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  1. Re: grandmother reference on Ubisoft Revokes Digital Keys For Games Purchased Via Unauthorised Retailers · · Score: 1

    Steam means that all my games will make it to my next PC.

  2. Re: Who eats doughnuts with the doughnut men? on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 4, Informative

    When nearly everyone is going 70 in a stretch of road marked 55, a person going 55 would be the one not driving safely.

  3. Re: Who eats doughnuts with the doughnut men? on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    This is generally about the interstate, there are on crosswalks on the interstate.

  4. Re: not honest on Americans Support Mandatory Labeling of Food That Contains DNA · · Score: 1

    From what I've heard, the system is rigged so that only people distasteful to the majority get on the ballot, and the ability to write in a candidate has been eliminated.

  5. Multiplatform BASIC on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 1

    That's why I recommend QB64, which has compilers for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and can compile to Android in their Windows version.

  6. No one could replicate Windows? on Interviews: Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    WINE? ReactOS?

  7. Re:"Free Market" religion on Republican Bill Aims To Thwart the FCC's Leaning Towards Title II · · Score: 1

    Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it. Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

  8. Re: Bitcoin on Bitcoin Volatility Puts Miners Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    But the value of everything fluctuates. What should your currency not fluctuate against?

  9. Re: Bitcoin on Bitcoin Volatility Puts Miners Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    Why should your purchasing power be based solely on your skill in your labor? How does one determine the value of that in a void?

  10. Re: Stop the science on Ted Cruz To Oversee NASA and US Science Programs · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that this paper is where the claim originates from?

  11. Re: Stop the science on Ted Cruz To Oversee NASA and US Science Programs · · Score: 1

    That page says nothing about what climate scientists are saying today but merely what percentage of papers starting in 1991 said those things about global warming.

  12. Re: Translation on Education Debate: Which Is More Important - Grit, Or Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    But there are no leaders who practice my belief.

  13. Re: The Full List on Education Debate: Which Is More Important - Grit, Or Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    I think families very often don't have what it takes to do the molding you suggest and someone needs to step in.

  14. Re: It depends on where you are in life on Education Debate: Which Is More Important - Grit, Or Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    When families don't have what it takes, maybe it is the place for the school to teach what they cannot. Simply, stating that it is the place of the family to do this or that doesn't give them the tools to accomplish it.

  15. Re: Sorta related... the teletype machine on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    Amazon just asked me to fax them a copy of my bank statement with my current address on it because their automated system failed. What, I couldn't email them a copy?

  16. Re:Conform or be expelled on HOA Orders TARDIS Removed From In Front of Parrish Home · · Score: 2

    You're paying for the privilege of having someone boss your neighbors around. You just happen to have to agree to being bossed around as well.

  17. MicroSDXC? on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    But is it a MicroSDXC slot?

  18. Re: More Tax Money for things. Always more Governm on Better Learning Through Expensive Software? One Principal Thinks Not · · Score: 1

    People move. If you leave things up to local places they will be even more out to touch with each other than they already are.

  19. Re: Trained dependency is the danger. on Better Learning Through Expensive Software? One Principal Thinks Not · · Score: 1

    My kindle broke easily.

  20. Re:I have no problem with this... here is why on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 1

    Sounded like he paid $5K for the privilege of paying only $1K.

  21. Re:Presumption of innocence on Indiana Court Rules Melted Down Hard Drive Not Destruction of Evidence · · Score: 2

    The article said he received some sort of copyright notice from Comcast before the hard drive failed but only received notice that he was a party to a lawsuit after it failed.

  22. Re: Balloons on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 1

    According to the article, the universe closest to us is or maybe was decelerating but the universe further away is observed to be accelerating. The article doesn't seem to be clear that the light we are seeing from both originated at different times so everything might have been accellerating at the time the further away light originated but everything was decelerating at the time the nearest light originated.

  23. Re: Balloons on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 2

    Over what seem to us as long periods of time all atoms are unstable.

  24. Re:Can't DRM or Root Kit Vinyl on Vinyl's Revival Is Now a Phenomenon On Both Sides of the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Hipsters weren't born before the first vinyl records were popular so there's no way they can say they were into it before it was hip, You must be thinking of some other stereotypical demographic.

  25. Re:Copyright reform. on Happy Public Domain Day: Works That Copyright Extension Stole From Us In 2015 · · Score: 1

    If you want to play it that way, considering a lot of copyright holders aren't the people doing the work, and even when it is, have terms for their work that don't apply for most jobs, I'd say there's a lot of entitlement on the part of the so-called owners as well.