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  1. Re:Nokia N-Gage on Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 · · Score: 1

    depends on the color of the taco

  2. Re:Spoiler on Sci-Fi Authors and Scientists Predict an Optimistic Future · · Score: 2

    Old news. This was attempted over 2000 years ago, and it ended badly.

  3. Peak Stupid on Password Gropers Hit Peak Stupid, Take the Spamtrap Bait · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So is trying so hard to coin a phrase like "peak stupid".

  4. Re:Awesome! on 'Hidden From Google' Remembers the Sites Google Is Forced To Forget · · Score: 1

    depends on the crime. pedophiles are actively prevented from having their crimes "forgotten," due to the rate of recidivism.

  5. Re:Time to abolish patents on Google, Dropbox, and Others Forge Patent "Arms Control Pact" · · Score: 1

    After lawyers' fees, there isn't much left, so it's a wash.

  6. Pip-Boy on The Future of Wearables: Standalone, Unobtrusive, and Everywhere · · Score: 1

    Probably the most useful configuration, mounting a small tablet to the back of one's forearm. Easy to use, no need to occupy a hand, mostly out of the way when not needed. Kind of like a smartwatch, only more useful due to the larger size. Head-mounted configurations seem prone to issues, especially regarding distractions in the visual area while performing activities requiring full attention.

  7. Re:Change Jobs? on Ask Slashdot: How Often Should You Change Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Too late, maybe.

  8. Re:Yarrr! on 3-D Printing with Molten Steel (Video) · · Score: 1

    Pirate! I bet you would also steal a hand-crafted song from the Internet.

  9. Re:On behalf of all network specialists, on Latin America Exhausts IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    The humans will do the right thing - after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.

  10. Re:slashvertisement on Kim Dotcom Offers $5 Million Bounty To Defeat Extradition · · Score: 1

    So you don't want the 5 million dollars?

  11. Re:Two different tech on Big Telecom: Terms Set For Sprint To Buy T-Mobile For $32B · · Score: 1

    metroPCS used CDMA technologies, and after T-Mobile merged with them, they have gradually moved customers over to their expanding GSM/LTE network. Presumably, the same method would occur with Sprint. Comparing both companies' performance, T-Mobile management should persist when merging with Sprint.

  12. Re:Too bad they might no't be able to use them on LAPD Gets Some Hand-Me-Down Drones From Seattle, Promises Discretion · · Score: 1

    If law enforcement only used technology for good, we wouldn't have a problem, but law enforcement is performed by humans, and humans abuse power. This increase in technology increases their ability to abuse others, and since they are law enforcement, they suffer no consequences.

  13. Re:Test project: on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    It might not stand up to the rigors of use.

  14. Re:ANOTHER DEAD BODY! SWEET JUSTICE! on Robbery Suspect Tracked By GPS and Killed · · Score: 1

    the only thing that stops a gun is another gun

  15. 9 out of 10 slashdot users agree that facts from unreliable sources may be modded insightful.

  16. Re: Well, since it's inevtiable on Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans As Antarctic Ice Melts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Death by snu-snu.

  17. Re:With TCP, Throttling = Dropping Packets on FCC Chairman Will Reportedly Revise Broadband Proposal · · Score: 1

    I have also noticed that the more inserts I make, the larger the queue grows, and eventually I have to drop packets. It does relieve the block though.

  18. Re:How about "no thanks" .... on Google Testing Gmail Redesign · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I find your lack of [consistent site font] disturbing.

  19. Re:The 5th element on Scientists Create Bacteria With Expanded DNA Code · · Score: 1

    Yes, but he's a dude.

  20. Re:Study? on Study: Earthlings Not Ready For Alien Encounters, Yet · · Score: 1

    You're proving his point. Stuff that *might* happen (reading a dubious science article) *might* lead to other stuff (throwing your laptop against the wall) that *might* happen.

  21. Re:No different than asking... on Can You Tell the Difference? 4K Galaxy Note 3 vs. Canon 5D Mark III Video · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wine snobs are the worst kind of snobs.

  22. Re:MSN Gaming Zone Backgammon allows cheats... on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 2

    Either this is one superbly-crafted joke, or there is actually someone playing backgammon on Microsoft's network. Hard to tell. A cautious kudos to you either way.

  23. Re:Punishment fits the crime on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    Ah, here is the core of the problem with these arguments - it's not his fault but society's fault he ended up this way.

  24. Re:Punishment fits the crime on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    Gandalf killed his fair share of goblins. You didn't see him pussy-footing around, trying to gently incapacitate them.

  25. Re:What ever happened to good old bullets? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    A .22 caliber round to the base of the skull would likely not blow the criminal's face off, and that technique has been verified effective by mobsters for a long time.