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  1. Re:Comcast Solution on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro? · · Score: 1

    Basically this.

    Threaten to leave (and follow through if you must) if they don't connect you promptly with competent support personnel who won't try to sell you an "upgrade".

  2. Re:You can get by with: on How Much Python Do You Need To Know To Be Useful? · · Score: 2

    Since the parent story appears to be yet another Dice plant, this subthread of responses is by far the most appropriate.

    and . . . "you're supposed to 'aggle."

  3. Re:What is a republic? on Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Marriage should be a matter of contract law, not criminal law. Anything dictated on government terms is Big Government, which the Republicans allegedly eschew.

  4. Google should have telecommuting for all its employees, then it could attract talent from all over.

  5. Re:Fusion? done thing. Why reinvent the wheel? on Mystery Company Blazes a Trail In Fusion Energy · · Score: 1

    Think big.

    How well will that work in interstellar space?

    Not so well as having a local fusion reactor.

  6. The Last Question on There Is a Finite Limit On How Long Intelligence Can Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Can entropy be reversed?

    No points for you if you don't get the reference.

  7. Re:Geo-engineering is intrinsically riskier on Climatologist Speaks On the Effects of Geoengineering · · Score: 1

    Larry Niven did it before that: Fallen Angels

  8. Re:Scary radio play ... on The Car That Knows When You'll Get In an Accident Before You Do · · Score: 1

    Let's see your UID, AC.

  9. Re:Guardian scum on German Teenager Gets Job Offer By Trying To Use FOI For His Exam Papers · · Score: 1

    When and why did certain dialects of English lose the distinction between "few" and "a few"?

  10. Do it to Venus first on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Subject says it all.

  11. Re:Cerf on Vint Cerf Warns Against 'Digital Dark Age' · · Score: 1

    Post with your name and cite your sources.

  12. Re:better idea on Report: Samsung Replacing Its Apps With Microsoft's For Galaxy S6 · · Score: 0

    Mod parent to 6.

  13. I'll take an old computer, please on Radioshack Declares Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they have a Model 4p hiding in back. . . . .

  14. Re: What's the point? on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    What's hard to understand is allowing that camel's nose under the tent of my phone's paltry security. If I could run the work phone environment totally virtualized and protect the rest of the phone from it, I would consider it.

  15. Re: What's the point? on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    I carry two phones. If they want me to have a phone, they'll supply it.

  16. Re: What's the point? on Microsoft Launches Outlook For Android and iOS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why anyone would want to let corporate tendrils into one's personal phone is hard, very hard, to fathom.

  17. The return of echomail . . . on Elon Musk's Proposed Internet-by-Satellite System Could Link With Mars Colonies · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . . and ZMODEM, and other latency-friendly protocols. . . .

  18. Transparency on Where Whistleblowers End Up Working · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How's that transparent government working out?

  19. Jail them for contempt on US Government Fights To Not Explain No-Fly List Selection Process · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's long past time that federal judges start jailing these bureaucrats for contempt for not answering simple questions about the no-fly list.

  20. Re:What's a reboot? on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 1

    Aye. Too bad Leigh Brackett passed away.

  21. Re:What's a reboot? on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 1

    *Whoosh*

    There hasn't been a Star Trek movie in twelve years. There won't be another Star Wars movie as long as J.J. Abrams is attached to it. He should stick to the (mediocre) things he does best.

  22. Re:What's a reboot? on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 2

    True, and it looks like we'll never have another Star Wars movie.

  23. Re:Transparency on FBI Studied How Much Drones Impact Your Privacy -- Then Marked It Secret · · Score: 1

    I voted for Kodos.

  24. Re:Call me on Android Wear Is Here · · Score: 1

    Your response is mine as well. Bought my current Casio in 2009 and it's going strong.

  25. Re:Get it right on Two Earth-Like Exoplanets Don't Actually Exist · · Score: 1

    It may be that placing babies with the aliens will be the only way to gain effective communication. For an exploration of this, see Suzette Haden Elgin's _Native Tongue_.