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  1. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    I just eat Spam instead! Everyone knows it's not really meat!

  2. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    Yah! Let's garnish their wages to pay, at least in part, for his/her imprisonment!

  3. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    Wow! What idiot came up with that!? At least give 1/2 of them bullets!

  4. Re:Easy. on OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh my God! The money quote:

    With retuns of between 30 and 40%, the OCZ Petrol and Octane SATA II (the SATA IIIs are more reliable with, for example, 3.78% for the 128 GB) have unfortunately broken the record of the highest rates recorded since we started reporting on these stats. With such rates, we can justly classify such models as defective and it is shameful that such products have remained on sale in stores!

  5. Re:Distributed architecture, anyone? on IsoHunt Settles With MPAA, Will Shut Down And Pay Up to $110 Million · · Score: 1

    Wow! You were once the CEO of iMatix, makers of the Xitami web server?!

    I *grew up* with Xitami! I remember -- for **years** throughout my youth -- coding away with Perl, then PHP, on my Windows 98, then Windows 2000, using that server! I owe part of my blossoming career to that company, and thus, probably to you (if you were there at the time).

  6. Re:Distributed architecture, anyone? on IsoHunt Settles With MPAA, Will Shut Down And Pay Up to $110 Million · · Score: 1

    Peter,

    Please tell me how one might create a distributed site like this one, only where the database and HTML all live across MANY different hosts, all dynamically changing, constantly.

    I've been contemplating such a system for years, now. I believe YouTube was sanctioned by the Elites to kill distributed filesharing for the masses, who were very much so taking P2P up in droves as of 2005. Now where are we? No one but geeks, by and large, still use P2P, and how many of us use nothing but decentralized searches? Huh?

    That's why YouTube was allowed to survive for YEARS without lawsuits; deals were even made.

    Source: My own experience as an open source Linux P2P developer from 2003-2007.

  7. Re:If that's true, Most parents are NUTS! on Most Parents Allow Unsupervised Internet Access To Children At Age 8 · · Score: 1

    What tools do you use?!

    I am *desperately* trying to find some sort of software or SOMETHING that will let me monitor my 12 yro stepson's Google+, GMail and Facebook accounts. He signed up for them w/o permission and I am more than a little worried that he is a cyberbully. (I showed him the article about the 12 yro girl committing suicide b/c of Facebook cyberbulling yetserday, and he said that was "bullshit" and wouldn't take me seriously. I viewed that as a *serious* warning sign that he's probably cyberbulling, you know?)

    I was bullied all throughout my childhood and throughout high school, a lot (typical 5 ft nerd torture of the 90s); last thing I want to happen is for him to be bullying people in my own house, supposedly under my nose ;-/

  8. Re:Megalomanic on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    Wait! I'm confused as hell, too!

  9. Who's Alexander? No, seriously.

  10. Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    Six hundred years ago, pretty much EVERYONE was equal, except a few handful of lords and kings.

    Progressing civilizations stratiate more and more until the bottom feeders eventually are kicked out or killed.

  11. Re:Sure, to lower paying jobs on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    We should own up to three things:

    1. 1. The world is *vastly* overpopulated, to the point of potential runaway extinction of everything, including us.
    2. 2. Automation *will* make the *vast* majority of workers throughout the world obsolete.
    3. 3. There is currently *zero* plan in place, at least publicly, to breed out the "useless eaters".

    A solution to all of this would be to

    1. 1. Educate people as to the population crisis.
    2. 2. Immediately tax every person who has had more than 2 children already (Breeder Tax).
    3. 3. Forgo the tax to the capable *and* offer a lifetime stipend to every person of breeding age (15-50) who undergoes permanent sterilization, with option of free preservation of their ova or sperm in case one of their children dies before breeding.
  12. No! Slashdot is NOT reddit! Stop the inane meme jokes NOW!

  13. Re:Old news on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 0

    At least it's better than the Slashdot beta site! OMG my eyes! And no collapseable comments? PULEEZE!

  14. Re:collapsable comments on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Um in the current layout, just click the subject to collapse it + children posts.

  15. Re:OH GOD IT BURNS on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    I will NEVER visit slashdot AGAIN if this goes live, and I've been a member for 10+ years now!

  16. Re:Megalomanic on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    No, your's is.

  17. Re:404 Not Found on Link Rot and the US Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Just use the service PermaMarks.Net. http://www.permamarks.net/ That's what I use almost every day.

  18. Re:Obligatory answer: on Is HTML5 the Future of Book Authorship? · · Score: 1

    CSS, dummy.

    Seriously! You make such a technical answer about HTML and CSS and don't even know about list-style: none?! Come on!

  19. Re:improving "civility"? on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 2

    The account is 8 years old. If we trashed our identities with rich histories and comments and all that whenever assholes came attacking us, what type of world would we be in? Right now, we only do so when sociopaths are after us.

  20. Re:improving "civility"? on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It removes the ability to **easily** create dozens (or even hundreds) of sockpuppet accounts.

    Especially on reddit, dozens of pseudonymous accounts will stalk me and attack me at a moment's notice, even after I've been away for a year or more. I have no idea if this cabal is made up of 12 people or just 1 deranged lunatic, or any combination thereof. I just know that they know my real name, address, etc. and I know NOTHING about them.

    Real names (at least tied to facebook) would greatly increase their initial efforts AND would feasibly provide their victims with more intel on how to track them down and publicly shame them.

    I've never been the target of sockpuppet accounts on ANY real-id type site.

  21. Re:Don't log in on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't forget about The Panopticlick. Clearing stuff simply isn't enough.

  22. Re:Planned obsolescence on Why Apple Went 64-Bit With the iPhone 5s · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The same way Windows 7 x64 made all Windows 7 installations and 32-bit programs worthless, huh?

    Oh...wait...

  23. Re:Treason.. or... on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 1

    Or they claim you simply haven't been "damaged" by their willful disregard for the document.

    Why? Because, Citizen, you were not a signer of it. You're 250 years too late to have Constitutional Rights! The [second] 13th Amendment turned you from a sovereign into a Citizen Slave.

    Congrats! We're all equal in slavery, just few of us realize it ;-/

  24. Re:Treason.. or... on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 1

    "ITM" means?

  25. Re:Much better on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Holy cow! I pay $0.0975/kWh in Houston!