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  1. Re:Good for drivers, not for profits on IBM Launches Parking Meter Analytics System · · Score: 1

    they can fire the meter maids. duh.

  2. Re:So this is the new Slashdot? on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1

    I think the point is to imagine what the cops would do to people who actually mattered.

  3. Re:Crap Like This on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1

    there's one inflammatory adjective: "brutal". the rest are neutral facts.

  4. Re:How nice on Designer Creates "Euthanasia Roller Coaster" · · Score: 1

    it's still messy and a bit fiddly to secure the gun in such a way that it can't slip or be pulled away instinctively, and also to aim for the brain stem. the cheapest solution is probably to shave one's head, duct tape an L bracket to the barrel, and then use a lot of duct tape to secure the upper bar of the L bracket to the back of the shaved noggin (use a mirror to ensure aim).

    at any rate, a gun's not going to be totally clean anyway and, as others have said: the cleaner, the less reliable. i'd say, just go to the woods (or anywhere that the mess doesn't matter so much) and use a shotgun in the manner described above. animals will probably eat your brain bits pretty quickly; if you want to be really courteous, dig a shallow hole and do it in there.

    also, guns are not legal everywhere and some folks might want to die but be hesitant to pull a trigger for whatever reason.

    personally, i'd advocate to inhale an inert gas like nitrogen through a facemask in a well-ventilated room. the idea of "falling asleep forever" is more comfortable than blowing your brains out, and this is probably behind the use of drugs (with the addition that using the right drugs can actually be pleasant as well). my hypothesis is that one subconsciously believes that there's still time to back out, while still knowing that the sedation/unconsciousness will pretty much set in immediately (precisely, before one can act coherently to undo the situation). it's a mind trick. finally, to save what little dignity you have left, be sure to wear some Depends.

    pure nitrogen is quite easy to obtain, but i'll leave out these details.

  5. Re:Shocking. on Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check · · Score: 1

    I agree completely, but to play devil's advocate: it might be good to consolidate the filtering in a few specialized firms like this.

    There was a gizmodo (?) article which described the results of running this service on their staff; iirc, it picked up only the illegal stuff like drug use. They explicitly don't report on things like "normal" partying and even pregnancy (which some companies discriminate).

    Since this company has invested resources and specialized, they take on liability; you can sue them and moreover they are an easy target for class action if they screw up. I think this is probably a big improvement over leaving it to the potential prejudices of each individual firm's yokel HR department. Still not ideal, of course, but an improvement.

  6. Re:An obvious reminder on Famous Wildlife Photographer Busted For Using Stock Images · · Score: 1

    you got the quote right, but even better: they weren't asking about his position; they were asking about the literary world in general.

  7. Re:what we need to ask on Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test? · · Score: 1
  8. Re:what we need to ask on Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test? · · Score: 1

    turtle? what's that?

    you know what a tortoise is? same thing.

  9. Re:bitcoins? on Rent Your Own Botnet · · Score: 1

    yeah, it comes down to whether these trailer parkers with 0wned boxes have serious GPUs. the answer to that is no, and if they did i'm sure the "owners" would be mining the btc themselves.

  10. Re:bitcoins? on Rent Your Own Botnet · · Score: 1

    is the rental cost below ~15 cents per hour? probably not.

  11. Re:Decent Computer? on Building 2011's Sub-$200 Computer · · Score: 1

    crossover makes it a one-click operation.

  12. Re:Decent Computer? on Building 2011's Sub-$200 Computer · · Score: 1

    crossover office is $40-70 and works well in my experience.

    it's not that much more $$$ in addition to microsoft office and if you're pirating that, then go ahead and pirate crossover too.

  13. Re:just change the name from "pizza" to anything e on Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon · · Score: 1

    http://lassonyc.com/

    it's not my favorite in nyc, but very good. they certainly boast authenticity (imported cheese; san marzano tomatoes; maybe even flour?), but i wouldn't really know how to tell. i just know good pizza.

  14. Re:WTF? on Windows 8 To Natively Support ISO and VHD Mounting · · Score: 1

    it doesn't have to be, but imho it's a nice standard. for one, if a vendor uses an unusual installer, they can just put the instructions in a README on the disk image which the user can (hopefully) already open in the standard way; likewise, it's a standard place to put a list of bugfixes; &c.. second, it adds a few clicks to the app install process which reduces the number of malwares accidentally installed by dolts.

    the second one doesn't help me, but the first one is nice most of the time. having a list of bugfixes in the README has helped me decide whether or not to install an upgrade.

    finally, i can keep old versions of software as disk images. i could keep old versions of installers too, but the disk image system ties in to the "drag and drop"-install standard on Mac. if i want to go to an old version, i just delete the current version and open the old disk image.

    anyway, as long as the disk image is mounted in situ (i.e. not an extra copy), i really don't see the harm. they support compression and for the 0.01% of cases where that compression isn't fancy enough, the vendor can put in their own installer.

  15. Re:Hey Babe on Neanderthal Sex Boosted Immunity In Modern Humans · · Score: 1

    which means very little in and of itself.

  16. Re:Did Not Read The Fine Article FAIL, er... ure. on Neanderthal Sex Boosted Immunity In Modern Humans · · Score: 1

    okay, at least this is coherent, but would you also agree that the ashkenazi jew is superior to other whites by the same criteria? or do you have some special reason for why jewish intelligence doesn't count (you wouldn't be the first)?

  17. Re:It's hard to take seriously... on GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 1

    zombie bot? maybe, but it's probably some third-world peon doing this for pennies an hour.

    but maybe that's what you meant by zombie bot.

  18. Re:inquiring mind I see... on Rare Earth Restrictions To Raise Hard Drive Cost · · Score: 3, Funny

    why do i even bother trying to make an honest living...

  19. Re:His testing was pretty bad on 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    why? that would have just made his improvement less impressive. as it is, he's got a bright future in academia.

  20. Re:Why not put the videos on youtube? on LinuxCon 2011 Keynotes Streamed Free · · Score: 1

    Maybe they want to produce some numbers to demonstrate interest in linux? Why not let yourself be counted and thus be helpful yourself?

  21. Re:Did it ever occur to the article author that... on Anti-Piracy Lawyers Accuse Blind Man of Downloading Films · · Score: 1

    i'm posting from a braille terminal, you insensitive clod!

  22. Re:For Your Protection on Scotland Yard Confirms It's Using Facial Recognition Tech · · Score: 1

    from the graphic novel:

    Evey: All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please?
    V: No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means "without leaders", not "without order". With anarchy comes an age of ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordnung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

  23. Re:I don't know much about electronics.. on Science Fair Entry Shuts Down Airport Terminal · · Score: 1

    yeah, or that you replaced 8 of the 9 battery cells with explosive...

  24. Re:Who the fuck is she? on ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2329364&cid=36790694

    and when you're done with that, please die in a fire.

  25. Re:Who the fuck is she? on ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    slashdot mentions ed felten and his association with the same princeton organization a few times a month. some things are just taken for granted eventually.