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  1. Pushed the Car during Max Sunlight on University of Michigan Solar Car Wins Fifth Straight National Title · · Score: 1

    Sounds like NASCAR strategy right there, I don't care who you are.

  2. Re:That has to be the most garbled summary.... on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 0

    Mind your tongue, Proby.

  3. Re:Such a Waste on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 2
    That's what I thought to begin with during the First Trilogy, to be quite frank, and I probably wouldn't have suffered the first 6 hours of "incomplete story" except that my boys were children and I was accustomed to being disappointed at movies they preferred.

    Yawn like the Spiderman movies.

    Midway through the final chapter of the Trilogy, when Theoden's rallying the troops on the hill and the sun is rising... man, I'm All In. I'll give this the benefit of the doubt.

  4. Re:You needn't charge anything on 35% of American Adults Have Debt 'In Collections' · · Score: 1

    That would appear to indicate they don't pay corporate bonuses with the 1.5 to 2.5% cut they bank at the retailer.

  5. Re:You needn't charge anything on 35% of American Adults Have Debt 'In Collections' · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Father here.

    Just accompanied my son to a credit union to begin to build his credit with a secured card... he wants a newer vehicle, has saved well, and was able to transfer the necessary security from his account with the financial institution for his pending secured credit line.

    His loan officer told him his credit score would reflect more positively if he used only about 60% of his available credit line each month, and left 15 or 20 dollars per month in carryover balance, instead of paying off the entire balance each month.

    Truth or bullshit?

  6. Re:ANY stress "alters the DNA" of a fetus. on Smoking Mothers May Alter the DNA of Their Children · · Score: 1
    This makes great sense.

    In the wild, other mammals are completely capable of reabsorbing fetuses into their bodies during times of stress, giving evidence that the birth of a litter of young is predicated on environmental factors.

    If a mammal uses resource surplus & hardship as a determining factor to give birth, it is not much of a stretch to imagine genetic predisposition is formulated by those factors as well.

  7. Hydrocodone, Cocaine, and Methamphetamine on Suddenly Visible: Illicit Drugs As Part of Silicon Valley Culture · · Score: 1
    They're not an epidemic solely in Silicon Valley, and although I get

    that location makes it a nerd story, you can tell this same sad tale in nearly any modestly sized City.

    An interesting question is, "Are the abused prescription drugs more widely available to top earners?"

    The oxys and hydrocodone are super-addictive, and may (to their detriment)

    be more widely available by prescription to folks who seem to have their act together... physician's discretion, if you will.

  8. Re:It begins to make sense on Cable Companies: We're Afraid Netflix Will Demand Payment From ISPs · · Score: 1

    Harvester of the height-challenged produce has entered the thread.

  9. It begins to make sense on Cable Companies: We're Afraid Netflix Will Demand Payment From ISPs · · Score: 1
    Market share is as important a part of the algorithym as bandwidth.

    Don't discount the misplaced priorities of the masses.

    Prhaps they don't affect change at the ballot box, but the thongs that really matter to them can drive them into a frenzy.

  10. Doomsday Chronicles on The Truth About Solar Storms · · Score: 1
    A scenario that is purported to lead to medieval living conditions virtually overnight.

    At least it's not Zombies. In fact, if you can survive the initial purge while a great percentage of survivors fight (and die) over the food & water they can find on the ground, you will stand a pretty good chance of eventually returning to civilized living.

    As sad an advantage as this may seem to be, the governors will be working overtime to get back in contact with surviving taxpayers.

  11. Re:11% fuel efficiency improvement on Will Your Next Car Be Covered In Morphing Dimples? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Tractor trailers would seemingly benefit the most.

    Given the trucking industry's current interest in aerodynamic additions that are not necessarily aesthetic,

    I would say that's your target market.

  12. Uh-huh... it's almost as if he got cross with the TSA instead of the airline. Country's going to hell in a handbasket on buttered rails.

  13. Just wow.. on Dropbox Head Responds To Snowden Claims About Privacy · · Score: -1

    That is the lamest explanation for a deficiency in service I have ever heard from a fellow fluent in the language du jour.

  14. So It's Come to This on Verizon's Offer: Let Us Track You, Get Free Stuff · · Score: 5, Funny

    It sounds like the Google business plan being explained to me like I was five-years-old.

  15. Re:Slashdot Users on The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    Maybe you don't know who we think we are.

  16. Re:Slashdot Users on The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    Big ol' check for one Penny.

    Totally like to be the one to initiate.

    I would add: high percentage of regulars who can spell TOR, sympathize with Snowden, and are familiar with the Bitcoin and Silk Road.

  17. The Power of a single Word on The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    Terrorist: No right to a speedy trial, no right to habeus corpus, No constitutional rights at all. Actually it's the Cold War equivalent of hauling people from their homes in the middle of the night... except that once you affix that label to them, you can operate in broad daylight.

  18. Re:McCarthyism v2.0 on The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist · · Score: 2
    The East German parallel is intriguing I'll admit, but the former DDR was literally using an abacus for math compared to the power and omnipotence of current electronic data collection.

    Question is, just how low will they set the bar?

    Posted sarcastically on Slashdot = one demerit. Brother-in-law waited on a table of Americans of Arabian descent at the Steakhouse = one water-boarding.

  19. Quayle, Gore, Cheney, Biden on VP Biden Briefs US Governors On H-1B Visas, IT, and Coding · · Score: 1
    What in the hell is the deal with Vice Presidents since Dan Quayle?

    The only logical explanation is the Presidents are assured a statistically more likely term of service without an assassination attempt.

    Surely, McCain didn't pick Palin for the Alaskan electoral college.

  20. Re:Lies, lies, lies on VP Biden Briefs US Governors On H-1B Visas, IT, and Coding · · Score: 2
    You may indeed be lucky.

    The brother-in-law waited tables for four years to get his two-year degree.

    Now he's maybe the third best waiter at the local Steak House and they take most of his tax refund each year as his annual student loan payment.

  21. Re:Apprentices, sure on VP Biden Briefs US Governors On H-1B Visas, IT, and Coding · · Score: 1
    Sure.

    But before you find yourself right in the middle of an empathy-fueled moment, remember how good four years at Microsoft looks on a resume in one's home country.

    That's correct... right to the head of the line at the Call Center.

  22. Re:Occams Scalpel on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    It's a parody of the article.

  23. Re:Occams Scalpel on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1
    We live in a society that's insensitive to trolls in ways it doesn't understand.

    One of the consequences is that muggles are extremely sensitive when being criticized by trolls....

    that is why trolls are socialized to carefully dance around these issues, disagreeing with muggles in an extremely gentle manner.

  24. Re:So the idea is that.... on For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It · · Score: 0
    Because your government overlords are willing to be mistaken, out of line, morally repugnant, and regularly wasteful.

    What they are ultimately incapable of is remaining benign, since this "issue" is important to some voter or campaign contributor.

    Something must be done.

  25. Re:Why not something important? on NASA Names Building For Neil Armstrong · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Are you kidding?

    What on earth (intended) could be more suitable?

    He was at the forefront of operations during his active career as an astronaut, and now he has checked out.