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  1. No thanks on Walmart Launches Online Store For Ebooks, Audiobooks (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll stick to using kobo itself instead of giving these jerks money. Now if somebody could make a decent e-reader at an ok price other thank Amazon that would be great.

  2. Hwat?

  3. I am a Misanthrope, you insensitive clod.

  4. Ugh on The Physics of Hot Pockets · · Score: 1

    Jim Gaffigan sums up my feelings on Hot Pockets.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. It's been done on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you have to understand the concepts anyways, why is text worse than a graphical set up? You can't really avoid learning syntax this way if you want to write anything actually complicated.

    Also, fuck beta.

  6. Re:We are not an audience on Quarks Know Their Left From Their Right · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I for one don't welcome out robotic beta overlords
    In Soviet Russia users ignore corporate feedback
    Hot grits, petrified Natalie Portman, Cowboy Neal.
    Goatse is better than Beta.

    You're planning on ruining the one good discussion site on the internet. fuck beta.

  7. No Classic UI on NYPD Is Beta-Testing Google Glass · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been reading /. since '98, without the classic UI as an option you have lost me as a user. I will participate in the upcoming boycott.

  8. Fuck beta on Dried Meat "Resurrects" Lost Species of Whale · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Jesus, I've been coming here since '99. I won't come back if beta is pushed on me.

  9. Re:9th circuit is a joke on 9th Circuit Affirms IsoHunt Decision; No DMCA Safe Harbor · · Score: 2, Informative

    It sees more cases, so numerically there are more overturned. On average it's rulings are overturned about as often as any other circuit court in the country.

  10. I grew up there on Silicon Valley Before the Startup · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My dad bought a house on the edge of a cherry orchard, eventually Fairchild built a plant across the street and then promptly leaked solvent into the groundwater. My sister and several of her friends ended up with large amounts of settlement money due to possible health effects. The Santa Clara Valley was known as the valley of heart's delight and was world renowned for it's stone fruit, especially apricots. It was fun growing up surrounded by tech companies, on the other hand some of the world's best farmland is now fallow.

  11. Wait a second on Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? · · Score: 1

    We're actually not doing too badly, we have higher income inequality and more poor people but we educate those poor people better than most countries.
    http://phys.org/news/2013-01-poor-international-student.html

  12. Obvious pick on Annual "Worst CEO" List Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Meg Whitman...

  13. Re:Not just Eel on Battling Fish Fraud With DNA Testing · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's not true, the color comes from the same pigment astaxanthin. The amount in the feed determines the color and can be tailored by the farm. Admittedly farmed salmon is horrible and is a bit like raising lions for food...

  14. Actual Ulterior Motive on Wil Wheaton's New Show: Tabletop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Getting to hang out with Felicia Day...

  15. Re:Well... how else are you gona prove them? on Controversial Bioethicist Resigns From Celltex · · Score: 3

    If it's unproven, your insurance company isn't going to cover it, period. So these types of companies are emotionally extorting people by charging high fees in addition to using you as a guinea pig. If the treatment was given for free, as it usually is in proper medical trials it would be a different matter.

  16. Re:What's the point? on Stem Cell Firm May Have Administered Unproven Treatments · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because the average patient doesn't have the background to understand what they're getting themselves into. Without laws to the contrary snake oil salesman can claim whatever they want about a treatment or medication. Do you really want to live in the 19th century?

  17. Re:Homebrew rebound on What Beer Can Teach Us About Emerging Technologies · · Score: 2

    If it costs $45 for a 5 gallon batch you're probably selling extract beers with liquid yeast. As an all grain brewer who can yeast wash and buys hops in bulk I can knock out 5 gallons of APA for ~12-15 dollars.

  18. Re:Unpossible on Stem Cells That May Make Eggs Found In Women · · Score: 1

    Can't tell if humor?

  19. Re:The science community does the same thing. on The "Scientization" of Yucca Mountain · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can't seriously investigate intelligent design, it's not science. Any sane university should run anyone who thinks it is out on a rail.

  20. Re:Time for another 4 letter comic. on Modern Humans Bred With Evolutionary Predecessors In Africa · · Score: 1

    No, those are different species by at least most of the definitions of the word.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species#Definitions_of_species

  21. Re:Quick question on Dead People Scientists Won't Let Rest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude, that's the benefit of being a scientist. You get to wear Cosby sweaters or Hawaiian shirts and it's not only socially acceptable it's almost required.

  22. Sounds like a valid observation on Why Video Calling Is a Wasted Feature In the UK · · Score: 2, Informative

    Seriously, I could've guessed this after reading this
    http://www.amazon.com/Watching-English-Hidden-Rules-Behaviour/dp/0340818867
    This is essentially a birdwatching guide fort the English, which the author finds horrifying, but there it is.

  23. What's the x-bar on World Cup Forecasting Challenge For Quants · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For somebody falling to the ground clutching their leg long enough to get a card thrown?

  24. Re:Skeptical on New Evidence Presented For Ancient Fossils In Mars Rocks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually I'd be a little surprised if the nucleotides were different, current studies seem to suggest that the nucleotides had selective pressure. Here's a video that summarizes some current work on abiogenesis by Dr. Jack Szostak. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6QYDdgP9eg

  25. Re:Am i missing something? on Japanese Guts Are Made For Sushi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some of your gut microflora and fauna comes from your mom during the birthing process, others from breastfeeding and some from what you eat on a regular basis. This is interesting because the genes are transferred supposedly from the bugs living on seaweed to the bugs living in your gut, letting the same species of gut bugs to develop an ability to digest seaweed better.