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  1. Re:Expensive Middle Class Sport Losing Patrons on In a Hole, Golf Courses Experiment With 15-inch Holes · · Score: 1

    There is the impending loss of good 9-speed road bikes in the near future which will eventually fill the pipeline of the used market with 10-speed and up with their ridiculously overpriced replacement chains and sprockets.

    Still working on my stockpile of 10 year old 9-speed parts bought cheap before the dollar tanked and SRAM started matching Shimano on price.

  2. Internship on Google: Better To Be a 'B' CS Grad Than an 'A+' English Grad · · Score: 1

    So now he's been anointed by the Goog and will be viewed as a golden child at every job he interviews for in the future.

  3. Re:Losing good men to the war on pretend violence on L.A. Science Teacher Suspended Over Student Science Fair Projects · · Score: 1

    A marshmallow shooter isn't the start of the slippery slope to gun violence any more than the pervasive availability of knives contributes to stabbings. It used to be normal and accepted practice in western society to teach boys to hunt game to help supplement the family's food supply.

  4. Re:Credible Source? on Google Aids Scientology-Linked Group CCHR With Pay-Per-Click Ads · · Score: 2

    if Google were to deny CCHR use of the program, they would be in a lawsuit and would probably lose.

    Google is under no obligation to provide free services fairly and without bias.

  5. Twitter rolled on Peoria Mayor Sends Police To Track Down Twitter Parodist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So basically if a Jackboot^W LEO asks for account info on anyone without a warrant or even reasonable evidence that a crime has even been committed, Twitter will just hand over your private details to them without question.

  6. Re:It's Not Really Oracle on Oracle Deflects Blame For Troubled Oregon Health Care Site · · Score: 1

    There's also nothing about running a health exchange that requires the use of an Oracle DB. The volume of data and transaction rate wouldn't stress any database. The secret sauce is in the application code, not the DB. They should have found a developer with a proven track record of delivering LAMP-style systems rather than pissing money away on a gold plated turd from a company with no grand history in developing web sites.

  7. Re:Possibly Worse Than That on Click Like? You May Have Given Up the Right To Sue · · Score: 2, Informative

    Contracts have to be negotiated and signed by two parties to be valid. You have to have an opportunity to modify the terms before exchanging money. Buying commodities doesn't meet that standard. Neither do post-purchase EULAs.

  8. Doesn't get it on Mercedes Pooh-Poohs Tesla, Says It Has "Limited Potential" · · Score: 1

    Once players such as Mercedes and Porsche enter the luxury electric vehicle market, he questions whether Tesla will be able to maintain its current, growing success.

    Tesla isn't aiming to be in the luxury market. They will be gradually reducing the price of new models until they are affordable for non-rich people. If Tesla can deliver a superior product for less than a Merc where do you think consumers will go?

  9. Re:so? on Click Like? You May Have Given Up the Right To Sue · · Score: 1

    Why would General Mills' be treated any different than the other Corporate Masters?

    They don't pay as much for for preferential treatment as the other guys. Their only need for lobbying is to ensure farm subsidies are as high as possible to force down the market price for grain.

  10. Re:To Crypt or Not To Crypt on First Phase of TrueCrypt Audit Turns Up No Backdoors · · Score: 1

    A passphrase from hell doesn't protect you from a keylogger. It does, however, put the burden on whatever organization hacks your computer to justify why they installed a keylogger since you can demonstrate that the long password couldn't possibly be brute forced. If they try to hide their tracks it is difficult to use a parallel reconstruction to explain away how they got the long password. Just don't ever fall for the trap of thinking you are invulnerable.

  11. Re:Over 18 on IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt · · Score: 1

    The IRS has to be basing its claim on something. File a FOIA request to get that info. If you end up in court and they didn't comply or insisted on a ridiculous fee you will have the favor of the judge. Before court ever happens they will of course forward their fraudulent claims to the credit reporting and collection agencies. Follow the FCRA dispute process (which they will just rubber stamp in their favor) to get more documentation demonstrating your due diligence to defend yourself. More bonus points with the judge.

  12. Re:conflating two problems on U.S. Biomedical Research 'Unsustainable' Prominent Researchers Warn · · Score: 1

    Teaching is just a loss leader for the things that really matter: athletics and patents. It is only natural to cut back on the unnecessary expense of employing parasitic teachers.

  13. PDF form on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Pay Your Taxes? · · Score: 1

    I fill out the PDF forms and mail them in. The IRS got their act together a couple years ago and finally enabled saving the PDF filled out forms so you don't have to do it in one shot before printing. I get a nice hardcopy documenting what is or isn't owed. It's nice when the tax man fucks something up and you have hard paper to prove that you're right rather than an ephemeral computer record that they can lie about.

  14. It would be a shame... on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 4, Funny

    It would be a shame if ... something ... happened to that nice video streaming business you got there.

  15. Re:99%? Not good enough on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1

    I hear mother nature has been secretly receiving yellowcake shipments. Proof enough?

  16. Frames are for losers on Can You Buy a License To Speed In California? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Saint Jobs just drove around without a license plate.

  17. Re:Hero ? on GM Names Names, Suspends Two Engineers Over Ignition-Switch Safety · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Somebody in management had to sign off on the change and a whole lot of work had to be done to revise the tooling and approve the expenditures. This wasn't an invisible modification done by a sneaky engineer unbeknownst to higher levels of management. There is always a bottom to every hill and the shit stops rolling once it gets there.

  18. Re:Why not more? on $250K Reward Offered In California Power Grid Attack · · Score: 1

    The train system is even more vulnerable and more accessible for mayhem with less risk of accidental electrocution.

  19. Re:I'll believe it on The New 'One Microsoft' Is Finally Poised For the Future · · Score: 1

    Been done. At least for Solaris and HP-UX.

  20. Re:this shit is infuriating on Hewlett-Packard Admits To International Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of celebrities who can royally fuck up their lives with drugs and alcohol and still have an industry of enablers desperate to throw millions of dollars at them.

  21. Re:Transparent bonnets on Land Rover Demos "Transparent Hood" · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Amish porn

    Awwww yeahhhh

  22. Re:... with a RaspberryPi on Princeton Students Develop Open Source Voice Control Platform For Any Device · · Score: 1

    FWIW the USB and Ethernet problems are all Broadcom's fault for making shitty SoC.

  23. ... with a RaspberryPi on Princeton Students Develop Open Source Voice Control Platform For Any Device · · Score: 1

    With a RaspberryPi you don't say? Quick, get a patent on this innovative technology that would be so mundane if it were implemented on a desktop machine running Debian or something.

  24. Re:Sounds like you need a database on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 1

    But he needs something that's webscale. Probably will need sharding too.

  25. Knowing nothing about jellyfish stings, I assume his advice was legit.

    Oz usually acts as a shill for whoever his guest is and never calls them out when they spout off unscientific bullshit. It's his way of cracking into the "alternative" medicine market without being legally liable for any illegal claims made. He's a sad excuse for a doctor.