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  1. So we should celebrate this. on 25 Years Today - Windows 3.0 · · Score: 0

    As we did with Eternal September.

  2. Re:No they don't on Chinese Scientists Plan Solar Power Station In Space · · Score: 1

    Crap, there's another bubble burst by pesky mathematics.

  3. Re:This video is not available due to geographical on Ridley Scott Adapts Philip K. Dick's 'Man in the High Castle' For Amazon · · Score: 1

    "This is an Amazon-sponsored..."

    You could have fooled me, with that 30 second Geico commercial prefacing every Pilot offering I was sure the Gecko was sponsoring everything.

  4. Re:Gee, wonder why on Report: DHS Failing On Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    You sir have restored my faith in humanity.

  5. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Bay-bee on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the garden of Eden, baby.

    Grandaddy of them all i'int?

  6. Re:How are microbes heritable? on Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes · · Score: 1

    Your prediction would depend on another "one-size-fits-all" solution and as big Pharma is finding out, due to only testing prescription drugs on a select subset of the population, it just ain't true.

    In fact, the case has already been made that formula â breast milk, in any way, shape or form.

  7. Re:How are microbes heritable? on Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes · · Score: 2

    In normal birth (vs. C-section), there's a fair amount of mess involved, much of it from Mom. So in that sense she's inadvertently passing on heritable and beneficial microbiota.

    We, in our wisdom, tend to try and tidy things up too much and so may have set our progeny up for later failure.

    The same attitude was prevalent about breastfeeding in the last century (don't do it, just buy our formula and keep those ta-ta's perky).

  8. It's being done in Texas? on Ebola Nose Spray Vaccine Protects Monkeys · · Score: 1

    Well, that funding is doomed.

    After all, science flies in the face of the elected party's platform, or at least one plank, albeit a critical one.

  9. DST - An Irrational Pain on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 2

    Studies have concluded DST is more expensive than standard time in energy costs (http://www.nber.org/papers/w14429.pdf), the last rule change, extending it by another month was estimated to have cost the US between $550M and $1B and may adversely affect accidents and medical conditions.

    Do away with the time shift and set it to standard permanently, or set it to saving time, but stop the incessant back and forth, it's just plain silly.

  10. Call it "truth in lending" on NSA CTO Patrick Dowd Moonlighting For Private Security Firm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This just eliminates the time frame Beltway insiders have typically had to wait while spinning through Washington's revolving doors.

    It also serves to legitimize the fact we live in a corporatacracy.

  11. Puts children at risk on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    But only the ones with stars and badges.

  12. Sounds like they've been working with the BSA on Cuba Calculates Cost of 54yr US Embargo At $1.1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Lord knows, that's one organization that knows the value of inflation.

  13. Should be taken with an appropriate amount of salt on Islamic State "Laptop of Doom" Hints At Plots Including Bubonic Plague · · Score: 1

    Regime change, again anyone? There've been enough indications it's sought after in some quarters.

  14. Windowshade on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    Both Apple and Microsoft abandoned what was to me one of the most simple and elegant ways to deal with multiple programs and their windows.

    I wish there was an easy way to enjoy that again on both platforms, rather than being subjected to the whims of designers and autocratic company executives.

  15. I know, it's /. on E-Visits To the Doctor To Top 75 Million In the US, Canada This Year · · Score: 1

    But could someone kindly explain what "hoirs" (in the summary) are?

  16. At least the Russians are being upfront on Law Repressing Social Media, Bloggers Now In Effect In Russia · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Unlike the US/NSA.

  17. First link is dead on NASA Successfully Tests 'Flying Saucer' Craft, New Parachute · · Score: 2

    Actually, it's an ahref with no URL.

  18. Perhaps the most chilling statement in the article on Malvertising Up By Over 200% · · Score: 1

    "...companies 'should be afforded protection from regulatory oversight as well as frivolous lawsuits.'"

    This smacks of "tort reform" and "security through obscurity" and we all know how well both of those worked in favor of consumers.

  19. Whether they do business or not on Chinese E-Commerce Giant To Enter US Market · · Score: 1

    Seems like they'd be the last online marketplace to ever collect US taxes.

    Which could be a feature, not a flaw.

  20. When are security companies going to get serious? on Security Industry Incapable of Finding Firmware Attackers · · Score: 1

    When the kickbacks dry up.

  21. Russian Rush? on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    Looks like vitriolic parochial media pundits with narrow world-views, fostering nationalistic agendas, are no longer solely a US phenomenon.

  22. Re:I can cite a newspaper article, but not now on Oklahoma Schools Required To Teach Students Personal Finance · · Score: 1

    Yep, at least on the state level it was codified:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

  23. OS X on Apple Fixes Dangerous SSL Authentication Flaw In iOS · · Score: 1

    I used the test site set up at https://www.imperialviolet.org... with a X.6.8 rig using both Safari and FF. It passed with flying colors.

    Does this mean earlier versions of OS X don't have the bug?

  24. Beta looks like every other crap "Web 2.0" site on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    You will pry Classic from my cold dark pixels, after which I will never return.

  25. JIP? on Sony Selling Off VAIO Computer Business · · Score: 1

    Sounds too much like gyp.

    That said I am in the apparent minority that will not mourn for VAIO.

    I found them to be totally polar devices, either loved or hated by their users; there was no middle ground.