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  1. Re:Protection of the tech jobs market on Judge Rejects H-1B Visa Injunction · · Score: 1

    Count to 1 million. Every 1,000 (for the 1 in 1,000 people who might actually comment), cut off 0.001 inches from the tip of your finger. Enjoy your missing knuckle.

  2. Re:Going to Bangalore on Judge Rejects H-1B Visa Injunction · · Score: 1

    It's low, but there is not indication that the 'job' was a year long. I.e., 15k for skilled labor for a week is pretty spiffy.

  3. Re:Hmm... I have a correction to the title on The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon, Science · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure that coming in fourth place in a single Olympic event is a real accomplishment.

  4. Re:Yay, another orwellian "candidate screening" pr on Brain Will Be Battlefield of the Future, Warns US · · Score: 1

    If the majority of a society joins in, who the fuck cares about being part of that society, and if the majority doesn't join in, then it isn't so much of a problem.

  5. Re:Changing is easier said then done. on The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon, Science · · Score: 1

    This is essentially what I was thinking when I read the parent comment, but you stated it better than I would have.

  6. Re:In other news... on Sharing 2,999 Songs, 199 Movies Is Safe In Germany · · Score: 1

    Courts and prosecutors already exercise wide latitude in deciding what to spend their time on.

  7. Re:What's the power consumption on that rig? on NVIDIA Shows Interactive Ray Tracing On GPUs · · Score: 1

    He doesn't mind if you do it, he just wants you to call it a privileged and to pay someone for it.

  8. Re:your sig on reCAPTCHA Hard At Work, Rescuing Fading Texts · · Score: 1

    What context could possibly rescue those writings from being full of hyperbole, dogma, propaganda, and meaningless blatherings?

  9. Re:I'm really starting to dislike a lumping of all on What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road? · · Score: 1

    Apparently I was talking out my ass. I remember being put off by lack of export or some such thing, but I can't find anything explaining what I remember.

  10. Re:I'm really starting to dislike a lumping of all on What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road? · · Score: 1

    Scribus is going to take an awful long time to gain any sort of traction if it continues to not work with formats that it doesn't like politically.

  11. Re:I would say... on 30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging · · Score: 1

    How do you feel about the current administration and the Constitution?

  12. Re:republicans favoring less government involvemen on 30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging · · Score: 2, Funny

    So Catholic priests are Democrats who say they are Republicans?

  13. Re:Typical Slashdotter even if he doesn't know it on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Is not. You is.

  14. Re:Typical Slashdotter even if he doesn't know it on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Your doing it wrong.

  15. Re:Can you feel the excitement? on Slashdot Announces Idle Section · · Score: 1

    I stand by my right to be an idiot anywhere I damn well please.

    Or do I mean I stand bye my write to be an idiot anywere I dam well please?

  16. Re:Sigh on Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec · · Score: 1

    I see what you are driving at, but one of my older brothers breaks a lot more shit than I do, simply because he doesn't pay shit for attention.

    I prefer not to spend money when my (momentary!) attention is going for such low, low prices.

  17. Re:Sigh on Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec · · Score: 1

    I've always had the very small amount of self control required to not take my frustrations out on the inanimate object.

  18. Re:Sigh on Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec · · Score: 1

    I guess you are trying too hard.

    No really, it doesn't take a lot of force to plug in a USB cable. On my laptop, when the plug is oriented correctly, it goes a little ways into the socket; when it is not oriented correctly, it does not fit into the socket at all. It only takes a very small amount of self control not to just wedge it in there.

  19. Re:I Can't Find a Reasonable Conclusion on Measuring the "Colbert Bump" · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can see the amusement boiling up into Bush's face at the end of the speech.

  20. Re:insane on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 1

    The share price is a proxy for a certain percentage of future earnings; it is exactly related to projected value.

  21. Re:insane on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 1

    The institutional ownership of Microsoft, Dell and Apple is about the same:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AAPL
    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT
    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=dell

    It is kind of bizarre, Microsoft had 5 times Apple's profits on 3 times Apple's revenues (Adding 8 billion of gross profit on top of 9 billion of revenue, to Apple's 3 billion of gross profit on 5 billion of revenue).

  22. Re:pff on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1

    Or put it in a password database like passwordsafe or keepass. This has the advantage that you can make copies and not worry a great deal about where they end up (Of course, don't email it to your nemesis, but copying the file to a CD isn't anything to worry about).

  23. Re:Oh, and make sure you don't confirm on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1

    When your back asks you a question, no matter the question, the proper response is to poke it in the eye.

  24. Re:Do the police... on Police Secretly Planting GPS Devices On Cars · · Score: 1

    The question of whether it is legal (it seems fairly likely) is still quite separate from whether it should be (are there serious problems raised by requiring warrants?).

    As is said by someone above, this significantly lowers the cost for police to track a vehicle full time, giving them what is essentially a new capability. Asserting that old laws should be the only laws that apply to new technology probably isn't the solution.

  25. Re:This sounds like a republican viewpoint to me on Let the Games Be Doped · · Score: 1

    Finding your statements vexing?

    You have every reason to say "It should not be vexing" or "I don't see why you would find it vexing", but you can't actually say "It is not vexing".