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  1. Re:Make it illegal on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Prohibition was a nightmare for the country and repealed for a reason. People have pleasure needs. Maybe you like to watch 14 hours straight of Zoey 101. Others like beer. Others like smokes. Others like fatty food. I even once knew a guy who's thing was hanging from the ceiling by rings pierced into his back.

    I think the biggest point to be made here however, is "what is bad for you" is subjective, and once you let someones opinion dictate your life, life may stop being worth living.

  2. Re:So what? on 802.11ad Will Knock Your Socks Off, Says Interop Panel · · Score: 2

    WPA2 PSK is crackable

    Only if you use pre-shared keys. If you don't and your password is not a standard dictionary word AND the wireless access point doesn't allow connections from an unknown mac (sure you could spoof a known one... that is also still communicating with the WAP. Won't end well), there is no practical way for your wireless access point to be hacked. At least not yet.

  3. Re:Flawed assumptions. on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    Like I have stated previously, logic dictates if the law of thermodynamics is defeated, the net amount of energy in the universe would constantly increase.

  4. Re:Flawed assumptions. on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    If something COULD be more than 100% efficient, somewhere in the universe it would be created and the net energy of the universe would increase. Seeing as that isn't observed, at least for now, we can assume with confidence that it just isn't possible.

  5. Re:Probably mistaken, but... on Electric Car Environmental Impact: Power Source Matters · · Score: 1

    This is true. However, we also knew this going in. These are first generation "pieces of crap", which should become more viable as a product as technology and manufacturing costs go down.

  6. Re:Coffee is... on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 2

    The interesting thing is that we worry about these kind of slight threats to our health, but ignore the absolute real killers: sitting on our asses for most fo the day, not getting enough sleep, eating food that is barely food, stress

    Equally interesting may be that the folks who drink the most coffee are the ones that follow your illustration

  7. Re:Science grows more powerful? on The History of 'Correlation Does Not Imply Causation' · · Score: 1

    You mean the more questions we ask, the more questions we find we need to ask? Toke another one buddy. This is what is called progress.

  8. Re:Correlation != causation. on The History of 'Correlation Does Not Imply Causation' · · Score: 1

    This.

    My shrink LOVES to pull the "Correlation is not causation" trite, but when I take a new pill and symptoms pop up, and they cease after I quit taking it, I don't care what your ideologies are. If the effect plays out like this, you need to prove to me that this correlation is not causation, not the other way around.

  9. Re:unemployed veterans on 82-Year-Old Nun Breaks Into Nuclear Facility, Contractors Blamed · · Score: 1

    The only two unemployed veterans that I know have more than one missing limb. Also, the private contractor is easier to sue/go after when something goes wrong than a mass of human beings who duck and cover when they hear a firecracker go off... or a Major Payne type individual who wants to take your mind off that pain! It may be unfair, but life is unfair

  10. Still waiting on BrewPi: Raspberry Pi and Arduino Powered Fermentation Chamber · · Score: 1

    Still waiting for my Gertboard

  11. Re:This is exciting on Simulation Using LRO Data Shows More Locations With Ice on the Moon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why not permanent residence? People would adapt, evolution would take hold. We would end up with little people on the moon. So long as they don't want to come back, I think it is a novel idea. If they do, we should have Mech harnesses for them to use by that time

  12. Re:frost post! on Simulation Using LRO Data Shows More Locations With Ice on the Moon · · Score: 1

    Have you ever had frosty piss? I would imagine it is as unpleasant as a brain freeze, except I care about my junk more.

  13. Re:DEFINITELY No!!! on TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Wait... you aren't still using Visual Studio 6?!

  14. Re:hipster naming on RightScale, Scalr, EnStratus: Comparing the APIs · · Score: 1

    It tends to create a "uniquely googlable" name, as well as a much easier time getting the domain name.

  15. I know you like jokes on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is your favorite joke?

  16. Re:The cost is too high on Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties · · Score: 1

    It may if it is the son/daughter of an RI*A executive.

  17. Re:What's the exchange rate to dead squirrels? on BitCoin Gets a Futures Market · · Score: 3, Interesting

    WoW gold. Linden Dollars. Diablo 3 gold. Whatever. This is the same, minus the game. The American dollar and the Euro are built on the same voodoo magic in terms of value. BitCoin, if it has anything going for it over these other examples is sound principal for the system going forward as a currency in the real world.

  18. Re:Just a little FYI on Slackware 14.0 Arrives · · Score: 2

    Especially with Slackware, I always recompile my kernel. But I need an up and running system first. If I have no disk I can write to from start, it doesn't do me a whole lot of good

  19. Just a little FYI on Slackware 14.0 Arrives · · Score: 1

    Slackware is the only distro that supports my HP NetServer. It may seem trivial, but there is an "old driver" and a "new driver" for the drive controller, and the new one doesn't work. Slackware is the only distro I have found that can boot the "old" (functional) driver. It saves me multitudes of issues

  20. Re:Now that's how to use version numbers on FFmpeg 1.0 MultiMedia Library Released · · Score: 1

    That isn't simple. Grandpa would have a hard time wrapping his head around such an arcane versioning system (why is 2.3 of program x breaking crap all over the place?! Isn't it better than my current working version of 2.2?!).

    Alpha and Beta don't even need to be part of the stable release version. Like having Build 1, 2, 3... for releases, you can simplify it as Build 2 Alpha 3, or Build 5 Beta 2.

  21. Re:Now that's how to use version numbers on FFmpeg 1.0 MultiMedia Library Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I do not have version numbers for my software. It starts with MySoftwareX Build 1, and goes from there. I like to think "Problem Solved"

  22. Re:Define premature on Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't have to "learn" a good interface.

  23. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: Actual Best-in-Show For Free Anti Virus? · · Score: 1

    I hedging bets that the MSE engine uses windows components (like used in exploring/extracting zip files from the shell), which is atrociously slow.

  24. Re:Medicare fraud is not new on Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic · · Score: 2

    The cost may be, in some part, from welfare fraud, however, I my personal experience is, they contract a service company now to their paperwork needs. They no longer do it in house with low paid employees. Also, now when your records need to be transferred, they CAN charge an "administrative fee" to do so.

  25. Re:Had it coming. on Chemist Jailed In Russia For Giving Expert Opinion In Court · · Score: 1

    You jest, but speculate with me. I thought of the best way to spend a wish, and at first I thought "Everyone would live a long, happy life". But, in terms of progress, this is the worst wish anyone could have. People would die happy starving to death. People would be happy letting pedophiles live out their psychosis. The odds of what makes people happy is so dynamic, that you couldn't have a world of everyone getting along without parish