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  1. Re:I never have understood on Serious Economic Crisis Looms In Russia, China May Help · · Score: 2

    The uid's generally identify those.

  2. Re:Dementia will get'm long before 120 on How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years · · Score: 1

    ... I'll bet that in 2034 we have effective treatments for most all of them...

    I'll take that bet, $1000?

  3. Re:Kerbal Space Program on Ask Slashdot: Professionally Packaged Tools For Teaching Kids To Program? · · Score: 1

    That sounds like 0x10c, but I know nothing about KSP.

  4. ALICE on Ask Slashdot: Professionally Packaged Tools For Teaching Kids To Program? · · Score: 4, Informative

    ALICE from Carnegie Melon, http://www.alice.org/index.php

  5. Re:Be the Change You Wish to See in the World on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Would the slaves have been better off in Africa, dead of one savagery or another?

    First, your racism is showing. Second, the answer is an unequivocal "YES!"

  6. Re:Why the link to dice? on Employers Worried About Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1
  7. Government IT services on Why Military Personnel Make the Best IT Pros · · Score: 2

    A lot of IT positions are with the federal government, and many military members parting from service already possess the security clearances required for those positions. It's often cheaper to train someone that already possess a security clearance to be an IT professional than it is to get an IT professional their security clearance.

  8. DD-wrt on Ask Slashdot: Advice On Building a Firewall With VPN Capabilities? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That was easy.

  9. Re:Seriously? on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Seriously? on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    They also have a much higher population density / much smaller land area to cover.

  11. Re:Let us redefine "progress" on World's First 3D Printed Estate Coming To New York · · Score: 1

    That brings the dream of home ownership within the reach of a lot of people who wouldn't have been able to afford it before. We live in exciting times.

    Unless said people derived their income from building homes, which a lot of the skilled trades still do.

  12. Re:So WTF do the non-depressed do with the interne on Depressed People Surf the Web Differently · · Score: 5, Insightful

    coping mechanism. When your brain is telling you you're all alone, you do everything you can to feel some sort of human connection.

  13. Re:the astronaut party and the space-cadet party on Spaceman-Turned-Politician Can Call Himself 'Astronaut' On Ballot · · Score: 1

    Regarding your Army analogy, see Eisenhower.

  14. Re:Step up that Expulsion on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 1

    Demolition Man?

  15. Re:Privacy or Convenience? on The Average Consumer Thinks Data Privacy Is Worth Around 65 Cents · · Score: 1

    If only I could hear you over all this noise.

  16. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    There's also no country called "Spain" or "Germany", those are just the names we gave to countries that have rightful names. So it's only fair that they can call us whatever they want in return.

  17. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    "That is a hard thing though, most people are too afraid." and rightly so, how many would stand in front of an armored column in defiance of totalitarianism. I recall there only being one man in the photos from Tienanmen Square

  18. Re:I will be doing one thing about it. on What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040? · · Score: 1

    Tsar Bomba was also detonated at some distance above the earth's surface.

  19. Re:MS-DOS in ROM on Why Didn't the Internet Take Off In 1983? · · Score: 1

    One word: patents.

  20. Re:Careful... on "Open Source" Drug Development Company Launched · · Score: 1

    "Do you know what they call alternative medicines that have been proved to work? Medicine."

  21. Re:Don Pettit on Microgravity Coffee Cup · · Score: 1

    Because this is America, and we don't believe in personal responsibility here. It's your god given right to live in a house you can't afford.

  22. Re:Distributed Grid on Small, Modular Nuclear Reactors — the Future of Energy? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    nimby

  23. Re:so on Why the Number of O's In LOL Matter On YouTube · · Score: 2, Funny

    noob

  24. Re:China on Super Bowl Bust: Feds Grab 307 NFL Websites; $4.8M · · Score: 1

    if the victim of the rape, murder, or theft is a corporation and not an "actual" person, then yes. Your argument would then be congruent and I would support them paying for the services of the government.

  25. Re:Find a big cave on The Challenges of Building a Mars Base · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No moon? So where does your claim leave Deimos? Phobos?