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  1. Re:Correction on Appeals Judge Calls Prenda an "Ingenious Crooked Extortionate Operation" · · Score: 1

    Is it? I actually wonder if the exact words It Is So Ordered have to be used. "Make It So" is an order, and it's clear and understandable English.

  2. Re:The Perfect Bait on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    No, you won't. You demonstrably won't. People will be pissed at you, organize a boycott against your event, busuienss or even your home, but it is unlikely you will be shot.

  3. Re:Que the OMG COMMON SENSE!!!!1!! poasts on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 0

    You've never had poast? It's basically poached toast. Or maybe he was using a shortened version of a pot roast, also known as a proast. Both are delicious.

  4. Re:A first: We should follow Germany's lead on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 4, Funny

    You've Godwinned the Godwin reference. I am now officially out of mein kampfort zone on this thread.

  5. Re:A first: We should follow Germany's lead on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 2

    I knew someone was Goering to go there.

  6. wut on The Key To Interviewing At Google · · Score: 1

    The thing is, some of these questions don't seem all that hard.

    How many golf balls fit in a school bus? Well, I could give a ball park figure by estimating:
    The volume of the bus/the size of a golf ball.
    So even if my numbers aren't right, I'm sure the general application is what they'd be going for in an interview, so...
    school bus: 20ft x 7ft x 9ft x12 for cubic inches= 15120 cubic inches.
    If a golf ball is 1.5 inches in diameter (have no idea if this is true) then 10080 golf balls fit in a school bus.

    Now, its true that with spheres you can actually fit more in by stacking them in certain ways, but I wouldn't know of the top of my head how to actually adjust my calculation for that. So I guess I won't be the next Google employee.

  7. Re:Not a surprise on Verdict Reached In Boston Bombing Trial · · Score: 1

    If h'es not sentenced to death, he'll be sent to the Supermax facility in Florence, CO, for the rest of his life. But he'll probably be put to death, as he should be.

  8. Re:Mystery Solved on The Solar System Is Awash In Water · · Score: 1

    Actually, as the farmers like to say, California's biggest statewide crop is grass. Namely, people's lawns. When you have people in Rancho Santa Fe using upwards of 350 gallons of water per person, per day for lawns, it's hard to get mad at farmers growing kale and artichokes.

  9. That may have been the original goal... on Mobile 'Deep Links' and the Fate of the Web · · Score: 2

    ...but things change, and the primary purposes of links now, on almost all platforms, is for one primary reason: to generate income.

    You click a link, it goes to a page with an ad, which, when served and clicked on, will generate income, allowing the owners to pay for the website. While some websites are purely informational, most websites generate information in order to make money, and most of that money is made by people clicking links.

  10. Re:lots of history on Thousands Visit Trinity Test Site For 70th Anniversary of First Atomic Blast · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the joke is regarding bugs bunny always taking a wrong turn at Albuquerque. Why not Tuscon or Flagstaff or Barstow. It it just because it's a funny word, like Timbuktu or Kalamazoo?

  11. Re:Downwinders' misguided protest on Thousands Visit Trinity Test Site For 70th Anniversary of First Atomic Blast · · Score: 1

    They didn't use muskets. They used rifles.

  12. Re:13 prequels/sequels explain all in gory detail on Coup in Arrakis Capitol Leaves Region in Flux · · Score: 1

    I tried reading one of these. They were horrible; I couldn't get through the first one.

  13. Re:Stupid opening line on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 2

    But it does in every other place in the world with the population the US has, which is more than most places. The larger the population, the larger the disparity. Comparing economic disparity of people in, say, Sweden, to the entire US is pretty silly when you realize Sweden's population is less than that of L.A county.

  14. Re: So What on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 4, Informative

    The intentional homicide rate in the 1930s in the US was more than twice what it is today. So, yes.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

  15. Re:Crap !!!!! on Developers and the Fear of Apple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are worth 700billion dollars. What would you consider a not dead company?

  16. Oh noes! on Developers and the Fear of Apple · · Score: 0

    Competitors gonna compete! I built my app for a competitor first and now they won't talk to me? Oh noes!

    That's some grade-A whining right there.

  17. Re: Fuck off on The Stolen Credit For What Makes Up the Sun · · Score: 1

    Why does the San Jose Water company care about this at all?

  18. Re:What on earth on No Fuel In the Fukushima Reactor #1 · · Score: 2

    Surprisingly, this is not accurate. If you look closely, part of northern Montana is antipodal to the northwestern tip of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands islands.

    You learn something new every day.

  19. Re:Steve Jobs is the Monkeywrench on Stanford Study Credits Lack of Non-Competes For Silicon Valley's Success · · Score: 1

    yes, so what''s your point?

  20. Or maybe it's because on Stanford Study Credits Lack of Non-Competes For Silicon Valley's Success · · Score: 1

    ...it innovates better than almost any place else, and failure is (sometimes) OK.

    http://www.scientificamerican....

    It has very little to do with employees not being able to go anywhere else...many of the people who work there come in from other countries where this isn't even an issue.

  21. Re:Aren't these already compromised cards? on Fraud Rampant In Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    Surely you jest.

  22. Re: Like many former facebook users.. on Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Is Now a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    He is literally an anonymous coward. Literally.

  23. Re:Fuck Off Dice on Do Tech Companies Ask For Way Too Much From Job Candidates? · · Score: 0

    Except you don't twiddle your thumbs. In fact the vast majority of ads download mostly instantly if you have a decent browser and connection, and if they don't it's often because of the issues with the site you are on and not the ad itself.

  24. Re:Fuck Off Dice on Do Tech Companies Ask For Way Too Much From Job Candidates? · · Score: 1

    I'm not an employee of Dice.com, Slashdot Shill. .00007 cents is pretty much worthless in the grand scheme of things, yet people continually gripe about ANY ad that shows up on free sites and install Adblock so they don't see them. Pretty stupid if you ask me

  25. Re:Fuck Off Dice on Do Tech Companies Ask For Way Too Much From Job Candidates? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why do you not want Dice or an advertiser on Dice to receive .000007 cents for your click? It's not even your .000007 cents they would be getting. Why would you care?