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  1. Re:One word: Greed on Why Do Gas Station Prices Constantly Change? Blame the Algorithm (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Gas prices should be based on cost. ONLY cost, and this should be enforced by law. No gouging, no undercutting, no profiteering. If your competitor can get it cheaper then too bad. I often see some kerfluffle happen in the middle east and suddenly prices soar, despite the fact that their costs wouldn't be effected, if at all, for months. People should be much angrier about this.

  2. Re:Big deal on UCL Scientists Push 1.125Tbps Through a Single Coherent Optical Receiver · · Score: 1

    Wait. they got 1.125 tablespoon of what?

  3. Blub says "A micro SD memory card is included," but I'm guessing they meant just a slot for one. Very few things like this come with the expansion card already with it. But hey, I could be wrong.

  4. Re:What's in a statement? on Google Agrees To Pay 130M UK Pounds (~ $185M) In Back Taxes (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I wish I could pay my taxes for just pennies on the dollar, but this is more like pennies on the hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars. And that's supposed to make up for what they cheated out of for TEN YEARS? This is donut money for Google. It's not money to them until the word starts with a "B."

  5. Hacking Ring, is that like a Smart Watch? on Massive Hacking Ring Stole Data From 100 Million Bank Customers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Only reading the headline: They make "Hacking Rings" now? Are they like Smart Watches? "Don't bring that ring anywhere near my computer, Bob, I hear it steals bank data."

  6. Re:Words with multiple meanings on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Image if you're Jimmy Buffet. Marguaritaville must have no credit at all. :)

  7. Just trolling on Microsoft Edge To Support Dolby Audio · · Score: 1

    Man, that Thomas Dolby guy is such a genius. Science!

  8. Goose and Gander, seems to me, since police are allowed to lie through their teeth to suspects when questioning them. Indeed, it is a standard and frequently used tactic to goad confessions and gain evidence. So I see no reason why you can lie back if you are not under grand jury oath. Cops are no longer the good guys in my mind, they are a gang just like any group of armed street thugs who get away with whatever their power allows. I don't think they are worse than they were in the past, I just think they are getting away with it less.

  9. Bait and switch on How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text · · Score: 1

    "Hey mom, I just named my new dog. I call him President Obama's Secret Isis Terror Gun Bomb. Lets talk about him a lot over the phone using his full name."

  10. Do the math on Target To Pay $10 Million In Proposed Settlement For 2013 Data Breach · · Score: 1

    So, 110 million people affected, up to 10,000 payment per person, and a total fine of 10 million. So you run out of funds after 1 thousand people get their full amount, which leaves 109,999,000 people with nothing. As others have pointed out, splitting it evenly give everyone a dime, if there are no lawyer fees. No wonder big companies don't care about online security, it only costs them pennies per person affected, literally.

  11. Aren't mammoths just elephants with long hair? on Scientists Optimistic About Getting a Mammoth Genome Complete Enough To Clone · · Score: 1

    Mammoths are just elephants with long hair, that they needed to survive in the ice ages. If they were around today they would be extremely uncomfortable and hot, and if you had some in a zoo or somewhere you'd have to keep them in an air conditioned area. If you kept them outside or in the wild then you'd have to majorly trim their hair... and that would basically just give you and elephant again. So I don't really see the point of all this. Give us a sabre-toothed tiger instead.

  12. Florida failed to pass with 58% voting FOR passage on Marijuana Legalized In Oregon, Alaska, and Washington DC · · Score: 1

    Floridians overwhelmingly voted for passage of Amendment 2, 58% yes to 42% no, but for some reason it required a 60% majority to actually "pass" the voting. So even though the supporters outnumbered the doubters by almost 50% of the voters, there will be no smokers in the Sunshine State any time soon. The other states with similar amendments passed theirs, all with a closer voting margins.

  13. Re:How? on Federal Government Removes 7 Americans From No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    Using a list like that, I wonder if it grabbed that weirdo named Barack Hussein Obama?

  14. Re:Explains the TV News on Brazil Nut Effect Explains Mystery of the Boulder-Strewn Surfaces of Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Yes, I grew up hearing this name for them, too. I never knew they even had any other name until I was in my teens, where I eventually heard their real name. Just one of the many old racist words for things that got phased out as the years went by. I can think of several, but I'm not gonna make a list.

  15. Scotty in Trek's Voyage Home on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    The fakest looking keyboard skills are when Scotty inputs the formula for "transparent aluminum" into the computer in the movie Voyage Home (the one where they go back to modern day LA). He just kinda hovered his hands over the keys and randomly smacked his fingers over the buttons very fast. Will have to give props to the funny bit of talking into the mouse first, though.

  16. So much for the Futurama owl pest problem on Harry Potter Blamed For India's Disappearing Owls · · Score: 1

    So I guess we won't have a future where owls are a major pest problem like pigeons, according to Futurama's prediction.

  17. WoW is still better on Age of Conan, One Year On · · Score: 2, Informative

    I tried it the first month, then cancelled. I know they've done a lot of upgrades since then, but I don't think they will ever replace World of Warcraft for most people, including me.

  18. What about shirts, license plates, bumper stickers on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Don't have a SRJC bumper sticker or license plate either so people don't think your car is an official staff vehicle. Or wear a SRJC t-shirt or sweater so there is no confusion over whether you are part of the administration. Idiots. Logic of this type would pretty much kill any merchandising that the school sells.

  19. It depends on what was posted on Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it was instructions on HOW to solve sample questions from the assignments, with few or no actual answers given, then that is a legitimate study group tool. Help outweighs any harm.

    If it was complete answers to all the questions, and most of the people "studying" there just used it to copy the data and turn it in as their own work, then it was a cheating tool. All harm and no help.

  20. Parody is still a right, yes? on Jack Thompson Decides He's In GTA IV · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Did somebody make parody a crime, or something? This sounds perfectly legal, unless maybe they actually use his name. If what they do on Robot Chicken (or for the older among us Mad Magazine) is legal, then this certainly is also. What a wanker.

  21. Re:Pronounced: YUR-UH-NUS on Blue Ring Around Uranus · · Score: 0

    So the choice of pronunciation is betweeen "Yer ANUS" and "URINE us", eh? Lousy either way. Just a choice of bodily fluid outlet.

  22. Re:Son of Tsarkon Reports Major Tom's Greased Up Y on Slashback: Matrix, Terminology, Topology · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...your prostrate's dead... I think you mean "prostate" for the thing in your ass. Prostrate means laying down flat. Unless you've got a squashed butt gland on the floor.

  23. That's awfully nice of ATI on ATI Wins Bid For Next Xbox · · Score: 1

    So instead of NVidia corporation providing video cards that Microsoft re-sells in X-boxen at a significant loss, we now have ATI providing them. Call my stock broker now, I want in!