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  1. oy on Google Santa Tracker Is Back · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I hate to break this to you, but Google is not eager to pay girls lots of money. They want to flood the market.

  2. Re:Yeah, that's the problem on A Post-Antibiotic Future Is Looming (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We need more medical personnel, or nothing we do to try to fight these resistant illnesses is going to make a difference because we won't have the manpower to implement it.

    Sorry, the affordable care act requires more bureaucrats, and less doctors. Doctors are the evil 1% anyway, so we must drain them dry. Can't imagine why fewer people would want to enter and stay in that profession.

  3. stick a fork in it on Mozilla Is Removing Tab Groups and Complete Themes From Firefox (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to love Firefox, because it was demonstrably better than IE. It was easier to use, less spammy, and frankly, fun to stick it to Microsoft. It was even worth the occasional memory apocalypse.

    Haven't used it for several years now, except for testing. I can get dumbed down interfaces and adware anywhere, thanks very much.

  4. Disclosure! on Docker Turns To Minecraft For Server Ops (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A scary Demi Moore face chasing Michael Douglas around the server farm!

  5. Re:Why is the Left so fiercely defending Islamism? on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    What motivates educated people to sit in front of a keyboard for 40 minutes composing a thousand-word defense of the disgusting mass murder Islamists committed in Paris today?

    Pics or it didn't happen. Do you actually have any examples of "the left" defending these attacks, or are you just finding someone to hate?

    You can't be serious.

    A bunch of idiots slamming "religion" in this context is defending Islam. Because "religion" didn't do this; Islam did this.

    Not to mention saying that "we" somehow caused this. The only way we caused this is by inviting them into our countries.

    Exactly nobody is afraid that Presbyterians or Amish or Jews are going to shoot up innocents in their movie theaters and cartoonists offices. Everybody is afraid that Muslims will, and with good reason.

    Some are so afraid that they refuse to even say who they are afraid of. They hope that keeping their voices down will keep them safe. And they try to silence anybody else who dares to notice the bleeding obvious.

  6. Re:Why is the Left so fiercely defending Islamism? on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    What motivates educated people to sit in front of a keyboard for 40 minutes composing a thousand-word defense of the disgusting mass murder Islamists committed in Paris today?

    Shared hatred of Christians. (And of observant Jews.)

  7. Good lord ... on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... I know it shouldn't surprise me, but even after this, the top rated comments are still slamming generic "religion" and talking about "backlash" playing a role.

    What exactly would it take to wake you up? Would anything do it? Your own head being sawed off? Your city being bombed?

  8. Good riddance on Beats Music To Shut Down November 30 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Gee, so glad I had to lose MOG with its very nice interface to Beats with its horrid interface.

    I knew Beats was going to be a disaster as soon as I tried it out (and dumped it).

  9. Re:Probably not on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 2

    Start with the fact that cloud services are big, ripe, juicy targets for anyone and everyone. Continue that there's probably never a time when their service isn't under some kind of attack in one way or another. Add in the fact that my server contains nothing of any real value to anyone but me. And extrapolate that to a very low likelihood that anyone would bother to take the time to attack my server.

    That was a good argument in the past, maybe, but today the attacks are all automated (and the ones that aren't are against high value targets that don't meet your criteria anyway).

    Low value or not, your server get hammered against every day simply for being on the internet.

  10. Re:Why the fuck is this a video on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 0

    Why is this taking megabytes of bandwidth to convey a message that could take kilobytes? Is there something visual about this concept that can't be communicated in writing? Stop the dumbing down of of /.

    I'm guessing it might have something to do with her femaleness.

    See?!? She's female and a geek! Female! Geek! See?!?

  11. So ... something flying over the wall and crashing doesn't get seen doing that, but rather "discovered" as having crashed?

  12. so, does this only work ... on Joomla SQL-Injection Flaw Affects Millions of Websites (trustwave.com) · · Score: 1

    So, does this only work if errors are output to the screen?

    Trying to assess the impact to our client sites. We always write errors to file and not to screen.

  13. Re:What is the dependence on geography? on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it would be interesting to see the breakdown of survey results by country and region. If I live in the New York City area, I could see potentially going without a car due to viable alternative transportation options. If I live in Silicon Valley and already drive a car to work, it would be completely unacceptable to not have a car, as that would increase weekly travel times by 10-15 hours, i.e., an order of magnitude more travel time and several orders of magnitude more frustration.

    Stop it with that crazy logic stuff. Onward!

  14. Jaws19 on Tomorrow Is 'Back To the Future' Day (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Jaws 19 would have been better than "Zombie Apocalypse 402".

  15. Re:We should inspire... on Another Drone Crashes Near White House (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Cool drone, Howard. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more people like you to like science. It's what makes America great.

    Good one; not holding my breath on that ...

  16. Re:Comparing Feynman with Marcy on How Academia Still Struggles With Sexual Harassment (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    After reading the linked piece about Feynman, it doesn't seem that his alleged sexism (and I'm not claiming it did or did not exist) is at all comparable to what Prof Marcy has been accused of. Feynman may have been a "typical sexist male of the '50s", but Marcy is being accused of criminal acts including sexual assault.

    Assuming that they did what they are accused of, there are far more Feynmans than Marcys.

    Which is precisely why the SJWs want to treat the two as the same. You can't make much hay out of rare straws.

  17. Re:Don't use 'em on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    Debit card.

  18. Don't use 'em on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 2

    I just don't use credit cards anymore.

    'course, the bankruptcy helped with that decision ...

  19. Re:Better to drink from a leaking garbage bag on The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? · · Score: 1

    But really, the biggest health issue with colas is the sugar, and one may actually increase their sugar intake by switching to juice.

    But as an in-group marker, juice is da bomb.

  20. why ... on The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? · · Score: 1

    ... why do these stories endlessly conflate sugared and diet sodas?

  21. Re:Bezos is so Republican on How Amazon's Robots Move Everything Around · · Score: 1

    He wants families to be forced out of work and to starve. That is so Republican of him. So Republican. They hate families.

    Jeff Bezos has supported and donated primarily to Democratic causes and Democratic candidates.

    Don't confuse him with reality :)

    To these folks the word "Republican" is just a meaningless pejorative. Their use of the word betrays no actual knowledge at all.

  22. huh? on Google DeepMind's AI Beats Humans At Even More Computer Games · · Score: 1

    Computers have been beating me at computer games since before you were born, sonny ...

  23. Re:Shop elsewhere if you need this drug on Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or, it just may be that "free markets" don't exist, have never existed and cannot exist, and this is just a snapshot of what late-stage capitalism looks like.

    In 2009 another small pharma company inveigled an exclusive on the longstanding generic gout medication colchicine from the FDA, effectively rebranding the unmodified generic so they could raise its price by a similar percentage.

    Oh dear. It's too bad that no "progressives" have had any power since 2009.

  24. has anybody on Slashdot ... on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... realized yet that his father is an activist? Ran twice for president of Sudan (from the US!)? Debated that FL pastor who burned a koran?

    I knew this was too "perfect" the first whiff of it I got, and the more details come out, the more right I was.

  25. Re:Who read this and thought he invented something on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    OK if a $color kid brought in a suitcase with wires sticking out, which he plugged in and it making a noise and then refused to answer questions what is was exactly, I suspect he would have received the similar treatment.

    Yes, that's right.

    But reason and perspective don't feel nearly as good as finally finding them some "backlash".