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  1. Re: a better question on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I could run Windows in a VM on OS X inside a Faraday cage, but this would limit my wife's ability to pass sandwiches and coffee to me through the bars.

  2. Re:Let's hope on IRS Warns of Downtime Risk As Congress Makes Cuts · · Score: 1

    The IRS doesn't make tax law, but like other federal departments it has broad powers to set administrative rules covering concentration of their power on this or that group of taxpayers. When Republicans are in office, IRS power to throw tantrums and make examples of people to show off their superpowers are no longer unlimited.

  3. Re:The police are terrified on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 1

    I don't think the cops are actually going to start using radar on their subjects as an alternative to in-person raids. How would they kill your dog and steal your cash?

  4. That's my beef against cosmology on The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart · · Score: 1

    It'a the only discipline where 120 orders of magnitude is a slight disagreement.

  5. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch? · · Score: 1

    RapidWeaver with Stacks!

  6. Re:"Holograssholes" ? on Hands On With Microsoft's Holographic Goggles · · Score: 2

    The first use for technology like this, especially if it can't be taken out of the home, is always porn. Guys are going to wear Hologlass to make their wives look like Beyoncé.

  7. Re:The doomsday clock should be renamed. on Doomsday Clock Could Move · · Score: 1

    Don't confuse the hipster doom lovers who follow every movement of the clock with those who set the clock. It's maximum 'optimistic' setting came after the fall of Communism, and lasted through the Nineties to 9/11.

  8. Re:Who they do not attempt to stay relevant? on Doomsday Clock Could Move · · Score: 1

    Any population that can establish a colony somewhere off Earth is by definition a group who accepts the most radical type of global-for-temselves engineering. It will be interesting to see what evolution rate they can achieve in comparison to the terrestrial population.

  9. Let's hope on IRS Warns of Downtime Risk As Congress Makes Cuts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That this forces simplification of the tax code.

  10. Re:No one 3D printed a house on Shanghai Company 3D Prints 6-Story Apartment Building and Villa · · Score: 1

    This is fundamentally new if and only if the printing is being done in multiple materials at once. Otherwise, it's just fast assembly of components printed elsewhere.

    A small-scale way of putting this is, when will we be able to print, in one operation, a usable baseball?

  11. Re:Is it really inexpensive? on Shanghai Company 3D Prints 6-Story Apartment Building and Villa · · Score: 3, Funny

    And just try to clear a rebar jam.

  12. Re:Islam is a Cancer on Shanghai Company 3D Prints 6-Story Apartment Building and Villa · · Score: 0

    According to Boko Haram, all it takes to destroy Islam is traditional printing on paper.

  13. Spread the word on Slate and Salon now! on Scientists Discover Compound In Baby Diapers Can Enlarge Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    Get all the hipsters eating baby poop to enhance their intelligence. No GMOs or gluten!

  14. Re:Glad were stopping the evil socialists on Republican Bill Aims To Thwart the FCC's Leaning Towards Title II · · Score: 1

    Radar detectors help keep down people's insurance premiums.

  15. Re:Glad were stopping the evil socialists on Republican Bill Aims To Thwart the FCC's Leaning Towards Title II · · Score: 1

    "Bans radar detectors!"

  16. Re:Glad were stopping the evil socialists on Republican Bill Aims To Thwart the FCC's Leaning Towards Title II · · Score: 1

    Actually (and I speak as a Republican here) he was convicted of sex with a 17-year-old girl, an act which in most other states is legal. Not coincidentally, Virginia is the one state that band radar detectors.

  17. Re: a better question on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 2

    VMware Fusion is what you're looking for. I can use it to run any of the Linux versions without the pain and trauma of actually installing Linux.

  18. The bad news is, this means another million H-1Bs on Cuba's Pending Tech Revolution · · Score: 1

    The good news is, they're all Fortran programmers.

  19. Re:Mac OS is too susceptible to viruses on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    I was responding to "Use an obscure one..."

  20. Re: I still think Pluto is a planet on Analysis Suggests Solar System Contains Massive Trans-Neptunian Objects · · Score: 1

    "Troll planets would be nice."

    And because of the latency, the inhabitants would be enable to form coherent ripostes to our posts.

  21. Re:Planet X / Nibiru !!! on Analysis Suggests Solar System Contains Massive Trans-Neptunian Objects · · Score: 1

    Devils Tower is a volcanic stump, not a butte. A butte forms in sedimentary strata as one of the final steps in the erosion of a dissected plain (cut up by rivers, which deepen into canyons...). When there are softer layers of rock underlying hard layers, they undercut during erosion, forming a 'mesa' with more or less vertical sides. When a mesa becomes thinner than it is tall, it gets classified as a butte.

    A volcanic stump forms when a volcano comes up through country rock (no, that has nothing to do with Trisha Yearwood) that is softer than the magma basalt. With enough erosion, the basalt stands alone, cracking into those characteristic hexagonal columns.

  22. Re: Riiiiight. on Analysis Suggests Solar System Contains Massive Trans-Neptunian Objects · · Score: 1

    At those distances, comets don't even have tails.

  23. Re:Nibiru! on Analysis Suggests Solar System Contains Massive Trans-Neptunian Objects · · Score: 2

    But how does Nibiru get those mind-altering toxins to American air carriers so they can be spread through our pristine skies as chemtrails? At those distances, Paul Craig Roberts would probably still have to invoke a wormhole.

  24. Re:Dick? lol on Ridley Scott Adapts Philip K. Dick's 'Man in the High Castle' For Amazon · · Score: 1

    Could it be that this was what warped the Nixon administration?

  25. Re:Mac OS is too susceptible to viruses on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    Everybody leaves you alone, including the developers. Have fun writing your own applications.