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  1. My science book says 8 people on How Many People Does It Take To Colonize Another Star System? · · Score: 0

    You only need eight people, and one ship that's only 300 by 50 by 30 cubits is enough to carry all the other animals and supplies required to completely start from scratch. Study it out.

  2. Where's the bailout? on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh, that's right. Unregulated currency free from government interference. Enjoy!

  3. Re:old news on Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Over Europa · · Score: 2

    Isn't it obvious? That's not tidal activity, those plumes are breaching moon-whales.

  4. Re:NBD, it seems on Solar Eruption To Reach Earth Soon · · Score: 1

    Chill dude....Go out get a job, volunteer... Might as well go out and enjoy yourself.

    Warning: incompatible advice detected.

  5. Re:Problem is, that hollywood is ran by MBAs on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 2

    " The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday.

    Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds. "

    -Same "Ace" Rothstein in Casino

  6. Simple solution: on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't enter into any more agreements with those frackers.

  7. Don't have any paying customers... on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    ...for your next-gen gaming console that requires a persistent internet connection? Deal with it.

    The only games I have and will ever have that require an internet connection are MMOs, because, well, that's the point.

  8. Where is everyone going? on What EMC Looks For When It's Hiring · · Score: 2

    I've been visiting Slashdot less and less, and stories like this show me I've been making the right choice. So where is the core audience moving to?

  9. Re:"Stifle descent?" on New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street · · Score: 1

    Found a picture of the submitter. http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/7673/descent.jpg/

  10. Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code on Raspberry Pi For the Rest of Us · · Score: 0

    "The rest of us" shouldn't be coding. At least according to the article directly before this one. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/09/20/2015204/why-non-coders-shouldnt-write-code

  11. Re:Not a lot of assets on Online Music Storage Firm MP3tunes Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FTA: MP3tunes had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 code, which envisages liquidation of a company's operation. In the court filing, the company had listed out assets of about $7,800 and liabilities of $2.1 million. Good luck with that...

    They should just sell some of the trillions of dollars worth of song files they're holding on to. According to statutory damages, each song is worth about $150K; they could erase their entire debt by selling just 14 tracks.

  12. Re:Teenage _________ Ninja Turtles.... on Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens · · Score: 1

    I would go see Cowboys of the Caribbean.

    Lucky for you they maintain a healthy tour schedule.

  13. Planet of the Gawfs on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    I read this book probably a hundred times in junior high.

  14. Replicators! on Pirate Bay To Offer Physical Item Downloads · · Score: 1

    I'm excited to be that much closer to Star Trek-type replicators, even if we're still just a half-step into a long journey. Synthehol and hot Earl Grey tea, here I come!

  15. Michael Dell: hardware prophet on Michael Dell Dismisses Tablet Threat To the PC Market · · Score: 1

    Tablet makers should shut down and give the money back to the shareholders.

  16. Re:Simple solution.... on Microsoft Shareholders Unhappy After Annual Meeting · · Score: 1

    Fallacy of sunk costs?

  17. Re:Ron Paul... on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    I don't want Ron Paul outside naked *anywhere*.

    What if he was naked outside the ionosphere?

  18. Stock tip on Sources Say Meg Whitman To Become HP CEO · · Score: 1

    Get your HP short positions in order!

  19. Re:Lowell should read the news more often on Verizon Chief Defends AT&T-T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    It's possible AT&T is trying to sell spectrum in sparse markets, where smaller carriers have a better business model. If AT&T can pick up 10mhz in New York, it's worth the price to buy and re-sell 10mhz in Killdeer, North Dakota.

  20. Maybe for developing areas... on Low-Cost DIY Cell Network Runs On Solar · · Score: 1

    "...could have wider application like disaster recovery."

    Carriers already have a low-cost (for them) DIY cellular disaster recovery option, they're called Cells on Wheels or COWs. COWs have their own power sources and can be rolled in for disasters, or to augment coverage for large gatherings (sports events or concerts) and are already set up to integrate to their own established networks.

  21. Re:This is the right way! on Apple Puts $383 Million Handcuffs On CEO Tim Cook · · Score: 1

    All bonuses should be tied to the long term corporate welfare.

    Need to make sure the company is guarded against the "mass firings, short term gain pump and dump" schemes that seem to be so popular these days.

  22. Re:It's the market on AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan · · Score: 1

    Verizon grows in wireless was because they had some of the best plans back in the late 90's. Back when Cell Phones charged you for Local, Long Distance calls, roaming fees.... Verizon was one of the first to give people a plan that allows a call to be a call no matter where you were at or who you were calling... A big deal back then. It opened Cell Phones for being a toy for the rich to an every-man tool.

    Actually, that was an AT&T Wireless Services plan, the Digital One Rate, introduced in 1998 (the same year that Bell Atlantic and GTE merged to form Verizon Wireless).

  23. Re:or, even better on Collar-Bomber Tracked By Gmail Accesses · · Score: 1

    Actually, we don't call smart criminals anything, because they're never caught and we don't know who they are unless they want us to. Ask Kaiser Soze.

  24. Re:"boosting security" = preventing disasters? on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Whoops! Flood planes should be flood plains; though floods do tend to congregate on low-lying planes.

  25. "boosting security" = preventing disasters? on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 2

    I'll charge them 1% of whatever they're going to spend on "boosting security" to advise that they do not build reactors in flood planes or on fault lines.