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  1. Re:Hurray for Japan on First Arrest In Japan For 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you wanted to at least attempt to compare like to like you should compare Japan's murder rates to the murder rates for Japanese Americans.

  2. Re:Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    I always wondered about Google's motivation for purchasing that company that makes pool playing robots.

  3. Re:let me be the first to say on 4chan Launches '$20 Bug Bounty' After Hackers Ruin moot's Day · · Score: 2

    Selling it to a corporation would mean instant death (no corporate structure would deal with such an army of crazy people)

    Actually that's probably prevented many from offering. Being in charge of 4chan would likely be a liability disaster for an actual corporation. Certainly more trouble than it's worth.

  4. Re:Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    What happens when Google plugs the Autonomous Vehicle Ethical System into their analytics system?

    "Collision unavoidable. Vehicle on left is driven by Apple patent lawyer, vehicle on right is occupied by Justin Bieber fans.
    Attempting to target both vehicles"

  5. Re:Sure, I guess I agree on Kerry Says US Is On the "Right Side of History" When It Comes To Online Freedom · · Score: 1

    If by "right side" he means leaning towards totalitarianism and increasingly corporatist/fascist views towards online freedoms, then ok, I guess I can agree.

    The trick to being on the "right side of history" has always been to make sure the people who will write the histories are people already sympathetic to your side.

  6. Re:Right to a Bank Account on Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts · · Score: 2

    If anything the Liberal position is more hypocritical than the Conservative one.

    It's not so much hypocritical, it's just that the left favors collective rights over individual rights. So where the right would favor an individual's right to join or not join a union, the left favors a union's right to force individuals to become members.

    Banning pornography is like forcing women to join a union. By restricting supply it artificially increases the value of naked women and as a result causes men to spend more on it. As a result they're hoping to increase the sexual value of the average middle-aged American woman from almost nothing to "half your stuff when she divorces you".

  7. Re:Market saturation on Figuring Out the iPad's Place · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So what you're saying is, the feature that is ultimately lacking from modern tablets is "planned obsolescence".

    Apple, Intel, ARM, and all screwed up when they designed systems that would still work 2 years down the road.

  8. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    No no, "well regulated" refers to how militia members must have access to a steady supply of water from wells.

  9. Re:Stupid gimmick, and I even don't care about gun on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, a few months ago, agun owner 20 miles away, in San Bernadino, got killed when he interrupted a home invasion (by unarmed people) He got two, the third strangled him. So three people dead, one in jail for life (I hope) ... which probably would not have happened if he had not had a gun.

    Isn't 2 dead burglars, an imprisoned burglar, and a dead homeowner still better than 3 live possibly free burglars and a dead homeowner?

  10. Re:Punishment fits the crime on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 2

    From my understanding, a week with Slashdot Beta should about do it.

    Too cruel and unusual. No one deserves that.

  11. Re:Untested? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Same way you test any new drug. Undergrads.

  12. If they're having so much trouble testing drugs... on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    Why don't states just approve capital punishment using a respirator and a tank of inert gas like helium or nitrogen? Nitrous oxide would do as well as make the experience less unpleasant. Seems a lot more reliable than injecting chemicals.

  13. Re:Yet another article about how MIT is wasting on MIT Bitcoin Project To Create Cryptocurrency Ecosystem, Give $100 Per Student · · Score: 1

    Thank you for that, I foresee my gaming group encountering a pack of stoatoaks in the near future.

  14. Re:Are there any old drives around that read these on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    Doesn't magnetic storage start to degrade after 40 years?

  15. Almost there on Designer Creates a Water Bottle That You Can Eat · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm still waiting for someone to invent a reusable water bottle. Then the bottled water industry will really be finished.

  16. Re:how come we never hear on Amazon Embodies the Gender Gap in Tech · · Score: 1

    It's the job of the person doing the hiring to choose the best candidate. If they choose an inferior candidate their company is stuck with the consequences.

    Enforcing equality of outcomes in a field with an imbalance in the numbers of qualified men and women will force choosing inferior candidates. In those fields there is nothing unfair about an imbalance, any disadvantage is completely just.

  17. Re:Oy vey it's another holocaust on Amazon Embodies the Gender Gap in Tech · · Score: 0

    Nonsense, they don't want men to all be unemployed. They want us to be beasts of burden doing all the real work while women receive all the authority and rewards.

  18. Re:how come we never hear on Amazon Embodies the Gender Gap in Tech · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Females wanted equality, I define equality by giving the job to the best candidate, not an artificial quota of genders in each position

    They wanted equality of outcomes. They never said they wanted to work as hard as men, they just wanted an equal share of the credit.

  19. Re:And Amazon's not the only one either! on Amazon Embodies the Gender Gap in Tech · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Women tend to be more educated and weaker.

    Educated and physically weak happen to align well with the stereotype of tech nerds.

    The types of education women tend to get on the other hand do not align with the types of education associated with tech nerds. No, your gender studies degree is not as valid as my programming experience.

  20. Re:Books are decorations on Ask Slashdot: Books for a Comp Sci Graduate Student? · · Score: 1

    "Sinclair's The jungle"

    An important book for preparing any college student for what life is like in today's job market.

  21. Re:Remember 911 on Australian Law Enforcement Pushes Against Encryption, Advocates Data Retention · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't, because freedom is more important than safety.

    Not in Australia.

  22. Re:Well... no. on Joss Whedon Releases New Film On Demand · · Score: 5, Funny

    You do, however, lack the writers, acting talent

    Lacking those doesn't seem to have stopped a lot of big studios either.

  23. Re:What's the range of an EMP? on Expert Warns: Civilian World Not Ready For Massive EMP-Caused Blackout · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

    "It produced a yield equivalent to 1.4 megatons of TNT."

    "The Starfish Prime electromagnetic pulse also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about 1,445 kilometres (898 mi) away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights, setting off numerous burglar alarms and damaging a telephone company microwave link. The EMP damage to the microwave link shut down telephone calls from Kauai to the other Hawaiian islands"

  24. Re:Have anyone run a bussiness? on Beer Price Crisis On the Horizon · · Score: 2

    I once worked at a place where we produced a lot of waste contaminated lubricant. We securely set this barrels, and a nice guy would come by and pump it out and reprocess it and sell for whatever it could be used for.

    Ron Jeremy?

  25. Re:Milk/Beef prices as well? on Beer Price Crisis On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    I don't make the rules.