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  1. A better policy: on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    They should probably just switch to a policy where an account requires a credit card, or valid ID, and you only allow one private and one public account per person.

    -Z

  2. Re:Yeah. Only scored thirty points too on Black Hole Plays Pool With Plasma · · Score: 1

    Total Madness!

  3. Listen to Yoda on Apple Swaps "Get" Button For "Free" To Avoid Confusion Over In-App Purchases · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Backwards your title is. Confused people will be.

  4. I have a compromise for you... on AT&T Proposes Net Neutrality Compromise · · Score: 1

    How about laws that force internet providers to not be owned by, or produce content at all. Better yet, make it so that the company that owns the infrastructure doesn't even provide internet access, but instead sell their access to homes to other companies.

  5. Embargo is not the same as a blockade. on Cuba Calculates Cost of 54yr US Embargo At $1.1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Stopped reading when they used the terms embargo and blockade interchangeably.

    Still, we should knock it off. We have normal international relations with countries that have much greater sins in their past, or even present.

  6. Does this mean....? on Is the Software Renaissance Ending? · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that there might be some software that isn't completely terrible?

  7. Are you a bad enough dude? on Why Should Game Stories Make Sense? · · Score: 2

    President Ronnie has been kidnapped by the ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue Ronnie?

  8. Re:The Harsh Light of Day on Google Aids Scientology-Linked Group CCHR With Pay-Per-Click Ads · · Score: 2

    The scientologist view on psychiatry is not an accident, or a fetish. They utilize brainwashing techniques when acquiring converts, and exposure to a trained psychologist would risk deprogramming. How better to protect your brainwashed followers than to train them to hate and fear the cure?

  9. If you can on Ask Slashdot: Moving From Tech Support To Development? · · Score: 1

    Do what you love.

  10. It's hard to get equal time considering on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's hard to get equal time considering the material.

    "And now we will take some time to discussing the evidence that supports the theory of creation.

    (long uncomfortable pause)

    Well, that's done. Back to science!"

  11. Stick to the purpose of the search on SCOTUS To Weigh Smartphone Searches By Police · · Score: 1

    The reason why police can do a simple search of a detained person, and look inside containers, is to ensure the safety of the officer. It is a light search to ensure that the detained person is not armed. Until I can install a weapon on my cell phone, looking inside it as if it were a 'container', is obviously abuse.

  12. I just use DST all the time. on A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones · · Score: 1

    I just use Daylight Saving Time all the time. I'm fine with everyone else being wrong, as long as it gets dark at 5:30 on the shortest day of the year instead of 4:30. Dark at 8am? So what, 8am sucks anyway. Worried about school kids? Set their schedule so they have an 8 hour day that always has daylight in whatever region you are in.

  13. TIDYAD on Shuttleworth: Apple Will Merge Mac and iPhone · · Score: 1

    TIDYAD.

  14. Reminder: Sony is awful on PS Vita TV's Killer App: Remote Play · · Score: 1

    Just reminding folks that Sony uses your money to do things you hate. Don't give Sony your money.

  15. Protecting the press on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    When discussing rights held by the press, there is additional reason to allow them to remain silent. Upholding the ability for the press to protect their sources has a compelling state interest, in that empowering them to investigate criminal activity is in the public interest. Once you start compelling the press to divulge their sources, people stop talking to them.

  16. The solution is simple on Medical Costs Bankrupt Patients; It's the Computer's Fault · · Score: 1

    The solution is simple. Make them responsible for all of those costs until their software can handle it. Watch how fast that update happens.

  17. Re:Douglas Engelbart on Woz & Jobs 2.0: Leap Motion's Holtz & Buckwald · · Score: 3

    Woz didn't invent anything? Well, since I can't stab you through the internet, I'll post something from the Wikipedia entry.

            US Patent No. 4,136,359 — "Microcomputer for use with video display"[34] — for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
            US Patent No. 4,210,959 — "Controller for magnetic disc, recorder, or the like"[35]
            US Patent No. 4,217,604 — "Apparatus for digitally controlling PAL color display"[36]
            US Patent No. 4,278,972 — "Digitally-controlled color signal generation means for use with display"[37]

  18. Re:Caveats. on Malcolm Gladwell On Culture and Airplane Crashes · · Score: 1

    By tying morality to religion you lose the ability to discuss the issue rationally.

  19. Re:Proofreading? on Monsanto Executive Wins World Food Prize · · Score: 1

    Because we could explore space.

  20. Re:Proofreading? on Monsanto Executive Wins World Food Prize · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The day someone returns life to a dead organism, they have damn well earned a Nobel prize.

  21. Not me! on Smartphone Used To Scan Data From Chip-Enabled Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    My wallet is made of stainless steel. Good luck with that.

  22. It happens when you don't know the end. on Scientists Study Getting an Unwanted Tune Out of Your Head · · Score: 1

    I find that songs that are stuck in my head are ones that have a repetitive section, but I don't know the end of the song. To get a song unstuck, I sing a song that I know from start to finish (out loud if possible, in my head if not) and then distract myself.

    For me the most successful song for this purpose is the Muppet Show Theme.

  23. Just what we need on Stricter COPPA Laws Coming In July · · Score: 1

    Just what we need! A new law!

  24. Re:Sony on Slashdot on Sony Announces the PS4 · · Score: 1

    They are a company that spends money to do things I hate, therefore I don't give them money. I suggest you also 'vote with your wallet'.

  25. Everyone knows it's not the violent games... on Senior Game Designer Talks About Game Violence, Real Violence, and Lead (Video) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone knows it's not the violent video games, it's that evil Jazz music corrupting our youth!