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  1. Re:tablets need more storage space and bigger scre on Intel Leaving Desktop Motherboard Business · · Score: 1

    Whooooooooooooosh!

  2. Story of the ages on Intel Leaving Desktop Motherboard Business · · Score: 1

    "Motherboard? Where did Daddy go?"

    "He left us for a much younger, slimmer model."

  3. Re:This is fine by me on Tech Firms Keep Piles of 'Foreign Cash' In US · · Score: 1

    Large groups of people follow charismatic leaders skilled in feeding them memes that they are good people, and the corpprations doing the inventing, rotten people, and thus we are justified, with a clear conscience, in seizing someone else's self-made pie slice.

    "You didn't make that slice of pie!" >:-( Thus begins the latest meme evolutionary step.

  4. Re:Fatter? on Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour · · Score: 1

    You know your markets!

    What's your position on topless women in MMORPGs?

  5. Re:Why was that viral gene inside in the first pla on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 1

    Actual measurement shows people living longer, healthier, and better lives.

    This is due to progress, which is due to greedy profit motive.

    Requiring 20 years of testing delays introduction of new, beneficial things. For your theory to be useful, the average thing introduced would have to be more harmful than the average beneficial thing is helpful.

    If not, you're murdering people, net effect. Guess what history shows? You'd be murdering people hand-over-fist.

  6. I wish to use all caps, slashdot. I want to yell. on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 1

    Why did nobody tell me my car contained gasoline??!!!

    GOD DAMN IT! It wasn't on the window sheet!

  7. Re:Why was that viral gene inside in the first pla on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 1

    Consider Olestra chips. Everybody "knows" it causes cramping. Except blind studies show it causes slightly less cramping than normal chips.

    Meanwhile the chip contribution to obesity and diabetes and heart disease continues unhampered.

  8. Re:Hype, hype and more hype on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 1

    To give a little bit of a simplified background, there are three critical elements in gene expression:
    PROMOTER
    TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS
    GENE
    PROTEIN

    Oh oh. That's four things. No wonder something snuck in there.

  9. Re:Well... on 'Bankrupt' Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete · · Score: 1

    If Google did its job, the first links would explain the nature of the bankruptcy.

    Unlike the other case where it was an incorrect association involving an actual assassination attempt, this is a correct association with all the gory details when one hits the enter key.

  10. Re:corporatespeak on Steve Jobs Threatened Palm To Stop Poaching Employees · · Score: 1

    Full of corporate sycopan, syncho, corporate suckasses? All posts so far are yelping about how evil and wrong this is.

    For the sake of argument, the companoes voluntarily entered into this.

    Also, for the sake of argument, that is capitalism, free people freely associating and organizing. If you don't like it, go make a case for its illegality.

  11. Re:The argument is a stretch. on Why You'll Pay For Netflix — Even If You Don't Subscribe To Netflix · · Score: 1

    So...we don't like net neutrality after all? I'm confused.

  12. Re:Finally on WotC Releases Old Dungeons & Dragons Catalog As PDFs · · Score: 2

    I'm willing to bet shutting down the old editions was more about forcing people into the new than anything else.

    Take it from someone who played pen-and-paper in the '70s, you second edition bastardized version sucker.

  13. Re:In light of all the gerrymandering going on ... on To Open Source Obama's Get-Out-the-Vote Code Or Not? · · Score: 1

    I'm always amused at the power of political narratives. "We good, they bad."

    Fyi, the Gerry for whom gerrymandering was named was a member of the party that became the modern Democrats.

  14. Re:put up or shutup time on To Open Source Obama's Get-Out-the-Vote Code Or Not? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to say they'd share in every dollar of the approximately $5 trillion in extra debt over the next four years, but it was $400 billion a year, not counting Bush's bank bailout. And on top of it, the Republicans would maybe pare back spending 10%, so the most these programmers would be complicit in would be about 10% i.e. $130 billion per year, worst case.

  15. Re:What is this crap? on MIT Warned of a JSTOR Death Sentence Due To Swartz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The purpose of "everything is illegal" has been well-known for thousands of years -- nobody can do daily activities to keep themselves alive without kickbacks, and anyone uppity can be easily yanked.

    History should give no confidence whatsoever that democracy and freedom of speech have more than a minor impact on this. If anything, it can be worse in some ways since some of the lower-level officials don't feel themselves corrupt, but rather fancy themselves helpful, playing the position of useful idiot for higher officials who do take donations, legal or otherwise. "I'll sic this self-righteous regulator...unless a hefty ransom is paid?"

  16. With trackpads only. on MS Won't Release Study Disputing Munich's Linux-Switch Savings · · Score: 2

    I have an excerpt from the report's abstract:

    "For the purpose of this study, Microsoft assumes Munich will be installing Fedora 18..."

  17. Re:I must agree on Fedora 18 Installer: Counterintuitive and Confusing? · · Score: 1

    Somebody, animal, vegetable, or mineral, decided to stick a "Fedora 18" tag on some software. Why? Do they have a mission statement? What is their goal?

    I suggest they adopt one and then go read The Inmates Are Running The Asylum.

    Design a product and stop throwing wrappers around underlying APIs.

  18. Re:Nihao, bitches!1 on Book Review: A Gift of Fire · · Score: 1

    Well, the book review author clearly doesn't natively speak English already.

  19. Re:How many times did this happen? on Earth May Have Been Hit By a Gamma-Ray Burst In 775 AD · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. This event: Black hole formation or giant solar flare.

    Other article: C14 creation: Supernova or giant solar flare.

    I hereby declare the 775 event a giant solar flare.

  20. "Scientists studying the quad-helix have already determined it is heavily implicated in the alcoholism gene."

  21. Re:Koch Brothers? on BEST Study Finds Temperature Changes Explained by GHG Emissions and Volcanoes · · Score: 1

    Every percent of solar variance translates into about 3 degrees at Earth temperatures. In any case, one would habe to map this vs. avg. temp, which would probably lag by 3-4 months, like winter does vs. actual daylight time.

  22. And make 'em publish pages in French, too! on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    "Electricity in the home? What good is this 'electricity'?"

    "Senator, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it."

    Remember, folks. The sordid, scurrilous worms in this are not the innovators.

  23. For what it's worth. on Schmidt, Daughter Talk About North Korea Trip · · Score: 1

    Before the recent idiocy with people forced to stand there crying.

    A theory that makes predictions is a powerful theory indeed.

  24. Re:What about Lenna? on NASA Achieves Laser Communication With Lunar Satellite · · Score: 1

    Ya! Aren't technological advancements driven by porn anyway?

  25. Re:Can someone explain how multinationals work? on Google Invests $1 Billion To Build New London HQ · · Score: 1

    Legal != moral

    Avoiding decisions by masses != immoral, though it may be illegal

    Democracy is just an abstraction of might makes right. Insofar as it runs hog wild, where is any inherent morality at all?