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  1. Re: Cuba is for sheeps. on China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment · · Score: 1

    User sexconker once didn't post anonymously, so I think it started with him, but this seems to be an imitator.

  2. When life hands you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back.

  3. Re:Bias? Or reality? on Houston's Gifted Education Program Biased Against Blacks and Latinos · · Score: 1

    How does confronting people with problems of types they've probably never seen before avoid or counteract socioeconomic biases? Especially when socioeconomic biases affect that probability. One question on an IQ test not so long ago asked me what continent a given country was in, a problem that was even more likely to have probably never been seen before the poorer you are.

  4. Re: "Real" Names on 500 Million Users At Risk of Compromise Via Unpatched WinRAR Bug · · Score: 1

    You believe in the concept of a "real" name... How quaint. Sure there is such a thing as a legal name that you use on legal forms, and a lot of times people think that is your "real" name. But how real is it? Is it what your friends, family, acquaintances or coworkers call you? Probably not. I just put hackwrench into Bing and my slashdot page is on the first page of listings. My blog is in the first page of results in Google. That real enough for you?

  5. Re:Attempting to trademark a decoration name on Tardis Wars: The BBC Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    No, trademarks that describe the product that the trademark covers should be disallowed, although Betty Boop got allowed as a trademark, but once it fell out of copyright the trade- Actually reviewing the trademark situation for Betty Boop, I found it more confusing than I initially thought, and the Wikipedia article steers clear of it, but a link to a story about it is http://www.seattlecopyrightwat...

  6. Re:Animals on Stop Taking All the Fun Out of Science · · Score: 1

    There used to be a saying that getting up earlier for DST confused the cows, so no it wasn't for the animals. https://www.bing.com/search?q=...

  7. Re:Sigh on Meet the Michael Jordan of Sport Coding · · Score: 1

    They didn't even cover it very well. I stopped reading after reading "Mark Zuckerberg would look like an Adonis in this room." And there were several bad turns of phrase before that.

  8. Re:the solution to obvious problems on How To Clean the Cruft Left By a Windows 10 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    And here I thought the solution was "Dance, Monkey Dance"
    https://www.youtube.com/result...
    https://www.youtube.com/result...

  9. Re:Privacy on How To Clean the Cruft Left By a Windows 10 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    It's more accurate to say that privacy's been monetized.

  10. Re:Windows 10 Tips on How To Clean the Cruft Left By a Windows 10 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    But where's the excitement in that?

  11. Re:Cortana on How To Clean the Cruft Left By a Windows 10 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Before I activated Cortana, search for programs didn't work. Cortana's voice recognition is worse than Google's. Cortana frequently takes forever starting up, that is, from the time I click on the icon or hit Win-C, or whatever, to the time something finally comes up.

  12. Re:Give it up, Philip Morris on Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes · · Score: 1

    And the people who chose to live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were clearly responsible for themselves getting bombed. They had a choice as to where to live and they clearly blew it.

    As for car accidents, does the BMV bear any responsibility for granting them a license? You didn't mention them at all.
    And if somebody doesn't like drunk people and decides to go after them, is it their fault or the fault of the drunk person for being around them.
    Surely the slaves were ultimately responsible for slavery. If they had wanted to be free they should have fought for it.
    Nah, the people who got shot were responsible because they should never have been anywhere they could get shot.
    Take some responsibility, man!

  13. Unfortunately none of them have come up to me and told me that.

  14. We've come up with the idea that employment is not personal and should involve everybody.

    That makes it sound as if you are in agreement with the idea that employment is not personal.

  15. First they had static ads and they didn't really bother me. Then they had video ads and I thought it was a nuisance, but I put up with it. Then there was an ad that kept yanking me up to the top of the Slashdot page instead of perhaps following me down. That was the last straw!

  16. Re:what else could happen on The US and China Agree Not To Conduct Economic Espionage In Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    The US could go to the World Trade Organization and ask them to allow the United States to place tariffs on goods made in China.

  17. Benefits? I doubt it. on Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes · · Score: 1

    What's the chances that they do something that benefits the would be criminal to keep him from committing the crime?

  18. Re:Lies! on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 1

    I thought it was partially because of people (alright, maybe they were all from marketing) saying that after bytecode was recompiled into code targeted to that specific environment, all future calls to the code would run faster than if the code had been compiled to target processor families. Or something like that.

  19. Re:which is not explained in this article on Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication · · Score: 1

    Which is why I voted this summary down, but it got through anyways.

  20. Re:How about if we OWN our personal information? on The Difficulty In Getting a Machine To Forget Anything · · Score: 1

    That information isn't me. I'm much more complex that what can be deduced from that information. It isn't even a copy of me.

  21. Re:Good idea on Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Operator Pleads Guilty To $150M Fraud · · Score: 1

    Except the whole point of doing things to devalue the dollar is to entice people to get out of dollars and into something that the value more to keep the economy afloat. If enough people want to hoard their money, there will be people without money and a job to earn more.

  22. Re: No one is asking YOU on Let's Not Go To Mars · · Score: 1

    The right isn't any better.

  23. Re: firing the fake gun on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    Well, in my case, I was never sent to the principal's office, so there's evidence that it wasn't disruptive.

  24. Re: firing the fake gun on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1
    How do you fire a fake gun? Especially one without blanks?

    Go google it up

    Doing an internet search only returns those low quality news stories.

    If misbehaving means doing something that not related to listening to the teacher, I misbehaved a lot, but that doesn't mean that it was disruptive.

  25. Re:Pop Tart on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    Nobody said anything about the Pop Tart gun kid.