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  1. Re:No surprise on Study: Chimpanzees Have Evolved To Kill Each Other · · Score: 1

    Latent homosexual behavior manifested in competition for a same-sex mate.

  2. Re:Simple change. What about round abouts on Surprising Result of NYC Bike Lanes: Faster Traffic for Cars · · Score: 1

    Lights can be installed to pause the heavy traffic. This solves the starvation issue while still allowing the benefits of the roundabout the other 22 hours of the day.

  3. A remake of The Birds anyone? on The Passenger Pigeon: A Century of Extinction · · Score: 1

    The Coen Brothers do an homage of Hitchcock perhaps.

  4. Extensive public input? on UK Cabinet Office Adopts ODF As Exclusive Standard For Sharable Documents · · Score: 1

    "The decision follows a long process that invited, and received, very extensive public input – over 500 comments in all"

    Hell, Slashdot has 500 comments on any given topic, and 95% of them aren't fit to bubble above the filters.

  5. Re:Bang on Hair-Raising Technique Detects Drugs, Explosives On Human Body · · Score: 1

    You're not thinking it through. Small explosion on plane causes catastrophic decompression and ignites fuel. Small explosion in a security contained area takes out just a few.

  6. Re:Bang on Hair-Raising Technique Detects Drugs, Explosives On Human Body · · Score: 1

    Honestly that's fine by me. Better sending up a contained security area than a plane full of innocents.

  7. Bing is irrelevant on Microsoft Kills Off MapPoint and Streets and Trips In Favor of Bing Maps · · Score: -1

    Without traffic being integrated into travel times Bing is useless. The when of a trip is just as important as the how, especially when navigating using a mobile. Bing will happily send me into a 20-kilometer parking lot, where Google will route me around it and save me significant time. Also, the usability of the site is laughable. Where's the search typeahead?

  8. Can't unring a bell on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1

    The mail is probably sitting in someone's pop3 inbox. Plus, when he received something obviously in mistake it probably got deleted. Either way, wouldn't it make more sense to contact the addressee and stress that the mail is proprietary and disclosing it would rain down a whole heap of trouble on the guy?

  9. Re:besides that on Employees Staying Away From Internal Corporate Social Networks · · Score: 1

    Perhaps but the whole point of an ESN is to keep work at work. I've seen Yammer used reasonably well with a couple of distributed technology groups for micro-blogging, and having chat channels (Skype, Lync, HipChat) is very useful. My current engagement is mostly from home, and our company ESN allows us to be productive without having to commute.

  10. Chupacabra isn't included.

  11. Re: why would I want to hang with a buncha cunts on Match.com, Mensa Create Dating Site For Geniuses · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Way too much truth here. I passed their exam to satisfy my curiosity but figured I'd find them as boring as I find myself after surfing their forums at the time. As far as the chicks go (recalling my days in Uni), a well-maintained genius is so outnumbered by men I would have better luck going for supermodels interested in money. The truth is everyone is an idiot in a demonstrable way, and the ideal match is the one who can find the humor in the ways their partner is just bloody hopeless.

  12. C# for Q&D on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 3

    The learning curve for a C programmer isn't bad, you can self pace into some elegance if you get painted into a corner, it's very easy to bang out a console application or service, deployments are pretty easy, and it's pretty well documented how to interface web services and web applications from the console. Given the OP's background and the objective, it seems the best fit for me.

  13. Bitcoins are insane on Expedia To Accept Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    They have no intrinsic value, similar to tulip bulbs back in the day. Gold has intrinsic value. Currency has intrinsic value in that it's tied to the GDP and ability of its issuer to pay bonds. It's true monetary policy can grow or shrink a money supply, but see above. When a bitcoin is generated, it was generated from not virtually nothing, but literally nothing.

  14. Re:Queue the deniers on Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    It's clear the apocalypse is coming -- whether it takes the form of Communists vs. the West, a new Crusades, or climatic change, our grandchildren are well and truly fucked.

  15. One week when I was bored I opened up my wireless, waited for the inevitable leach, and then played routing games around the sick porn sites he visited. Increasingly, all traffic routed to http://www.kittenwar.com./ The leaching soon stopped.

  16. Re: We are being bred for slavery on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 1

    Astute. The pool of available liquid currency precisely buys the pool of available commodities. Like tic tac toe, the only way to win this game is to not play it, but perceived happiness is devilish when your next door neighbor has a nicer car than you do.

  17. Assuming the ph dipthong is prounounced as an f, they are still phonetically identical. Yes, I know ph doesn't occur in Spanish words and iPhone would be eeponeh.

  18. Phonetically it would be eeTelefono. I was actually wondering why a Mexican company would sell something that phonetically is eefoneh. Are Mexican brands keeping track with the number of English words that Japanese complain about taking over their language?

  19. Re:Duh on Study: Rats Regret Making the Wrong Decision · · Score: 1

    ... said the victim while the tiger crouched...

  20. Re:How will history judge the F-35? on Canada Poised To Buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 JSFs · · Score: 1

    Do you really think China's ambitions are going to end well? Honestly?

  21. Re:Integrated Infotainment, why do I want it? on Intel Wants To Computerize Your Car · · Score: 1

    What if you're in a city like Sydney, where there are mazes of roads underground? You phone GPS won't work there.

    I was just in Sydney and my phone did quite well. It predicts your location while it waits to re-establish signal. If you stick to the plan it works pretty well.

  22. Fully autonomous probably not possible on Kids With Wheels: Should the Unlicensed Be Allowed To 'Drive' Autonomous Cars? · · Score: 2

    I was thinking the same thing about the blind and the blind drunk, but the problem is at the start and end points. The car may not know how to get out of a parking garage (scan for exit signs?), and it probably won't know how to find a parking spot in congested metro areas (heuristic search?) so at some point you're going to have to take over.

  23. Re:Why learn CS only to train your H1B replacement on US College Students Still Aren't All That Interested In Computer Science · · Score: 1

    Okay wise-ass... what do you propose to do that isn't undercut by the third world? In the end it's net value delivered, is it not?

  24. Re:18 *M*illions dollars ? that's it ? on EVE Online's Space Economy Currently Worth $18 Million · · Score: 1

    Assets are probably easily 5x the value of isk, so it's no stretch to believe that the total value of the economy is $100M or more. However, the cash value of isk is strongly depressed by CCP and external (read: Chinese) factors, and $15 currently exchanges for 700M isk. I could liquidate my characters and assets for over $5,000, and I'm a medium sized fish at best.

  25. Laptop < Handwritten < None on Students Remember Lectures Better Taking Notes Longhand Than Using Laptops · · Score: 1

    I went through four years of engineering uni without taking one single note, graduated with a 3.5+. Have to admit I threw off a few lecturers with the intensity of my attention though.