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  1. Re:What the frak? on With HTTPS Everywhere, Is Firefox Now the Most Secure Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1

    Does Netcraft confirm it?

  2. Re:No thank you to CFLs on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    +1 for saying "jibe" instead of "jive."

  3. Re:The Argument on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    > Human beings are notorious idiots when it comes to choosing things that do or don't benefit us.

    Yup. Stupid normal people don't need any freedom of choice.

    Government bureaucrats know best.

  4. Re:The responsible consumer is a myth on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    > People won't change their patterns unless forced to.

    That's right.

    What we need are ever more government regulations to force people to "change their patterns."

    The stupid proles have no right to freedom of choice.

  5. Re:Happy Saturday from The Golden Girls! on How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works · · Score: 2

    A "cosmonaut?"

    Really?

  6. Re:Thord party analysis on After FDA Objections, 23andMe Won't Offer Health Information · · Score: 1

    "Thord", LOL.

    Guess I should proofread before hitting Return...

  7. Thord party analysis on After FDA Objections, 23andMe Won't Offer Health Information · · Score: 4, Informative

    > It would be great to see a secondary market
    > in this kind of analysis emerge.

    There are already companies (livewello.com, for instance) that will take your 23andme raw data and analyze it for certain traits and risk factors.

  8. But .... on Reconciling Human Rights With Ubiquitous Online Surveillance · · Score: 1

    what you do online isn't private!

  9. Re:Happy Thursday from the Golden Girls! on Kodak Ends Production of Acetate Base For Photographic Film · · Score: 1

    A cosmonaut?
    Really, comrade?

  10. Re:It's not old til you've married it. on Google Patents Staple of '70s Mainframe Computing · · Score: 1

    When I'm all growed up, it'll be too late to discover cougars.

  11. Re:By this logic the government should be split up on Richard Stallman's Solution To 'Too Big To Fail' · · Score: 1

    > Lets make it more responsive to the people by breaking
    > it up into 50 regional mini governments!

    I agree. That would be a good idea.

  12. Re:Not Lesson plans or normal student work on School Board Considers Copyright Ownership of Student and Teacher Works · · Score: 1

    I hate that word, "rubric" as used by educrats.
    It's just dopey.

  13. Re:LibreOffice 4.0 being released this month on Why Microsoft Office For iOS Will Likely Never See the Light of Day · · Score: 1

    Except for certain managers where I work. They write their plain text emails in Word, then attach the Word file to the email...

  14. Re:How many reasons do you need to move to Texas? on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    And full of hot Texans. Especially the female ones.

  15. Re:Turn on? on Cuba Turns On Submarine Internet Cable · · Score: 1

    No, he's right.

    While a cable certainly can carry porn, it not really capable of getting excited by it.

  16. If you want to know where to find experts on BEST Study Finds Temperature Changes Explained by GHG Emissions and Volcanoes · · Score: 1

    .. on just about any subject (especially global warming, or religion), cruise on over to Slashdot.

    Read the comments on any given post. The world's best experts are at your service.

  17. 1982 called. on NASA Achieves Laser Communication With Lunar Satellite · · Score: 1

    They want their Hayes Smart Modem 300 back.

  18. What I'd like to know is on Humans Have Been Eating Cheese For At Least 7,500 Years · · Score: 1

    ... who was the first guy to think to himself, "I wonder if I can make something tasty by mixing an animal's milk with its stomach secretions and maintain it a a particular temperature for a while?"

  19. Don't want Facebook stress, don't use Facebook. on Why Facebook Is Stressing You Out · · Score: 2

    Also, if you don't want to get fat, don't eat;
    and if you don't want to get social diseases, don't have sex.

    See? Real easy!

  20. 1984 called. on How Do We Program Moral Machines? · · Score: 1

    ... they want their Newspeak back.

  21. (Yawn.) on Researchers Investigating Self-Boosting Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Anonymous contributor with a gratuitous insult in very first sentence of summary.

    Hard to take this article seriously.

    Next.

  22. Why care if they cheat? on Ask Slashdot: How To Catch Photoshop Plagiarism? · · Score: 1

    They'll learn their lesson that they shouldn't have cheated in class once they get out into the real world and get assigned real projects.

  23. Re:Solution: technological progress on Climate Change Could Drive Coffee To Extinction By 2080 · · Score: 1

    By 2080, the Coffee plant will have been GMO'd to grow even in the harshest of environments, and produce it's coffee beans already ground and roasted.

  24. Obviously, what we need on Atlantic Hurricane Season 30 Percent Stronger Than Normal · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... or even more onerous laws and regulations.

  25. Re:One Word: Greed on Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid? · · Score: 1

    "It's about greed ..."

    Well, clearly we need even more onerous laws and regulations.