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  1. Re:Isn't the upshot the same? on FWD.us Wants More H-1B Visas, But 50% Go To Offshore Firms · · Score: 1

    STEM != computer programmer

  2. Re:Wait... wha? on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's been pointed out these people are holding the same position President Obama did until about a year or so ago.

  3. Re:April Fools stories are gay on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    Hehe, 3 or 4 fish hooked! Reel 'em in, rossdee!

  4. Re:Gap Between Super Rich 0.1% and Poor Grows on Nature Publisher Requires Authors To Waive "Moral Rights" To Works · · Score: 2

    I am no fan of Obama, but "income gap" is a useless and purely rhetorical metric.

    If you are concerned with "the poor", you need to look at mass average measurements of wealth and health. These tend to skyrocket in economically free areas, and suffer in non-free ones, whether hat be because of a failed state, a dictatorship, a corrupt state with kickbacks everywhere, or a heavily-taced one.

    Currently, said average wealth of poor ***is*** skyrocketting -- in China and India and similar.

  5. Re:Free market on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    The reasons you list are meme cover stories -- some valid, some not.

    None of it has anything to do with limiting the number of taxi drivers instead of letting them compete.

    In a free country, no, you don't, in fact, get to use government to carve up my access to product and limit it to whoever has the ear of a politician.

  6. Re:And so this is Costco's fault? on Million Jars of Peanut Butter Dumped In New Mexico Landfill · · Score: 1

    This is one argument I cannot agree with. It would decrease peanut butter demands, which would filter throgh the entire peanut butter market. I can't imagine much, are people just guessing this is a reason?

  7. Re:Without James Sinegal, Costco is not well manag on Million Jars of Peanut Butter Dumped In New Mexico Landfill · · Score: 1

    One person gets sick and dies, there goes your "worth $2.6 million".

    Not five articles away, slashdotters are bitching over GM making a decision to risk lives for profit. Here, they bitch about not risking it. Or not risking money to help poor, or some damned thing.

    Where's that pill Stan took last night? I need it when browsing slashdot.

    The half-size one. No, wait. The full one.

  8. Re:And so this is Costco's fault? on Million Jars of Peanut Butter Dumped In New Mexico Landfill · · Score: 1

    > and sugar

    The heathens in Europe don't know what a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is. When living there, I wanted to make one, and the only peanit butter I could find was for cooking.

    No sugar and salt is completely gross, dude. Thou knowest not of which thou speaketherino.

  9. Re:Galvanises? on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 0

    Still waiting for a diagnosis of the feeling of superiority concrete canyon dwellers get, when studies show too many rats in a cage they start eating each other. At least they don't vote, telling field mice how to live.

  10. Re:So you can report what you want under free spee on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    Yes. The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled freedom of speech includes the right not to say something.

    It still comes up, most recently in a current case where airlines are complaining about font sizes in government-mandated costs -- they want to call out government costs in giant numbers, but government mandates require some other number pleasing to politicians to be the largest.

  11. Ooh, a Lego MMORPG on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    1 person? Maybe this just shows the incredible accuracy with which the government determines these things!

    (Looks at human history briefly.). No. No...hehehe no.

  12. Re:The Founding Fathers are crying.. on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 2

    As China is sovereign, they cannot be brought to bear in anyone's court.

    If you seek to penalize companies or people that kowtow to same, that is the job of the president and Congress, not the courts, via diplomacy or military.

    Our general policy for 50 years has been encouraging economic (and other) freedoms. Is it working? What are alternatives?

  13. Eve of a new era on 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted In Woman · · Score: 1

    There. That's much better than a rib.

  14. Squealeth like a piggy on The Highest-Flying Wind Turbine · · Score: 2

    "Not in my backyard!" squealeth the rich in Hollywood and Martha's Vinypard.

  15. Odyssee II on Microsoft Launches Office For iPad: Includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder how porty the ports are.

    Will I go to shut down my phone and be greeted with a popup that "Cannot quit Excel now"?

    Will I thumb-whip an Excel spreadsheet to scroll down, and be greeted with a popup saying, "Insufficient resources to display", accompanied by a screen that no longer redraws?

    These are both still features of 2010.

  16. Re:No on Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down · · Score: 0

    Well I can hardly blame them in this case as it was over gay rights.

    Mundane politic issues, sure, don't be a fussbudget, but not ones of existence.

    However, Mozilla would be in the right, legally, to fire these guys -- publicly associating yourself with a company and making loud political statements is not your purview. No, you don't get to do that. You get to do that only without associating yourself with (someone else's stuff).

    At the same time, good luck doing that as the PR backlash would be tremendous. So they are in practice safe. Probably.

  17. Re:No problem on Ask Slashdot: Preparing For Windows XP EOL? · · Score: 1

    We do embedded development. This means re-qualifying a whole new version of tools, and the tools frequently don't work right and you cannot "just upgrade" because these are in the millions of recallable units.

  18. Five million years to Earth on Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age · · Score: 1

    It's all seconds, or fractions of a second to your heart's desire, for calculations and deltas.

    The rest is human-usable representation, a "pretty print". Making the pretty print be more useful to computers rather than people is less than helpful.

  19. Sounds about right on Facebook To Begin Deploying Btrfs · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Btrfs

    tl;dr, I assume this is a button to let you tag people as a butterface?

  20. Re:Japan and technology on Mt. Gox Working With Japanese Cops; Creditors Want CEO To Testify In US · · Score: 1

    The tech companies are good, but the government? Local police?

    There is currently a story out about 800 government employees working in a hole. All they do is manually process new federal employee retirement papers, sans any computer automation. Kind of scary processing retirement papers counts as a medium-sized business (> 400 employees).

  21. Re:Take the pulse on Tesla's Fight With Car Dealers Could Help Decide the Next Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    Troll, hehe. was my description inaccurate?

    See, "evil giant corp", by the way, let's limit the amount any one corp can donate. Wut? Each dealer counts as a corp so we can get more from them? Gosh, what a coincidence.

  22. Re:FDA, why not FTC too? on Homeopathic Remedies Recalled For Containing Real Medicine · · Score: 1

    Didn't people see that report about seven different agencies having a finger in the regulation of gas cans? When seven dofferent committees got done, the thing wouldn't fit in the gas can holder on vehicles, so people just threw it in back.

  23. Re:Without her permission? on Minnesota Teen Wins Settlement After School Takes Facebook Password · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > The summary said she gave them her password. That sounds like permission.

    With a Sheriff right there looking over her shoulder? Sounds like permission in the same way Crimea gave Russia permission.

  24. How clumsy, fire those agents. on Weev's Attorney Says FBI Is Intercepting His Client's Mail · · Score: 1

    Decent sp agencies try to avoid detection. This means not keeping the letters you illegally open.

    I would be shocked if they didn't already habe machines to brute scan without opening.