

  8. Re:You know this makes America ... on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    Yes but if the game is "who has their shit together enough to run a country" and you're getting beaten by Greece, Italy, Spain, and every other basket case in the world, then you really need to take a long hard look at whether or not your country even really deserves a seat at the big persons table.

  9. Re:800,000 workers. . . on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    . . . .who are deemed "non-essential".

    Um, if they're not essential, why are they on the payroll in the first place ???

    Because they do things that the government thinks are unimportant. You know, making sure servicemen and women get a paycheck... ensuring that veterans receive disability payments and medical care...

  10. Re:You know this makes America ... on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Italy has a government.

  11. Re:water bottles like you'd take to the gym? on Water Discovery Is Good News For Mars Colonists · · Score: 1

    I know that US public education is going to hell, but do we really need articles to explain what a pint is?

    Yes, because the rest of the world has no idea what a pint is. The USA and Myanmar are the only two countries in the world that use British Imperial measurements as standard, so the rest of the world needs a point of comparison.

  12. Re:Success on Apple Sells Nine Million iPhones Over Weekend · · Score: 1

    It looks like 200 million installs of the latest version of the OS on the day of release.

    Oh whoops, that was Apple too.

  13. Re:Huh? on Apple Sells Nine Million iPhones Over Weekend · · Score: 1

    Apple enjoys popularity among the Slashdot editors because Apple articles equal pageviews.

  14. Re:Metadata is the most important data on Schneier: Metadata Equals Surveillance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Citizen you are free to associate with whomever you want, we'll just record who it was, where, when, for how long, and how that compares with previous meetings.

  15. Re:Not gonna happen on Promising Vaccine Candidate Could Lead To a Definitive Cure For HIV · · Score: 1

    That's why I said to offer them.

  16. Re:How is this news? on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 0

    -1 Flamebait? Shame on you moderator!

  17. Re:Not gonna happen on Promising Vaccine Candidate Could Lead To a Definitive Cure For HIV · · Score: 1

    parent up please

  18. Re:Not gonna happen on Promising Vaccine Candidate Could Lead To a Definitive Cure For HIV · · Score: 1

    The way to make money is to offer:

    1. A vaccine.
    2. A cure.
    3. Long-term treatment.

  19. Re:READ the Constitution Marissa on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 1

    No, Marissa, it is not treason:

    "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

    That's treason. Releasing classified information isn't treason per se unless it meets one of the Constitutional criteria laid out above.

    Facilitating the private communications of TEH ENEMIES OF TEH UNITED STATES isn't giving them aid?

  20. Re:Treason.. or... on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Oer the laaaaaand of the sheep, and the hooooooome of the whipped"

  21. Re:Jobs must be rolling in his grave... on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    If you are worried that the Apple product is too expensive, you are not Apple's target market. Apple's market is people who care more about the quality of the thing than about the pricetag.

  22. Re:Is Apple now taking design cues from Microsoft? on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 1

    Flat icons? Have you even seen iOS7? It's so goddamn unflat I'm amazed it doesn't come bundled with 3D glasses.

  23. Re:Jobs must be rolling in his grave... on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think they are finally admitting that OSX has been a failure.

    http://www.asymco.com/2013/04/16/escaping-pcs/

    Highest average revenue per PC sold: Apple
    Highest operating margin percentage: Apple
    Highest operating margin per PC shipped: Apple
    Highest profit from PC sales: Apple
    Percentage of worldwide PC-industry profit going to Apple: 45% (second place: Dell, 13%)

    Note: figures do not include sales of devices running iOS. That's just OS X.

    Yep, failure.

  24. Re:THIS... on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    The NSA was built in the 1950s. No conservative politician since then has attempted to have its powers limited.

  25. Re:Blame DoJ on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: 1

    This really started to happen 15-20 years ago. Microsoft totally missed the internet...

    Bingo, we have a winner