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  1. Re:Sexualization of busty teens?!? on Reddit: No More Suggestive Content Featuring Minors · · Score: 1

    I would point out that TFS clearly states that one of the subreddits was " pre teen_girls"; as in, not even teenagers yet.

  2. Re:One other thing... on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    I do always appreciate donations.

  3. Re:366 MHz? on Creating the World's Cheapest Tablet · · Score: 2

    Yea judging from the other replies to the OP, everyone's sarcasm detectors are on the fritz tonight. Must be those sun storms from yesterday.

  4. Re:Things I don't need: continued on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 1

    There's nothing you can do on a phone you can't do on a desktop.

    How about.. wait for it...

    "Carry it with you everywhere"....?

  5. Re:Start here. on Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission? · · Score: 4, Funny

    -1 Overrated. I was very disappointed when your link did not tell me how to get to the magical cheese factory.

  6. Re:How about just saying no, when the phone ask? on Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can easily use a 3rd party calendar app.

    I also just discovered Permission Denied this morning. It (theoretically) revokes specific permissions from already installed apps. Handy for when you want an app that asks for location permission and such but you know it doesn't actually need it. Whether or not it actually does what it says it does, I don't know...

  7. Re:Why not use their own sites? on New Media Giants Take Out Print Ad Against SOPA · · Score: 1

    Someone should tell Google.

  8. Re:Not needed any more on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Aye. According to Wolfram Alpha, a 1 megaton bomb will have a 4.5 mile air blast radius, which comes out to ~64 square miles... Divide the earth's total land area by that and you come up with needing ~900,000 bombs to literally destroy everything.

  9. Re:Real problem? on 3D Printers To Save Hermit Crabs · · Score: 1

    I'm honestly not even sure that it's considered a major problem, I just know that people taking shells home is at least something of a concern for biologists.

  10. Re:Real problem? on 3D Printers To Save Hermit Crabs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Natural shells are in short supply because people pick them up and take them home.

    No source other than my marine biologist wife and years of living near Florida beaches.

  11. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    *raises hand*

    Civil Engineering graduate here. Graduated near the top of my class from a fairly respectable private university a year and a half ago. Good grades, summer internship, etc. etc. I've been looking for over a year and a half and I can tell you the OP is correct; there are no entry-level jobs for college graduates. Anywhere. It's not just me, the majority of my classmates have had the same problem.

    I don't know why people don't seem to get this. It's not just soft majors that can't find work, it's everyone. The CE jobs that are out there ask for minimum 2-5 years experience, and there are plenty of experienced engineers who were laid off at the start of the recession and need work; employers apparently don't even look at resumes of recent graduates. I'm currently working at a manufacturing plant for about 60% of the pay I would have expected in an entry-level CE job.

    Even if jobs were to start opening up in the next year or so, I'm still screwed because then it'll have been a few years since school and I'll have begun to forget everything by then. My current options seems to be limited to either sucking it up and working for a crappy low wage job until I work my way up to something decent in 5-10 years, or going back to grad school (the option I'm planning on taking) and hoping a master's will get me somewhere.

  12. Re:No Control Group on Doctors Recommend Against TV For Kids Under 2 · · Score: 1

    Howdy-what and Clara-who?

    *gently steps off lawn*

  13. Re:The US owns the satellites on NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS · · Score: 1

    Nice! Adding that to my list of things to mention when debating healthcare with family...

  14. Must be... on Facebook's URL Scanner Vulnerable To Cloaking Attack · · Score: 2

    Romulans!

  15. Debt collectors and banks? on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I already get autodialed/prerecorded robot calls from debt collectors and banks on my cell (they drive me friggin' insane). That's illegal? Can I sue them for say, the amount of my debt?

  16. Re:Petition created at Whitehouse.gov on ACTA To Be Signed This Weekend · · Score: 1

    Submitted. Not sure I like the idea of making /. a "hay sign this petition pls!" place but this seems like a good idea. Also, what the *hell* is up with the submission window? What a huge pain to use.

  17. Re:So much misinformation in these comments... on The Dead Sea Scrolls and Information Paranoia · · Score: 1

    Ooo, I have a question! Can you direct me to a good source (no paywall please) that discusses how well the biblical portions of the dead sea scrolls match up with modern scripture (i.e. have they changed due to copying errors and such)? I frequently see some people saying that they are almost identical and others say they are completely different, I'd like to see some evidence of what the truth is.

  18. Re:Not so fast... on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 4, Funny

    And no, they're not using an instantaneous tau to approximate a decay distribution. Anyone who has ever cooked popcorn knows better than that.

    Completely wrong. I've cooked popcorn and I have no idea what "instantaneous tau to approximate a decay distribution" means.

  19. Re:Bu...bu...bu...whaddabout da books? on Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History · · Score: 1

    Amazon sells both books and eBooks.

  20. Re:The fact that tax loopholes were patentable on Tax Loopholes No Longer Patentable · · Score: 1

    Someone should just patent getting a patent, patent trolling, and patent warring and be done with it.

  21. Re:No big surprise on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 2

    As of July 2008, the United States domestic box office grosses of Ford's films total almost US$3.4 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $6 billion, making Ford the third highest grossing U.S. domestic box-office star.

    -Wikipedia

  22. Re:This was posted everywhere else last week? on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 0

    Stories taking a bit longer to appear on the old /. these days

    You must be new here.

  23. Interesting... on Purported FBI Report Calls Anonymous a National Security Threat · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I found this to be the most interesting part of the TFA:

    "The Anonymous ‘collective’ has risen from an amorphous group of individuals on the Internet to the current state of a potential threat to national security. Due to the nature of Anonymous, they believe that they are a leaderless collective. However, it has been shown that there is a defined leadership group," the document reads. "A thorough assessment of each UNSUB’s online activities, speech patterns, and general writings was collected by the FBI. Each UNSUB was individually assessed by members of the SBU (sic) and a psychological profile created from these datasets."

    (emphasis mine)

    This is what some people on /. have been arguing for some time.

    Regardless, the document itself (linked to in the first article) is kind of fun to read.

  24. Ok enough! on Rent Your Own Botnet · · Score: 4, Funny

    C'mon, enough with the slashvertisements already!

  25. Buckle up folks... on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 1

    ...this could be interesting.