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  1. A man with one atomic clock knows what time it is. on New US Atomic Clock Goes Live · · Score: 5, Funny

    A man with two atomic clocks is never sure.

  2. I hope he gets a lot of instructions per clock... on Single-Celled Organism Converted Into Electronic Oscillator For Bio-Computing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because 0.0136986 Hz is not that high a clock speed...

  3. Re:Ya know ... on FWD.us Wants More H-1B Visas, But 50% Go To Offshore Firms · · Score: 1

    Did I say anything about conservatives? No, I said nothing, either way, about conservatives. I was only talking about Progressives.

  4. What about C4FM and D-STAR? on Interview: Ask Bruce Perens What You Will · · Score: 1

    What can you say about your activities geared towards eliminating the use of D-STAR, C4FM, and other proprietary digital codecs in Amateur Radio? It seems the scourge of these proprietary technologies continues unabated. Have you done any work to develop any open digital standards for Amateur Radio? If so, where does that work currently stand?

  5. Re:3rd world wages in a country with 1st world pri on FWD.us Wants More H-1B Visas, But 50% Go To Offshore Firms · · Score: 1

    Median earnings of lawyers in the US: $113,530
    Median earnings of engineering MBAs in the US: $124,870

    Why wouldn't we want a country packed with people earning 6-figure incomes?

  6. Re:Ya know ... on FWD.us Wants More H-1B Visas, But 50% Go To Offshore Firms · · Score: 2

    Using the Government as a weapon against their competitors is what progressives do. We are fast approaching the establishment of the progressive ruling class, where if you're among the progressive elite, your company gets favorable treatment from government, and a slanted playing field.

  7. Lousy Cost/Benefit ratio on Department of Transportation Makes Rear View Cameras Mandatory · · Score: 1

    13 to 15 deaths due to inattentive drivers will not be stopped by having a rear view camera. Inattentive drivers are going to be inattentive with or without the technology aid.

    Forcing people to spend billions of dollars a year for nothing isn't justifiable.

  8. Re:Spectrum Frequency on FCC Boosts Spectrum Available To Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Ham radio is already non-primary on 5GHz. In fact it is tertiary use on 5.15-5.25. There are two other services that take priority. Amateur is also secondary on every other 5GHz allocation it has.

  9. Re:GM should've died on An Engineer's Eureka Moment With a GM Flaw · · Score: 1

    Don't speak too soon.

    Their 6F35 transmission woes are just now starting to become a big deal, and may likely threaten putting Ford in a serious hurt before too much longer.

  10. Why SHOULDN'T gays be allowed to marry? on Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down · · Score: 1

    Marriage has absolutely dick to do with religion anymore. Marriage is a state-run institution that affords married couples certain rights and privileges that ensure the steadfastness of their union and protects it from state interference. That is all.

    Perhaps the most important part of marriage is that married couples enjoy the right of spousal privilege in legal proceedings. One spouse may not be compelled by the State to testify against the other, nor reveal the contents of privileged communications, for example. That's huge, and it is something that gay couples in states that do not recognize or allow gay marriages do not have. Any two people who are committed to each other should have this right of privilege.

    What States really ought to do is just remove the word "Marriage" from all of their books and only offer civil unions, to any couple who desires to have one. If you want to have a religious marriage, get one in a Church, and follow your religion's rules, but leave the rest of us out of it. Religious folk do not have the right to force the rest of us to follow their religion, and in fact our Constitution guarantees that gay couples are free from state-sanctioned discriminatory religious beliefs.

  11. Re:More lies from the Republicans on TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are not a conservative. You are trolling slashdot trying to make conservatives look bad. The left-wing's propaganda machine you belong to is pretty transparent.

  12. Re:I dont get it on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 2

    Because if Ukrainian soldiers fired a single shot on a Russian soldier, Putin would march directly to Kiev and just take all of Ukraine as new Russian territory.

  13. Re:Not a single casualty on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 0

    There was at least one casualty on the Ukraine side.

  14. Re:The thing about FUD... on IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages · · Score: 1

    Did I?

  15. Outsourced to where? on Ask Slashdot: Moving From Tech Support To Development? · · Score: 2

    "My eastern European tech-support job will be outsourced in 6 months to a nearby country."

    Do you work in eastern Ukraine? I hear a lot of those jobs are soon to be outsourced to nearby Russia.

  16. The thing about FUD... on IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages · · Score: 0

    If at first you don't succeed, try harder.

  17. Corporations do NOT operate under color of law on They're Reading Your Mail: Microsoft's ToS, Windows 8 Leak, and Snooping · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has no right to act as a law enforcement entity. So, when they try to justify trespassing on someone's email account and stealing their email by saying that they had "probable cause to believe" whatever, it doesn't fly.

    Maybe I should go break into my neighbor's house in the middle of the night and ransack the place because I have probable cause to believe he "borrowed" my week whacker without asking... that'd be perfectly okay, right Microsoft?

  18. Everything *credible* is on the table on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Religion, magic, witchcraft, and other hocus pocus have no part in science.

  19. Massive release? on Firefox 29 Beta Arrives With UI Overhaul And CSS3 Variables · · Score: 1

    If it's just a massive release, why did they only increment the minor version number? Why not something equally massive like going from 28 to say, 11000?

  20. Re:Flukes aren't the only yellow multimeters. on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1
  21. Re:In other news... on Judge Tells Feds To Be More Specific About Email Search Warrants · · Score: 1

    And the IRS's "audit every year" list.

  22. Re:Buzzfeed titles! on Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight Relaunches As Data Journalism Website · · Score: 2

    I know, it's a huge problem. But, I found this one weird trick that can fix it for you, permanently, and it's completely risk-free.

  23. Misleading headline / clickbait on Goodbye, Google Voice · · Score: 1

    This dipshit deliberately wanted everyone to believe that Google was discontinuing Google Voice, when what he really should have written was "I'm leaving Google Voice because I don't need it."

    Asswipe.

  24. Re:If no decay, why a fire risk? on Forests Around Chernobyl Aren't Decaying Properly · · Score: 1

    Lightning...

    Also, a sign on the road will keep people out of the exclusion zone about as well as gun laws will eliminate gun crimes...

  25. Re:Vaccination is not risk-free on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    "Despite a generally high degree of safety, vaccination still has significant risks."

    A one in one million chance of having a mild allergic reaction to a vaccination is not a "significant risk."

    A one in one hundred million chance of dying from a vaccination is also not a "significant" risk.