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  1. Re:People STILL use CCs with PP? on MasterCard Forcing PayPal To Pay Higher Fees · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your solution to your credit card number being vulnerable to theft is to give away your bank account number instead? Brilliant!

  2. Re:Ahh, Pentium. on Intel's Pentium Chip Turns 20 Today · · Score: 1

    IIRC, the first round or two of P3s also used the slot design. It was only the "flip chip" versions, I want to say starting with the 733MHz, that integrated the L2 cache on the die and went to Socket 370. This was the time period when the Celerons were often faster than the full-priced Pentiums: the Celerons had less L2 cache, but it was on the die in a Socket 370. Easily overclockable too. Put a couple of those in an Abit BP6 and you're really ahead of your time.

  3. Re:News at 11: Rest of us "Don't Give a Fuck" on Sheryl Sandberg and Technology's Female Leaders · · Score: 2

    I don't see too many men (or women) complaining that only women can give birth.

    Oh yes they do:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c

  4. Tax avoidance on Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Tax avoidance IS the right thing to do and something to be proud of.

  5. Attack vector? on Nokia Engineer Shows How To Pirate Windows 8 Metro Apps, Bypass In-app Purchases · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's no attack here. Somebody's modifying software on his own machine for his own use.

  6. Re:No SDK forks? on Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK · · Score: 5, Informative

    Being allowed to fork and being allowed to call your fork "Android" are different things.

  7. Re:The Reality on How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Revealed Massive Misuse of DKIM · · Score: 1
  8. Re:The Reality on How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Revealed Massive Misuse of DKIM · · Score: 2

    Except SPF is broken by design and shouldn't be used nor its use encouraged, ever.

  9. iOS6 on User Tracking Back On iOS 6 · · Score: 1

    Is there anything about Safari on iOS6 that doesn't suck? Particularly egregious is the fact that it caches POST responses. Yes, you read that right. I don't know what kind of brain damage leads somebody to believe that's an acceptable thing to do.

  10. Re:Calm before the hyperbole on A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet · · Score: -1, Troll
  11. Drug test the final standard? on Lance Armstrong and the Science of Drug Testing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think anyone has ever believed that passing a drug test mean the person was clean for sure. Why do they store samples for X number of years in order to re-test them in the future, with better technology? It's because if it's found out later that somebody was doping, then his results are invalid.

    If we find out some other way besides a drug test that somebody was doping, then his results are invalid.

  12. Re:Pushed back on With $8.6M In Kickstarter Funds, Ouya Opens Console Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Neither the summary nor the article say anything about a date being pushed back.

  13. Re:Dreamcast = worst console ever. on ScummVM 1.5.0 'Picnic Basket' Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Crazy Taxi.

  14. Re:a bit sensational headline on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 1

    But conservatives and liberals seem to be on the opposite side of this divide when it comes to economics. Liberals believe more taxes == more revenue. And that there are never any unintended consequences to, say, Obamacare, which feed back into the system and cause weird effects.

    In fact, it would seem that conservatives believe it's difficult/impossible to completely understand the behavior of complex systems, while liberals believe that regulation and rules and laws, of which more is better, always have exactly the effect they expect.

  15. Re:ExxonMobil's science education ads on Exxon CEO: Warming Happening, But Fears Overblown · · Score: 1

    Free public education and teachers' unions are not equivalent to math and science education. It's possible to support the some and not others.

  16. Re:Skimming over this horseshit.... on The Art of Elections Forecasting · · Score: 2

    turn off the TVA

    What!! But then who would power my TV?

  17. Re:It's all about the money on The Art of Elections Forecasting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even if what you say about 10-1 outspending is true (and it probably is), you haven't established causation, only correlation. Wouldn't you expect a better, winning candidate to be able to get more money as well as more votes than the other guy?

  18. Freedom on IEEE Spectrum Digs Into the Future of Money · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An untraceable method of paying for things has disadvantages, yes, but also serious advantages in limiting the power of government to see and control everything we do...

  19. Control for sugar on NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My guess is that people who don't drink coffee more likely DO drink sugary sodas.

  20. Re:Great step forward! on UK To Give Peer-Reviewed Science Libel Protection · · Score: 1

    Too bad Dr Bob, DC got found out. We could use him right now.

  21. Peer review? on UK To Give Peer-Reviewed Science Libel Protection · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, the main institution responsible for scientific groupthink is going to be the arbiter of what's libel and what isn't? Brilliant!

  22. Re:Charge less on Microsoft Makes Ambitious Carbon Neutral Pledge · · Score: 1

    Well, okay, then the shareholders should be wondering why their dividend is smaller than it should be.

  23. Re:In related news on Microsoft Makes Ambitious Carbon Neutral Pledge · · Score: 1

    It would also be an issue if they were making a claim to score marketing points without really caring whether they lived up to it.

  24. Charge less on Microsoft Makes Ambitious Carbon Neutral Pledge · · Score: 1

    Other companies large and small will probably be wondering why they couldn't just pay less for their MS licenses instead.

  25. Re:Donald Duck & Uncle Scrooge on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Absolutely. Look for the ones by Carl Barks. It was an inspiration for Indiana Jones.