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  1. Re:Communism Inspired Tyranny on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    BTW, The government does not set airline schedules, rates, or routes. They may be at the point of senselessly approving them, but they are largely set in response to the market.

  2. Re:Communism Inspired Tyranny on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 2

    At this point, I loath air travel. Don't let that stop you though. The TSA needs someone to do body cavity searches on.

  3. Re:Communism Inspired Tyranny on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    On the roads, you go where you want, when you want and you have a place for guests and your stuff.

    Trains...well, just think Airlines, but slower and junkier.

  4. Re:Communism Inspired Tyranny on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    And a few hundred million dead.

  5. I kept Telling My Ex... on Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded For "Brain GPS" Research · · Score: 1

    ...I don't need to stop and ask for directions.

    Sheesh!

  6. Re:Time to take action on Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming · · Score: 2

    Maybe you'll send them to re-education camps. If not that, work camps where the Work will set the free.

    I hear North Korea has that down to a science now.

  7. Re:please no on Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming · · Score: 1
  8. Re:What will happen to their physical condition on NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option For Mars Mission · · Score: 4, Funny

    My teenager sleeps all day but still can walk and talk when she gets up.

  9. Re: The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    Got to remember to include those Sarcasm tags!

  10. Re: The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    It's like this, see...Walruses live in Alaska. Alaska has Weather. Weather is part of Climate.

    Tadaa!

  11. Re:I Maintain an EMR System on Back To Faxes: Doctors Can't Exchange Digital Medical Records · · Score: 1

    The entire Apollo program was filled with near misses and serendipitous moments. Kinda scary to read about now.

  12. Re:More Regulations, Please on Back To Faxes: Doctors Can't Exchange Digital Medical Records · · Score: 2

    The one thing the Feds can and should do and they are asleep at the switch.

  13. Re:This device is not new or interesting on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 2

    The ability to trace a firearm is overblown. The majority of traces will lead back to a legal owner who had the weapon stolen. The other alternative is an idiot who buys a weapon, registers it, commits a crime with it, and then leaves it at the scene. Even then that is probably not enough to convict. You will have to establish motive and place them at the scene.

    And if you have serial numbers then you are most likely in possession of the weapon, so finger printing is a far better investigative track to follow.

  14. Re:They need to lock this down now! on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    Like this?
    Or this?
    Or maybe this?

    Ya...The Google is a great tool.

  15. Re:Completely Contained? on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It flew in on coach.

    Somehow it got through the quarantine and flight restrictions the Obama Administration wisely set up to catch these kinds of things.

    oh, wait...

  16. Re:OMFG, stupid on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    I have been eagerly awaiting a one OS fits all devices solution.

    I can't wait to load the three DVDs onto my phone and tablet!

  17. Re:Here's the bill: public notice key on California Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Warrants For Drone Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that these drones would fit right into language covering law enforcement helicopters. There is no real difference other than expense.

  18. Offensive on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is something offensive about saying these kinds of activities are perfectly fine for representatives of the State, yet illegal for the citizens of the State.

  19. Catch 22 on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    The problem with your position is that you put the reporters in a position of deciding what is true or not.

    The question is, even if they all had enough eduction to make a competent guess, do you really want anyone deciding what you need to read about?

  20. Re:Step one on China Eager To Send Its Own Mission To Mars In the Wake of Mangalyaan · · Score: 1

    When the arrive, they'll plant a flag and claim the entire planet for the Worker's Party.

  21. Re:I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    You know all those movies about some future Dystopia where everything is dimly lit, grey and depressing?

    Those worlds used these fancy new light bulbs.

  22. Reports have their uses on Ask Slashdot: Is Reporting Still Relevant? · · Score: 1

    Many things are impractical to do with a dashboard.

    Reports also represent data at a specific point in time. Monthly, quarterly, yearly finance reports are mandated by Accounting Standards I believe. Your taxes statements are essentially reports.

    Sometimes you need to be able to fix data a specific point in time in order to consider it and take action on it.

  23. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    In the same way that Free Will allows scumbags to kill and maim, steal, etc. So too does the Free Market allow some companies to exploit and profit from people in unfortunate circumstances.

    Many of these companies still charge 29% interest rate, which seems to me to be usury.

  24. Re:Who cares about succinctness .... on Rosetta Code Study Weighs In On the Programming Language Debate · · Score: 2

    So that's a great big Nuh Uh! from you then?

    Perhaps in small business applications you may be right. But the Big Guys...National Banks, large aerospace, etc. COBOL runs the core systems.

    And I'd choose COBOL for reliability and maintainability anytime.

  25. Re:Emma Watson is full of it on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    This was discussed on a local talk show in Austin and several HR folks from major tech companies here called in.

    They claimed that for graduate level positions, they receive hardly any applications from women and very few from American born men. Mostly foreign born applications here on work visas or in the naturalization process.