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  1. no wonder they got shutdown on Grooveshark Shuts Down · · Score: 2

    they forgot the lasers

  2. Re:Training, not college on Inside Minerva, a Silicon Valley Bid To Start an Elite College Online · · Score: 1

    the "tactic" actually sounded pretty smart to me, and say what you will, the "older guy" definitely understood how to negotiate in the "real" world.

  3. Re:The dotcom era had Pets.com and the sock puppet on Inside Minerva, a Silicon Valley Bid To Start an Elite College Online · · Score: 1

    simple economics drives the explosion of tuition, and almost nothing else.

    once the government started handing out cheap, plentiful money to students in the form of loans and grants, the universities have every incentive to capture it all, plus more from mom and dad, if possible.

  4. the best thing about win10... on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    i've been running win10 on my primary dev desktop for months now and on an i3 laptop, and i can say, without a doubt, the best thing about it is the install.

    i have yet to have to install a driver for anything, and everything "just works" right from the jump.

    its a pretty amazing technical achievement, considering the size of the wintel environment.

  5. my 2cents on Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch? · · Score: 1

    instead of Wordpress, try a MVC framework and a Bootstrap 3-based theme has your jumping off point.

    i currently use Laravel and BS3 themes from wrapbootstrap.com or, of course, themeforest.

    you should find that with composer, you can easily install whatever modules you may need in Laravel, and the hand-coded aspect of the prebuilt BS3 themes makes integrating them pretty darn easy.

    it works for me.

  6. Re:More stuff done on Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service · · Score: 1

    that's great.

    you must not be in your mid-40's.

  7. Re:More stuff done on Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone share the details of their professional life or business contacts with them?

    the same way they get everyone to share their details of their personal lives...

    peer pressue...have you tried to have a social life these days without a stupid FB profile?

    i did (for awhile) btw, and i might as well have had "perverted ax-murderer" tattooed on my forehead after telling potential dates i wasn't on FB.

  8. Re:Magic ball prediction - 2015 on 2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are · · Score: 2

    what...no faraday cage?

  9. Re:mostly bullshit on 65% of Cancers Caused by Bad Luck, Not Genetics or Environment · · Score: 1

    Oh of course...how dare this research pit itself against your AC confirmation bias.,

  10. Re:oh yeah...the l&e crowd will love this... on Doppler Radar Used By Police To Determine Home Occupancy · · Score: 1

    you almost totally missed my point, but that's ok...i wouldn't expect the typical slash-dotter to understand my personal views on LE in this county.

    carry on...you will soon live with the consequences of your police state fantasies.

  11. hahahhah oh the irony on FBI Monitoring Hacking Targets For Retaliation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    as if the FBI/CIA/NSA aren't already tools of the plutocratic multi-nationals.

    i believe that the only reason they don't want them doing it on their own is that it robs the 3-letter agencies of political glory.

  12. oh yeah...the l&e crowd will love this... on Doppler Radar Used By Police To Determine Home Occupancy · · Score: 0

    ...if it saves just ONE policeman's life!

    how expensive is this gadget? does it really work in the field like it does in the lab? is it practical?

    the only real application i see for it is that it allows cops to know how many (apparently gun-toting, meth crazed) baddies are hiding in the house ready to shoot-it-out with them?

    not really an everyday thing.

  13. Re:WAR! What in the hell is it good for? on War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Chinese supposedly are drop testing a mini-shuttle similar to the X-37 which people have been calling the Shenlong.

    ...as opposed to the new Schlong program, which most foreign officials consider a real dick move by the Chinese.

  14. i wonder... on Tech's Gender Gap Started At Stanford · · Score: 1

    ...it is gender bias that most women don't become plumbers either?

  15. So, what you're saying is there's going to be lots of close-up cuts of Sulu stomping on the Enterprise's clutch and forcefully downshifting.

    that would be totally amazing, to be honest,

  16. Re:Interesting on BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers · · Score: 1

    I see a small percentage of the population complain about something, and if they come off as being on the side of a society approved message ie; "porn is bad" then they can get their way, an inordinate amount of power for a small whiny percentage of the population

    bingo! we have a winner...

  17. Re:Use HTTPS on BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers · · Score: 1

    lol...no they can't, unless they want a total and utter customer service overload/nightmare.

    imagine all the people complaining when they can't connect to their financial institutions and e-commerce sites?

  18. Re:coming soon... on Google+ Will Make Your Videos Look Better · · Score: 1

    i wasnt aware youtube and g+ allowed me to pay and skip ads.

    could you send me a link?

  19. Re:Space exploration? on Can Rep. John Culberson Save NASA's Space Exploration Program? · · Score: 2

    What's the real mission here?

    it's a five year mission to bring huge quantities of public pork to all the special interests that "donated" to all the different politicians in the recent election.

    wake up and smell the money.

  20. Re:um....siiiigghhhhhh on Can Rep. John Culberson Save NASA's Space Exploration Program? · · Score: 1

    2500 hundred years...

    yeah....i know i know....

  21. Re:um.... on Can Rep. John Culberson Save NASA's Space Exploration Program? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Go to a modern well funded post office some time. They're incredibly efficient.

    huh?

    perhaps you live on a different world as I, but "efficient" businesses do not lose 1.9B USD every three months.

    unfortunately, history has shown for at least 2500 hundred years that government bureaucracies always devolve into political quagmires, where empire building and ass-kissing trump sound business practices.

  22. coming soon... on Google+ Will Make Your Videos Look Better · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dear G+ User.

    We wanted to let you know that your recently uploaded video "catsoncatnip.mp4" was automatically processed and several fixes were applied. We hope you like the results.

    Also, in order to improve the user experience, we embedded a few targeted ads into your content. We are sure you won't mind as we have judged them to be unobtrusive.

    Thank you for using G+

  23. Re:This is a good thing people on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    of course you can...you can even navigate my decimal number ie...

    http://3626153261/

  24. Re:First amendment? on Sony Demands Press Destroy Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    advertising dollars and the threat of their loss sure has a bite though.

  25. Re:oh delicious irony on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 1

    man did everyone here wake up with a hangover this morning?

    didn't anyone notice that i was, you know, just trying to be funny AND apply some reasonable logic to this?

    how much would you care to wager that in less then a year, the site will be looking exactly like it did before?

    because without a doubt, many many people without your "special shoes" have trampled over that site over the past centuries.

    what GP did was reprehensible...that is so obvious its beyond question.

    my OP just poked fun at the official who claimed "OMG this has never happened before!"