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  1. Re:Ping-Pong diplomacy on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 1

    Possibly not. The Chinese know their table tennis.

  2. Just one word: on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    Fuck you Micro$oft.

  3. Re:Who cares? on Nearly Every Seabird May Be Eating Plastic By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Dear Coward: you, sir, are an idiot.

  4. Re:Big fucking deal on Nearly Every Seabird May Be Eating Plastic By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Dear Coward: you are an idiot.

  5. Re:Ethan doesn't understand relativistic time on Some Observers Perceive the Universe To Be Much Younger Than We Do · · Score: 2

    We know the universe is expanding in space, I contend it is also expanding in time, and 'now' is the leading edge of the expansion of the universe in the time dimension.

  6. There is another source of 'slow time' as well on Some Observers Perceive the Universe To Be Much Younger Than We Do · · Score: 1

    and we are in it. We know that gravity slows time, and we know that the distribution of matter in the universe is into filaments and the surfaces of 'bubbles'. In those places, like where we live, gravity slows time down unlike 'in' the bubbles and other voids between the filaments. So how much slower are we perceiving time with respect to 'universal' time?

  7. What pisses me off as an older programmer on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    is the trash younger programmers put out and think they have created a user interface. Problem is, the younger programmers don't understand how users think and produce something the YP likes but can't be figured out by anyone else. I have to work with new software every day produced by YP's and it usually makes me want to vomit.

  8. Re:All scientists or just certain ones? FAIL AGAIN on New Tool Allows Scientists To Annotate Media Coverage of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Can I come and visit you at the institution where you are housed?

  9. Re:Classic FUD on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Car That's Safe From Hackers? · · Score: 1

    My Nissan is easy to break into, so I had a kill switch installed by my mechanic. So far it has thwarted 2 attempts to steal my car.

  10. Re:This is a partnership.... on AT&T Helped the NSA Spy On Internet Traffic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While in college I worked at one of the last, if not the last, cord board in California in Woodland. It was a gas, plugging in when a light went on, picking outgoing trunk lines to dial through, getting connected to really obscure places, timing calls with paper tickets and clocks. No day ever made the lights light up like the day Elvis died.

  11. Complete BS on Massachusetts Embraces Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education · · Score: 2

    Teach kids logic and critical thinking and c.s. will be easy to learn, however old you are.
    Teach just c.s. and their education will be obsolete before you know it.

  12. So the 'research' is going to prove on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    a conclusion? Is that how research works?

  13. Re: Well, sure, but... on Genetically Modified Rice Makes More Food, Less Greenhouse Gas · · Score: 2

    Since I am not California, indeed few people are, sounds like nothing to worry about.

  14. Re:Yes, more people is better on Ask Slashdot: Everyone Building Software -- Is This the Future We Need? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right, just like 10,000 monkeys banging on a keyboard are going to produce quality, eventually. Who wades through the dross to find something worth while? Not me, you can keep the garbage.

  15. Bravo New Zealand on Don't Bring Your Drone To New Zealand · · Score: 1

    Here here!

  16. Re:EMP on Spurious Drones Buzzing Around Spanish Royal Palace · · Score: 1

    We need a kickstarter campaign to create an emp gun that will bring down drones. I would contribute.

  17. Can it detect that I hate emotion detecting softwa on Emotionally Aware Apps That Respond To Feelings Are On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    re? Will it turn off when it detects I want to kill it?

  18. Re:Birds are not living dinosaurs, on Researchers Discover Largest Ever Dinosaur With Birdlike Wings and Feathers · · Score: 1

    Picky picky.

  19. Why stop there? on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 5, Funny

    Capital punishment is a significant deterrent, with a guarantee of no repeats!

  20. Birds are not living dinosaurs, on Researchers Discover Largest Ever Dinosaur With Birdlike Wings and Feathers · · Score: 2

    they are birds. It's called speciation.

  21. hard-liners in the intelligence community? on Eric Holder Says DoJ Could Strike Deal With Snowden; Current AG Takes Hard Line · · Score: 1

    Those bastards need to be sent to prison.

  22. Re:Obvious dollar usage on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 0

    The droppings from this boondoggle would rescue Greece but no, economies will collapse instead.

  23. 16 years before what? on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 1

    Slashdot, stop jamming your graphics over the subject line assholes.

  24. The key question is: on NASA To Test Inflatable Donut For Landing On Mars · · Score: 1

    How does it taste?

  25. James Comey on Tim Cook: "Weakening Encryption Or Taking It Away Harms Good People" · · Score: 1

    has become the most dangerous person in the world.