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  1. Re:ebookoid has 1 million ebooks on Why Are There More Old Songs On iTunes Than Old eBooks? · · Score: 1

    Library Genesis (http://libgen.org/) has been great when I need to find texts of the academic variety.

  2. Is sharpie going to stop selling markers in this area? I remember someone writing on a bathroom stall that I was a faggot. No idea who.

  3. Re:The wrong question is being asked.... on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    Do you consider it unethical if people recognize you and tailor their conversation with you to your shared interests?

  4. Re:Cost? on Linksys Resurrects WRT54G In a New Router · · Score: 1

    How big is it? How much power does it draw?

  5. Re:triple threat on JavaScript-Based OpenRISC Emulator Can Run Linux, GCC, Wayland · · Score: 2

    I'm surprised it wasn't written in C++ and compiled to JavaScript...

  6. Re:Freedom of speech... on Reddit Bans Subreddit Dedicated To Finding Navy Yard Shooters · · Score: 0

    You are not safe, however, from the consequences of pissing people off.

    Like advocating for the freedom of slaves...

  7. Re:No notice, no reference on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 0

    I can then extrapolate that to every employer everywhere then, right?

  8. Re:I can slack off anywhere on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 1

    But I can easily find you if I need to ask you something, instead of sending an e-mail I hope you read in a timely matter, or hoping you don't have your phone on silent.

  9. Re:Just kick him out. on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 1

    Hotels don't check your credit score when you're paying cash.

  10. Re:Damn... on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 2

    You're right. Let's throw out the entirety of medical science as mere semantics.

  11. Re:Damn... on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    disease

    noun

    a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.

    Aspergers seems to fit the definition of disease.

  12. Re:Installing Windows 7 is not that bad on Windows 7 Not Getting A Second Service Pack · · Score: 1
  13. Google makes hardware on Acer: Microsoft Surface 'Negative For The Whole PC Industry' · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Google makes Android hardware, why isn't anyone complaining about that?

  14. Re:Good luck... on Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends · · Score: 2

    There are plenty of them. Problem is, they're overweight, work on XYZ, have an affinity for Cheetos, Mountain Dew, and avoiding showers. And these fat, disgusting male nerds have this false sense that they're entitled to a gorgeous woman.

  15. Re:Is that serious, or a straw man? on ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content · · Score: 1

    There's nowhere in the constitution

    Take it up with SCOTUS.

  16. Re:User your phone as file server on Ask Slashdot: Syncing Files With Remote Server While On the Road? · · Score: 1

    Or just use a dynamic DNS service. I can understand not wanting to use dropbox, as the data isn't encrypted.

  17. Re:Windows 95 vs Windows 7 on Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's · · Score: 1

    Hover! was an amazing game. I played it a ton as a child. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover!

  18. Re:5Th Ammendment on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 2

    They never took that into account when they wrote the amendment and interpretation has to change to take that issue into account.

    Cryptography predates the founding fathers.

  19. Re:Duh on New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological · · Score: 1

    Math major at a respected Uni here... math IS hard. Memorizing is the easy part, comprehension and then building on this comprehension is the hard part.

  20. Re:so if someone steals your laptop on Mozilla BrowserID: Decentralized, Federated Login · · Score: 1

    You mean to tell me you don't use full disk encryption?

  21. Re:Good! Netflix streaming sucks anyway! on Netflix Announces Streaming Only Plans and Higher Prices for DVDs · · Score: 1

    I get an excellent feed and I only get ~70KBps, quality was real good. Not sure what your problem is.

  22. DNS lookup on How To Get Websites To Ban Sign-ups From Gmail.com Accounts · · Score: 1

    Why don't the websites just do a DNS lookup on the domain used for the e-mail address, as all of mailinators domains seem to point to the same IP.

  23. Re:All about the benjamins on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    The university I'm currently attending requires "quantitative reasoning" classes from everyone, regardless of major. Just as many required as humanities. Just so happens that all my Math & CS classes fulfilled that requirement. I took basic humanities classes, those in the humanities took basic math and science classes.

  24. Re:Impact on bitcoins? on LulzSec Teams With Anonymous, In Operation AntiSec · · Score: 1

    The people constantly calling Bitcoin a scam are more annoying than the people who espouse Bitcoins virtues.

  25. Re:Evolution.. on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I'd label it as the next stage in evolution, but perhaps a simultaneous branch.

    We need people who are capable of interacting with other people as well as those who are able to focus incredibly well on particular things at the cost of being able to interact with other people.

    To claim one is better than the other is, I feel, foolish.

    Who cares if one is brilliant if one isn't able to effectively articulate and communicate ideas to others who can help a concept come to fruition?

    To me, it seems that most advancements in STEM these days come from a team effort, not lone wolves