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  1. Re:No way! on Senator Who Calls STEM Shortage a Hoax Appointed To Head Immigration · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the h1b and work visa system in the US is hardly a free market.

  2. Logging in to say... on Wi-Fi Pineapple Hacking Device Sells Out At DEF CON · · Score: 1

    I hope it can be used for evil, because "good" these days amounts to a circle jerk with NSA, DEA debauchery. Your privacy is yours to own, and if other people begin to realize how screwed they are maybe they will choose a better path.

  3. Re:wtf on Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, the Bill of Rights is a codification of the "god" given or natural rights every human possesses, regardless their tyrannical state interpretation. These are not rights GRANTED, but are rights enumerated among an infinite list of natural rights, these being the most important to put in to law (supposedly). Governments do not grant rights, they only take them away.

  4. Re:No it's not on Israeli Army Retweeting 1967 War As It Happened · · Score: 1

    Damn I came here to say this and you beat me to it. At least those two aren't quite the propaganda machine.

  5. Re:Still.... on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, if as an enthusiast I submitted a patch that broke user space and got a beat down from Linus I'd be a bit sad. If, as a PAID developer, I submitted a patch that broke user space AND THEN blamed the user space applications and got a beat down I'd wonder wtf am I doing writing software.

    You never, ever, blame the end user for your fuck ups. Even more so when you changed the API/ABI and fucked it up yourself.

    Linus is an ass, but when dealing with someone who goes full asshole on the user space devs over his fuck up, he was a justifiable ass.

  6. Re:How about getting java code to run on java on Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU · · Score: 0

    Because people are incapable of learning without the government, right?

    There will always be good programmers, regardless of what the government institutions churn out.

  7. Re:uBI and aCTIVision do it too on EA Outs Battlefield 4, Plans To Charge $70 For New Games · · Score: 1

    I registered well after I lurked on /. I'm sure you understand that.

  8. Re:No, no no on EA Outs Battlefield 4, Plans To Charge $70 For New Games · · Score: 1

    I suspect you don't vary your servers much because I've seen all of this and I play only PC.

  9. Re:uBI and aCTIVision do it too on EA Outs Battlefield 4, Plans To Charge $70 For New Games · · Score: 0

    Not sure you've been here long enough either. Let's see how far this trend will continue.

  10. Re:who's internet freedom? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 0

    You're wrong here, actually. Weaken the government and it's ability to wrongly regulate a service (which causes it to become shit) and consumers will win.

    Weaken the governments ability to regulate anything and the private sector will actually listen to the consumers. When a city makes money off of a franchise fee, the consumer certainly is not going to win.

  11. Fuck yea, Comcast can rape me more! on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 2

    Internet freedom by letting Comcast coagulate with the scum of the earth MPAA/media producers.

    That means my internet will suck more, because I refuse to buy a fucking subscription to their shit ass channels. Fuck you Comcast, I just want my goddamn internet and I'm not a fucking pirate.

  12. Re:For non US-filtered search results on Judge Orders Hundreds of Websites Delisted From Search Engines, Social Networks · · Score: 1

    It would be anti-cronyism, and against brib... er, "lobbyists" and donations.

  13. Re:Why don't you support or troops?! on Supreme Court To Weigh In On Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it count if I quarter myself in my own home?

  14. Re:This is seriously a world first?!!?? on USB Foot Controls · · Score: 1

    I see what you did there!

    It was naughty.

  15. Re:Hadoop? on Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology · · Score: 1

    but the question was "don't they mean Hadoop MapReduce" and the answer was, "no, Hadoop is based on the paper Google released"

  16. Re:Hadoop? on Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology · · Score: 2

    The original paper from google was "MapReduce" of which Hadoop is an open source implementation of the concepts described in the paper.

    http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html

  17. Re:Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll on Dispute Damages Would Exceed Android Revenues · · Score: 2

    No kidding, when will this idiot disappear.

  18. ORACLE on Oracle To Give OpenOffice.org To Apache Incubator · · Score: 5, Funny

    One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

  19. Re:This proves the old adage on Doom Ported To the Web · · Score: 1

    And then the bed broke.

  20. Re:"lone wolf" suspects on Senate Passes 4-Year Re-Up of Patriot Act Provisions · · Score: 2

    Do not question the slashcode.

  21. Re:Don't tell the car companies on Fable III Dev: Used Game Sales More Costly Than Piracy · · Score: 0

    Fail. With one-time downloadable content they are settling for used software.

  22. Re:So . . . on New Bill Would Require US ISPs To Retain User Info · · Score: 1

    Great way to get the /. crowd riled up, threaten them with making porn illegal!

  23. Re:Nope on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 1

    Never been in the military huh?

    I spent a year in Iraq... that's really how people act. When you're stuck with the same people doing the same shit every day, it eventually turns you in to a "petty, catty bitch"

  24. Re:Nope on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 1

    The writers started it that way, intentionally. What they were thinking makes no sense.

    It really has gotten awesome, and now it's over. Bummer.

  25. Re:Recommended training courses? on I Like My IT Budget Tight and My Developers Stupid · · Score: 1

    I had great experience with some Spring training. It's nice to have someone who's writing the library that actually explains it.

    Aside from that, continuing education courses (which most companies seem to provide some reimbursement for, and there is a good tax break in the U.S.) at the graduate level will expose you to things beyond your crappy day job.