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  1. Re: on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  2. Re: on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: -1

    Make it expensive to hire illegals and they'll stop coming.

  3. Re: on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: -1

    We're probably boned either way, but at the moment I'm less distressed with the president buying corporations than I was with corporations buying the president.

  4. Re:I can see it now on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: -1

    Problem with your idea is that current tabs have a width to height ratio of about 5:1. Without implementing tricks that a lot of users won't like (popping out the tab on a mouseover for example, or worse, having the tabs read down sideways), you can't really make the tabs that much more narrow.So yes, there is more physical screen real estate from side to side, but from a percentage of the total dimension standpoint, it makes sense to keep the horizontal rather than vertical. Or more simply, 100 pixels shaved off the side of my screen is a bigger negative to me than 20 shaved off the top.

  5. Re: on Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? · · Score: -1

    Do humans eat chimps or gorillas? Or is the similarity too much for us to stomach (pun partially intended)?

  6. Re: on The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired · · Score: -1

    I think under moderate stress I produce but under to much stress I become very focused and don't have time or energy for creativity. Under a lot of stress I also tend to become depressed and that makes me feel uncreative. Leisure time tends to be of mixed results. The first few days of leisure I just want to recover but once recovered I'll tend to become very productive. I become so productive that I'd say that I'm again under moderate stress because I keep myself so busy. I wouldn't say it is bad times tho

  7. Re: on The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired · · Score: -1

    I recommend the fly swatter.

  8. Re: on Hosting a Highly Inflammatory Document? · · Score: -1

    Second suggestion for Wikileaks - it's pretty much what it's made for.

  9. Re: on Danger Mouse Releases Blank CD-R To Spite EMI · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  10. Who else? ME. on Surveying the World of the Biggest Server Farms · · Score: -1

    Also hopefully they are not counting virtual machines here.

  11. Re:The global (computer) models of climate change on Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected · · Score: -1

    This is slashdot so I'll just assume you didn't RTFA. Here's the original article:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513130942.htmIn summary, this finding just makes it harder to measure the effects of climate change. No where does it invalidate climate change you dumb ass. Instead of just measuring the cold return current as they previously thought, the water takes a diffuse route back to the tropics.

  12. What next? on "Jesus In Jeans" Sculpture Unveiled · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I hear they will soon be unveiling The Virgin Mary in a Bikini.

  13. Re: on McDonalds Free Wi-Fi Users Soak Up Seating · · Score: -1

    Yeah, I call it negative ergonomics. Take a seat with a rise at the front edge that presses into the back of the thigh. Make the seat higher than normal so the feet dangle.It's OK for ten minutes but then your legs go numb.

  14. Re: on Why Bother With DRM? · · Score: -1

    I'm sad to report I'll be considered among the 90% piracy figure by DRM vendors. It's not that I actually have a copy of World of Goo (well - OK... I probably still have the demo install on my HD still). It's that I haven't purchased a copy of World of Goo. A lost sale is a lost sale and tantamount to thievery.

  15. Re: on The Electronic Police State · · Score: -1

    It's interesting to note that India has a lot more freedom than any other country. The main reason for this is that though there can be laws, no one is interested in implementing "high blown" stuff and the police more or less only stick to the basics like real crime fighting. Politicians fight so much that there's no consensus on anything really, and in light of what I see happening in other countries, that's a good thing! And perhaps best of all, it's highly consumer friendly - corporations don't dicta

  16. Re: on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: -1

    The on duty desk officer assured me that it did not happen today, it was a few days ago. The officer is employed there. And he also assured me that the facts as they were being presented were inaccurate.. However, you can call their media unit at (206) 684-5520 for more information.By the way, they're getting slashdotted!

  17. Re: on DOSBox Sees Continued Success · · Score: -1

    For example, John Carmack used the same code for doors in the game as he did for monsters. In a sense, doors *were* monsters

  18. Re: on Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi · · Score: -1

    I don't see a correlation between "urban" and "baby monitor" to be racist.

  19. Re: on What To Do When a Megacorp Wants To Buy You? · · Score: -1

    like sleeping with girls a lot younger than yourself

  20. What? on Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video Take 2 · · Score: -1

    This makes Cleveland seem much nicer than it is in reality. The defining moment for me was being in a 7-11 at like 9 or 10 AM behind 2 ladies buying beer and cigarettes. First lady says to second, "Yeah I got me a good husband. He only beats me if he's drunk." Cleveland ROCKS! *gag*

  21. Re:Could you be more vague? on What To Do When a Megacorp Wants To Buy You? · · Score: -1

    I would take the money and the job that goes with it with a pre set separation date and terms. That way you can do what you like with a nice nest egg and that time certain arrangement will guard against you getting trapped in corporate culture.

  22. Re: on IBM "Invents" 40-Minute Meetings · · Score: -1

    with the proper legalese, you'll be rich in no time. Can I join?

  23. Re:Blech on How an Intern Stole NASA's Moon Rocks · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm not sure why they choose people like this for cool internships. It sounds like the kind of guy that had good grades in college and all kinds of extracurricular activities, but not the kind of guy you'd actually choose as an intern!Obviously I don't know anything besides the ridiculous, surely augmented account of TFA, which I did read. But I simply don't understand how people like that get internships, while people like me and others I know have a hard time. We don't have 4.0s and tons of extracurricula

  24. Re: on 60GHz Uber-WiFi Proposed By New WiGig Group · · Score: -1

    It means that there is a 7 GHz wide range of frequencies that is free somewhere around 60 GHz.e.g. 60-67 might be a possibility, or it might be 57-64.It's easier to use 7 GHz of spectrum at 60 GHz than 7 GHz of spectrum centered at 10, because the range is a lower percentage of the center frequency of the range.That said, the range at 60 GHz is going to be insanely short.

  25. Research. on NASA Running Low On Fuel For Space Exploration · · Score: -1

    Necessity is the mother of all invention. Lets take this opportunity to find a new method of powering probes for such long distance missions.