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  1. Condoms on NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds · · Score: 1

    The condom stopped most, but not all of the sperm.

  2. Re:What the hell on Ask Slashdot: Single Sign-On To Link Google Apps and Active Directory? · · Score: 1

    73.4% of stats are made up 99% of the time.

  3. Re:'Cause you might not trust DARPA... on Integrated Circuit Amplifier Breaches Terahertz Barrier · · Score: 1

    I know it! I can't stand those evil food stamps going to hungry children...psh..government!

  4. Unintentional touch events on LG's 0.7mm Smartphone Bezel Is World's Narrowest · · Score: 1

    Surely holding it with one hand will cause your palm to touch the edges of the screen. Are they touch dead zones? Are they able to be disabled? The S3 without a case had this problem ...or maybe I just have huge hand.s (ladies ;-))

  5. Re:lacks speaker on Microsoft Enters the Wearables Market With 'Band' · · Score: 1

    I'm Dick Tracy! Take *THAT* Prune Face!

    I'm Prune Face! Take *THAT* Dick Tracy!

    I'm Prune Tracey! Take *THAT* Dick -----------CARRIER LOST-------

    ~Simpsons Et. Al.

  6. Better question: on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Will millions give a shit about an overpriced nerdlinger status symbol? Stay tuned as Bennett whateverhisface submits his thesis.

  7. Will Not Pay on A Mixed Review For CBS's "All Access" Online Video Streaming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have a simple rule; I will not pay a subscription for a service that also makes me watch ads. Not going to happen. Hulu-plus can fuck itself, as can this CBS trash.

  8. Re:Inevitable on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    I'm 28, so same cohort....I get my news from a multitude of online sources. There is nothing on TV news that I see that I didn't already know about at least 12 hours earlier.

    The concept of paying for cable when 1/4th of my time would be stolen via commercials is, to me, atrocious. I do get a kick out of telling the quarterly TWC call this opinion as politely as possible. "Why would I pay $60 a month where 15 minutes per hour of TV is commercials?" "uhhhh"

  9. Coin a new phrase on We Are All Confident Idiots · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd like to coin a new phrase: The Kruger Hump.

    This is the inflection point where you realize just how little you actually know. Up to that point is marked by the D-K effect.

  10. Schedule Events! on Can Ello Legally Promise To Remain Ad-Free? · · Score: 1

    Once you can schedule events in a workable manner, I would quickly jump ship from FB. The fact that G+, Diaspora, and now Ello didn't have this feature on launch is why I think they all failed.

  11. Re:grrr on Taking the Census, With Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Gerrymandering is one of those things that the fact that it is legal is just jaw-dropping. I can see school children in future history classes learning about it and shaking their heads in awe and the blatant audacity of some of these districts.

  12. Re:Want Critical Thinking? Fix the Public Schools on Employers Worried About Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    I haven't had mod points in a fortnight but this sums the problem up perfectly!

    A reasonable debate could be had about the curriculum and goals of these public schools, but whether or not they should exist should remain in the 'crackpot bin'.

  13. Re:"The data come from" on Decades-old Scientific Paper May Hold Clues To Dark Matter · · Score: 5, Funny

    My favorite character from ST:NG are Data.

    ~(xkcd)

  14. Re: New York on NY Doctor Recently Back From West Africa Tests Positive For Ebola · · Score: 1

    Viruses don't eat, and are not alive. They exist ONLY to reproduce, using our cells' machinery to do it. Other than that, you're spot on.

  15. Re:I'm still waiting... on Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk · · Score: 1

    I always thought they went to Taco Bell.

  16. Municipal Internet is Inevitable (hopefully) on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 2

    Unless there's a coup-de-retardante the next couple of elections I see(hope) internet gets its rightful place as a regulated municipal service. Like water. Juicy data water.

  17. Dear Liza! on NASA's HI-SEAS Project Results Suggests a Women-Only Mars Crew · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The end of that post was totally unnecessary. Did we really need our hands held to make that connection between amount of food required and the weight/cost of a launch?

  18. Re:Side effect on Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Stocks · · Score: 1

    I counter your citation-less speculation with my own: Or not.

  19. Do you think robots will take all of our jobs? If so, how do you think society should handle the masses of unemployed?

  20. Shame-Maim on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    Or take out their knee caps. Don't go lethal when you can shame-maim. Maybe that's just the Italian in me.

  21. Re:Who cares? on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 2

    Also see for less 'metaphysical' achievements: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

  22. Re:Who cares? on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 1
  23. Saganesque Space Dub on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm in a group that takes his philosophy of science...and marijauana...and spreads it via some pretty spaced out electronic music.

    We're called the Sagan Youth Boys. Check us out on Soundcloud for a taste. https://soundcloud.com/sagan-y...

    Our 2nd album is coming out in a few months that'll be a hard sci-fi concept album based on a manned mission to Enceladus.


    /shameless plug

  24. Re:Automation is the future on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have little doubt that computers will be able to drive big-rig trucks not too far into the future. All of the examples you gave sounds like it would be better handled by a capable computer. Split second? How about sub-millisecond? Multiple events happening at once? Humans are notoriously bad at doing that. Hardware glitch? Like sleep deprivation?

    Ever see that Volvo ad of two semi's going in reverse at 40+MPH and staying within 3 feet of each other? Do you think people could do that?

    Of course, we aren't there yet. It will happen though, and highway safety will improve.

  25. Re:grow your own on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    As long as we combine that with a form of fusion, sure!