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  1. Re:What. The. Fuck? on When 1 GB Is Really 0.9313 Gigabytes · · Score: 0

    Or how about "Newssite finds: You need to plug the power cord in to switch your computer on!"

    I got a laptop. Sounds like bogus news to me.

  2. Re:And I should give a rat's ass... on Apple Said To Be Working On a 'Watch-Like Device' · · Score: 1

    Maybe he values rat's asses more than we do, though. You never know...

  3. Funding on Are There Any Real Inventors Left? · · Score: 0

    Are there any politicians willing to invest in research left?

  4. Re:The votes are in! on Data Analyst Spoils the World's Biggest Song Vote · · Score: 0

    Really? He made the top 100 of this list with such an old song? Wow. Good for him. It is pretty catchy, I have to admit.

  5. Re:Public Exclusively Library? on Public Library Exclusively For Digital Media Proposed · · Score: 1

    I think they mean that it's exclusive to the public, as in, the library is restricted to everyone only.

    Personally, I'm against such arbitrary and strict restrictions to access data.

  6. Brilliant on US Military Signs Modernization Deal With Microsoft · · Score: 0

    It sounds like they are on the right way to evolve processes and systems that aren't working and evolve them to build a structure and a successful start to cultivate the leadership portals within their teams. I hope their deal with Microsoft also includes frameworks for managing organizational diversity and accountability, since we all know those are paramount for long term success and a happy work environment.

    - The Bullshit Generator

  7. Re:Doesn't matter on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 0

    I wasn't modded down, I just have shit Karma for some reason.

  8. Doesn't matter on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 0

    It doesn't matter whether girls or boys perform better, because the entire system is shit from the ground up, from the first year of primary school to the last year of university. This is what school is like: let's have students listen to teachers talk for hours and then make them drill hundreds of boring problems in the comfort of their home. Stall the good students while we put all of our efforts on the slower students. Make schools and teachers the only source of knowledge in students' eyes, then wonder why kids don't read more. Overwhelm the teachers with classes of 30+ students, creating an environment that is perfect for abuse between kids and as inefficient as possible for actual learning. In math classes, the picture is especially sweet: let's completely ignore the skill of using mathematical language and concepts to describe real problems. Let's also completely ignore the skill of validating and interpreting results. While we're at it, let's completely ignore that computers exist. Have them repeatedly do tedious calculations by hand, and then wonder why they don't love mathematics. We live in an era of PowerPoint-driven factory chain skull-cramming education, and I don't see it changing in my lifetime.

  9. Wonderful! on Quad-Core Stick PC Runs Ubuntu · · Score: 0

    I was just looking for more ways to run spyware! This is great news!

  10. Wrapping on Ask Slashdot: How Do You "Unwrap" e-Gifts? · · Score: 5, Funny

    gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r0001
    gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r0002
    gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r0003
    gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r0004
    ...
    gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r8999
    gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r9000
    gift.zip.ace.7z.tar.bz2.iso.apk.pea.dmg.cab.r9001

    Have fun! Hope you enjoy it!

  11. Re:Why couldn't they... on Boeing Uses 20,000 Lbs. of Potatoes To Check Aircraft Wireless Network Signals · · Score: 0

    Split it 50/50 then: use 150 people and 150 sacks of potatoes.

  12. Re:Where's the queue? on Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away · · Score: 0

    No he's not, he's talking about Cheyenne Mountain, the mountain under which is located the military base that houses the Stargate.

  13. Rules of Oracle Cloud on Official Doc Reveals Oracle's Cloud Rules · · Score: 1

    #1: You do not talk about ORACLE CLOUD
    #2: You DO NOT talk about ORACLE CLOUD
    #3: If someone says "DROP TABLE", goes local storage or rains out, the cloud is over
    #4: Only two-bit keys in a cloud
    #5: One cloud to rule them all
    #6: No backups, no three-factor authentication
    #7: The cloud will grow as big as it has to
    #8: If this is your first night at ORACLE CLOUD, you HAVE to upload everything

  14. Re:Myth TV plugin? on Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today · · Score: 0

    Or as he's recently taken to calling it, GNU+amplitude

  15. Re:Was it justified on Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe that is called a Netscapegoat.

  16. Impatience? on Users Abandon Ship If Online Video Quality Is Not Up To Snuff, Says Study · · Score: 1

    They say it's impatience, but if you're on a broadband connection and you're used to videos starting to play in less than 2 seconds, then when it drags out you just assume something's wrong and you move on, possibly to go back to it later. How is that impatience?

  17. Re:Protecting the children. on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 0

    Well, they should be, along with lasers!

  18. Re:This map is inaccurate on Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map · · Score: 1, Funny

    -1 Insightful? How does that work?

  19. Poor Man's Design Tool? on Mind Maps: the Poor Man's Design Tool · · Score: 1

    How is drawing UML-compliant boxes more expensive than drawing regular boxes for mind maps? Is there somewhere in the UML specification that says you can only use Faber-Castell pencils or commercial software?

  20. Re:Practical? on A Honda Civic With no Gas Tank (Video) · · Score: 0, Troll

    There you go, bringing shitty grammar to the discussion again.

  21. Ear growing from arm? on Woman Successfully Grows Ear From Arm · · Score: 0

    You've got an ear on your arm now, can you really call that a success?

  22. Re:Sounds really great on Google Spanner: First Globally Scalable Database With External Consistency · · Score: 1

    I would mod parent up if I could because I would've said the same thing, in different words and with a capital letter at the beginning of my sentence. I am seriously sick of Google stabbing users in the back.

  23. Re:"Seven billion" on Gamma-Ray Photon Observations Indicate Space-Time Is Smooth · · Score: 1

    It's seven billion light years away, but since it took light seven billion years to get to us, that also means it's seven billion years ago.

  24. Ricky Gervais on Gamma-Ray Photon Observations Indicate Space-Time Is Smooth · · Score: 1

    "Hey, look at that, there's a gamma-ray burst seven billion light years away. I guess that means space-time is smooth, huh?"

    What kind of maniac thinks like that?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ktBQ51iGWw#t=106s

  25. Wait, what? on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    The Linux desktop has never even "lived" yet...