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  1. Whoever is responsible for this article on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 5, Funny

    will burn in hell.

  2. Guess who'll get stuck with the bill? on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 0

    "The additional cost to mine the asteroid and return the ores to Earth would make profit unlikely even if the asteriod was 20% gold."

    Which means the Amurrican Taxpayer will get stuck paying for this boondoggle!

  3. Down With Big Brother on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: -1

    Down With Big Brother
    Down With Big Brother
    Down With Big Brother
    Down With Big Brother
    Down With Big Brother
    Down With Big Brother
    Down With Big Brother

    * I had typed all in caps as in the book but Big Brother (/.) wouldn't let me post all in caps: Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

  4. Re:THIS Is Slashdot TV on The Space Shuttle Discovery's Last Mile (Video) · · Score: 2

    AC = Mr. Lord

  5. I can't wait! on The Space Shuttle Discovery's Last Mile (Video) · · Score: 4, Funny

    After landing at Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, the shuttle will undergo final preparations to go on display Thursday at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum annex near the airport.

    Which means we'll see yet another last-mile-discovery-travels-story.

    “We pledge to take care of her forever,” said retired Gen. John R. “Jack” Dailey, the museum’s director. The shuttle will show young visitors “what America is capable of.”

    Not anymore!

  6. Re:I have a challenge to all hackers out there on Spoiler Alert: Your TV Will Be Hacked · · Score: 5, Funny

    Playing "Heidi" might be more appropriate.

  7. Ya think? on T-Mobile's Optional Censorship Falls Down · · Score: 1

    "Supposedly Web Guard is supposed to inhibit access to content that falls under certain categories."

    Supposedly it is supposed to? Ya suppose?

  8. Oh good on ISPs Sign On To FCC Anti-Botnet Code of Conduct · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...attacks on the Domain Name System and Internet routing attacks..."

    Something with teeth to finally stop the U.S. DOJ from shutting down websites arbitrarily.

  9. Re:Patents on Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable · · Score: 5, Funny

    PI not IP

  10. Re:60 Minutes piece optimistic about SpaceX on SpaceX Gets Astronauts To Try Out Its Dragon Crew Cabin · · Score: -1, Troll

    Poor baby! who said anything about conservatives or liberals or anything??? Touchy, aren't you?

  11. Re:60 Minutes piece optimistic about SpaceX on SpaceX Gets Astronauts To Try Out Its Dragon Crew Cabin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Even Obama has visited their facilities.

    Talk about the kiss of death...

  12. Re:Blast from the past on Wine 1.4 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    i've been using it within Fedora and Mint with Office 2003 and Photoshop (and previously with Dreamweaver) and had no problems. I would say my experience is that the applications have been running faster than under Virtualbox - which I do use for testing builds on a fairly regular basis. YMMV.

  13. uhhh. on Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd · · Score: -1

    FORMER Senator Chris Dodd.

  14. Re:Really? I mean really? on US Appeals Court Upholds Suspect's Right To Refuse Decryption · · Score: 2

    Oh rubbish! There is an excellent description of the "behind the scenes" technical detail that goes into /. editorial management here.

  15. Mmmm.... on Should There Be a Sci-Fi Category At the Oscars? · · Score: 1

    Who cares about the Oscars?

  16. IANAL on Google Heads Up Display Coming By the End of the Year · · Score: 2

    but I imagine they will be lining up to take the Google-glasses-induced automobile accident cases.

  17. "Should billionaires rule our schools?" on Tech Billionaire-Backed Charter School Under Fire In Chicago · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the morons who currently rule?

  18. Re:Directions please... on Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies · · Score: 1

    Very good!

    Of course if I get tossed in the slammer for asking a rhetorical question* I don't get to pay off student loans, my mortgage, my property taxes and I'll get three squares and free healthcare for life. Sounds like I win.

    * EVERY question I ask is a rhetorical question. I Love Big Brother.

  19. Directions please... on Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can anyone point me to a good EMP-type device that might work agains these things? I know the cops were experimenting with such a device to stop automobiles in their tracks.

  20. Re:Get rid of coins altogether on Obama Pushes For Cheaper Pennies · · Score: 1

    The "annoying pocket change" is the only real currency we still have. You'd be better off scarfing up nickels - as many as you can - while they are still composed of nickel. Think pre-1964 silver dimes/quarters for comparison.

  21. Re:Pot calling kettle. on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 0

    Exactly.

    I'm much more worried about how the U.S is allowing drones to be used by police agencies in this country to spy on us, etc., etc., etc.

  22. When surplus electronics are outlawed... on It's Not All Waste: The Complicated Life of Surplus Electronics In Africa · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...only outlaws will have surplus electronics.

  23. Just one more nail... on Verisign Admits Company Was Hacked In 2010, Not Sure What Was Stolen · · Score: 1

    In 2009 Heartland Payment systems admitted to being hacked (150m+ credit card numbers swiped) and told the world at the exact moment the world was watching Oblama get inaugurated so nobody would notice...

    TJX allows itself to be compromised for years...

    Verisign - the keeper of the keys gets hacked and finally admits it...

    Gee Uncle Roy! My moral compass is starting to swivel away from any notion to ever do the right thing again.

  24. You're quoting Dana Milbanks (sic)??? on Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Geez, one of the worst of the Washington Post shill-meisters. And it is Milbank, not Milbanks who has said "that the whole campaign-trail reporting gig is a complete waste of time and borderline fraudulent". How is this /. material?

  25. Names Please? on New Privacy Laws Could Boost EU Cloud Industry · · Score: 1

    So can anyone list a EU-based provider I can use?