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  1. Re:what price increases? on Time Warner Deal Is How Comcast Will Fight Cord Cutters · · Score: 1

    Lucky you. In the Sacramento region I have to pay Comcast $50 a month for 6 Mbps.

  2. Re:Lawyer says what? on NSA Ally Spied on US Law Firm · · Score: 1

    No lawmaker writes laws -- they can't, they don't have the expertise for that. Either they ask their staff of lawyers to write the law, or too often lawyers employed by special interests write the law and offer it on a platter to the lawmaker to sponsor.

  3. Re:I'm posting this in the buff. on Under Armour/Lockheed Suit Blamed For US Skating Performance · · Score: 2

    You're forgetting Olympic sumo wrestling.

  4. Re:magnetic field on The Search for Life On Habitable Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    We haven't examined the sub-surface liquid water of any of those places yet to test it for life.

  5. Re:And the atmosphere will freeze out on The Search for Life On Habitable Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, a thick atmosphere with winds evens out temperatures to a significant degree.

  6. Re:Think about it on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    It's not a legal responsibility, but it's certainly an ethical responsibility. If you hire someone like that, you're begging for your business to be similarly exploited by their selfishness.

  7. Re:Founding fathers on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 1

    Well the founding fathers took care of the people-voting-for-their-interests problem by denying anyone except white male land owners the right to vote. That's how they achieved their fantastic government which kept most of the people in unfathomable squalor and many in slavery or indentured servitude.

  8. Re:RIP on Mozilla To Show Sponsored Links To First-Time Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    This isn't some random javascript to load unknown ads. This is directly selling the speed dial page slots. There's no way that can be used for malware.

  9. Re:Sounds a lot like the slahshdot beta reviews on DDoS Larger Than the Spamhaus Attack Strikes US and Europe · · Score: 1

    That's not Dice, it's the regular people who hate beta who are sick of the never-ending toddler temper tantrum of comments about it. The comments were read, possibly ignored and possibly considered, and nothing else is going to happen from continual screaming. Get over it and either leave, or switch off the beta and wait it out like the rest of us.

  10. Re:Can we just mine the dark side? on NASA Now Accepting Applications From Companies That Want To Mine the Moon · · Score: 1

    Not quite. Lunar eclipses darken the near side of the moon, but never the far side.

  11. Re:Just be honest - it's not for *US* on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    An new design to look like modern sites is a good idea, but it's useless if you alienate the existing users. So why not both? Currently you have both. Where's the harm in continuing to keep the old version available forever and thus saving the site from a huge drop in comments? All this anger could be stopped just by ceasing to threaten to remove the non-beta version in a few months.

  12. Re:Slashdot death rattle on The Bitcoin Death Star: KnC Plans 10 Megawatt Data Center In Sweden · · Score: 1

    How is it possible to lose money on a site where the content is all user generated and there are both ads and subscriptions? Don't tell me they're paying top dollar for their "editors"...

  13. Re:Is the source code included? on North Korea's Home-Grown Operating System Mimics OS X · · Score: 1

    The GPL only requires they provide you with the source code if they provide you with the software. Since they only distribute it in North Korea, they're only obligated to provide the source to their own people. And I don't think those people are going to sue.

  14. Re:I'm sorry I'm an idiot on Gnome 3.12 Delayed To Sync With Wayland Release · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That team of wayland developers happens to be largely the same team who used to work on X, and wayland is endorsed by the X.org foundation. I've no technical opinion of wayland, but it's easy to see that X.org and the developers of X are in a better position to evaluate the need for it than you are.

  15. Re:Net neutrality is not the problem on US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I loathe Comcast, and after their latest attempt to cheat me by charging me rent on a cable modem I own I searched for alternatives.... and there are none. Not even satellite is available here. I'd have to go with dial-up.

  16. Re:Unity caused me to switch to Windows on Ask Slashdot: Are Linux Desktop Users More Pragmatic Now Or Is It Inertia? · · Score: 1

    So you left Linux because you demand a single interface and are not open to using Unity for netbooks and KDE/Gnome/XFCE/your preference for your normal uses. But then when Microsoft tries to unify with a single interface for desktops and tablets with Windows 8, you hate having a single interface and want to use different interfaces for different types of computers.

  17. Re:Just bought a puppy on Animal Drug Investigation Reveals Pet Medication Often Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    While your point is probably correct, those numbers need to be adjusted for cars. Outdoor cats and dogs are killed by cars in extremely large numbers.

  18. Re:It's almost as though cars need winterizing on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    No need for a world outside of California, just a world outside of LA and SF. California's Truckee is often one of the coldest places in the country.

  19. Re:What a bunch of baloney! Sample bias buddy. on The "Triple Package" Explains Why Some Cultural Groups Are More Successful · · Score: 1

    It's about 60 years, not a century. A century won't be enough time to make Nigeria stable either, when colonial borders were drawn for the purpose of splitting up ethnic groups and keeping them from being able to unite. Perhaps if Biafra had been allowed independence it could've been more successful.

  20. Re:Yeah yeah on $499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    I've been using the same inkjet cartridges for over a year now (I rarely print things), still works. They don't dry up that quickly.

  21. Re:more nukes now on Chinese Moon Rover Says an Early Goodnight · · Score: 1

    Only nuclear power has to pay for the damage and deaths it causes. Coal companies are free to irradiate huge swaths of land and statistically increase deaths far beyond nuclear with their pollution, without any compensation or insurance.

  22. Re:Should be Alternative Language Requirement on Kentucky: Programming Language = Foreign Language · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've met more people from London, Ontario than from London, England. Nothing wrong with being specific.

  23. Don't give malicious sites permission on Chrome Bugs Lets Sites Listen To Your Private Conversations · · Score: 0

    If you think a website is controlled by your enemies or the government or someone who benefits from listening to you, don't give the website permission to your microphone in the first place. Then you're safe from this exploit, since the exploit only works with sites you've already expressly approved.

  24. Re:Interesting as it points to how to decipher it. on Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World · · Score: 1

    More likely the early Spanish simply used the Aztec names for plants, not having their own names for them yet.

  25. Re:Dolphins vs Syrians? on 200 Dolphins Await Slaughter In Japan's Taiji Cove · · Score: 1

    Because a group of fishermen are a lot easier to put pressure on than the myriad of groups killing people in Syria.