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  1. Re:Healthcare on In This Economy, Quitters Are Winning (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    > The VA is terrible.

    The current alternative is nothing. Everyone with nothing, would love to have the terrible VA. At least they had a chance at life.

  2. Better job gets more benefits.

  3. How do we know? on Stan Lee's Stolen Blood Was Used To Sign Marvel Comic Books (tmz.com) · · Score: 2

    It could be anyone's blood. Who has the money to check?

  4. How would they know? on British ISPs Could 'Charge Per Device' · · Score: 1

    I mean if everything is run behind a router (though I guess you might need to add your own) how would they know how many devices are being used?

  5. Good Test Question on Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants · · Score: 2

    This sounds like a test. I mean if an applicant was willing to give out their facebook password for a job, it's be clear that they were bribeable and shouldn't be guarding prisoners.

  6. Re:Too much money also means no trust. on Researchers Say Happiness Costs $75K · · Score: 1

    >This is why more money = more problems after a certain level.

    You are just being paranoid.
    Also, crooks go after people without a lot of money hoping that they think they don't have enough to steal.

  7. Re:Trying to destroy one of their best traits... on Adapting the Post Office To the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    > But if they cancel Saturdays then they aren't as advantageous.
    I'd cancel Wednesday personally.

  8. Re:Free Speech on SCOTUS Nominee Kagan On Free Speech Issues · · Score: 1

    >But not the men in it too?

    You are of course correct.

  9. Re:Free Speech on SCOTUS Nominee Kagan On Free Speech Issues · · Score: 1

    > Why just last week I read an incisive essay on abortion rights as they pertain to the legacy of feminist voting patterns in post-Industrial America in last month's issue of "Big & Bouncy".

    I guess you never read Playboy.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy

  10. Free Speech on SCOTUS Nominee Kagan On Free Speech Issues · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you believe in Free Speech you will defend even those you disagree with.
    However, not being able to shout fire in a full theatre is censorship that I have trouble arguing against.
    Censorship of sexuality is what kept information about birth control from women in the 19th Century and Abortion in the early 20th.
    Censorship of porn is censorship of women. Literally.

  11. Re:Here's your roundup on iPhone 4 News Roundup · · Score: 1, Insightful

    >But seriously folks...the new iPhone hardware and many of the additions they are making to the OS are really great...but I'm sorry, I still can't get past the walled garden.

    These phones are not for people like you or me. They are for our grandmothers.

  12. Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y on Economy Tanked While Government Surfed Porn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I was interning at the VA I noticed that one of the public computers for the vets to use had spyware on it. IT was contacted, ran their one program, but the spyware was still there. They said that's all they can do. Government IT people don't go crazy by not realizing that their marching orders are insane. Also have no undergrad at all probably doesn't help.

  13. Re:Much easier to catch on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 1

    >And, yes, this method only works on sufficiently large programs -- there are only a handful of ways of doing "Hello World." But, nobody cheats on "Hello World."

    How would you know?

  14. Re:Oh, Grandpa! on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    >Are games themselves generally composed of art? Yes.

    A game is not art any more than an art gallery is art. A game is a collection of many arts but which art you see and which you don't see isn't the art, just a choice.

    A game is a way to view art, the viewing process is not the art.

  15. Re:RBS, Linus, Guido Python, Larry Perl on The "Doctor Who" Model of Open Source · · Score: 1

    >>with characters such as RBS, Linus, Guido Python, Larry Perl, etc.
    >Um..... RMS, Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, Larry Wall

    First of all RBS is like Voltimort you can't say his name.
    Second, we are all on a first name basis with Linus.
    Third, Python has clearly become the programming language of choice.
    Fourth, except to take down a system wall isn't really used. Perl is used slightly more often.

  16. Re:Ask a bunch of random people on the internet? on Dealing With a Copyright Takedown Request? · · Score: 1

    --Why do all of the Ask Slashdot questions boil down to: "I want free legal advice. Give me an opinion on x."

    I would say they all boil down to, I have this problem that seems like the answer would be useful to more than just me.

    --My thought is that you should really ask a lawyer what to do. Sheesh, do you really want free legal advice from random people with lots of free time on their hands?

    When it comes to computer law it makes more sense to trust /. than a lawyer most people can afford.

  17. Re:It is completely ignorant to think... on Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    DVD encryption, DRM and now Net Censorship...the tighter the grip, the faster they will lose control.

    Close, but the quote is: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

  18. Re:Ghost in the Shell on Scientists Achieve Mental Body-Swapping · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually as I recall Batou asks the Major if she still uses a female body so that she can wear a watch she had received before she was lost her orginal body. In 2nd gig we also see her as a child recovering and getting used to her first new body and I don't think doctors would just randomly use a different gendered body. The real question is was Batou born a male. He once barrates the major for not /upgrading/ to a /stronger/ body.

  19. It's too late. on The Walking House · · Score: 4, Funny

    You've awakened the house, and it catches you and eats you.

  20. Poe on Robotic Surgery On a Beating Heart · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Edgar Allan Poe would be proud.

  21. Re:This American Life on The Rise of the (Financial) Machines · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you haven't listened to that show, I heavily recommend it (no matter where you live, if you speak English).

    I'm sure the non-English speakers reading this appreciate the warning.

  22. Emotion? on Cobra Commander Pony · · Score: 1

    I can't tell if the pony looks evil or sad.

  23. Re:not appropriate, even for Slashdot on Elevator Phone Sex *NSFW* · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would have been nice if the punch line was atleast tech or nerd related.

  24. Restitution on Typo Vigilantes Get Banned From National Parks · · Score: 1

    So did they use that money to fix it so that it is now incorrect again?

  25. Working on Facebook & Myspace Taking Some Spammers To Court · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, my spam on myspace has dropped to nill for the past few months. It used to be everytime I logged in there was 3-4 hot girls that wanted to be my friend which was of course just an advertisement for a pay site. I always marked them as spam (sometimes their account had already been removed by the time I got out to clearing up my friends request). I doubt that it's these lawsuits but they definally did something (probally limiting the amount of new friend requests you can make on a new account per day or something) that did the trick.