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  1. Stupid question on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    Why not use the gas we euthanize dogs and cats with?

    PS: I'm probably against the death penalty but it just seems an easy method to remove this objection to it, and use something that is not going to be hard to supply. And I'm sure some death-penalty supporters are also much more concerned with cat and dogs suffering so this is probably pretty humane.

  2. Re:danger will robinson on Professors: US "In Denial" Over Poor Maths Standards · · Score: 1

    I actually did 2 + 150 + 21, but I agree with your basic idea that doing it in your head involves doing basically what the common core stuff says.

  3. Re:What could go wrong with the Vomit Comet? on Swiss Space Systems Announces Plan To Offer World's Cheapest Zero-G Flights · · Score: 2

    According to the FA it is divided into 3 rooms (first class, second, and budget?). Maybe they only clean the first two between flights.

  4. Re:I've come around to socialism on Congress Unhappy With FCC's Proposed Changes To Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    Because it would allow competion, stupid.

    Just like your fantasy that somehow the it is ok for every competitor to add a new wire running to every house in the city, and that somehow the cost to them of doing this is zero.

    Except it would work. The startup would only have to connect to the shared end of the fiber.

  5. Re:The FCC has no right to dictate terms on Congress Unhappy With FCC's Proposed Changes To Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Yea right, you can keep believing that.

    You really have no concept of reality, do you?

  6. Re:The FCC has no right to dictate terms on Congress Unhappy With FCC's Proposed Changes To Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    Yay, finally somebody responding intelligently to this John Galt idiot.

    The idea that it is the inability to add new wires, and only due to regulations and not the cost, is what is stopping competion is so obviously blindingly wrong. He is just trying desperately to keep up his fantasy that the invisible hand always works with a ridiculous plea that somehow it is the eeeeevil gvmnt!!!!

  7. Re:The FCC has no right to dictate terms on Congress Unhappy With FCC's Proposed Changes To Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Riddle me this... do you want the US postal service to run your internet?

    The answer would be yes.

  8. Re:are you saying... on FCC Chairman Will Reportedly Revise Broadband Proposal · · Score: 2

    Can UPS pay extra so their trucks can use the carpool lane? And thus deliver faster than FedEX unless they also pay?

  9. Re:Well, I don't know.. on Winning Algorithms For Rock, Paper, Scissors · · Score: 1

    Scissors! Oh rats...

  10. Re:In 3, 2, 1... on 50 Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal · · Score: 1

    Why not use |= ?

      PORTA |= 1<<4;

    I agree the same problem of having to assume gcc will turn it into an sbi instruction, but at least it is a little clearer and more likely this way.

    My personal feeling is that there should be a C-like language where every single global keyword not in a namespace is reserved for internal use. Ie max() and min() and sin() and sdi() so on are all reserved for direct implementation by the compiler. Currently the solution is to pretty much implement __foo() as a built-in and then require a header file that adds an inline foo()->__foo() wrapper.

  11. Re:Don't care on Firefox 29: Redesign · · Score: 1

    No you are not allowed to fire them directly, as two posters pointed out above (CA law, not sure about whereever you are). However apparently you *can* harass them until they are forced to resign, which is what happened.

    PS: people are also free to boycott/picket your company for doing this.

  12. Re:So says the Sociologist on Waste Management: The Critical Element For Nuclear Energy Expansion · · Score: 1

    Good idea! She should contact this person, who even has the same name as her!

  13. Re:Mass transit on Will the Nissan Leaf Take On the Tesla Model S At Half the Price? · · Score: 1

    BART though... They usually are not self supporting but highly dependent on revenue from government or taxes

    Meanwhile, roads and highways and parking lots are natural formations and don't cost money!

  14. Re:We've come a long way on Born To RUN: Dartmouth Throwing BASIC a 50th B-Day Party · · Score: 1

    So you can declare a variable of type MyClass called myClass, or a method that returns a MyClass called myClass().

    In most languages this would be impossible if case was not preserved by lexical scanning (there are a few languages where the intention can be distinguished by syntax, which would allow the class name and method to be exactly the same, and then case sensitivity may be less of a problem).

    Another huge problem with case insensitivity is that the rules get really complex once you get out of ASCII-only, and different interpretations of the rules in effect mean you have literally thousands of actually different syntaxes.

  15. Re:Time to add another layer of BS indirection: on Elite Violinists Can't Distinguish Between a Stradivarius and a Modern Violin · · Score: 1

    It needs Monster catgut on the bow

  16. Re:What about the hershey fonts? on Google Chrome 34 Is Out: Responsive Images, Supervised Users · · Score: 1

    I see arrows there. Never noticed they were missing however.
    This is on Linux with 34.

  17. Re:informal poll on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 1

    My home computer is dual boot with Ubuntu (12?) and Windows 7, and I never use Windows on it (I know because there is a bug and it does not work with the serial keyboard, so I have to dig out and plug in the USB keyboard that came with the machine if I want to boot it into Windows, and right now I don't even know where that keyboard is (ps the bug is strange: only the login does not work. Once you log in the serial keyboard works just fine)). We also have a much older iMac and a couple Android tablets and one iPad, an ancient iMac PowerPC used to play music on the stereo, and an ASUS Linux netbook that amazingly still works and is used by visitors more than I would expect.

  18. Re:Don't bother. on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    Here is the correct commentary, I mixed up which bogus data this is:

    http://blog.hotwhopper.com/201...

    Basically he shifted the predictions line up by .3 degrees

  19. Re:Don't bother. on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    Did you notice the "troposphere" in their data? They are cherry-picking the portion of the earth that has warmed the least.

    Average temperature increase for the earth has *exceeded* the models, consistently when averaged over a period of ten years.

  20. Re:Don't bother. on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    While I agree it is not at all impossible to save our cities, I'm pretty certain it would be much more cost effective to build sea walls.

  21. Re:Do any of the computer models explain this on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    It's pretty obvious from your graph that the decreases are much slower than the increases. This is because they show the carbon dioxide being absorbed by rocks after the source of it has turned off or slowed down.

  22. Re:Don't bother. on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    Skeptics certainly are shouted down when the "facts" are made up with no basis on reality. Please show where you got those claims about sea level and the models not matching.

  23. Re:Don't bother. on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 2

    You do realize the change is happening literally HUNDREDS of times FASTER than any of those "12 previous times". Or perhaps you just want to ignore that because it makes your whole argument bogus.

  24. I see nothing wrong with this on ZunZuneo: USAID Funded 'Cuban Twitter' To Undermine Communist Regime · · Score: 1

    I'm unclear if this article is supposed to raise righteous anger at some evil by the old USA. But this sounds exactly like something we should be doing to promote our views, and probably a lot more effective than any threats or insults.

  25. Re:It's been bisected and confirmed on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle Unfixed Linux Accessibility Bugs? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, a mouse button is a key for anybody in the real world. It even has it's own keysym values in X.

    Also as pointed out, OS/X and Windows, and earlier verisons of X, worked this way. If this is really somebody saying "mouse buttons are not keys and I will obey the text literally" then that is really sad.

    From the patch description this sounds like an accidental change, not deliberate. But beyond that it is hard to figure out what needs to be fixed. It sounds like there is a null pointer dereference, but only when the X server is shutting down. That's pretty minor and in fact something I know commercial software would ignore.