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  1. Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 1

    This is why Education should be funded where the risk is borne by the one making the loan. The repayment terms should be based on a percent of the students income for a fixed number of years.

    This is why Education should be funded by The People. If we took the profit motive out of education we wouldn't have to worry about the "administration" making several times what the instructors do for not even teaching.

    Or learning.

  2. Re:"strong accent" indeed... on Cyber Criminals Tying Up Emergency Phone Lines Through TDoS Attacks, DHS Warns · · Score: 1

    Jedi Masters need to pay bills just like everybody else...

    Pix or it didn't happen.

  3. Re:April fools again? on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    To travel faster than light, write your post next week so we can see it here today.

    To travel faster than light is is necessary to remove all humor.

  4. Re:at last on Fairy Penguins Send First Email · · Score: 1

    At least fairy penguins can make up for the lack of ponies.

    Because they are married?

  5. Re:TRS-80 all the way, baby! on Radio Shack TRS-80 Vs. Commodore 64: Battle of the Titans · · Score: 1

    Timex-Sinclair baby!

    Especially with the hard disk.

  6. Re:Slashdot abuse alert... apk on Laser Fusion's Brightest Hope · · Score: 1

    Who's the more moronic? The original moron, or the one who replies to him knowing full well his comment will certainly be ignored, if not entirely unread, thus bringing the insane troll post to the attention of those who would otherwise not have seen it at all (seeing as it started at 0 and would have rapidly been modded down to -1) and whose post (and, somewhat ironically I grant you, this one as well) now requires 3 more mod points to be spent to hide it?

    The flag icon in the lower right allows anyone to recommend a downward mod without using his mod points or even requiring him to have any.

  7. Re:Slashdot abuse alert... apk on Laser Fusion's Brightest Hope · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who's the more moronic? The original moron, or the one who replies to him knowing full well his comment will certainly be ignored, if not entirely unread, thus bringing the insane troll post to the attention of those who would otherwise not have seen it at all (seeing as it started at 0 and would have rapidly been modded down to -1) and whose post (and, somewhat ironically I grant you, this one as well) now requires 3 more mod points to be spent to hide it?

    Use the flag Luke.

  8. Re:The winner? on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 2

    Better way. Ignore them completely. Don't acknowledge them, don't respond. Act like you you don't even hear them.

    Pretend they don't even exist.

    That's bloody stupid. Has ignoring playground bullies ever worked? No, it just invites escalating provocations.

    It will work if YOU are the biggest bully in the playground.

    The Principal?

  9. They've got tails have they? I knew they had wings, but tails!

    The little black ones are called bats.

  10. Re:Microwave on Cosmic Microwave Background: Google Earth Style · · Score: 1

    It's funny how the Cosmic Microwave Background looks like the inside of our work microwave.

    There was a big bang in your microwave?

  11. Re:SUN is dead. on Oracle Releases SPARC T5 Servers; Too Late? · · Score: 0

    long live raspberry pi.
    a beowulf cluster.
    how many bitcoins per second?

    did i win the buzzword bingo today, mommy?

    Under the B : 52.

  12. Re:Watch your clauses, people! on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 3, Funny

    Edit or edit not; there is no try

    On the edit-not side, the slashdot editors firmly are. Hmmm. Not give in to that side you must!

    Ubi solitudinem editoriam faciunt, slashdotum appellant.

  13. Re:Watch your clauses, people! on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 1

    I wish there was a smaller unit than bits. The headline would become more exciting!

    Atomic bits?

  14. Re:Watch your clauses, people! on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 3, Funny

    A Slashdot editor Yoda has become.

    Edit or edit not; there is no try.

  15. Re:Also talking on Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year · · Score: 1

    ...Henceforth all conversations must be recorded on your official government recorder, which will relay all conversations in real time..

    On the bright side, free telescreens for everyone!

  16. Re:Good technology on Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals Are More Likely To Re-offend · · Score: 1

    We're talking about a "criminality detector" and politicians, right?

    Sending the measurement "off-scale high" isn't really a good calibration.

    Maybe a log scale is needed, but experiment is necessary to tell.

  17. Re:Good technology on Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals Are More Likely To Re-offend · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now let's first use it on our politicians.

    Why? We already know.

    To calibrate the tests.

  18. Re:Good? on No "Ungoogleable" In Swedish Lexicon, Thanks to Google · · Score: 1

    Or just realize he's a moron? He uses plenty of "newfangled" words and spelling that didn't exist in, say, the 17th Century. For example:

    The English speach doth still encroche vpon it [Cornish], and hath driuen the same into the vttermost skirts of the shire. Most of the Inhabitants can no word of Cornish; but very few are ignorant of the English.

    Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall (1602)

    plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

  19. Re:A paradox? on No "Ungoogleable" In Swedish Lexicon, Thanks to Google · · Score: 1

    Google would LOVE the free publicity from all of this: "Our product is so popular that we have to fight prevent dictionaries from including it! Bing doesn't have this problem."

    Oh, they do:

    1.1 A heap or pile: formerly of stones, earth, trees, dead bodies, as well as of corn, potatoes, and the like

    If you don't like it, "bing" also seems to be an onomatopoetic word for suddenness with the connotation of destructive change. I'm not quite sure if that's better for MS.

    I always thought they were named after the cherries.

    What Would Crosby Say?

  20. Re:Hmmm on Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String · · Score: 1

    Dung shui?

    It gives it that lived in look.

    --

    Business is picking up.

  21. Re:Hmmm on Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String · · Score: 2

    I'm hourly as well, but if I weren't, the analogy would be more like a dog shits on your lawn: you can either leave it there to turn white or you can pick the shit up. Either way, your life sucks a little bit more.

    Of course if it turns white, then it is left there as part of the decor.

  22. Re:What it needs is a good theme song on 'Energy Beet' Power Is Coming To America · · Score: 1

    With apologies to the aptly named Go-Gos

    See the people driving down the street
    Fall in line just waiting for their beet
    They don't know where they wanna go
    But they're in the fill-up line

    They got the beet
    They got the beet
    Yeah
    They got the beet

    The beet goes on.

  23. Re:No backup of the KDE sources! on Too Perfect a Mirror · · Score: 1

    They had/have no fucking backup! And complain about some git mirror issues. I can't fucking believe it that they can be so stupid.

    The solution: MAKE BACKUPS!

    "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

  24. Re:So you're using arable land... on 'Energy Beet' Power Is Coming To America · · Score: 1

    ...to grow energy instead of food. Which means the price of food rises and the poor riot as they cannot afford to buy food,

    So immoral that even Al Gore rejected it, which is saying somethng.

    Instead of tortilla riots, there could be beet riots.

  25. Re:chicken or egg? on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 1

    Could we? Easily accessible deposits of any useful ore or fuel has been mined out ages ago. We could find ourselves in situation when we need resources to build tools, but without those tools we cannot access resources.

    There are still large virgin deposits of flint should that be necessary.