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  1. Re:Someone post the apk! on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    Geotagging is pointless; from any reasonable perspective, the entire USA is tagged with âoedangerous gun nutsâ.
    No APK needed.

  2. woah there nellie.. on Space Traffic May Be Creating More Clouds · · Score: 1

    Are you saying /doters are posting speculative assumptions to explain inconclusive observations.
    Them is fightin words, sir! Pistols at sunrise.

  3. Re:You Don't Know What An Introvert Is, Obviously on How Silicon Valley's Tech Reign Will End · · Score: 1

    That is crazy talk. How could there be more than two types?

  4. sad state of patents... on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port · · Score: 1

    Ignoring the relative merits of the application, the background section, a whopping 8 sentences contained this gem: ...thus loosing additional connectivity.
    It is insulting when the assholes running roughshod over what was a well intentioned process will not even maintain the appearance of earnestness.

  5. Re:anti-sex ad policy? on Google's Blogger To Delete All 'Adult' Blogs That Have Ads · · Score: 1

    I take it you have considerably more experience with one than the other.

  6. Re:I can see it. on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 1

    If I am well rested and eat a good breakfast, I can move small objects with my mind. So there.

  7. Re:fluorescent lighting on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 1

    wag: the interference of the two flicker frequencies generates an effective frequency which causes eye strain thus headaches in some people.

    anecdote: I have always preferred lights out when working at a terminal.

  8. Simple Inferiority on Best Buy To Carve Out Space For Microsoft Stores · · Score: 1

    The details of the deal were not disclosed. Is the MicroSoft stand going to draw customers to BestBuy, or the other way around? Is it a synergistic cross pollination that will better service consumer desire?

    It appears MicroSoft now have to sublet the non-Apple section of the Best Buy computer department. That and a bunch of PR drivel.

  9. Slogan opportunity on Best Buy To Carve Out Space For Microsoft Stores · · Score: 4, Funny

    Away from the maddening crowds.

  10. Re:Authority-Phobic? Really? on Should the Power of Corporate Innovation Shift Away From Executives? · · Score: 2

    What if these yoof do not give a rats ass? Rebellious passion is for defending something you value. If your only interest in an organization is a cheque, why get ruffled about idiotic bureaucrats? Disconnected is not the same thing as domesticated. They are the product of corporate culture; undifferentiated tissue for 7.5 hours, 5 days a week.

    There is a subversive sensibility in embracing the idiocy of untrustworthy management. At least it makes for a great laugh over beers with people you do not work with.

  11. Re:Irrelevant - private cars are not a problem on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    In Canada (75%), France (89%) and Norway (100%), at least, that is not true.
    EVs in Canada are rare, and outside of high quality outdoor gear store parking lots, supporting infrastructure is almost non existent.
    That will not change without stopping the subsidy to the gasoline industry.

  12. Taser International on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 1

    This is not a trustworthy company. They have combined the strategies of litigation trolls, lobbies, NRA and pharmaceuticals to ensure the success of their mobile cattle prod technology.

    I doubt very much that their proposed device would benefit anybody but the least deserving. It is not their nature.

  13. Re:Irrelevant - private cars are not a problem on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    With EVs, a reduction in the pollution from generating electricity is instantly realized. If we wait until we have zero emission generation everywhere, we will never get there. Although I suppose some industrial sectors are perfectly happy with that!
    It isn't like time is on our side in this, and there is a lot of resistance in place. Sadly, we the taxpayers, have subsidized the resistance more than the current...

  14. Re:They still miss the whole picture on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 3, Informative

    Who would want to drive a hummer? It is a trailer trash Cadillac.
    Second, you might want to check your facts. There was an advert-disguised-as-study a few years ago claiming something like this. It was BS.
    Third non radioactive rare-earths are actually plentiful. It is like conservatives who aren't particularly conservative. Don't know why, maybe they just like the name.
    Ps
    A hummer will burn about 1300kg more gasoline per year than a prius. A prius weighs about 1300 kg.

  15. Re:Dork appeal on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    A cringing shock of recognition perhaps? It is uncomfortable to be faced with a faux pas you could have made, but for the grace of some external influence. A spouse with taste, a sarcastic teenager or being unable to afford it; to cite a few examples.

    I think the same process feeds both homophobia and RIcky Gervais comedies.

  16. Re:Good on Judge Thinks Apple Will Lose E-Book Price-Fixing Case · · Score: 1

    Is this any different from a Most Favoured Customer clause? That is a very common instrument in vendor agreements. Is it somehow different in wholesale agreements?

  17. Re:Blind People are stupid!! on Predicting IQ With a Simple Visual Test · · Score: 1

    No, we are stupid. We labelled people who cannot speak as dumb, it should have been people who cannot see....

  18. Re:Faked? on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If a Video Has Been Faked? · · Score: 1

    How the head of Rob Ford is attached to the body has been a mystery for some time.

  19. Re:I believe the entire media sphere has been trol on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If a Video Has Been Faked? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I thought sucking dick for money was a step up for a Java programmer.

  20. Re:The proliferation of computer languages on Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is · · Score: 1

    You only have to unwind the stack frames that matter, and merely keep a chain of what needs to be destroyed.
    It is not cheap, but C++ exception handling is not cheap either.
    It is also a poor way to implement things, but at least you will be remembered.
    C++ amortizes overhead more evenly than C, so inefficiencies of a particular mechanism are not as glaring. Would you take the roof racks off an SUV to save gas?

  21. vote with your wallet. on Hollywood Studios Use DMCA To Censor Pirate Bay Documentary · · Score: 1

    Make the documentary a success; and maybe help the poor buggers with Citizen Koch while you are at it.

  22. Could stupidity be artificial? on Rice Professor Predicts Humans Out of Work In 30 Years · · Score: 1

    I am sure Moshe was not intentionally channelling Hanna-Barbera, but you raise an interesting point. Has AI prognostication devolved into mining 1960s cartoons in the hope of getting it right?

    I would like to add my own prediction: Artificial Stupidity, which will arrive long before Artificial Intelligence, will bring about the unemployment of our soothsayers. Such a singularity will be capable of generating a significant multiple of the inane tripe that humans can.

  23. I object to the word generate used in this context. The proper verb is capture, as in:
    Red light cameras captured more than 100 million in revenue....
    Even the money that could even be farcically referred to as generated - the money taken from tourists - was really captured from the Florida businesses where it otherwise would have been spent.

  24. Re:Yep on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1

    I am glad the plants will be happy. Too bad about the people.

  25. Re:is it really the same? on Can Older Software Developers Still Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Getting it right is outside the domain of the applicability of old people in the programming industry.

    But to take a stab at it....

    Prime time was not ready for fp, so it was relegated to sparking vast tracts of mediocre academic pulp.

    Cics was far too ready for prime time, with practitioners suffering worse effects than huffing paint thinner.

    I, as a freelance developer, welcome the continuous reimplementation of everything old in something older. It would be a shame if there were nothing left to do...