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  1. Are you kidding on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You lift the limits on campaign spending, declare that corporations have the right of political speech and are now surprised that the rich people have all the say?

    I have no sympathy. In fact, many of you cheered it as a sign of greatness and freedom that America was doing this. Your allies, however, were fucking appalled. Let

  2. Then's it's a planet. on Pluto May Have Deep Seas and Ancient Tectonic Faults · · Score: 2, Informative

    You hear me? A planet.

  3. Not everyone is suited for all jobs— Film at on Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code · · Score: 2

    How is this shocking? People have different temperaments, skills and interests.

  4. Re:OpenData on UN Report Reveals Odds of Being Murdered Country By Country · · Score: 1

    Come on, you're on Slashdot and complaining that you find using Excel a hardship?

  5. Easy on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    1) Be working for any non-US company where IP or security is an issue.
    2) Install Linux.

    Next?

  6. Darmock was idiotic on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 1

    These people would never have invented mathematics never mind space travel saddled with a language based entirely upon metaphor. Can you imagine what their logic classes in philosophy would be like? Or their legal system?

  7. Re:Skynet? on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 4, Informative

    Toe the line. TOE THE LINE. Not tow. Toe the line as 'line up over there'.

  8. Sowhere will the electricity come from? on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess we'll be building a lot more nuclear power plants, then?

  9. I post everything to Usenet on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    I figure that's good enough.

  10. Knowing Harper on Canada & Korea Show Trade Treaties Can Skip Copyright Rule Changes · · Score: 0, Troll

    The deal is with North Korea.

  11. It's because women's clothes lack pockets on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 4, Funny

    If their clothes had pockets, they could carry money on their persons and get more counting practice in.

    Pockets. Think about it.

  12. Umm.. you mean they haven't done this? on US Intelligence Officials To Monitor Federal Employees With Security Clearances · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine if I were an employee with security access I'd get at least a random audit once one a while. I mean, it stands to reason, no? Otherwise what is the point?

  13. You guys will end up on Jezebel on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're gonna be in trouble. I'm telling.

  14. Re:Egon's sexuality on Harold Ramis Dies At 69 · · Score: 1

    The thing is, the film needed a character like Winston to be a straight man. He's the stand in for the audience to whom things are explained since he doesn't have the knowledge of the other characters who were the scientists. Watson served that function in Sherlock Holmes.

  15. Here's an interview with Reitman on CBC Radio on Harold Ramis Dies At 69 · · Score: 2
  16. Will the stamp have rounded corners? on Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp · · Score: 1

    Just asking...

  17. Photographers often bring lead foil on TSA: Confiscating Aluminum Foil and Watching Out For Solar Powered Bombs · · Score: 1

    To ever-so-slightly reduce exposure of their camera sensors to Fantastic Four-creating cosmic rays.

  18. Didn't Azimov call this Psychohistory? on The Science of Social Participation · · Score: 3, Informative
  19. Can she fight crime? on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again With 3D-Printed Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 4, Funny

    'Cause that would be perfect!

  20. They must be new here on Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It will be used to make porn. It will be used to game casinos. It will be used to record cops. Someone will use it to case a place for a robbery. It will be used in divorces. It will be used to document various offences as decreed by Jezebel. It will be used by police to enable face recognition of people like they do licence plates.

    What the fuck do they think will happen?

  21. Re:Confiscate cameras on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    Anyone can push a button to cycle a camera, not everyone has a few years to assemble and learn how to use flashes, lights, umbrellas, beauty dishes, reflectors, soft boxes, strip lights, grids and snoots.

    Yes, learning lighting takes years. If you disagree, please show everyone how much you know.

  22. Re:Flash Detector on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    Camera flashes pulse at about 900 ms for a few instants before the main flash. The pre flashes serve two functions: to determine the exposure and so that flashes being controlled by the camera talk to each other to, again, determine the exposure. Once this is done, the exposure cycle starts and the main pulse begins. Camera and flash manufactures use different pulses. To defeat this, you'd have to have disco strobes pulsing at different frequencies all of the time.

    So, the pro photographers would be forced to rely on radio triggers. You could then set up a broad spectrum radio jammer assuming the FCC gives the bus operator a licence.

  23. This won't happen on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    Firstly, good cameras use two AF systems: phase detection (basically a beam splitter) and contrast detection (it looks for peak contrast, as moving out of focus lowers the image contrast).

    So unless the lights are really dim, and everyone's flashes stop working, and you've filled the room with smoke or soap bubbles, people will be able to take pictures. This man's a dumbass.

  24. My wife is cheating on me on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History · · Score: 1

    Her name happens to be Borderlands 2 --- yeah, her parents are strange -- will Valve help me find out who she's seeing?

  25. Get laid on What Would You Do With the World's Most Powerful Laser? · · Score: 2

    Now this would impress chicks!