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  1. Re:Slippery slope on Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their business is to get people to click some links more often than they click others, there is nothing strange about this. Not to mention you have to be braindead not to notice the big yellow "Ad" button, there is nothing evil about getting free clicks out of people to dumb or lazy to read the entire link before they click it.

  2. Re:"Forgettable sea creature" on Horseshoe Crabs Are Bled Alive To Create an Unparalleled Biomedical Technology · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is nothing forgettable about horseshoe crabs. They are older than dinosaurs, the oldest fossils of horseshoe crabs are 450M years old!

  3. Re:"Must accept harmful interference..." on L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says · · Score: 1

    I would guess that the ballasts have plastic cases instead of metal, same for the fixtures. Normally between the housing and fixture all the RF gets stopped.

  4. Re:Slashdot Beta = Windows Shitsta! on Got Malware? The FBI Wants It · · Score: 1

    Keep spamming the feedback email, every time something pisses you off send another email. It's someone's terrible job to read all those emails, lets piss him off until he pisses his boss off and so on.

  5. Re:no on An Iowa ISP's Metered Pricing: What Will the Market Bear? · · Score: 1

    Bell in canada is the worst for this. Most of their DLS customers in my area are still being served by untwisted pairs of telephone line that has been on the poles since the 1950's. Their network flopped so bad last week that ~10,000 people lost their home phone, internet and cell service for 24hrs. ISPs will always do the bare minimum to keep their service up while charging as much as they can because there is no accountability for crap service.

  6. Re:Lots of smoke, little fire? on Canadian Government Trucking Generations of Scientific Data To the Dump · · Score: 1

    And how much do you trust electronic storage? In my 15 years of computer use I have had a hell of a lot more hard drives fail than books. Put them in shipping crates and leave them some where dry. Even if they sit there for a thousand years they may still be useful to some one else after we are all gone. No one thinks about the REALLY long game.

  7. Re:He who fails to learn from history... on Canadian Government Trucking Generations of Scientific Data To the Dump · · Score: 1

    It's quebec, they have been marching steadily backwards for decades now.

  8. Re:What a complete joke of a quad copter. on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 1

    Peta knows its followers are a (mostly) igorant cult and they cash in on it left and right. If they had the capacity to come up with and compare different options for a problem they probably wouldn't have picked peta.

  9. Re:My Personal Tip on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 1

    Because MS will clearly release Windows 9 as a clone of XP and all the Windows 8 knowledge you have ignored wont matter. No wait, they will continue to update like usual and in a few releases you will be woefully behind the industry standard.

  10. Re:Slashdot on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 1

    Start googling, that's how the "techies" figured it out, if you don't have the motivation to figure it out for yourself then get out your wallet and pay some one who does.

  11. Re:Am I the only one thinking of building this? on What Would French Fries Taste Like If You Made Them On Jupiter? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of spinning a bunt cake pan with a rolled over lip over/with and induction heater to make a micro gravity friendly cook top. With a shallow lip you can do bacon, with a deep lip you could do soup.

  12. Re:Insight? Beyond My Understanding on Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault · · Score: 1

    This leads to not just issues relating to another individual, but also to far greater things when you consider that they people might one day be enacting laws based on their personal experience, or lack there of.

    You's seen how laws are working out now right? It's not like it could get much worse. At least these people will be familiar with the subject matter.

  13. Re:Video editing... on A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest · · Score: 1

    You are confusing tools for professionals with overpriced doo-dads intended to fool other people into believing that you are wealthy.

    Wait, now I'm confused, are you talking about the ferrari or the mac?

  14. Re:Vapid on Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob · · Score: 2

    Why can't we use MOD points on articles yet? Maybe we could collectively bring the quality up a little.

  15. Re:What's the alternative? on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 1

    So maybe its a bad idea to do business with peripheral makers who's long term plan is for you to have to re-buy their devices rather than offer long term support to let you use them with modern systems. The idea that you will never have to upgrade your OS is just plain stupid, since computers started they have never stopped being updated. When you pick a system have FORWARD compatibility in mind.

  16. Re:Bullshit on Microsoft Security Essentials Misses 39% of Malware · · Score: 1

    Norton IS 39% of malware! It eats up processor time, ties up an insane amount of memory and is damn near impossible to remove. In Norton's case the treatment is worse than the disease.

  17. Re:We have all the evidence! on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    It's what?

    It's not a good day to drink before 9am.

  18. We have all the evidence! on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But we cant show it to you, its a privet.

  19. Homeopathic Terrorism! on Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its a trap! They are trying to kill us all!

  20. Re:The really strange thing about this: on Bitcoin Miners Bundled With PUPs In Legitimate Applications Backed By EULA · · Score: 1

    Even in a westernized country 40euros a day will keep you drinking for free. That's more than enough incentive to add a bitcoin bot to your software. The real fun will start when you have more than one of these bitcoin bots fighting for your CPU time. Current malware will pale in comparison to bots who's only goal is to run your computer balls out.

  21. Blame the kids on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 2

    Kopy worries that as teens get their driver's licenses, texting on the road will become more prevalent

     
    Age has nothing to do with it, there aren't many teenagers plowing their SUVs into other cars on the highways during rush hour (more like 4 hour crawl). Its the 9 to 5 cube jockies and wage slaves who are bored to hell with sitting in traffic for cumulative days of their lives. Teenagers are disruptive hellians but you can't blame them for a problem that existed before they were even eligable to contribute.

  22. Re:Could this be streamlined? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Shhh! Keep it down, our healthcare is already in shambles and our education system is laughable, don't take the roads away from me too!

  23. Re:"Misuse of federal credentials?" on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Tricked by raw data? The reader is looking for something very specific, a number linked to an account from which it can deduct a fare. Is it more likely that a string of numbers not in the the expected format satisfies all the conditions that the machine it looking for by accident or is it more likely that this is purpose built in and Mrs Garypie just stumbled onto someone elses scam? It would be trivial to include code that accepts ranges of values that just happen to match the format of federal IDs (wouldn't want to implicate any one by including specific ID numebrs). She was just lucky enough to haver her ID fall between the IDs of people who too much access to federal money and no morals.
     
    It would be very negligent and suspicious if a third party was not brought in to investigate this.

  24. Google + Tesla conspiracy on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tesla is renting the cars out at night using Google's self driving technology and Google maps to run a secret taxi service. That guy reported 10-15 miles of charge missing overnights, that could be a few fairs used to pay for more of Tesla's research.

  25. Re:Vampire? Huh?! on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1, Troll

    I wouldn't go poking around with a cheap meter in an electric car, the potential to have many thousands of amps turn chinese test equipment into several cubic meters of hot gas is too big. With a slightly more expensive meter (200-300$) you can do clamp on current measurement AND keep all of your body hair!
     
    However I think the people who have the cash for a Tesla might not be the same kind who like to service their own cars. You never see anyone change the oil in their Merc on the driveway. They payed big money for their electric car and it had better work the way it was advertized.