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  1. Why Dinosaurs? on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    Of all the things to choose to study, you picked dinosaurs. What inspired you to go that route rather than something that could potentially be easier to merge with your religious beliefs?

  2. Re:Ugh. on Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    This actually looks promising. No contract, pre-paid. I'd just need the money for the phone because I don't think my current one (HTC Incredible) will work with T-mobile. Thank you!

  3. Ugh. on Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 4, Funny

    Verizon's unlimited 3G meant I could play Pandora through my phone while I was driving without worrying about data caps. :s And they have very good coverage from what I noticed. I guess this means I'll just have to actually use my iPod or something, assuming I can remember where I put it and a way to set it up to either play through the car radio or into my hearing aid.

    My contract is up anyhow and I need to trim down expenses. I have the HTC Droid Incredible, which is a nifty enough little phone. All I really need is texting, email, and maybe some minimum amount of minutes. A camera on it would be convenient. I really don't want to move from Verizon because I know their coverage is solid, but I don't want to reward their greedy data tier plan behavior. Any recommendations?

  4. To be fair to Obama... on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 3, Informative

    The detention legislation was attached to the military spending bill for the next year and he did release a signing statement specifically stating that he didn't like it.

  5. Re:You COULD care less? on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    Well, only Sith deal in absolutes so your hatred of those people is perfectly natural.

  6. Not a very new problem. on Malicious QR Code Use On the Rise · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://bit.ly/rCBPp7 You don't know where that link goes until you click it. So, what do you do?

  7. Re:What's a "knowledge economy"? on China Now Top Patent Filer · · Score: 1

    Let them wear skirts!

    It's a kilt, damnit!

  8. What's a "knowledge economy"? on China Now Top Patent Filer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it where companies hoard patents on irrelevant things and use them to sue the pants off competitors?

  9. Re:Looks like a good game, but I wont be playin'. on Star Wars: the Old Republic Launches · · Score: 2

    I'm bemused that you won't be playing a Star Wars game because there will be too many Star Wars fans playing it. Isn't that a bit like saying you won't eat at a restaurant because there's too many people eating there that like the food?

  10. The problem with metrics is on The Four Fallacies of IT Metrics · · Score: 2

    that it always sounds like a good idea when you're thinking of implementing it and few people go beyond the "this sounds like a good idea" phase to the "how can I game the metric I just thought up?" phase.

  11. Re:Who gets their name written in the history book on LHC Homes In On Possible Higgs Boson Around 126GeV · · Score: 1

    Whoever patents it first.

  12. Re:No Public Domain on Corporate Claims On Public Domain YouTube Videos · · Score: 1

    My grandfather recorded a TV show that had John Stossel as the TV host. The whole thing was about property ownership being awesome and public property just ending up with the tragedy of the commons. It even went so far as to say that conservation of wild animals is better if someone owns them for profit, offering the example of some park raising a protected buffalo herd and selling tickets every year for people to come watch them get herded across part of the park. It was interesting, but I couldn't watch more than half of the show as I got tired of the bullshit it contained.

  13. He's justifying the consolidation, on Does Mega Media Control 90% of Content? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    not disputing it. By asserting that profit margins are thin (so the incentive to take risks is lower), that media companies are messy businesses (apparently, he believes organized media output is a myth), and that the corporations listed are so large that controlling all departments is a tall order, he doesn't seem to think the consolidation is anything to worry about. His fact checking is minimal, mostly constrained to making fun of some math gone wrong and telling everyone that his bullshit detector is going off. The infographic itself is pretty neat, but the post criticizing is hardly worth reading, much less linking.

  14. Re:What's rogue about him? on Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case · · Score: 1

    Change that to was. He's apparently dead now.

  15. What's rogue about him? on Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case · · Score: 1

    He's not doing the job he claims to be doing, sure, but he's not actively working against either corporation or the government. Sounds like he's just a lazy developer who thought he had a nice scheme for making without the work, not a rogue.

  16. Re:Pepper on Google Demonstrates Chrome Native Client With Bastion · · Score: 1

    Oh wow, you're right. Silly me, not reading the article.

  17. Re:NaCl! on Google Demonstrates Chrome Native Client With Bastion · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm curious if there'll be a complementary technology named Pepper.

  18. The "cloud" is not some mysterious relic. on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's still someone else's servers holding my data and I still have to go through some hoop(s) to get at it from other devices. What is so special about it?

  19. Times *have* changed! on Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy · · Score: 2

    We've gone from confronting an Iron Curtain to an Electronic Curtain!

  20. I sense a pattern. on How Publishers Are Cutting Their Own Throats With eBook DRM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why does every aspect of the publishing industry seem to fail at grasping the advantages of limited or no DRM and digital products?

  21. Re:You know... on Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High · · Score: 1

    Expired then. I've changed emails at least once since then (assuming this wasn't during the time we were using AOL) and moved four times. Thanks.

    Oh well. Maybe I'll renew it, maybe I won't.

  22. You know... on Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High · · Score: 1

    I think I still have my ham radio license somewhere from when I took a mini course in the subject back in middle school. We all got our licenses at the end of the course and I never did actually use a radio since. It's probably expired by now, though, or close to.

  23. Okay, sure. on Microsoft Patent Aims To Curb Obnoxious Employee Behavior · · Score: 1

    So I guess I can't pantomime planting bombs or firing weapons anymore.

  24. Hey! on Man Calls 911 To Fix Broken iPhone · · Score: 5, Funny

    A broken iPhone really is an emergency! That means I can't play Angry Birds!

  25. Re:The way it works though, via Word docs? on Inside the Duqu Worm's Source Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who reads apk's comments in the voice of an insurance or used car salesman?