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  1. Re:Open to Questions on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    Trump is not the first guy who used the phrase, "make XYZ great again". In fact, I'm pretty sure that thought predates written language, albeit not in English.

  2. Re:BIZX is destroying Slashdot!!! on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Back in my day, people would wait more than a day before pining for the old days. They sure don't make nostalgia like they used to.

  3. Re:What the... on Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah · · Score: 0

    Mod parent up, then down, then up, then down, like some sort of karmic teeter-totter.

  4. Customer vs Product on A Customer-Driven Business Model For Twitter (jeffreifman.com) · · Score: 1

    And what would the advertising agencies (ie, Twitter's customers) get for subscribing to them? Or have they been confusing their customers and their product again?

  5. This is why Bush refused to give whistle blower protection to government employees .. so nothing would change.

    As if Barrak "I'm not Bush" Obama was any better.

  6. Re:Not AI on Computer Beats Go Champion · · Score: 1

    It's not AI like you see threatening the world in movies. No one has ever made a general artificial intelligence, and this particular example does not bring us any closer to it. It is, however, one more thing that computers shall forever be better than humans at.

  7. Re:Side Impact Regulations on DeLoreans To Go Back To Production (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    400 horsepower and they don't need to meet modern safety regulations... What could possibly go wrong?

    Maybe we can nominate the company for a Meta-Darwin Award.

  8. Nope on DeLoreans To Go Back To Production (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not buying one unless it's powered by a Mr Fusion.

  9. Re:Idea for anti-troll group on Newegg Sues Patent Troll After Troll Dropped Its Own Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Not so much, the patent office gets paid to grant capricious patents, which are then used to harm legitimate businesses. So they're abusing bad patents for their own profit and screwing over innovators in the process.

  10. Re:Idea for anti-troll group on Newegg Sues Patent Troll After Troll Dropped Its Own Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Trouble is, the only actual patent troll is the patent office. There wouldn't be any of the people you call "patent trolls" if they didn't have the government on their side to begin with.

  11. 9000 cable... and no labeling

    They have angered the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and will be punished.

  12. The "Trust us" aspect is intentional on The US Government and Open Standards: a Tale of Personal Woe (thevarguy.com) · · Score: 1

    The government (or a corporation's lobbyists) have no problem with a requirement to trust them.

  13. Re:Ob. Dilbert on Pakistan Orders ISPs To Block Over 400k Porn Websites (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Simple, redirect the porn sites to a site containing instructions on how to make a suicide vest, plus the current number of virgins using one will earn you in the afterlife.

  14. Re:I pause before saying causation on Math Says Conspiracies Are Prone To Unravel (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    And yet, the global-scale sock heist conspiracy remains at large.

  15. Glad to hear it on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Surveillance should be aggressively monetized as early and as often and as obtrusively as possible. It's the only way people will understand what it means for people to spy on you.

  16. Re:And stupidly enforced mandatory extension signi on Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Of course, all you have to do to fix that is replace one line of code with
    if (true)

  17. Re:An Oscar in the works? on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    .. with a soundtrack of 4'33'', repeated on a loop 133 times.

  18. Re:One question on Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating 'Mafia' (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Since when is advertising "content"?

    Since the rise of advertising gave birth to for-profit ad-ridden sites. The advertising is the content, the article is the filler. If people would view a blank page with nothing but ads, it would make them even happier, but they are willing to generate cheap trashy eyeball-bait if need be.

  19. Re:It's just resistive heating on Graphene-Based Coating Could Act As a Real-time De-Icer For Aircraft (rice.edu) · · Score: 1

    Bow down to the awesomeness that is graphene. Resistance is futile.

  20. What about the records they're gathering right now on NSA Wants To Dump the Phone Records It Gathered Over 14 Years (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care nearly as much about the records they already gathered (and I'm not so foolish to think they don't have a backup copy). Aren't they still collecting new records?

  21. Pie instead of cake on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    Instead of cake, you could get him a 1 radian slice of pie.

  22. They allege violations of the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), claiming that the nature of the employment of the H-1B workers was misrepresented, and that Disney and the contractors knew the ultimate intent was to replace U.S. workers with lower paid H-1B workers."

    In other news, water is allegedly wet.

  23. Everyone knows that the windows of the Stingray lawyers generate visual data. That's why it's OK to put surveillance drones at each of the windows of Stingray lawyers. Also, everyone knows that sound is just vibrations, which is why it is also OK to use a laser's reflection off the windows of the Stingray lawyers to record what they're saying. Everyone knows it's really easy to intercept mail and anyone who really wanted to could do it, which is why it is OK to read the Stingray lawyers mail.

  24. Re:Think? on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Also, if it was only 6 of them then it would be time for rejoicing.

  25. Re:Mdsolar strikes again with unrealistic FUD on US Could Lower Carbon Emissions 78% With New National Transmission Network (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    This almost reads as though it's claiming that we have over 78% energy loss from transmission. But on second glance it seems to be saying that solar and wind power has already been developed and could benefit from an upgraded grid.