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  1. What to to do with the heat? on Apple May Build Oregon Data Center Next To Facebook's · · Score: 1

    And maybe use that heat to warm to poor and cold???? - dr:u

  2. Fair Wage on Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will the robots be paid a fair wage? Robots are not our slaves.

  3. pay them a fair wage. Robots Worker Union on The Real Job Threat · · Score: 1

    Corporations are people. Why not robots and machines. Not paying them is slavery and against the 13th amendment.

  4. I know what it is. on Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV? · · Score: 1

    I think it is that paper airplane I threw over the cube wall.

  5. Re:The Unsationalized Truth on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension is something you lack. :Profile Review controls whether you have to manually approve posts you're tagged in before they go on your profile. When you have a post to review, the Pending Posts tab will appear on your profile. Note: You can still be tagged. This controls whether tags go on to your profile." The important part is"on your profile" Nothing stops the tag from appearing on the profile of the person that posted the picture,

  6. Re:Turn on tag review on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    no, they just don't appear in YOUR profile until you approve it. It will still appear in the tagger's profile. And since you probably share friends with the tagger, those friends are likely to see it in that person's profile.

  7. Re:Who gives a fuck? on Science Fair Entry Shuts Down Airport Terminal · · Score: 1

    Rights are inherent, and exist independently of any government. The Constitution does not grant rights; it doesn't even promise to protect them. It just says that the Federal government promises not to violate certain rights enumerated in the Constitution. Whether or not they've kept that promise is a different issue.

    no right is inherent. That is just wishful thinking.

  8. Nothing like "South-park" style animation on Online Parody Cartoon Targeted For Prosecution · · Score: 1

    Nothing like Southpark in my opinion. This is cheap 3-D animation. not the paper cut up style. Of course, they probably meant the content, not the animation.\

  9. just having access to the funds on Massachusetts Lottery Broken · · Score: 1

    Seems to me the success of these groups/people is more just a function of having access to the amount of funds one needs in order to make this a profitable endeavor. Except for the primary discoverer of the game's quirk, it is just people with money/funds taking advantage. Much like any almost sure thing investment that requires a large amount of capital. Only those with the means can benefit. Similar to say investing in stocks, bonds, real estate (assuming a rising market and modicum of investment sense.) Joe Anybody might know of a "sure" thing, but unless he has the money or can convince someone to invest the money to his benefit, he won't be able to take advantage.

  10. Re:The most useful one on Calling Out GE's Misleading Data Visualizations · · Score: 1

    "Over 4,000,000,000 years." You need to divide by 2 to take in account nighttime :) more if you want to account for clouds too :) but since you can't own wind or sun (yet) GE doesn't care

  11. Dislike having my fingers obstruct my view on Will Touch Screens Kill the Keyboard? · · Score: 2

    I just don't like my fingers being in front of what I'm trying to see. That is why I will never use touchscreens. I am no luddite though. I'm waiting for cybernetic implants or nano-bots technology.

  12. Re:China is becoming too powerful on EU Wants Power To Block China's Tech Buying · · Score: 1

    ah but the danger in unstable growth is the desire for more . . and they seem to be doing a pretty good job of it. I feel for the people and for the animals and the environment that might be destroyed because of this. But alas, we must let it play out as it will . . .

  13. Irrelevant on TSA Nominee's Snooping Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It doesn't matter. Almost everyone takes some sort of advantage/liberties at their jobs, especially when younger. Waiters get free food and drink, office workers look at FB and steal pens. Glen Beck shills for gold. Politicians can "fundraise." He just happened to have the ability to run background checks.

  14. why not spend 1 billion on asteroid location on Lunar Dustbusters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wouldn't it be more prudent to just take 1 billion of those dollars and spend it looking for near earth asteroids.

  15. There is a simple solution on Are Unfinished Products Now the Norm? · · Score: 1

    Do not buy a new product as soon as it is made available. There is hardly any device or feature that you need so desperately that you can't wait several months. Use that time to research the different products and you'll most likely find a different one (or that same one, but now complete) that works fine and you'll probably save money too.

  16. This is not a scientific matter on Pluto Decision Meets with Frustration · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "It's an awful definition; it's sloppy science and it would never pass peer review - for two reasons." (from the first link) This isn't a scientific decision . . . it is merely a case of semantics and any decision either way is arbitrary. Naming something a planet or not naming it one does not change its properties. The decision to "demote" Pluto was a good one, for the sake of simplicity, otherwise as more Kuiper Belt objects were discovered, the number of planets would increase and increase and be unmanagable.

  17. translation on Robot Balances on a Single Spherical Wheel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "single spherical wheel" = a ball

  18. Re:The Only Downside of BW on Futurama Star Billy West Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1

    Yeah Dr. Zoidberg sounds exactly like Billy. Same with Zap Branigan oh and the Professor, and Popeye, and Bugs Bunny, and Richard Nixon, and Porky Pig and Stimpy. They all sound like Billy West's normal speaking voice.

  19. SETI is not a waste on Is SETI@home Where Your Cycles Belong? · · Score: 1

    Once we find aliens, they will either solve all of our problems for us . . . or make it so those problems aren't are problem anymore. And the whole point of searcing for radio waves is that not only is it assumed to be a sign of technological advancement, it is one that is non-direct and can bleed into the universe so that we can sense them with out being targeted by them.

  20. Re:stop playing God. on Allergy-Free Kittens Produced · · Score: 1

    And look how well dog breeding went. A lot of breeds have serious genetic illnesses (hip displaysia (sp?)) or have been bred to certain certain standard that they can't really function as dogs anymore (those really tiny dogs.)

  21. fire? on Lawyers Ordered to Play RPS to Settle Dispute · · Score: 1

    Will one of them throw their one time per lifetime FIRE?

  22. this is what children are for on Just Let Me Play! · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is what having children is for. By the time your life is too busy you don't have the time to play and unlock the hidden content yourself you should have a 7 year old that can do it for you. Or if you don't have children, there are probably some in the neighborhood that will do it on the cheap.

  23. Re:Innovation on Blizzard's 'Secret Sauce' · · Score: 1

    Being tweakable is not the same thing as being better. Warcraft II and Starcraft are complete games that don't need new units and such like TA. The beauty of Starcraft was the balance between the 3 races. User added units would wreck that balance.

  24. if its got wireless like most schools on Professor Bans Laptops from the Classroom · · Score: 1

    They are all just chatting, looking at pr0n, playing poker and all that other stuff. Thats why I don't understand the move by some schools to make having a laptop mandatory.

  25. Re:Parallels with Easter Island on Rewriting Environmental Science · · Score: 1

    farmers have more children so they have more free laborers to work on the farm. and if you look at colonial america, like half of those children died before they could do any real work, hence the large amount. Gotta hedge ones bets.