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  1. Fart in a hurricane on Russian Officials Dump iPads For Samsung Tablets Over Spy Fears · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If certain Western intelligence agencies want to attack certain devices belonging to certain people, they'll find a way in, regardless of which mass market POS they're using. They're wasting their time. This is just a pointless gesture.

  2. Is it just me? on XWayland Aiming For Glamor Support, Merge Next X.Org Release · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is it just me, or is the Linux graphical stack insanely complex? Every time I read about it, they've introduced three new acronyms.

  3. Re:The minimum wage increase movement... on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    Another data point, to prove that right-wingers simply aren't very bright people. They forget that consumer demand is what drives the economy -- maybe the greedy shits deserve to learn this lesson the hard way.

  4. Re:The Luddites on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    Oh, but they have. In the slums of London and the big northern cities here in Britain, people migrated en masse to the cities because that's where the jobs were (and because the richarses were kicking them off their land). Unemployment was sky high, and all the women were whoring themselves out to make ends meet.

  5. Re:Guess who is replacing the low wage workers: YO on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we'll just end up being shady carpet or furniture salesmen. Some stuff is always going to be difficult to automate.

  6. Re:America is boned on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    There's that important distinction: jobs in the non-tradeable sector (which are harder to replace), and the tradeable sector (who are basically fucked, due to automation and cheap labour).

  7. Dumb and dumber on MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet · · Score: 1

    MtGOX are a class act all right.

  8. Re:There's a shortage all right.. on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 2

    Fox fan is off his meds again.

  9. Re:A myth indeed. on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot, AC. You have _no_ idea what it's like to live under full blown socialism.

    Stop watching Fox News. It's filling your head with shit.

  10. There's a shortage all right.. on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There isn't a shortage of STEM graduates.

    There's a shortage of _cheap_ STEM graduates for businesses too cheap to pay properly.

  11. Stack and yank strikes again on Ex-Microsoft Employee Arrested For Leaking Windows 8 · · Score: 0

    So how's that working out for you, Microsoft?

  12. Re:Criticality of JigSaw on Java 8 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    For the vast majority of 9-to-5 developers, there's no way to make Swing not suck.

    Because it simply takes a very high clue level to build good GUIs, period. Swing is nothing special; you can write shit GUIs using AngularJS, Vaadin, SWT _or_ Swing.

  13. Re:Lambdas could be interesting on Java 8 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Lambdas in Java is a massive development. For most developers, it'll absolutely slash the amount of boilerplate they need to crank out.

    They're also an incredibly powerful and expressive construct in their own right.

  14. Re:Jigsaw on Java 8 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say EJB...

    More like OSGi. Anybody familiar with writing Eclipse plugins will understand the benefits. And no, it' s nothing like writing EJBs.

  15. Re:Global Warming "Research" on The Billionaires Privatizing American Science · · Score: 1

    Poe.

  16. Fucking antivaxxers on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    Hope you're proud of yourselves.

  17. Re:Funny on Russia Blocks Internet Sites of Putin Critics · · Score: 1

    Was going to say "you must be new here", but you have a very low UID. Surely virtually everyone must understand how the Slashdot moderation system promotes groupthink by now?

  18. Re:You can get a 1TB external for like, 80 bucks on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    The cool thing about this, is that it'll force Dropbox to be a bit more competitive on price. That can only be a good thing.

  19. Re:How to Falsify Evolution on NVIDIA Unveils Lineup of GeForce 800M Series Mobile GPUs, Many With Maxwell · · Score: 0, Troll

    Slashdot needs a "-1 Stupid" moderation.

  20. ROFL on US Court Freezes Assets of Mt. Gox CEO · · Score: 2

    I see that Mr Karpeles would tell anybody who would listen, just how clever he was, and how he is a member of MENSA.

    Yet he presided over this utter, complete fuckup.

    So who's clever now??

  21. Re:As a Qt fan on Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome · · Score: 1

    You haven't tried coding against Motif, have you? That manages to be worse.

  22. Re:fusion is expensive on Computing a Winner, Fusion a Loser In US Science Budget · · Score: 1

    Indeed. How many people get killed by magnet quenches in MRI machines?

  23. Grigory Perelman on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek · · Score: 1

    Similar personality types?

  24. Re:fusion is expensive on Computing a Winner, Fusion a Loser In US Science Budget · · Score: 1

    The fusion community are huge users of high-performance computing. So even if they're not sinking money directly into building and operating actual reactors, there's plenty of work to do on the computing side.

  25. Re:fusion is expensive on Computing a Winner, Fusion a Loser In US Science Budget · · Score: 1

    And this conjecture is based on, what, exactly?

    Fusion reactor performance, measured by triple-product, is improving faster than Moore's Law. Who's to say that eventually, reactors will be built that not only work economically, but even cheaply?