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  1. Re:It's crap on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Are we reading:

            A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state

    as indication that this is about defending against government?

  2. Re:Ya think so? on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 2

    The people in this case by and large live in the very cities in question; they do seem to want to live there, and they have to be transported to where they work, because that has been located elsewhere. If you live and work in the same suburb, you're not what we're talking about here.

  3. Re:Hotels don't handle this stuff very well IMO on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm where are you from? In Houston we call that a little one (making some assumptions about the sizes of your thumb and your glass).

  4. Re:OH my... on Ask Slashdot: Find a Job In China For Non-native Speaker? · · Score: 1

    Not Cajuns. They do it pretty much like the Chinese.

  5. Re:Evidence on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: 1

    It may have been "argued on this site", but interestingly enough, what is argued on this site is not the law. The law is being used to take the site down, and I suspect some dollar amounts are being applied to intellectual property along the way. What is good for the goose is likely good for the gander.

  6. Re:Cold Fusion on Can NASA Warm Cold Fusion? · · Score: 1

    Just posting to undo an accidental moderation; sorry.

    By the way, I was in physics when P&F came out. Guess that makes me a cabalist, too...

  7. Re:The Decepticon on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    ...and adding passengers increases the denominator...

  8. Re:You know what? on Smartphones Can't Cure Acne, FTC Rules · · Score: 1

    I think there's an app for that...

  9. Re:Yes there is a war against small email sites :- on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 1

    Damn. Wish I had mod points.

  10. Re:true on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 1

    It's not about ancient history, or even about who started what. When a rumour went around that the CIA were plotting from the US Embassy to put the Shah back in power, it did not require paranoia for the students to believe it, since it was known to have been done a couple of decades earlier. Today, it does not appear to be paranoid for the Iranian government to believe that US, Israel, and others are infiltrating their nuclear program, and interfering with the rest of their government as well, and it is not illogical to think that nuclear arms might be helpful to keep the current government in power. No need to ask who started it or who's right or wrong.

  11. Re:true on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 1

    Mossadegh was not assassinated. Late post, I know, but people get all kinds of crazy things from the Internets. Maybe you're thinking of Allende?

  12. An educated senator? on State Senator Admits Cable Industry Helped Write Pro-Industry Legislation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I just can't get over the fact that a state senator (or a US one, really) knows that Gunga Din was a water bearer. Maybe US education is better than I thought.

  13. Re:like any other job? on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1

    Then perhaps that should have been the point; the original post clearly suggests that the union is complaining about the evaluations themselves: "I get evaluated at my job, should i be outraged?". And of course finishes with "i say start firing teachers that rank the worst", which is also beside the point. The question here is of whether people who agree to take low-paid, overworked positions to teach children deserve to be treated worse than any other employee who has a performance evaluation. To restate my post, do your coworkers read your evaluation? Shareholders? The general public?

    As to "unwilling taxpayers", ok, speak for yourself. That argument can be made about any government expenditure.

  14. Re:like any other job? on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So where can I download your evaluation?

  15. I'm very old on Video Games Linked To Reckless Driving · · Score: 1

    I think it's true, but it's not just driving games. I for one, am always thinking Mattel Electronic Football when I drive.

  16. Re:Who reads the manual? on The MPEG-LA's Lock On Culture · · Score: 2

    Well, I do have to point out that if you know of no example of these cases going to court, then it's not quite right to say you know they hold up there.

  17. Re:Considered a solved problem? on Why Linux Is Not Attracting Young Developers · · Score: 1

    When I was a younger fellow, I did a bit of work on kernel, xfs tools, mplayer, coreutils, and a few other things. Now, chances are, when I buy New Laptop X, my fave Linux distro goes right on with little trouble (except maybe for #@*!(*@ proprietary NVidia driver), so there's not much incentive to work on it.

    That said, for a huge pile of source, it's pretty damned easy to use a tool like grep to find a problem and fix it when I need to.

  18. Re:Duality of Wozniak's Apple Versus Jobs' Apple on Adobe Evangelist Lashes Out Over Apple's "Original Language" Policy · · Score: 1

    Well, you didn't have to use Apple's tools. I used Turbo Pascal, Lightspeed/THINK C/C++, Absoft FORTRAN, and somebody's BASIC. And you didn't have to go through Apple's store and approval process. Those innovations came much later. The SCSI port was standard, but of course, who else used that? and keyboard, mouse etc... but it did have a standard RS-232, didn't it?

  19. I AM ANONYMOUS COWARD! on Groklaw Will Be Archived At Library of Congress · · Score: 1

    I am anonymous coward!

    Aw, hell

    And by the way, omniscient slashdot filter, I WAS YELLING

  20. No comment? on Microsoft To Ship Emergency IE Patch · · Score: 1

    I think microsoft have commented on the firestorm... wonder why Ballmer wanted to make it out as no big deal?

  21. Re:Males are not a population on Human Males Evolve At a Faster Pace Than Females · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... if men tend to do more dangerous jobs (soldering, firefighting, etc...)

    Yep. Slashdot

  22. Re:can you explain? on Wi-Fi Patent Victory Earns CSIRO $200 Million · · Score: 1

    Actually, the FFT was described by Gauss in about 1805 (google "fft gauss"), but wasn't generally known until Cooley and Tukey rediscovered it.

  23. Re:Joke's on them on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, I do have that much in a brokerage account, and like you, I transferred the unexpected bonus to my checking. There is a hold on the account, but if you can give me your account number, I think I can transfer the money to you, and I will be glad to let you keep half of it....

  24. Junis on Keeping in Contact With Family, From Afghanistan? · · Score: 1

    Find Junis. Use his Commodore 64...

  25. Re:We have a problem on David Tennant Stands Down From "Doctor Who" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...also, it was Colin Baker, not Tom.

    And yes, I am a nerd.

    Even by slashdot standards.