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  1. Re:Ignorance? on The Case For Teaching Ignorance · · Score: 1

    Is that any more ridiculous than suggesting that the universe is a computer simulation?

  2. I have one already on Group Seeks Test For Geoengineering Tool To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1

    It's in my back yard and shoots water into the sky 24/7

    I also have a supplemental system that does it twice a week over a much larger area.

  3. Re:think outside of the box on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 1

    Probably while at a Starbucks. Public email on a public wifi.

  4. Re:The emails were not 'born classified' on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 1

    The very fact that an email originates from the SoS means that it is at least potentially classified.

    It is HER dutyto mark it as such if it contains sensitive information. Are you saying that she is too stupid to recognize classified information? So if some source tells her that Iran will be attacked at X hours, she can send that inform over plain email because, "it wasn't marked classified"?

  5. Yer Kidding, Right? on Mostly Theater? Taking Aim At White House 'We the People' Petitions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did anyone ever think it was anything other than Theater?

    Really? You thought that???

    Facepalm!

  6. Re:Yes on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    How would conceal a 4 foot long, 4 inch wide blade?

  7. Re:Summary sucks on The Boeing 747 Is Heading For Retirement · · Score: 2

    The measure of "reasonable enough" is whether the sales can support the fixed costs required to maintain the line and related infrastructure. That includes part sales, maintenance, refurbishment, etc. These things aren't like toasters.

    Only Boeing knows how long the 747 will continue to be manufactured. And they certainly know better than some hack from the UE who has a hard on for Airbus.

  8. Re:Summary sucks on The Boeing 747 Is Heading For Retirement · · Score: 2

    Sales in the last 10 years:
    747 - 123
    A380 - 195

    While not the leader I'm not sure you can call that "on the way out".

  9. Old Programmers Vs Young Programmers on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want a mobile client to send 180 character messages out to millions of people, hire a young programmer,
    If you want your networks to support messages going out to millions of people, all the time, every time, hire an old programmer.

    If you want a really cool interactive website where employees can manage the benefits and see how much is in their 401k, hire a young programmer.
    If you want your payroll to run and people to be paid accurately, every time, all the time, hire an old programmer.

    If you want a fancy game, hire a young programmer.
    If you want a system to manage the business that sells the game, hire an old programmer.

    If you want an employee that sees stuff as fun toys and re-invents the wheel at every chance, hire a young programmer.
    If you want an employee who understands that this is a business and that people's livelihoods depends on it being right, all of the time, hire an old programmer.

  10. Re:I volunteer as tribute. on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't get excited. They've "discovered" stuff like this many times and there is still not pill or shot.

    Eat Less.

  11. Re:Nope... Wrong interpretation. on Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers · · Score: 0

    Try over 200 million.

  12. HIllary on Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center · · Score: 0

    ...is now requiring all of her email servers be hosted by Google.

  13. Re:Loopholes on Stopping Universities From Hoarding Money · · Score: 2

    When (if) you retire, at some point the IRS will require you to start withdrawing money from your various retirement savings accounts regardless of the need.

    These university funds should retain their tax exempt status for a limited time, after which some percentage is required to be spent on out right grants or taxed and the proceeds going to the state university system.

  14. Re:Nope... Wrong interpretation. on Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers · · Score: 1

    One Hundred Million Americans of working age NOT in the wok force.

  15. Re:Can the enemy actually shoot down the F35? on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 2

    Nope.

    An F-35 was put through it's paces against an F-16 in an extensive series of mock combat encounters. At almost every stage the F-35 was at an energy disadvantage and in a dog fight, Energy is King.

    I suspect it would lose miserably to an F-15 also.

    It should be shit canned and moeny spent on upgrading and building more of the F-15s and F-16s

  16. Correct Title on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The Challenge of working for Pricks"

    Fixed.

  17. Re:Windows 8 is suddenly looking good .. on Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My Huge Aerospace employer is on Windows 7 and only now is dipping heir toes into Win 8.1

    I expect it will be 3 years before win 10 touches any of our hard drives and only then after the security people have stripped out all the M.S. Snoops.

  18. Re:This sounds more like ... on Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean · · Score: 1

    I think it more likely it would be some orifice of some kind.

    I've seen it on the Internet.

  19. There are Ads and then there are Fucking Ads. on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have no problem with ad on the margins of the page. Slashdot has three up right now and they don't block my view of the content, they aren't playing music or videos (chewing up my bandwidth), and nothing opened a popup. Those are Ads in the tradition of a news paper.

    The Fucking Ads are the opposite. They block the content, force you to find that little X in some corner...if they didn't put a fake one in that's just a link to another page. Fucking Ads seem to be loaded first. So if some Ad service has shit slow servers, it takes forever for a simple Text article to appear. Fucking Ads also hijack random clicks. Ever click on a page to be sure the scroll is focused on the page and not something else so you can use the scroll wheel...and here comes a popup.

    Fucking Ads are also dangerous. To get rid of them you have to interact with them. Who knows what the fuck will happen when you click that close button?

    So if they just stick to what they've been doing for the last 200 years, we're fine.

  20. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 0

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that she and Bill have not occupied the same bed in decades.

  21. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 2

    It is the responsibility of people in her position to recognize and appropriately classify information. That's part of her job and she evidently failed miserably.

  22. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    Reset relations with Russia...don't forget that!

  23. Re:What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And still legions will support her because she promises to keep the Federal spigot on full.

  24. I guess we need a second installment of 1984 as the pace of ideas from authoritarian control freaks have exceeded Orwell's wildest nightmares.

  25. At Least... on 2.4 Million Customer's Records Stolen From Carphone Warehouse · · Score: 2

    ...it's not something Paul Potts has to worry about.