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  1. Re:Odd Selection on Ohio Prison Shows Pirated Movies To Inmates · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you want violent felons to have any hope of being rehabilitated, you need to show them what true criminals look like.

  2. Re:Fix according to Apple is on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What if you're tossing it because it completely crapped out on you and, thus, you can't change anything?

  3. Re:There's a reason books can't be updated on US Navy Develops World's Worst E-reader · · Score: 3, Funny

    For the same of variety, I'm hoping they didn't stock a lot of large print books...

  4. Re:There's a reason books can't be updated on US Navy Develops World's Worst E-reader · · Score: 1

    So it's updated about exactly as often as a shipboard library would be in the first place. And probably contains more titles... I don't see Navy ships dedicating a lot of space to libraries.

  5. Re:OK, but not sure 123456 is any better than 1234 on It's World Password Day: Change Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of the other quirk of my bank.... username is case sensitive. e.g. SJHillman was already taken, but it let's me use Sjhillman

  6. Re:OK, but not sure 123456 is any better than 1234 on It's World Password Day: Change Your Passwords · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My bank assigned me the random PIN of "1234" for my debit card. One of my student loan websites (Citibank) ignored anything past the 8th character of your password anyway. One of my old credit unions had a six character password limit, alphanumeric only. Financial institutions are a little behind the times.

  7. Re:Saw this on reddit, posted by Seventy_Seven on The Feds Accidentally Mailed Part of A $350K Drone To Some College Kid · · Score: 1

    Seven of the ten wealthiest members of Congress are Democrats, although reporting on Congress members' net worth is inaccurate by design. There's quite a few of them with a net worth in the negative six figures too.

  8. Re:Saw this on reddit, posted by Seventy_Seven on The Feds Accidentally Mailed Part of A $350K Drone To Some College Kid · · Score: 2

    I wasn't aware that Republicans were in charge of UPS.

  9. Re:Stupid headline on The Feds Accidentally Mailed Part of A $350K Drone To Some College Kid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If theft is what you're worried about, I'd take USPS over UPS or FedEx any day. The Post Office consider mail theft to be Serious Business.

  10. Re:Stupid headline on The Feds Accidentally Mailed Part of A $350K Drone To Some College Kid · · Score: 1

    The fact they don't guarantee/insure it by default is the reason most people can afford them in the first place. If they wrapped that into their default price, the price of every package sent would go up.

  11. Re:Also, why dump the waste on earth??? on Understanding the 2 Billion-Year-Old Natural Nuclear Reactor In W Africa · · Score: 1

    If they're aliens with a giant star cruiser that presumably came from space (or maybe the fifth dimension? I dunno), I don't think this would be a major issue.... especially because of the "already in space" part.

  12. Re:Also, why dump the waste on earth??? on Understanding the 2 Billion-Year-Old Natural Nuclear Reactor In W Africa · · Score: 1

    A better question is, if you're going to dump it at all, why do it on a planet with life and go through the trouble of diluting it? Why not choose a dead rock, deep space, or, ya know, a star?

  13. Re:I don't know but there for Aliens. on Understanding the 2 Billion-Year-Old Natural Nuclear Reactor In W Africa · · Score: 2

    No breader reactors? What about baguette reactors?

  14. Re:Untested? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    The French used the guillotine right up until 1977 (their death penalty was abolished in 1981 anyway), so it may not need to much updating. As late as 1996, a US Rep from Georgia tried to get the electric chair replaced with the guillotine (but was not successful).

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

    No, I'm taking the perspective that "serving simultaneous sentences" doesn't make logical sense. You're not serving simultaneous sentences, you're serving one sentence (presumably the longest or harshest one) and having the rest dropped.

  16. Re:Hanging on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 2

    For a very long time, hanging was exceptionally torturous because you essentially just waited for them to asphyxiate. It's a relatively recent advance in hanging methods to drop them from a height so the rope snaps their neck, making it quick and painless... if all goes as planned.

  17. Re:What's the problem on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    If I ever have to be executed, I want them to do it with a goddamn tank cannon.

  18. Re:Untested? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    There's an easy way out of that conundrum. Just continue to use methods like hanging, firing squads and drowning. They're all well tested and documented methods in which the results can be pretty well assured. Sure, they seem a little more barbaric, but they're tested.

  19. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 2

    You're taking away liberty and, usually, the pursuit of happiness. So why not life, if we're grouping them all together?

  20. Re:Punishment fits the crime on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 5, Funny

    From my understanding, a week with Slashdot Beta should about do it.

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

    And then are they released on double secret probation?

    Simultaneously serving multiple sentences doesn't really make logical sense if they're being imprisoned 24/7 for the duration of their sentence. It's not like they can be imprisoned for 48 hours a day to serve two sentences simultaneously. What you're effectively doing is just having them serve one sentence and dropping the rest, not having them served simultaneously.

  22. Re:Please at least 6 sata ports and USB 3 on AMD Beema and Mullins Low Power 2014 APUs Tested, Faster Than Bay Trail · · Score: 1

    This is the route I'm probably going to go with my next PC. These days, even games bought on disc don't usually require the disc just to play the game (maybe the one and only upside of moving on to Internet-based DRM?), so it's mostly just used to install a game or rip a DVD/CD and then forgotten for a few months. A USB drive gets bonus points for letting me put the DVD drive wherever I want on my desk, rather than having to bend over to reach where the case is hidden away. They make them quite small too... barely thicker than plastic jewel cases.

  23. Re:End of the republic, not empire... on How Concrete Contributed To the Downfall of the Roman Empire · · Score: 1

    These days, most article editing is to make sure it follows the rules of English and that it has a coherent thought... fact checking is rarely done by anyone except the reader.

  24. Re:And what will be our excuse? on How Concrete Contributed To the Downfall of the Roman Empire · · Score: 1

    I'm all set to blame Jersey Shore.

  25. Re:Economic reasons on How Concrete Contributed To the Downfall of the Roman Empire · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's one of those "You start dying as soon as you're born" philosophical things. Or before you're born.