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  1. Re:Dupe on Did Large Eyes Lead To Neanderthals' Demise? · · Score: 2

    The Slashdot "editors" are a collection of Very Small Shell Scripts, none of which talk to each other.

  2. Re:Import the workers or offshore the jobs... on Australian PM Targets Imported IT Workers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Companies could potentially switch to off shoring the jobs whether the government does everything, nothing, or any point in between.

    The only way to prevent that is to make labour and production as cheap, disposable, exploitable and polluting everywhere as it is in the worst country in the world.

    Do you want to keep arguing the point, or just shush up now?

  3. Re:Hazen on Microbes Likely Abundant Hundreds of Meters Below Sea Floor · · Score: 2

    Can't eat them, talk to them or screw them, so I'm vastly indifferent to them too.

  4. Self diagnose some assburgers as well on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 1

    That way you'll have an excuse for not asking people to clam up when you need to work.

  5. Re:Seriously now... on Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On · · Score: 1

    Is Femtobyte one of those Polish names?

  6. Re:Phil Plait says no... on Evidence For Comet-Borne Microfossils Supports Panspermia · · Score: 2, Funny

    Plait is kidding nobody this time. I can clearly make out infinitesimal strings of starch based polymers, with a scattering of ball-like protein cores. Deny not the touch of His Noodly Appendage.

  7. Re:I can't believe I wasted 5 minutes on Dr. Robert Bakker Answers Your Questions About Science and Religion · · Score: 4, Funny

    what was the question?

    "Did Jesus have feathers?"

  8. Re:Gobble bobble wobblywob? on Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue · · Score: 2

    Thanks for the explanation. Now, how about you ask your employer to pay me your last month's salary? It's OK, no money is lost.

  9. Re:Too little, too late on EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    we want to allow you to download any of our outdated examples of complete DRM-ridden shit from our online catalog

    Nothing in this non-binding non-guarantee commits to offering customers a choice at all, whether it's from the whole catalog or the dog eared and about-to-be-shitcanned section of it.

    If you're inferring otherwise, well... it's EA. This is from the same... person... who claimed that the always-on aspect is all about gameplay, rather than being driven by EA's unslakable urge to kill off re-sales and older games. You can tell that she's lying because her fingers are moving.

  10. Re: Too little, too late on EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    And yet for all your zeal in explaining why we should be angry and miserable, Steam users are generally very happy with the experience and keep voluntarily coming back for more.

    These rights that you think you have are a relic. If you want to buy something for resale, I suggest a buggy whip.

  11. Re:Too little, too late on EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    Well, you also bought Sim City 5 up front, so they probably reckon you're dumb enough to keep coming back for more beatings. You're really not negotiating from a position of strength here.

  12. Re:Too little, too late on EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    Say, after giving them £40 for Battlefield 3, did you then give them another £10 to file a Subject Access Request?

    They must be weeping into their giant pile of money.

  13. Re:Yay on Global Temperatures Are Close To 11,000-Year Peak · · Score: 1

    Right, so we agree that things will change. And of course, human beings are incapable of dealing with change, and always have been. Remember when we died out during every one of those 74% of times that were cooler than now, and the 24% that were hotter?

  14. Re:Warmer than 75% of the last 11,000 years on Global Temperatures Are Close To 11,000-Year Peak · · Score: 1

    And another things, kids are disrespectful these days, and everything is too expensive.

  15. Re:It's better, it's not just "journalists" on Obama Administration Supports Journalist Arrested For Recording Cops · · Score: 2

    Followup note to myself: be sure to cite this sudden passion for exercising First Amendment rights on public streets the next time police force protesters into "Free Speech Zone" cages.

  16. It's better, it's not just "journalists" on Obama Administration Supports Journalist Arrested For Recording Cops · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The brief explicitly says "the First Amendment right to record police officers performing public duties extends to both the public and members of the media, and the Court should not make a distinction between the publicâ(TM)s and the mediaâ(TM)s rights to record here".

    This is all very strange. Hang on, is it Opposite Day?

  17. Re:MOD PARENT UP! on Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac · · Score: 1

    GRANDPARENT ALREADY AT LIMIT.

    So I guess I'll just have to weigh in with a chorus of "Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead."

  18. Re:Terrible move by a dying entity on Best Buy Follows Yahoo in Banning Remote Work · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, Best Buy and Yahoo!s' only problems are that they can't raise morale by beating their staff unless they're in the office.

  19. Re:Naivete kills !! on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Which is why you do need a lawyer sitting on your shoulder like Jabba's little freak-monkey, cackling "My client has no recollection of those events. My client cannot speak to another's state of mind."

  20. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Utter hogwash.

    3.7 seconds to 60mph... the Roadster's instant torque blows the doors off nearly every car in its class... world-class acceleration ... ranks amongst the world's most coveted sports cars... premium sports car.... The electric powertrain enables unprecedented responsiveness. The Roadster becomes an extension of the driver and reacts in an instant. The optional custom-tuned suspension allows the driver to adjust the handling to their preference. ... The Roadster offers supercar performance... spirited driving...

    Those are Tesla's words. If you have a problem with them marketing it for motor "sport" then you need to take it up with them.

  21. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Petrol cars aren't new though. Thus the contrast.

    There were no charging stations in the UK when the programme was made. Can you point at a single "super" charging station now?

    That model had a 200 mile claimed range, not 300. You've just added 50% because, bawww, that's why.

  22. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, you just added 50% to the claimed range of that model. That may not have been an explicit ...

  23. Translation: warrants to seize kthnx on Nearly Every NYC Crime Involves Computers, Says Manhattan DA · · Score: 2

    If you find yourself accused of a felony, expect to have seized everything that you own or are likely to have touched that has or might have any memory in it. You'll get it back on the 32nd of Nevember.

  24. Re:MMO development may be on Are Gaming Studios the Most Innovative Tech Companies Out There? · · Score: 2

    You're quite right. Having been both a pro and a hobbyist games and games engine developer, I have lost track of the number of times that I have explained to people, sadface engaged, that their MMO goals are unrealistic. Even MO goals. Or O. Or M.

    Finishing a game to completion, any game, is a massive undertaking, and the vast majority of those who try it fail. You have to be delusional to even attempt it, which is why the ledger of successful games developers is replete with visionaries who refused to believe in what can't be done.

  25. No one, but no one on Linus Torvalds Clarifies His Position on Signed Modules · · Score: 2