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  1. Light Pollution on First Glow-In-the-Dark Road Debuts In Netherlands · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Seeing as how all of the light is directed upward, this adds to light pollution, which some people blame a lot of problems on: http://darkskyinitiative.org/

  2. Re:You had me at on Facebook Shuts Down @Facebook Email System · · Score: 1

    And the company's FAQs could be stored in WhatsApp.doc.

  3. Re:Pay is exactly where it should be on Are Bankers Paid Too Much? Are Technology CEOs? · · Score: 0

    I'm trying to figure out why you think paying a teacher $28,000 a year to work 10-hour days is "artificially higher than it should be," and I can only conclude that you are a dimwitted, sheep-shanking idiot.

  4. Re:Cut food stamps; send useless probes on Astronomers Make the Science Case For a Mission To Neptune and Uranus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since this is a EUROPEAN proposal, it is apparent that you did not RTFA.

  5. Re:Uh... no. on Astronomers Make the Science Case For a Mission To Neptune and Uranus · · Score: 1, Informative

    Since this is a EUROPEAN proposal, you come off as another under-educated conservative shooting his mouth off without having all the facts.

  6. Why is it on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    This device, by monitoring employees, allows bosses to defer their responsibilities to the device. It therefore allows one class of employee to become worse at their job by ensuring another class becomes better at theirs. So the one group of people that needs this technology applied to themselves the most is bosses, those lazy fucks.

  7. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    Which is why the South capitulated immediately and there was no Civil War. Those slaves weren't productive at all and weren't a crucial component of the southern economy.

  8. What's missing from the discussion on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd warrant (but don't have the statistics to back me up) that the typical ad-block user would be less prone to click on ads if forced to see them than a typical surfer. I don't see why these crybaby advertisers are so desperate to reach a market that would have low click-through rates. The advertisers win by not needing the extra bandwidth necessary to serve up ads to people that wouldn't click on them anyways.

  9. Oxymorons on Creating Better Malware Warnings Through Psychology · · Score: 2

    "concrete, specific warnings" and "not technical"

  10. God forbid on Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value? · · Score: 1

    Oh, please spare the developers from having any contact with the outside world. It's not like the clients or individuals in other departments ever discover any bugs or have anything relevant to say about design features or the future of the product.

  11. Re:How long can you survive there? on Coldest Spot On Planet Earth Identified · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At temperatures even warmer than that, people need special snorkels with heat exchangers to avoid freezing their lungs. Death would be by asphyxiation in mere minutes unless blood freezing in the skin caused some sort of high blood pressure event that triggers a heart attack first.

  12. Re:...will never work. on Fearful of Reader Reaction, Facebook Delays Video Ads · · Score: 1

    Clearly you do not have the same FB friends as me.

  13. Re:Turns out on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    Shaq.. because devotion to an enormously huge black man is surely a sign of heterosexuality.

  14. They don't need a website on Texas Rangers Use Internet To Breathe New Life Into Cold Case Homicides · · Score: 2

    They just need Chuck Norris. He'll close every cold case with his fists.

  15. The market prevails on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    Bennett's supposition is that an uncapped market could be manipulated, and then arbitrage trading between that and a capped market could cause the value of the capped market to swing away from some true value. The problem with this thesis is the assumption that both markets have equal trust. The capped market should be trusted more, and arbitrage trading between the two markets will tend to bring the two prices closer to what the capped market's original value was.

  16. Re:Opposite effect on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 2

    In that case, one would manipulate the market in favor of the candidate one wishes to lose, causing that candidates supporters not to go to the polls because they think the candidate is a shoe-in. And in case you haven't noticed, people hate political advertising more than they hate cancer and North Korea. This manipulation would be much stealthier.

  17. I already have this on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: 0

    In my car it's called Turbo, and the compressed gas from the Turbo is mixed violently with diesel moments before being compressed into a conflagration.

  18. Oh Goody on Crowdsourcing Mars Images · · Score: 1

    Isn't this just asking for a slew of "discoveries" similar to previous Mars finds: Bigfoot, pyramids, and giant glass worms?

  19. Re:Wow... on Gerry Anderson, Co-Creator of Thunderbirds, Dies · · Score: 1

    lister king - when guessing the age of a /.er, look at the number of digits in the user id #. Those with 5 are old-timers. Those with 7 are usually clueless noobs.

  20. Re:Waist of time. on Did Land-Dwellers Emerge 65 Million Years Earlier Than Was Thought? · · Score: 1

    That would explain why you used the word "waist" instead of the proper word.

  21. Re:Science Fiction Movie adaptation! on Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon · · Score: 1

    Pluky: adj. Plucky and nauseated to the point of puking.

  22. Or... on Chinese Rare Earths Producer Suspends Output · · Score: 1

    ... the decline in rare earth supply will cause companies to innovate, and they'll find ways to not use rare earths. Like... well.... like this Hitachi motor without rare earth metals: http://www.zdnet.com/hitachi-introduces-motor-without-rare-earth-2062304468/

  23. Re:Why change the interface at all on Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    First time I've heard of intestinal contents being referred to as "an idea."

  24. That makes the decision easier! on Verizon Draws Fire For Monitoring App Usage, Browsing Habits · · Score: 1

    My contract with AT&T ends in December. Now I can scratch Verizon off the list. Now which company DOESN'T do this?

  25. Misleading blurb on Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name · · Score: 5, Funny

    Facebook is not "clamping down on pseudonyms" and /. should be ashamed for posting a story that suggests it is. The questions Facebook sends to users are used for statistical purposes and are not used to punish those using pseudonyms. Pure FUD.