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  1. Re:Industry attacks it on Recent Paper Shows Fracking Chemicals In Drinking Water, Industry Attacks It · · Score: 1

    Indeed, these frack-jobs are ~1500' away from Morgantown, WV's water system intake: http://wvpublic.org/post/more-...

  2. You don't ban something... on Powdered Alcohol Banned In Six States · · Score: 1

    "You don't ban something because a few irresponsible people use it improperly"

    Of course not... unless it's any psychoactive substance or plant that isn't alcohol.

  3. it's true on Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Read some random Youtube comments for a few mintes--you'll feel like a fucking genius!

  4. expensive? that's the idea. on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 1

    Getting lots of money to War, Inc. is the *goal*; the way it's dressed up doesn't really matter that much.

  5. Re:If you knew the NSA was reading your response on The NSA Is Viewed Favorably By Most Young People · · Score: 1

    oh-oh oh oh oh-oh-oh

    Can't touch this!

  6. whatchadoin? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Make a High-Spec PC Waterproof? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can you give us curious folk a hint as to what you're doing?

  7. Re:Apple ][+ on Apple 1 Sells At Auction For $905,000 · · Score: 1

    An Apple ][ must be worth twice as much... you lost a cool 1.8 million simoleons, pal!

  8. bit ambitious, innit? on Elon Musk Hints 1st Person To Mars May Go Via New Brownsville Spaceport · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking that a good first step would be something a little closer like, I dunno, that big whiteish thing that we can see in the sky at night... what's that forgotten thing called again?...

  9. Re:Coincidence? Or conspiracy? on Apparent Meteorite Hits Managua, Nicaragua, Leaving Crater But No Injuries · · Score: 1

    That's what I was thinking too--we got hit by something's little brother *again*? But OTOH, there's a whole metric crapload of stuff that passes us close by, check this out: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

  10. related to 2014RC? on Apparent Meteorite Hits Managua, Nicaragua, Leaving Crater But No Injuries · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Any relation to the asteroid that got well up into our pearthonal space earlier today?

  11. "I'm sorry I caused all that cancer." on Samsung Apologizes For Workers' Leukemia · · Score: 1
  12. Re:ogahdno on Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable In $44.2 Billion All-Stock Deal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hence 1.5m/128k ADSL 'competing' with 10-25m/512k cable internet and 3G/4G capped wireless networks more recently.

    ADSL2+ will do near 30/3 on short loops (~1mi) and can be bonded. VSDL gets up into the hundreds of megabits. Mostly, ILECs just aren't interested/serious in competing, and would generally rather have bunches of unused, zero-revenue copper laying around than resell it to someone who *is* interested, because making no money at all is better than "helping" your competitor (who you aren't interested in competing with) by selling them something.

  13. welp on Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't have turned it up to 11!

  14. including imprisonment? on L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who are they planning to imprison for this? The president of the company? The guy who changes out the lightbulbs? Will they build a giant prison around the building?

    Neither Ernst nor Young are around to throw in the slammer, both having started their corps. in the early 1900s.

  15. We could not make them on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're not "coming" as if from space. We just need to choose for them not to exist and they won't. These things will (or won't) be made by individuals who can make moral decisions.

    Don't be a terrible individual; don't make or participate in the making of terrible things.

  16. Re:I like my connection to discriminate on FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic · · Score: 1

    Hey wow, someone else here actually "gets it"!

  17. Re:What the hell? on FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic · · Score: 1

    >Huh, that's funny. I though I ALREADY PAID the ISP to get the best possible transmission.

    You *want* video streams to have priority over non-realtime traffic across the ISP network and your last-mile though, don't you? It's generally a good thing.

    How this gets worked out, and who, if anyone, makes money from doing so is another issue.

    Is prioritizing one kind of traffic logically the same as de-prioritizing all other traffic?

  18. digital wonka interface on Digital Taste Interface · · Score: 1

    The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!

  19. Re:And nothing of value was lost... on Microsoft To Can Skype API; Third-Party Products Will Not Work · · Score: 1

    SIP is fine, it's the two one-way RTP streams that get ya.

  20. rrrrrradical! on Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S · · Score: 5, Funny

    > iPhone 5 was a radical new design

    http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2012/09/iphone5Comparison.jpeg

    Yeah that's FREAKING RADICAL, MAN!

  21. By prosecution... on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...aren't the Feds implicitly acknowledging that the polygraph is not an accurate instrument?

  22. Re:Digital LMR radio systems on Apple Now Relaying All FaceTime Calls Due To Lost Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    Just because device A can talk to device B, and device A can talk to device C, doesn't mean that device B can talk to device C at all/completely/reliably.

    Also, CALEA very well might require this hub-routed functionality.

  23. fluorescent lighting on TV Programmers Seek the Elusive Dog Market · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Being able to discern flickers at 80hz probably makes fluorescent lighting annoying as fuck.

  24. but on India's $20 Android Tablet First Project Completed · · Score: 1

    was it for the same price?

  25. Re:Also getting rid of HTTP + HTML. on Internet's Energy Needs Growing Faster Than Efficiency Gains · · Score: 1