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  1. Not that strange considering on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 2

    That 1984 US VW Passats that were made in Mexico are now the Volkswagen Santana, that is made and sold in China.

    The factories in Mexico were packed up and moved to China and the model remanufactured under the label of VW Santana.

    Every cab in Shanghai is essentially a brand new 1984 VW Passat.

  2. Um. Why is this even here? on Shawn Raymond's Tandem Bike is Shorter Than Yours (Video) · · Score: 1

    This is terrible and stupid.

    Why the hell is this on Slashdot?

  3. Well... on The Profoundly Weird, Gender-Specific Roots of the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    isn't that creepy.

  4. Re:Why "bunnie"? on Interviews: Ask Andrew "bunnie" Huang About Hardware and Hacking · · Score: 1

    Three!

  5. Re:Why "bunnie"? on Interviews: Ask Andrew "bunnie" Huang About Hardware and Hacking · · Score: 1

    Let me introduce you to the president of our Fortune 100 company, Mr. Davis "Fluffy Bunny Poopie Uppums Dumpling Pants" Stonebaum.

    Bunnie is a pet name for someone's girlfriend. It's not even bunny spelled right. That's not a guy's name. That's not a nickname any guy would like to have. That's not professional.

            Let me introduce you to the president of our Fortune 100 company, Mr. Davis "Fatass" Stonebaum.

            Let me introduce you to the president of our Fortune 100 company, Mr. Davis "Kitty Dumpling" Stonebaum.

    It's foolish, and uncomfortably strange.

    It makes you wonder what is wrong with the guy that he chooses to go by something that odd.

    It's not good. It doesn't make him look good. It shows odd judgement. These are flags to stay away from someone.

  6. Re:Why "bunnie"? on Interviews: Ask Andrew "bunnie" Huang About Hardware and Hacking · · Score: 1

    Seriously. I can't get past that nickname. Whenever I hear it, I immediately think the guy is a joke.

    A better nickname would be good for him.

  7. Now, on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    if they can only afford to fuel and maintain them.

    I'm sure if they really want to, they will ask for more budget from their municipalities.

    We can only hope that these die out over high operational costs for minimal return.

  8. Who in their right mind on The Ethics Cloud Over Ballmer's $2 Billion B-Ball Buy · · Score: 1

    thought that Ballmer reeked of Ethics?

  9. Two things. on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    1. This is why I call my bank(s) before I go to .
    2. I always buy another phone in the other country and get prepaid minutes so I never worry about some insane data roaming overcharge surprise.

    Is this really that hard for people to do?

  10. Well, that's easy on Ask Slashdot: Where's the Most Unusual Place You've Written a Program From? · · Score: 1

    Either Heathrow airport, or the middle of the Kalahari.

    It was the production system for FiOS TV's design to development pipeline.

    I told my team and bosses I was going to go into hiding for a week. I was off coding in a bar in Africa when they asked me if I wanted to go down the street for Indian food.

  11. Re:How boring. on My Neighbor Totoro In Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    other people's* work

            peoples = more than one group of people

  12. Re:AUSTRALIA: The Results Are In on My Neighbor Totoro In Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    Fuck off. Stop comment spamming. This has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

  13. Microconsole? on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    Screw that. I want an iPad, the size of a coffee table book, with an iOS 5 or 6 style GUI.

    Of course, there is that snowball's chance in hell, but I seriously expect that Ive will continue to destroy the Mac and iOS GUI.

  14. Re:No good on The Rule of Three Proved By Physicists · · Score: 1

    Mexico has us beat.

    We were #1. We were #1.

  15. Re:Clueless on The Rule of Three Proved By Physicists · · Score: 1

    Soooooo, this might explain stability of atoms in certain structures and certain distances?

    Or how certain subatomic particles make stable structures and become atoms?

    Am I reading into this right?

  16. Re: Pi? on The Rule of Three Proved By Physicists · · Score: 0

    People do not have "Asperger". They have "Asperger's", or "Asperger's Syndrome".

    Asperger alone means nothing.

    You should know this.

  17. As someone not schooled in this discipline on The Rule of Three Proved By Physicists · · Score: 1

    Why is this relevant?

    What does it teach us that a normal person could understand?

    Please explain to us why someone should care about this.

  18. Re:On that note on Should We Eat Invasive Species? · · Score: 1

    I'm cool with that. Sitting here fully clothed at the moment.

  19. Hell, man, that's almost what I want. on HP Delivers a Big-Name, 7-inch Android Tablet For $100: Comes With Compromises · · Score: 1

    Really, if I could get one with a screen the size of a legal pad and the smooth animation capabilities of OS X and with nice fonts, I'd be a happy man.

    Large photo portfolios, coffee table books. These are the types of things I want to look at on a tablet.

  20. Well, it has been on Is Bamboo the Next Carbon Fibre? · · Score: 1

    For quite some time.

    It's quite an amazing material.

  21. Good. on Google Overtakes Apple As the World's Most Valuable Brand · · Score: 1

    Apple's done real damage to the usefulness of their brand with the idiotic reskin of iOS (iOS 7) and the dumbing down of the Mac OS with a focus on adding useless distracting animations that are difficult (or near impossible to turn off) and a worse looking UI (all white, less detail, less functional area delineation, less crisp) post Snow Leopard.

    Apple is now clearly putting fluff ahead of function and isn't allowing users to disable new unwanted and distracting features that offer no benefit to usability.

    It bums me out.

  22. Jesus fuck, just use Propofol on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    It worked for Michael Jackson, it will work for inmates.

  23. Re:Never used this keystroke on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I used to be a Mac fan.

    That's sad. Because now I'm not. Apple seems to only care about new gizmos and animating everything, rather than sticking with creating useful and predictable interfaces.

    Ive is the worst thing for the UI that I've ever seen. It's soul deadening.

  24. Re:Never used this keystroke on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 0

    Command S for you Mac users.

    Honestly, I like to make sure my data is not lost, but really, as a result of having to save, I use save as a moment to make sure "Yeah, I made some good material, I'll save it now."

    In a few cases, I shudder, because there are things I might type to vent that I explicitly DO NOT WANT to be saved, ever, at all.

    Now, if I only had a toilet to wipe my ass for me, but only when I want it to.

  25. There are some groups who already have working cold fusion that works in the lab and is repeatable. The trick now is to turn the devices into commercial devices (at a profit) and not get smashed out of business by the current entrenched market forces in the energy industry.

    I've seen videos of the devices actually working.

    Yes, I could be wrong, or have been mislead, but that's the info I've been fortunate enough to be exposed to.