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  1. Re:OFFTOPIC: Slashdot Kremlin story just pulled? on DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns · · Score: 2

    All American Politicians are leftists. Just a different variety than you think.

    They are one of two varieties: Sexual libertines (what passes for the true left in the United States) or fiscal libertines (what passes for the right in the United States).

    You can tell the sexual libertines by their rabid defense of the abortion industry and an absolutist right for everybody to the Holy Orgasm.

    You can tell the fiscal libertines by their rabid defense of the financial industry and an absolutist right for the rich to control the Holy Grail of Private Property.

    But both are liberals, make no mistake.

  2. Re:University of Califonia? Oh, they'll love her. on DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns · · Score: 1

    Hahahaha- yeah, where more than half her students can be the "Dreamers" she gave 2 year deferments of deportation to.

  3. Re:like anything else.. on Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard · · Score: 1

    I resemble this remark. Same here. Made it through high school with a GPA of 3.5 without much effort. Barely succeeded at college with a GPA of 2.6 because of it.

    I kept thinking "There must be some way to use computer memory instead of human memory for this stuff". Today, I think I'd be recording lectures on my smart phone and listening to them at night when I'm asleep on loop.

  4. Re:like anything else.. on Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard · · Score: 1

    This. Having said this, however, my software engineering program had a 75% drop out rate- within the first three terms. This was back when they were telling EVERYBODY that programming was the career of the future (they lied) and that it was easy. C and Advanced C at OIT were *all* visual/tangible results within two weeks- short two week programming projects that introduced basic concepts such as looping and data structures.

    There was a backup degree called "Management in Information Systems", we had a saying by the time I graduated "God Bless those little MIS students, they interview for the same jobs we do and make us look good".

  5. Re:Depends on the energy source duh! on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    "leave the vehicle running in idle to keep the A/C on, "

    I hate to break it to you, but:
    1. Electric vehicles have A/C
    2. Electric vehicles can't idle.

  6. Re:SI units are fiat units on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    A second is how much time elapses as light travels exactly 299792458 meters [ distance travelled by light in one second] through a vacuum.

    I love how redundant your post looks with the http://www.dictionaryofnumbers.com/ Chrome plugin installed.

  7. Re:In other news... on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I'm from the other side of the Rockies and have never seen the brand.

  8. Re:In other news... on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    All carbs, no protein or vitamins to speak of (they even filter it to the point you don't get the natural B12 from the Brewer's Yeast)?

    By what stretch of the imagination is that good nutrition for your fifty cents? You get more nutrition buying an apple for the same price.

  9. Re:In other news... on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 2

    Calories are not equal to nutrition at all, unless you're on hospice.

  10. Re:In other news... on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    To get the taste the same, you need a lot more than just a list of ingredients.

  11. Re:In other news... on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    I said for the NUTRITION you get. Those beers are anything but nutritious- empty calories, none of the good "liquid bread" that thicker craft beers are made out of.

  12. Re:In other news... on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    Not exactly the same, no. There are copyright restrictions on Hostess recipes.

    I just want to know if whoever buys Ding Dongs also gets King Dongs- which truly are the same thing.

    And I just RTFAd, which tells me that soon Carl's Jr. will feature these brands in their desert menu and you should be able to buy them anywhere Pabst Beer can be bought (two other overpriced-for-the-nutrition-you-get brands).

  13. Re:Internet Explorer on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    If you have access to the backbone, why do you need a back door into a non-secure system like Skype?

  14. Re:Internet Explorer on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points, I'd mod parent up. The NSA's current attack, as described by Snowden, would be a man in the middle attack done on the outer layers of the TCP/IP packet onion. ONLY if the two and from addresses are interesting, do they bother to save and analyze the rest of the packet.

    That includes VOIP data, which means that Obama's "We're only paying attention to WHO you call, we're not listening in on your calls" is a big red herring.

  15. Re:A conspiracy... proving you wrong on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    That of the Lone Wolf. It's only Islamic to piss off the Russian Orthodox.

  16. Re:A conspiracy... on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    That's funny because the original Zionist Terrorists were the Zealots, and that's where we get the word "Zeal" from.

  17. Re:A conspiracy... on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    It's an even worse joke. While Zionist Terrorists exist- it was soliciting money from the KKK that got them turned in. Dumb criminals do get caught.

  18. Re:Goddammit. on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    Yes, a reasonable habit from the days when I used a mechanical typewriter (and still good for monospaced code comments), but occasionally in

    Fixed that for ya. (140 characters).

  19. Re:So... on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 1

    Or, as GK Chesterton put it in _All Things Considered_:
     
     

    When I was a very young journalist I used to be irritated at a peculiar habit of printers, a habit which most persons of a tendency similar to mine have probably noticed also. It goes along with the fixed belief of printers that to be a Rationalist is the same thing as to be a Nationalist. I mean the printer's tendency to turn the word "cosmic" into the word "comic." It annoyed me at the time. But since then I have come to the conclusion that the printers were right. The democracy is always right. Whatever is cosmic is comic.

  20. Don't we already have this? on Prosecutors Push For Anti-Phone-Theft Kill Switches · · Score: 4, Informative

    Something similar has been available for YEARS- all you need do is ask the phone company to invalidate the IMEI number.and/or activate the memory wipe software built into Android, iOS, and Windows phones.

    Has Symbian and Blackberry been left out of this feature? I would have thought consumer demand for it would have produced it on those platforms as well long ago.

  21. Re:Won't happen on World Population Could Reach Nearly 11 Billion By 2100 · · Score: 0

    Not necessarily. For every genius that comes up with a doomsday weapon, if you have a large enough population, you'll also have a counterbalancing genius that comes up with the defense against the doomsday weapon.

    Of course, if you're aborting fetuses at random, your odds of getting both go down considerably.

  22. Re:Wanna earn $200K+? Two words... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: -1

    Increasing supply is only one way to create inflation. You can also decrease demand.

  23. Re:Wanna earn $200K+? Two words... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    The broken window fallacy? No, it's an application of the subsidiarity principle.

  24. Re:Wanna earn $200K+? Two words... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 0

    The efficient application of capital is not a valuable service. It creates inflation and unemployment.

  25. Re:NIMBY on Pandora's Promise and the Problem of "Solutionism" · · Score: 1

    This wikipedia article contains a description of pyriscence where fire is required for seeds to germinate. It isn't just the reduction in competition and clearing of land- in some species, such as the lodgepole pine, a high heat is required to even release the seeds from the cone.