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  1. Re:Was anyone suprised? on House Kills Effort To Stop Workplace Requests For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 2

    I'd prefer to see this plan executed successfully before trying it myself, thanks.

  2. Re:no scalping on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    I have a company picture ID, but it's also an electronic access card. Due to security considerations, it has no company or building information on it to make malicious usage more difficult should it be lost or stolen. Not really usable for third-party authentication.

    Since there's no standards about private company IDs, there's no reason someone couldn't fake up one that was more-official looking than the one I actually have.

  3. Re:A Tesla? on Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    They figured out how to clone Nikola Tesla in their 80:20 time. Everyone gets one.

    I think Apple just found their proper half insane/ half brilliant replacement for Jobs.

    Given some of the things he was building, I think Nikola Tesla was (like the fictional Sheldon Cooper) one lab accident away from becoming a supervillain.

  4. Re:Copyright infringement? on Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable · · Score: 5, Funny

    The entire dispute was completely irrational!

    I wish 'i' had thought of that.

    I'm sure there are complex reasons you didn't.

  5. Re:The other side of the story on Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies · · Score: 1

    Despite what libertards like to believe ...

    Is this a form of Tourette syndrome or something? This particular ad hominem doesn't even appear to apply.

  6. Re:My god!!! on Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun · · Score: 1

    The Mayans were way to lazy to build something like that, hell they couldn't even finish their calendar.

    We've probably just lost or mistranslated something like "dal Capo al Coda" at the end of their calendar definition.

  7. Re:jury trials cost more money on How To Crash the US Justice System: Demand a Trial · · Score: 1

    ...and yes the same thing happened with the 99 percenters when the media talked to them...

    Cite?

  8. Re:One time experience? on RIAA CEO Hopes SOPA Protests Were a "One-Time Thing" · · Score: 1

    You seem to be suggesting that a line-item veto would be immune to Congress' power to override a Presidential veto.

  9. My favorite part on Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    (paraphrased) "These documents are not necessarily authentic. This particularly bad one is faked. [...] We apologize to all the donors who expected anonymity but were exposed by these faked, not-authentic documents."

    0_o

  10. Re:I'm confused about the backups. on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 1

    Remember that at the very least you once loved that other person. Treat eachother with some respect, and part civilly.

    I think the inability of at least one party to do this may be the cause of many divorces. As such, it may be too much to expect this in both directions.

  11. But... on A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 · · Score: 1

    ...will there be arms folded under breasts, tugging of braids, and rampant male/female miscommunications?

  12. Re:as well they on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    A new patient/customer is not a burden, but rather an opportunity for business/profit.

    A new patient that disregards your advice and puts your other patients at risk is a liability.

    Not all customers are right. The ones that cost more than they're worth need to be "fired" or they'll drag your business down.

  13. Re:Consider me fired. on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    My mom is a nurse, and her best friend was paralyzed from the flu shot. How's that instead of a @#$@ three days of down time?

    Tens of thousands of people die in the USA every year due to influenza. I doubt any of their relatives would find your argument convincing.

    If I remember the numbers correctly, the mortality rate of influenza (0.1%) is at least an order of magnitude larger than the rate of adverse events due to influenza infections (tens to hundreds per million).

  14. Whiskers?! on Stanford's Francis Fukuyama Builds Personal Surveillance Drone · · Score: 1

    Reading the article summary, I suddenly imagined a few orbs floating around his body, like WSKRS in SeaQuest DSV.

    Maybe it's time for a break...

  15. Re:Senator Kay Hutchinson, representing Texas on Congress Warns NASA About Shortchanging SLS/Orion For Commercial Crew · · Score: 1

    ManneLyndon B. Johnson Spacecraft Center

    I think you forgot a few backspaces.

  16. Using or making FOSS? on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Some of the comments appear to assume that by "open source jobs", you mean "making FOSS". (c.f. "oh, wait, you mean the PAYING ones", etc.) Did you instead mean "using FOSS"? One can be paid well to implement closed-source with FOSS[1], but the jobs being paid to *make* FOSS aren't nearly as common.

    The best I've been able to do on the latter is contribute to FOSS projects as part of my jobs writing closed-source software that use open source libraries and tools.

    [1] Greater GPL excluded, obviously.

  17. Re:It's not a choice on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    despite the male dog humping their male leg

    I was told by folks who work with dogs that this is a social dominance behavior, not a sexual one.

  18. Retail on Lake Vostok Reached · · Score: 2

    How long until we get Vostok(tm) bottled water in the grocery store?

  19. Re:"cannot pin down what data was stolen" on Verisign Admits Company Was Hacked In 2010, Not Sure What Was Stolen · · Score: 1

    Clearly, it's high time to finally develop a method that would allow us to detect that we're not the only ones who have some piece of information.

    If such a technology ever arrives, you can bet that either the RIAA/MPAA invented it or they'll be on it like flies on sewage.

  20. Re:Men are from Mars on Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted On Venus · · Score: 1

    OLD NEWS!

    Of course there is life on Venus. I remember from my University days that this research was done a long time ago and one scientist discovered that Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus

    For certain values of "science"...

  21. Pareidolia on Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted On Venus · · Score: 1
  22. Sounds familiar on German Hackers Propose Uncensorable Global Grid — With Satellites · · Score: 1

    Increasing efforts to free the signal? Escalating counter-measures to block traffic to prevent piracy? This is starting to sound vaguely familiar.

    http://craphound.com/unwirer/

  23. Re:I stopped reading the responses after... on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    Its easier to quit smoking pot than it is to stop drinking soda.

    So... you're saying that caffeine is not addictive as well?

    From Wikipedia, the Official Online Guide To Truth:

    Addiction can also be viewed as a continued involvement with a substance or activity despite the negative consequences associated with it. Pleasure and enjoyment would have originally been sought; however, over a period of time involvement with the substance or activity is needed to feel normal.

    Are you trying to suggest that this applies to drinking soda?

  24. Re:There was another browser on Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had? · · Score: 1

    There was still NCSA Mosaic, which (despite its family connection to Netscape) would not have fallen into Microsoft hands and would have remained available for users.

    Internet Explorer was based off NCSA Mosaic just like Netscape. I doubt Microsoft buying Netscape would have changed anything significantly.

  25. Re:Too low? Wars would have still happened. on Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had? · · Score: 2

    But the results were not equivalent. Instead, Netscape forced the Internet to be cross-platform in ways that outlasted even Netscape Inc.

    The Internet and the Web were cross-platform before Netscape. What do you think Netscape contributed, out of curiosity?