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  1. and this is how... on Zuckerberg Made Instagram Deal Alone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    bubbles begin: when non-financiers with access to lots of money decide to make financial decisions.

  2. Re:Tangential Jab on Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I get the feeling including HFCS so prominently in the story is more about triggering an emotional response in readers.

    And?

    Isn't it the job of an editor to trigger an emotional response in a reader, in order to increase viewership?

    Or should commercial media outlets reduce their viewership?

    Remember, this website isn't academia.

  3. Whatever it is.. on Why Microsoft's Keeping the Next Xbox Under Wraps · · Score: 0

    it will likely be the last standalone game console ever made.

    The 360 has been going on strong for the last 10 years since its inception... an epic long time for vide game industry.

  4. Re:Gee, what a coincidence on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 0

    I also hate science.

    If only everyone just used faith, instead of reason. Faith is so much better!

    *I* am better!

  5. Re:Queue the stupid on Apple Unveils New iPad · · Score: 0

    Yeah no thanks, I'll gladly take the msrp in cash, however.

    To buy an iPad.

  6. Re:Duh on Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    GINGERS HAVE SOULS!!

  7. Re:The article writer is a deaf idiot on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 0

    Well, since you can't tell the difference, why would anybody else?

  8. Re:Democracy: the averagest on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 1

    Being able to admit that you are not an expert at everything takes humility which is a desirable trait in a leader.

    Actually, that's a function of intellect, not humility.

    Smart people never say they know everything. Only dumb people do that.

  9. Democracy: the averagest on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 0

    It's basically the averagest of all possible governments.

    The problem is half the population are below average, and they actually look up to the safety and comfort of the average.

    If only voting was restricted to the top 1% of intellectuals. This will scare the shit out of dumb people, but that's their problem.

  10. Re:Sorry, we were busy on G+ on Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ · · Score: 0

    G+ is mostly cutting edge geeks who are using the app at least as much as the website.

    And that's the problem with Google Plus: It's for male geeks, and the one female on it is Felicia Day, a geek.

    Let me know when Google makes something that draws in more hot, fun women than boring, geeky men.

    Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest did it. Why can't Google?

  11. Re:Maybe 10 years ago, but not now. on Should Next-Gen Game Consoles Be Upgradeable? · · Score: 0

    I'd make it 4k compatible, or 8k even..

  12. Re:People in the US used to do this on In Xhengzhou, Thousands Vie For Foxconn Jobs · · Score: 0

    Yah. You are above something when you receive an education. Additionally, society expects a reward from the investment they put into you. The public doesn't pay for your education for you to only become a janitor.

    We need to be meaner to people that accept mediocrity.

  13. Re:People in the US used to do this on In Xhengzhou, Thousands Vie For Foxconn Jobs · · Score: 0

    Kids who grow up here treat jobs with harsh conditions like they're something to be totally ashamed of, and then let the poor and the immigrant populations handle it.

    It's because we spend tens of thousands of dollars educating these kids in our taxpayer-funded public school system.

    If all they can get is a janitorial job or jobs perfuming manual labor, then yes, that is shameful, as it would have been a waste of our tax dollars we spent on them.

    Let the immigrant population handle these tasks. Americans need to perform more valuable work based on intellect. Our per capita GDP is something like $40k. If citizens are making less than that, they're hurting our economy.

    Seriously, the only people that should be performing manual labor are immigrants. Americans are trained for higher-level skills. It's also a good reason to keep the borders open, so we have access to this critical labor supply. Additionally, the houses these immigrants buy through loans at $200k each also contribute greatly to the economy, like what happened in the 90's when immigration was wide open.

  14. Notice this wasn't published in a science journal on Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But instead, was published in a right-wing newspaper.

    The global-warming deniers obviously have no evidence, because if they did, they'd publish it in a science journal.

    What exactly are these right-wingers trying to hide? Their corporate oil-industry donors?

  15. Re:Please beat this man until he's senseless. on Georgia Bill Would Prohibit Subsidies For Municpal Broadband · · Score: -1

    A fundamental human right cannot be something that somebody must PROVIDE one with.

    You do know that there's no such rule as this.

    Government exists everywhere, and any "want" can be a "right", given the choice of the government to do so.

  16. XBox 360 on Startup Combines CPU and DRAM · · Score: -1

    Also has an embedded DRAM chip, to do things like z-buffer lookup on memory writes.

    Probably the most common embedded DRAM system out there..

  17. Nikon 1 series is your answer on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 0

    The system was designed from the ground up for people like you.

    I tried it the other day at the store - it's as small as a compact, it was really easy to control, picture quality was perfectly fine, focus speed is as fast as a DSLR.

    The big selling feature of it is that it's the first camera to use an SLR-style phase-detect autofocus (look it up) outside of a DSLR, so you can capture action shots, something you can't do with compact cameras and can only do with DSLRs. It just makes responsiveness of the camera so much better, almost like a pro camera, so you don't end up missing shots, or have to tell everyone to stay still all the time.

    BTW I shoot fashion & runway shows, including the big New York Fashion Week.

  18. Was evaluating at Nginx on Nginx Overtakes Microsoft As No. 2 Web Server · · Score: -1

    And my question is does it run a thread for each connection event that it receives? Or does it handle lightweight multiprocessing in any way? (like Apple's block codes in Grand Central Dispatch?)

    How would it compare to a web server that does use Grand Central Dispatch?

  19. Re:Gasp! Obama... Wr... Wrong?? on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: -1

    Obama's doing exactly what we liberals expected him to.

    You don't elect the politician you WISH you have, you elect the politicians you are given to choose from.

    It's far better to put in a conservative Democrat in the White House than any right-wing lunatic Republican nut job. Those were the two choices we were given. And he's doing a great job at stamping out the Republican party. Just look at the disarray the Republicans are in right now. The far-right won't exist after this 2012 election, and we can finally get rid of libertarianism and religion from America, while imposing a large, socialist government against the will of the right-wing members of our society.

    Meanwhile, why are YOU so surprised?

  20. Re:Dubious on Intel Medfield SoC Specs Leak · · Score: -1

    No, it wouldn't. RISC is a superior instruction set

    Everyone says this, but really, CISC is more efficient. CISC code is more compact than RISC code, which helps cache hit rates. Additionally, the most used opcodes tend to be the shortest.

    The only thing RISC does is make some parts of the instruction pipeline (mostly decode) easier.

    Sometimes you don't need a bank of 32 registers when 3 or so will do.

    CISC was the best choice for small transistor count CPUs back in the 70's and it's the best choice now, where small transistor counts = less power.

    ARM is about to get owned by Intel, especially with all their patented secret CPU sauce.

  21. Re:*yawn* on Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax · · Score: -1

    Or they're ACTUALLY FUCKING HUMAN and can empathize with people other than themselves.

    Nobody in the tea-party has ever empathized with anyone. Not only that, they don't even CLAIM to empathize with anyone else either.

    The tea party is about micro self-gain at the expense of others.

    That's their fatal flaw. If they were smart, they'd know that supporting others ends up benefiting themselves, but they're just not smart enough to think more than 1 degree out.

  22. Re:Might as well ban drivers if people are stupid on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    How about instead of trying to toddler-proof the world, we teach little Johnny and little Sally how to be responsible, that there *will be* consequences for irresponsibility, and allowing those who insist on being a Darwin Award contender to reap what they sow?

    Because that doesn't work.

    I don't want people to be "taught". I EXPECT people to be stupid. You can't teach a population, and be angry about it when that fails. That's the Republican strategy: to burden individuals with more personal responsibility.

    We don't want that. Personal responsibility is a synonym for government irresponsibility.

    It is far safer to toddler-proof the world, to ensure that people don't fuck each other up, to leave no room for the possibility of accidents to happen, than to just have the freedom to drive.

    Besides, as a conservative, you'll naturally get used to a new system, and after a few years, become clingy to it.

  23. Re:Might as well ban drivers if people are stupid on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 0

    You need to be smart enough to figure out a systematic replacement of the transportation infrastructure that doesn't waste so much economic resources and literally kills tens of thousands of lives per year.

    Are you smart enough to do that?

  24. Re:Might as well ban drivers if people are stupid on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    No, the point is to remove the car from your life, so you aren't personally responsible for the safety of others.

    You'll get over it once you get used to the new bus system.

  25. Re:Might as well ban drivers if people are stupid on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: -1, Troll

    The answer again is robots.