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  1. Re:I'm having trouble on Apple's Secret Weapon To Influence Industry Pricing · · Score: 1

    Everything at Apple is about making money. Is that so odd? What corporation doesn't. Only question is at what cost?

  2. cure but... on Mathematically Pattern-Free Music · · Score: 2

    Old hat. To discover the life of a musician who made randomization a career, see John Cage.

  3. which percent exactly? on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    Vmware+Veeam+Offsite = Perfection.

  4. Re:Why? on Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android · · Score: 1

    Walking around, or sitting on the train, talking to my mobile, viewing the response, looking like an ass - none of this adds up to the experience I was hoping to have - which is that all data flows from my brain onto the device which presents the results to my visual cortex without having to interact with anything at all.
    Let me know when they are done making that one work.

  5. You Lose on Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier · · Score: 0

    If you watch the video, you'll see that unless the car is stopped or stopping it is speeding. More proof that speed limits below 45 mph on four lane roads are there for the tax breaks and ticket generation.

  6. indolent on Re-evaluating the Benefits of Cancer Screening · · Score: 1

    Justin Bieber has stopped growing, but that doesn't make him harmless.

  7. zapplesauce on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 0

    Anything that starts with a Z reminds me of Halloween.

  8. joomla programmer on Career Advice: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer · · Score: 1

    I don't know, would you rather be a joomla programmer or a web guy?

  9. Re:Explains a lot about the economy on World's Biggest Gold Coin Minted In Australia · · Score: 2

    Due to fluctuations in the economy, the gold coin can be valued anywhere from $100m to $5. As it has two sides, when flipped int he air, we invoke quantum mechanics. We can see that the coin has both sides at any given times until it lands on one side, with an indeterminate value. Taking the derivative of that, the queen will surely be slain by the Kangaroo for a mere nickel.

  10. Re:Better link on 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online · · Score: 2

    This will certainly mark the most important day without conclusion. Enormous investors will have enthusiasm which will not be unbridled as a new dawn is heralded by the coming of the next chapter in these events. Surely those that did not believe will come to the crucible and be altered before God with unsavory tenderness!

  11. Re:Pardon me, but on Hackers Briefly Controlled US Government Satellites · · Score: 1

    Whenever I hack into a US observational satellite I get bored because you can't do anything cool with them. I did get a nice picture of Emily Blunt naked on Mount Everest though.

  12. Absolutely Useless on US Funds Aggressive Tech To Cut Solar Power Costs · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is the definition of a waste of time and money. Several million dollars to exceed the current roadmap target and drop kWh to $0.06 ?
    The mean street value of such an advancement in technology is over a billion dollars, easily. But we, the federal government, will pay half your R&D costs up to $2m because we think this is a neat objective and maybe we'll all have fun getting there? Please! That's exactly what Solyndra received over $500 million in loan guarantees for and they produced nothing.

    Can you imagine offering Exxon 2 million dollars to find a way to reduce gas prices to $1 per gallon? Oh, they'll take your money no doubt. But I have a feeling you won't get what you came for. Your government, working hard to make sure the buck is passed and no one's accountable. Happy Halloween!

  13. Re:Wow, he saves $12 billion, so 1% less deficit.. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    But my friend told me I am the other 99% !

  14. Re:Pretty Sure on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    And Fox News would blame it on the welfare recipients who didn't pay their hurricane bills.

  15. Re:No more on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    I would pay to see a hurricane, but not to hear about one.

  16. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    And Anti-capitalism is not the erasure of capital markets, just the disenfranchisement of the public with corporate control over all facets of government.

  17. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    You should never prohibit the truth. Evolution is not a mind game, it is an accepted scientific method not designed specifically to piss off Kansas folk.

  18. Re:No one cares about your server on Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared · · Score: 1

    It's really not that difficult, even to build your own SAN, let alone NAS. The era of convenience at a cost is probably coming to a close.

  19. bitbubble? on Value of Bitcoin "Crashes" · · Score: 1

    Eerily resembles the Nasdaq chart from 99 through '02

  20. Show me the money on William Shatner Answers, in 826 Words · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those weak on Esperanto, "Kiam Kaj Kiel Multa" means When and how much!

  21. Frag 'em on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 2

    Spend all my medicare on pvp games and frag the bejesus out of everyone for the next 90 years.

  22. Re:Too bad you can't .... on How To Catch a Laptop Thief? · · Score: 2

    Rig the computer remotely to blow the lithium battery up in the jerk's face!!!

    It's a Macbook, the battery will explode eventually. But if you want to speed things along..."

  23. rDNS on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Like all things spam, marking the message as bad automatically is generally discouraged. If you simply increase the SCL value by some reasonable number, and continue to raise SCL based on other soft violations (like spamhaus, surbl, etc), you will rarely put good senders in the junk email folder, and very frequently be able to reject most spam content.

  24. Re:dmr on Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the demigodic party.

  25. Darmok and Jalad at Seattle on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 5, Funny

    Phoenix, his eyes closed. Phoenix, when the walls fell.