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  1. Re:Teaching kids to think requires controversy on Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What debate though? One side is backed up by reason and evidence, and the other is not. There's a lot of facts on one side, and a lot of plugging fingers in ears screaming "I can't hear you" on the other side.

  2. What We Really Need on Kubuntu To Be Sponsored By Blue Systems, Rather Than Canonical · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What we really need is a Gnome flavor of Ubuntu. Still not a fan of Unity, while Gnome 3 is starting to grow on me. Where's my Gnubuntu?

  3. Re:US Carriers? on US Carriers Finally Doing Something About Cellphone Theft · · Score: 2

    You're right. I'm glad the US is always restrained in their use of force.

  4. How Many Strikes Do You Get? on Iran Plans To Unplug the Internet, Launch Its Own 'Clean' Alternative · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, Just One. It's right there in the name.

  5. Re:"almost certainly" on No, SETI Has Not Detected Alien Signals From Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    Broadcast on all frequencies and all known languages, including Welsh.

    I thought you said known languages?

  6. Re:Clone Putin on Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    "I say your 5 cent tiantium tax goes too far." "And I say your 5 cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough."

  7. Re:Translation on AMD Confirms Commitment To x86 · · Score: 2, Informative

    AMD SHOULD have gained huge amounts of market share, but thanks to some anti-competitive behavior by Intel that wasn't the case.

  8. Re:do they count as part of data pack? roaming? on iOS 5 Update Available · · Score: 1

    Who in the industrialized world pays $19.96 per MB to download updates over Wi-Fi?

    Shh... don't give AT&T any ideas!

  9. Re:Good for balls and strikes on Ask Slashdot: Project Scope For MLB Robot Umpires? · · Score: 1

    The strike zone also varies from batter to batter (the lower boundary is the batters kneecaps, and the upper boundary is the midpoint between the batters shoulders and belt). The robots would have to be able to enforce a varying strike zone for every player which makes it that much harder I believe. A robot that was able to measure whether or not a ball is inside or outside (since those dimensions of the strike zone do not vary) would be somewhat useful, but even then most of the "blown calls" I see are from high or low strikes incorrectly called balls, mostly the low strike.

  10. Re:They need to make a job of it and make it an OS on Unreal Engine 3 Running In Flash · · Score: 1

    FlashOS it seems it's almost done anyway..

    I have a TiVo Premiere... trust me, FlashOS sucks.

  11. Re:What HP should have done on HP Touch Pad Still Popular ... With HP Employees · · Score: 1

    Sounds like we have an MBA in the house.

    1. Sell your product at a loss
    2. Rely on "synergy"
    3. Profit!

    An MBA who cheated in Finance... (like most MBAs, apparently)

  12. No 3G. Less Space than an iPad. on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    Lame.

  13. Real Reason This Has Come To Pass on Microsoft Responds To Linux Concerns Over Windows 8 and UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    I'm betting it's because Microsoft's WGA or WAT or whatever they're calling their activation process is currently bypassed for OEMs by way of a BIOS certificate, and the stuff necessary to bypass it by the warez scene is typically a bootloader. I'm betting that the only way companies get to use the OEM way of activating Windows with a single key is if secure boot is enabled. The impact to malware and Linux are both probably incidential benefits to Microsoft. How to tell if I'm right? See if it asks you to activate your copy of Windows when you disable secure boot on your Windows 8 Dell.

  14. Forget Verizon Math on AT&T Responds To DoJ Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    We always laugh at Verizon for how they erroneously calculated billing, what about AT&T's fuzzy math? 4 competitors - 1 competitor > 3 competitors? tens of thousands of jobs lost due to merger "cost reductions" a few thousand call center jobs? Really? It boggles the mind how stupid they think we all are.

  15. Re:no: height on Why Nobody Wants You On OKCupid · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter. Not usually though.

  16. Re:no: height on Why Nobody Wants You On OKCupid · · Score: 1

    You should try being short then. I can follow all the guidelines listed in TFA and still get about a 1:15 response rate (and even then 75% of the responses are "Thanks, but I'm not interested"). It's really not all that worth it...

  17. Re:Without R&D investment, innovation WILL fal on IBM Chief: All CEOs Reluctant To Invest In R&D · · Score: 1

    Glad to hear another fellow MBA on Slashdot. I'm finished with mine in December. Nowhere in any of my classes have they said "boosting the share price at all costs" was the goal of a CEO. Even if that were the case, share price is a function of expected future returns... what do you think will happen to those future returns when R&D gets cut? Mostly what we are taught about the role of a CEO is that they are central to creating and executing the business strategy that takes the needs of the shareholders, the customers, and the employees (the key stakeholders) into account.

  18. Re:I don't recall... on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    What if the password is a confession of a crime? I wonder if that would be sufficient to make it a 5th amendment issue... Ik1lL3dt34mAn0n4/12/09bE.causeH3LooKd@meFunny