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  1. Re:Pegasus on Invisibility Tech Demo Tomorrow In NYC · · Score: 1

    Also, to quote Family Guy, "It smells like Fred Flintstone's ass in here!"

  2. Re:Ouch. on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 1

    Government still manages to become less efficient with size. It's easier to hide waste, and it's not their money.

    In any case, the one process that everyone made sure worked efficiently was flow of money into pockets.

  3. Re:Enough Gaming on Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists · · Score: 2

    Then there's developing countries that say no, and China, who looks at their allocated 10 red and 10 black chips, and says, "Give us 275 more chips or g'bye", and negotiators give it to them.

  4. Re:no on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 2

    You can do all that. 250 million non tech sophisticateds can't.

    I could write my own browser if I wanted to. You're missng the point.

  5. Re:"Artificial Womb" sounds so awkward. on Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? · · Score: 1

    Well, nerds have been focused on arificial vaginas for decades now -- why not go whole hog?

  6. Re:Universal law of YouCan'tHaveItAll on Everspin Launches Non-Volatile MRAM That's 500 Times Faster Than NAND · · Score: 1

    Must...save..porn...Oh, that was fast!

  7. Re:I'm loath to ask: on Vegetative State Man 'Talks' By Brain Scan · · Score: 1

    It may take a while to get it out but, "I want a hand job, please. And no 'man hands' as I cannot verify ownership, txbie."

  8. One overlord or another, you, personnally, welcome on Battery-Powered Transmitter Could Crash A City's 4G Network · · Score: 1

    But government wants to shut off communications anyway to hinder coordination or remotely-detonated bombs.

    So cutting off communication increases damage, as does leaving it running?

  9. Re:Home run counts misleading on Nate Silver Turns His Eye To the American League · · Score: 1

    TFA talks about this, even noting Cabrerra tends to hit to Tiger stadium's shorter alleys, as opposed to the other guy who is more distributed.

    While TFA is a good argument, it has the feel of religion, where he keeps digging until he finds the "his" guy ahead, then stops analyzing.

  10. Where can I get a camera for my civilian glasses? on Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of encounters are fine -- its the rare ones blown up on tv that are the exception.

    This should cut down on lawsuits rather than make police look bad.

    If it surprises you police would want this, you've bought into the meme that police problems are rampant.

    Sorry, your days enjoying bad cop disasterbation are coming to an end.

  11. Re:Headers on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 2

    proprietary adj : fuckupaliscious : It turns our our billing method adds all kinds of internal data traffic and amortizes it across customers' bills, so tell him it's proprietary so he doesn't get outraged and Congress doesn't get involved.

  12. Re:Disruption on Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal · · Score: 1

    You can believe in AGW and still be scared shitless by it being used as a cypto argument for massive government intervention in the economy by economic leftists.

    That's why a list like this is so useful -- the kinds of people looking for just such another excuse.

    You could grant every last fear and it's still something to be concerned with. A quick look at North vs. South Korea shows government with too much control is worse than anything this side of a massive asteroid strike.

  13. Re:Windows 7 compatibility mode on Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All these dozens of posts.

    Just recompile the stuff.

    "I don't know how, I mean, how will that fix it?"

    Force int to 16 or 32-bit accordingly and...

    "We don't have the source code."

    Well, just rewrite it. Good god.

    "I don't know ho..."

    MOOOOOOOOOVE!!!

  14. Re:It's a sad sign of the times on Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017 · · Score: 1

    What's more interesting is the post contains two liberal knee-jerk positions: There's too little resources, oh noes, government intervention needed! And there's too much of it, government intervention needed.

    As usual, Julian Simon wins again. Resource prices go down over time as freedom-based capitalism works its magic, and quality of life measurements go up.

    It keeps ahead of the curve, which is the counter-intuitive bit that so many physical scientists self-curbstomp over, not understanding the economics has been shown to work over and over again.

  15. Re:Ridiculous on $200,000 Judgement Against Google In Mokbel Shots Case · · Score: 1

    Maybe the plaintiff should up his notorious activity to push the crime lord off the first page.

  16. Re:Seriously? on Evidence for Unconscious Math, Language Processing Abilities · · Score: 2

    Beyond complete brain shutoff, like with drugs during an operation, it's questionable whether there is much difference berwen unconscious sleep and subconscious while awake.

    This study is more confirmation of an idea that's been shaping up for at least 30 years, that your conscious mind really doesn't do much proper thinking, with thoughts and sentences being formed subconsciously and then paraded through the conscious mind for some kind of review and storage.

  17. Re:An Integrating Machine on Evidence for Unconscious Math, Language Processing Abilities · · Score: 1

    So the battery-like zing when your tongue is on a vagina is...wait, nm, nobody here will know what I'm talking about.

  18. Re:Decline on Amid Fiscal Uncertainty, Venture Capital Is Way Down In Silicon Valley · · Score: 2

    Funny, and troll both.

    Does anyone else find it interesting, though, that there are serious posts talking about government punishing businesses for failing to invest in a risky environment, to rescue politicians from bad times?

    How else to describe it?

  19. Yes, that'll restore confidence -- promose to take the value if they don't spend it, let failure take it if they do invest and lose, and if they invest and win, which they judge unlikely at this point already, have politicians pluck down a much larger chunk of the profits, declaring buisness evil for not paying their fair share; they have a greater ability, and duty, to pay.

    Until moral improves, the beatings will continue. Here's your new program to find people hiding in the closets who want nothing to do with your beatings.

    Nice.

  20. Re:We'll run out of oil by the year 2000. on Climate Change Could Drive Coffee To Extinction By 2080 · · Score: 1

    12,000 years ago there was a mile of ice where I'm sitting. Worldwide weather was vastly different. 12,000 years barely even counts evolutionarily.

    I wouldn't sweat this issue. With humans helping things along, and the greedy profit motive, I'll predict coffee will be even cheaper in 2080. Assuming it's even grown at all, instead of spit out by a replicator.

  21. Re:Translation: on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    Apparently people twisting government to protect their own interests is a new concept. Golly! I thought it was all nice, honest people petitioning government to outlaw murder and stuff!

  22. Re:Serves them right on Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort · · Score: 1

    The correct solution would be to make it tax-free for other groups to donate, too, not to use the power of government to tax the people to discourage speech in election persuasion.

    Search the butthurt of your feelings -- are you truly opposed because of "too much money" corrupting politicians, or "too much money" maybe persuading people to vote against what you want?

    Given the polarized nature of politics, it should hardly come as a surprise the money follows the position rather than the other way around.

  23. Re:Serves them right on Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort · · Score: 1

    That is the goal -- argument from moral intimidation until people flee.

    Don't deny it. Also, religion has been using it for thousands of years. QED Politics is religion.

  24. Re:Serves them right on Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort · · Score: 1

    That's only because game designers think it's cool because it's from Asia and boost it's attributes. Actual state-of-the-art melee, before guns, longbows, and crossbows ruined it, was armor and a polearm or 2-hander.

  25. Re:Neither Moon nor LEO nor L2 on NASA Pondering L2 Outpost, Return To Moon · · Score: 1

    At the other extreme, I read a short story, "Return to the Golden Age", where orbits of Earth are crammed and many people have private space ships, but nobody still went back to the moon, so somebody does.