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  1. Re:Government knows best... on Hillary Clinton Takes Aim At 'Gig Economy' · · Score: 1

    Comcast seems to have a natural monopoly, as a utility. Most libertarians understand this, not being actual straw men.

  2. Re:Government knows best... on Hillary Clinton Takes Aim At 'Gig Economy' · · Score: 1

    we all want free money

    No, that "free money" comes from the government.

  3. Re:Marilyn Monroe Complicated Things... on "Happy Birthday" Hits Sour Notes When It Comes To Song's Free Use · · Score: 1

    Well, considering that Monroe's fame exploded when she appeared nude in Playboy, I'm not sure that clothing level was an issue.

    I'm guessing that the lack of artificial enhancement is the problem. If you don't have fake DD cups, 40% tattoo coverage, and multiple body piercings, you don't register. For these folks, even Bettie Page is too tame and boring.

  4. I took a gig once on Hillary Clinton Takes Aim At 'Gig Economy' · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was setting up a Secretary of State of a very powerful nation with her own private email server so that she could get around the government's pesky email archiving.

  5. Re:Flash is like IE 6 on Facebook's New Chief Security Officer Wants To Set a Date To Kill Flash · · Score: 1

    2 must have apps which are impossible to ever replace

    Those must-have apps must be worth a lot of money, because paying Microsoft for special post-EOL support is quite pricey. And if you aren't paying Microsoft for security support, then that is likely to be even pricier.

  6. Re:future headline on 65,000+ Land Rovers Recalled Due To Software Bug · · Score: 1

    He likes fishsticks?

  7. Re:Optimism, and profits ... on The Cure Culture: Our Obsession With Cures That Are 'Just Around the Corner' · · Score: 1

    When you go to a coffee shop or convenience store and see a donation center for curing your favorite disease, read the fine print. Almost all of them will say the donations go to something like "cancer awareness".

    Well, the way they increase cancer awareness is through donation centers placed in coffee shops and convenience stores. And those ain't free.

  8. Re: Like the nazi used to say on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    Which totally means you get to steal it. Maybe I thought that way when I was 14.

    The total lack of logic here reveals the darkest side of the millennial generation.

  9. Re: Like the nazi used to say on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 2

    You presume the word "abandoned" refers to a property which the previous owner has handed over to the state, perhaps for something like unpaid property taxes. Usually "abandoned" means "disused". It's still owned by a private citizen. You don't get to steal just because it's not being used. Heck, even if the government owned the property, you try taking something from it openly, and see what happens.

    I don't understand your sense of entitlement, or the people who modded you up.

  10. Re:the real admission is peak driving. on Iowa Makes a Bold Admission: We Need Fewer Roads · · Score: 1

    You're really good at blaming everyone else for your failures. That's one thing your generation is good at, for sure.

  11. Re:It all depends.... on Iowa Makes a Bold Admission: We Need Fewer Roads · · Score: 1

    This, of course, varies by the state and locality. At the local level, often a right-of-way was established for that road over someone's property. Technically, they still own that land, so if the road is abandoned, there is a process to transfer control back to them. A property my father once owned had an abandoned road running through it that was once used to access a quarry.

    The locality or state can also keep the ROW if they think it may be used in the future. Pennsylvania started on a state route 23 bypass in the Lancaster area, then abandoned it when funding became it issue. They covered what little had been graded with grass and leased it back to farmers for grazing livestock, since they'd purchased the land in this case-- the farmers no longer owned it.

  12. Re:password recovery to defeat reverse identity th on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Ongoing Suspected Identity Theft? · · Score: 1

    Seems like it should have taken two minutes.

    See the "TO:" line on this email? That's like the address on an envelope. See how it has my email address? It's addressed to ME, so it was delivered to my computer, which is like a mailbox. It's like accusing me of opening someone else's mail, when someone put MY name and MY address on the envelope. If you meant to send a letter to John Smith at 123 Dumbass Lane and instead wrote John Smith at 321 Dumbass Lane, and another John Smith lived there, how is it his fault?

  13. Re:Red herring on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are a few of them, actually. This could be a straw man, but since it's in the rebuttal it's more like a red herring. And there's an ad hominem on top of it, because the implication is that the concern of fake rapes would be invalidated if the claimant wasn't as concerned about unprosecuted rapes.

  14. Good old fashioned police work on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 1

    Columbo could have figured out the fake rape case in 1975. There were no footprints in the snow, and no water or mud on the hardwood floors inside the house. You don't need to look at the Fitbit data to figure that one out.

  15. For Windows insights on Ask Slashdot: Which Expert Bloggers Do You Read? · · Score: 3, Informative
  16. Re:No more! on 'Severe Bug' To Be Patched In OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    LibreSSL strips that out leaving a goo, solid system.

    Mmm... free goo.

  17. Re:Outside help on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    So what is your point with this? You want to bring back modern slavery? If you get an education paid by the state, you are not allowed to leave the state? Like in Soviet times?

    It works in North Korea. OK, that's hyperbole, but someone has to counteract the usual "you mean like Somalia" bullshit every time someone says something remotely libertarian.

  18. Re:Outside help on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how someone could call the citizen's refusal to pay taxes, and the government's refusal to collect them, "fiscal conservatism". This reads like an unholy mating of "1984" Newspeak and MSNBC talking heads. It's lawlessness. Fiscal conservatism would be low taxes and low spending-- "small government". That's just what it is; you don't have to agree with it, that's what it's called. But what they have is big (spending) government, yet an unwillingness to demand compliance from the citizens. Even the basement-dwelling internet Marxist understands that a welfare state must be funded.

  19. While Crystal Pepsi would be fun to bring back for the 90s college years nostalgia, it's really Vault Zero I miss. That stuff was killer. I liked the strawberry Pepsi Jazz too. I guess I'm good at picking losers in soft drinks, at least.

  20. You are correct and the GP poster is wrong. NT 4 was quite stable as long as you set it up correctly (including using only the VGA driver, or maybe a very minimal ATI driver with no crapware (it seems like every server had an ATI Rage card back then) and left it the hell alone except for security patches.

  21. Re:Lame duck on Silicon Valley Is Filling Up With Ex-Obama Staffers · · Score: 1

    He got us out of Iraq......then back in, in a worse situation than when we left.

    "You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." - John Kerry

  22. Re:[T]hings that ... fail: lots of experience at t on Silicon Valley Is Filling Up With Ex-Obama Staffers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course they don't have jobs. There are no jobs to be had. Do you understand? THERE ARE NO WHITE COLLAR JOBS. If you send your hypothetical undereducated person to get a four year degree, now he is a well-educated, still-unemployed person. Most Americans-- heck, most people in the world-- are not looking to expatriate for employment, so the "world job market" is not relevant. Education is great, but it's not the cause of this problem.

  23. Re:huh on Silicon Valley Is Filling Up With Ex-Obama Staffers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's easy to write them off, but the fact is that we already have an affirmative action infrastructure in the USA, which could easily be adapted for every conceivable "protected class". Affirmative action should have been retired 15-20 years ago, once it had outlived its usefulness. Now, it remains as a dangerous tool of political manipulation.

  24. Obama on Silicon Valley Is Filling Up With Ex-Obama Staffers · · Score: 1

    trying things that might fail

    Unlike in government, in business you don't often get to fail, then redefine the objective and declare success.

  25. Re:Just to be Clear... on Struggling University of Phoenix Lays Off 900 · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, but that's a red herring. I didn't suggest getting rid of all state schools, or even Penn State. I'm tired of writing them blank checks.