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  1. Re:Emissions Testing is Complete Bullshit on Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming · · Score: 1

    So what made it ok for the OP to ignore the human HEALTH cost? Or are do all the rich people in your area live in drafty shacks next to the interstate while the asthma-free, fully-insured poor live on the coast and breathe in clean air from the fresh ocean breezes?

  2. You said OR, but I think you meant XOR, and your less-than symbol is missing. Also mpg is not a rate per se (change per unit time).

  3. Re:A sudden outbreak of Common Sense. on YouTube 'Dancing Baby' Copyright Ruling Sets Pre-Trial Fair Use Guideline · · Score: 1, Troll

    Are you kidding? Getting rid of Justin is a great result.

  4. Re:*Raises hand* on Georgia Aquarium Battles Federal Government Over Belugas · · Score: 1

    You can't get a weather prediction for next week right either.

  5. Re:AdBlock+ = inferior & 'souled-out' vs. host on Study: Ad Blocker Use Jumps 41 Percent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't you think it's ironic you have, on this article alone, plastered at least a half-dozen spam posts that are essentially ads. Do you have anything that would let us block you?

  6. Looks like Michigan? on New Horizons Returns Best Images of Pluto's Moons Hydra and Nix · · Score: 2

    So Hydra is broken into two parts? Or did the idiot author forget about Michigan's upper peninsula?

  7. Re:Does not really matter. on Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip · · Score: 1

    UV isn't ionizing? My god, you've just undone a century of physics. Go collect your Nobel prize.

  8. Re:The solution is obvious on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    ... says an anonymous poster. Oh, the irony.

  9. What really gets me on Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program · · Score: 1

    ... is how the lunar hoax conspiracy theorists don't seem to spend much time pondering the launches of the Saturn Vs. These were very public events witnessed by thousands of people. Was each and every one of this people brainwashed into thinking they say a launch? If that seems unlikely, what exactly was going on with the 363 foot tall rockets blasting off into space if they weren't going to the moon? Why bother to build something that had the capability, and then launch it for real, but then let it hang in orbit instead of going all the way. Oh, well, the lunar hoax theorists I've run across were always idiots, I guess I shouldn't care what they think.

  10. Re:Faulty router? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a lot of dangerous work. Just take a can of compressed air and spray the interior while the unit is on. Condensation will form on the board and short it out, and then it will evaporate, leaving no evidence behind.

  11. Re:Kind of half-assed... on Anti-TPP Website Being Blacklisted · · Score: 1

    Half-assed. Oh, the irony.

    Here you go http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tpp

  12. Re:Gradual transition from left to right on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Maybe next time try not to start with a story with racist undertones.

  13. Re:Seriously? on Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent · · Score: 1

    Your concerns about quotes or internal commas are unfounded. It's not like the satellite contains a database of people (name: Hugh "Jimmy-Joe" Smith address: Rural Route 12, behind the Applebees dumpster) so it can write letters to them. The satellite is writing data to the log and there's no reason for it to use quotes or internal commas at all.

    Spot-on about the compactness though.

  14. Choices, choices on The Mathematical Case For Buying a Powerball Ticket · · Score: 1

    Do I make the payments on my pickup and trailer home, or do I play the lottery? I play the lottery of course. If I win, I can pay off the truck and the trailer.

  15. Hold on on Study: Space Rock Impacts Not Random · · Score: 3, Informative

    To all the commenters claiming we've already known this for centuries... no, we haven't. There's no reason to presume a priori that large objects occur in "showers" like the smaller (ash particle to pea sized) objects that make up familiar meteor showers. And astrostatisticians are very unhappy with the quality of the statistics in this paper, and they are suggesting the null hypothesis can't be rejecting using better statistical tools: https://astrostatistics.wordpr...

  16. Just wait... on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    until your rented car drives up to your front door with a big pile of puke on the front seat.

  17. Re:Why at a place of learning? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 0

    Maybe you should try restating that without swearing. You know, so you'll sound grown up.

  18. Et tu, Brute? on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    Republicans treat Capitalism like Julius Ceasar. They publicly praise it but then stab it to death in the Senate.

  19. Why don't I get a discount on Netflix To Charge More For 4K Video · · Score: 1

    for watching on a Wii?

  20. Re:Built-in differences on Code.org: Blame Tech Diversity On Education Pipeline, Not Hiring Discrimination · · Score: 0

    I love made-up statistics.

  21. Re:less than one particle per square kilometer/100 on How Astrophysicists Hope To Turn the Entire Moon Into a Cosmic Ray Detector · · Score: 0

    You're an idiot commenting about a subject you know nothing about.

  22. Re:Sue the bastards on In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist · · Score: 1

    A bunch of white guys except for the token minority (two birds with one stone, she's female and black). And I'd bet the two guys sharing the last name of Bramble vote in lockstep on everything. Curiously, Glen Bramble won his race in 2008 against a contestant named Troi Lynn Bramble Jones http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/md... . And there were some oddly close votes in 2012 http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/md...

  23. Re:Another Paid Advertisement? on Cassini's Space Odyssey To Saturn · · Score: 1

    Apparently you are unaware of the news industry's habit of fluffing up its content volume with pieces commemorating the anniversaries of semi-significant events, especially anniversaries that occur in multiples of 5 - something to do with the number of digits on our ape paws.

  24. Why not a poll? on Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    This could be the start of a whole new type of /. poll - 3D. Language in x axis, editor in y, number of people choosing particular xy combinations as z axis.

  25. Re:So I was all "Social contract, move to Somalia" on Beer Price Crisis On the Horizon · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gay rights are not state rights issues. They are fundamental human rights every bit as important as the civil rights fought for by the Civil Rights Movement that peaked in the 1960s. The fact that you think otherwise suggests you're just another useless bigot.