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  1. Re:The Wall still relevant 35 years later on Average American Cable Subscriber Gets 189 Channels and Views 17 · · Score: 1

    Weird Al's "I Can't Watch This":
    Now why did I ever pay for this junk?
    I hooked up 80 channels, and each one stunk.

    Took a look at the lyrics to confirm, was interesting that the shows named are early 90s timeframe and quite dated, but the complaints are just as spot on as ever.

  2. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    So, the gun-grabbers are trying to restrict the rights of ALL Americans to stop the 0.01% of guns that actually cause the problems.

    What? I thought guns didn't kill people!

  3. Re:If you owe money to someone.. on Ask Slashdot: How To Back Up Physical Data? · · Score: 1

    That's not true. I'm actually in the same situation - no mortgage or installment debt for several years now, and a credit card that's paid off monthly (occasionally with vacations I spread a big bill across 2 months) and my credit score last year was something in the high 700s. You needn't run a balance to have good credit history.

  4. Re:Penis jokes aside... on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    That's certainly a more interesting option than the actual prequels were.

  5. Re:Oh well on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    Just use a little common sense and you can entirely eliminate some of these issues. For example, if you heat up the water slowly, the potato never screams at all, just sits there contentedly as it boils.

  6. Re:Nah on Proposed Indicator of Life On Alien Worlds May Be Bogus · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between "plastic asshole" and "plastic, asshole." Just sayin'.

  7. Re:That's a strange definition of "rich" on In the US, Rich Now Work Longer Hours Than the Poor · · Score: 1

    An article saying that $100k+ earners pay 72% of federal taxes doesn't at all tell you what the top 1% pay, you know. They're in that same group and those numbers don't say if a subset of the $100k+ earners pays a higher fraction or not.

  8. Re:Sex discrimination. on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    They take into account the population that applies vs the population accepted / hired / promoted, not the population at large. You can't discriminate...but you needn't match national level demographics.

  9. Re:Sex discrimination. on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    No, you CAN'T legally discriminate against protected classes. You can legally discriminate against anyone for any other reason, generally speaking. :)

  10. Re:At least someone appreciates work-life balance on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    All problems are management problems.

  11. Re:One thing's for sure... on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    The switch point would be less, as human employees have those extra costs on top of the actual salary.

  12. Re:Pleeeeeeeease? on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 2

    There was, of course, a teddy bear.

  13. Re:I am the 2.75% on Facebook's Face Identification Project Is Accurate 97.25% of the Time · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...because they all look alike? I heard they were all really smart and know martial arts, too.

  14. Re:Finally, an actual response on Ask Slashdot: Should I Get Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    Of course, 99% percent of the people talking about punching somebody are just playing internet tough guy (ironic, on Slashdot) and would never follow through, and aren't in either of your categories.

  15. Re:Microsoft had another option to be different on Sony's Favorite Gadget Is Kinect · · Score: 1

    I disagree - and I don't think I'm alone here - I'd be a little leery of buying a console with a dick on it.

  16. Re: Bubble bursting in 3, 2, 1 ..... on Facebook To Buy WhatsApp · · Score: 1

    It's world-wide. We use it to "text" family in Central Asia. We get one of the younger ones to get the older ones onto Skype for a video call but often just for regular quick short messages, pictures, videos, etc. The older generation doesn't seem to have it on their phones, which tend toward the simpler, usually.

  17. Re:Just a shotgun? on Reporting From the Web's Underbelly · · Score: 1

    I think that stun grenade did more than damage your hearing.

    At least from the sound of it, you're only going to kill your dog. Don't even have to aim? What's next? If you shoot someone with a .45 anywhere on their body, they'll explode? You work in a gun store, don't you?

  18. Re:Future? on Mathematician: Is Our Universe a Simulation? · · Score: 1

    Sometime in the past, since it would have taken time to develop and start running. Not necessarily far in the past though.

  19. Re:With a list on Ask Slashdot: How Do You To Tell Your Client That His "Expert" Is an Idiot? · · Score: 1

    Hey look, maybe not everyone has the experience you do with moisture vaporators, ok goldenrod?

  20. Re:Ohhh, Slashdot beta makes sense now on Online, You're Being Watched At All Times; Act Accordingly. · · Score: 1

    I'm confused - why did you quit your VMware job because Obama wasn't really going to close Gitmo?

  21. Re: Begun they have... on The Standards Wars and the Sausage Factory · · Score: 1

    Posting history is a much better judge of trollism than knowing what UIDs they're up to now. Seems like that would be difficult to stay accurately on top of.

    As for facts from the old days, the only real important thing is that Slashdot has always sucked in it's own way, it's nothing new, but definitely not at all so bad as the abomination that is beta. Doesn't work at all on my work box (something's failing or getting blocked at the firewall, and it is munged very, very badly - hard to find the article itself way down at the bottom - count me out!) and on my phone quickly devolves to a series of rows one word wide. Ridiculous.

    Even so, there seems no shortage of secondary accounts, so that high UID user could, in fact, be an old-timer. Again, ultimately not very meaningful.

  22. Re: Begun they have... on The Standards Wars and the Sausage Factory · · Score: 2

    ...which is ultimately not very meaningful.

  23. Re: Classic Slashdot on Fire Destroys Iron Mountain Data Warehouse, Argentina's Bank Records Lost · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I started in 1998, so you're (both) clearly from at least that time or before. No idea how fast UIDs went, of course.

  24. Re:So That's what happened... on South Koreans Using Kinect To Monitor DMZ · · Score: 1

    Come on, now. There's a lot more than 20 Koreans, you know.

  25. Re:Hoo boy, scientific racism again. on 20% of Neanderthal Genome Survives In Humans · · Score: 1

    Why do you think this would be a useful measure of competence for a weapon with primary characteristics of functioning reliably with little or no maintenance and cleaning?