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  1. Re:Exodus on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nope. Rich people will find a decent sized island or islands, boot everyone off them, and live in relative comfort and let the ROW go to hell in a handbasket. They will have paid security [or rather, get some gov't to defend them from any attempts by the riff-raff to come ashore].

  2. Re:Now he tells me on Gene Testing Often Gets It Wrong · · Score: 2

    no big. you weren't using it anyway.

  3. Re:It only increases accountability on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 1

    More likely to be a source of extended sleeping videos.

  4. Re:All kudos to Uwe Koch-Gromus on A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years · · Score: 1

    There's not enough praise to go around to everyone. Either he gets it or she does.

  5. Re:It only increases accountability on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 1

    Nope. The pilots are adamantly against it. They REALLY don't want people to see what happens in the cockpit.

  6. Re:I have a solution - H1B on Global Business Leaders Say They Don't Know Enough About Technology To Succeed · · Score: 1

    By "succeed", they mean they are pretty sure they could lay off or switch to cheaper labor a large part of their IT department, but they aren't sure...

  7. Re:It only increases accountability on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 1

    Next up...pilots.

  8. Re:"What happened to the dinosaurs?" on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think they are anti-porn, when asked in public. If you check their internet history, you are likely to get a different version of events...

  9. Re:what boys/girls want on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 1

    and the parenting problem with boys....they were trained to expect too much money. Hence, the desperate need for H1B's.

  10. Re:BULL FUCKING SHIT on Al-Qaeda's Job Application Form Revealed · · Score: 2

    Clearly, most/all 'applicants' have similar qualifications as Jihadi John.

  11. Re:Do people really take this risk seriously? on Asteroid Risk Greatly Overestimated By Almost Everyone · · Score: 1

    You never know when Asterisk (sic) will succumb to roid rage...

  12. Re:There can be only one. on Choosing the Right IDE · · Score: 1

    doesn't everybody just login and do all their work as root? I never get any problems with permissions.

  13. Re:CCC4C on Google Offers Cheap Cloud Computing For Low-Priority Tasks · · Score: 1

    the final 'c' is for cheapskate.

  14. Re:Drones!11!one!1!oneone!1!uno!1!!! on Hydrogen-Powered Drone Can Fly For 4 Hours at a Time · · Score: 1

    No, because it actually consumes the frame of drone as it flies, as part of extracting the hydrogen from it. So it's a fly-once deal.

  15. Re:why is that the question? on What Was the Effect of Rand Paul's 10-Hour "Filibuster"? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. Obama could have had the NSA to do a right turn and stop their mass data collection 6 years ago. They DIRECTLY report to him. He tells them what to do.

    Congress and the Senate can just question them, and limit the things they can do.

    Given that he has actively expanded what the NSA are doing, and made a point of going after whistleblowers, he appears to be happy with the current setup.

  16. Re:Just some research on Security Researchers Wary of Wassenaar Rules · · Score: 1

    Surrender them? Why bother. The FBI prefers to just erase them. Take your clubbing and hope you still remember your name. Maybe plan ahead and write down your name and where you are going on a sheet of paper before they helpfully wipe your memories.

  17. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Do you really want that? To have every car have a GPS device that reports to the gov't everywhere you've driven? I'd very much prefer a straight-up odometer reading when re-registering the car.

    And having it scaled so more efficient cars pay less makes it even more regressive for the poor, because they can't afford to buy new, more efficient cars. They might be able to afford the car payments, but the cost of insurance on top of that [as you need collision as well as basic car insurance] puts it out of reach financially. And even if the overall costs of the new vehicle over it's life [car, insurance, gas/whatever, repairs] is cheaper than going through several used cars over the same time frame, they can't afford the front-loaded costs.

  18. Re:It's an accidentally-on-purpose. on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 1

    Avoiding taxes will never be illegal, because corporations and the wealthy use it a lot.

  19. Re:It's an accidentally-on-purpose. on Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you can negotiate any transaction anywhere on Earth in USD. You don't HAVE to have a branch in the US to get permission to do so.

    It may be necessary/advantageous to have one when dealing with US customers [on either side of the transaction].

  20. Re:Cursive on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    Doctor.

  21. Re:Salespeople making salespitch on Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students · · Score: 1

    They also generally aren't the dumbest.

    But they are the best liars.

    So you probably want to take whatever they say and...ignore it.

  22. Re:Why not just intern at Comcast for a while? on World's Rudest Robot Set To Simulate the Fury of Call Center Customers · · Score: 1

    Evidently, Comcast is unable to determine why people are angry when they call in. It's as if their call centers don't actually log anything when you call in. Or do much in response to your call.

  23. Re: Whatever... on House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data · · Score: 1

    yes, they believed they were doing the Lord's work, therefore, by definition, it could not be illegal.

  24. Re: It's not limited to the US on More Than 40% of US Honeybee Colonies Died In a 12-Month Period Ending In April · · Score: 1

    The parent's took too much honey, so they effectively murdered their bee's!

  25. Re:I like the that we have tech stories... on Turning an Arduino Project Into a Prototype · · Score: 1

    or, say, go through an RSS feed of all stories, so you only have to hit the page-down key to see more stories. none of that "position the mouse over the next page button" crap for me!