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  1. Bye Felicia on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been real, but not for quite a while. Thank you, slashdot, for helping me to finally remove your dreck from my RSS feed.

  2. Re:Are you OK, samzenpus? on TracFone Finally Agrees To Allow Phone Unlocking · · Score: 1

    Citation is linked in the original comment.

  3. But what IS the point they're making? on Earth In the Midst of Sixth Mass Extinction: the 'Anthropocene Defaunation' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who says that the authors are trying to make a point, versus simply drawing conclusions based on observations? The derision in this thread and dismissal of the (ludicrous!) idea that any change in modern society's behaviors may be a good idea strike me as a defensive lashing-out by people who don't take climate change seriously and won't modify their behavior, humanity be damned.

  4. Feedly on Google Reader: One Year Later · · Score: 2

    Still using RSS.

  5. Of course not on SEC Chair On HFT: 'The Markets Are Not Rigged' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nothing to see here, people. Move along. And could you put that Social Security Trust Fund money here before you go?

  6. Re:Lotus suite sucks on Whirlpool Ditches IBM Collaboration Software, Moves To Google Apps · · Score: 2

    The other repliers to parent need to fall into line. Everybody hates Notes! No exceptions allowed!

    I worked with and supported Notes for 10 years at IBM, and really liked the product. There were some frustrations, but I was very positive about it on the whole.

    Now that I work for a small municipal agency, I miss Notes' flexibility and app development capabilities a great deal. But there's no way we can afford it for so few seats.

  7. Re:That popping sound on Central New York Nuclear Plants Struggle To Avoid Financial Meltdown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Until, of course, you have a situation like Fukushima.

    Decentralized renewables are cheapest and safest, when all risks and external costs are factored in.

  8. Re:Nothing new on Several Western Govts. Ban Lenovo Equipment From Sensitive Networks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Costs are higher, but Americans are being employed and paid with tax money. Sounds like a better approach than shipping it directly to someone else's economy.

  9. Local coordination not terribly likely on ACLU Study Says Police Cameras Create Database of Our Movements · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I manage IT for a small city whose police department has two patrol vehicles equipped with LPRs. Officers download an updated hotlist of expired and stolen plates daily to the PCs in those cars and have the LPR software running while they patrol and answer calls. Our official policy is to let data expire from the PCs after 40 days. While the software has the optional capability to centrally gather reads and archive them, we've never bothered to implement it. The only inquiry we've had regarding plate reads in the last three years was from the NYCLU, wanting to know our data handling policies.

    That's not to say that there isn't a very creepy Orwellian aspect to the proliferation of this technology. With enough zealots in the right places, this stuff is odious.

  10. Re:"Liberty-Minded"? on The Free State Project, One Decade Later · · Score: 0

    The more that people educate themselves, the less likely they'd be to swallow the bullshit that the FSP is serving.

  11. Re:Guess what? on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    What do you think is "the underlying problem"?

  12. Re:The US is no better on NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 3, Insightful

    US environmental conditions are much better, especially since we decided to offshore our toxic manufacturing needs to China.

  13. Re:that's what the job killing lines get you stuff on NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    Indeed, clean air and water will be hoarded by the "Al Gore sycophants".

  14. Re:When is it ok to discuss gun proliferation? on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    The NRA IS the gun lobby. At this point, they should be considered a domestic terror organization.

  15. Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Willingness to accept substandard wages?

  16. Re:Things aren't as they seem on 2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted · · Score: 0

    I guess that it matters whether you're interested in the well-being of society, or of a business.

  17. Re: free market will resolve all human problems on 2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted · · Score: 2

    Never mind the human wreckage along the way.

  18. Re:At least it won't happen here on Microsoft's Office 365 For Government Heralds New Google Fight · · Score: 1

    You can bet it won't be to a country whose cops are working for Rupert Murdoch.

  19. Basic economics on IT Positions Some of the Toughest Jobs To Fill In US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They just need to up their offer. Go invisible hand!

  20. Re:Social Security..... on Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas · · Score: 1

    The only way that Social Security will stop being available is when people stop paying into it. As far as the money borrowed out of the SS Trust Fund being paid back from general fund revenues... well, that's the heist that they're trying to pull off with this "deficit reduction" kabuki theater.

  21. Ya, rly on Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas · · Score: 1

    The figures you mention are, as you said, for EACH FISCAL YEAR. There are many more than 20,500 (or even 65,000) H1-B visa holders in the US. I'm sure that you're a precious snowflake, but you're kidding yourself if you think that no one in a nation of 300 million could do the work you're doing.

  22. Opting out of FICA on Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas · · Score: 1

    Yeah, who wouldn't want to subject all of their retirement savings to the booms and busts of a corrupt private market?

  23. Re:What are these words? on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again · · Score: 0

    Looks like the moron is the one who thinks that cops vote Democratic.

  24. Re:The estate of Johnny Cash is suing him... on EMC Engineer Steals Almost $1 Million of Kit One Piece at a Time · · Score: 1

    And it didn't cost him a dime...

  25. Re:American Terrorist Group? on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 0

    Your use of "Democrat" (as opposed to "Democratic") Party is the tell for your own views on this. Don't be upset that the violence incited by your party's leaders had led to assassination. Own it.