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  1. Prepare for a long commute on New Facial Recognition Software May Detect Looming Road Rage · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Kill switches for when drivers get angry? If you thought gridlock was bad now, just wait until 50 angry stalled drivers are in front of you.

  2. Re:By all means on Congressman Accepts BitCoin For His US Senate Run · · Score: 2

    Campaign donations are subject to federal reporting regulations regardless of what currency they use.

    Which raises a question. So if someone anonymously dumps 1000 bitcoins on him, then what happens?

  3. Re:Estimation on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 2

    By far the hardest part of my job as a professional software developer is estimating how long a feature will take to develop.

    How much time will that take to estimate?

  4. Re:Of course... on Maryland Indictment Says Silk Road Founder Tried To Arrange Murder of Employee · · Score: 5, Funny

    He is not the Dread Pirate Roberts. He inherited Silk Road from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts. The man he inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.

  5. Re:Normally... on What I Did During My Summer Vacation: Burning Man Edition · · Score: 2

    Hipsters go to Burning Man. A few years ago hipsters thought it would be cool to be nerds. Apparently it has caught on enough now so that there is a loose association between Burning Man and nerds.

    Hipsters ruin everything.

  6. Re:The more moderated, the less honest on Comments About Comments · · Score: 1

    The less you moderate, the more spam and trolls you get, which are the last things that come to mind when I think about "honest."

  7. As a US Programmer... on India To Overtake US On Number of Developers By 2017 · · Score: 1

    This is great news! Today's Dilbert is relevant.

  8. Re:My rule on Managing an Elite eSport Team · · Score: 1

    GP meant drinking as in beer/alcohol, which is OK for Curling and Golf like he said but a very bad idea for Mountain Climbing, Running, and Bicycling!

  9. Re:A likely story on Bitfloor Indefinitely Suspends Bitcoin Trading · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds like the govenrment finally decided they didn't like money outside their control.

    Sounds to me like they were a US company not following already existing US Anti-Money Laundering regulations.

  10. Re:Of all Samanthas on Colleges Help Students Fix Their Online Indiscretions · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed, what about the party-going Samantha Grossman who WANTED such photographs to be found when you googled her name? What an insensitive clod!

    Now she'll never get her sugar daddy!

  11. Re:Not a problem on Pull Lever, Don't Snap Shutter: It May Be Illegal To Post Your Ballot · · Score: 1

    Although posting your ballot may be illegal, it's unenforceable as a matter of law. There's no way to prove that an image is your ballot.

    The poll workers should be enforcing this at the polls, catching the "criminal" in the act, and it should not be enforced anywhere else. I'm not saying they should be prosecuted, but they should at least be stopping them.

    Obligatory car analogy: Speeding at 100mph is enforceable, but posting a picture of your speedometer at 100mph should not be enforceable.

  12. Re:monopoly money on Vast Bulk of BitCoins Are Hoarded, Not Used · · Score: 1

    Have you tried eBay? Seems to be selling there! eBay - Monopoly Money Search Results

  13. Yes, look at Yahoo on Do Tech Entrepreneurs Need To Know How To Code? · · Score: 1

    Let's look at a successful mega-companies and see what they do: Yahoo. They know to only hire CEO's with Computer Science degrees. To do otherwise might cause disruption and financial losses to their business. They would never hire a CEO without a CS degree and they do a very thorough investigation into whether they might be trying to pretend like they have one. Yes, you need to know how to code.

  14. Re:I have no fear of death. on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 2

    Hm... this is some kind of car analogy, isn't it?

  15. I blame Meryl Streep on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like too many people saw Death Becomes Her.

  16. Cull the herd on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    Advanced Math simply isn't used. The college math requirements are just there to cull out the weak members of the herd. This is why Computer Science Majors don't have as many idiots running around as Business Majors do. (or Political Science, Marketing, etc.)

  17. Re:Guaranteed? on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Well they are I.T. guys. What, you don't think they're ageist too?

  18. The Olympics? on An Olympic Games For Enhanced Athletes? · · Score: 1

    If this idea is even slightly feasible, then the Olympics is not the starting grounds for it. Getting the countries of the world to agree on that? Non-prescription steroids are not even legal in a lot of countries. Let's try a small enhanced league in Amsterdam first.

  19. Re:best thing to happen to Yahoo on Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo! CEO · · Score: 1

    Has that been verified or is that just what it says on her resume?

  20. Re:This may be a very bad sign- Great Filter? on 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered · · Score: 1

    There's no reason to expect that human mental problems would be common to every form of life out there.

    Even Spock had his pon farr moment.

  21. Implementation on Have Online Comment Sections Become Specious? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Look at the comments on a random story here at Slashdot, and then look at the comments on a random story at CNN or Fox News or, if you dare, YouTube.

    There is a right way to do comments and there is wrong way to do comments. In my mind, "moderation" is key. Slashdot has a well thought-out moderation system and the others have absolutely zero moderation, at best a "Like" button.

    Forums with dedicated moderators often have excellent discussion/comments as well.

  22. Re:Anyone else not comfortable on Chinese Spies Used Fake Facebook Profile To Friend NATO Officials · · Score: 3, Funny

    They mostly post battle plans for the next week. They say they're looking for suggestions but all they really want is compliments.

  23. Big Deal on Chinese Spies Used Fake Facebook Profile To Friend NATO Officials · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Email addresses, phone numbers, family members? Those officials probably give out the same information when they sign up for customer appreciation cards.

  24. Bovada on US Shuts Down Canadian Gambling Site With Verisign's Help · · Score: 2

    Bodog.com saw this coming from a mile away and switched their domain name to Bovada.lv in November 2011. Bodog.com was just a redirect site when it was seized and Bovada.lv is still up and running.

    No telling how long it will take the US to get to Bovada.lv, but I wouldn't feel safe playing there. I think they had been trying to do something about Bodog for 5 years!

  25. Re:Serious addicts who "decide to use" it? on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 1

    Better yet, how about we add it to the infant vaccinations? (assuming it's safe)

    OK, I'm kidding, that seems very wrong. But don't doubt that it will be a controversy for real if this thing works.