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  1. Re:Awesome on 64-bit Firefox is the New Default on 64-bit Windows (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    I am a pig with tabs and consider myself a power user. I've never had the impression that firefox was unstable, at least until they mentioned it...

  2. impossible expectations on Feeling Bad About Feeling Bad Can Make You Feel Worse (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's why I stay away from FB: It's impossible to be happy all the time... why is this even some kind of goal? Sad or dull moments make the happy ones more poignant.

  3. Re:Awesome on 64-bit Firefox is the New Default on 64-bit Windows (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    I've been using 32 version and it's crashed maybe a couple times a year. I think their marketing team is incompetent.

  4. Re:Need vs Politics on From Google To Yahoo, Tech Grapples With White Male Discontent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    When I was a early teenager I became aware that there was a technical jobs thing at the local army base for high school students but when I went to apply I found out it was only for minorities. It didn't matter that parents were divorced and we were dirt poor being white was too much.

  5. These tulips are 10 years old and haven't wilted yet, contrary to popular opinion.

  6. Re:Who cares about vaxxers on Study Finds Vaccine Science Outreach Only Reinforced Myths (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Either we have laws about vaccinations or we don't. Enforce them or not. Arguing with idiots is a fools game.

  7. Who cares about vaxxers on Study Finds Vaccine Science Outreach Only Reinforced Myths (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like someone being wrong on the internet, just ignore them

  8. Re:Critical thinking should be taught from the sta on Study Finds Vaccine Science Outreach Only Reinforced Myths (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Santa and tooth fairy? It's glowing panels that fill them with bullshit.

  9. Project Orion Is feasable on NASA Looks At Reviving Atomic Rocket Program (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Just takes a lot of people with BIG BRASS BALLS!

  10. Re:Stuff that they don't track on Microsoft Dismisses Consumer Reports' Surface Complaints, But Doesn't Offer Much Evidence · · Score: 1

    Happens on my thinkpad too has it ever worked?

  11. Re:Conservative Values on Fired Google Engineer Says Company Execs Shamed and Smeared Him (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Liberals hate each other even more than conservatives.

  12. Re:I hope he sues... on Fired Google Engineer Says Company Execs Shamed and Smeared Him (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Google has already getting harassed by dept. of labor. It's not as far-fetched as it sounds.

  13. Re:Unrealistic expectations on Salesforce Fires Red Team Staffers Who Gave Defcon Talk (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You are just speculating. They might have admitted to having read the message and decided to go along with the talk anyway.

  14. Painted themselves in the corner on Consumer Reports Pulls Microsoft Laptop Recommendation (go.com) · · Score: 1

    But a subscriber survey found start-up and freezing problems

    Can't blame the other vendor for this.

  15. Re:Well if the NFL can't stand them why should we? on Consumer Reports Pulls Microsoft Laptop Recommendation (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing beats the ergonomics of the Microsoft mouse though. Most of the other mice are too small and don't support my hand very well.

  16. Re:Infant Mortality on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, because infant mortality is part of the gross life expectancy number. I trust what the actuaries calculated for these pension funds.

  17. Re:Kinda makes me wonder on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A year of dialysis costs 72,000$

  18. Re:There really aren't that many nutters on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Polls are full of leading or misleading language that often differs from their conclusion. Once you realize that poll are written to fill some agenda and have nothing to do with the truth you take them with only the tiniest grain of salt.

  19. Re: My demands for a job: on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    First-world-probleming on slashdot isn't a skill?

  20. Yeah and they report something else. They have been padding stats since forever.

  21. Re:Pfft, that's nothing! on Brits Look at Google and Facebook Every 210 Seconds, Says Survey (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    websites have been lying and counting auto reload stats as impressions since the 90s

  22. Yeah I have a google tab open. Am I looking at it? No.

  23. Re:No! (Betteridge Law of Headlines) on Can Primordial Black Holes Alone Account For Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    More importantly the numbers don't add up. Our galaxy is 100 to 400 billion solar masses and 100 million black holes is not nearly enough.

  24. Re:Too little, too late on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody has talked about the elasticity of gas pricing either. Suppose half the world switches to electric and then gas price drops to a dollar a gallon... then it makes less sense economically to buy electric.

  25. Re:Americans already there on Is this the End of Typing? The Internet's Next Billion Users Want Video and Voice (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Nothing worse than when someone calls when a text will do.