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  1. Re:I'm confused on MIT Unveils New Material That's Strongest and Lightest On Earth (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    The last one. Sounds like you answered your own question.

  2. Re:Subject of Comment on Mozilla Co-Founder's Ad-blocking Brave Browser Will Pay You Bitcoin To See Ads (pcworld.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Personally I find it hard to quantify how much money I should be paid to face the greater risk of malware infection. I value my data and time very highly, so it's unlikely they could pay me enough.

  3. Re:Willing to be wrong, maybe... on Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you believe this to be the case, how do you account for the relative success of Linux vs. BSD?

  4. Re: It is the Russians on Unprecedented DDoS Attack At Swedish Government, Media Outlets (www.dn.se) · · Score: 0

    Unilaterally redrawing European borders in Ukraine with military arms earns whatever demonization Russia gets.

  5. Re: Fair is Fair on Unprecedented DDoS Attack At Swedish Government, Media Outlets (www.dn.se) · · Score: 1

    Facebook bought Slashdot?

  6. If I worked there, how would I tell people?

  7. Re: Irrelevant, inflammatory. on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's inflammatory by the second paragraph. Woman in bar shouts she was raped. If she hasn't called the police first, this is base character assassination. A woman's allegations should not automatically be believed despite all the PC rhetoric to the contrary.

  8. Re:Surely, you can't be serious... on Cryptome Accidentally Leaks Its Own Visitor IP Addresses (dailydot.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It makes me wonder why a site so concerned about Internet privacy is keeping logs in the first place.

  9. Bugs? on How to Quash Firefox's Silent Requests · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I could see a nightmare scenario with poorly implemented "click to buy" or voting websites. Some nations, in the cases of stuff like CP, make it illegal to access websites containing banned material. Now mousing over links can look identical to accessing, according to log files. What a mess.

  10. Re:How to measure it... on Extreme Reduction Gearing Device Offers an Amazing Gear Ratio · · Score: 1

    I'd have fun clamping the opposite end, then counting to see how many revolutions it would take before it skipped or tore itself to pieces.

  11. Re:I'm spending 60% of my monthly income on rent on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    Don't stress, that's exactly what I did, for the same reasons. You'd be surprised how cheap a trailer in the middle of the Rocky Mountains is, and how peaceful and affordable life can be even on a meagre disability income. Don't work yourself to death, there's still plenty of land for everyone. The only stress I have is picking my cherries off the tree before the local bear realizes they're ripe.

    Namaste

  12. Re:I'm spending 60% of my monthly income on rent on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    There's 2 ways to deal with the poor.

    1) Share. Help them out or give a hand up. At the very least give them a decent chance of helping themselves. The USA doesn't do enough of this.
    2) Leave them to rot and let the rich/poor divide get so big, that the people on the bottom lose all hope. Then, the law ceases to matter.

    If you choose 2, don't be surprised when the most desperate start shooting.

  13. Re:Equality on Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes? · · Score: 1

    The other option is to force a 50/50 split everywhere, regardless of interest. Millitary, heavy industrial, construction, STEM, etc etc. We'll see how quickly a feminist claims oppression when she's given an option of STEM, trades, or nothing. Equality must be protected, after all.

  14. Re:Did not RTFA on Solar Power Capacity Installs Surpass Wind and Coal For Second Year · · Score: 1

    So it's not just me. How embarrassing.

  15. Re:They throw money at shit they don't need... on How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars For Haiti and Built 6 Homes · · Score: 1

    Bullshit companies like that are often bullshit because they are just money laundering fronts. Paying people to fill seats is a big tip off. Consider reporting them.

  16. Yikes on The Bizarre Process Used For Approving Exemptions To the DMCA · · Score: 1

    American corruption at it's finest. A make work project if I ever saw one. The USA will continue to decline until everyone is either a lawyer or contributing to a lawyer's lifestyle.

  17. Re:Williams WASP X-Jet on The Hoverboard Flies Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    The service ceiling of the X-Jet is 10,000 feet.

  18. Re:nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    "Anyone has to admit"

    No, they don't. Men and women have and had different gender roles, but suppression I disagree with. You are repeating a feminist lie that has led our society to our current problems. Even in Afghanistan, women aren't nearly as oppressed as western media would have us believe. Here's a discussion about the subject by a highly esteemed person who is much smarter than me.

    https://youtu.be/5eqYEVYZgdo

  19. Re: Then stop stealing my stuff! on Pirate Bay Blockade Censors CloudFlare Customers · · Score: 1

    From the way you describe it, it's at least 80 years too long, and the one time rule seems capricious. Patents are only 20 years and the sky hasn't fallen.

  20. Re: Then stop stealing my stuff! on Pirate Bay Blockade Censors CloudFlare Customers · · Score: 1

    The big boys are repackaging and reselling our culture like they own it. They don't, and I see nothing morally wrong with people personally sharing meaningful culture that they care about.

  21. Re: They had to discontinue it on Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 7 Tablet · · Score: 1

    Fits all my pockets, and I use mine with VoIP. People are awed by the size of my "phone". Still heartbroken that there won't be a 2015 version. For the price, the 2013 LTE version was the best piece of electronics I've ever owned. I know there are nicer Android tabs now, but not for the price.

  22. Re:Solar rarely enough for the whole house on Tesla To Announce Battery-Based Energy Storage For Homes · · Score: 2

    It can, when comparing like things. However, one of these is not like the other. At grid scale, it has to compete against the wholesale price of electricity. At residential scale, even though it is smaller and less efficient, it competes against the RETAIL price of electricity. This difference suggests a different source of the problem.

  23. Re:Then stop stealing my stuff! on Pirate Bay Blockade Censors CloudFlare Customers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm a content creator too, with significant copyrighted works. I've even used copyright threats to ensure I've been adequately paid. I also think Copyright is utterly absurd as it is. 5-10 years ought to be the max. The establishment has shown severe disrespect to the public by locking down culture indefinitely behind a paywall. It might be "stealing" in your eyes, or the law's... Ethically, it's sharing, with the same good intentions of every public library. I hope one day copyright catches up to morality. Our culture is owned by all of us.

  24. Re:Cutting edge journalism on Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices · · Score: 1

    Since Google sells these directly, they also have the purchase and delivery dates and device id's for most Nexus devices. Perhaps the delay is designed to roll out the update shortly after the warranty expires? They could easily do that... would they? It would save them a hell of a lot of support dollars.

  25. Re:Why Force Your Children to Live in the Past? on Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? · · Score: 2

    You're trapped in a slow motion death spiral of a two party system slowly eroding your constitution. Maybe not failed yet, but most people have noticed the decline.