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  1. Re:I hope they manage to on Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I doubt it, they're not Russian.

  2. Re:Calm before the hyperbole on A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet · · Score: 4, Informative

    All the judge said was that Akre had no basis to sue as a whistle-blower based on her (unproven) claim that WTVT lied.

    Fox never claimed they or any other news organization have a right to lie, only that even if they did lie the FCC policy wouldn't apply. See the difference?

  3. Re:Uhhh well, shit. on Free Font Helps People With Dyslexia · · Score: 1

    I found the same thing, had to read each word one at a time instead of scanning the line. I suspect part of the reason is because the font size is so big, I tried making it smaller but that made the letters blend together. Hopefully this will help some people but I'll stick to regular sans serif fonts for now.

  4. Nah. $100M would barely pay for a couple of vacations to Spain by Michelle.

  5. Re:Nice, but..... on United States Navy Names Ship After Neil Armstrong · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He was a Navy pilot before becoming an astronaut. So an ocean research ship is appropriate. Maybe some day they'll name the first permanent Moon base after him too.

  6. Re:Umm, I don't get it on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 1

    Americans don't care if the guy violated parole. Muslim extremists in other countries want the guy beheaded. Suggesting this is good for Obama in any way is just wishful thinking in an election year.

  7. Re:anyone can use on their site... on Google Gets Into Politics With Civic Info API · · Score: 1

    The headline is wrong, Google has been into politics for a long time. Google executives were (and no doubt still are) major contributors to Obama.

    You can be pretty sure this app will be used to politely remind voters when and where to vote. But not all voters, just the ones who are located in districts that lean to the side the spammers supports and/or if you were tracked visiting websites sympathetic to their side.

  8. Sonic Boom? on Austrian Skydiver Prepared to Leap From Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    Not sure I'd want to be that close to one. But maybe it'll be behind him. Or maybe he'll explode. We'll see.

  9. Re:Republicans disrupting a REPUBLICAN ban! on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Bush had challenged Congress to give him a bill that would reduce gasoline consumption in the US by 20%, this was the closest he could get so he signed it, even though Pelosi slipped in a bunch of unrelated stuff. That's how politics work (except in the current administration).

  10. Re:Democrats on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    You do know that it was an unrelated attachment the Democrats added to the bill Bush really wanted, which was to reduce the amount of gasoline used in the USA, right?

    But you probably know that Bush would never do anything to decrease oil consumption because that would go against the oil companies and his foreign policy, right?

  11. Re:Sounds like OWS on Russian Opposition Figure Thinks Anti-Putin Movement Has Faltered · · Score: 1

    Politics, understanding social issues, these are among the things they're not so good at.

    Are you saying that voting a straight ticket because you have always voted for that party shows a better understanding of issues? I fail to see the logic in that.

  12. Re:Sounds like OWS on Russian Opposition Figure Thinks Anti-Putin Movement Has Faltered · · Score: 1

    Yea, it was actually 56.3% to 43%. Memory is fading...but the damage from that election remains with us today.

  13. Re:Sounds like OWS on Russian Opposition Figure Thinks Anti-Putin Movement Has Faltered · · Score: 1

    What are they going to do? Vote for the other guy?

    Not "the other guy", but sometimes they vote for some other guy. That's how Clinton got elected - G.H.W. Bush and Ross Perot together got something like 68% of the vote. But Clinton was elected with 42% because Reagan Republicans self-destructed.

  14. Re:Buy grass fed only... on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1

    Drug resistant E. coli evolved in response to drugs given to patients with E. coli infections. The association to livestock is tenuous at best, but the association to antibiotic usage in healthcare is very well documented.

  15. Re:Cows eat Grass on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Corn is a species of grass. It produces more calories per acre than most other grasses, which is why it's used for feed (and why it takes more water per acre than other grasses, more output requires more input).

  16. Re:This is silly on Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of HIPAA requirements for electronic Medicaid billing, not so much Medicare. The problem there was that every state and insurance company had their own protocol for electronic billing so no vendor could do it.

    HIPAA also added a lot of other superfluous requirements that naturally raised the administrative costs, which are now being passed through to the patients. The girl in the billing office still has to struggle with the same problems as before, especially when a patient has Medicare and some kind of secondary insurance. Electronic medical records and billing just make it a little easier to get it right so fewer claims are denied.

  17. Re:Lawsuit was bogus on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    leads me to conclude that you probably worship Ayn Rand and you probably feel that women shouldn't have control of their own bodies...am I right?

    You jumped to the wrong conclusion there...but well played.

  18. Lawsuit was bogus on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you take the time to learn what information is actually on the ballot you'll see that the lawsuit has no merit. The barcode relates the ballot to what was scanned when the vote was automatically tallied in case there are errors or a recount. Any possibility that the ballot could be linked back to an individual voter was speculation, the plaintiffs couldn't produce any evidence that it could actually happen.

  19. Re:hi debian on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 2

    I prefer Debian anyway. Never understood what was better about Ubuntu - bloated and ugly

  20. Re:Why is this a problem? on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    As another incentive to subscribe, and one that might leave a bad taste in the mouth, the company says that subscribers will be given unspecified "updates" to add new features and capabilities over the life of their subscription.

    I was responding to this part of the submission. Certainly looks like the submitter has a problem with it.

  21. Why is this a problem? on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Don't like it? Buy a disk. Want an upgrade? Buy another disk. Or don't use MS Office. Your choice.

  22. Re:You say it like it is a bad thing. on 50 Years of Research and Still No Microwave Weapons · · Score: 3, Insightful

    RTFA. This is a tool to stop an assailant without doing permanent damage.

  23. Re:There is nothing special about programming on Can Anyone Become a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Thinking you are a good designer and being a good designer are two different things. I strongly suspect you are the former. Or just a troll.

  24. Re:There is nothing special about programming on Can Anyone Become a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    He didn't limit it to Java programming.

  25. Re:Unionize on Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? · · Score: 1

    The solution isn't government regulation. The solution is to encourage more corporations to start and grow in this country. If the submitter had the option of quitting that job working somewhere else this whole discussion would be moot. You don't want that?