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  1. Re:Did Zuckerberg ever have to get past HR? on Just Say No To College · · Score: 1

    The so few psychologists may have something to do with the 4 years of graduate training (almost never funded positions), year of internship, additional year of postdoc training, and formidable geographically-constraining licensing exam. That's a long delay in earning a real income, and hard to get through unless you have money to begin with or have a spouse and no kids.

  2. Re:Why would that be the first step? on Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon · · Score: 1

    Russia did too, and it went pretty well, at least early on. That handful of nukes in Cuba that sparked the missile crisis? 100% of the Soviet arsenal.

    Not to mention the CIA being caught with its pants down about the whole collapse of the Soviet Bloc thing. We could have won the cold war in 1980 with a huge airdrop of Sears catalogs.

  3. Re:I've given up on Seas Rising Faster Than Projected · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Really? Did you see what happened when PARTS of New York City's gasoline and electric distribution were interrupted for 10 days or so at the start of the month? With well-fed volunteers and plenty of electricity and gasoline right nearby?

  4. Re:I've given up on Seas Rising Faster Than Projected · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's a finding based on the genetic diversity of mitochondrial DNA, which is not a methodology you'd use to determine the present population of the planet.

    More here. Scroll to "An Evolutionary Scenario for Ancient Expansion of Modern Humans" for the nontechnical gloss.

  5. Re:Countermeasures Deployed on AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware · · Score: 2

    Target in particular decrements the $0.01 digit each time an item is marked down.

  6. Re:SSN/address for the cops on Crooks Steal $1.5M In iPads From JFK · · Score: 3, Funny

    not YOUR valid SSN/address pair.

  7. Re:D-U-N-S number too on Crooks Steal $1.5M In iPads From JFK · · Score: 1

    It's stupidly easy (and free) to get a DUNS number. All you need is a valid SSN/address pair.

  8. Re:I've got a question on House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle" · · Score: 1

    Or the viewing terminals run Windows and the PrintScreen key hasn't been snapped off.

  9. Re:Papa John on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    Except in the most general way, your rant has absolutely nothing to do with the GP.

  10. Re:Papa John on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Iraq. It's in the brand-new US-installed Neocon-approved Iraqi constitution!

  11. Re:Papa John on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    So what was that year of revisions, compromises, and goalpost-moving?

  12. Re:Why? Becasue people know it sucks. on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 1

    Well, what SHOULD they use? I'm actually asking; I don't know.

  13. Re:Papa John on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the clusterfuck that ended up being the ACA was an attempt to get republicans on board. The actual sickly-sweet loving liberal version is single payer, like, you know, the rest of the developed world. And small business owners should be first in line to ask for it (perhaps only after large corporations with large retiree healthcare expenses), but somehow they've all been convinced it's anathema.

  14. Re:Why? Becasue people know it sucks. on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While I hear what you're saying, government entities, and especially the military, are also subject to legal requirements that they not do things in certain ways, or have unique requirements not accounted for in a 'best practices' system.

  15. Re:Suing for an expired patent? on Meet the Lawyer Suing Anyone Who Uses SSL · · Score: 1

    They're suing within the statute of limitations for infringement that happened before the patent expired.

  16. Re:UNLEASH CAPITALISM on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    Utility providers? Has your state not deregulated electric/gas service? Or do you really want 9 different sets of 3-phase wires on every pole?

  17. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    I think it had to do with Standard Oil's hegemony and breakup being in the recent past at the time, and a desire to ensure that local businesses got a slice of what was clearly shaping up to be an immense revenue stream. They didn't want middle America turning into one big company town owned by detroit, and they wanted to ensure competitive pricing on cars rather than 'whatever the manufacturer wants to charge'.

  18. Re:Personally... on Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? · · Score: 1

    30 years ago I spent a LOT of time at the mall. There were very few mom-and-pop stores. In fact, the only one I can remember was the first dollar store anyone in my neck of the woods had ever heard of. For mom-and-pop stores (and the mom-and-pop arcade), you had to leave the mall and go downtown.

  19. Re:I think that's all college students on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 1

    I don't know how a city water system works, but I know how to plunge a toilet, how to shut off a hose bib for cold weather, and how and when to close the master water valve in my house and call a plumber for problems I can't handle.

    Many users are at the level of being unable to pour themselves a glass of water, or tell the plumber their pipes are meesed up when they plugged the kitchen sink and left the water on all day.

  20. Re:If you read the actual Abstract on Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    I'm not aware that anybody is proposing that drivers who converse with passengers in the same car are unsafe, though; so I think that argument needs to be deepened.

  21. Re:Finally explains it on Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    At age 2, my son loved to drive a toy stroller around the house, but if a doll was in the seat he'd throw it out first. My daughter at the same age won't drive the same stroller unless it's occupied by a doll. Other than that detail, the game looks largely the same.

  22. Re:URL shortners should be dismissed as spam on Spammers Using Shortened .gov URLs · · Score: 1

    If you need to email people that can't handle linebreaks that break long links on the receiving end, URL shorteners are a godsend.

  23. Re:Just return to the original system on Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Calls For Governments To End Patent Wars · · Score: 1

    So, who owns the copyright on Office? A Hollywood feature? Even an album produced by a 4-person band in their garage is going to have problems with the whole "copyrights not registered to entities" thing.

  24. Re:Further, I'd suggest... on New Evidence That the Moon Was Created In a Massive Collision · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link to any maps that show what you're describing? All the permian-era pangaea maps I'm finding online don't have nearly enough detail to see any of that. Or is it one of those things where you need a graduate degree or a LOT of free time to grok?

    Also, I find myself wishing for the first time that Google Earth had a geologic time slider.

  25. Re:So what happens... on Huge Geoengineering Project Violates UN Rules · · Score: 1

    The other fun part is that sulfur dioxide emissions have been brought largely under control through... cap and trade!