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  1. Re:Meh... on US Geneticist Discusses North Korea Trip With Dennis Rodman · · Score: 2

    No, it doesn't. Didn't read the whole thing or even most of it, did you? I didn't get much whiff of pretense in it. I'm a hardcore cynic, yet I expect I'd like the guy if I met him.

  2. Re:They're arguing to legalize more class "warfare on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 1

    No, I don't mind at all. We're all just surplus if we're not on the top of a heap.

  3. Re:They're arguing to legalize more class "warfare on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 1

    Stupid: rich people don't donate organs FOR MONEY. I said nothing about emotional or philanthropic motivations.

  4. Re:They're arguing to legalize more class "warfare on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 1

    If that were unabashedly true then the second kidney would never have evolved - and remained - in the first place. Your argument doesn't hold blood.

  5. They're arguing to legalize more class "warfare" on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rich people don't donate organs in exchange for money. EVER. Poor people do. So yeah, let's help those economically poor people become even poorer in body and hasten their exit by letting them sell off pieces of themselves, and good riddance.

  6. First thought upon seeing the headline: on OpenBSD Moving Towards Signed Packages — Based On D. J. Bernstein Crypto · · Score: 5, Funny

    What does openBSD have to do with tattooing your Johnson?

  7. Slashdot in Greek on GNU Guile Scheme Gets a Register VM and CPS-Based IL · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't think I have ever encountered a title at Slashdot more meaningless to me than this one. There might be a lesson in that, and I don't think the lesson is for me.

  8. Shepherd's job is sometimes unpleasant on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    ... shepherding the OS could become that executive's first major test.

    It's a three-legged sheep. Do it and yourself and the world a favor and put it down. Don't let it hobble along and slow down the whole herd and make it vulnerable to predation from those nasty Ubunts.

  9. Should not be easy on The Quiet Fury of Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates · · Score: 1

    Implementing war should not be easy, so it's a bit of a relief that he encountered so much annoying bureaucracy that made it difficult. It should be difficult. It should be damned near impossible. Frankly he didn't encounter enough annoying bureaucracy.

  10. Re:Uggh... on ABC Kills Next-Day Streaming For Non-Subscribers · · Score: 1

    We have no other legal choices...

    I saw what you did there.

  11. Ulterior motivation? on Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dare I hope that this law will contain specific text prohibiting service providers from abusing this for contract issues or nonpayment? Naaaah, that would be asking too much of our corporate overlords and their paid^H^H^H^Helected cronies....

  12. Title and concept needs a little work.... on Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work · · Score: 1

    Why Everyone Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work

    There, FTFY.

    To hell with hundreds of generations of the "I was just taking orders" bullshit. It's about time the species grows up socially. We have waaaay too much population pressure and sardine-can conditions to keep this up.

  13. Re:Right matches for Slashdotter on AI Reality Check In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    actually the only ones that won't laugh hysterically at mere thought of dating you

    Even my mirror laughs at the prospect, my right hand gets a seizure, and the goat would rather hang out with the mangy sheep.

  14. Ship might have already sailed on AI Reality Check In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Just because these guys put out a press release proclaiming their brilliant innovation doesn't mean that OKCupid isn't already quietly doing this.

  15. See also.... on Encrypted Social Network Vies For Disgruntled Facebook Users · · Score: 1

    See also Diaspora.

    Right, like that's going anywhere now? See also Libertree, which has no centralized servers, sneaky profiteers, or ulterior motives behind it. Go run a node/tree yourself!

  16. Re:Or use what already exists on Not All USB Power Is Created Equal · · Score: 1

    Since I already have a nice multimeter and don't see the need to waste money on yet another device that does exactly the same thing, I'd rather have a simple test lead adapter that lets me plug the multimeter into a USB ports instead of having to gingerly stick probes in there. If no one was entrepreneurial enough to address that need instead of trying to force people to buy another duplicate device, then I guess I'll have to make one myself.

  17. Re:"Was"? on Australia Spied On Indonesian President · · Score: 1

    But wasn't Gillard just more of the same, too? *ducks*

  18. Re:"Was"? on Australia Spied On Indonesian President · · Score: 1

    And John Howard was the Bush Mini-Me, so... more of the same!

  19. "Was"? on Australia Spied On Indonesian President · · Score: 5, Funny

    Indonesia was Australia's nearest and most important regional neighbour.

    So has Australia swallowed it whole like a fratboy scarfing a goldfish and I just missed the news?

  20. Remote parenting on Rigging Up Baby · · Score: 1

    So one can now "be a parent" without having to actually be physically present and not even have to hire a body double? Awesome!

  21. Still be a comet afterward? on Comet ISON Nears Date With Sun · · Score: 1

    What distinguishes comets is not only their insanely eccentric orbits but also their predominantly icy makeup, right? Will it still have any ice or other volatiles after such a close pass with the sun? If all that volatile mass burns off, won't that significantly alter its orbit thereafter?

  22. If you have more than one credit card... on Startup Touts All-in-One Digital Credit Card · · Score: 1

    ... then either you're possessed of very poor financial skills or you're one of the Ten Percent that the other Ninety secretly wants to lynch (or be).

  23. Re:Really? on Bitcoin Hits $400 Ahead of Senate Hearing On Virtual Currency · · Score: 1

    No trading "makes sense". It's all about those irrational emotions, not logic. Would Vulcans have a stock market?

  24. Re:Wine and ReactOS are casualties on The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Malice: the Windows Registry.

  25. Re:it lacked extensionalism on Thor: The Dark World — What Did You Think? · · Score: 1

    Is extensionalism a new geek word for sequel?