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  1. Re: or, Turkey cracks down on dissidents on Turkish Police Nab 32 Suspects Tied To Anonymous · · Score: 2

    Or as a threat to anonymous; ie: "ok you are random people. We will just start grabbing random people every time you attack us. We get justice you end up responsible for murder. You jelly?"

  2. Re:Cloud cloud cloud on Cloud-Based, Ray-Traced Games On Intel Tablets · · Score: 1

    Sort of. Cloud is dumbed down market-speak; it was a designed phrase that took the technobabble out of the presentation. In all seriousness cloud more closely is aligned with phase 2 of the Gnomes plan.

  3. Re:False Premmise on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 1

    It's premise.

  4. Not as much as earth. on Discovery of Water In Moon May Alter Origin Theory · · Score: 1

    If it has the same ppm of water in the samples, then the amount of water in the moon would (theoretically) be proportional to the amount of water on the earth. Unless the moon is over half water, there is no way there is as much water as on earth. I'm not trying to be a pedant, but it seems like these articles are starting to spin out a bit.

  5. Re:Neat! on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    You are implying that the equivalent me sans degree would also be sans education, which is both leading and outright false.

    Say I join up at some company in a field I liked and work there for a three or four years. Do you think I learned nothing of that company? That field? Do you think I avoided promotions?

    Say I joined an apprenticeship with IBEW. Do you think I would be lacking in education? In job prospects?

    Hell, say I went to work at the local grocery store and stuck with it for four years. Don't you think I would have had the opportunity to get into the butcher, the bakery, the flower shop? Possibly offered tuition assistance to take a fast track pharmacy course? Even working at a coffee house for several years should land you into management.

    My point is that at this time there is no real difference between getting a job and getting a degree, if your goal is to have a degree for better pay. If you are trying for an actual education (such as in the science or law fields) degrees hold different merits then, but that is beyond the scope of this conversation.

  6. Re:Neat! on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    $45K invested over the next ten years @ $4.5k per year (starting at age 20) will net you well over $1M come retirement (assuming a modest 8% return and a retirement age of 65). Studies show that the average college degree holder earns $1M more than a non-degree holder. All things being equal, there is no difference between going to school and moderately investing your money.

  7. Re:Gone gold? on Duke Nukem Forever Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    I'm curious why gold would be the chosen medium for the master, as it is softer than most other metals. Wouldn't the malleability be an issue in making thousands of prints?

  8. Re:capitalism fail on IBM Now Officially Worth More Than Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Blatant +5 strawman

  9. Re:Oh? on NSA CS Man: My Tracking Algorithm Was 'Twisted' By the Government · · Score: 1

    Different make-up, same pig.

  10. Re:In other news on NSA CS Man: My Tracking Algorithm Was 'Twisted' By the Government · · Score: 1

    I'm more alarmed they allowed this to get out. What are they really hiding that this red herring is being used to distract the public.

  11. Re:Oh? on NSA CS Man: My Tracking Algorithm Was 'Twisted' By the Government · · Score: 1

    though the final and real test will be if they re-nominate him in 2012

    Implying there are better options. It's like being given the choice of five different red doors and five different blue doors, but they all lead to the same grey cell.

  12. I wish this suit was on slashdot earlier on NVIDIA Gets Away With Bait-and-Switch · · Score: 1

    The deadline to file was March 14th, and I own one of these defective HP's. In fact it died three months ago.

  13. Re:Makes sense. on Nintendo Announces Wii Successor for 2012 · · Score: 1

    Way to stay true to your Sig.

  14. Until the masses over-run it again. on Internet2 Turns 15. Has It Delivered? · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that what internet(1) was all about?

  15. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Would You Take a Pay Cut To Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    I usually use the phrase free range kids in a more derogatory fashion; as in "Yeah their kids are free range, they don't even have a bedtime!"

  16. Re:Who will all just plug their ears on Sludge In Flask Gives Clues To Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    Did he just say blessed are the cheesemakers?

  17. Re:Wait, what? on Sex Offender Claims Police Entrapped Him With Animated Emoticons · · Score: 1

    Is that your actual belief, or just what you plan to tell the courts?

    "It wasn't my fault your honor, I thought it was a fat guy pretending to be a 13 year old!"

  18. Re:digital gram scale as an extra? on Ex-Microsoft CTO Writes $625 Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Use of SATP in casual setting:
    science nerd achievement unlocked!

  19. Re:this is *not* a terrible idea on Google x86 Native Browser Client Maybe Not So Crazy After All · · Score: 1

    My parent's are unclosed double-entendres, you insensitive clod!

  20. Re:Completely useless on New Video Game Controlled By Kissing · · Score: 1

    I would've thought this sort of thing is right up the alley for the "average Joe sixpack" (pun intended).

  21. Re:I Don't Understand This Legacy on FBI Releases File On the Anarchist Cookbook · · Score: 1

    I'm only 33, but when I was in my teens I checked it out from the library. I wasn't arrested, nor was I prohibited (even as a minor) from looking at it.

  22. Unrelated to TFA on News Corp. and Apple Unveil The Daily · · Score: 2

    Click to become a fan of slashdot on facebook? Really?

  23. Re:Of course they did on EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations · · Score: 1

    I'm not discounting your achievements, I was genuinely hoping that you had evidence anecdotal or otherwise that someone was able to successfully lobby the American government and achieve positive change. It is something I have never seen- not once.

    In response to the rest of your vitriol I am not trying to de-motivate anyone, but would rather they spend that motivation on something that could actually affect change. Perhaps in your country writing a letter will get you an actual response, but from my experience in writing to my congressmen we receive form letters in return, presumably sent by an under-staffer.

  24. Re:Of course they did on EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations · · Score: 1

    Ah, so you've achieved progress in a non-US government, which was not all what was implied.

    Try it on a congressmen, I assure you they are quite a different breed.

  25. Re:Of course they did on EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations · · Score: 1

    I've done it and it works.

    Bullshit. What exactly did you do and what exactly did it cause?