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  1. Paging Dexter Morgan on Doctors Say New Pain Pill Is "Genuinely Frightening" · · Score: 1

    the stuff he uses is 1,000x more potent than morphine

  2. email is so 10 minutes ago on Facebook Shuts Down @Facebook Email System · · Score: 2

    Tweets and Snapchat are the pushing the attention span envelope at this point.

  3. ALMOST NEVER, that's when on Ask Slashdot: When Is a Better Career Opportunity Worth a Pay Cut? · · Score: 1

    Maybe one out of a thousand. If it's a better career they should pay you more. Otherwise it's an Avocation not a Vocation.

  4. it's the bribe, er, I mean access fees on Why Is US Broadband So Slow? · · Score: 1

    Cable companies pay a bribe, ummm I mean a fee to municipalities in exchange for exclusive access. So unless Google plans on paying tribute to your crime family, I mean, local government, then nothing will change.

  5. Gay Mohammed's Bacon Sandwich on Psychologists: Internet Trolls Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic · · Score: 1

    Thinks you're gay. And fat.

  6. Why not make it a real tax on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    And why not tax the hell out of people who actually make something of their lives so that everyone else doesn't have to?

  7. Aim low on Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable In $44.2 Billion All-Stock Deal · · Score: 1

    Ya can't fuck it up. Well ya can't fuck it up more than Time Warner. Unless you stop having service completely, forever. Better than that you're on par with Time Warner.

    But the real point here is that Comcast now owns the lagest VoIP network in the nation if not the world. One stop shopping for the NSA while Obama's FCC gets to tax it some more.

  8. High school dropout not a Super Genius?? on NSA: Others Implicated in Making Snowden Data Leaks Possible · · Score: 0

    Oh it was mostly just plain old stealing and treason. Ok thanks. We knew that.

  9. Eventually the whole industry on 'CandySwipe' Crushed: When Game Development Turns Nasty · · Score: 1

    Will just be people suing each other. All products and services will have long since stopped existing at all.

  10. Will they cost more than Xenon? on Laser Headlights Promise More Intense, Controllable Beams · · Score: 1

    Because those $500/each headlights are pretty awesome. They'd better last forever.

  11. Is there a fix for on Dead Reckoning For Your Car Eliminates GPS Dead Zones · · Score: 1

    Being a Sprint customer?

  12. IBM will be a VC fund soon. on IBM Looking To Sell Its Semiconductor Business · · Score: 1

    It's pretty much stopped making 'stuff' and sells intangible services while snapping up other people's software companies and rebranding them. But services require too much linear labor input even at firesale prices in China so it's probably just as well that half the employees now are lawyers and accountants. Soon IBM will be a holding company for buying and selling intellectual property and that's pretty much it.

  13. IBM will become a VC fund soon on Do Hypersonic Missiles Make Defense Systems Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    It's pretty much stopped making 'stuff' and sells intangible services while snapping up other people's software companies and rebranding them. But services require too much linear labor input even at firesale prices in China so it's probably just as well that half the employees now are lawyers and accountants. Soon IBM will be a holding company for buying and selling intellectual property and that's pretty much it.

  14. Ahh let the Jew hate wash over you on Israeli Group To Attempt Moon Landing · · Score: 1

    Like a Treblinka shower. I didn't know there were so many liberals here @ /.

  15. Maybe don't install a zillion apps? on The App That Tracks Who's Tracking You · · Score: 1

    Oh I dunno, my Galaxy becomes unstable enough with an average sized suite of apps. I can't see how adding more to tell you about the status of the status is really going to help.

  16. IBM just upgraded to IE10 on IE Drops To Single-Digit Market Share · · Score: 1

    That's the required baseline on internal builds. To be fair the real browser is FF24 ESR or something like that but in terms of actual 100% applications compatibility - IE10 is the new go-to when all else fails. This is a new thing, as they relied on IE9 until about a month ago. But hey, if you can even get them to pay for it, MS Office 2003 is the rad new office suite. There's Lotus Symphony that all workstations must have installed but no one actually uses it. Symphony is based on Apache Office 3 so it's got all the golly gee-whiz features of that, and it also has all sorts IBM add ons which means it takes about 90 seconds to start up unless you have it autostarted in the system tray.

    Smarter Planet.

  17. Internal passports are next on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for the EU to institute internal travel controls, 'for your safety'.

  18. The problem is the uplink on Old-school Wi-Fi Is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says · · Score: 1

    Time Warner is the problem for the most part. My LAN link of a quadzillion gigabytes is nice to be sure and if you decide you need a wireless fileserver for all the internets of things in your house might be useful but the problem is Conchita and Ramesh over at Time Warner who both don't care that you're paying $140/month for an internet connection 1/20th of that speed and, the fact that having it available 80% of the time at all is fine.

  19. One Drive to rule them all on OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    Can't be lost on everyone.

  20. Sets gay marriage back 20 years on Court Says Craigslist Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support · · Score: 1

    Good Jorb, ladies.

  21. Re:Flex? on Lenovo To Buy IBM's Server Business For $2.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    That's a done deal through virtualization anyway. Cram 20 images on a few MPU blades.

  22. It's not even ALL the Intel server biz on Lenovo To Buy IBM's Server Business For $2.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    Just the commodity low end part of it e.g. the servers in a single server cabinet, the small office market. Large Intel servers are still IBM.

  23. 27 is the new 18 on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    So 18 is about 9. And 9 year olds can't drive. That's why. As each generation takes longer and longer to reach maturity they're stuck in a semi permanent twilight zone of childhood where nothing is expected of them or by them.

  24. Re:Violation of ECHR on In Greece, 10 Months In Prison For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page · · Score: 2

    The EU criminalized speech that defames Islam and in some rare cases, Christianity.

  25. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. After years of struggling with NoScript I've discovered that the widget actually bogs down the system more than the scripts it's blocking, and second, javascript is going to kill the internet. The average website has 4 or 5 LAYERS of javascript and runs something like 2 or 3 dozen scripts. But the effort of Noscript to block them can be pretty incredible.

    The only real remedy is a human one - ignore all the ads and garbage and as a matter of course never buy anything from an advertiser.