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  1. "Nuclear" and "Meltdown" in the same sentence on Central New York Nuclear Plants Struggle To Avoid Financial Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Next up: "Rather Mundane Story Attempts to Get Attention via Sensational Headline"

  2. Re: Here's the full story. on Ask Slashdot: Suitable Phone For a 4-Year Old? · · Score: 1

    It sounds more like he's simply pissed. I would be too if the woman I'd had a child with suddenly decided that she didn't want me anymore and ran off with someone else. The fact that she apparently switched sexual orientations is just icing on the cake.

  3. Re: Gross, but... on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 0

    I used up my mod points before reaching this, so I'm asking other /.ers to cover for me and mod parent up!

  4. Re: It means there's now one more API to target. on What Valve's Announcements Mean for Gaming · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wayland stands in one corner, hailed by the majority of the Linux community. In the other corner stands Canonical's canonical display server, all alone. Given Valve's actions so far, I'd wager a healthy amount of btc on wayland.

  5. Re:...and suddenly on Martha Stewart Out To Exterminate Patent Troll Lodsys · · Score: 2

    At times I wonder if she even really did it or if someone framed her because she wouldn't give them a BJ. And then I take off my tin-foil hat....or do I?

  6. Re: DRM DRM DRM on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 1

    Even better, it turns the inherent weakness of the license model (that it isn't tied to a physical object such as a disk or floppy) and turns it into a strength by giving you great convenience and protection from wear and tear.

  7. Do kids actually learn anything in music? on How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? · · Score: 1, Troll

    All it taught me was to hate classical music, which took a while to get over. I've a feeling that the same might happen with programming. IMO: make logic a mandatory course in elementary school and then offer real CS courses in high school. None of this business with "and here's how you use excel, now go play on Facebook little Johnny"

  8. Re: Linux Mint anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware we needed a reason to rag on Apple users.

  9. Re: Indoctrination and Propoganda on California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum · · Score: 1

    DARE should have been "Drugs and Alcohol are Really Expensive". While high price begets its own cool factor, it's at least something a broke student can relate to.

  10. Re: Some people... on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 1

    It's easier to move the earth than to change a decision already made.

  11. Re: XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 1

    Or a cat

  12. Re: Wait a minute on Link Rot and the US Supreme Court · · Score: 2

    No, we'd get the US tax code

  13. Re: interesting that a newbie is telling the world on Learning To Code: Are We Having Fun Yet? · · Score: 1

    With servers you can have your cake and eat it too (to some degree) with hostname aliasing, though. While some languages (eg JavaScript) have easy ways to alias functions and objects, it is often considered bad form to do so.

  14. Re:Oh do me a favour. on Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort To Find Meaning In Your Posts · · Score: 2

    Neural Networks are just one representation of data. Whether or not they are used, there are always ways to improve them. With this scenario in particular, the problem being solved is not with the learning itself but with learning quickly.

    It's sort of analogous to Google: yes, you could sort all that data with bubble sort and it *would* finish, but why wait that long when you could develop better and faster methods?

  15. Re:Bandwidth on Never Underestimate the Bandwidth of a Suburban Filled With MicroSD Cards · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain that we'd have to dedicate a second lane of traffic to pornstars in order to keep up that rate of porn downloads for very long.

  16. Re: Best is two shifts with some recovery time bet on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Work Schedule Make You Unproductive? · · Score: 1

    However, they can keep you from listening!

  17. Re: Would probably be found on Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Open source is kind of like democracy: the worst possible distribution method except for all the others.

  18. Re: One button to the main screen! Is that changed on Ars Technica Reviews iOS 7 · · Score: 0

    The HTC I owned in the past. Was meant to be past tense but lazy typing made it come out wrong.

  19. Re: FFS on Join the Efforts of a Manned Mission To Jovian Moon Europa · · Score: 0

    I guess you could say that they're signing people up to be... *glasses* ...probed! YEEEAAAAAA!

  20. Re: A billion here, a billion there... on IBM VP Talks About Another $1 Billion for Linux Development (Video) · · Score: 1

    With a billion dollars, they could build a hot pocket factory and provide all kernel contributors with a lifetime supply!

  21. Re: how about fighting poverty on Google Tackles Health · · Score: 1

    If you double the wages of a group one of three things will happen. 1) the portion of the price of the produce dedicated to covering labour costs will double. (Ie if 30c per big mac is for labor costs, that'd go up to 60c) 2) half of the people employed in that group will be laid off Or 3) some combination of the above (eg 50% price increase and 25% layoff) While some companies would cut into their profits to avoid that, I'd wager that most wouldn't and those that did couldn't cut deep enough to offset the entire cost without going under

  22. Re: One button to the main screen! Is that changed on Ars Technica Reviews iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    That is a recent change. Most android devices (except maybe the very new) have menu keys. My old Motorola did, as did the HTC and the Samsung I currently own.

  23. Re: Why would they hire engineers? on NYT Publisher Says Not Focusing on Engineering Was A Serious Mistake · · Score: 1

    I think you're underestimating the number of Indian and Chinese engineers.

  24. Re:Sounds familiar... on Canadian Scientists Protest Political Sandbagging of Evidence-Based Policy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It oughtn't be surprising: those least informed are most easily persuaded. If you went and told an englishman circa 1600 about science killing millions (a la hiroshima), but left out the part about it saving millions more (medicine, etc), they would be persuaded because they'd be presented with only part of the truth.

  25. Sounds familiar... on Canadian Scientists Protest Political Sandbagging of Evidence-Based Policy · · Score: 0

    I think we're rubbing off on them, my fellow americans!