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  1. Re:With all the stolen businesses from other state on Spaceport Development Picks Up Steam In Texas · · Score: 0

    How does one steal a business? Am I stealing your wife if I tell her that I won't beat her as much as you do and she comes to me?

  2. Re:Hur hur on Canadian Newspaper Charging $150 License Fee To Publish Excerpts · · Score: 1

    Little Katy needs to find a better source of information before she becomes a raving, frothing-at-the-mouth retarded lunatic who speaks about shit they know nothing about like the rest of us.

  3. Re:I wish I had pirated it lol on In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download · · Score: 1

    What's it been? Like a week? Give it time. A crack will be out eventually.

  4. Re:The elusive... on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    Those are federal courts.

  5. Re:Dammit, Texas! on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    who want to have an economics-tooth-fairy that waves a wand and makes the reality of purchasing power go away

    Odd, I've never met a liberal who was a follower of Hayek or Austrian Economics.

  6. Re:God fucking damnit Slashdot... on Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: "Programming Will Make You a Better Doctor" · · Score: 1
  7. Re:When Will We Trust Robots? on When Will We Trust Robots? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are confirmed for never reading anything he wrote. All those robot books were basically explaining how and why those laws would not work.

  8. Re:A robot with a human-like face is a lie on When Will We Trust Robots? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What about a sexbot? Surely you don't want your robot ghost `maid' to look like an industrial meat grinder....

  9. Re:Your plan in action on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    Probably best to post the actual case, lest that naive idiot responds with another ``that never happened!''. And here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales . (Also, it was the woman's three little girls who were murdered, not herself.)

  10. Re:When talking to a prosecutor in the US. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    Alright, dipshit, how's this scenario:
    You run a server, and one day, someone comes along and uploads 500TB of child porn. Unfortunately, you don't notice for a week, because you are an idiot, and 1000000 people download it. Do you call the cops and have them seize everything you own and hold it for a year while they look for evidence and investigate how you allowed yourself to distribute zetabytes of child porn? Or do you quietly delete and remove anon access?

    Talk to the cops, or no? Warmly awaiting your answer.

  11. Re:Or... on British Farmers Growing Their Own Internet Service · · Score: 1

    In order for rural people to get Fox News, it means they have basic cable or satellite TV.

    Wrong. Before calbe and satalite, people had these things called television ``stations'' that broadcast over radio waves. Many are still in operation. Fox affiliate stations broadcast pretty much everywhere. With a 30 year old TV and a bent-up metal clothes hanger you can usually get pretty good reception on at least a couple Fox stations. CBS and NBC are pretty flaky, and PBS is there, but it sucks.

  12. Re:Or... on British Farmers Growing Their Own Internet Service · · Score: 1

    Mostly so stuff like, you know, food, keeps flowing, ... mostly. It's hard to compete with Kraft when it takes 3 months to download the satellite data to plan out exactly where every grain of wheat falls.

  13. Re:I Don't Get It on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    That just shows how dead they wanted this guy.

  14. Re:What? on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 2

    That is stupid. You could apply that to all wages and bonuses. Do you turn down bonuses at work?

  15. Re:Sadly, this is probably as good as it gets on Gubernatorial Candidate Speaks Out Against CAS · · Score: 1

    This is fine too. If they are willing to spend millions for every thousand our side wastes, then they'll run out of money before we do (maybe). Just call it a war of attrition and we are golden.

  16. Re:Bloat on Open Source Emoji Project Wants Money For Icons · · Score: 1

    Why? Because there are 2^21 codepoints and there is nothing better to do.

    Also, I'd say it isn't bloated enough, based only on the clusterfuck that is CJK.

  17. Re:Signalling on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 1

    Sorry, friend-o, but I don't think that University of Nebraska is quite as bad as University of Phoenix and DeVry.

  18. Re:And people wonder why the US is going broke... on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 1

    I implement most of those policies. Also, to mitigate lost productivity due to family issues, I exclusively hire those without families and with dead parents and grandparents. I admire your insight about those who got into trouble as a child. If it were up to me, people would simply be euthanized when the first begin to make mistakes, to ensure a better workplace and society for everyone. That said, I think that your idea of only requiring a simple bachelor degree is quite lacking. In my company, I employ a janitor who has a master's degree in philosophy and a bachelors in mathematics. I have recently had to cut his pay due to low morale, but his advanced education is useful to me, as he can optimize the method in which he decides to scrub the toilets.

    However, I do see the utility into having certain certain non-critical tasks assigned to miscreants, so long as they are segregated from the rest of the work force, of course. For instance, to do minor maintenance, I hire convicted felons on parole. They often have completed several degrees while incarcerated and are desperate to not return to prison. They are willing to work salaried for less than the equivalent of minimum wage and are always eager to impress me. I am working on a document detailing how I may create an entirely separate workforce consisting of these degenerates, and the savings are quite impressive. I spoke to a certain child molester who was previously employed as a computer science researcher by NASA, Cray, Boeing, and Microsoft who agreed that $20K per year was more than enough to take manage the various PHP projects that my department oversees. This allows me to remove four software engineers with mere bachelor degrees and replace them with a much more qualified candidate.

  19. Re:It's the students on The Two Big Problems With Online College Courses · · Score: 1

    (1) Watching instructional videos doesn't count as guidance?
    (2) Khan Academy is shit. A extremely cursory pseudo-explaination involving avocados, then a couple basic examples doesn't do anything. He never explains how anything works, just that it works (and frequently leaves off units, which pisses me off to no end). He doesn't even bother to shout WOLOG like a proper teacher would when he uses to simplest illustrations possible so he can cram as much MS Paint artwork into 10 minutes as possible.

  20. Re:It's the students on The Two Big Problems With Online College Courses · · Score: 2

    Maybe for the Art History majoring hipsters, that will suffice. If you are telling me that you could have learned, oh say, abstract algebra, without a little guidance, then you are a fucking liar.

  21. Re:No really, it's jQuery that's broken on WebKit As Broken As Older IE Versions? · · Score: 1
    When you do real programming, do you implement your own printf()?

    Being that the reason that old school programmers make their own frameworks? :-)

    Because they needed to fit an operating system in 14KB.

  22. Re:well... on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    Because it doesn't fucking exist, that's why.

  23. Re:Musk to NYT on Tesla Motors Battles the New York Times · · Score: 1

    impossible

    That's a mighty extraordinary claim. You'd better prove it, a priori, before you start mouthing off about impossibilities based on in a vain attempt to sound smart through pedantry. The alternative is hypocracy, as you are holding him to a standard of proof that you yourself cannot show.

    On a side note, if you can't use language to communicate ideas correctly, please refrain from engaging in discussions until you acquire this ability.

    OMG, You're not driving 60mph, your driving 60+10^-9000mph you fucking liar!!! You're a fucking idiot, idiot. It's a god damn natural language; you know what he meant.

  24. Re:Well said! on Ask Slashdot: Best Alternative To the Canonical Computer Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    Thank you!

  25. Re:Welcome to Capitalism on Ron Paul Asks UN For Help Geting Control of RonPaul.com Domain From Fans · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that's rude and abrupt, but guess what? It never was yours. All that effort of yours? You donated it. If that donation proves to have been to someone unworthy, well, that's the way cookie crumbles.

    Sounds a lot like taxes. It is abundantly clear that Paul's message is that it's only bad when he is the one who suffers.