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  1. from the people who brought you... on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    the shoulder thing that goes up, comes this seasons greatest ineptitude.

  2. a question on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if the government can compel companies to do business with people they don't want to, how long will it be before the people are compelled to do business with companies they don't want to?

  3. as always... on LightEater Malware Attack Places Millions of Unpatched BIOSes At Risk · · Score: 1

    physical access = game over. when this can be spread remotely, then I'll start freaking out.

  4. and then they get flowers? on New Alzheimer's Treatment Fully Restores Memory Function For Mice · · Score: 1, Insightful

    shortly after their human friend dies.

  5. i have bad news for you on Cody Wilson Wants To Help You Make a Gun · · Score: 1

    But are we really facing a world where backyard bunker-builders are manufacturing their own gun components?

    That world already exists in the USA. building a gun yourself from scratch is legal and requires no registration. of course you can't sell that gun. unless you take it to a gun buy back. a few people recently hosed gun buy backs for thousands of dollars with parts bought at a hardware store.

  6. Re:Required Reading on CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices · · Score: 2

    The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor's house. It should not matter that the neighbor's door is unlocked.

    Even 1984 that was a pipe dream.

  7. hurry up on Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? · · Score: 1

    before ze germans get there.

  8. so thats why... on Microsoft Finally Allows Customers To Legally Download Windows 7 ISOs · · Score: 1

    I had wondered why the digital river isos were taken down.

  9. something like this on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    http://www.amazon.com/USB-SATA...

    and with a brand name like generic it must be good.

  10. adblock* on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 1

    adblock or adblock plus (for now) or adblock edge.

  11. Re:Pointless on Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the problem is that for many, if not most, an alternative to init was neither needed nor desired. if anything systemd is taking talent away from developing your precious drivers in order to develop a solution looking for a problem.

  12. meanwhile... on Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System · · Score: 5, Funny

    slackware users are saying "what's all this then?"

  13. free speech, free earmuffs on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 1

    if you don't like it don't watch.

    it is poor taste to post it and it gives the bad guys what they want, but that is how free speech works. the price of free speech is that you even so often are forced to choose whether or not to hear or see something you don't like.

  14. 3000 year old tech, abandoned... on The "Cool Brick" Can Cool Off an Entire Room Using Nothing But Water · · Score: 1

    there's a reason this 3000 year old technology was abandoned when a/c became cheap enough.

  15. "one time" on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    maybe its good maybe its bad, but when bureaucracy is involved there is no such thing as one time.

  16. Cubert: That's impossible. You can't go faster tha on Scientists Slow the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Farnsworth: Of course not. That's why scientists increased the speed of light in 2208.

  17. how about cobol? on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 2

    I keep seeing stories about how cobol is sticking around, let the kids do it.

  18. ipad seems to be the thing on Ask Slashdot: What Tablet and Software For a Partially Sighted Person? · · Score: 1

    the va gives the blindish vets ipads.

  19. Does the judge understand? on There's a Problem In the Silk Road Trial: the Jury Doesn't Get the Internet · · Score: 1

    If the judge orders the lawyers to give inaccurate information it could lead to an injustice in either direction.

  20. the conversations of others on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1
  21. it was a paternity thing on Finding Genghis Khan's Tomb From Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    all those illegitimate children were looking to hit up his estate for palimony.

  22. Re:New Years resolution on The Downside of Connected Healthcare: Cyberchondria · · Score: 1

    you mean I don't have to say www anymore?

  23. but, but, but.... on The Downside of Connected Healthcare: Cyberchondria · · Score: 1

    morgellons

  24. apple rediscovering the wheel again. on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 1

    the problem is the solder balls on bga chips break and the oven reflows them, this has been a problem with many laptop motherboards that use those types of chips. Most notably the hp dv6000 from 2006ish.

    https://www.google.com/search?...

  25. oil and water on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    religion is about faith. science without proof is faith. religion with proof is not faith.