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  1. Re:Don't be too quick to pass judgement on this on on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    The link you posted says the accessory battery could be out of juice while the engine battery still had a bit of charge. Dead batteries can lock the brake on normal cars.

    But none of that matters, because the journalist intentionally ran the battery out - never fully recharging, and driving farther than the projected range. It was already past "0 miles left" when it finally gave out. It is irresponsible for him to let the charge run out, nevermind lying about it in a national paper.

  2. Re:Gun Regulations Do NOT Deserve A Vote! on Obama Proposes 'Meaningful Progress' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Actually, no, gun regulations do deserve a vote, over and over again, until when the gun grabbers finally achieve a slim majority, and then die by the thousands trying to enforce it.

    Only then will the morons understand that political equality is predicated on having an equal capacity for violence. That is, things we consider rights, like free speech or private property or privacy, can only exist so long as the people who believe in them can kill those who attempt to deny them.

  3. Re:How are we getting there? on 71 Percent of U.S. See Humans On Mars By 2033 · · Score: 1

    We landed a one ton robot on the moon with a fucking sky crane, and will be flying by Pluto in two years. The moon is easy, nobody is going because there's no longer a stupid flag-planting pissing contest to motivate it.

  4. You're already irrelevent on Ask Slashdot: Best Alternative To the Canonical Computer Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    So here's the deal: I'm in my second year of a computer science degree, and the thought of wasting two more years, getting left in the dust, and becoming irrelevant has me horrified.

    No one with this mentality is worth a damn. Specific technology, like programming languages and tools, are trivia. They are fashion. You're chasing the red queen if you think you'll get ahead by always having the latest fad on your resume.

    Don't be the web monkey who can use node.js. Be the programmer who can write something like it, or better, from scratch.

  5. Forgot one... on Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age · · Score: 1

    He looks like Emperor Palpatine!

  6. Re:I've seen on Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age · · Score: 1

    Galileo! Religion is superstitious nonsense, and will never be compatible with science! Tim Minchin: fuck the mother-fucking pope!

    There, I made it relevant to Slashdot.

  7. Re:While I'm not supporting Texas -at all- on Texas School Board Searching For Alternatives To Evolutionary Theory · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bullshit. You're equivocating for the same nonsense of the creationists.

    A theory is a theory because it makes a testable, falsifiable, hypothesis.

    This isn't true at all. You're redefining theory as the sole progenitor of hypothesis. You've got it backwards, there, chief.

    The National Academy of Sciences lays it out for you:

    http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6024&page=2

  8. Re:It's Quite Disingenuous on MS Targets Google With Another Smear Campaign · · Score: 1

    Note: I'm not defending Google

    But you are, and you are because they have done nothing wrong, while Microsoft is acting like a politician in a mudslinging campaign. It's ok, brining logic to the table does not make you a fanboy.

  9. Re:Without wanting to comment on this particular on China's Radical New Space Drive · · Score: 1

    STEM fields

    You could have just said "science", but of course, that wouldn't be dog whistling to morons.

  10. Re:It is Psychology, Science! Fact! on Paper On Conspiratorial Thinking Invokes Conspiratorial Thinking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It fails their own stated goals of making a just world â"â" "climate justice" â"â"when a shack in Kenya that's supposed to store medicines and have a bed for the sick, has to choose between either keeping the fridge on, or the fan and lights, because the solar panel they have can't do both. And that's "climate justice" ????

    No, that's a slippery slope leading to an imaginary dilemma, in service of your balance fallacy.

    That's actually a rather strange scenario for you to create, since solar power is bringing energy to areas of Kenya traditional power doesn't or won't go.

    Is it a reference to this? Are they having problems with their equipment? If so, it is rather obnoxious of you to call their hospital a "shack".

    Or, is the scenario made-up, but still plausible? So where in Kenya are diesel generators illegal?

    Basically, what I'm asking is, is there some reason for us to not believe you are completely full of shit?

  11. Seriously? on The History of Visual Development Environments · · Score: 4, Informative

    While TurboPascal launched the idea of an integrated development environment, [Jeff] Duntemann credits Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB), launched in 1991, with being the first real IDE

    Which makes him a retard. Form designers are not the primary component of IDEs, nor are they necessary to be called an IDE.

  12. Re:The radio plays it for free, go cry somewhere e on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 2

    Coffee shops are a totally different licensing scheme, usually ASCAP, and they're assholes too:

    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100518/2341299481.shtml

    As per radio:

    Music industry groups also want one standard, but one that keeps rates high. For years they have also been pushing for laws that would require terrestrial stations to pay royalties to labels and artists. (In the United States - and almost nowhere else in the world - radio stations pay royalties only to music publishers.)

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/business/media/fight-growing-over-online-royalties.html

    publisher = songwriter

  13. The radio plays it for free, go cry somewhere else on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 3, Interesting
  14. Re:Reduce gun violence? on Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is why do you think men and kings are mutually exclusive categories, and why a king would be more entitled to personal safety when you're so adamant that a president isn't.

    Are you some kind of closet monarchist?

  15. Re:Shocking? on Federal Gun Control Requires IT Overhaul · · Score: 2

    Seriously. Executive leadership should know how to organize databases. THANKS OBAMA.

  16. Trojans? In my Chinese pirate app store? on "Bill Shocker" Malware Controls 620,000 Android Phones In China · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's more likely than you think!

    the infection uses the device to send text message to the profit of advertisers

    So it's just like this article, then?

  17. Stung? Really? on 150 Copyright Notices For Mega · · Score: 1

    He is Dotcom! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!

  18. Re:This is why on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    But if you want to go down the path of believing that the government is planning on taking aim of its citizens, do you really think that they would conduct training exercises in the middle of city like that?

    Um... that does not make the point you think it does.

  19. Re:We have no clue on Asteroid Resources Could Make Science Fiction Dreams and Nightmares a Reality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We tend to have a naive feeling that we understand the solar system, that it is really just like Earth, but with craters or whatever. It isn't, and we don't.

    "We"?

    Why must morons project their own ignorance to everyone? It's like an opposite Dunning-Kruger effect - they find something hard to comprehend, so they assume it is equally hard for everyone, and attribute any expression of knowledge or enthusiasm as naivete.

  20. Turbo Pascal on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Visual Studio and Xcode are bloated jokes in comparison.

  21. Re:Just exposes the joke of "right to work" on Steve Jobs Threatened Palm To Stop Poaching Employees · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If those key engineers were crucial to the company's success (more crucial than all of management, apparently), they should have been payed a wage that reflected their true value. Microsoft simply arbitraged.

    Free market's a bitch, ain't it?

  22. Re:Why did the West turn from religious extremism? on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 1

    > Without Islam, we wouldn't have zero, algebra or the lateen sail.

    I'm pretty sure we would.

  23. Re:Why did the West turn from religious extremism? on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 1

    Yes, that region is still strife-torn and without influence. First the Ottomans, then the Russians... nothing stunts peaceful development quite like the interference of foreign empires. So why did you start with "except"?

  24. Re:Why did the West turn from religious extremism? on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 1

    West changed when information wasn't as easily available and science wasn't nearly as advanced.

    The "West" doesn't have superior foreign powers continually damaging its self esteem in the form of colonial imperialism. When it had the closest historical analogue, it sent thousands to die in futile wars of (re)conquest to restore its lost honor. Only after they gave up did the Dark Ages begin to wane.

    Islam has no place to go with its tail between its legs like Christendom did. The "West" has military bases on its every doorstep, and can rain fire on top of them with flying robots whenever it pleases. It such a situation, what should any self-respecting paternalistic religious half-wit do? Acquiesce like a bitch? Or harden the fuck up and promise death to his enemies?

  25. Re:unsophisticated ploy for free work on Corporate Hackathons: the Fine Line Between Engaging and Exploiting · · Score: 1

    The pro learns to swallow his pride and admit that much of his work will be done "on spec."

    Where are you people coming from? Since when was Slashdot populated with so many advertising people ignorant of software? That ain't the way it works. You're a Jack Lemmon come to lecture a room full of Alec Baldwins. It's comical.

    Here's how it works in the real world: even the mediocre "pro" can easily make six figures doing things a hell of a lot more interesting and impressive than recipe apps for a soup company. Only a chump would do this contest, and he will only be competing against other chumps.