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  1. Where did I hear this? on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 1

    “I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.”

    That quote is/was NOT aimed at AGW advocates or deniers, but something else altogether. But 'disagreement and debate' is part and parcel of free speech.
    How far down the rabbit hole of silencing others do you want to go?

  2. Re:Stupid question but... on AeroVelo Breaks Human-powered Land Speed Record · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, no. It's not just weight. In that reclined position, a camera in the nose and a monitor provides a better picture than looking through a long curved 'window', that you're looking at mostly edge on.
    As far as weight....once you get it up to speed, a few ounces more or less doesn't really matter.

    This has been done before.

  3. Re:Satan on Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, Satan runs BeOSelbub.

  4. Kleenex, Xerox, Band-aid on NFL Commentators Still Calling Microsoft's Surface Tablets "iPads" · · Score: 0

    All the same concept. Generic terms for what is and used to be specific brands. A 'tablet looking thing' will be refereed to as an "iPad". Same as if they were using Dell, Asus, Samsung tablet looking things.
    iPad.

  5. Re:Problem with plea deal on Bitcoin Trader Agrees To Work For Police In Plea Agreement · · Score: 2

    Isn't this what people here have been demanding for years? Someone gets busted for a 'computer crime', and instead of a long sentence, work for/with the police to help prevent such in the future.

    Well, here's one. And people still bitch about it.

  6. Good privacy? on Ask Slashdot: Best Country To Avoid Government Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    Pick some.
    Now, show the intersection set of 'countries with good privacy', and 'countries that will let you immigrate there'. I think you'll find that a null set.

  7. Dude, just stop on Ex-Ashley Madison CTO Threatens Libel Suit Against Journalist · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you're in a hole, stop digging.

  8. This is a joke, right? on New Tech Puts the Brakes On Bullets Fired From Police Sidearms · · Score: 1

    Some 'air bag' that is only good for the first round? Yeah, OK...you go with that. You might even make a substantial amount of money selling to some city.
    The police won't use it (and I don't blame them), but this is worse than useless.

  9. A bump? on Can The Martian Give NASA's Mars Efforts a Hollywood Bump? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Can The Martian Give NASA's Mars Efforts a Hollywood Bump?"

    Yes, for about 30 days. Then we'll have BlackFriday, Xmas, etc. All will be forgotten, while waiting for the next Survivor/Dancing/Bachelor/whatever.

  10. Password reuse? on New UK Security Guidelines: Password Re-Use OK, Frequent Changing a Waste · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's ask former Ashley Madison members.

  11. "US Owes the World $4 Trillion" on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    This was the main point behind the original Kyoto Accord. Of course it was not phrased this way, but this was to be the outcome.

  12. Re:Libertarian? on John McAfee Pondering Presidential Bid · · Score: 2

    I want to know which party he'd run under.

    That would be the "Pants on Head" party. Not much different than the usual suspects, but with a little added bit of crazy.

  13. Re:Will it read non-Amazon-sourced books? on Amazon Reportedly Aiming For the Low End With a Loss-Leader $50 Tablet · · Score: 1

    It will almost certainly read those. A base model Kindle does, so I see little reason why this wouldn't.

  14. Re:LoJack on Four Men Arrested Over Million-Dollar MacBook Heist · · Score: 1

    New money-making pastime; interchanging broken/stolen iPhones with new ones, directly at the store with random strangers, under the guise of 'civil disobedience'.

  15. Re:Moon? No. on You Can Now Be "Buried" On the Moon · · Score: 1

    They are offering the moon as an option, just not mentioned on the page you linked.

    Which is where 'how it works' links to. From the always informative /. summary, or from anywhere in their site.
    how it works, from the Shooting Star, Lunar Memorial, or Milky Way Memorial.

    Who knows....it may not be a scam. But if you want to tell me how the Lunar thing works, then do that. Don't link to something else altogether.

  16. Moon? No. on You Can Now Be "Buried" On the Moon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From their 'how it works' site: http://elysiumspace.com/how-it...
    "Depending on the initial altitude of the latter, our memorial spacecraft will respectfully and peacefully orbit the Earth from a few months to several years."
    "Eventually, in a last poetic moment, the spacecraft will harmlessly reenter the Earth’s atmosphere, blazing as a shooting star."

    So basically, just like every other 'ashes to space' launch. The word 'moon' appears nowhere.

  17. Now? on You Can Now Be "Buried" On the Moon · · Score: 1

    "You Can Now Be "Buried" On the Moon", where "now" equals some nebulous point in the future, but before the scam artists run off with all the money and claim bankruptcy.

  18. Re:So don't put it in backwards? on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 1

    Yes, I noted that. Which goes to show that if it can be done wrong, someone wil do it wrong.
    I could think of a couple of ways to design the fuel nozzles to prevent doing it wrong either way, but they would increase costs and fail potential.

    With this thing, it would be pretty easy to design it so that you cannot put the pen in backwards. A slightly tapered hole, and the pen sized appropriately.

  19. Re:So don't put it in backwards? on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um, they've designed around that. The diesel nozzle is larger than a gas nozzle.

    Can you do it the other way around? Yes.

  20. Re:I knew it. on Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users · · Score: 2

    And of course once everyone who had a pirated version of the OS upgrades to the legit free version,

    This is false. A pirated may (not will get upgraded to Win 10, but it will remain pirated. This does not change the legit status. http://www.computerworld.com/a...

  21. I work somewhere with the same problem. How do you work less when the problem is that you can't find enough developers in the first place?

    You've overworked yourselves into a corner.
    If I come in for an interview, and you guys tell me "We routinely work 70 hour weeks"...that's it, interview over, see ya, bye bye.

    You have to change your corporate culture first. NOTE: This may involve firing your boss. And his boss.

  22. Re:Logical on Amazon Work-Life Balance Defender: Prior Employer Nearly Killed Me and My Team · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The rest of us have had to work "hundreds" as my boss calls them, which are 16 hours a day on weekdays and 10 hours a day on weekends, for over two years. Also, we haven't allowed any vacation time other than around Christmas in nearly three years.

    Change this first. Then you might get some actual employees.

  23. Re:Stop. Just stop. on The Real NASA Technologies In 'The Martian' · · Score: 1

    "Never" is a looong time, Sparky.

  24. Re:4/5 in favor on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    Are you aware that you, by simple virtue of reading this, are among the top 0.5% of the US, and probably 0.001% of the planet?

    Your experience means little to someone who, by age 32, has progressed to running the fryer at Burger King.

  25. Kind of serious? on Hyperloop Getting Closer To Reality, Groundbreaking Set For 2016 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, of the two possible viable corridors for this...BoWash, or SF-LA....which one will have the Environmental Impact Study finished first?
    Then which one will be able to navigate the years of cease and desist lawsuits first?