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  1. Re:so what? on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 2

    No, he didn't cause the problem. He was punished for finding and demonstrating it.

  2. Re:I'm getting a different message on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 1

    You do the same thing that you attempted to do when you went to college. You find another way to make yourself the best applicant. Hopefully with somewhat less of a time and money burden.

  3. Re:No Degree for Me on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 1

    Riddler and Jhutson456, you both are demonstrating that a certain portion of people are inherently capable, with or without a degree. As well there are plenty of people who are worthless no matter how decorated in academics they become. For the majority in the middle, there is a valid arguments for both the value of a degree and the downsides of the debt.

  4. Re:hardly surprising... on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 1

    Hear Hear! High school diplomas are worthless when students are graduated based on federal requirements on passing quantities of students.

  5. Cost/Benefit: Not there anymore on For Businesses, the College Degree Is the New High School Diploma · · Score: 1

    The biggest tragedy is the debt you have to assume for $10.00 an hour job.

  6. Re:Easy solution on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 2

    When Al Qaeda move in, they bring a combat zone with them. You don't get a choice there. When you're in a combat zone, you do have some choices. You can choose sides, and further the side that benefits you, or you can not choose sides and become collateral damage.

  7. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    Great point! Speedometer reading is not the same as log reading!

  8. find him, prosecute him on Local Emergency Alert System Hacked, Warns Dead Rising From Graves · · Score: 0

    The hacker needs his computer inventory confiscated and busted down to flip phone tech. This is no different than joyriding the fire trucks. The system is there for emergencies, and crap like this devalues it's emergency status.

  9. Re:I Almost Hate To Say This on Cities' Heat Can Affect Temperatures 1000+ Miles Away · · Score: 1

    Heat disburses in air. All the heat is still there, mixed in with the rest of the earth (and it's atmosphere).

  10. Re:Huh? on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    The objection is beyond silly. The product is based on a 35 year old movie that didn't offend them. Even if they had a claim, they'd have to stand in line behind the British, who were the stereotype of the Imperials.

  11. Re:here we go on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Vader blocked that with a mechanical prosthetic. There was nothing in that scene that made The Force an overriding plot device.

  12. Working? on Hobbyist Builds Working Replica of Iron Man's Laser Gauntlet · · Score: 2

    If by working you mean that it can flash blinky lights. And if you mean "just like the one made famous" to say it can scorch holes through a single sheet of the paper the comic is written on, then yes. It's just like Iron Man's laser cutter that can punch through several inches of solid steel.

  13. Subcontracting on Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's the problem? Does the employee contract have a clause against subcontracting?

  14. Re:I don't understand the "high cap" magazine ban on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    No, it's a privilege in practice. Arms are licensed, regulated, banned in most public venues, removed from ex-criminals and public threats by urban town level legislation, and not a viable defense in court for almost any use outside defending the interior of your home.

  15. Re:Holy overrated on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    Which is why a better plan is to allow teachers to have the choice to fund their own classes and certifications, and carry firearms if they so choose. There's also the option of simply posting an officer at the school. You know, a city paid officer. I'm sure most towns could do with one less speed trap.

  16. Re:Stupid anecdotes are a waste of time on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 2

    There aren't any real numbers on successful defenses with firearms. There's way too much liability to actually defending yourself in a proper manner with a firearm to report it.

  17. Re:Just a cost. No benefit. on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    You nailed it. The running cost of maintaining dual systems is less than the cost of repurchasing and retooling all the equipment. It's amazing how much equipment is in use in America that would be cost prohibitive to refit to metric or SI.

    The US is SLOWLY (as in glacially slowly) making it's way to metric. The more we open our borders and tariffs to outside trade, the more we slide into step with the rest of the world.

  18. Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong? on NASA Plans To "Lasso" Asteroid and Turn It Into Space Station · · Score: 1

    Stand right there. Don't move. Nasa will brink progress to you.

  19. Re:8-bit to 64 on Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? · · Score: 1

    AMD and Cyrix made some with ridiculous multipliers.

  20. Re:If there was a Bad at Math Map... on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 2

    Ask the Confederacy.

  21. Re:I PROMISE NOT TO PARDON NIXON, REALLY on Bryson Crash Reveals Threat of Headless Government · · Score: 1

    They only threw Palin in there for lip service to the Republican females because they knew they couldn't beat Obama in the first place.

  22. Bad Idea? on Iran Claims New Cyber Attack On Its Nuclear Plants, Blames US and Allies · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Isn't kind of a bad idea to deliberately mess up controlling computers in a nuclear plant?

    I get that Iran has a deserved reputation for abusing their neighbors, but if the US causes a meltdown, then we're in the wrong.

  23. Re:Record Videos on Subject To a "Stop and Frisk"? There's an App For That · · Score: 5, Informative
  24. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    You mean like the US Federal Government has no power unless explicitly permitted? The 10th Amendment?

    Yeah, that's not going to fly.

  25. Re:Whoever is responsible for this article on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    You describe so well, how "God" apparently sees us as no more than a breed of dog, putting down all the curs.