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  1. Re:Exit Interviews are always flowery on Being Honest In Exit Interviews Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    When did it become my responsibility to make cops happy?

  2. Re:One Sided science on Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims · · Score: 1

    Team? There are teams?

    "Hell, semi reputable idiots on the AGW team actually say we should be outlawed or otherwised silenced."

    Uh, can I have a cite please?

  3. Re:You're a company on Verizon Claims Net Neutrality Violates Their Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    "Are you prepared to defend that position and its implications?"

    Sure.

  4. Re:You're a company on Verizon Claims Net Neutrality Violates Their Free Speech Rights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's not true at all. The shareholders can sell their shares. They cannot write checks on the company's books.

  5. Re:The way of nature. on Silicon Valley Values Shift To Customersploitation · · Score: 1

    When was this better world?

  6. Re:Tagline: on Joe Cornish To Write and Direct Snow Crash Movie · · Score: 1

    What lack of recoil? The gun moved the boat. That's recoil.

  7. Re:Space Ship Two Won't Undergo Orbital Reentry on Elon Musk Shows off the Dragon Capsule, Back From Space (Video) · · Score: 1

    This is a better comparison:

    http://www.stratolaunch.com/

  8. Re:uhhh... on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    That's simply not true. The reason it's there is because the menu is infinitely tall. You don't have to hit a small box in two dimensions, you only have to get your mouse between the left and right boundaries of the menu item. This is an explicit design feature of Mac OS. The MacOS designers understood that the edges of the screen are, for purposes of the mouse pointer, infinitely broad.

    Every time you have to move your mouse back down to the menu after overshooting slightly is wasted motion. That doesn't occur on MacOS.

    Why does every window need its own menu bar? You can only really interact with one at a time. You've only got one mouse cursor.

  9. Re:But she still can... on Apple Yanks Toddler's Speech-Enabling App · · Score: 1

    If it's that valuable and useful, then there would be no reason to do any software updates in the future. Treat it as mission-critical hardware and don't use it for non-mission-critical purposes.

  10. Re:Obvious Answer on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    Working by traditional, rote methods and happy accidents is not the same as having an understanding of organic chemistry.

    That's not to say it's not useful, but the structure you dismiss is what we are talking about.

  11. Re:Obvious Answer on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 2

    In the dark ages, to a good approximation, nobody did organic chemistry.

  12. Re:Why 2 sides on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 1

    "And this danger becomes apparent when you see statements that a student should fail because of their beliefs"

    Did you think that was what I was saying? Because if it was, you were arguing with somebody different.

    "Student ought not presume to succeed" is not congruent with "Student should fail."

  13. Re:Why 2 sides on Classroom Clashes Over Science Education · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "If a student is forced to accept what is told to him without question" then the student is not in a science classroom.

    However, if when the question is answered with facts and data, the student persists in the Truth of an untenable hypothesis which is not supported by facts and data, the student ought not presume to get a good grade in a science class.

    Science is not a religion. I say this as both a scientist, and a religious person.

  14. Re:Wow. Just wow. on South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks · · Score: 2

    "No TRUE Scotsman..."

  15. Re:A week? on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 2

    OK. Tried step 1 for Season 2. It's not available in the United States.

    What now?

  16. Re:Not only that... on Some USAF Pilots Refuse To Fly F-22 Raptor · · Score: 2

    "The idea was that the F-35 would take its place. "

    That was not the idea. That idea does not make any sense.

  17. Re:What about parents of students who are teachers on NYC Teachers Forbidden To "Friend" Students · · Score: 1

    I read it to mean that it would be against the rules to contact your son's friends via your personal account.

  18. Re:US its own worst enemy on Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions In State Taxes · · Score: 1

    Definitely stop paying for K-12 education. Those kids won't be entering the job market for, like, a decade! Who needs 'em?

    What you describe is called a "race to the bottom", and it's generally Bad for the citizenry.

  19. Re:And Google on Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions In State Taxes · · Score: 2

    Simple. It's not punishment.

  20. Re:Such a quaint definition of college... on Is Stanford Too Close To Silicon Valley? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not wealthy enough to spend $50k on the joys of an abstract education. I need a job to pay for my loans.

    Some people are rich, and don't have to care about that. That's great. The rest of us just gotta do what we gotta do.

  21. Re:Close to re-entry speed on Hypersonic Test Aircraft Peeled Apart After 3 Minutes of Sustained Mach 20 Speed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes. Science and engineering are often advanced by never doing anything you are not absolutely certain will work perfectly.

  22. Re:hope it was worth the megan's law list on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 1

    Many of the cultures in Asia are not particularly germane to the American body phobia being discussed.

    But hey, feed your rage beast!

  23. Re:Good intentions pave the road to a stalking cha on World's Creepiest iPhone App Pulled After Outcry · · Score: 1

    Seems like all the people who are saying "yeah, that's creepy" is the community expressing that the prevailing attitude is "stop being creepy. You might not THINK it's creepy, but we all think it's creepy, so you might want to consider not doing that."

  24. Re:Good intentions pave the road to a stalking cha on World's Creepiest iPhone App Pulled After Outcry · · Score: 1

    And if they shut the door in your face, the community around you would let you know that continuing to pursue that person is Not Cool, and they would tell you in various ways.

  25. Re:What kind of congress is that? on Congress Capitulates To TSA; Refuses To Let Bruce Schneier Testify · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Doesn't give you the right to breathe, either.

    It's almost like some rights are, what's the word? Oh yeah. Inalienable.