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  1. Re:"No, no. No adventures today." on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1
    Sitting on a ranch in south Texas, it appears the recent emigrants from other Americas have taken advantage of the eye's preoccupation with other goings on.

    They may experience more civility dealing with the Border Patrol than I get flying to Vegas.

  2. "No, no. No adventures today." on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1
    Where's your sense of adventure?

    Frodo and Samwise walked from the Shire to Mordor (even though it's clear at the end one of those fucking eagles could have carried the both of them) , and you refuse to have the TSA Experience story to share with your grandchildren?

    That's just selfiush.

  3. Re:Eventually people will look up... on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    Yes. Great post lost in the nebula of anonymity.

  4. Re:It's not a relevant topic for Slashdot. on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    +1 wordsmith.

  5. Re:It's not a relevant topic for Slashdot. on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1
    If more of you code gnomes were employed and using company-approved breaks to surf /. there wouldn't be a need to reach a wider audience.

    No offense?

    None taken.

  6. Re:All the news that matters on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Lets just face facts, friend.

    The US Army conducts an IQ test as pre-employment screening to determine which job(s) you may apply for, assuming you cross a minimal threshold, and you may hold an infantry position with the lowest acceptable score. Time and trial have taught the military that lower scores make better better soldiers at positions like 8 hour foxhole guard duty.

    There exist occupations, within the military and without, where greater cognitive ability is a distinct advantage.

    But there are some that ain't.

  7. Re:Gonna be a tough sell in some circles. on Finnish HIV Vaccine Testing To Begin · · Score: 1
    As a treatment for those already stricken with the disease the shot is a no-brainer.

    As a preventative measure through mass inoculation, there will be civil disobedience. Fool's logic will dictate since the polio & flu vaccines carry the viri, so may the HIV cocktail.

    Maybe folks are just rationalizing their fear of needles, I don't know, but there exist some deadset against it.

  8. FTA: A License to Hunt and Kill Drones on The Year In Robotics · · Score: 1

    $25 and easily the next gift for that hard-to-buy-for brother-in-law.

  9. Re:Cool on Russian Startup Offers Wireless Remote Controller For Cars · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Cool on Russian Startup Offers Wireless Remote Controller For Cars · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Gonna be a tough sell in some circles. on Finnish HIV Vaccine Testing To Begin · · Score: 1
    That's a good point. Undoubtedly, a particular genetic sequence given to HIV immunity comes with other advantages/disadvantages, many of these difficult to predict.

    Mother Nature's style of parenting is hardly doting. I believe I've read 99.9% of all species that ever existed on earth are extinct. A genetic trait that is advantageous in one epoch occasionally kills your grandchildren in the next.

  12. Gonna be a tough sell in some circles. on Finnish HIV Vaccine Testing To Begin · · Score: 2
    FTA: "Genes are introduced in order to generate a controlled immune response."

    We already have a difficult time maintaining herd immunity through inoculation because of the autism FUD.

    I imagine there will be resistance to an HIV shot in some circles.

  13. Re:two paths emerge as i cook cabbage. on US Federal Judge Rules Suspicionless Border Searches of Laptops Constitutional · · Score: 1
    "...inchoate hunches, a method that it says has sometimes proved fruitful."

    Since even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut, said squirrel may rifle through your personals.

    Yep, passes the smell test for science.

  14. Re:How volatile is crude oil? on Oil Train Explosion Triggers Evacuation In North Dakota · · Score: 1
    Depends on the quality of the crude oil. Crude's desirability, indeed its market value, depends on its API (specific) gravity.

    Crude such as North Sea Brent has a high API gravity & viscosity, is considered sweet (low sulphur) and is more flammable.

    Crude from the Alberta tar sands (bitumen) is low in API gravity, worth less commercially, is sour (more sulphur), and way less flammable.

  15. Re:The 21st Century is on 53% More Book Banning Incidents In US Schools This Year · · Score: 4, Funny

    Morgan Freeman sounds good narrating my grocery list.

  16. Hotel 1 Bravo on X11/X.Org Security In Bad Shape · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did another company draft poorly at the developer position?

  17. Re:After the next attack? on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 1
    Insightful. Very original.

    The terrorists (ECs) of late do not combat America much in a traditional sense of the word.

    It is possible that civic strife through overreaction is the best disruption some of them can hope for.

  18. Dating Algorithm Corollary on How Machine Learning Can Transform Online Dating · · Score: -1, Troll
    Single people will generally settle for a mate with the highest level of superficial physical characteristics they can achieve.

    This is true even though a homely spouse makes for a much more attentive husband/wife.

  19. Here's Why on The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    A latecomer to the Thrones saga, I purchased the first two seasons in November of this year. I fell for the palace intrigue immediately, watched the first two seasons in a couple of weekends, and then discovered the 3rd, already filmed and telecast, season (with the friggin' dragon on the cover) isn't available until the middle of February.

    Are they 3D printing the CDs or what?

  20. Re:Lame duck President on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 1
    What you say is true, but many of these edicts that allowed the present system to run unchecked pre-Snowden seem to have been mandated by federal agencies. Perhaps for reasons of deniability, much of this has escaped whatever cleansing light that Congressional oversight might provide.

    Public discussion of privacy versus security is at least being discussed now, and there may be some momentum that can be drawn upon.

  21. Re:Lame duck President on Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I respectfully disagree.

    Obama has the luxury of not seeking another term to guide whatever moral compass might remain within him.

    He has an opportunity to make the reform of government surveillance an even greater legacy for his presidency than his ACA program.

    Will he? Possibly not, but a newly elected POTUS will have even less incentive: any terrorist incident that occurs after a restructuring of the quasi-governmental snooping agencies will land at the feet of it's sponsor.

  22. Re:subcontractors? on The Japanese Mob Is Hiring Homeless People To Clean Up Fukushima · · Score: 0
    As I am unfamiliar with the homeless class in Nippon, I have no frame of reference, but my perception of the Japanese is the Fukushima 50 and Kamikaze pilots.

    Idealized perhaps, but I picture their homeless very happy, very proud to work there.

  23. Re: And this is somehow supposed to be a surprise? on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    Introducing nonexistent data to an equation to make it more palatable is what the big pharmas do, padawan.

  24. Re:And this is somehow supposed to be a surprise? on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 0
    Dude, you just went neither-nor-nor on me.

    I had no idea you were adept at super duper English.

    Overmatched, I will withdraw.

  25. Re:No pictures this time on Mars Express Orbiter Buzzes Martian Moon Phobos · · Score: 1

    Regis said I should get your number 'cuz your my Mars moon flyby phone-a-friend guy.