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  1. Re:Because hedge fund managers are asshats on Why Science Is a Lousy Career Choice · · Score: 1

    They also bang super models and live in mansions. There are hordes of people willing to make the sacrifice, unfortunately.

  2. Actually, it's an argument *against* passwords on Bizarre Porn Raid Underscores Wi-Fi Privacy Risks · · Score: 2

    If securing wifi becomes mainstream and hackers start producing tools to crack common wifi entry points, it would be much harder to explain away an intrusion if your network is password protected than if it is not.

    My only real concern would be with bandwidth consumption and there are a lot of teens in my neighborhood I could see streaming like fiends.

  3. Re:Nobody's even addressing the ethical question - on SpaceX Aims To Put Man On Mars In 10-20 Years · · Score: 1

    Interesting thought, but if there's life on Mars that's not directly related to life on Earth, that means that life is going to be very common in the universe. So, there's no need to treat Mars with any reverence.

  4. In similar news... on SpaceX Aims To Put Man On Mars In 10-20 Years · · Score: 1

    I'm announcing plans to bed every month of the 2010 Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendar. Might take 10-20 years. However long it takes you to forget about my prediction.

  5. So, who's the "customer"? on Apple: "We must Have Comprehensive Location Data" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your users or world governments?

  6. Re:It also shows... on EC2 Outage Shows How Much the Net Relies On Amazon · · Score: 1

    Clouds aren't the problem. It's contracting your cloud out to a third party that's the problem.

  7. Re:"Speed Limits" are stupid in general on Speed Tickets Challenged Based On Timestamped Photos · · Score: 2

    You sure that wasn't in the DC area? I remember the story. They caused a HUGE traffic jam because the speed limits are impractically lowered. Another interesting point. Check out the Montana study on speed limits. It turns out that removing daytime speed limits actually *increases* safety.

  8. Re:Google produced more with fewer people on Google, Microsoft In Epic Hiring War · · Score: 1

    I bet all the heavy lifting is on the Google-2-business end. That, and the Google-to-Feds end. Takes a lot of people to serve up all those personal records.

  9. Imperial system has one big advantage on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    The units for the most part are logical. A foot is the length of your foot. Teaspoon, tablespoon. An inch is a joint in your finger, etc. I want to see a switch, but the adjustments will be deeper than changing road signs.

  10. Re:Chili? on CIA Declassifies Pages From Their Cookbook · · Score: 2

    Mix a democracy with a dash of pro-US dissenters
    Bring to a boil
    Remove president when flavor suited to taste
    Add one whole dictator
    Simmer for 30 years

  11. Re:wow on CIA Declassifies Pages From Their Cookbook · · Score: 1

    More likely they don't want to give a heads up to other fledgling or small-scale intelligence operations.

  12. Re:OUTRAGEOUS cost on Michigan Police Could Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops · · Score: 1

    Of course, you could do the financially-beneficial thing and the *right* thing by making a record of all of these conversations and write a book.

  13. Re:OUTRAGEOUS cost on Michigan Police Could Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops · · Score: 1

    Your friend is lying to you.

  14. Re:Black Pants on Worlds With Two Suns May Sport Black Plants · · Score: 1

    Me too which I thought was funny. But for some reason, you get the mod points and the original poster got modded "troll". Go figure.

  15. Re:What's the problem? on Google Tweaks Algorithm; EHow Traffic Plummets · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't website publisher expectations; it's user expectations. If I do a search for "fixing motorcycle flat," I expect to see enthusiast links to detailed, dedicated forums on fixing my flat. I don't expect to see a lame eHow recipe, ads for motorcycle products, etc. The problem Google has is over the past few years, searches have become polluted with lots of garbage links that are frustrating users.

    But, that's what a profit motive can do. Look at YouTube. You go out and do a search of anything interesting or topical and you'll no doubt return video blogs from some moron trying to farm hits to his channel or an advertiser with a slightly related product. And, if Google doesn't get a hold of this problem they're going to find themselves in the place of the obsolete search engines they supplanted.

  16. The origin and everything that follows on Are We Suffering Origin Story Fatigue? · · Score: 1

    Most comic movies are following a fairly safe pattern; even through all 3 movies in their trilogies (though some franchises aren't making it that far). I've gotten really bored with them.

    The Watchmen was the most original I can think of. And, the Batman reboot origin was pretty cool as well.

  17. Re:TITAN (not Mars or Europa) should be our goal.. on Titan May Have an Ocean · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but Europa also has that weird orange colored water seeping through the ice cracks. That seems like strong enough evidence of something weird going on to investigate. More direct evidence than speculation I mean.

  18. Re:It's not an anti tech rant! Watch the f'in vide on Jesse Jackson, Jr. Pins US Job Losses On iPad · · Score: 1

    Watch the video, you say! This is Slashdot. All we need to do is see "Jesse Jackson," "Illinois," "Congress," and "iPad" mixed together with a classically hyperbolic summary to start posting!

  19. Re:Operating System on Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores · · Score: 1

    WTF, when did the Fennoscandian region declare independence from Russia? Finland is a country now?

  20. Wonder what it'll look like? on China Aims To Build World's Largest Rocket · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Soviet design or a US design?

  21. Re:You are welcome to pay more. Here's how on Need a Receipt On Taxes? The Federal Tax Receipt · · Score: 1

    How about all of the tax breaks you can get by dumping money into investments and retirement funds? How is it that GE didn't have to pay *any* taxes? Did you know we had a top tax bracket around 90% in this country? It was a way to prevent management from lavishing themselves with bank-breaking salaries. Guess what's happening now? Companies in the red are still throwing cash at the executives.

  22. Re:Huh? on Murdoch Voicemail Hacking Story 'Ain't Over Yet' · · Score: 2

    You must be a Brit. The correct term here in the states is Freedom Listening.

  23. Re:is it just me? on America's Tech Decline: a Reading Guide · · Score: 1

    The problem is it isn't just anecdotal whining. There's statistical evidence that we've been in decline for decades (3-4 can't remember). But, we're the king of the hill and it'll take a long slide to come off it. It takes sharp periods of decline for people to notice.

  24. Re:Wedding? on World's Smallest Wedding Rings Made of DNA · · Score: 1

    Interlocked rings are a symbol of marriage.

  25. Re:Yes, but...probably no on Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project · · Score: 2

    You keep slapping on new features every time someone has a slight issue with the language and you end up with C++. Don't know what you think is awkward about Java exceptions and multiple inheritance was yanked from the spec for very sound reasons (ask a gray-haired C++ coder why). Java makes compromises (like primitives not being first class objects), but at least they were done with forethought.