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  1. Good book about this on Do It Yourself Biology Research, Past and Present · · Score: 1
  2. Let Me Get This Straight... on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Budding Scientist? · · Score: 1

    Recently I've noticed some alarming pessimism among Slashdotters about the state of science

    So, you are going to make career decisions based on the mindset of a subset of the slashdot readership? For actual advice I would say do what you love and the rest will work itself out.

  3. Re:18 months won't matter on What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040? · · Score: 1

    It takes 1 year to develop a deflection solution but it takes 27 years for the design to get through finance/purchasing and manufacturing once it goes to release.

  4. Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance... on Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance, GM Suspends Sales · · Score: 2

    ...low current ensues.

  5. It's True on Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Banning skinny models definitely would help fix the problem. I'm normally against such type of regulation but when the common person is blasted in the face by constant advertising in every form imaginable 24/7 then i tend to fall on the side of regulation.

    It's not like the average person can moderate the amount of advertising that rapes their eyeballs and subconcious every day.

  6. Newsflash on Wikileaks and Anonymous Join Forces Against US Intelligence Community · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Newsflash, dickbags:
    US intelligence services have ALWAYS been fucking awful. I don't care how many Jason Bourne movies you have watched, US intel has been shit since the day it started as the OSS. Please take the time to read the book, Legacy Of Ashes and you can begin to see what a clownshow US intelligence services have been for the past 60+ years.

    Love,
    Crow

  7. Re:Is this article some kind of a joke? on Wikileaks and Anonymous Join Forces Against US Intelligence Community · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You, sir, are correct. That is why the US has "classified by aggregation" status for documents. The individual documents would not be classified individually, but when you combine them with others they end up becoming classified.

  8. Re:s/First Female/Robyn Bergeron as/ on Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron First Female Fedora Project Leader · · Score: 0

    Outliers are not the rule. That would be like claiming that since there is one women in the world that can run a 14min 5k that the bar should be raised for all women for competitive scoring.

  9. Re:Why is gender important? on Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron First Female Fedora Project Leader · · Score: 1

    Are women generally less capable than men

    Yes. Look at the physical fitness standards and scoring for the military if you don't believe so.

  10. More Importantly... on TSA Makes $400K Annually In Loose Change · · Score: 0

    NBC reports that airport travelers left behind $409,085.56 in loose change at security checkpoints in 2010

    More importantly how much of their dignity was left behind at the checkpoint after they had their asshole fingered by a former Burger King employee?

  11. Re:The new catch phrase apparently on Israel Says It Will Treat Online Credit Card Theft As It Would Terrorism · · Score: 1

    seriously... how is it not an act of terrorism?

    It is NOT terrorism. It is fraud/theft. Here is a reference for you and the rest of congress so you can understand what "terrorism" really is:
    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terrorism

  12. Re-Title This Accordingly on AT&T Officially Ends Plans To Acquire T-Mobile USA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    DoJ/FCC Officially End AT&T's Plans To Acquire T-Mobile USA
    Because that's who really made the final decision.

  13. Re:also reduces IT costs on Businesses Now Driving "Bring Your Own Device" Trend · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This reduces cost in the short-term but it will be a cost increase in the long-term.

    It just takes 1 piece of malware on your network or one security event to loose all the financial benefit. Or how about when someone has a piece of pirated software on their personal machine that they are doing company work on? Or how about when someone loses a personal laptop without WDE that holds sensitive company information?

    It just takes one event.

  14. Re:Hands in the Cookie jar? on Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Sacrificial Lamb? on Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones · · Score: 1

    I hear they are working with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altria about changing their public image.............

  16. Price Change Coming? on Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder if this will result in a price hike since they will be losing all this juicy customer data that they may have been selling to "market research" vultures.

  17. 1.3M? Why Not All? on Sprint Orders All OEMs To Strip Carrier IQ From Their Phones · · Score: 2

    Does this mean that 1.3million Sprint users are on some DHS watchlist?

    Why wouldn't they collect "diagnostics" on all 26 million? If I were a data analyst looking for useful data to "improve user experience" (or whatever it is they say they use it for) then I want the largest data set possible.

  18. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 2

    What is so bad about George Soros again? He has done more than any other single person to help topple caustic communist regimes in the 20th century.

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-18-2010/george-soros-plans-to-overthrow-america This guy?

  19. Best Part Of The Video on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The mock American flag with skulls in the blue field in place of stars. Entertaining.

  20. Re:Isn't that kind of the point? on Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone · · Score: 1

    I'll bet that it accommodates the landing gear. The position of the "bumps" and the perceived mechanical angle of entry don't appear to be coincidental.

  21. Best Selling Drug? on Patent Expires On Best Selling Drug of All Time · · Score: 0

    Generic cocaine now?

  22. Re:Fourth Amendment on Civilian Use of Drone Aircraft May Soon Fly In the US · · Score: 1

    I know for a fact that the power company will alert the local police if a house has higher-than-average power consumption (a telltale sign of a grow operation).

  23. Re:I don't see what's to stop... on Civilian Use of Drone Aircraft May Soon Fly In the US · · Score: 1

    Jam it.

  24. Re:Why not use their own sites? on New Media Giants Take Out Print Ad Against SOPA · · Score: 1

    Imagine if Google/Facebook blocked congressional IP blocks for a day. That would be a POWERFUL move. All of congress and even the white house use facebook and other social media as a primary medium to pump out their bullshit into the mouths of the masses each day. They would quickly realize that these companies have to much power and the sleeping giant would awake to crush them.

  25. Not Fingerprints on Device Detects Drug Use Via Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    It detects drugs from your sweat not your fingerprints. Sweat exists on your fingers but it can really be used elsewhere on the body. Poor title.