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  1. Not to be mistaken for Quiverfull... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:It's not about the crime on Harshest Penalty for Alleged Rapist Was For Using a Computer To Arrange Contact With Teen · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Prosecution has been doing this sort of stuff for years. Move along, nothing here to see...

  3. Re:Can Only Be Stopped By... on How NASA Defended Its Assembly Facility From Hurricane Katrina · · Score: 1

    Or the closest NASA can come to rocket science these days...

  4. I guess it's too much to ask.. on How NASA Defended Its Assembly Facility From Hurricane Katrina · · Score: 1

    For a story about NASA putting something on the moon or Mars. Instead we have a fluff piece about water and a hurricane 10 years old.

  5. Just to be clear... on Fitbit Wants To Help Corporations Track Employee Health · · Score: 1

    Fitbit does *not* track employee health. It tracks employee behavior, specifically what it perceives to be employee physical exercise. It's quite a stretch to imply one equals the other.

  6. In other news, on Silicon Valley Is Filling Up With Ex-Obama Staffers · · Score: 1

    It's confirmed, Silicon Valley has jumped the shark.

  7. In other news... on Energy Dept. Wants Big Wind Energy Technology In All 50 US States · · Score: 0

    Government funds rebuilding the power grid infrastructure because vast quantities of wind power destablizes grid. And in other, other news, government funds development of massive grid-level storage batteries because quantities of wind power are generated at the wrong time of the day for utilization.

  8. Re:Marketing Hype. on Powdered Alcohol Approved By Feds, Banned By States · · Score: 2

    So you could take more than 2 oz. through TSA? Sounds like a win.

  9. They have nothing else more important to do? on NYPD Creates Fake Social Media Profiles To Track Loud Parties, Underage Drinking · · Score: 2

    Really?

  10. Re:NTFS on Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking, if there's one piece of software I'd kinda like "frozen in time", it would be a dependable journaling filesystem.

  11. The bigger loss.. on The Mystery of Glenn Seaborg's Missing Plutonium: Solved · · Score: 2

    Is the gradual re-purposing of the Lawrence Hall Of Science from a museum explaining the history of nuclear research to just another science museum presenting dinosaurs, earthquakes and global warming. LHS used to be a unique historical resource. "Concerns about radiation" and political correctness turned it into a generic and politically correct science museum.

  12. "the tree of evil bears bitter fruit" on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    Anyone old enough to remember that Microsoft message?

  13. Nobody knows the truth. on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    How the fuck is anyone expected to know what the truth is here? Maybe he lied, maybe she whored herself out.

  14. Telegram or Telex? on Telegram Not Dead STOP Alive, Evolving In Japan STOP · · Score: 1

    My understanding, based on living there for a year back in the 80's, is that the service was more like our old TWX or Telex service, with many business having a small dedicated keyboard/printer to send and receive messages. Personal delivery was rarely used.

  15. There was a day... on Samsung Announces Galaxy Alpha Featuring Metal Frame and Rounded Corners · · Score: 1

    When geeks knew why 1 megabyte didn't exactly equal 1,000,000 and weren't interested in fashion accessories. I miss the olden times...

  16. Re:Libertarian nirvana on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 1

    It's not a contracting issue, it's misuse of the system. If there needs to be a cross-jurisdiction government body, they should do what's been done for years, form a special district. There's tens of thousands of special districts across the US, administering sewer systems, water systems, even mosquito control. All with board directors subject to citizen review and recall.

  17. Re:Libertarian nirvana on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 1

    It would be a libertarian nirvana if it were followed through to it's logical conclusion. Which would be holding the corporation and officers directly responsible for their actions, both criminal and civil. But that's not what they have or want. They want the secrecy of a private corporation along with the myriads of legal protections that a police force has.

  18. Standing by for Seattle butthurt whines on Google Fiber Is Officially Making Its Way To Portland · · Score: 1

    Why can't we have nice things too?

  19. You make it... on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sound like it is a bad thing...

  20. Way too much money for the local economy to finish on Radioactivity Cleanup At Hanford Nuclear Reservation, 25 Years On · · Score: 1

    The Tri-Cities (Richland-Pasco-Kenniwick) area has been dependent on the Hanford project for prosperity forever. There is absolutely no local motivation to complete the cleanup when thousands semi-skilled workers are making $40/hr+ +benefits. The project will certainly be dragged out until every possible drop is drained from the milchcow.

  21. What did you expect? on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle Unfixed Linux Accessibility Bugs? · · Score: -1, Troll

    What did you expect for "free", free lifetime support as well?

  22. Could it be.... on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That the kids who did well without help didn't *need* help because they were smart self-starters? Yeah, maybe that's it.

  23. Um, right. on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 4, Funny

    'Even though they may be active in helping, they may either not remember the material their kids are studying now, or in some cases never learned it themselves, but they're still offering advice. And that means poor quality homework.'" You mean like correcting the blatant errors in the grade school science texts?

  24. Re:Hollywood Racist? Say it ain't so!!! on Advances In Cinema Tech Overcoming a Strange Racial Divide · · Score: 1

    So you fight it with plagiarism? Your post was a verbatim copy of a 2010 rant by By Solomon Comissiong

  25. Re:Based on personal experience, I'd have to guess on Soda Makes Five-Year-Olds Break Your Stuff, Science Finds · · Score: 1

    I'd upvote if I could. No fucking sense of humor on /. anymore. Sigh.