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  1. Re:Plus bonus.... on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    and zombie protection, as long as you don't sing too loud.

  2. How Prophetic... on Chicago Adding Sensors For Public Monitoring · · Score: 1

    I just finished playing Watch Dogs.

  3. Now That's Amusing on Clueless About Card Data Hack, PF Chang's Reverts To Imprinting Devices · · Score: 2

    A company that didn't know it was breached, doesn't know the extent of the breach, and who's answer to the breach is to revert to 40-year old tech using the phrase "If it's not obvious..."

  4. Interesting Theory! on Game Industry Fights Rising Development Costs · · Score: 1

    It costs more now to do stuff than it did before? How curious...

  5. Re:Sanity check on 7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated · · Score: 1
  6. In related news... on American Judge Claims Jurisdiction Over Data Stored In Other Countries · · Score: 1

    Every company based in America just packed up its stuff and left the country. Democracy in action!

  7. In other news... on NASA Pondering Two Public Contests To Build Small Space Exploration Satellites · · Score: 1

    hashtag buckfeta yes.

  8. Re:Breaks some websites on With HTTPS Everywhere, Is Firefox Now the Most Secure Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1, Funny

    C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!

  9. Re:What is this? on Meet Slashdot 'Super Submitter' Esther Schindler (Video) · · Score: 1

    Let's ask the NSA!

  10. Re:The real problem with BSD on Feature-Rich FreeBSD 10 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    Sorry, didn't know I needed to source my opinion. I've tried several versions of both Free- and PC-, I've tried to get help on official forums, a few Google Groups, and some of the larger IRCs. I did read the Handbook. It did help with installation, but it wasn't much help getting my Broadcom wireless working.

    Where shall I submit my sworn affidavit and list of personal references?

  11. Re:The real problem with BSD on Feature-Rich FreeBSD 10 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    I can (unfortunately) second this. When I tried to install on my netbook and asked for help, I got many variations of RTFM... which if I could find one that was written in some semblance of English I would. Most of the BSD documentation I've seen is... somewhat less than user friendly.

  12. Re:ecigs not really a good thing... on Research Shows E-Cigs Might Be As Good For Quitting As Nicotine Patches · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone is actually saying e-cigs are a good thing, just that (compared to 'analog smokes) they are a better thing. I've been using e-cigs myself for about a year, and I concur with most of the previous anecdotes; I smell better (in both ways), I feel better, and I'm saving money.

    Anyone who blindly says "e-cigs are healthy, great and fun!" is an idiot. E-Cigs and analog cigs are like American politics; neither is actually good, one is just less bad.

  13. Layman Alert! on Taking the Battle Against Patent Trolls To the Public · · Score: 1

    Seems to me there's an easy fix. In order to hold a patent, you must demonstrably make, sell, support or otherwise profit from whatever the patent is for*. That incentivizes patent owners to use them for more than bargaining chips, and discourages people from hoovering up patents with only the intent to troll.

    * 'Profit' does not include litigation.

  14. Re:I'm a believer. on Linux 3.11-rc7 Release Celebrates 22 Years of Linux · · Score: 1

    Maybe 'for the people'... but unless you count Android, I think it has a ways to go before it can be considered 'of the people'.

  15. Mod App Up on Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development · · Score: 2

    calibre is one of those apps that I didn't know I needed until I started using it, now it's pretty much indispensible. Mad props to Mr. calibre Developer Dude!

  16. oops on Search For Evi Nemeth Continues · · Score: 1

    Not to make light of the situation, but did anyone else glance at the headline and see 'Search for Evil Nemesis Continues?'

  17. Re:Weird choice of measurements on NIST Ytterbium Atomic Clocks Set Record For Stability · · Score: 5, Funny

    Time. It's a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

  18. How do you say... on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 1

    "Thank goodness for AppleCare+" in Russian?

  19. Re:System may be working? on Members of Parliament Demand Explanation For Detention of David Miranda · · Score: 1

    No laws means that consequences are pretty much impossible, as there's nothing to violate to incur consequenses on. And people generally know their version of right and wrong; there's dozens of concepts from Sharia to Poligamy to Homosexuality that many people are absolutely convinced are 'right', and just as many absolutely convinced are 'wrong'; who's to say which is correct? 'Do what thou will' may look good on paper, but there's simply way too many loopholes...

  20. Like Math... on Google Blocks YouTube App On Windows Phone (Again) · · Score: 1

    FTA:
    "At the end of the day, experts from both companies recognized that building a YouTube app based on HTML5 would be technically difficult and time consuming, which is why we assume YouTube has not yet made the conversion for its iPhone and Android apps."

    It's tooo hard!

  21. Just Go. on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    If you're about to leak your employer's secrets onto the Internet and seek asylum in a foreign country, it's probably best that you don't give notice.

  22. This sounds familiar... on How Gamers Could Save the (Real) World · · Score: 1

    I see someone else has read Ender's Game...

  23. Great, another workplace metric... on New Tool To Measure Consciousness · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder how long till my ATC (Average Time Conscious) shows up in my annual review...

  24. Nope, no spies here... on US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement · · Score: 1

    "Also, the operators of large German Internet exchanges and the federal government did not find any evidence that the U.S. spies on Germans, the government said."

    ...that's only because we used the good spies. ( :

  25. Re:Same moronic moaning on Google Posts Images, Binaries For New Nexus 7 · · Score: 1

    While it's true that Google is "NOT going to prevent you from watching your own videos, or reading your own books, regardless of the source or the file format", it does seem to treat user-provided content like a second-class citizen compared to Play content. When I added a few video files to my Nexus 7, it took me almost 10 minutes to figure out how to actually play them, and when I did find them, they showed up as nameless video thumbnails.