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  1. Re:Nothing but a teabagger on Who's Flying Those Drones? FAA Won't Say · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stop insulting the Tea Party. They're on the same side as the rest of the 99%, and you need them.

  2. I thought on TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas · · Score: 1

    the supercommittee bill mandated every automatic cuts across the board? How is this budget increase even legal?

  3. just in time too on US Bans Loud Commercials · · Score: 1

    Awesome, and only seven years since I last owned a TV and noticed that behavior. Ah, piratebay, let me count the ways..

  4. that's the beauty ... on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 1

    of the first amendment: simple clear language. Who's going to remember the legislation written today in a hundred years? The actual words?

  5. Compassionate Software Approach: all names on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Non-Developers To Send Meaningful Bug Reports? · · Score: 1

    What worked best for me was to identify and develop personal relationships with my most insightful users (and just monitor the others for useful comments). That's something all these software gimmicks can't do.

  6. Re:It's about to get worse! on FBI Rejects Freedom of Information Act Request About Carrier IQ · · Score: 1

    The Senate passed it 92 to 7. I'm pretty sure that's more than a 2/3 majority.

  7. Re:I don't blame this on a free market at all on Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress · · Score: 1

    I'm starting to doubt the legislature has much to do with running government...

  8. How to elect Ron Paul: on Fed Gave Banks Eye-Popping Emergency Loans, Without Telling Congress · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know he'd shut that shit down. Clean up the Fed, slash military expenditures, get us out of the wars. I doubt anyone else would do it.
    http://youtu.be/HawiHvxloms

  9. link to free version of journal article on Programming Cells, With CellOS · · Score: 2

    www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~nxk/PAPERS/DPDPSys.pdf
    It looks like a well-considered approach. Hacking living organisms and designing new ones is coming, and it will be a big deal.

  10. There's a smarter decision.. on HP Delays WebOS Decision · · Score: 1

    open-source it, and license it freely as with Android. This will attract developers and grow the market for WebOS devices. It will do much more to remove doubts about the longevity of the platform, because it will no longer be in any one company's hands.

  11. Let Me Be the First to Say .. on US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled · · Score: 1

    I'm glad it's gone, and hope the others disappear soon too (shelf life vs cost being what it is, they probably will). It afforded us a form of winning which was indistinguishable from losing. In fact losing a conventional war would be preferable to winning a nuclear one...

  12. Re:Fixing Student Loans on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    great ideas

  13. Re:What is the goal? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    you nailed it.

  14. Re:Give yourself extra time, OR do post-hoc on Ask Slashdot: Best Copyright Terms For a Thesis? · · Score: 1

    My understanding is the owner of the work may release it under multiple licenses. This is somewhat encouraged in the book, "Intellectual Property and Open Source" (very useful resource on IP), because it allows others to use the one that is most compatible with the other IP they might combine it with.

  15. Re:Just imagine if Palm hadn't dropped the ball. on HP Spinning Off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    Likewise. I blame the business model, which rewards execs more for selling and splitting the business repeatedly than for slogging out a good product. They announced the palm pre 3 in January and I've been waiting to buy it, but it never showed up. I'm done with webOS and HP now, and I'm off to get an iphone.

  16. Re:Legally on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    You're off by a factor of at least 10. ~$7billion a year for war? The EPA's budget is bigger than that.

  17. Re:Quick Answer on Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? · · Score: 1

    I haven't had that problem, but I also haven't produced a 90 page document with Zotero's help. Indexing 20 page documents has been acceptably fast (a few seconds).

  18. Re:Quick Answer on Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought. It is fantastic for citing references in a paper, and keeping your citations and papers organized. Seems a bit strange to be a plug-in, but it works and makes a lot of sense once you use it. Put a good bit of research into this awhile ago, and I haven't looked back.

  19. Re:Don't care either way. on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 1

    Good point about the genetic patents. The harm of agribusiness would be greatly reduced by removing government-enforced monopolies and subsidies.

  20. Re:idle? on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: 3, Informative

    because it's not tech news.

  21. Re:Hahaha have some crow on Comcast Helps Fix Pirate Bay Connection Problems · · Score: 1

    yup

  22. Re:To turn a phrase... on Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack · · Score: 1

    ya, that line jumped out at me too.

  23. Re:shame game on Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack · · Score: 1

    they had to drop the terrorist theory when they found out bin Laden didn't have internet service.

  24. Re:Agreed - Scapegoat for organized crime on Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack · · Score: 1

    a reasonable hypothesis...

  25. Re:No ... Just no. on EFF Advocates Leaving Wireless Routers Open · · Score: 1

    rtfa