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  1. Malaysia? on New Cyberbullying Evidence Rules May Go Too Far · · Score: 2

    It will be used exclusively against people who criticize Islam.

  2. It will be great on Patent Troll Now Armed With Thousands of Nortel Patents · · Score: 1

    When all commercial and academic development of everything is crushed. I can't wait for the day when not only applied technology is dead but basic research is beaten to death as well. It will be glorious

  3. It will become malware then on Is Facebook Going To Buy Opera? · · Score: 1

    Opera will become a browser app for fb

  4. In 50 years on Neil Armstrong Gives Rare Interview · · Score: 1

    Americans will generally believe we never went into space at all. We are a non-science, non-knowledge country now. But the sad reality is that when the ISS is gone, manned spaceflight will be over, except for rich guys going into orbit, forever. We're never going out there again.

  5. Outlaw PC ownership then on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    Like those freedom loving countries like North Korea.

  6. Apple Lawyers Suiting Up As We Speak on Google Finalizes Acquisition of Motorola Mobility · · Score: -1, Troll

    This will generate fantastic amounts of legal billing as Apple embarks on the next phase of their "Suing Everyone is Really Our Only Business Model" strategy.

  7. Re:Netanyahu: Africans threaten Israel's identity on Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet · · Score: 1

    Well for one thing the ZA press is the most anti Israeli in the world outside of Iran. They even say they are. Proudly. For another, that quote is unsourced and I wouldn't put any more credence in it than the insane ravings of the Arab press which this week claimed that 'zionist' birds were being trained as spies.

  8. So it should work a little cleaner on Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser · · Score: 1

    Better font rendering, better Java compatibility, etc.

  9. Typical NYT bias borderline antisemitism on Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Lubavitch and Satmar are not "Ultra" Orthodox. They're Orthodox. Charedi are 'ultra' Orthodox and don't use the net at all. This is one of those NYT smears against the Jewish community that's become their stock in trade. According to the NYT anyone who isn't a Buddhist Vegan Gay Interracial handicapped black Muslim lesbian anarchist is a 'ultra ultra ultra extremist fundamentalist religious millenarian nutcase.

  10. drunk drivers don't sober up while drving on Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers · · Score: 0

    Comparing this to drunk driving is silly because the entire time, 100% of the time a drunk driver is behind the wheel they are drunk. A person texting is texting a few seconds.

  11. Phones should be free now on Microsoft Wins US Import Ban On Motorola's Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but if MS and Apple literally own all the rights to everything on my phone, its features, where it's sold, if it's sold then necessarily we are, at best, renting a device from them. More typically though the phones should belong IN THEIR ENTIRETY to MS or Apple and we get to use them for free,

  12. Talk to the phone company on Ask Slashdot: Holding ISPs Accountable For Contracted DSL Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    Because they charge for services that don't even exist. Sprint for instance charges me a 'smartphone data premium fee'. But since I live in Raleigh NC there is NO data connection at all. Not 4G not 3G not any kind of G. Hell we're happy to make phone calls. My neighbor can only use her cell phone in her driveway.

  13. Re:Effectively? on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    So it's ineffectively then. Ok

  14. You clearly have never been to Rochester on Kodak Basement Lab Housed Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 2

    Back in its heyday you could smell Rochester on the approach by car from all the caustic chemicals Kodak used in the mass production process. If they're worried about a neutron generator used for metallurgical testing then they should be wearing a gasmask from simply living IN Rochester.

  15. Effectively? on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    Does that mean he's doing a good efficient job of ending it all? Because I don't think 'stop' is in the RonPaul vocabulary

  16. Mountain Dew presents Lil Wayne on Facebook Tests the Waters With Paid Perks · · Score: 1

    Or some vodka company promoting Kardashian. Thank god for the internet.

  17. Of course on Ridley Scott Loves Hugh Howey's Wool · · Score: 2

    They don't have to pay as much for it. Then they ship it to some schlock screenwriter who changes it 99%. Anyway everything is comic book heroes, 3D and chick movies.

  18. Online graffiti bigger than H-Bombs and money on Member Claims Anonymous "Might Well Be the Most Powerful Organization On Earth" · · Score: 1

    Sure sure. Of COURSE it is.....

  19. and yet on UK Home Secretary Bans US Martial Arts Expert · · Score: 1

    A terrorist imam, who's called for the annihilation of all infidels, who tied to Hamas, who SNEAKED into the country illegally, got caught, got arrested, SUCCESSFULLY sued to be allowed to stay in the UK

  20. All these are yours on ESA Declares Flagship Envisat Observing Satellite Lost · · Score: 1

    Except Europa. We can't find that one.

  21. Only 22% need that level of education on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    I'd be shocked if more than quarter of the jobs in the US actually required an 8th grade education or higher.

  22. Would likely make no time difference on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    It would likely make little difference in time or levels of congestion. In fact it would likely put more cars on the road going slower, albeit with fewer accidents. But in around town driving, while people are straight retarded when it comes to making left turns, eventually, because no one will ever yield, you just go for it and hope for the best. I don't see automated cars making left turns into traffic which NEVER EVER YIELDS being any more effective or efficient at that. Moreover lights are designed to SLOW traffic down, not speed it up. So making sure no one runs a red light or leaves early isn't going to improve on the flow which experiences that now.

    Where it will or could improve things is what I can the fat bastard asshole syndrome. Those people in front of you who cannot stomp their hoof on the gas when the light eventually turns green. For some reason they're messing with their phone, scarfing down fries, scratching their ass, yelling at their kids or all of those things at the same time and the miss the light completely. Or, they feel a need to let every single bicycle, pedestrian, baby stroller in the entire known universe cross in front of them so they can finally go after the light turns red again.

    But on the whole, what I see is a bunch of drunk stupid shitheads driving randomly all over the road at all times. I don't know if machines can compete successfully when most of the cars on the road are barely aimed by morons. Last but not least you and I know that if this were to ever be ,mainstream the FIRST thing that would happen is that a million rednecks and homies would Youtube themselves sitting on the roof of the car as it drove around. After a few thousand fell off and got killed, every state government would REQUIRE that a person must be driving the car along with the computer to 'ensure safety' and thereby killing the whole concept.

    Oh and I forgot, your insurance rates would not go down even if the number of accidents dropped to zero. Because your rates never go down.

  23. Re:I put 3 kids through the UNC system no debt on Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans · · Score: 1

    I have a difficult time believing that people who can't pay for their own college are entitled to go to the most expensive option they can find as a right of law. Whereas public universities in your mind are what? Garbage? Maybe if you're that fucking brilliant then Harvard should be banging down your door to pay your way in full then. I don't know, maybe that's your individual circumstances. In either case maybe being poor doesn't actually entitle you, as in entitlement ensconced in public policy, to attend the Ivy of your dreams. If you're Obama or Bill Clinton maybe you really are smart enough and ambitious enough to be able to take on enough debt to attend Harvard law and still have it make financial sense. But for the vast majority of students that's not actually the case. What I do know is that in state UNC cost is barely $8,000/yr fully loaded with living expenses. If you're an out of state at UNC Chapel Hill that cost climbs to more than $24,000 year. But down the road @ Duke it's about $40,000/yr. The choice, in all three cases is up to you. (And Chapel Hill is one of the most expensive campuses in the UNC System). I am sure that for most students in the US public university is an option at least worthy of some consideration and the costs, relative to any local private universities is quite a bit less. Alternatively programs like Americorp are in place to offset debt even for private university costs. Or you can blog about how unfair the world is and how you're going to rage against the Cul de Sac.

    PS I want to thank you for your efforts. I takes a lot of backwards hats to underwrite 3 partial scholarships.

  24. Re:I put 3 kids through the UNC system no debt on Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans · · Score: 1

    I have a lack of sympathy for people who a) believe they are literally entitled to the most elite and expensive education available and b) that the cost of it is irrelevant regardless of the return it provides. One must in fact look at ones options. Do I plunge deeply into debt because if I don't get into that textile arts program at the Rhode Island School of Design for $40k/year I'll die or do I instead look for a more realistic and manageable option? The sad fact is that not everyone gets to be an astronaut, you know. Maybe you were sold a bill of goods when you were little that lead you to believe that everyone's a super winner all the time but that's not how the world works. In fact the doctor you see probably went to school in Mexico because he didn't have any options in the US so if being realistic is good enough for him being realistic should be good enough for you too.

  25. My insurance company will cover it too on Scientists 'Switch Off' Brain Cell Death In Mice · · Score: 1

    As long as I'm a mouse.