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  1. Re:Take that Ayn Rand lovers! on An 8,000 Ton Giant Made the Jet Age Possible · · Score: 1

    Right, because the rich are all about giving back to the society that enabled their success.
    "I pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more. I don't think you want someone as the candidate for president who pays more taxes than he owes." -the presumptive Republican nominee.

  2. Re:Yeah, how dare they on Minneapolis Airport Gets $20 Million Hi-Tech Security Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Racial profiling, if legal, will continue as long as we have racists in positions of power. Which is likely to be hundreds of years, at least.

  3. Re:Why? on Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Censorship Found To Be Corrupt · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "I disagree; that is objectively BS," opined the AC.

  4. Re:Making the road safer, finally on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    Right, the people responsible for programming it could never possibly imagine a car being a danger to anyone not in the vehicle. That's just a totally absurd design requirement.

  5. Re:Still no factory in the USA on Apple To Help Foxconn Improve Factories · · Score: 1

    http://www.connectorsupplier.com/sound_off_bishop_iPhone_Manufacturing_US_11-15-11.htm
    Estimates place the cost of manufacturing in the US at about $20 higher per unit than in China, and this is without taking shipping costs into account. Not the $9500 you are estimating.

  6. Re:Bias on Stone-Throwing Chimp Back In the News With Better Plan · · Score: 1

    Instinct vs. learned behavior.

  7. Re:looks like pretty low-value accounts on 55,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked, Passwords Leaked · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree, clearly not real people. Those passwords are way too strong.

  8. Re:No Alaska on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 2

    Have you lived anywhere cold? Every year it snows the most when the high is around 20 degrees or so. The cold cold cold days are clear and windy.

  9. Re:near unlimited range thanks to in-air refueling on America's Next Bomber: Unmanned, Unlimited Range, Aimed At China · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to? A drone's main advantage is that they don't have to be designed to support a pilot. It's not like the pilot "costs" anywhere near as much as the plane, either.

    (I'm obviously speaking from a military/logistic point of view here - any avoidable loss of human life is tragic, but the beancounters aren't known for accounting for that.)

  10. Re:Suppress Away on Database and IP Records Tie Election Fraud To Canada's Ruling Conservatives · · Score: 1

    +1 Informative, because people seem to be unaware of this.

  11. Re:Hang on a second... on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 1

    Opt out of censorship = opt in to porn.

  12. Re:Even a broken clock on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    Oh, yes, you're right. Thanks for the correction.

  13. Even a broken clock on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...gets it right twice a day.

  14. Re:Surely none on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: 2

    So how about something that's not superhero oriented, like the very good Adventure Time? http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=11362

  15. Re:no wonder on Open Research Computation Closes Before Opening · · Score: 1

    What's unrealistic about letting them use the code however they want?

  16. Re:Doesn't every big company do this? on How Apple Sidesteps Billions In Global Taxes · · Score: 1

    AC's got a good point.

  17. Re:what about the rest of the life cycle? on Google Releases FCC Report On Street View Probe · · Score: 1

    Doh. Meant 360 degree photos.

  18. Re:what about the rest of the life cycle? on Google Releases FCC Report On Street View Probe · · Score: 2

    Logging internet traffic is going to be a drop in the bucket compared to taking 360 photos every twenty feet or so.

  19. Re:Forget this garbage on Google Drive Goes Live · · Score: 2

    There's a nice RESTful SDK that looks pretty promising. Nothing stopping you from using it to make whatever front-end client you want. In fact, I'd bet that the official Google client is using it.

  20. Re:Not being asked? Girls drinking water? on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    It's a girls' school.

  21. Re:Wow on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    They're afraid of inciting more violence against the school and its students. It's easy to say "do your job" from way over here - not so easy when you may be directly further endangering hundreds of innocent students.

  22. Re:Culmination of a dream on The Supreme Court To Rule On Monsanto Seed Patents · · Score: 1

    Human rights existed before 1948, you know.

  23. Re:See a pattern here? on Federal Court Tosses Colorado's Amazon Tax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was going to ask "Doesn't Amazon pay interchange fees, too?"

    But then I realized that of course Amazon has the power to negotiate the fees that they pay, while my local coffee shop almost certainly cannot. So, consider this a "+1 Insightful," instead of a "-1 What?"

  24. Re:False positives? on Competition To Identify Sexual Predators In Chat Logs · · Score: 2

    Many convictions of sexual harassment are based on actual sexual harassment.

  25. Re:iPad and iThoughts app on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences? · · Score: 1

    Compared to the hundreds of dollars the conference + travel + lodging costs?