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  1. Re:What else is in the "industry"? on 450 Million Lines of Code Can't Be Wrong: How Open Source Stacks Up · · Score: 1

    Exactly my question, what else is there besides proprietary and open source? How can they both surpass industry standards?

  2. Re:"Wriiiiiiighhht!" on Judge Refers Prenda Copyright Trolls To Criminal Investigators · · Score: 2

    The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

    I always wonder why that quote doesn't make conservative SciFi readers heads assplode, it is so socialist/communist.

  3. Re:if there really is anything to this on The Body's "Fountain of Youth" Could Lie In the Brain · · Score: 2

    I hope to God you are right. Can you imagine what it would do to the planet if suddenly everyone lived, for example, 25% longer?

  4. Re:They should build a huge bulldozer on TED Teams Up With PBS On Ideas For Education · · Score: 1

    Promise you will be inside?

  5. Re:It usually works like this on Google Ordered Back To UK Parliament To "Explain Itself" Following Investigation · · Score: 1

    Funny thing about that, for the last 30 years the tax burden has been steadly shifted from corporations and the leisure class to "the people mopping floors living at the poverty line"

  6. Did you kill the guy? on Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Did you?

  7. every grant must benefit 'national defense,' on SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants · · Score: 1

    So the tiny-brained people have taken over at last!

  8. Re:Seriously, on Superstorm Sandy Shook the Earth · · Score: 1

    the companies doing the polluting said that breathing it was good for your health.

    You mean it's not good for my health?

  9. Innocent until proven guilty?

  10. Is there anything on this planet on Demand for Kopi Luwak May Be Threatening Wildlife · · Score: 2

    that humans can't suck the complete life out of?

  11. Re:Excel error? on Excel Error Contributes To Problems With Austerity Study · · Score: 1

    How is it more natural? Well, for example, if I have 5 objects I usually count them 1..2..3..4..5, not 0..1..2..3..4.

  12. Re:Excel error? on Excel Error Contributes To Problems With Austerity Study · · Score: 1

    "1) Simply forget that array indices for most languages begin at zero(0) rather than one(1).

    It is true in most languages, but as a mathematician I always prefer indexing from 1 to last rather then from 0 to last-1. Guess what? No language has ever stopped me from doing that, and because my range is more natural, point 2 has never been an issue.

  13. Did the solar system originate as a hole? on Mystery Meteorite May Not Be From Mercury After All · · Score: 1

    Need more information!

  14. Re:I'm waiting for the independent study... on Organic Pollutants Poison the Roof of the World · · Score: -1

    You, sir, are an ass.

    They never just say "you know I disagree with you and here is why".

    This is because assholes like you are of a kind "My mind is made up, don't confuse me with facts".
    If you were ever exposed to facts you would reject them because you already know everything.

  15. Re:Sequestration did not cut budget on Sequester Grounds Blue Angels · · Score: 1

    The cuts are being made because they are great theater.

  16. Re:Why Facebook home is good on Facebook Home Reviews Arrive · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Excellent! Say hi to AIDS for me!

  17. Re:Jealousy of Google perks, nothing more on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    (maybe in California, you guys are nutjobs ;).

    You should be so lucky as to be in California, guaranteed to be 1000% better than what ever dump you call home.

  18. Re:Kissinger on "The Kissinger Cables": WikiLeaks Releases 1.7M Historical Records · · Score: 1

    You mention Vietnam, but everything I have seen shows them as still liking us. I never figured that out.

  19. There is a simple reason for this: on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It benefits the wealthy. That is what America does: increase the value of the already wealthy, while the rest of us can suck garbage out of a landfill.
    Welcome to America! Land of the greatest disparity between the wealthy and the rest of us.

  20. Re:abetting in the murder of children? on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You fucking bastard, go back to hell where you were spawned.

  21. Note to self: on Virgin Launches Glass-Bottomed Plane · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Slashdot is useless on April 1, Any Given Year.

  22. Please make it stop! on New Director Chosen At Fermilab · · Score: 1

    Please!

  23. Re:ROT13: Lamest 4/1 Joke in Slashdot History on Fairy Penguins Send First Email · · Score: 1

    WTF is Rot13?

  24. Re:Funny on Security Fix Leads To PostgreSQL Lock Down · · Score: 1

    The only train wreck is your mind.

  25. The Unincorporated Man on The Man Who Sold Shares of Himself · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Someone gave me a copy a couple of years ago (a galley proof I think) about a future where shares are issued at birth for everyone, and what happens when someone shows up who is not incorporated.
    A good read, though I didn't like the ending. It was as if someone said "Quick, we need to publish the book, end it".