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  1. Re:Media Hype on 4 Calif. Students Arrested For Alleged Mass-Killing Plot · · Score: 1

    Isn't this where the FBI steps in and offers them guns. And then in 6 months take them down and chalk up a anti-terrorist win?

  2. Re:I hope this is not the hardest test on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    They already have their degree, this is an interview.

  3. Re:Evolution on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Think it's more that the taller people having more kids is pulling up their average height. Are Americans evolving to be more "Latin" since Latin birthrates in the US is higher than other ethnicities?

  4. Forget thieves, how about when cops take your phone.

  5. Re:Remind my why they are being sued on Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    Currently cable companies pay the broadcasters to carry their channel. If Aereo was allowed people might cut out the cable company and just receive the programming for free. This would be lost revenue for the cable company and broadcasters. So instead of providing a competing product, they sue to keep their monopoly.

  6. Re:This doesn't necessarly shut it down on Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    People that could receive OTA would not bother paying Aereo unless they wanted the option to watch elsewhere. Having the antennas somewhere with good reception was a huge plus, and the main reason I considered Aereo.

  7. How do they prevent the money from being tracked? on Banking Fraud Campaign Steals 500k Euros In a Week · · Score: 2

    Since this is all done electronically, what do the thieves do to prevent the banks from tracking where the money went? Why would banks allow transfers to institutions that don't allow the money to be tracked and returned?

  8. Re:Urban Dictionary on The FBI's Jargon List: Internet Acronyms Galore · · Score: 1

    What did smoking use to mean?

  9. Open Government Data costs NYC thousnads in income on How Open Government Data Saved New Yorkers Thousands On Parking Tickets · · Score: 1

    Guess that would be the alternative headline. It really isn't in the city's interest to release the data. People have to be vigilante now to ensure they don't stop providing it.

  10. Would hav ebeen more impressive if on Geophysicists Discover How Rocks Produce Magnetic Pulses · · Score: 1

    Since the 1960s, geophysicists have known that some earthquakes are preceded by ultra-low frequency magnetic pulses that increase in number until the quake takes place.

    The pluses would have been more impressive if they decreased in number at some point with anti-pulses. I'm guessing they meant frequency instead of number.

  11. Re:What a punishment on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    A charge doesn't go past a defender... wait you're doing it again aren't you?

  12. Crash into whoever violated the rules on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    Crashes should be very unlikely when everyone is following the rules of the road. So if the car has to pick between the guy that cut it off or the car next to it, it picks the car that cut it off. Maintain the right of way if no other option is available without creating a crash.

  13. Re:Why it is not white-hot? on Skydiver's Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor · · Score: 1

    That far into the atmosphere, it's lost it's orbital velocity and has reached terminal velocity. It's probably doing in the neighborhood of about 200-300 kph.

  14. Re:OMG FAG LOL on Xbox One Reputation System Penalizes Gamers Who Behave Badly · · Score: 0

    You might just be able to use the system as a placebo. Just state the rules and have the system work weakly. A lot of people might improve just knowing the system is in place. It would be the 80% solution.

  15. Re:Wikipedia ruined the internet on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 1

    But if wiki calls out Energy Medicine as the placebo effect, it'll stop working for those that read it.

  16. Re:Still Worth It on Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fee · · Score: 1

    How so? Prime members get to borrow books from the Amazon library that others would have to buy.

  17. Re:How will people learn to swear then? on Terrafugia Wants Their Flying Car To Be Autonomous · · Score: 1

    I'm sure aggressive drivers would be really pissed if they saw others drive like them.

  18. Current rotation of games on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    1. Hearthstone - log on and do a the daily quest and maybe play 2 or 3 other rounds
    2. Check Battlelog to see if any friends are playing BF4
    3. Skyrim for some alone time
    4. Log into Planetside 2 for the daily certs. Play for a bit if there's an alert or something interesting going on
    5. On weekends I might fire up a game of Civ5

  19. Make some sort of agreement with a "snowy" city on Atlanta Gambled With Winter Storm and Lost · · Score: 1

    Wonder if it would be feasible to have some sort of agreement with a city that does have the equipment to come by and salt roads and Atlanta pays some kind of fee each year for help with upkeep. Though you probably have to go pretty far north from Atlanta to get to a city that's snowy. Might need to just have a collective or maybe the state or Georgia have them available.

  20. Re:The cruelest part on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 0

    And the Indian would have even less to live on since he needs to send money home to his family.

  21. Re:It definitely *IS* a ruse ! on FBI Edits Mission Statement: Removes Law Enforcement As 'Primary' Purpose · · Score: 1

    Secret Service for counterfeiting, Border Patrol for the borders, Park rangers for national parks, as mentioned elsewhere there's DHS and even NASA has a SWAT team.

    There's a whole host of others
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_the_United_States

  22. Re:It definitely *IS* a ruse ! on FBI Edits Mission Statement: Removes Law Enforcement As 'Primary' Purpose · · Score: 1

    How would that be different to what happened 200 years ago? The British considered the American rebels traitors and could have hung them. They didn't since the US also held British prisoners. What they did do was hold them in prison ship, in which many a prisoners died.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_of_war_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War

    The two times that I know of that there was a rebellion in the US (Whiskey Rebellion and Civil War), an army was drafted and the rebellion crushed. Why do people think things would be different now?

    If you have enough people to start a revolution, you have enough people to get people that think like you elected. I would think it would be much easier to get people to vote rather than take up armed resistance.

  23. Re:Hard to believe on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 1

    nah just add a huge aftermarket spoiler, all the downforce you need.

  24. Re:Protip on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 1

    Not everyone can pass an exam by just studying, you insensitive clod.

  25. Re:This guy will be dissapointed on Game Preview: Hearthstone · · Score: 2

    hmm I wonder if there will be a market for virtual card protectors.