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  1. Re:Now what? on Judge Orders Dutch Government To Finally Take Action On Climate Promises · · Score: 1

    Sovereign to within the limits of the people-created constitution, that is. Assuming there is one, as parliamentary systems are more vox populi vox dei.

  2. Now what? on Judge Orders Dutch Government To Finally Take Action On Climate Promises · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is upside down. The elected government is sovereign, and derives its necessary powers from the consent of the people.

    The correct way to change a government's course is by electing new people. Did the people of Holland appoint a judge to overlord the elected government?

  3. Terrible twos on Samsung Cripples Windows Update To Prevent Incompatible Drivers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Samsung: You're terrible programmers!

    Microsoft: No, you are terrible programmers!

    Kids, kids, you'really both terrible.

  4. It came back! on After 6-Year Beta Test, All Gmail Users Get 'Undo Send' · · Score: 1

    Sofia Vergara: Yay! It unsendided!

  5. Re:Screw capitalism on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 2

    Capitalism can solve it.

    Shove it in a landfill and let robots sort it out in 100 years.

    And no, we are not running out of landfill room. It's only a NIMBY problem.

  6. Re:What are natural flavors, really? on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 1

    It's possible strawberries taste like beetle wings rather than beetle wings taste like strawberries.

    Many flavors you like probably evolved in response to various insects back in the primate days and earlier, back to the vole things that survived the dinosaurs.

    Bacon tastes like worms, not worms like bacon. Or whatever that is. X 1000 flavors.

  7. Re: Nothing that money can't buy on Mauna Kea Telescope Construction Slated To Resume · · Score: 1

    In decision theory, a partitioning algorithm that guesses 100% of a population is in one group, and is right 98% of the time, is in one sense a very good algorithm. It's useless for sorting, but it is very accurate.

    I am fine with assuming the vast majority of people, and their lawyers, in this type of situation are useless leeches looking to get pay-ay-aid to go away.

  8. Re:TNSTAAFL on Sprint Begins Punishing Customers For FCC's Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do you seriously think you would have an octocore Galaxy S6 in your hand if it were all government?

    Go look up a Trabby car, as governments tried to keep up with the free west. And if not for the west, they wouldn't have even bothered.

    I can handle Government Should Do More types, who look to safety and safety nets and such, but your type is found exclusively in cloistered areas of the free west.

  9. Re:Patent What? on Editing DNA For Fame and Fortune · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Patent What? on Editing DNA For Fame and Fortune · · Score: 1

    Sliding DNA into dynamic storage locations your body uses to flag viruses for destruction, for other uses like recognizing and killing cancer, or performing DNA surgery, might be.

  11. Re:CRISPR second generation medicine on Editing DNA For Fame and Fortune · · Score: 1

    D&D Doctor: "Some people are doing +STR or +CHA or +CON, but most males are taking +PNS."

  12. EWWWW EUUUUUU on UK's Legalization of CD Ripping Is Unlawful, Court Rules · · Score: 1

    This does not stop the UK from allowing private backups and copies -- many EU states* do. This is a violation of EU regulations, where, if such copying is allowed, there must be compensation from government.

    This typically takes the form of an extra blank CD or DVD tax, or tax proportional to the memory size of the device (bigger can hold more copying.) Presumably direct payments taxed some other way are also acceptable.

    But sorry, welcome to...

    * The United States of Europe! All mere States shall be broken to the saddle of the Federal Government. Muahahahahaha

  13. Re:Amen brother! on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Search Engines Left That Don't Try To Think For Me? · · Score: 1

    or you get only Taylor Swift and Kardashian search results.

    My god. I work on mannequins and you have no idea how bad it is when I search for "silicone butts"!

  14. Re:So rich guy loses court case with bank on Shuttleworth Loses $20m Battle With S. African Reserve Bank Over Expatriated Funds · · Score: 1

    Slashdot's mostly non-tech stories have been left-wing outrage disasrerbation fodder for more than a decade now. Get over yourself.

    There, i fixed that for you - you are welcomed!

    There, i fixed that for you - you are welcomed!

  15. Re:"our three core ambitions" on Elop and Others Leaving Microsoft, Myerson Taking Bigger Role · · Score: 2

    "Scroogled" mastermind Mark Penn are leaving Microsoft as part of a fresh company reorganization. "We are aligning our engineering efforts and capabilities to deliver on our strategy and, in particular, our three core ambitions,"

    Hard lessons learned the hard rather than easy way:

    1. Innovate rather than copy and spread FUD, check!
    2. Don't attack in advertising ("Scroogled") a beloved thing like Google, check! Burger King learned this the hard way in the 1970s.
    3. Hiring managers who fiddle while Rome burns, then leave with the gold parachute, check! Jobs grabbed by the balls, while other managers coast waiting for their 7 years to be up and retire. Best to retire in a company 80% of what it was than risk upsetting it.

    I would recommend Microsoft cancel planned ads talking about what jackasses Scarlett Johansson and Robert Downey, Jr., are.

  16. Creamy...so very creamy on Sunday Times Issues DMCA Takedown Notice To the Intercept Over Snowden Article · · Score: 1

    Screw the Russian and Chinese hacking national security secrets. I wanna see Lindsay Lohan: Sex, Drugs, and Babies!

  17. Re:And so the cycle of "reform" continues on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    His point is we have sufficient evidence that current legal dictates with respect to food will likely be wrong, completely unlike your other examples.

    When a theory makes accurate predictions, you should honor it.

  18. Re:And so the cycle of "reform" continues on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    I recall the anti-fat phase starting in the 1970s. We would buy "fat free" Entenmen's strudels and so on. To compensate for lack of fat, i.e. to de-disgustingize it as much as possible, they crammed in a lot more sugar until the thing was crystalline.

    I am convinced the modern health problems of obesity and type 2 diabetes are generally carb-related, and have nothing to do with hfcs.. People didn't used to eat a mouthful of carbs with every bite, three times a day. Buns and fries and chips everywhere, all meals, all the time. Unless it's pizza or macaroni and cheese. Third base!

    And can someone look into slow overdose of all the daily vitamins in everything? Eating buns and pasta crammed with vitamins in amounts mucha larger than envisioned by officials in the 1950s.

  19. Re:Excellent. Now how about High Fructose Corn Syr on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Hfcs has nothing to do with it. If it did, type 2s would start to get better without it. It's only 5% different from table sugar in hf content.

  20. The key(board) uocks all on Microsoft Announces Customizable Xbox Elite Wireless Controller · · Score: 4, Funny

    Today, Microsoft announced that later this year, it will be releasing what could be the "ultimate" Xbox and Windows game controller. Called Xbox Elite Wireless, this gamepad has a dramatically overhauled D-pad and four paddles underneath. Other features that make this gamepad special: there are trigger locks, the ability to customize thumbstick sensitivity, along with the level of travel for the top triggers. In addition, it also sports swappable components, like the paddles, etc

    "The controller is seen as a huge improvement. In FPS playtesting, test subiects using this controller had their butts handed to them by a mouser in 2.8 seconds, compared to 1.3 seconds with the old controller."

  21. Re:Remote? In Massachusetts? on Remote Massachusetts Towns Welcome Broadband's Arrival · · Score: 1

    The Boston/Cambridge area has the highest density of left-wing, big government spending justifiers on the planet. They've even defined both the volume and effectiveness of their squeaky wheel in terms of smoots.

  22. Re: Fallout, Dishonored yes/DOOM meh on Bethesda Unveils New Doom Game, Announces Dishonored 2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apparently you have to decide to do a gory kill just before it dies to see the gory quicktime kill.

    No dynamic slices or severs, apparently, which would he a fun minigame deciding which way to cut.

    Oh well. Maybe 20 years in the future they will have this tech, sometime around 2015. For now, mid 1990s, it remains a game engine sliding per-generated animations around a landscape.

  23. Re:Facebook anonymity on Journalist Burned Alive In India For Facebook Post Exposing Corruption · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't teach your journalists how to avoid being murdered. Teach your boys not to murder to gain and remain in power.

  24. Who did this? on Monitoring Brain Activity With Mesh Electronics · · Score: 2

    The scientists demonstrated they could inject a 2mm wide sample of the mesh through a glass needle with an inner diameter of only 95m

    The system, Tiny, Angstrom-level Regional Dermal Injection System, or TARDIS, benefis both medicine and research.

  25. Re:Aiding someone in joining an enemy military on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Treason is specifically called out and defined in the Constitution. I don't know, but I'll bet it means they don't have to treat you as a prisoner of war.