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  1. This already exists: Antabuse on Alcoholism Vaccine Makes Alcohol Intolerable To Drinkers · · Score: 1

    This is none-news. Antabuse was invented almost 100 years ago and does exactly the same thing as this "vaccine."

  2. Re:Too bad. on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 1

    Contrary to popular belief, businesses only want your money if they make more money than you cost.

    How is this insightful?! This is fucktardish. How was AT&T not making a profit off of him before for Christ's sake? You know they don't have to power up an anti-data shield power generator to turn the data plan off. It doesn't cost them anything to not provide data. And he was still paying them a monthly fee. They WERE making money off of him. AT&T is just greedy and wants to charge for a service the guy doesn't want. And it doesn't cost AT&T anything to just providing plain old telephone service. No... it doesn't. I worked for the company that created their billing system. No, it doesn't cost them anything to not provide data. For fucks sake, he was getting phone only and no data and it wasn't an issue before. So don't use the bullshit line that they weren't making money from him.

    FTFY: welcome to unregulated capitalism. Where how much you pay to congress in bribes (oops I mean lobbying money) is directly proportional to what laws they will pass to allow you to fuck over your customers. Seems you don't understand how that process works, or don't want to. Maybe you should get a job as a phone company shill.

  3. Re:Volunteer, or School. on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Getting Tech Career Back On Track · · Score: 1

    AND take the PhD off the resume.

  4. Re:Nah... on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    Good luck dealing with your Benevolent Masters when you finally run afoul of some set of regs that prevent you from doing something you really want to do to pursue your happiness.

    You mean like collude with other oil companies to form a cartel and charge $10 a gallon because we can if there are no regulations to prevent it?

  5. Re:Unauthorized export resale? on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    FTFY: Selling all your stock to one woman who obviously doesn't need $16,000.00 worth of phones and turning away all other customers who want to buy an iPhone (and will slag your store as useless to their friends because, 'what kind of iPhone store doesn't have iPhones?') and possibly a bunch of accessories AND any return business they might provide IS bad for business.

  6. Re:Withdrawn without explanation on Russia and China Withdraw Bid For Internet Control · · Score: 1

    Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Sit in your safe home and pontificate while others live in societies with secret police and dictators. The sad part of this is that America has slipped so badly they only lack the dictator part. But since government is already bought and paid for, maybe that part is already a forgone conclusion.

  7. Re:Ugh on RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu · · Score: -1, Troll

    Only a retard would draw the conclusion you just made.

  8. Re:Ugh on RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    We're not talking about Windows. Focus.

  9. Re:Ugh on RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    This has almost always been true with almost everything.

  10. Re:Ugh on RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would bet you money that only a fraction of the people who use Linux have the ability to modify the code. So no it isn't a side issue. Just because something can be done doesn't mean everyone has the ability. This is one of the worst aspects of the Linux community, a minority of power users and programmers who like making tools saying completely unreasonable things concerning the majority of users who just want to use the tool. No, it is not easy to remove spyware from Linux even if the code is there in front of you. It is only easy if you know how. And it is only useful if it doesn't take so much time away from what you are doing that it kills any productivity you might require because you are spending all your time rebuilding your tools instead of using them. Many power users are content for Linux to continue to be a hobby system to fiddle with or relegated to power users only, while others just want to use the system.

  11. Why Canada has the Loonie on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    And the reason we have the loonie at all is because the weekend they shipped the stamps for the original mass market $1 coin design to the mint in Winnipeg was the weekend Winnipeg had one of its worst winter storms of the 20th century. Because of the severity of the storm and the disruption to any sort of normal transportation, they lost the stamps for the original coin design. The loonie was the backup dollar coin design. The Canadian dollar coin was originally supposed to be the traditional Voyageur design. Since the stamps went missing it would be too easy for someone to make their own coins if they fell into the wrong hands, so production was delayed and we have the loonie. (Is it counterfeiting if you are using the officials stamps? :)

    When the storm was over there were two story snow banks. During the storm when people needed to go to the hospital emergency room and even when women went into labour, they sent out snowmobiles with trailers instead of ambulances, since everything was pretty much impassible in the city. I was putting myself through school working overnight at a 45 table pool hall (20 snooker tables at the time, and 25 9 ball tables). I got snowed in at the pool hall from Friday night to Sunday afternoon. Right in the downtown. Almost no-one was there except for local neighbourhood people who would drop in. Since we couldn't go home we just kept working between hands in the two day poker sessions.

  12. Re:Just vote them in to office on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    California seems to be better educated and more sensible than most of the rest of the country. So what's the problem? Or do you mean they could end up like Texas, but with Democrats? Oh, I get it, California is not run by the Luddite God Squad.

  13. Re:One idea on Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity? · · Score: 1

    I am white but I have had occasion to be the only white guy around and was definitely discriminated against and felt pretty threatened. I get it. The best of those times was when the other people didn't give a shit if I was white. Just like I don't give a shite what you are. It isn't worth my time. I only care what you do. The closest thing I could say is if you are a white male, treat all strangers like you would treat another white male; which is usually not to give a shit who they are, or even pay attention to them.

    >And if you do something that isn't right, or not good enough at work, then I have no problem with calling you out or firing you whatever. I don't want the baggage of caring so that it clouds my judgement based on the things you actually do. And so it doesn't cloud my judgement when other groups want to trot out the 'race card' etc. Because I really don't give a shit it I can see the reverse racism/discrimination taking place or the attitude behind it. I do give a shit when others of any background expose that kind of thinking.

    The only thing that matters is what you do and your intentions. Except if your intentions are to care too much. People who care are the ones who fuck everything up.

    There is a book by Graham Greene called The Comedians. Read it. You'll see the damage that people who care too much without actually wanting to understand things can do. And just because it might not match your specific situation doesn't mean it doesn't apply.

  14. Re:One idea on Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity? · · Score: 1

    And we'll judge her on the merits of her speech. And how big her tits are. Just like we do all the white women.

  15. Re:Israel has nuclear weapons. on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Do you mean look how much they destroyed. Yeah that was my point.

  16. Re:Israel has nuclear weapons. on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1
  17. Re:One idea on Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you have to try that hard it kind of seems pointless. Yeah I'm not racist I have lots of black friends. Whatever. The best way to show it doesn't matter is to just not give a shit. Once everyone is to the point where we all don't give a shit what the next guy is, then we'll be there. So stop fucking caring so much, it is counter productive.

  18. Re:Israel has nuclear weapons. on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1

    And in fact the Soviets didn't win, the Germans lost. If they didn't trip on their stupid fucking ideology so much we would have all been truly fucked. Instead of enlisting the aid of the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who thought that at last they were free of Stalin and wanted to help, the Germans killed them and razed their fucking land. Not how to win friends and influence enemies. They could have had a huge army of volunteers willing to kick Stalin's ass. But alas, the Ukrainians were just another inferior race needing to be denigrated and destroyed. You'd think Hitler hired retard bozo chicken farmers to run his "elite" army or something. Not that there is anything wrong with farming chickens. Just if they're Nazi chickens.

  19. Those Who Forget History ... on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh fuck right off. The Palestinian leaders were acting like arseholes and trying to kill Jews just for being Jewish before the state of Israel even existed. Haj Amin al-Husseini who was the Grand Mufti (religious leader) of the Palestinians (of Jerusalem to be precise) during the 1940s was buddies with notable people like Hitler, Himmler, and anyone who promised to find a gas chamber for every Jew. He actively encouraged the Germans, and worked to dissuade countries from accepting German Jewish refuges forcing them to return to Germany. ALL BEFORE A JEWISH STATE EXISTED, mother fucker. So don't try to tell me that the Jews started anything.

    The Jews were the ones who promised no change in personal property or land or status would take place when Israel was formed, that the status quo shouldn't change, meanwhile their leader(s) and other Arab countries told the Palestinians to get out of the way and to go to the refugee camps while they "pushed the Jews into the sea" with their anti Semitic Arab brotherhood. Now they're sore losers and even the other Arab countries around there won't let them into their own countries because they have so many trouble makers.

    Don't you know Egypt has a big fucking wall set up between them and Palestine too? And when the Palestinians knocked part of it down, the Egyptian army pushed them back in a repaired it. Notice the Muslim Brotherhood haven't opened up the border with Gaza any more than Israel since they were elected?

    So just shut the fuck up until you learn to think on your own instead of running with the crowd in their nouveau cause du jour which they know nothing about, but will surely fuck some innocent people over to make themselves feel like they have a cause.

    I don't give a rat's ass what anyone is. But dirt bags who hide in civilian neighbourhoods and continually fire rockets into other civilian neighbourhoods while screaming how they are so just and hard done by deserve what they get. And the people who don't turn them in deserve it too. You ever think that if these shit bags had ever once tried to be civil there wouldn't be any war there. You know there are a lot of Arabs who live in Israel, vote and even sit in parliament. Jews in the Arab countries have to keep their heads down and not 'rise above themselves'. Get a real education on the subject.

  20. Re:Sounds like a campus speech code on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 2

    It's your white male burden to be accused of offending everyone.

  21. Re:Click-whoring post. How could this get approved on Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How does this rate "interesting". If it was plagiarism there wouldn't be a link to the actual story. You can't tell someone they are trying pass someone else's work off as their own when they provide the original work. Especially when it is just a couple lines on a news aggregator site to give the readers a clue what the article is about.

  22. Emergency Roaches on Volcano May Have Killed Off New Bioluminescent Cockroach · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was going to say they could have used these cockroaches in NYC when Hurricane Sandy hit, and the lights went out. Of course on the west coast, an emergency roach is something else entirely.

  23. Re:Why mention Schoenberg? on Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' · · Score: 1

    He's full of himself. People will like what people will like. If they are doing something for pleasure and you play them something they don't like, they won't listen to it. It's like telling someone that if they eat shit long enough they'll like it, when there is steak potatoes and peas on the plate beside that. They'll tell you to fuck off and eat the steak potatoes and peas.

    By now a lot of us have heard the Pachabelbel's Canon Rant in one form or another (this last one a complete rip of the first in my opinion). There is a reason those four chords work. They sound good to many people. I won't try to figure out why. There is no point. People just think that this progression works. So songs like this often become hits. Songs full of dissonance don't because people don't like it because they sound dissonant. Yeah the word means 'sounds shit'. Same thing with second intervals versus thirds versus ... If it sounds shit to people they just won't listen to it. Those that do aren't some sort of super cool esoteric music elite. They're not normal (since the majority defines normal). And so if people like what they hear they will listen to it more and repeatedly. And apparently it has worked this way for centuries and probably millennia. So I think if people were going to favour dissonant music they would have already. And by definition is wouldn't be considered dissonant.

  24. Re:Did this cause $200,000 worth of damages? on $200,000 Judgement Against Google In Mokbel Shots Case · · Score: 1

    Google cache?

  25. Re:To bad that non college education does not resp on MOOC Mania · · Score: 1

    I do not believe the commas nor the semicolon were misused. You exhibit symptoms of what I complain about.