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  1. Re:Maximum energy consumption is Green? on 'Green' Galaxy Recycles Gas, Supercharges Star Birth · · Score: 1

    If a nuclear bomb were 100% efficient it would have no fallout. So that's kind of green. A dirty bomb doesn't undergo nuclear chain reaction at all, so it has maximum amount of fallout that makes dirty.

  2. Re:I don't know *anything* about this on Dell Signs Agreement To Cap Icahn's Share Ownership · · Score: 1

    "minority shareholders can't collude behind management's back - they have to do things publicly. (These rules go back to the 1950s)"

    What law forbids minority shareholders colluding?

  3. Re:So this H1B database of job openings... on U.S. Senate's Big Immigration Bill Seeks Centralized Database For H-1B Jobs · · Score: 1

    "There are very strict rules about advertising in USA and demonstrate that there are no qualified Americans for the job before the employer gets an H1B."

    These rules are not that hard to work around:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TCbFEgFajGU

  4. Re:Greenspun's Tenth Rule on Taking the Pain Out of Debugging With Live Programming · · Score: 2

    That's why they have monads. But LISP isn't a purely functional language anyway.

  5. Re:Start simple on Ask Slashdot: Building a Web App Scalable To Hundreds of Thousand of Users? · · Score: 1

    But but but it's webscale!

  6. Re:No, because water is taxed...sigh on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    We're talking about personal income taxes if you haven't noticed.

  7. Re:Since when was Google Tax Supported? on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    Couldn't we just make all food related expenses a tax write-off? Not everyone can work at Google.

  8. Re:Children, children... on Microsoft: Facebook Home Is a Copycat, Windows Phone Is the 'Real Thing' · · Score: 0

    Valve has finally fixed the offline mode last year, your article is outdated.

  9. Re:Too little, too late? on New Skype Malware Uses Victims' Machines To Mine Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Try going to the police with "Somebody is using my computer to mine bitcoins" vs "someone stole money from my bank account".

  10. Re:Drives me nuts on H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad · · Score: 1

    Parent talked about training in the specific technologies that the company uses. Just look around how many web frameworks are there.

  11. Re:Auto Tech on Getting a Literature Ph.D. Will Make You Into a Horrible Person · · Score: 1

    Could you elaborate on why it's worthlesss? It's a STEM field that's supposed to pay well.

  12. Re:Heavy EE bias on Ask Slashdot: Preparing For the 'App Bubble' To Pop? · · Score: 1

    Even Computer Engineering education is very light on electronics, not even speaking about CS folks. I wouldn't recommend them to go embedded as all they've learned would be irrelevant in that field (design patterns, good OOP practices etc.).

  13. Re:In other news... on Cuban Video Game Recreates Revolutionary History · · Score: 1

    ER won't treat cancer patients or any chronic disease, also it's highly wasteful for the uninsured to rely on ER for general healthcare, prevention is much cheaper.

  14. The main point is that Lilith only exists in Jewish interpretative texts that were written at about the 10th century and are not part of the Old Testament and the Christian tradition. I assume the guy in the post is christian so Lilith doesn't enter the picture.

  15. We're talking about the book of Genesis. Lilith never was in Genesis in any interpretation. The existence of Lilith was made later to resolve the contradiction.

  16. Re:In other news... on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 1

    I think a big WOOSH is very well deserved:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide

  17. Re:NO on Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards · · Score: 1

    Flash and Silverlight are also black boxes, so what's the problem?

  18. Re:anger and fear are the enemies of good decision on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    FUD

  19. Re:Kubuntu LTS and Server LTS on Shuttleworth On Ubuntu Community Drama · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Kubuntu LTS and Server LTS on Shuttleworth On Ubuntu Community Drama · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the rotate/resize button next to icons on the Desktop.

  21. Re:Get a EE degree instead on US CompSci Enrollment Leaps For 5th Straight Year · · Score: 2

    Except that HR doesn't have any idea what a math degree is good for.

  22. Re:Kubuntu LTS and Server LTS on Shuttleworth On Ubuntu Community Drama · · Score: 1

    I've just installed Kubuntu two days ago, and I found KDE 4 horrible, so I went with XFCE. What do you find good about KDE and how are those hovering toolbars on your desktop tolerable?

  23. Re:OpenJDK .. on Oracle Rushes Emergency Java Update To Patch McRAT Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, OpenJDK is not really a fork, just a stripped down version of the Oracle JDK.

  24. Re:Why in the news so often lately? on New Java 0-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Some browsers now have a white-list regarding the Java plugin (Chrome does it, not sure about Firefox), as it always should have been. (And it should be that way with Flash too.)

  25. Re:Surprise Surprise on New Java 0-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 1

    The point is that buffer overflows are an easy mistake to make. Using languages that prevent it is like using a seat belt.