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  1. Re:Well considering that many of us have low T on Testosterone Increasingly Being Used To Fight Aging In Men · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Curious about those studies. Were they age-controlled or survey of the general (ageing) population?

  2. Re:Reminds me of a joke on Cutting Through Data Science Hype · · Score: 1

    Mod up. Slightly vulgar but a really good analogy.

  3. Re:Tell me about IBM's products. on Cutting Through Data Science Hype · · Score: 1

    Don't be mean!

  4. Gonna sue! on The Strange Story of the First Quantum Art Exhibition In Space · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna sue for copyright infringement!

  5. WD and Seagate on 6 Terabyte Hard Drive Round-Up: WD Red, WD Green and Seagate Enterprise 6TB · · Score: 1

    Aren't both of those the bottom of the barrel these days?

  6. Re:Home of the brave? on Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release · · Score: 1

    Of course I go! Internet Tough Guy has No Fear!

  7. Information wants to be free on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    'nuff said.

  8. Re: America, land of the free... on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 1

    Hiring is often a big filtering process. Get all the resumes and go into a throw-away frenzy. Keep 10% of them at most. Felons very likely to end up in the throwaway pile. Even worse I suppose if a corporate HR department is pre-filtering resumes. My standard advice for ex-cons is to see if they can start and run a small business. Some businesses require background checks to be able to work in (government contracting, anything to do with schools, etc) but some don't have customers who check backgrounds (small IT repair shops). Unfortunately, this requires some capital to get going and also require some ambition and willingness to fail to try starting a business.

  9. Definition of human? on Ability To Consume Alcohol May Have Shaped Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    Is getting wasted what sets humans apart from animals? What about party animals then?

  10. Makes perfect sense on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 0

    Self-serving republican who drove their company into the ground. Sounds like the standard model of a republican US president

  11. Re:Ba Da ... on Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yahoo has a search engine?

  12. Isn't that creepy for them? on Robots Put To Work On E-Waste · · Score: 2

    Robots dealing with a bunch of electronic innards? Seems like working in a morgue.

  13. Needs to be real money on Flaw in New Visa Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card · · Score: 1

    I'll be interested once they get the stealable amount up to something more than chump change.

  14. Re: Orbital on Antares Rocket Explodes On Launch · · Score: 1

    I expect with some cross-insurance between carriers they could cover it. Question is however, since the insurance will be pretty high compared to the cost of the cargo, did somebody buy insurance.

  15. Re:easy but inaccurate on Taking the Census, With Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Simple. Redefine "human" to mean entity that owns AND USES a cell phone.

  16. Re:Litigious Forbearance on What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US? · · Score: 1

    Inevitably sometimes it WILL be the manufacturer's fault. Paying for those liabilities has to be built into the system somehow. Nobody will want to build them until they don't have to face possible billion-dollar judgments against them. Also inevitable that some bad designs will get out that will be obvious in retrospect.

  17. What needs to happen on What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US? · · Score: 1

    Not a complete list but I believe these all must exist before broad general acceptance. 1 Autonomous driving becomes better than human driving, including "edge cases" (e.g., junk falling from a truck, ball rolling out in front of car, etc). 2 Some way to deal with the inevitable liabilities. Cars will still kill people. Maybe something built into all car insurance and/or into the price of cars to fund liability payments. 3 Some way to deal with all the insane people in non-automated cars.

  18. Clippy! on More Eye Candy Coming To Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Gimme my Clippy!

  19. Re:So I have to go to Page 2 now for illegal sites on Google Changes 'To Fight Piracy' By Highlighting Legal Sites · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Think of the children!

  20. How about on Ask Slashdot: Good Hosting Service For a Parody Site? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fox?

  21. Re:ndt on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 2

    That's why you test multiple sources and see what the plateau of performance tends to be. You get various low values but will get a sort of upper limit where some values cluster. Except for, when i tested this, the widely known speed test sites I used were 2-4 times faster than anything else. This was a really obvious effect a year ago when I had satellite internet.

  22. Re:ndt on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 1

    Won't work if it's widely known. Speed test sites don't need to be in collusion. ISP's just prioritize their traffic. It's quite obvious with my ISP if I do speed test sites versus just finding something large to download from a cloud storage service.

  23. Re:they fundamentally don't get it. on Why Do Contextual Ads Fail? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention all the ads I see for things I already purchased.

  24. Re:Dubious claims.. on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    What is this "Tesla" you speak of?

  25. Maybe if they didn't abuse on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe if the government didn't abuse privacy and freedom at every turn they wouldn't be facing this situation.