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  1. methane ice underwater on Siberia's Methane Release Larger Than Previously Thought · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Methane ice under the ocean also does this. Interesting?

  2. define "performing well" on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If "performing well" = "selling the American people down the road to slavery, and making them pay for the privilege" then yes.

  3. So if someone gives you money, you aren't poor? on Computer Model Reveals Escape Plan From Poverty's Vicious Circle · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the cure for poverty if for someone to give you money. is there a -1, Obvious?

  4. Ask the Internet? You've already lost. on Ask Slashdot: What Review Sites Do You Consult For IT Equipment? · · Score: 2

    If you consider your stuff "IT Equipment" then the last group you want suggestions from is the million monkeys that make up the Internet.

  5. Eurotrash dbaggery? on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 1

    Did they choke on their own smug?

  6. Diffie was awesome on Jury Finds Newegg Infringed Patent, Owes $2.3 Million · · Score: 5, Informative

    "And how is it that you're familiar with public key encryption?"

    "I invented it."

  7. social media rant was the SYMPTOM not the problem on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    Raving on Facebook about a font means you're irrational and unstable. But you're irrational and unstable whether you rave about fonts on social media or not. Social media is just a handy and free barometer of already existing conditions. If anything, it should be considered a useful tool - people self-identify.

  8. Re:site hacked? someone check the features page on DragonFlyBSD 3.6 Brings AMD/Intel Graphics Drivers & Better SMP Scaling · · Score: 1

    And now they're gone, I guess someone over there read my post.

  9. Re:Representative benchmarks? on Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows · · Score: 1

    Its like your average Moronix linux kernel benchmark, where they have bars and numbers with no scale. Basically, look at me, I'm an attention-whore nerd!

  10. site hacked? someone check the features page on DragonFlyBSD 3.6 Brings AMD/Intel Graphics Drivers & Better SMP Scaling · · Score: 1

    Check http://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/, there's a list of random links under the DEVFS bullet point.

  11. Don't look now on China Creates Air Defence Zone Over Japan-Controlled Islands, Issues War Threat · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...but theres nothing the US can do to stop them. Maybe prior to 2000, maybe prior to 1990, but after years of appeasements, transfers of critical technology, and currency manipulations, the Chinese have the US by the short and curlies. Nobody wants to say it, but that doesn't mean it isn't so.

    The real question is, does the US draw out some long embarassing, expensive, futile detente where they ultimately lose, or (my preference) just say Fuck It, boot the UN, cut off foreign aid, stop being the world's policeman, and let the chips fall.

  12. NIH syndrome on NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox Database Choice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You could take a handful of proven DB technologies such as Oracle/DB/MSSQL, throw a web (Apache/IIS) and app (.Net/WAS/Jboss) front end to it, and it would work. Why did these guys fuck up the whole thing? It's like the scene in The Fountainhead when the second-rate architects smash up the plans and add their own stuff, "to express their own individuality". This could have been a solved problem - hell, it WAS a solved problem.

  13. Dumbing it down on Happy 50th Doctor Who · · Score: 2

    The mystery of the Time War is part of the mythos - don't explain it, then it's just a thing. When Tennant told the Master about "the could-have-been-King" that was awesome - left you just enough to wonder and imagine what happened. BBC is killing Dr Who by commoditizing it.

  14. Re:abstraction on Building an IT Infrastructure Today vs. 10 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Instead of many standalone systems, most (good) environments at least have a modicum of proper capacity and scaling engineering that's taken place.

    Except that has nothing to do with what year it is.

  15. a decade ago was 2003 on Building an IT Infrastructure Today vs. 10 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    As in, AD was mostly mature, Win2003 was out, Linux was real, and PCs were commodities. An IT infrastructure now vs _20_ years ago on the other hand would be more interesting. Not much has happened since 2003.

  16. Re: Make it easy? on Tor Now Comes In a Box · · Score: 1

    And what IP is going to be reported when the Tor gizmo on your same cable modem NAT hits the internet? Wait for it... your cable modem IP. Either that or 192.168.1.2, which I hear is a popular one.

  17. Re:Really? on Hammerhead System Offers a Better Way To Navigate While Cycling · · Score: -1, Troll

    No one cares about you, your supposed bicycling prowess, or really, any other people on bicycles.

  18. Re:Awesome on NASA's Next Frontier: Growing Plants On the Moon · · Score: 0

    -1, Elon Musk reference /his 15 min of fame are over

  19. hardware on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Hardware Lab Bench? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    10" table saw
    craftsman drill press
    Makita battery charger
    2 vise, 1 with soft jaws
    3 levels
    bottle opener

  20. OpenSuse:Centos::Suse:Redhat on OpenSUSE 13.1 Released and Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Suse is just a European Redhat.

  21. egress filtering on User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    It's time for egress filtering, both at the TCP layer, and at the application (hello Privoxy) layer on home firewalls.

  22. Define negotiation on How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations · · Score: 2

    A negotiation is possible only when both parties can benefit.

  23. practical road blocks on Raspberry Pi Hits the 2 Million Mark · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No VGA out - how do you hook it up to a monitor? You find an HDMI converter or hook it up to the family TV - lame.
    3.3V logic - everything else in the world uses 5V, so you end up converting everything - lame.
    Raspbian distro - UK keyboard default, no DHCP out of the box - lame.

    It's almost there, just ... cool to the guy who invented it, but fiddly for everyone else.

  24. Note: the design is functional but unfinished on 12-Lead Clinical ECG Design Open Sourced; Supports Tablets, Too · · Score: 2

    The curse of Open Source. Good luck getting that last 10% finished.

  25. blow on the cartridge on Blue Light of Death Plagues PlayStation 4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's easy, take the cartridge out, blow on the contacts, wave it around if it feels hot, then put it back in.