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  1. Re:Changed file format each version? on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    "the file format didn't change"

    "new features that were added in later versions"

    If the file format didn't change, then there would not be a later version.

  2. Re:Long live TeX and LaTeX on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 2

    Which is better, a skateboard or a chainsaw?

  3. Re:shoulda got it right the first time on Patriot Act Author Introduces Bill To Limit Use of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Why do you hate the Heritage Foundation?

  4. Re:A group whose peace accomplishments... on Anti-Chemical Weapon Group Awarded Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Is there any particular reason you mention Le Duc Tho, who declined the award, and not his co-winner who accepted it?

  5. Re:Reener on Google X Display Boss: Smartphones, Tablets, Apps Are "Mind-Numbing" · · Score: 2

    "Until talking to yourself without a cell phone to your ear is socially acceptable"

    Until? Have you been outside in the past ten years?

  6. Re:And the pilot? on Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Collapses and Dies At the Controls · · Score: 1

    Okay, strictly speaking "crash landing" is not an actual aviation term. But this was definitely a forced emergency landing.

  7. Re:Don't count on tasks relevant to your skillset on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    The answer is to pay them for doing work. I know, it's a shocking concept...

  8. Re:Don't count on tasks relevant to your skillset on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    If you went to a US engineering school to recruit for unpaid interns you'd get laughed off campus.

  9. Re:Actually, this is kinda nice... on Lenovo Shows Android Laptop In Leaked User Manuals · · Score: 1

    An ARM based desktop computer? Unpossible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

  10. Re:What interested me on Most Cave Paintings Were Painted By Women, Says Penn State Researcher · · Score: 2

    "One thousand years from now, there won't be any guys and there won't be any girls, just wankers. Sounds all right to me."

  11. Re:This also in... on Some Bing Ads Redirecting To Malware · · Score: 1

    '"Bing ads" is still misleading '

    No, it's the literal truth. The ad network is Bing Ads: http://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/sign-up?s_cid=us_smb_a_web_bing_footer

  12. Re:And the pilot? on Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Collapses and Dies At the Controls · · Score: 1

    So a man dies in the aftermath of a crash landing by an unlicensed pilot. In the US the civil suit for wrongful death would already be scheduled.

  13. Re:Speaking as a non-American... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    -1, lie
    "You blame right-wing but yet they were the ones that agreed to everything else "

    The House Republicans "agreed to everything" after the Senate conceded to all of their budget changes, i.e. didn't have to agree to anything, and then they still voted no.. (This is like what happened with the ACA itself: the Democrats gave in to every Republican demand, and then gave in to the republican demands that cam after that, and then the Republicans still voted no.) The current Senate bill matches exactly the spending limit demanded by House Republicans.

    They way this works for every other bill is that the bill then goes to the conference committee to reconcile the differences. However, the House Republicans have refused to go to the budget conference committee for 6 months.
    "There's nothing constitutional about this"
    Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion when the Supreme Court found it constitutional. He's not widely know as a bed-wetting liberal.

    "The majority of Americans do not want obamacare and yet there's this dispute about it."
    Only if you count those who want more "Obamacare" than what the ACA provides as not wanting the ACA. Heck, 24 years ago "Obamacare" was the Republicans' position.

  14. Re:Not legal on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 3, Funny

    If we Americans stopped being pretentious assholes, maybe foreigners would stop being obsessed with us.

  15. Typical Slashdot commentary on a patent on Google Wants Patent On Splitting Restaurant Bills · · Score: 1

    The main comment categories on patent articles are:

    1) Did not read past abstract. Subsets are did not read past title, and did not read past inflammatory submission to Slashdot.
    2) Knee-jerk rejection all patents. Subset is knee-jerk rejection of just software patents.
    3) Claim of prior art that does not apply. Subsets are prior art that meets different claims and prior art that postdates the patent.

  16. Re:PayPal already did it on Google Wants Patent On Splitting Restaurant Bills · · Score: 1

    PayPal supplies the means for making transaction, but not for determining what transactions need to be made.

  17. Re:Only one purpose on Boston Dynamics Wildcat Can Gallop — No Strings Attached · · Score: 1

    You can't store horse unmaintained in a warehouse.

    You can't drop a horse by parachute out of the back of a cargo plane.

    Horse have to be trained individually.

  18. Re:How is it even still up? on What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    The House Leadership is not using budget reconciliation for anything. They are refusing to attend reconciliation which is the natural course of any bill.

  19. Re: As usual for the media on Scientists Boycott NASA Conference Because of Ban On Chinese Participants · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court found the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to be unconstitutional: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_v._City_of_New_York

  20. Re:Power of attorney transfer them from his wallet on DOJ Hasn't Actually Found Silk Road Founder's Bitcoin Yet · · Score: 1

    If he spends the bitcoins, then the signing chains are unlikely to get very long before someone is willing to roll over for the feds, they they just need to follow the chains upstream. They should also be able to follow chains from the customers downstream.

    If he doesn't spend them, then from his perspective they're as good as seized anyway.

  21. Re:Although I must add... on First Few Doctor Who Episodes May Fall To Public Domain Next Year · · Score: 1

    We have no evidence that they wouldn't extend it for free out of habit.

  22. Re:No, Use a scale on Teaching Fractions: The Tootsie Roll Is the New Pie · · Score: 1

    "politicians never let teachers adopt the metric system"

    -1, Lie

  23. Re:Length vs volume. on Teaching Fractions: The Tootsie Roll Is the New Pie · · Score: 2

    "You only need to look at the chord length of the arc of the pie slice, it's a simple linear length"

    Because obviously 1/3 is larger than 3/4.

  24. Re:Start a classroom war on Teaching Fractions: The Tootsie Roll Is the New Pie · · Score: 1

    It represents a one-dimensional value with a two-dimensional symbol.

    You make the baby Edward Tufte cry.

  25. What we have learned on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    The average Slashdot poster is a senior citizen that maximizes every goddamned window.