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  1. Re:I sympathize I ride DC's METRO rail on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    http://www.dullesmetro.com/

    That station isn't actually active? I don't travel out that way too much as I live near BWI, but I could have sworn there were trains running on that line.

  2. Re:The U.S government is EXTREMELY corrupt. on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI, in the US, the 95% is making $95k/year, hardly "rich" and very likely to be paying no capital gains, as that is generally a salaried employee.

  3. Re:Why hasn't this been privatized yet? on Behind the Scenes of NASA's Orbital ATK ISS Resupply Mission (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Frankly, if you look into it, all space missions were done by private companies....

  4. Re:Will look at logs and jail people who used it? on Google Scales the Great Firewall, Falls Off 105 Minutes Later (techinasia.com) · · Score: 1

    His homeopath thinks the treatment is progressing as expected.

  5. Re:Most popular by design on Popular Transmission BitTorrent Client Released For Windows (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    That was what I thought of immediately upon reading the headline, I was thinking of responding:

    "So now Windows can be exploited just as easily as Mac!"

  6. Re:I sympathize I ride DC's METRO rail on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    Also, there is a train to BWI, Marc from Union Station. It just isn't on the Metro lines.

    There are also now trains running to Dulles, but also I don't believe those are Metro either.

  7. Re:I sympathize I ride DC's METRO rail on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    Heck, just look at the decision to self-insure all city vehicles. If your car is hit by a policeman in DC, forget ever getting them to pay for the damage. DC is terribly corrupt.

    http://orm.dc.gov/

  8. Re:People say "custom-made" like it's a bad thing on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    Couldn't they put another rail 9.5 inches inside one of the rails?

    Just upgrade a line at a time with an extra rail, and switch over to new cars, then remove the extra rail later. Problem fixed :)

    I know, likely it is MUCH more complicated than that when you think of Y tracks.

  9. Re:"either shadow or fog" on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Glare On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    Newfangled OLED, especially AMOLED screens work great in outdoor viewing. It is kind of their whole selling point.

  10. Re:"either shadow or fog" on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Glare On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    As a fellow divorcee, I am surprised it isn't this song:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Though your choice is pretty good as well.

  11. Re: Why lol? on Ubuntu Tablet Now Available For Pre-Order · · Score: 1

    You might want to qualify that as a Asus Transformer T100, as I don't think you loaded Ubuntu onto a pickup truck:

    https://www.google.com/search?... :)

  12. Re:Year Of Linux on Smartphones already happened on Ubuntu Tablet Now Available For Pre-Order · · Score: 1

    For the average user, that is what is needed, and it is why Android is such a popular Linux port, also this is the reason Ubuntu is so popular. If you want to get down into the weeds like that, you need to root the phone, then you have full access to the underlying configuration files, so you can break your phone any way you please.

  13. Re:Why lol? on Ubuntu Tablet Now Available For Pre-Order · · Score: 1

    What specifically don't you like about the different tablets you have tried? Perhaps the community can help out.

    I liked the Nexus tablets, and my kids seem to enjoy the Amazon Fire tablets they got for Christmas, but I can't say I have ever disliked a tablet I used. My memory on tablets goes all the way back to 486 tablets an inch thick with resistive touch screens, so I have been using tablets a pretty damn long time.

  14. Re:That's actually really surprising... on Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I hate it when my rowboat is damaged by blunt trauma, it just makes it not glide through the water as well...

  15. Re:Lie detector on Researcher Measures Brain Reactions To Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Those horrible Republicans in the FBI, how dare they talk bad about a Clinton!

    The GOP has nothing going on about Hillary's mail server, it is all the FBI investigating a criminal act. Get off your political high horse and rethink your diatribe.

    I don't give a damn about what the GOP has done in the past, as they have nothing to do with this investigation, it has nothing to do with this conversation.

  16. Re:That's actually really surprising... on Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The thing is, you are talking about in TFA 1000s of people traveling 100s of miles (over land) to do battle, in which case you absolutely need pretty advanced food technology.

  17. Re:That's actually really surprising... on Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    5800 AD? Are you a time traveler? Can you give us any hints about the upcoming superbowl?

  18. Re:That's actually really surprising... on Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Up-modded? Perhaps you should read about the moderation system of Slashdot. Logged in users start out at +1 or +2 (with Karma boost modifier), you are replying to an entirely unmoderated post. Go back to Reddit where you know how it works.

  19. Re:No matter what you call them, they were Europea on Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because 9/11 was totally a result of us messing in the middle east. Perhaps it is because we supported Al Qaeda against Russia? Yeah, we should never have helped them, they obviously started hating us for all the help we gave them.

  20. Re:Who gives a shit? on Volcano Erupts In Southwest Alaska, Sending Ash 20,000 Feet (google.com) · · Score: 1

    'm honestly not sure if letting us acs post willy nilly is a good idea. on the other hand, we have one ac who is obviously using a botnet/vpn/tor/etc to post entire conversations with himself usually about how republicans hate children but he's had some variety lately at least.

    There is also APK who would shitpost whole torrents of spam. It seems he has mostly backed off recently though.

  21. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist on Volcano Erupts In Southwest Alaska, Sending Ash 20,000 Feet (google.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.snopes.com/politics...

    What she ACTUALLY said is true though, not some ignorant line. You can see Russia from some islands in Alaska. However, I can't see how that would have any effect on Palin's ability to negotiate with Russia as she was being asked.

  22. Re:ÃoeWarningà on Volcano Erupts In Southwest Alaska, Sending Ash 20,000 Feet (google.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it is not tied to metamoderation, as I have done that once, like a month ago, and I have always been flush with mod points.

  23. Re:IFTTT... IFTTT... IFTTT... IFTTT... on 'My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT' (pinboard.in) · · Score: 1

    It also would help if the ACs search had the correct number of "T"s in it.

    As the name of the application and website is IFTTT, I would kind of expect people to call it that, but maybe break out that it means "If This Than That", which is a website where you can setup actions based on things that happen with IoT devices, Web pages, or WHATEVER is accessible on the web.

  24. Re:The worst [Re:How is this not win/win] on 33,000 Sign Online Petition Promoting Guns At Republican Convention (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    a practice also done by previous secretaries of state (including ones working for Bush)

    No, no previous secretary of state has ever run their own email server. Rice has indicated that she didn't even use email, and Powell turned over the emails that were sent to his private email account despite his use of State's email system.

    The practice was illegal at the time that Hillary started as SofS.

    and that some e-mails on that server were later reclassified as classified information.

    No, HUMINT is classified as TOP SECRET//HCS from the source, and is at no time permitted to be UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO. Incidentially, that is what happened with Rice's aide's and Powell's email accounts:
    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

    https://www.google.com/search?... (pick whatever source you don't disbelieve..)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (look under HUMINT section)

    . but was, as it turns out, probably safer on her server

    You mean the server that failed security reviews by Qualys?
    https://politics.slashdot.org/...

  25. Re:Lie detector on Researcher Measures Brain Reactions To Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So, three countries have higher tax rates? How does that compare to NYT giving Denmark as an example of higher tax rates, while utterly ignoring that Trump said corporate tax rates?

    Denmark's corporate tax rate is 22%, while the US corporate tax rate is 35%, according to that chart. That puts the NYT on shaky ground as far as Denmark having higher taxes than the US to disprove Trump's assertion that the US charges high corporate tax rates.

    I don't have the original Trump quote, or even know what he was talking about, I was pointing out that what you said didn't actually have anything to do with what you were replying to.