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  1. Hm on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1

    Ceviche

  2. Not games on Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? · · Score: 1

    Netflix

  3. It's just absentee voting on New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can't just send an email with your vote in it. They're allowing scanned copies of absentee ballots. It's no less secure than absentee voting in general; they'll check the names against the voter rolls just like they do when you vote in person.

  4. Battery life on Are SSDs Finally Worth the Money? · · Score: 1

    On a laptop, for sure, the SSD is a good buy. HDDs are ridiculously huge these days and very few people actually *need* a terabyte of storage on their portable machine. What they do need is the best possible battery time, and hybrids aren't any better than traditional drives for that.

  5. Windows Phone dev planning on Windows Phone 8 SDK — By Appointment Only · · Score: 1

    "We're way behind in the app game. How do we encourage developers?" "Whatever you do, DON'T LET THEM WRITE ANY APPS!"

  6. How to get Slashdotted on Thoughts On the iPad Mini · · Score: 0

    Write a piece of wild speculation with no actual information about the way the next Apple product will look.

  7. Re:missionary. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Position To Work For Long Hours? · · Score: 1

    That kind of work never takes hours.

    My girlfriend and my pelvic bruise disagree with you.

  8. You can't implement a voluntary privacy feature as on-by-default. Everyone will just ignore it. Microsoft is run by hooting baboons who simply simulate the ability to run a large company through monkey-mimicry.

  9. Re:Pot Calling The Kettle A Racist Word on Acer: Microsoft Surface 'Negative For The Whole PC Industry' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Acer, along with Toshiba, has by far the worst warranty support in the business. But unlike Toshiba, who have been improving their reliability scores over the years, Acer still uses bottom-shelf parts. These are still the only two companies that won't overnight replacement parts to a qualified technician, and instead send them seven-day mail. Acer is only worth buying if you upgrade like a madman or you can stand being without your machine for a couple of weeks. And every time I say this, someone jumps up to say that they had an Acer and they loved it, and that's fine. Your N is one. My N is greater than a thousand, and I can tell you with certainty and actual statistics that Acers break down like crazy. The only worse are Gateway and HP. Et voila: http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/17/reliability.study.has.apple.4th.place/ Also, don't buy Gateway or HP.

  10. Only if you want to do math on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    English lit prof asks "is General Relativity really necessary?"

    Chemistry prof asks "is studying a foreign language really necessary?"

    Math prof asks "are supply/demand curves really necessary?"

  11. Right on Encyclopedia Britannica to Take User Contributions · · Score: 1

    Because the only thing that could be better than pure oligarchy or pure anarchy is a blend of the two.

  12. Re:How about a day of EXPLANATION?!?! on Day of Silence On the Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can do that, but under these rules the internet stations are still required to pay SoundExchange royalties for any os your music that gets streamed to their listeners. Your opinion of the process doesn't have any bearing; it's a matter of SEx getting a share of all of the data movement that internet radio generates.

  13. Re:Serving the summons? on Internet Defamation Suit Tests Online Anonymity · · Score: 1
    Serve the subpoena on the message boards, then get a court order to force the web site to track IP logs accessing that page. Associate the IPs with individuals, and you can prove that they have received the summons.

    It's not foolproof; it won't catch people with dynamic IPs. But it will prove that the document was "served" to them, in both the legal and computing senses of the word.

  14. Re:Won't somebody please... on How Bad Can Wi-fi Be? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Friggin' fake news. I'm going to go strap a thousand wireless routers to their offices so that they all die of fake cancer.

  15. Re:Shill? on Democrats Appoint RIAA Shill For Convention · · Score: 1

    What makes Cheney's job experience relevant is more that he still works for Haliburton.

  16. Re:oh on Open Source Economics and Why IBM Is Winning · · Score: 2, Funny
    theres latin grammar police in slashdot too now eh ?

    No, but there are Latin grammar police.

  17. What did you do, Ray? on Revolution, Flashmobs and Brain Implants in 2035 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, "Flashmobs" Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria!

  18. I can have dead brain cells repaired? on Hardware Implants Mimic Brain Cells · · Score: 3, Funny

    YES! Time to go back off the wagon!

  19. Re:Good ol' analog porn on Censorware Not Good, Just Better Than COPA · · Score: 1

    Dude. You have got to give me that URL.

  20. Good ol' analog porn on Censorware Not Good, Just Better Than COPA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    None of this will even come close to keeping children from looking at porn. How many of us here had never seen pictures of naked people before we got on the web? It's ridiculous farce to act as if blocking pornographic images on computers will have any real effect on the access to porn that children have. It won't even stop them from seeing porn from the internet, as long as they know someone who will download it for them for a dollar.

  21. Re:Who's at fault though? on PowerPoint Bad For Learning · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Another good example is the visual presentation of information in An Inconvenient Truth. Gore uses data and images as a reinforcement of what he's saying, and never as a way to simply repeat what's in the lecture.

  22. Re:Catch 22 on Diebold Sues Massachusetts for "Wrongful Purchase" · · Score: 1

    If they'd been voting on Diebold machines, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts would be using George W. Bush for all of their voting apparati.

  23. The next book on New Tolkien Book Released 'The Children of Hurin' · · Score: 0, Troll

    After this, Chris is forming an all-star team to create the epic The Dragonweyrs of the Dragon Reborn with the One Ring in Shannara, a Blood of the Fold novel.

  24. Re:Al gore still... on Viacom Says "YouTube Depends On Us" · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This joke is not, and has never been funny, and the whole incident was a smear campaign in the first place.

  25. Re:Flawed model on College Demands RIAA Pay Up For Wasting Its Time · · Score: 1

    Bill Clinton was once asked, "Do you know of a single nation that has ever taxed and spent itself into prosperity?" No, he wasn't. Try Googling that phrase. Then, try Googling the end, beginning with "taxed". You're quoting Ken Blackwell, not some mythical question that flummoxed the Big Dog. You know you're blowing smoke when you say "Clinton didn't have an answer" for anything. There has never been a time that the man didn't have a slick response ready for anything posed to him. He questioned the definition of "is" without missing a beat; he's not stymied by random rhetorical queries.