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  1. Re:Batshit Crazy! on EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks · · Score: 3

    The Third Reich had and extensive selection program where only the resourceful and educated jews survived, mainly through US visas and such.

  2. Re:Bullshit bullshit bullshit on Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Wait, what?

    When did exchange consulting become the goal of CS students? That's what you get one of those MS certificate courses or something to get into.

  3. Re:I could have sworn I typed "slashdot.org" just on Nature Lover Vladimir Putin Flies With the Cranes · · Score: 1

    Seems to me most people are just jelly of the guy and don't like his politics, but if given a chance to do the flying would be super-exited and talk about the experience for ages afterwards.

    Seriously, the guy gets to do awesome fun things.

  4. Re:One of them will probably match! on Dutch Police Ask 8000+ Citizens To Provide Their DNA · · Score: 1

    And what if you're a 1-in-7000 guy, and happen to not have alibi and don't have many friends around the place cause you're seen as a bit weird?

    Besides, going through the process is going to make 8080 men feel varying degrees of uncomfort at being seen as a potential rapist and killer.

  5. Re:Apple is the Little Red Hen on How Apple's Story Is Like Breaking Bad · · Score: 1

    What are children's stories?

  6. Re:Oh I can see what this is.. Andrew Breitbart on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    You mean the well-known left-wing activist that wrote about how to take revenge on a guy through false rape allegations?

  7. Re:The judge;'s job isn't to get livid. on Apple Asks Court To Sanction Samsung; Samsung Fires Back; More iPhone Prototypes · · Score: 2

    Perhaps the judge just didn't like intentionally late submissions of evidence, as compared to actually hard to discover evidence submitted late.

    If I was a judge I would also be pissed at such obvious attempts at gaming the system.

  8. Re:Samsung have themselves to blame...not the Judg on Apple Asks Court To Sanction Samsung; Samsung Fires Back; More iPhone Prototypes · · Score: 1

    You're trying to tell us the evidence was so hard for Samsung to find they couldn't get it submitted earlier in the discovery process?

    Was the data stored in LEO and retrieving it involved launching a rocket with specially trained astronauts, or something of equal scale. By submitting it late when it was such an obvious piece of evidence it means Apple would be severely hampered in producing a counter, so there's really only one reasonable explanation for why they tried to pull that one and the judge obviously didn't buy what ever dog-ate-my-homework story they tried.

  9. Re:How about the USA? on Scientists Stage Funerals To Protest Against Cuts — a New Trend? · · Score: 1

    Blessed are those who have something to say yet don't.

  10. Re:a bit sensational headline on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems quite likely that the Koch brothers actually don't / didn't think anthropogenic global warming was real, and thus funded the study with that assumption thinking it would support their position.

  11. Re:Health effects in children on Subcontractor Tells Fukushima Workers To Hide Radiation Exposure · · Score: 2

    She doesn't have to. It's only been ~1 year since the incident and it relates to the release of iodine, which not only decays extremely rapidly but was counteracted quickly with the distribution of iodine tablets. Not only that, thyroid exams aren't exactly common anywhere. I imagine you'd see interesting things if you did similar examinations in random locations around the US.

    If there's an abnormal thyroid nodules and cysts that are not cancerous, one of the obvious first places to look is at the iodine tablets. It's not hard to imagine the parents being very diligent at administering those.

    So yeah, no need to panic just yet.

  12. Re:About 15 years ago it was phone cards. on Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools · · Score: 1

    That's kinda what I thought too before writing my masters paper on a subject related to privacy here in Japan.

    Basically it isn't really as much individualism as we understand it, rather it is about being invisible to the government so that they can't spot what they think is a nail that sticks out.

  13. Re:What quoting a cartoon will get you. on Judge In Kim Dotcom Extradition Case Steps Down · · Score: 1

    Worse... He quoted a twitter message where the joke about 'us' being the 'US' was made, in the context of copyright.

  14. Re:This is blindingly obvious on San Francisco To Stop Buying Apple Computers · · Score: 1

    So you got a real smackdown of your crazy Apple conspiracy theories by the facts that they are actually doing more than most other companies, and now you call him rude and demand to know how they pay for it?

    Seriously, it's almost as embarrassing to watch as the Foxconn suicide or Greenpeace environmental impact reports.

  15. Re:conscience? on San Francisco To Stop Buying Apple Computers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it is impossible to take apart the retina MBP, how are they able to offer battery replacement service?

    I guess they use magic or something, and recyclers are normal people so they are unable to tear apart the new MBP's.

  16. Re:Agreed. on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    Actually we're closest related to Chimpanzees and Bonobos, the violence and the constant sex parts in one has lead to civilization.

  17. Re:One small caveat on Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz · · Score: 1

    Why Iran?

    Do you have anything to support your supposition that they're willing to go through... Not mutual, but uni-directional self-destruction in order to lop a couple of nukes at western cities?

  18. Re:Scare quotes? on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    Condom breaking is rape now?

    Fuck, does this mean I'm a rapist too?

  19. The trick? on Carderprofit.cc Was FBI Carding Sting, Nets 26 Arrests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    FBI created some criminals.

  20. Re:In the US they call it Scouts. on Are We Failing To Prepare Children For Leadership In the US? · · Score: 1

    In the Norwegian boy scouts we did weekend camping in winter, up in the mountains, with below -10C during the day. There was no proper firewood and what we did find was thoroughly wet, so it was impossible to get a fire going.

    Or the week long trek over mountain terrain, walking 8-10 hours every day only meeting a handful of people throughout.

    Sorry, but a rattlesnake in bucket doesn't impress that much in the 'potentially lethal' department.

  21. Re:Oystercard: transfer of costs to the passenger on London Tube Stations Finally Get Wi-Fi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is funny that the GP seems to think London Transport company is charging higher paper ticket prices to get their hands on his unused Oyster card money, rather than the actual higher cost of handling physical money and paper tickets in non-centralized locations. As the proportion of physical paper tickets falls the unit cost of the service increases.

  22. Re:The Europeans have solved Greece on Fourth European Committee Rejects ACTA · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not according to the calculations provided by MPAA and RIAA.

  23. Re:Get a refill.. on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    I support free soda sizes if you support legalizing all drugs.

  24. Re:leave the EU on Five EU Countries Taken To Court For Failing To Implement Cookie Law · · Score: 1

    I saw a rather interesting survey in The Economist (subscribe to their podcast, they're fucking awesome even if you're just a computer geek like me), the survey covered what European country people thought was least corrupt and who worked the hardest.

    The survey showed Germany clearly leading on being least corrupt, and leading on working the hardest... Except for the Greek who said they worked the hardest.

    True according to reported work hours, yet is someone really 'working' if they're sleeping or otherwise padding?

  25. Re:leave the EU on Five EU Countries Taken To Court For Failing To Implement Cookie Law · · Score: 2

    Well, as I'm currently living in Japan I've seen / studied pretty much the three types of societies that have produced highly competitive industrialized societies. The US (through osmosis of politics, literature and lol), Northern Europe and Japan.

    And what many in the US, especially republicans, seem to miss is that social safety net, universal health care, support for parents with young children, etc, are competitive advantages. What social-capitalistic societies have thought us is that rather than chase an ideology, you should implement reasonable social policies and encourage capitalism that is reined in by sensible regulations.

    As a manager of an IKEA manufacturing plant (that out-competed local businesses) in the US said on the Colbert Report; we swedes took the lessons of US capitalism and got better than you at it.