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  1. Why is Google not a telecom? on Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If they are, can't they use the poles under FCC reg? If not, why are they not considered a cable company or telco? Is it because they don't want to follow some regulation that would be required if they have that status?

  2. Re:Perhaps recent moves by the Indian Govt. made G on Google Opens Asian Data Centers But Shuns China and India · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have just suffered personally from this, I was in Bangalore two days ago where I got serious food poisoning from a McDonalds

    While one might argue that any food from McDonald's is poison, I'll be especially careful to avoid those restaurants in Maine. Who knew the northeast was such a pit?

  3. Re:What works in SoCal should stay in SoCal on Ask Slashdot: Why So Hard Landing Interviews In Seattle Versus SoCal? · · Score: 2

    Please consider reapplying after...

    So only hipster douchebags need apply?

  4. Re:Market Saturation on Ask Slashdot: Why So Hard Landing Interviews In Seattle Versus SoCal? · · Score: 1

    I am just taking a stab in the dark here as I don't really know, but maybe there are a lot of "MS Stack software" developers in the home of MS. If they got a ton of them already in town why import more?

    Or it could just be numbers, as in population.

    Seattle: 650k
    Los Angeles: 3.9M

  5. Re:BBT on At Long Last: IceCube Spots 28 High-Energy Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Sheldon and any other mathematician...

    How dare you lump Sheldon in with lowly mathematicians. He's a theoretical physicist, not some school teacher.

  6. Re:No media on PlayStation 4 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At least with the ps4 released, I can snap up used PS3 for media consoles in the bedrooms now.

    This is the main reason of why I'll buy Xbox One over the PS4.

    There is no way I'm putting an Xbox One in my bedroom.

  7. Re:Funnily Enough on Microsoft Releases Browser-Based IDE, Visual Studio Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot something... "And get off my lawn!"

  8. Not just illegal, expensive on Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...refused because it was illegal and would need to involve a massive number of private sector workers.

    So being illegal isn't enough, it also has to be expensive and inconvenient?

  9. Re:Asking for their statue back? on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 1

    So will the french demand the return of the Statue of Liberty that they gifted to the americans?

    Hey France: Molon labe.

  10. Re:Perhaps... on USS Zumwalt — a Guided Missile Destroyer Running On Linux · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's appropriate that the first commanding officer of the Zumwalt will be Captain James Kirk (yes, that's actually his name).

    Come on US Navy, you can tell us: you saw the name and went for it :)

    Why isn't it the DDG-1701?!

  11. Re:What's their problem? on Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos · · Score: 1

    Apple overcharges users for the cables, while preventing the competition from building cheaper alternatives.

    You! Hardware company that makes money selling cables and things that plug into cables! I immediately demand you halt you money-making venture!

  12. Re:Yeah yeah the US does this too on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    I agreed to be a "web intern" for the local newspaper one semester. I thought I'd be helping to design layouts or code bits. No, it turned out all I did was copy news stories from Quark and paste them into HTML, and modify/crop the newsprint images for the web.

    A recent Supreme Count ruling makes that type of work paid. If it isn't education and setup to benefit the student, then you get should get paid.

  13. IBM PR Machine fired up on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    So, a few stories below we have the "Whirlpool's 30,000 users move to Google" and now we get an "IBM Could Crush Google" story? No, that's no suspicious at all.

  14. Re:VOLTRON Lives!!! on MIT Researchers Unveil Self-Assembling Robot Swarm · · Score: 1

    Voltron? I think you mean The Iron Giant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Giant)

  15. Re:Beta on GMail Chat/GTalk Sending Chats To Wrong Recipients · · Score: 2

    Such bugs are usually there in Beta releases. This will be fixed in the Production Release.

    No, these bugs are in beta. In the production release, they'll be full-blown vulnerabilities or exploits.

  16. Hell-Bent? on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    As scientific knowledge advances, god shrinks.

    Wouldn't that make them Heaven-Bent instead of Hell-Bent?

  17. Re:The short version... on Ars Technica Reviews iOS 7 · · Score: 0

    Android fan says "we had all that a long time ago" and this is somehow Interesting or Insightful?

  18. Darn. on Woz & Jobs 2.0: Leap Motion's Holtz & Buckwald · · Score: 2

    Why did I read that as "Woz (& Jobs 2.0)" expecting to read a story about Woz building a Steve Jobs robot?

  19. Re:BMW Aztek on BMW Debuts First Electric Vehicle Made Primarily of Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    Aztek redux now with a dose of hipster douchebag.

    Fixed that for ya.

  20. So how much does it weigh? on BMW Debuts First Electric Vehicle Made Primarily of Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    They say it is made primarily of carbon fiber, which I guess is for weight savings, but why not tell me how much it weighs?

    I don't mind the way it looks, even if it looks mostly like a toy (I think because of the size), but agree with others that a plain-jane designed electric car would probably sell.

  21. Checking calendar... on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 2

    Is it April 1 already?

    Aaaaaaaaand, of course it is a Kickstarter.

  22. Re:unfathomable on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    Why the hell are engineers designing, or being allowed to design, a life-critical system like brakes on a car so that the system lacks a direct, non interruptible physical connection between the driver and the brakes?

    To make it safer, with things like ABS, traction control and roll stability. You know, things that keep you from skidding uncontrollably, spinning out or tipping over in your big, tall SUV.

  23. Not thinking astronomy on Very Large Telescope Observes Gas Cloud Being Ripped Apart By Black Hole · · Score: 0

    When I read the summary about a black hole ripping a cloud of gas, I admit to not first thinking about astronomy.

    Damn you, chickory root!

  24. WTF is a muktworld? on Samsung Launches 3200x1800 Pixel ATIV Book 9 Plus Laptop · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At least link to an article with more than 300 words. Review at CNET.

  25. Exercise on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? · · Score: 2

    Just do it.