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  1. In other words... on SSD Manufacturer OCZ Preparing For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    The amount the investing defaultee can expect to recover in a bankruptcy fire sale is larger than any expectations of return from your company's continued existence.

  2. Yes, boat rockers are statistically likely... on The Best Way To Blow the Whistle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    to wind up swimming. The vast majority of folks are willing to pipe down in the face of consequences and repercussions. Call the other option what you will: foolhardy, insubordinate, obstinate, or brave... all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  3. Sword has two edges on San Quentin Inmates Learn Technology From Silicon Valley Pros · · Score: 1, Insightful

    These incarcerated felons will stand a much better chance of becoming productive members of society if they have job opportunities immediately upon release. These same extraordinary gentlemen are more likely by an order of magnitude to f*ck up than another applicant with no such resume.

  4. Re:Sweet sweet copyright justice on Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is a big day for me on /. I have long awaited the moment I could point out a poster with a vested interest in his/her opinion.

  5. Re:Too cute a story on The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath · · Score: 1

    Okay. You are wicked smart, but let me issue a small rebuttal. I had no college course in psychopathology. It occurred to me, based on conventional wisdom freely available to anyone just barely solvent enough to pay attention, that I might resemble some previously described niche in the human typecast. This guy already knew. He looked to the science for confirmation or some implausible doubt.

  6. Re:GEEZ. Let's all just engage in rank speculation on Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Is Missing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the loathesome pretentious side of /. This story, with (x)+/- readers and comments -not statistically insignificantly including you and yours- , has piqued my own good interest enough to comment a second time. That a single grandiloquent pos(t)er would not only attempt to modwhore a perceived populist highbrow view of article selection, but gain the three positive mods despite his rather less than opaque pandering, well as you can tell, leaves me speechless. It's called the "F_rehose" and may I buy you a vowel?

  7. Re:Live by the media, die by the media. on Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Is Missing · · Score: 2

    I sure hope this story gets the legs McAfee's Belizean Adventures had for its' interminable 15 minutes... whether or not he was responsible for Greg's fall, his tale competed with the mighty Bitcoin in article frequency, for a minute.

  8. Re:A link between DPR and an early Bitcoiner on Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto · · Score: 1

    As you wish.

  9. "There is also at least a chance on Make Way For "Mutant" Crops As GM Foods Face Opposition · · Score: 2

    ...that one of the "other, uncontrolled, mutations" turns out to be a cure for something." From the Roundup-resistant strawman.

  10. Re:$150 million on 195K Bitcoin Transaction · · Score: 1

    Who in their right mind is going to sell that many bitcoins at once when they could sell them out in a trickle and make millions more in the process?

    Thieves perhaps.

  11. Too cute a story on The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I question the serendipitous discovery. As a neuroscientist aware of his family's predilection for anti-social behavior, wouldn't his interest in this career path likely have been influenced by curiosity about himself?

  12. Re:Sony hasn't given up on it yet on The Surprising Second Life of the PlayStation Vita · · Score: 1

    "...screw the buyers like a Bangkok whore on coupon night..." +1 sweet euphemism

  13. Re:Oh nos, terrorists! on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    Reefer Madness was sensationalist proganda? Shirley, you jest.

  14. Re:Wow... on Xbox One Controller Cost Over $100 Million To Develop · · Score: 1

    You're doing it wrong. If you pay for the party favors, just remember to do the hookers B4 the favors run out.

  15. Re:Ah, they are not dead. on And Now For Something Completely Different: Monty Python Reunion Planned · · Score: 1

    Nice link.... but honestly, it barely makes my top ten. A Fish Called Wanda, right? "You are the vulgarian, you fuck." "Now was that smart? Was it shrewd? Was it good tactics? Or was it stupid?"

  16. Silver lining on Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS · · Score: 1

    With a granule of sodium chloride, most studies indicate they commit suicide and divorce spouses at a higher than average rate, and c'mon, would you trade paychecks with them?

  17. Re:License to fu*k off Revoked on Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS · · Score: 1

    Well sure, if you're willing to go all logical with your debating tactics then there's not a leg to stand on... thank goodness there are fools virtually everywhere to give us something to comment sagely upon.

  18. Re:License to fu*k off Revoked on Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS · · Score: 1

    Agreed. And due to the painful process by which a GPS tracker is installed in a person of interest, that measure should be reserved exclusively for your friendly neighborhood TSA employee.

  19. Re:Might also fix their speeding on Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS · · Score: 2

    At least where we live, an admittedly small sampling, there seems to exist a preponderance of entitlement in those that enforce the law: it doesn't apply equally to them. I believe that is one of the many perks of those who swerve and neglect.

  20. License to fu*k off Revoked on Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS · · Score: 1

    Really? 45 minutes in a dark alley 'interviewing' a reluctant witness? THAT'S your best argument against technology that could locate you instantly if your life's in peril? Someone is going to be watching the watchers in Beantown.

  21. So an AC said he will not be arrested. Well that's enough for me.... wait, Julian, what if it's a trap?

  22. We are a macrocosm of Game of Thrones on Australia Spied On Indonesian President · · Score: 2

    I remember the outrage in 1987 when Jonathon Pollard was caught spying on the US for Israel. A simpler, more naive time perhaps, but the harsh reality of the World is that information is power. Nations are willing to forego an occasional bit of moral outrage in their Machiavellian quest to retain and grow their influence.

  23. Re:Its free over on Nathan Myhrvold's $500 Cookbook Now an $80 iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Slashdot rocks like Slayer. You don't know why you like it?: It's better than 'work' through the week, goes great with a Whiskey at night, and it's there faithful as an old hound 24/7 ... no matter what time you get crafty.

  24. Re:It's a start. on How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    "I am not a perfect man and I will not be a perfect president." "I will wake up every day and work as hard as I can." "Refudiate, misunderestimate, wee-wee'd up..." "There's a long way to go yet." See what you did there?

  25. Re:They should be much more paranoid. on How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    You have either shown incredible restraint or implied megahours of devotion to /. with your reluctance to meme RTFS. Not above a subtle "Told you So"' though... no one's perfect.