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  1. Bonobos have way more sex than you do.

  2. It is clearly a loose wing nut.

  3. Re:Why? on AMC Drops 'Texting Friendly' Theaters Idea (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    >If you just want to hang out and text stay in the lobby its cheaper.

    For a certain tweenie bopper demographic, it's all about being downtown and hanging out. Actually going to the movie is hugely secondary. Seeing and being seen is what it's all about. Kind of like clubbing but for those too young to get into clubs.

  4. Re: Why not? on AMC Drops 'Texting Friendly' Theaters Idea (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Smoking is just one more thing that's wrong with the south.

  5. Read the Financials on The World's Largest Renewable Energy Developer Could Go Broke (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're going to buy into the equity of a publicly traded company (buy shares), read the quarterly financial statements. Things like amount of debt, debt service, actual income v. accounts receivables, etc. should let you know that something like this was on the way. If they don't, people should go to jail. In reality, the books are cooked, and no one goes to jail. Proposed solutions vary widely, but none have worked out so far. I'd offer some advice, but you'll be crazy to listen to investment advice from an anonymous geek on a site like this.

  6. DASH? on Sony Fixes Flubbed Dash Download (sony.com) · · Score: 1

    Somehow, knowledge of what the Dash actually is escaped me. From reading the various posts I have learned that it is "much maligned," has suffered from serious recent problems, and that the fixed for such is also fucked up. I was certainly not surprised to learn it is a Sony product (may their entrails be eaten by scorpions.) With luck, I will forget all about it by dinner time.

  7. Re:Emergency Brake? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The best anti-theft device you can have in your car is a manual transmission.

  8. Re:So what should we do? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 2

    The old MOPAR push button tranny actuator is prior art.

  9. Re:What the...? on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    God told him it was the right thing to do after his father got into the country. Besides, his father was Cuban which means he was feeing from bad guys (Castro) unlike Mexicans, who are fleeing from bad guys who are not Castro, and Syrians, who are fleeing from Satan and must be kept out. Also, Cruz was born in Canada, which is not Mexico or Syria. He only recently gave up his Canadian citizenship.

  10. Executive Summary on Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    People who believe stupid shit are stupid people.

  11. Re:Tin hat on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That one causes skin cancer.

    Also radiation burns if you lay out in its rays long enough.

  12. Treatment on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    >Nevertheless effective treatments need to be found for these symptoms.

    Zoloft.

  13. Re: How to tell if you may have MDM on Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's only visible if a profile has been installed.

  14. Re:replaced by digital on Huge Mechanical Computers Used To Calculate Horse Racing Odds (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The official Red Cunt Hair (RCH) is widely believed to have belonged originally to Elizabeth I. Both Robert Dudley and Francis Drake are reported to have provided it to the officials Elizabeth put in charge of regularizing the system of weights and measures. However, all involved were motivated by the dictum, "Loose lips lose heads", and so the provenance is uncertain.

  15. Re:Computers have some solution right? on Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    It's still linear. Relativity effects from your frame of reference don't change that.

  16. Re:If you can't deal, don't use UTC on Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Around here there is "River Time." It has considerable flexibility built in. For example, 1:00 p.m. can be read as, "sometime after lunch today, or maybe tomorrow morning." It works for most things, but probably not for launching that next probe to Europa.

  17. Re:Computers have some solution right? on Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    >We need to change how we keep track of time, in a way that isn't linear.

    The problem with this is that time is linear. That's why time machines don't work. Yes, there are spooky quantum effects, and maybe when the servers and desktops are all quantum computers new solutions will present themselves.

  18. Natural Explanations on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    FTFA, "we conclude that the scenario most consistent with the data in hand is the passage of a family of exocomet fragments, all of which are associated with a single previous breakup event." So yes, there are natural explanations.

  19. Re: suspicious behavior SHOULD be reported on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you mean McCarthy, as in Senator Joe, not MacArthur, as in General Douglas. MacArthur was notably in favor of bombs. Also, the school administrator is the principal, not principle. Perhaps your school should be reported for something.

  20. Is It Just Me? on Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Others Form 'Alliance For Open Media' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Somehow I expect something named "Alliance For Open Media" to turn into some hideous new DRM scheme that clutch your gonads in fists of iron. With age comes incredible cynicism.

  21. Re:Should get a "Burner" phone on FBI: Burning Man Testing Ground For Free Speech, Drugs ... and New Spy Gear · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >Or better yet, just don't turn your phone on and avoid the whole mess.

    If you're at Burning Man, but need your phone to stay in touch with the office or whatever, you've already missed the point of Burning Man.

  22. Since the Late Sixties... on FBI: Burning Man Testing Ground For Free Speech, Drugs ... and New Spy Gear · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Any counterculture gathering that doesn't attract FBI watchers just isn't trying hard enough. I used to think it was insidious. Now, I think the feds just want a cushy week or two watching the scantily clad.

  23. Re:Glad they didn't read the books on "Sensationalized Cruelty": FCC Complaints Regarding Game of Thrones · · Score: 1

    It's correctly spelled either way, although da is more common than de. You could look it up on the interwebs.

  24. Re:Glad they didn't read the books on "Sensationalized Cruelty": FCC Complaints Regarding Game of Thrones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pedophilia, incest, multiple non-abrahamic religions, polytheism, zombies, ghouls, various fantasy figures, idol worship, paganism...

    All of those things are found throughout the Old Testament. While Jahweh seems to get his knickers in a twist over idol worship, paganism and the like, He seems to be down with pedophilia, incest, rape, pillage, slavery, torture, genocide, etc. In addition there are many spectral figures, angels, demons and the like. Other than the religion, there's nothing in GOT that the average Solomonic Era soldier wouldn't recognize. It looks even more like the Middle Ages of the Crusaders and the Teutonic Knights. I don't see a lot of difference between the Red God and the Auto da Fe of the Inquisition.

    If we're going to start banning things for bad taste and hate speech, can we start with CBN and the 700 Club?

  25. Re:crap on Ask Slashdot: Tips For Getting Into Model Railroading? · · Score: 1

    Hard to get nerdier than model railroading, especially when the OP is inquiring about OSS computer control systems.