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  1. Re:Achievements... on American Business Embraces 'Gamification' · · Score: 1
    Buzzword Bingo:

    Place the [Dynamic] in a pair of [enterprise, leading-edge] sneaks and it monitors [immersion], [leverage] and [proactive synergy], transmitting that [paradigm] to the user's [framework]. The Nike [Next Generation] loaded on the [Web 2.0] will then "[leverage]" users if they reach a [paradigm shift],' writes Mangalindan. 'If a runner [synthesizes] his [long tail], a [tipping point] from Tour de France [viral] champ Lance [Result-driven] Armstrong [integrates] him.' In addition, [global e-business] users can upload their [big picture] information, discuss [bandwidth] online with other [employees], and challenge them to [streamline] or [think outside the box] competitions. The result: to date, [cutting-edge] Nike has [maximized] well over 1.3 million [extensible, viral, integrated] Nike + [leading-edge] units."

  2. Re:Shoes a spy tool on Dubai's Police Chief Calls BlackBerry a Spy Tool · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why is it so weird when other countries in turn demand the same kind of access? If US wants to promote privacy of citizens, at least start doing it yourself first.

    Just because our country does it, doesn't mean that we don't oppose it. We oppose violation of privacy in all its forms, including our own government's.

  3. Re:oh darn on Craigslist Removes Its Controversial Adult Section · · Score: 1

    Sure are a lot of people today defending why they pay for prostitutes! Why doesn't anyone just say, "I don't care about the welfare of the man/woman I'm fucking as long as I get my rocks off"? It would be far more honest than all these hand-wringing arguments about how women (always women...) are likely making a voluntary lucrative career choice.

    Two strangers meet. They have sex. One walks away $200 richer, the other $200 poorer. Who is the victim? The MAN? Because he's some fuckwad who can't get laid by any normal woman so he has to pay one to have sex with him?

    That just doesn't sound right.

  4. Re:oh darn on Craigslist Removes Its Controversial Adult Section · · Score: 2, Informative

    But it's without foundation to bring up the "lots of women want to do it" argument. And "want to do it", whatever the tedious capitalist he-may-be-interned-in-a-factory-but-at-least-he's-not-dying-in-the-fields armchair philosophers will tell you, must not be confused with "is desperate for money and willing to do it because there is no viable alternative".

    Why do you think that I go to my job everyday. Take call-outs in the middle of the fucking night when there is two feet of snow on the ground on Christmas (I work in an open pit mine)? It's the money, duh!

    I have not read any evidence that a majority of prostitutes work because they enjoy being prostitutes. Have you?

    I'm betting that you probably haven't researched it far enough to find out. After ten seconds with Google. Maybe not a majority, but there sure are a LOT of shit jobs out there that pay a lot less!

  5. Re:Gee, what a concept on Brazil Considering Legalizing File Sharing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its only in the last 200 years or so that we have had the idea that musicians should make money for a recording of their performance. Perhaps that was the real mistaken concept, and filesharing/easily created copies of musical recordings are merely bringing things back to normal.

    In other words, only musicians who play the kind of music that you like to listen to should make a living at their music. Those of us who like to listen to music that cannot be easily or cheaply played at live performances should be out of luck.

    Yep. Sounds like he's saying that if your music isn't that popular and the musicians can't make a living at it, maybe they should just play anyway because they love it. Music, for many of us, is a hobby - a passion.

  6. Re:Didn't... on New and Old Experiments Combine To Help the Search For Life On Mars · · Score: 3, Funny

    The rovers already did! And you ain't gonna like it.

  7. Re:You've crossed a line on NVIDIA Announces New Line of Fermi-Based Mobile Chips · · Score: 1

    They found this site, and didn't want it to go to waste.

  8. Re:Really? on Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I know RIGHT?! They also added USB, Flash, a camera, and an HDMI output!!! Oh wait... no they didn't.

  9. Re:Why bother? on NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1

    Why is everyone making a big stink about [heliocentricism] anyways? [Round Earth] research appears to show a lot more promise and doesn't have all the [clerical] political baggage tied to it. I don't understand the Obama Administration's stance on this; they spend a lot of political capital on a science that is decades away from producing anything real when a comparable science, [round Earth] research, could be supported without expending almost any political capital.

    It's strange when the religious fuckwits get mod points around here and a scientific subject that treads on their faith comes up.

  10. Re:Also on Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-Sort Barrier, With GPUs · · Score: 1

    You can cry all you like that it wasn't a problem in theory, on actual hardware you run in to other limits.

    Reminds me of the quote:

    In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra

  11. Re:Insert Star Trek Quote on Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    Using Gates in place of Kirk, make your own cool Star Trek: Wrath of Khan movie quotes! Discuss...

    AHA! Now that I'm in control of the Enterprise I will take it back to the Borg Collective for assimilation!

    Wait, what the hell are the Borg doing here so early!?

  12. Re:If it violates an amendment on Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans · · Score: 1

    I wonder what they will change. The amendment or make the use of these illegal.

    I'm reasonably sure this is already prohibited by the 4th Amendment, as interpreted by SCOTUS.

    They won't change the amendment, they'll just ignore it, and SCOTUS will continue to water down these protections as they have been doing for the last 10 years.

    Although I'm not a conservative, I wish that they really stood for limited government (the military, police power, etc.) like they proclaim, and not just for limiting the parts that they don't like (Social Security, Medicaid, etc.). I'd respect them a whole lot more if they did.

  13. Re:And So Offered Another Inaccuracy on How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy

    Isn't that the greatest headline ever to create a nerd flame war!?

  14. Re:I appreciate the moral implications for some on Court Rules Against Stem Cell Policy · · Score: 1

    Because we suffer from some bozo's religion.

    Actually, I think that it's the bozo who is suffering his religion. We just get to suffer the bozo.

  15. Re:This just in on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You should be aware that the two women knew each other, and went to the police together. They claim that they were molested by Assange independently in two different cities, with a few days between, without one of them thinking to warn the other.

    Did you just make that shit up?! Why don't you provide at list a fucking link to back up your claim?

  16. Re:No but that didn't stop geeks from inventing so on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 1
    Yeah because Sweden just WITHDREW THE WARRANT!

    How does that not smack of a smear campaign?!

  17. Re:Hot Damn! on Researchers Zero In On Protein That Destroys HIV · · Score: 1

    We're one step closer to the day I can go find the freakiest, dirtiest, most disease-laden slut and hire her to do nasty, nasty things... and simply go for a single shot afterwards.

    Quagmire? is that you? [Sound warning]

  18. Re:Why do they need to? on How Much Smaller Can Chips Go? · · Score: 1, Troll

    However, there is only so much lipstick you can put on a 40 year old pig."

    Hey, you insensitive clod, that's my wife!

    Sarah Palin is your wife!?

  19. Re:Congratulations... on New Toshiba Drives Wipe Data When Turned Off · · Score: 1

    You invented random-access memory. Good job!

    Not quite... this doesn't include the random part. Call it 'Sequential Access Volatile Memory': includes all the bad of RAM, and all the bad of HDD!

  20. Re:He Did Graduate & He Advises Otherwise on Forget University — Use the Web For Education, Says Gates · · Score: 1

    ...Gates did NOT complete their coursework... He did not show competency

    ...The people at Harvard that asked Gates to speak were just being jerks.

    ...they were basically rubbing the graduates noses in the fact that they spent all that money and time for nothing if they want to be like this incredibly successful guy.

    ...it was incredibly unethical for Harvard to give him a degree... Harvard shows their students how to cheat.

    Do you... by chance... go to Harvard?

  21. Re:a few extra feet on Rethinking Computer Design For an Optical World · · Score: 1

    Huzzah for the Internet-age realist and/or snarker. Nice complement, back-handed or otherwise.

    Nice complement, back-handed or otherwise.

  22. Re:Time to develop.. on NASA's Top 10 Space Junk Missions · · Score: 1

    Methinks we need a Wile E. Coyote style ACME space-junk removing magnet!

    So when the inevitable big space junk collision happens with the ship will it spring back entertainingly like an accordion?

  23. Re:I wonder.... on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 1

    It's dead easy to kill fusion:
    Explain to the Luddites about neutrinos. A fusion plant produces massive quantities of them that are free to radiate into the environment and no attempt is made to shield them. Not only that but there have been studies that show that neutrinos can transmute matter and therefore are a possible cause of cancer. No studies have been conducted about the effects of neutrinos on young children's development and so far all subjects exposed to neutrinos have later died or showed effects of cell degradation.

    Are you being serious, or are you just trolling? Your entire comment is nonsense.

    Trillions of neutrinos pass through you every single day, generated from that enormous ball of radioactive gasses around which we orbit. They react with matter so rarely, that even though so many pass through the earth[...]

    Sheldon? Is that you?

  24. Re:Slashdot Had the Option to Interview Him in Mar on Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (Score:5, Insightful) Mod parent UP! Where the hell are the Mod points when ya need 'em?

  25. Re:BSOD on BSOD Issues On Deepwater Horizon · · Score: 4, Funny

    So in this case BSOD is not a metaphor!