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  1. Really? This is a story? Dr.Laura.org on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is, without a doubt, the worst story I have seen on Slashdot in the many years I have been reading.

  2. Re:Psychopath != Sociopath on Psychopaths Have Brain Structure Abnormality · · Score: 1

    You must be an engineer!

  3. If the government did research that proved on Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    If the government did research that proved it is possible... Why aren't they following up on it? I'll believe it when I see it.

  4. Re:Life imitates XKCD on Sandia Studies Botnets In 1M OS Digital Petri Dish · · Score: 1

    I wanted to post that but the botnets slowed the internet down. Clogged tubes.

  5. Re:Why didn't this happen sooner? on Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because no likelihood that he would ultimately comply with the order exists. He either cannot or will not ever pay up.

  6. Re:Hot Air on Yahoo's "Chicken Coop" Data Center Design · · Score: 1

    They've got a green light to go ahead with that plan.

  7. Re:Fuck you, sexist jackass on Yahoo's "Chicken Coop" Data Center Design · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Shouldn't you be in the kitchen? ;)

  8. Hot Air on Yahoo's "Chicken Coop" Data Center Design · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well with a roof like that, I guess at least they can say Yahoo isn't full of hot air.

    But when you start getting power from the falls, you might be all washed up.

    Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Tip your Waitress.

  9. Re:Expensive software? on US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, you just failed your NSA cert because you attempted to mix classified and non-classified processing in the same processor. If you want to handle classified data, a processor can only handle classified data, you cannot mix and match. In devices that are forced to mix and match (edge devices, like encryptors typically) you have to build your device in two halves and minimize the contact between the halves (typically they will be in separate metal boxes inside of the device, with a single wire connecting them. That single wire will eat up pages and pages of documentation when you try to get your device certified explaining how there is no possible way to leak information out of it (even in cases like slamming the crypto with bad traffic on the red side to cause it to slow down in some pattern that could be identified on the black side). Does this mean I'm fired? Your failure in design just cost your company a million dollars and several man-years of effort.

    Does this mean I'm fired?

  10. Tesla would be proud. on Intel Demos Wireless "Resonant" Recharging · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tesla would be so proud, many years later we are finally honing and putting to use technology that was before it's time.

  11. Re:what is the big deal? on Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He may not have flushed the point out all the way, but the fact of it is that educated people have smaller families generally than non-educated people. Look at the average family size in the ghetto, sub 20k a year earned income versus in a nice area, like Manhattan with 100k+ a year earned income.

  12. Re:An Ethical Quandry without an easy answer on Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening · · Score: 1

    This argument, is in many ways, the epitome of an illogical argument. It has too many emotions and not enough facts as to why it would be bad to allow these choices.

    All you used to back up your claims were your own emotional perspectives on the subject. Being able to choose to not have a child with autism, or prone to breast cancer / diabetes / etc.. could not only make your life better as a care giver, but would also increase the quality and length of the life of the child.

    While we are at that point, who cares if you make their eyes blue or their hair brown? This is another instance of someone doing things that would make them happy that you want to stop even though it does not affect you in any way.

    Near the end you claim that there are forces in this world we do not understand and should not meddle with. You say that we should heed the warnings, no matter who they come from. This is very anti-science. If you never try new things, you will learn nothing in this world.

    You may not trade the moment of hearing your daughter had brown eyes, but you know what? Some people wouldn't trade hearing "The procedure worked! It's a girl with blue eyes and black hair!", and I'm for people being able to pick either option.

  13. Re:Doesn't work on me on Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript · · Score: 4, Funny

    Awesome! Now for all the people who can take and act upon that advice, we can protect .000001% of the population.

    It's a start!

  14. Re:Lightning once striked my friends house. on Lightning Strikes Amazon's Cloud (Really) · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the civilized world, we just call those "walk through holes" doors.

  15. Re:I don't see how this matters on Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate · · Score: 1

    Calculus, Linear Algebra, and other items getting thrown into ACCOUNTING curriculum are stunning. All they serve to do is frustrate (though the college claims it as strengthening your "high level reasoning"), as witnessed by everyone I've taken them with.

    I enjoy the theory behind math, but being able to spit out answers without referencing the method to do it just to prove I can is not enjoyable.

  16. Re:Wow, Great Summary on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 1

    Oh shoot! I'm just one view of a PowerPoint away from becoming a CIO!

  17. Re:Never ascribe to malice... on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 1

    "What Would YOU do in a situation like that!?" -Napoleon Dynamite.

  18. Re:Aliens better shield us with something.. on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have nothing of value to respond to that.

    I'm shocked and scared.

  19. Re:Wow, Great Summary on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 1

    I understand that, but the editors pick the stories that make the front page. They could set their standards a little higher.

    I could almost take a slashvertisement over this! ;)

  20. Re:Aliens better shield us with something.. on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When that happens we'll just have to say..Shit happens?

    I just read a story today about a lady who missed the Air France flight that killed everyone on board and then today died in a car wreck.

    I'm not ruling anything out anymore.

  21. Wow, Great Summary on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is one heck of a summary. I really like how a line and a half of text is qualifying as a story these days.

    Is it THAT slow of a news day, or could no one else possibly outdo this clown of a submitter?

  22. Re:Oh come on. on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 1

    Modern business curriculum at many schools includes high level mathematics. I guess the same reason. For their amusement.

  23. Re:Oh come on. on Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!

  24. Google is PEOPLE on Google Outlines the Role of Its Human Evaluators · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In reality this is why search engines like Wolfram Alpha without the broad research and knowledge of Google in the industry don't stand much of a chance unless Google drops the ball.

  25. Re:Pro-Tip on Palm Pre Is Out, Time For Discussion · · Score: 1

    Pssh, like Palm even HAS a Latin language mode.