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  1. Re:Youtube video. on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    I don't know anyone who drinks while hunting or hunts drunk, for the obvious reasons. At night at the hunting cabin whilst bullshitting and telling dick jokes, sure.

  2. Re:Or... Just Eat Less Meat on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1
    Yep. Turns out that gas chambers prevent cancer.

    But honestly, those numbers look just a little too perfect. Either going vegetarian instantly cures cancer or cataloging cancer deaths wasn't a priority at the time.

  3. Re:Using this technique on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 2

    Kosher mammals must a) chew their cud and b) have cloven hooves. If you consider test-tube meat to be mammal, you could argue that no test-tube meat is kosher.

  4. Re:Already got my free case. on Apple Settles Antennagate Class-Action Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    No shit, they've been giving away free bumpers for over a year and a half now.

  5. just took a #shit on Stealing Laptops For Class Credit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wait, isn't posting pointless minutia from your life the whole point of twitter?

  6. Re:Sounds to me... on Google Accused of Bypassing Safari's Privacy Controls · · Score: 2

    You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. Google detects and serves up different ads for Safari users, adding a hidden form in an iframe that auto-submits to make themselves a first-party. They don't do that on other browsers (which default to accepting third party cookies)

    If that's not knowing the inner workings and manufacturing a back door, what is?

  7. another thing is: on Google Accused of Bypassing Safari's Privacy Controls · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google claims you can use the Ads Preferences Manager to disable this "feature". But wait! They previously claimed that it wasn't necessary to disable that feature because Safari defaulted to no 3rd party cookies.

    Fuck me with a greased up Yoda doll, if they're going to blatently lie, why would they respect your desire to pot out of it?

    Assuming they're not evil, they want to fill the web with their +1 buttons so they needed to turn on 3rd party cookies which unintentionally (not that they mind) enabled all their ad tracking.

    Which is to say Google isn't evil but Google+ is.

  8. Re:Yay? on WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Before starting work on GIMP, Peter Mattis asked for input on features and formats.

    The first suggestion was to use existing CLI utils, augmented with new CLI utils. (In fairness, there were some other ideas that did make it in and script-fu is similar in spirit to cli apps)

  9. cool on WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006 · · Score: 2

    WindowMaker (now Window Maker) was the first X11 window manager I liked, after having used CDE (shudder), fvwm95 (double shudder), bowman, and AfterStep.

    Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved.

  10. Re:Except it would be suicide for Google... on HP CEO Says Google-Motorola Deal Could Close-Source Android · · Score: 1
    profit = revenue - expenses.

    Android expenses: $400 million for Android, $2-$3 billion for IBM patents, $12 billion for Motorola. Nevermind all the employees working on Android. You might want to include $750 million for admob in there, though that's not android specific.

  11. Re:Press release from Apple on Apple Seeks Court Permission To Sue Kodak For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Are you a retard? Most of Apple's lawsuits were started while Steve Jobs was still alive. They were started because he wanted them started. You might also note that Apple-initiated lawsuits are the "stop copying us" variety, not the "pay us lots of money" variety (SCO, Motorola, patent trolls).

  12. Re:OPT OUT on Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted For TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    I've never been patted down by the police, but the TSA pat downs that I've requested, performed in public, were less humiliating than steeping into a machine that could be mistaken for a death chamber. And a fair number of people will be groped even if they don't opt out.

  13. Re:A second just Justice.... Please on Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    That's not a quote. it's the life of a woman in Afghanistan.

  14. wrong address on MIT's Online Education Prototype Opens For Enrollment · · Score: 2, Funny

    For a FREE education from MIT, go to prep.ai.mit.edu.

  15. Re:No mods?... on An Open Alternative To Kickstarter · · Score: 1

    I think a jury would be more $ympathetic to a person scammed by a website that claims to filter out scams than a person scammed by a website which claims caveat emptor.

  16. Re:Use an LLC on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 1

    Unless you have some sort of employment contract that specifies otherwise, you live in an at-will state and can be fired at any time without cause.

  17. Re:A second just Justice.... Please on Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    Like when a woman is raped by her brother and then arrested for adultery? But then it becomes international news and the court will let her out if she marries her brother? Yeah, maybe they'll commute his sentence to life in prison after then kill him.

  18. Maybe it's just me on A Defense of Process Patents · · Score: 1
    but I used to think patents were for the specific implementation of an idea, not the idea or the end result itself. Which is to say, someone else could (and is encouraged to as it promotes the arts and useful science) get the same end result using a different technique.

    Let's say wifi-enabled mousetraps that detect when they've caught one are the next big thing. I might hook my mouse trap up to a scale and patent it. You might hook yours up to a motion detection camera and patent it. But claiming a vague patent for the idea of detecting a dead mouse doesn't advance anything.

  19. Re:What? on Facebook Details Executive Salaries, Bonuses · · Score: 1

    Salary is subject to FICA taxes (7.2%+-) up to $106,800 or so. As his salary was $500,000, his effective FICA tax rate was only 1.4% or so. Seems like a trivial amount to me, but then again, the rich are different than us. For example, they do everything possible to reduce their tax burden and then complain that it's too low.

  20. $0.45 on Facebook Details Executive Salaries, Bonuses · · Score: 0

    next year, his salary is $1

  21. Re:Slashdot is dead on After Rewrites, Google Wallet Still Has Holes · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the most hilarious thing is H.264. Google dropped H.264 support from Chrome and Android because they're afraid of patent trolls. To date, the only H.264 patent troll is ... Motorola. So Motorola will stop patent trolling after the acquisition is complete? Not according to Google's lawyers.

  22. Re:Mostly carrying useless junk on How Much Stuff Can Timothy Jam Into His New Hoodie's Pockets? (Video) · · Score: 4, Funny

    In TSA security tests, the X-Ray screeners missed 90% of knives and guns sent through the xray machine. The 10% they found was only because they mistook it for a vibrator or crack pipe and wanted to attach a boorish post-it note.

  23. Re:You're a douche on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs? · · Score: 1

    How many times have you heard the term "scratching an itch" thrown around when talking about Open Source? Well, he's got an itch. Sometimes scratching it means starting a new open source project, sometimes it means contributing to an existing open source project, and in this case, it means starting his own open source company so he can have an open source job.

  24. Re:Such systems have been proposed before on The Zuckerberg Tax · · Score: 1

    What, exactly, is the problem? He has to pay back the loan with other money (salary, dividends, other capital gains) which is taxed.

  25. Re:Not a problem... on The Zuckerberg Tax · · Score: 1

    As of 2013, capital gains over $250,000 are subject to medicare tax (with some exceptions, naturally).