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  1. Re:Why limit it to drugs? on Google Supercomputers Tackle Giant Drug-Interaction Data Crunch · · Score: 1

    Because the person running it is a pharmocologist and thus that would be their area of interest?

  2. Re:What awful gifts... on Free Software Foundation Announces 2013 Holiday Giving Guide · · Score: 1

    Did you bother to look at them?

  3. Re:Voiding Warranty? on CyanogenMod Installer Removed From Google Play Store · · Score: 1

    Actually companies like Dell will routinely deny warranty claims if you've done something like that. Read the fine print.

  4. Re:An anonymous reader? on Free Software Foundation Announces 2013 Holiday Giving Guide · · Score: 1

    Can't be Bennett. It's not 10000 words long and rambling about how he's being persecuted for running a spam list.

  5. Hahah what? on Free Software Foundation Announces 2013 Holiday Giving Guide · · Score: 1

    Jump for joy? Sure, if the jump is leading up to them roundhouse-kicking you in the face for buying them a shitty gift.

  6. Re:Thin-skinned whiner on With Burning Teslas In the News Ford Recalls Almost 140,000 Escapes · · Score: 1

    I'm a shill? Yeah, sure. Aren't you supposed to be too busy fluffing Musk to be posting to Slashdot?

  7. Re:Thin-skinned whiner on With Burning Teslas In the News Ford Recalls Almost 140,000 Escapes · · Score: 1

    Where exactly did I say it was bad? Please quote specifically where I claim this.

  8. Re:An anonymous reader writes on With Burning Teslas In the News Ford Recalls Almost 140,000 Escapes · · Score: 1

    Musk does all that himself? Proof please? Because I'm pretty sure his employees are the ones doing all that work.

  9. Re:Honesty is never treasured in corporate world on The Best Way To Blow the Whistle · · Score: 1

    When exactly was this mythical time when the truth or honesty ever treasured in either the corporate or political world? It certainly isn't any time in the last 150 years.

  10. Re:An anonymous reader writes on With Burning Teslas In the News Ford Recalls Almost 140,000 Escapes · · Score: 1

    Right, because no one can possibly disagree with anything Elon says or does without having to be a neanderthal. Get over yourself. Musk is not some martyred messiah.

  11. Re:Thin-skinned whiner on With Burning Teslas In the News Ford Recalls Almost 140,000 Escapes · · Score: 1

    Except he hasn't poured all of his money into it. Not by a long shot. And that's before you factor in his huge US government loan.

  12. Re:The peril of new technology on With Burning Teslas In the News Ford Recalls Almost 140,000 Escapes · · Score: 1

    5 to 10 years? What junker cars are you buying?

  13. Re:orly? on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    Funny, since Windows CE also ran on ARM and yet supported the vast majority of the Win32 API thus making porting quite a lot easier.

  14. Re:One thing stays the same - speculation on Nasdaq 4000 — This Time It's Different? · · Score: 1

    "Wall Street" is not a stock market. It is a district within which several stock exchanges are located.

  15. Re:Lie a little on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 1

    True, it is not strictly illegal but it is frowned upon because it can be used as evidence against the employer in a discrimination lawsuit.

    http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/

    Pre-Employment Inquiries (General)

    As a general rule, the information obtained and requested through the pre-employment process should be limited to those essential for determining if a person is qualified for the job; whereas, information regarding race, sex, national origin, age, and religion are irrelevant in such determinations.

    Employers are explicitly prohibited from making pre-employment inquiries about disability.

    Although state and federal equal opportunity laws do not clearly forbid employers from making pre-employment inquiries that relate to, or disproportionately screen out members based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, or age, such inquiries may be used as evidence of an employer's intent to discriminate unless the questions asked can be justified by some business purpose.

    Therefore, inquiries about organizations, clubs, societies, and lodges of which an applicant may be a member or any other questions, which may indicate the applicant's race, sex, national origin, disability status, age, religion, color or ancestry if answered, should generally be avoided.

    Similarly, employers should not ask for a photograph of an applicant. If needed for identification purposes, a photograph may be obtained after an offer of employment is made and accepted.

    Now while that sounds all well and good it's doubtful that would be enough to win with the legal system favoring employers over employees.

  16. Re:Comparison on DragonFlyBSD 3.6 Brings AMD/Intel Graphics Drivers & Better SMP Scaling · · Score: 1

    Have anything that isn't 5 years old?

  17. Re:Ironic on Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad · · Score: 1

    There's no irony. Why should a doctor want to have prolonged suffering in situations where they know they will never get better?

  18. Re:Needed to fully charge batteries on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1

    That's not what this is talking about. It's about how it can drain up to 7.5% of the battery if not plugged in since the electronics don't go to sleep.

  19. Re:Good riddance on BlackBerry's CFO, CMO, and COO Leave Company · · Score: 1

    There was plenty of marketing for BB10. Such as the marketing campaign involving Alicia Keys.

  20. Re:like tweeting in secret? on Twitter Implements Forward Secrecy For Connections · · Score: 1

    But isn't the point of Twatter so that you can share with the world that #ijusttookadump?

  21. Re:follow the money on NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox Database Choice · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should have just used MongoDB. I hear it's web scale. *ducks*

  22. Re:Encryption on Tapping Data From Radio-Controlled Bus Stop Displays · · Score: 4, Funny

    For anyone who is not an aspie they would have recognized that the GP's post is this new thing called a "joke". Maybe your side of the world hasn't yet been informed of their invention?

  23. Re:See, this is kinda what I meant on Tapping Data From Radio-Controlled Bus Stop Displays · · Score: 5, Insightful

    when I said you don't need an oscilloscope anymore. Probably a SDR receiver that goes to a PC.

    At what stage in this project would an oscilloscope have been needed anyway? Yes, she used an SDR for scanning radio frequencies.

    What possible interest is there in looking at the raw RF at the antenna, which you won't see with an oscilloscope anyways (because I don't know any scopes with nV/cm settings yet), or the countless undocumented signals inside the receiver, which you won't access anyways because it's all on one chip?

    What is all on one chip? How is this rambling statement even applicable to this article?

    It's all wonderful fun, but when you can do the same with a 15$ USB receiver and some software, it all starts to look rather silly, no?

    You can decode these IBus messages with a $15 USB receiver? Link please?

  24. Re:Local webapp on Google Is Building a Chrome App-Based IDE · · Score: -1, Troll

    moving C++/C# From windows, to mac to linux is hard, takes time.

    Only if you're incompetent and wrote shit code from the get go.

  25. Re:Local webapp on Google Is Building a Chrome App-Based IDE · · Score: 2

    Because the way to stop the issues with bloated web code is to add more layers!