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  1. The big difference is that now, the guys can find the girls on-line and they can talk, get to know each other on-line, bond over how different they feel, and start dating.

    Seriously, this isn't stunting; it's empirically a shift in human social behavior.

  2. Paradigm shift on Study Finds Growing Up WIth Gadgets Has a Downside: Social Skill Impairment · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or, they could consider the idea that as on-line communication becomes rooted in our social ecosphere, social skills are changing to more closely integrate on-line interactions.

    15 years ago, online dating was satire. 5-10 years ago it was socially frowned upon. These days, it's damned near normative.

  3. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 2

    They dim fine.

    As for the price... well, it depends. Are you willing to spend $1 now to save $3 over the lifetime of the product? Because that's the ratio you're looking at for LED bulbs over incandescents, even at $40 for a 17 Watt (75 Watt equivalent) dimmable LED bulb.

  4. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    Look better, then (like at Amazon and Home Depot): dimmable LED bulbs.

    I've just redone all the floods in my house with them. They're pricey ($40/bulb) but they'll recoup their price in about 3 years of my current usage and last at least a decade.

  5. Re:Alamo Drafthouses are the model of the future on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the original?

    I can only guess she sent the Alamo a C&D letter, so they had Oswalt do the recreation, but they were showing this for a while: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs

  6. OK, not surprising. on Study Finds Online Cheating Is Infectious · · Score: 1

    Makes complete sense. I can easily see that if everyone you know is cheating, it would start to seem "fair.". Plus, the cheating itself starts to seem like a game in itself.

    Griefing in MMOs seems like it would be the same sort of thing.

  7. If we can send one DBA into space... on Company to Send DBA into Space · · Score: 1

    If we can send one DBA into space, why can't we send them all?

  8. Re:Facebook has the users and the games. on Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I will go where my friends are - and we were on G+ for a little while. And then Google killed the accounts of a dozen or so of them, and the rest of us left.

    I don't need an identity service masquerading as a social networking site. Facebook's bad enough, but Google's trying to get its scary little tendrils into every part of my life.

  9. Re:Unsurprising on Neil Armstrong To NASA: You're Embarrassing · · Score: 1

    Because you fail to see that deep down under their skin, all those brown people that the US blows up are the same as the white people that the US does not blow up, of course. Or something.

  10. Re:Where are the open social networks?! on Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network · · Score: 2

    Look at DIASPORA*: https://joindiaspora.com/

  11. Re:Better Press Release on Massive Diamond Found Orbiting Pulsar · · Score: 1

    You're not an astrophysicist. I met your mom isn't, either.

    Seriously, this isn't a matter of common sense, but of a scientific jargon / English mismatch, it happens all the time. In the context of astronomy, it's completely normal to talk about size in terms of mass rather than spatial units. If somebody asked what size a star was, an answer of "5.6 solar masses" would be a perfectly acceptable answer.

  12. Re:So... on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

  13. Re:Spam filtering on Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosted Gmail Alternatives? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can't live without it.

    And that makes you Google's bitch.

  14. Re:Scary on For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution · · Score: 2

    That's scary enough, but the really scary part is that this is a 15 member board 8-0 is deceptiv, there were 7 (creationist) abstentions.

  15. Re:Great, so how the hell do I paint ashalt shingl on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't bet on it, if his case is like mine. I have a 4-year-old house with a 50-year roof (galvanized zinc). Maybe I will, maybe I won't. It almost certainly won't be any time soon.

    People don't have to buy disposable roofs.

  16. Re:Droid is not a monoculture... on Developer Calls Amazon Appstore a 'Disaster' · · Score: 1

    Nobody is telling you to shut up, but it sure sounds like you are telling the people who are just offering their freely-held opinions of your self-absorbed, whiny posts to shut up.

    What an incredibly hypocritical jackass you are. Go on posting, but don't think that you are immune from other people's opinion, Mr. Special Flower.

  17. Re:The Native App Will Never Die... on Native Apps Are Dead, Long Live Native Apps · · Score: 1

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  18. Re:What is the point of this story? on Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 2 For Developers · · Score: 1

    No. Apple (in fact, Jobs at the WDCC) already announced that iOS 5 is this Fall.

    And, here's the Apple Press Release.

  19. Re:proof on Indication of Neutrino Transformation Observed · · Score: 1

    Whoops, obviously a brain fart on my part. Oy. But they *do* measure individual neutrino interactions via the Cherenkov radiation emitted from their interactions in very large reservoirs of shielded heavy water.

  20. Re:proof on Indication of Neutrino Transformation Observed · · Score: 1

    Why not? You filter out other kinds of decay with a block of lead, and run the signal from the single muon through a PMT, and presto, you have a measurable signal.

    This is a standard undergraduate modern physics lab experiment.

  21. Re:horseshit on Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Theater Gives Texters the Boot · · Score: 2

    Text messages are sometimes dropped on the floor - they are not guaranteed delivery. AT&T drops them every so often in Austin.

  22. Re:horseshit on Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Theater Gives Texters the Boot · · Score: 2

    The Alamo's policy is complaint-driven. If you are truly not bothering anybody, you will not be asked to leave. I betcha this drunk chick was not being subtle.

  23. Re:horseshit on Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Theater Gives Texters the Boot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're kind of an idiot. Text messages and email are not a reliable point-to-point communications medium for time sensitive messages. If it's that important, it should be using a real time channel (voice) and you should be going out into the hall to answer it.

    Your urgency does not entitle you to disrupt other people's enjoyment of their paid-for evening. The Alamo's policy is in place because of self-important jackasses like you,

  24. Re:Its a very serious issue... on Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Theater Gives Texters the Boot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder if you have some sort brain damage or something, or are just assuming the least instrusive phone possible during the brightest scene possible.

    How could you not find a bright backlit LCD distracting during a dark scene in a movie? The Alamo's policy is a great one - they prohibit children under a certain age, too, outside of certain designated showings They are well-loved in Austin for these kinds of policies - I won't go to other theaters now unless I want IMAX or they are not showing a movie I want to see. It really does make a different kind of experience, making sure that nobody is distracting their neighbors.

  25. Re:Violate the TOS? on Apple Rips Off Rejected App, Says Wireless Sync Developer · · Score: 1

    Unless I'm mistaken, you can't run a browser other than Safari on an iPad. And its built into the OS.

    You're mistaken. You can't use a different *rendering engine* from WebKit, but there are a number of other browsers that are sold on the strength of different user-facing functions.

    Atomic Web Browser, for one.