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  1. WTF CERN on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 0

    Get your shit together. This is sounding more and more like a fly by night operation every day.

  2. Not Mentioned on Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive? · · Score: 2

    Stand-up meetings make big, tall people look big, and short, small people( women included) look small. In sit-down meetings everyone is the same size, more or less. You can say sit-down meetings were the great equalizer in corporate America. Stand-up meetings bring us back to a jungle dynamic.

  3. Facebook Is on Facebook On Collision Course With New EU Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    Facebook is the largest and most sophisticated data mining operation that has ever existed on Earth. It's very simple actually. If you want to keep any semblance of privacy, don't surrender your personal data to them. PERIOD. You don't need Facebook. It solves no problem. It creates a lot of them, though.

  4. Cheating on Board Cert on Doctors 'Cheating' On Board Certifications · · Score: 2

    Any doctor or potential doctor caught cheating on their board certs, or caught aiding another cheating on their board certs, should be barred from serving as a medical doctor for the entirety of their lives.

  5. Re:This is being whitewashed from the white house on LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I find it very odd that people believe that any criticism of the Obama administration has to be accompanied by a statement proclaiming that Republicans are bad, even when it's completely irrelevant to the topic being discussed. It's almost as if, for some weird reason, people think they have to apologize for making very valid and necessary criticisms against the terrible policies supported by this president. Not that I give a shit about Republicans, but I think the apologetic tone softens the criticism, which should be expressed as plainly and bluntly as possible. This president is not what he promised to be. We should't apologize for pointing out the fact that we were duped.

  6. You can't go home again on Nintendo Releases The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Give it up. A new Zelda game will never recreate that experience of firing up The Legend of Zelda on your NES for the first time when you were 10 years-old.

  7. Who Cares About Wikileaks on Workshops Begin In Australia On WikiLeaks Opera · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This focus on Wikileaks is ridiculous. Why does information have to leaked by Wikileaks? It doesn't. What's so fucking special about this site? One can leak information anywhere on the web, including the established media, a personal blog, or even Slashdot. This idea that only Wikileaks' site can disseminate sensitive information is fucking retarded. I find this obsession whacky. Who really gives a fat rat's ass about this bullshit drama?

  8. Wow on Nokia Unveils OLED Phone You Control By Bending · · Score: 0

    This sounds like an amazing pain in the ass.

  9. You apes want to live forever? on DNA Sequenced of Woman Who Lived To 115 · · Score: 1

    Don't get your hopes up. You're all going to die, most sooner than you wish. Make the most of what you got... you apes.

  10. Alternative Internet on OccupySF IT Admins Using Pedal Power For Protest · · Score: 1

    The logical progression of this idea -- autonomy, self-sufficiency, self-ownership of resources, etc.-- leads toward the creation of an alternate, non-corporate, user-owned internet. I think that could be amazing.

  11. Re:Bethesda Blew It on Bethesda's 'Scrolls' Lawsuit Going Ahead · · Score: 2

    Let me elaborate on what a Bethesda PR coup could have looked like. They could have had Notch agree to a Quake 3 battle, but admit the word 'scrolls' is part of their trademark. If his team won, the Notch has licensee rights for his game. If he wanted to use this name for other games/ sequels, then another tournament would be necessary, under the same terms. Then they could have turned this Quake 3 tournament into an internet PR extravaganza for both parties. The tournament itself could be webcast live on the net with all kinds of juicy marketing tie-ins for both parties. If Notch won, Bethesda looks humble and magnanimous, earning internet sweetheart status. And even if Bethesda won, they could have gave Notch permission to use the name anyways, with their conditions, in a gesture of good will -- same result. Now they'll be loathed as big corporate bullies. And they've gained nothing.

  12. Bethesda Blew It on Bethesda's 'Scrolls' Lawsuit Going Ahead · · Score: 1

    Bethesda blew it. They could have had the biggest PR coup ever by taking Notch up on his Quake 3 offer. Now they just look like douchebags.

  13. This Will Surely Become... on New Mexico Spaceport Nearly Ready For Business · · Score: 0

    A wretched hive of scum and villainy.

  14. Cheaters Never Win on More Photoshopped Evidence In Apple v. Samsung · · Score: 1

    Cheaters never win...unless of course their multi-billion-dollar multi-national corporations. In this case, carry on...

  15. Re:We've Cracked the Code! on Breaking the Codes In Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto · · Score: 0

    And I don't understand how two fags can simultaneously come up with calculus.

  16. We've Cracked the Code! on Breaking the Codes In Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto · · Score: -1, Redundant

    A team of volunteer cryptographers have cracked the code. They're not web addresses at all, but pieces of a secret message: B-E-S-U-R-E-T-O-D-R-I-N-K-Y-O-U-R-O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E

  17. We need Another Word For This on How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries · · Score: 1

    The last I read, 70% of all volume in the NYSE is HFT. We need another word for this because it is not capitalism. It is taking advantage of quarks in the system. Everyone knows these quarks exists and that they're distorting the system, yet these quarks are deliberately left as is.

  18. Fanbois are Irrational on The Science Behind Fanboyism · · Score: 1

    Or maybe fanbois develop irrational and emotional attachments to products because they are just average idiots who have been beguiled by marketing. That is after all the whole point of mass marketing -- to beguile the average idiot.

  19. iCloud to on Has iTunes Been Hacked? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    iCloud to iFuckedUp in 3, 2, 1...

  20. Progress on US Nuclear Power Enters the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    But what we really need to do is hook it up to the internet.

  21. Good First Step on Google Founders' Jets Caught On WSJ's Radar · · Score: 2

    We can track their private aircraft locations. Great. Now if we can only track their email correspondences, web searches, cell phone locations and browsing history we can start to know as much about them as they know about us peasants.

  22. Engineers Managing Their Engineered Society on 8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers · · Score: 2

    In authoritarian societies people are just cogs in the machine, serving those in power. It takes engineers keep the machine running.

  23. From Greatest Communication Tool To Feedback Loop on The Rise of Filter Bubbles · · Score: 1

    To take the greatest tool for information exchange ever created and render it a feedback loop is extremely cynical. One might even call it evil.

  24. Money Well Spent on Need a Receipt On Taxes? The Federal Tax Receipt · · Score: 2

    One quarter goes to the Military-Industrial Complex. Another quarter goes to the Medical-Industrial Complex. Countless other lesser special interests getting their little cuts of the action as well.

  25. Population Control FUD on A Look At the World's Dwindling Food Supply · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Malthusian scaremongering.