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  1. Re:I'm spending on How Viewing a "Virtual You" Can Help You Save · · Score: 1

    "have an appalling sexual history"

    Appalling "good", appalling "bad", or even more appalling "none"?

  2. Re:Another way to save on How Viewing a "Virtual You" Can Help You Save · · Score: 1

    "Another way to help Americans save for retirement is to not crash the market..."

    Tee hee! You kill me! (runs)

  3. Re:It is all about incentives on Friends Don't Let Geek Friends Work In Finance · · Score: 2

    "The 12 years of elementary school education, however, was not, and neither were the numerous public grants to their institutions."

    All repaid by taxes. The people education is wasted on are the ones who don't use it and put money back into the system.

  4. When society values engineers it will on Friends Don't Let Geek Friends Work In Finance · · Score: 2

    display that with MONEY. Anything else is shit. If you value what a person does you pay them. End of story.

    If society doesn't value engineering, there is no reason to be martyred for a bunch of Fox News-watching oafs. There is, if you can get away with it, every reason to break one off in the collective public arse and get rich doing it.

    Someone has to say it:
    Society breeds sociopaths because it genuinely fucking deserves them.

  5. Re:I'd be fine with this, as long as... on SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio · · Score: 4, Informative

    "The industry is dying."

    Not fast enough. It needs to be shot in the face.

  6. Obfuscalicious! on German Politician Demonstrates Extent of Cellphone Location Tracking · · Score: 1

    If you need to travel unmonitored, ensure your phone goes somewhere else and remember that potential alibi.

    Comms can be taken care of by expendable phones or other methods. The wise revolutionary doesn't resent surveillance so much as seek to exploit it. The default of people monitoring other people will be to trust their monitoring system.

  7. Re:Good for US economy on MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates · · Score: 1

    What this does is impose a massive inspection and reporting burden in an attempt to make US companies enforce US law throughout the world upon companies over which they have no legal oversight in host nations.

    It's an unfunded mandate, exactly like ordering you to be a policeman, on your time, without your consent.

  8. Re:Just replace the word "information" with "porn" on Why Paywalls Are Good, But NYT's Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    A considerable amount of porn wants to be free.

    A lot of that stuff is an, er, an "acquired" taste.

  9. Re:devalued content on Why Paywalls Are Good, But NYT's Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    They probably COULD, but no Americans exist with the ability to do that with style.

    Top Gear America sucks so hard that it could have devoured the Japan tsunami before it hit land.

  10. Re:DC-DC conversion? on University Switches To DC Workstations · · Score: 1

    150A resettable breakers are available. My Tommy Gate liftgate uses one and they are available as spares.

  11. Re:shut out NYT on NY Times Asks Twitter To Shut Down Retweeting Feed · · Score: 3, Funny

    No loss.

    We can rely on Fox News instead. (runs)

  12. Re:DC-DC conversion? on University Switches To DC Workstations · · Score: 1

    "Your car can easily supply 15A. It's just the crappy cigarette lighter plug that can't handle that load. It's pretty simple to add a custom power socket to your car though."

    Yep. Run a forklift battery connector off a short run of cable from your battery, hang the matching connector off a set of quality jumper cables, and have at it. This is also a very good way to jump your car or someone else's.

    Example commercial outfit for wreckers:

    http://www.awdirect.com/lexan-plug-jump-start-set-safe-t-connect-500-amp-clamps-25-superior-signals-stc254/jump-start-sets-accessories/

  13. Re:Screw that! on University Switches To DC Workstations · · Score: 1

    "I want to retain the ability to arc-weld with my computer if need be!"

    That just requires MORE DC, which is preferred for most electric welding processes, the exception being AC TIG welding on aluminum. Inverter welders handle that nicely and weigh much less than transformer machines.

  14. Re:More Secure? Regionalism, maybe? on University Switches To DC Workstations · · Score: 1

    Many wankers, self included, would happily make use of DC machines at home and shop.

    Never underestimate the value of having a pron stash available during outages and disasters.

  15. Re:Oooo - Shiny! on Mini Drone Detects Breathing and Motion · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Now we can kill civilians without having to see them."

    Conventional artillery called, and is offended at being left out of the discussion!

  16. Re:Could it find buried earthquake victims? on Mini Drone Detects Breathing and Motion · · Score: 1

    "unless they are guaranteed job security and human legs to hump."

    Works for me. Where do I sign up?

  17. Re:Better killing machines on Mini Drone Detects Breathing and Motion · · Score: 1

    There will ALWAYS be a need to kill. It's how humans resolve problems, and it trumps everything else.

  18. Re:How about... on NASA Wants Revolutionary Radiation Shielding Tech · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot!

    How dare you not want to send humans as soon as possible for Star Trekful fapworthy adventures despite the fact they are useless for actually "exploring" space since their function is still to operate remote systems?

  19. Re:Gatta love this one... on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1
  20. Re:That's exactly why not to. on IBM Charged With Bribing Korean, Chinese Officials · · Score: 1

    That's not a reason not to bribe foreign corrupt countries where that's normal, it's a reason to avoid that situation at home.

    The world is a bad place where virtue has no rewards.

  21. Re:Not to get too political... on IBM Charged With Bribing Korean, Chinese Officials · · Score: 1

    International business is war. Why should our side have rules when the enemy doesn't?

  22. Re:Prepared on Ask Slashdot: How Prepared Are You For a Major Emergency? · · Score: 1

    Unless you have vast resources and a team to work with, it's every man for himself and prepared friends.

  23. Re:Are you armed? on Ask Slashdot: How Prepared Are You For a Major Emergency? · · Score: 1

    Japan is ethnically homogeneous and has policies to keep it that way.

    Americans have nothing in common but location, we aren't a melting pot, and are thus prone to tribal warfare.

  24. Re:Are you armed? on Ask Slashdot: How Prepared Are You For a Major Emergency? · · Score: 1

    New Orleans called, to remind you the US isn't Japan.

  25. Re:Déjà vu on Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    www.digitalglobe.com%2Fdownloads%2FDG_Analysis_Japan_Daiichi_Reactor_March2011.pdf&ei=d1KFTe6dHJCitgeJmtm3BA&usg=AFQjCNGeRYetCcvJt-iiSKFH0Hw5vm_oJg