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  1. The Mathematical Case for..... on The Mathematical Case For Buying a Powerball Ticket · · Score: 1

    ...Some BS that everyone has read 18 times before.
    Yes, the Powerball is 175 million to 1 against winning, being $15 million or $450 million. The odds don't change. There are only so many numbers.

    But so what? The cost of 'a' Powerball ticket, $2, is trivial. If $2 really makes that much difference in your budget....even $2 a week, every week....then you do not need to do it, whatever the percentages say.

  2. Re:And this is interesting becase? on Silk Road Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty After Federal Sting · · Score: 1

    Because website, that's why.
    And Dice.com

  3. Re:Guy allegedly does something stupid on Swatting 19-Year-Old Arrested in Las Vegas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In these cases though...the police are (maliciously) informed beforehand that the people inside are 'armed and likely to shoot'.
    There really is no other choice for them but to show up and go all out.

  4. Camera, timer, done. on Ask Slashdot: Automated Tool To OCR CCGs Like Magic: the Gathering? · · Score: 1

    A regular digital camera, on a tripod, 5 second timer
    A Canon P&S, CHDK (intervelometer), swap the card before it clicks again.

  5. Re:'often do' on Female-Run Companies Often do Better Than Male-Run Ones (Video) · · Score: 2

    WTF is this?

    Oh, wait....this is Dice.com. Answered myself.

  6. 'often do' on Female-Run Companies Often do Better Than Male-Run Ones (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And often don't. WTF is this?

  7. Re:The biggest failure of science: on Too Much Exercise May Not Be Better Than a Sedentary Lifestyle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you seen the price of running shoes?

  8. Re:Not too big to fail on Alibaba Face Off With Chinese Regulator Over Fake Products · · Score: 1

    So far, my experience with Alibaba (Aliexpress, anyway) is that at least on small items they are happy to refund you and ding the shipper.

    If you're seeing that enough to make a comment about it, maybe you should look to a different source.

  9. Important files ? on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Personal Archive? · · Score: 1

    Important to you, yes. Other than that, no one cares.

    Your dissertation? Print it out. Send it to the cloud and let that take care of it. Pics of the family? Again, print. And not on your crappy inkjet.
    Paper in a folder or photo album is universally, instantly accessible. Anything else (digital) requires a continual update to whatever storage medium is current.
    10 years ago, saving to a CD might have been a good idea. 10 years from now, will anyone you know have a device with a working CD drive?

  10. Re:Driving ban on Uber Capping Prices During Snowmageddon 2015 · · Score: 1

    Emergency. Police/fire/ambulance. Big flashing lights and all that. That is what those guys do. Not some Uber schmuck cruising around in his Prius.

  11. Re:Driving ban on Uber Capping Prices During Snowmageddon 2015 · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I hope that any driver...Uber, personal, licensed taxi, whatever...gets busted hard for driving around during those hours.
    Keep your narrow ass at home.

  12. Re:Errors on Anonymous Asks Activists To Fight Pedophiles In 'Operation Deatheaters' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...but what will happen if Anonymous post something wrong about someone?

    If? No...when.

  13. Re:What is there on a fighter that could help? on Bomb Threats Via Twitter Partly Shut Down Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport · · Score: 2

    What is there on a fighter jet that could possibly help?

    Eyeballs, and a brain.

  14. Re:Other than the obligatory security theatre... on Bomb Threats Via Twitter Partly Shut Down Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport · · Score: 2

    Jets are scrambled to provide 'eyes on'. Whatever happens, there is a couple pairs of eyes, and probably cameras, to see exactly what happens.
    And if things really go pear shaped...shoot it down.

    What else would you put up there to see what is happening?

  15. Re:Performance Mouse MX on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    I love the Performance MX. Using one right now, and about to order another for when this one eventually dies.
    love the discontinued Revolution MX more. That extra side wheel was the killer.

  16. Re:Nobody should trust these scammers on Winklevoss Twins Plan Regulated Bitcoin Exchange · · Score: 1

    Naaa...that should have called it "Facepalm"
    Which is what the rest of us are doing.

  17. upsized, good looking golf cart on Local Motors Looks To Disrupt the Auto Industry With 3D-Printed Car Bodies · · Score: 1

    Motor - 5 bhp, 62-mile range, Top Speed - approx. 50mph*

    Not quite the definition of 'car', 3D printed or no.

  18. Re:My experience with Fios was largely negative on Verizon About To End Construction of Its Fiber Network · · Score: 4, Informative

    My FiOS experience has been exactly the opposite. 3 installs between 2 houses. Starting with 15/5, then 25/10, 25/25, and now 50/50...absolutely rock solid. Currently, on the advertised 50/50, I'm seeing 56/67.

    "rent their hardware"? No...the router was included. Not a great router, but there was no extra line item on the bill for 'rental'.

  19. oh good grief on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    This is nothing new. The 'exhaust sound' was part of the design criteria of the 1st Gen Mazda Miata. Trying to recreate British sports cars (Lotus).

  20. Re:call me skeptical on NASA, NOAA: 2014 Was the Warmest Year In the Modern Record · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The contradiction is due to the cherry picking of data that is the source of this Koch Brothers-bought-and-paid for meme.

    As opposed to the Soros-bought-and-paid for meme.
    What...you thought there was a difference?

  21. Push your technical recruiters to hit 20% threshol on Fighting Tech's Diversity Issues Without Burning Down the System · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.
    Hire the best people you can.

    If they happen to be 5%, 20%, 60% women, so be it.
    Threshold? KMA. Let's see who applies and walks throught e door.

  22. Re:So, um... on US Central Command's Twitter Account Hacked, Filled With Pro-ISIS Messages · · Score: 1

    Every MAJCOM has one. As well as facebook. Most of the commanders have a public one as well.

  23. Bitcoin enabled voters? Are you high? on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 0

    Yes...yes you are.

    " Bitcoin-enabled voters don’t have to place their trust in Florida ballot counters trying to discern the difference a hanging chad and a dimpled chad—nor in black box online voting systems from private companies where what’s happening inside is a mystery. The proof is right there on the blockchain."

    So we should put our trust in a bitcoin type system? How about no. Does that work for you?

  24. Re:No thanks to kiddie porn on my drive.... on Would You Rent Out Your Unused Drive Space? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Years of propaganda? That, and also assholes who will use this for their own means, and screw the innocent user, simply because they do not care.

  25. Even sillier on Would You Rent Out Your Unused Drive Space? · · Score: 2

    They 'pay' you in pseudo Bitcoin.
    "Now to rent out something means that there is a compensation for services rendered. This comes in the form of Storjcoin X. Storjcoin X (SJCX) is a token that allows people to buy and rent storage as well as being traded on exchanges. It is a Counterparty asset and uses the Bitcoin blockchain for its transactions."