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  1. Re:throw them the fuck out on Let Spouses of H-1B Visa Holders Work In US, Says White House · · Score: 1, Insightful

    along with their spouses.

    This. Then aggressively pursue companies hiring illegals and fine the shit out of them.
    US corporations will not hire US labor at fair rates unless they're forced to. Force them.

  2. Re:Because they can. on $200 For a Bound Textbook That You Can't Keep? · · Score: 4, Funny

    They aren't in it to make the world a better place. They are in it for the money. And so it is perfectly logical for them to take as much as they can get.

    The publishers, or the students aiming to become lawyers..?

    Yes.

  3. Re: getting real sick of this on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    Do you complain to magazine/newspaper editors that their headline puns aren't exactly the most appropriate ones?

    I do. I also send a rant off to Cisco every time I see a new Cisco commercial on TV.

  4. Re:Zoned? on Computer Game Reveals 'Space-Time' Neurons In the Eye · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I had a friend and he was one of those friends who would always get me into trouble when I was a kid. He was four years older than me... and this was in grade 9 for me. He was the kind of dude that would just throw something at you and yell your name last second. It got so that I had developed Jedi reflexes around this kid. Something told me exactly what to expect. One day the bastard throws a big knotted wooden log towards my head, and calls it out last second as it's about to hit my face.

    Without any hesitation I caught it!! About 45-55lbs, which isn't that much -- but it's a hell of a lot to catch without warning.

    My point is that there is probably some kind of zone of effect to this type of thing where in a kitchen for example you could expect that a plate or glass might get knocked off the counter so you would be queued up to catch something whenever you enter the kitchen.

    You should have gone with 15-20 pounds. Someone might have believed it then. Your scrawny freshman ass wasn't catching, deflecting, or parrying 50 pounds of anything near your head, let alone a log chucked at you by someone who was a legal adult to your legal minor. At a distance far enough for you to not see or hear the initial throw, the mass would have to be traveling moderately fast in order to be anywhere near your head before hitting the ground. Moderately fast squared, times your ridiculous claim of 50 pounds, equals you not standing a fucking chance, quick or not.

    I don't know what prompted this lame exaggerated story about an older boy molesting you with 50 pounds of hard wood, but there are better uses for a low digit UID.

  5. Re:A drop in the bucket. on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 0

    There is no link between water pumped into the ground for extraction and drinking supply. None What So Ever.

    It's like you don't even know what fracking is. They shove an assload of water into the ground in the hopes that the increased pressure will squeeze out a bit of oil, or break up some rocks so that oil can flow out freely. They water they pump in then percolates through the ground and ends up in under ground streams, carrying a host of other shit with it. That water, which people do use for drinking, is contaminated out the ass. Go to a state where fracking is done and drink from a well.

  6. I would like to submit into evidence as Exhibit A- this dumbass.

    Oh, sick burn!
    Still waiting for you to back up your claim that Al Gore has been "shown to be right", though.
    I'll wait.

  7. If Al Gore is shown to be right (which of course he has been)

    Show me a single climate model put forth or espoused by Al Gore that has proven to be accurate for any significant amount of time into the future.

  8. Pollution? Corporations.

    Global climate grant change? Scientists.

    Absolutely. Like how the UCLA Atmospheric Science department made 34 billion dollars last year. No...wait..that was Exxon Mobile.

    Your comment is like saying "Both my corner bar and AB InBev make money selling beer". It's technically true but it's a ridiculous comparison because they're orders of magnitude apart.

    Exxon Mobile made money because Exxon Mobile sells a useful product.
    UCLA pissed away cash to fund useless bullshit and stroke their own dicks.
    Welcome to academia.

  9. Re:Tesla still wins on BMW Created the Most Efficient Electric Car In the US · · Score: 1

    So, GM Pass Key.

    Bypassing GM Passkey I/II and Passlock I/II: Most of these systems can be bypassed using resistors and relays,

    So you need one of 15 different valued resistors embedded in the key.
    Here's how to permanently disable it
    http://vats.likeabigdog.com/
    All you'd need is 15 resistors, a rotary switch and a couple of probes.

    So what you're saying is I'm right - they use electrical properties of the key, and you need physical access to the car for an extended period to make a workable key.

  10. Re:Estimates 1000x off on fracking methane on Talking To the Public: the Biggest Enemy To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions · · Score: -1, Troll

    www.google.com
    www.bing.com

    Try?

  11. Re:Oh the humanity! on Google Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit Over Default Search on Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Android is not open source.
    AOSP is open source.
    AOSP is not Android.
    Google's Play Store is not open source or open.
    Google's "apps" are not open source or open.
    Guess what things you can't get on AOSP.
    Guess what things are mandated preinstalled, defaulted, etc. on Android.

  12. At the Risk of Summoning APK on Yahoo Stops Honoring 'Do-Not-Track' Settings · · Score: 1

    Welcome to my HOSTS file, Yahoo.

  13. Re:Tesla still wins on BMW Created the Most Efficient Electric Car In the US · · Score: 1

    The keys are manufactured to intentionally have different electrical properties.
    Oil, dirt, etc. ? Go look at the edge of your car keys. Clean, smooth, and shiny. Welcome to wiping contacts.
    Not all immobilizer systems communicate with a chip in the key. They can not all be reprogrammed without a master key.

    Go look at 90s and 00s Ford and GM cars.

  14. Re:Kitchen Knives on Interview: Ask Ben Starr About the Future of Food · · Score: 1

    So pay more for something that looks nicer and has a higher propensity for chipping and requires oil because you can't be bothered to have things sharpened properly? I bet you like cast iron pans, too.

  15. Re:America #1 fuck yeah!! on BMW Created the Most Efficient Electric Car In the US · · Score: 1

    except you ain't except in criminals jailed or military spending.

    and enemies nuked
    and porn created
    and internets invented
    and celestial bodies landed on
    etc

  16. Re:Tesla still wins on BMW Created the Most Efficient Electric Car In the US · · Score: 1

    Your friends Chevy can have $10 keys used by a car thief with a $100 pocket sized ebay programmer to bypass the immobiliser in under a minute.

    Wrong. Key recognition systems depend on several factors. The car's computer must accept certain non-programmable aspects of the key (the physical keying, resistance, etc.) that varies key-to-key, and then (in fancier systems) ALSO read / negotiate with a programmable chip in the key.
    You need physical access to the car with a pre-registered master key to tell the car to accept new keys. On my car you have to insert the key, turn it, hit the odometer reset button for a while, sing "I'm a little teapot", then remove the key, then insert and remove the new key 3 times.

    Regardless, your BMW with $retarded keys can just be towed away and sold for parts, which are worth more than the BMW whole.

  17. Re:Microsoft has no spine. on XP Systems Getting Emergency IE Zero Day Patch · · Score: 1

    "XP support is over" my hammy.

  18. Re:reconstruction via telemetry on SpaceX Looking For Help With "Landing" Video · · Score: 1

    That's not repairing the video, that's creating a separate animation.
    They don't want an animation of what it probably would have looked like - they did all that shit before the launch.
    They want an actual video of what it actually looked like. They can't get that with the data they have.

  19. Re:Wait list? on Interview: Ask Ben Starr About the Future of Food · · Score: 1

    $125 is the "suggested donation". I don't know if you have an y experience with such "pricing" schemes, but they work as follows: "Donate" the suggestion, get the baseline experience. "Donate" ??? more get ??? more. It's an unknown cost for an unknown product.

    Their reputation isn't on the line. Any bad experience will be limited to a select few people who were allowed the privilege of paying money that day, and any problems can be blamed on the location or individual host. They do have free reign to compromise on safety because the homes aren't subject to inspection unless the health inspector learns of the location and plans a raid during the service. They bypass taxes by calling things donations.

    These are all old tricks.

  20. Re:LAX on Researchers Find Easy To Exploit Bugs In Traffic Control Systems · · Score: 2

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

    Why not? Because you like the sound of that quote?

  21. Re:Mod parent up! on SpaceX Looking For Help With "Landing" Video · · Score: 2

    It really doesn't in this case. It's clearly busted beyond repair. The raw stream does not have any damned I-frames that are salvageable, and the Youtube version accurately represents this fact.

  22. Re:reconstruction via telemetry on SpaceX Looking For Help With "Landing" Video · · Score: 2

    Did you already inspect the MPEG bitstream they provided to see what data it does and doesn't look like it might contain?

    I did. By watching the video. It's busted beyond repair. There isn't a single worthwhile I-frame. No amount of data outside the I-frames can be used to reconstruct anything.

  23. Re:The vibration must suck on Toyota Describes Combustion Engine That Generates Electricity Directly · · Score: 1

    Right, because I'm sure the engineers at Toyota haven't thought about this kind of stuff.

    Oh I'm sure they thought of it. Probably decades ago. And decided it was an inferior design. This is only being trotted out in an effort to distract from all-electrics from Tesla, Nissan, Ford, etc. There is no indication that Toyota plans to use this design in any product.

  24. Re:secure from what? on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 2

    A lot of the malware exists because people can sideload apps. I would rather continue being able to pirate apps than pay for them.

    Fixed that for you, and the vast majority of Slashdotters.

  25. Okay. Is there some sort of plan to use these in future vehicles? How do they compare to traditional engines in terms of efficiency, power, maintenance requirements, etc.? How do they compare to electric vehicles in the same regard? Devoid of any such meaningful substance, this story seems like fluff meant to distract from Tesla, Nissan, Ford, etc. who are aggressively pursuing all-electric vehicles.