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  1. I may not be Mensa material... on Match.com, Mensa Create Dating Site For Geniuses · · Score: 1

    (never tested) but even I'm smart enough to know that reducing the size of my dating pool isn't a good idea.

  2. not needed on Ask Slashdot: Fastest, Cheapest Path To a Bachelor's Degree? · · Score: 1

    I have 13+ years of IT. Went to community college for 2 yrs, then State school for 1, where I dropped out.
    I just put "University: [state school name]" and it passes most filters .. very few ask if I graduated; if they don't ask, I don't bring it up.

    Doesn't seem to have hurt me, so far.

  3. Really? on Facebook Introduces Hack: Statically Typed PHP · · Score: 1

    Is it really that difficult to type your variables by naming convention, and then, enforce the convention by beating anyone who breaks it about the ears?
    You can't discipline yourselves, so you need the language to do it for you?

  4. another option on Your Next Online Order Could Be Delivered To Your Car's Trunk · · Score: 1

    Howzabout having your driver-less car queue up at a curb-side delivery area, outside of a distribution point?
    Then, the car's trunk gets opened remotely, or there is a single-use code to open it?

  5. Re:Wait a second riiight there.... on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    Most days, I'll want the automated put-put, but on weekends, I'll want to dust off the sports car.

  6. makes you wonder ... on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    ... how insurance companies are gonna try and make up the difference.
    And the ridiculous rationale they're gonna present for doing so.

  7. Re:Help me! I'm desperate. on Google Relying On People Power For 'Helpouts' · · Score: 1

    Is Nigella doing cooking help?

  8. Re:why didnt Snowden use Wikileaks??? on Snowden Publishes "A Manifesto For the Truth" · · Score: 1

    Scuttling their chances for plausible deniability (*clutch the pearls* "THEY did what?") and The Powers That Be's ability to sweep it under the rug, as the work of some rogue faction that would be dealt with so that it would never happen again (snark), backed them into a corner where they couldn't hide.
    Snowden backed some big, dangerous animals into a corner.

  9. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    I guess it would depend on how hot the vapor was, and if it could cause damage to the lungs?

  10. Re:How about human on Cow Burps Tapped For Fuel · · Score: 1

    Who run Barter-town?

  11. Re:CS knowledge does not translate into the real w on Ask Slashdot: Hands-On Activity For IT Career Fair · · Score: 1

    A career as an M??

  12. I wanna ... on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    Send the car to pick up the kid from school, while I'm at work...

    Buy something online at a local store, and send the car to pick it up, with a curb-side/drive-thru service.

  13. Where's the "Acme" label? on The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years · · Score: 1

    Looks like the Coyote strapped some jets to grampa's rocking chair.

  14. Re:This is an apex predator on The Case of the Orca That Killed Its Trainer · · Score: 1

    Given that it's equipped with teeth like that, and all they seem to get, in captivity, are fish that it swallows whole, I wonder if they miss/have an urge to just rip into something..

  15. Re:That took some balls... on The Case of the Orca That Killed Its Trainer · · Score: 1

    Into the orca pool == Out of the gene pool

  16. Re:China on Study Finds 3D Printers Pay For Themselves In Under a Year · · Score: 1

    Though, maybe an interesting idea ... maybe this plastic can be collected and recycled into 3D printer "ink"?

  17. Power usage? on Sony & Panasonic Plan Next-Gen 300 GB Optical Discs By the End of 2015 · · Score: 1

    Will it have equal or less power usage than my SSD, for those of us who like the extended laptop battery life?

  18. Just on mobile... on Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone To Facebook: Start a Premium Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    So many people who are addicted to FB, and are willing to pay money for it, frequently use it from their phones. If ads on phones are intrusive enough, cause page rendering to be slow, and eat bandwidth, then those people would probably be willing to pay, to avoid them.

  19. Maybe it is what's needed on New Study Fails To Show That Violent Video Games Diminish Prosocial Behavior · · Score: 1

    It seems like passive-aggressive personalities and those that are so unused to human interaction, that they are cowed by any interaction, beyond their comfort zone predominate. Maybe the introduction of some aggressive traits to counterbalance that is in order.

  20. Re:Immortality, here I come! on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 5, Funny

    Getting a Silence of the Lambs vibe from this one....

  21. Then, as it is now ... on Mobile Devices Will Outnumber People By 2017 · · Score: 1

    ... it will be the people controlling the content.