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  1. I'm sure they'll manage. A cushy retirement/sinecure is too much to pass up.

  2. Re:Who names those ships? on Northwest Passage Exploration Ship Found · · Score: 2

    Not compared with the Daring, the Audacity and the Suicidal Insanity.

    / please correct these?

  3. Re:iPod Classic on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 2

    A 120+GB solid state iPod is way past due. No, I don't want an iPhone. No, I don't want to stream (and pay for that bandwidth).

  4. The human enterovirus 68 is a close cousin of the polio virus.

    Citation requested - close enough that polio vax should have caught this?
    Are we seeing the outcome of the antivaxxers' stupidity come to fruition with something closer to benign?
    Can we spin it that way anyway?

  5. Re:Can we have that in LoC units? on How Astrophysicists Hope To Turn the Entire Moon Into a Cosmic Ray Detector · · Score: 2

    While what you say is true, you fail to consider the number of protons in a baseball.

  6. Re:its the cops, not the cameras. on NYPD Starts Body Camera Pilot Program · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those cameraphones capture late-stage action and aftermath. The bodycams should capture the leadup and escalation that are really needed for an impartial/fair evaluation of the event. The events you cite do sound damning, but more footage would be helpful in evaluating the encounter. Knowing that footage exists helps, too - if only to slow the officer's reach for applied violence.

    Y'know, if I've got that cellphone app that streams direct to the cloud for protection from abuse of power, can't the bodycams do the same thing? Local-only data is too vulnerable to loss or abuse.

  7. Re:In other news.... on First US Appeals Court Hears Arguments To Shut Down NSA Database · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was a gigantic pile of legislation - so big it looked like it had to have been ready to go on 9/10 - and was passed and signed in alarmingly little time, almost without debate or dissent. At least that's the way it seemed at the time.

  8. Re:Sue the bastards on In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist · · Score: 1

    Stepson had to read F451 sophomore year of HS *he's a senior now*

  9. Quirkle is cool on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Games To Have In Your Collection? · · Score: 1

    A Tabletop game that challenges anybody over about 5 (assuming normal vision)

  10. Re:Honest question from a non-USian on FBI Investigates 'Sophisticated' Cyber Attack On JP Morgan, 4 More US Banks · · Score: 1

    Then why aren't the Secret Service all up in this?
    Slackers.

  11. Re:Honest question from a non-USian on FBI Investigates 'Sophisticated' Cyber Attack On JP Morgan, 4 More US Banks · · Score: 0

    The FBI is an agency of the Department of Treasury. This sort of thing is (supposed to be) their main job.

  12. Re:Statistics as standalone field on Statistics Losing Ground To CS, Losing Image Among Students · · Score: 1

    But I thought Econ was the Dismal Science.

  13. Re:Can't wait to hear what happened on Time Warner Cable Experiences Nationwide Internet Outage · · Score: 1

    The Hulu co-los are.
    The ones hosted at Comcast are hosted at Comcast and so forth and such as.

  14. Re: Not the PSUs? The actual cables? on HP Recalls 6 Million Power Cables Over Fire Hazard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pakistan, in at least one of the local languages, translates as Land of the (people called) Paks.
    Afghanistan -> Afghans
    Turkmenistan -> Turkmen
    and so forth.

    Paki is a derogation (and a diminutive, besides). Pak would be the proper term, but because of our Latinate collective-nouning habits, it sounds wrong.

  15. Re:Not surprising on California DMV Told Google Cars Still Need Steering Wheels · · Score: 1

    Like I'm going to even be looking out the windshield. If I and my partner are in an autonomous vehicle, odds are pretty good neither one of us will be paying attention to anything but each other, if you catch my drift.

  16. Re:Not exactly endearing you to the public on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly - truly great for this quarter's share price. Maybe the next couple of quarters. Beyond that I don't care as I'll be vested and can cash out.

  17. Re:Yes. on Ask Slashdot: Should You Invest In Documentation, Or UX? · · Score: 2

    Hos this a Troll and the False dichotomy, which says the same thing, Insightful?
    / I know, don't complain about moderations, but some times ...

  18. Re:Ender's Game on DARPA Uses Preteen Gamers To Beta Test Tomorrow's Military Software · · Score: 1

    Oddly, I was thinking of the Robin Williams opus _Toys_.

  19. Moderation? on Writer: Internet Comments Belong On Personal Blogs, Not News Sites · · Score: 2

    A lot of noise here gets buried by the moderation/karma system.
    Does Dice offer the Slashcode for sale?

  20. Re:Ultimately... on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    But easy to lose as you become jaded.

  21. Easier to parallel park a train on Hackers Demand Automakers Get Serious About Security · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Getting the automakers to make any kind of substantive change requires either legislation or expensive PR disasters like a Pinto or Firestone/Explorer event.

  22. Re:Lack of basic research on New NSA-Funded Code Rolls All Programming Languages Into One · · Score: 1

    Since then, federal R&D spending has been declining strongly, thanks to the policies of our oh-so-science-friendly *administration*.

    I think you misspelled *legislature*.

  23. Re:Bah ... on Network Hijacker Steals $83,000 In Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    Tomayto, tomahto.

    The Capitalist applies capital to the highly profitable enterprise of getting legislation bent to his favor and prosecution bent to disfavor his competitors. How SCOTUS doesn't think that's corruption boggles what's left of my mind.

  24. Re:Ahhh ... large corporations ... on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1

    Something about "One Rich Asshole".

    One Rich Asshole Can Louse-up Everything?

  25. Re:"Anything more than a runtime and a language" on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 2

    Malkovich all the way down.