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  1. "I only do eyes ..."

  2. Re:As a private citizen on Congress Can't Make Asteroid Mining Legal (But It's Trying, Anyway) · · Score: 1

    exception: if you are also a citizen of an EU country or Canada, you gain those rights in the US as well

    Seeing how the US doesn't recognize dual citizenship, I'm not sure I'd bank on that.

  3. It turns out that, unlike a human web content producer, Bing couldn't distinguish between images publishers have the rights to use and images they didn't.

    You have to know that's joke-bait. I see what you did there!

  4. Re:A little scary on L.A. Times National Security Reporter Cleared Stories With CIA Before Publishing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As long as people do want to believe slogans like "Fox News - Fair and Balanced", it won't get any better.

    The story is about a reporter at the LA Times, it is not a story about "Fox News."

    Yep. In fact, this story is about a big supporter of the currently ruling party, collaborating with the executive branch held by that ruling party. This is the New York Times obeying Obama's CIA.

    Both of which, BTW, want you to hate Fox News, which you are dutifully doing.

  5. Re:False premise on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    This is simply not the case today, especially as applied to 20-somthing trying to get a job. If you are still skeptical, I invite you to go to talk to HR and ask them what it would take to get entry-level job without a degree.

    Every programming job I've held, including my current one which I started about a year ago, has "required" a degree. I don't have one.

  6. Only a matter of time ... on Japanese Firm Showcases "Touchable" 3-D Technology · · Score: 1

    ... before no teenage boy leaves the house. Ever!

  7. Um, no on The Argument For a Hypersonic Missile Testing Ban · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A "ban", eh?

    Good actors would comply, bad actors would not. Then bad actors would have them, good actors wouldn't.

    And that's ... better? How?

  8. Almost amusing ... on Ukraine Asks Zuckerberg to Discipline Kremlin Facebook Bots · · Score: 1

    ... watching American lefties' discomfort in all this. Especially older American lefties.

    "Can't ever say that Russia is the bad guy, but Russia clearly is the bad guy all too obviously ... head must explode now like a 1960's sci-fi robot caught in a contradiction ..."

  9. um on Yahoo Stops New Development On YUI · · Score: 1

    Yahoo announced that they will cease new development on their javascript framework YUI, bowing to industry trends towards Node.js, Angular, and others.

    That's like when people used to talk vaguely about "talk radio" while somehow studiously omitting Rush L.

    Just querying, ya know ...

  10. been wondering many similar things on Hidden Obstacles For Google's Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    How's it going to park in a dirt lot? Recognize which spots are likely to be too muddy? How's it going to park behind the barn?

    Don't some of the breathless stories talk about whether or not these cars will need steering wheels? What's going to happen when the steering wheel-less models meet something they can't deal with? Blue screen of death?

  11. shortwave on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    Well ... I finally donated my AM/FM/shortwave radio last year. My wife didn't want a permanent antenna wire strung across any room, so I couldn't get much reception.

  12. Noticed a gender imbalance in garden clubs too on Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's an outrage! Something must be done!

    Maybe women have better things to do with their time than having edit wars all day for free?

  13. Re:It's OK to attack mythology and superstition... on Drought Inspires a Boom In Pseudoscience, From Rain Machines To 'Water Witches' · · Score: 1

    ...unless someone was taught it over a series of Sundays. :/

    I suppose ignorance on things like this is generational, and we'll stamp it out slowly, like racism or smoking.

    Oh yes, I'm sure it's the massive fundamentalist Christian population of California that's doing all the dowsing, rather than minuscule population of oh so scientific crystal-using copper-bracelet-wearing leftist nutbars.

    The Christian affinity for witches and divining and such being so well established and all.

    Thanks Slashdot, for all the "insight"!

  14. Orwell missed out ... on Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,' According To a Koch-Backed Astroturf Group · · Score: 1

    ... he should have invented "the Goldstein brothers", not just Emmanuel Goldstein.

    There's just something more sinister sounding about brothers, isn't there?

    (This comment has nothing to do with the merits or lack thereof of "net neutrality", BTW.)

  15. terror? on Hackers Claim PlayStation Network Take-Down · · Score: 3, Insightful

    before deciding to spread their terror to PlayStation Network.

    Terror?

    These are games, people. Yeah, they are jerks and should be smacked around for it, but let's not lose our minds.

  16. mass hysteria? on ACM Blames the PC For Driving Women Away From Computer Science · · Score: 1

    I give up. This is some sort of mass hysteria.

  17. Ah on Western US Drought Has Made Earth's Crust Rise · · Score: 1

    It's probably Dick Cheney's fault.

    He also traveled back in time and caused the Dust Bowl.

  18. digital magazine on The Making of the Making of Nihilumbra · · Score: 1

    The first "digital magazine" I remember encountering consisted of mostly Quicktime videos on a CD. By the time I got it, it was on the bargain rack at a computer store (remember those?).

    But ... you used it on a computer! So it was digital! And a magazine, kind of.

  19. So ... on Securing Networks In the Internet of Things Era · · Score: 1

    ... we need to have an insecure buzzword, to "change our relationship" with the Internet? Why?

  20. Real "tech", of course, thinks the opposite.

    Unfortunately, they didn't vote the opposite.

  21. A student raised concerns after attempting to access the Wikipedia page for Westboro Baptist Church,

    Aw, that'd be a shame if they couldn't access their totally inconsequential Two Minutes Hate target.

  22. So now Slashbots are hyperventilating with hatred at hypothetical Republicans?

    You really need to get a life.

  23. Re:Daily Currant on Facebook Tests "Satire" Tag To Avoid Confusion On News Feed · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if Sarah Palin said something like that, and I wouldn't be surprised if Hilary Clinton was running for president. Except there's no humor in fabricating plausible stories.

    They are designed to basically confirm people's existing biases. "Well, she would say something like that, she's so stupid." That she inconveniently didn't is no barrier anymore.

    They are designed to bash, not to be funny.

  24. Whereas in fact any engineer worth her salt will tell you that she makes business decisions daily–

    I still find that cute - or stupid, depending on my mood - every time I see it.

    All you've done is to reverse an arbitrary rule ... you haven't struck a blow for anything, other than preciousness or pointlessness.

  25. Re:I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords... on Humans Need Not Apply: a Video About the Robot Revolution and Jobs · · Score: 1

    You've got it backwards. The surge in socialism turned a recession into an ongoing depression (by real unemployment numbers, anyway). So your solution is more socialism?