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  1. Re:Will it blend? on A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest · · Score: 1

    oooohhh an insult from the 90's...how clever!

  2. Re: Short answer: no on Is Ruby Dying? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot Home for Old Farts

    "Wait a minute, That scruffy beard, those suspenders, that smug expression.You're one of those condescending Unix users!"

    http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-06-24/

  3. Re:Short answer: no on Is Ruby Dying? · · Score: 1

    Youngster

  4. Re:Meanwhile in the U.S. on Switzerland's Mega Tunnel Sets Record · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it's not very interesting because it simply isn't true. On the average government employees are better paid than the average american, but that's only because government jobs tend not to be minimum-wage McJobs.

    When controlled by educational achievement, the exact opposite is true.

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/09/public_employees_dont_make_mor.html

    The average government employee with a bachelors degree makes 25% LESS than the average private industry employee with a bachelors degree.

  5. Re:Wait. on World Cup Prediction Failures · · Score: 1

    Well, actually the current state of the economy is proof enough that "these guys who spend their entire lives predicting financial markets" aren't god at predicting financial markets.

    Who the hell would believe these guys could predict soccer?

  6. Re:You can't tell the enemy from your friends... on Malware Delivered By Yahoo, Fox, Google Ads · · Score: 1

    Of course there's a defense.

    Stop
    Using
    Windows

    There, it's easy.

  7. Re:Reactionary? on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    I like the 'court-ordered vigilantism', myself.

  8. Re:are you crazy? on Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water · · Score: 1

    Nope, such devices have been made by EV hobbyists. There's a guy in CA http://www.mrsharkey.com/pusher.pdf who made a EV out of a VW Rabbit, then made a hybrid by lopping off the front end of another Rabbit, and attached it via a rigid towbar to the back of the EV, along with the necessary control electonics for changing gears, etc.

  9. Re:You are subject to laws of where you live on Apple's Terms No Longer Allow ITMS Purchases Outside of US · · Score: 1

    whooooooshhhhh!

  10. Re:Try a few of these free games... on Netbook Return Rates Much Higher For Linux Than Windows · · Score: 1, Troll

    I wish I had a cluebat right now.

    "Those are all packages I found with a quick `aptitude search "~i~sGames"; that is, these are games that are packaged and trivially easy to install straight out of the box."

    See that contrail waaaaaay up there at the edge of the atmosphere? That's the whole point flying right over your head...

  11. Re:This Just In on Palin Email Hacker Found · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the emails that the investigating commission DID get, there are exchanges between Palin and her subordinates discussing whether they can evade subpoenas by using Yahoo, and other exchanges reminding people to use the Yahoo account, not the official governors one.

    IOW, the ENTIRE purpose of her office using the Yahoo account was to obstruct justice.

  12. Re:Well? on DIY Solar Resources? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Then they should license the fucking patents to someone who WILL manufacture for the consumer. The problem with their approach is that solar energy is actually MORE efficient in a decentralized production environment. Solar power stations for utility monopolies are inefficient, compared to solar panels on every roof.

  13. Re:Ummm, parent is right. on New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    CIA=sharp???

    Uhh, go read "Legacy of Ashes" and weep. http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/legacyofashes/

    Yes, there are smart people who have worked for the CIA, but they've been lead by clueless frat boys drunk on power and prodigious quantities of booze.

    Suffice it to say that anything the CIA as an agency has done right it's been entirely by accident.

  14. Re:Unreasonable Policies on One-Third of Employees Violate Company IT Policies · · Score: 1

    Jeebus, just 75%??? Our system (SpamAssasin/ Sophos AV) on the server is currently kicking 90% of all email delivered to our domain right to /dev/null...

  15. Death of the Internet Predicted. News at 11 on ARPANet Co-Founder Predicts An Internet Crisis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    15 years ago that was a hoary old USEnet joke...

  16. Re:Would not have been murder on Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid · · Score: 1

    The principle is called 'Felony Murder' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder as causing a death during the commission of a felony, not necessarily in futherance. It can be incidental. If you commit a violent armed robbery of a bank, and a customer inside dies of a heart attack from the fright, you certainly could be charged.

    It certainly would apply in this case.

  17. Re:All the things true Audiophile needs.... on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    Please, there are people stupid enough to buy tube-based iPod amps. http://www.goldster-audio.com/concertino/product.en.html

    Yes. $4K amplifiers for your 128bit MP3's , because, you know it makes 'em sound better....

  18. Re:More likely it is another publicity stunt on Mac Worm Author Gets Death Threats · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jesus, you have a tough bullshit meter! Where did you get it? When I heard of Maynor's connection, my bullshit meter just exploded in a bright flash, very loud BANG! and puff of acrid smoke...

  19. Re:We need alternative to cellphones by monopolist on Where In the US Can You Get Just a Cell Phone? · · Score: 1

    Virgin allows them...so long as you put in $20 worth of airtime every 90 days, your unused minutes pile up. Virgin's got one of the cheapest PAYG plans out there, too, 18 cents/minute.

    I also got $20 update cards at Target for $15 last December; they're good for a year after purchase, so I go a years worth of service for $60. The phone was $40, but they have cheaper ones, and usually Virgin has a deal for a free phone with a new account online. The ony thing Virgin knows about m,e is the throwaway gmail account I used to sign up.

    Not bad.

  20. Re:Useless studies on 6 Months On, Vista Security Still Besting Linux · · Score: 1

    Many. I'm dealing with a %@$!#$ Gateway system here that has no video (other than 640x480 4bit) and no networking because %@$!%# Gateway has forgotten that this model exists, Intel says THEY don't have the drivers because this is an OEM board.

    This is with a XP service pack 2 installer.

  21. Re:At last! A story *made* for slashdot! on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. but it still has a very high resistance, 10 MOhm is what we used to get routinely from our lab deionized water.

  22. Re:Bwa?? on Bill to Bring A La Carte, Indecency Regs to Cable · · Score: 1

    Actually, per a recent court decision, no, they can't. http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_6063897 For which, ironically, we can thank Dick "Go fuck yourself" Cheney...

  23. Re:Over here in Sweden on Vitamin D Deficiency Behind Many Western Cancers? · · Score: 1

    Nearly all dairy products in the US are Vitamin D enriched as well. This study (if true) points to either the fact that the enrichment isn't enough, or that the majority of cancer patients arent eating these sorts of things. Gee, back to diet and exercise, isn't it :-)

  24. Re:Nitpicks... on The Best Mac OS X Software Tools · · Score: 1

    rdesktop is only better in that you can connect to more than one system at a time.

    Remote Desktop Connection also gives local disk access on the romote system, very useful.

  25. Re:AIDS was discovered in 1981... err 1983/84 on Scientists Expose Weak DNA in HIV · · Score: 1

    Actually, when we started looking back for the origins of the disease, people started dying in largish numbers of a mysterious 'wasting disease' very similar to AIDS in Central Africa in the late 50's and early 60's.

    HIV antibodies were found in a blood sample of a British sailor who died in 1956 or '57, iirc, and there are scattered reports of a similar disease occurring in remote villages going as far back as the 30's, which is actually the suspected time frame for when the simian analog to HIV, SIV, first mutated to become infectious to humans, and was probably initially transmitted via butchering infected monkeys.

    The disease wasn't widespread in the US until the late 70's, early 80's, and it came here from Africa. There's good evidence to suggest a far more infectious strain arose in Africa in the mid 70's which has lead to the epidemic we have today.