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  1. Re:Kansas isn't even remotely flat on Shape of the Universe Determined To Be Really, Really Flat · · Score: 1

    Your basic unit of flatness can't be zero or infinite, so Kansas will do just fine.

  2. Yawn. on James Comey: the Man Who Wants To Outlaw Encryption · · Score: 2

    I never understand why people consider it news when someone takes a position that is 100% predictable given who they are.

  3. Re:Perl was last? on C Code On GitHub Has the Most "Ugly Hacks" · · Score: 1

    perl is a write-only language. It's *supposed* to be incomprehensible gibberish.

  4. Re:I'll be your huckleberry. on The United States Just Might Be Iran's Favorite New Nuclear Supplier · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We kept the Shah in power for our own interests

    s/kept/put/

    In 1953 they had a democratically elected, very westernized government. The US and UK staged a coup when that government wasn't generous enough with "our" oil.

    Worked out about as well as all our other efforts to tell the rest of the world how to run their countries.

  5. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

    I dunno, maybe they'll get nukes and the warmongers will have to find another country to bomb?

    Or, who knows, maybe we could get attacked by Saudi-sponsored terrorists again?

  6. What me worry? on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 2

    What's good for Disney is good for America. Or at any rate, good for the Americans who matter.

    I recently read that Southern California Edison replaced its whole 500-strong IT staff with H1Bs. However, details are scarce. Several US senators have called for an investigation, but the feds are refusing on the grounds that no one hurt by it filed a complaint.

    The US economy is screwed anyway. The H1B saga is just one more issue in the decades-long trend of converting the economy into shareholders and people who flip burgers for shareholders. Once the rich have skimmed all the cream, they'll go find another country to screw - or at least one that actually makes stuff they can buy with their winnings.

  7. Re:Lesson for workers : Keep skills sharp on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 2

    A) What were you doing you could be replaced that easily?!

    In my experience, upper management's views on who is easily replaceable don't usually conform very well to reality.

  8. Re:If Congress is for it on Senate Advances "Secret Science" Bill, Sets Up Possible Showdown With President · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An earlier version of this general effort used language that would forbid reference to models in policymaking.

    Presumably written by some clown club that doesn't know that models are what science produces. They were transparently trying to outlaw use of the computer models that climate science relies so heavily on. (And other branches of science, but climate science is the branch that's driving corruption^w campaign donations right now.)

  9. Re:Don't follw the rules don't get paid. on Groupon Refuses To Pay Security Expert Who Found Serious XSS Site Bugs · · Score: 1

    Part of the requirements to be paid a bounty is following the "responsible disclosure policy". The submitter did not follow that policy and therefore did not get paid. It seems pretty simple.

    I always make it even simpler, by citing my Greedy Bastard Policy regardless of what anyone does.

  10. Re:Working-man's drug on Using Adderall In the Office To Get Ahead · · Score: 1

    If there is a drug that will make you more productive to your employer, it will be embraced and encouraged.

    Mayhap this explains the Fermi Paradox.

  11. Re:What? Why discriminate? on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 1

    Remove tax exemptions from all of them. They get the same benefits from government as any other organization does.

    Also, it would take the government out of the business of deciding what is and what isn't a "real" religion, and of course keep organizations from pretending to be religions as part of a tax scam.

  12. Great idea! on Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    Now, how are we going to calculate how much the music industry and artists owe radio for all the decades of free marketing and hit-manufacturing?

  13. Re:Well there goes slashdot forums... on Researchers Developing An Algorithm That Can Detect Internet Trolls · · Score: 0

    On Slashdot they got 80% accuracy just by identifying all users as trolls.

  14. Re:What a wonderful unit! on California Looks To the Sea For a Drink of Water · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're trying to modernize acre-feet to Manhattan-fathoms, but the traditionalists won't have anything to do with it.

  15. Amateur space program??? on Copenhagen Suborbitals Test Rocket Engine · · Score: 1, Troll

    I thought Copenhagen Suborbitals was a brand of pot.

  16. New American Economy on With H-1B Cap Hit, Zuckerberg and Ballmer-Led Groups Press For More Tech Visas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    = "none"

    The whole thing has been turned into a gigantic cream-skimming operation.

  17. Alas, on Oops: World Leaders' Personal Data Mistakenly Released By Autofill Error · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only thing more annoying than a computer is a computer that tries to be helpful.

  18. What a great feel-good article! on Draconian Australian Research Law Hits Scientists · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm glad to hear that someone is trying to out-stupid *my* country.

  19. Can't wait for chapter 10, on WHO Report Links Weed Killer Ingredient To Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    wherein we find out that Monsanto has known it all along.

    Probably they were hoping no one would find out until they' ready to market GMO humans that are resistant to it.

  20. It's evile! on Uber Shut Down In Multiple Countries Following Raids · · Score: 1

    I guess everyone's getting bored with the war on drugs, so now they're looking for a new menace to protect us from.

  21. In other news on Gates: Large Epidemics Need a More Agile Response · · Score: 0

    He's considering changing his name to N. S. Sherlock.

  22. Just goes to show on Evolution Market's Admins Are Gone, Along With $12M In Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Crime doesn't pay for everybody.

  23. Arrrr! on Microsoft Offers Pirates Amnesty and Free Windows 10 Upgrades · · Score: 2

    Makes me wish I be a Chinee pirate. Besept I don't need Wind O'Tain, and I don't know how to say 'Arrrr' in Chinees. And I hear tell their ships are all junks.
     

  24. Just goes to show... on Wikipedia Entries On NYPD Violence Get Some Edits From Headquarters · · Score: 1

    If you can't read about it on the internet, it didn't happen.

  25. Re:Because there's so much more of it on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Science Appear To Be Getting Things Increasingly Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Also, in the Internet Age you're more likely to hear about it when someone does something crooked or foolish. I question the Ask-Slashdotter's assumption that things are getting worse.

    (He actually asked the right question: why do things appear to be getting worse. But then elaborates on the assumption that the sky is actually falling.)