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  1. Who's this intel person? on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    & why haven't they hit this realization yet!? You add walls, you lose efficiency. Half the reason office politics like this bullshit exist is liability. On the internet, everything's either anonymous or traceable to a single person so liability is a moot issue. & if Torvalds verbally assaults you, you don't bitch about it, you absorb his neckbeardy wisdom & graciously add it to your being. Hasn't anyone been to nerd church!?

  2. I put on my robe & wizard hat on World's First Tizen Tablet · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...but can it run Ubuntu? :P

  3. ....until you violate the ToS on PayPal Spaces Out With Paypal Galactic · · Score: 2

    You wanted to take your family to space? Aww too bad it appears that in 2004 you made too much money so we locked your account'

  4. Oh no on Microsoft XBox One Kinect Will Not Work On Windows PCs · · Score: 1

    They found out that surely no one would attempt to cut off the proprietary connector & wire in a standard USB A connector with what is probably the same color-coded wiring! I'm ESPECIALLY sure no one will wire it as a Y cable, using the original connector you cut off & a donor USB cable, thereby retaining compatibility w/ the Xbox One. They've completely ruined our ability to provide easy-to-follow howtos involving wire strippers & heatshrink tubing for a permanent neatly-bound PC-compatible cable with the instructions on how to find & install the drivers on the same page!

  5. My dad hates me so much... on Industrious Dad Finds the Genetic Culprit To His Daughters Mysterious Disease · · Score: 1

    ...that he went all Lorenzo's Oil on me until he invented a new disease.

  6. Re:Dude on Tesla, Ford, Amazon Hint At Cloudy Future For Cars · · Score: 1

    I've failed my class C driving test 4 times because I lack stereo depth perception & autism & I can tell you this isn't your problem; the problem is after you pass that test you ONLY have to take once every like 15 years or whatever, you un-learn like 2/3 of whatever you may have been lucky enough to learn if you've had Drivers Ed before.

  7. Dude on Tesla, Ford, Amazon Hint At Cloudy Future For Cars · · Score: 2

    Until that key moment when the Royal American Federation prohibits manual control that you'd actually lose your freedom, & that's not due for another 50 years. Besides, road deaths account for 1/50 of all deaths; we COULD undo that cause of death almost entirely, but no, let's just let them die because people might end up too stupid to know how to turn the governor off & then can't play IRL Mario Kart.

  8. Re:What he fuck is wrong with you? on US Educational Scores Not So Abysmal · · Score: 1

    You're thinking about taxes with an overly-conservative mindset; Think about it like a game, much like an RPG, where the more you play or more strategically you play, the richer you get, or the more you 'level up'. The more you level up, the harder the game gets but ONLY from a relative standpoint; the game to you appears to have the same difficulty as before, but at the same time you have access to goods & services you didn't before. Having a static tax rate means the ones that are good can too easily game the whole system, so you have to have a dynamic tax rate set on an upwards curve, with bonus points ("tax breaks") awarded to those who behave in a way that proactively stimulates the national economy. This isn't anything new; this has been going on since the ruling class learned how to tax. The controversy therefore lies not in how people are taxed, but how & at what level that curve is applied. Of course, it also couldn't hurt to have a more realistic national defense strategy instead of one where we pump EVERYONE'S money into a 'war on terror'.

  9. That's not the problem on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 2

    The problem is having synthetic plastics replacing all rubber fittings, o-rings, hoses & gaskets in non-'Bio'/'flex'-fuel cars. This is a common trend for pretty much all biofuels. While the prospect of a gasoline-compatible biofuel with the energy density of standard petrol is promising, it makes more sense to buy a bio-ready diesel vehicle & make B80 a thing. Plus, in countries where industrial hemp is a thing, it could even be sustainable up until we fix the energy density / charge time problem w/ existing electricity storage solutions.

  10. Re:What he fuck is wrong with you? on US Educational Scores Not So Abysmal · · Score: 1

    Now you've got it, comrade!

  11. Re:What he fuck is wrong with you? on US Educational Scores Not So Abysmal · · Score: 1

    That's not funny my brother died that way

  12. What he fuck is wrong with you? on US Educational Scores Not So Abysmal · · Score: 2

    We aren't TRYING to be a class-segregated society.

  13. 'implying' on Ask Slashdot: Linux Mountable Storage Pool For All the Cloud Systems? · · Score: 1

    You're assuming every single cloud-storage-as-a-service...service uploads differences as opposed to wiping & rewriting the whole thing. If you're gonna treat each service as a volume at least have multiple blocks to hack your way around that. But yeah, I remember as far back as right after GMail launching, some hackers RAIDed multiple GMail accounts together for unlimited storage. I wouldn't know if you'd find public info on this as I've personally never had a need for more than modest storage.

  14. Re:Under Communism we won't have this problem on Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas · · Score: 1

    Man Se Man Se Kim Jong-Il Jong Gul!

  15. Greatest present ever on Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would totally risk sexual traumatization at the age of 5 if it meant a free 3DS. I swear I'm going through like Miyamoto withdraw or something ever since I accidentally my Wii's firmware before Super Mario Galaxy 2 came out.

  16. Oh fucking dicks on Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers · · Score: 1

    NOW how am I supposed to get my opinionated yellowed news!?

  17. Why ext3 in the first place? on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For Web Hosting? · · Score: 1

    Everyone switched to ext4 years ago. Before that, I used ReiserFS, but then, you know....

  18. Suck my pirate dick on Canada Prepares For Crackdown On BitTorrent Movie Pirates · · Score: 5, Informative

    $100 for 10 movies, or $10 for a VPN for 100 movies?

  19. I've always been baffled on Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware · · Score: 1

    Why microsoft never put something in the volume licensing agreement like the ability to give users a one-click option that removes all the bloatware whenever they want.

  20. Competition? Upstream merges? on Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything · · Score: 1

    Do you see distributions like Mint as serious marketshare competitors? Is there a possibility of merging some of their code up-stream or would you hold out & if needed possibly re-implement the features?

  21. 2-stroke diesel engine? on HydroICE Project Developing a Solar-Powered Combustion Engine · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong; it's a good idea, but I don't see its application beyond power plants.

  22. Anyone else find it funny on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 2

    That it's still not an apology but simply a statement of facts?

  23. I'm still pissed off on Constant Technology Use May Hamper Kids' Ability To Learn · · Score: 1

    It's been widely proven that the proliferation of movable type has hindered our ability to remember campfire song handed down from our elder chiefs, like the one we need to know to remember when the salmon come back upstream, & no one has done anything about it!

  24. 2002 called on OpenBSD 5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    They want their SMT back.

  25. Good fucking riddance on Has Lenovo Taken the Top PC Manufacturer Spot From HP? · · Score: 1

    Fixing a Lenovo or a thinkpad is a quick buck. Fixing an HP is an ordeal. Why's it have to be so complicated; All I wanted to do was clean the fan!