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  1. Re:I use Verizon FIOS on Ask Slashdot: Good Satellite Internet For Remote Locations? · · Score: 5, Funny

    That sure will work in the middle of the wilderness. Just cary a giant spool of fiberoptic cable wherever you go, and unwind. It has the benefit on top of satellite internet that you will never get lost. Just retrace the internet back to Verizon's office.

    Come on, did you even pretend to read the title?

  2. Re:I foresee a wave of creative "vandalism" on Tesco To Use Face Detection Technology For In-Store Advertising · · Score: 2

    That's the opinion of a customer, which is a kind of peasant that shows up in your stores from time to time, distinct from the other kind of peasant, the "employee". Neither one has any rights compared to the owner, and you should know better.

  3. Re:Maybe, the "greedy" journals have a point on Hoax-Proofing the Open Access Journals · · Score: 2

    Well, credibility is probably the wrong word. It's Linus' "enough eyeballs" principle in paper form.

  4. This is dumb on Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon · · Score: -1

    Fuel Cells are a method of energy storage not power generation. Someone has to spend the energy to separate hydrogen and oxygen.

    Unless the underlying claim is that the grid is less efficient than that process. In which case, it seems bizarrely specific to only apply it to datacenters alone.

  5. Re:Maybe, the "greedy" journals have a point on Hoax-Proofing the Open Access Journals · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except those paid journals have also had serious hoaxes foisted on them. You have to go to really really really really big journals like science or nature before there's enough credibility to protect against fraud.

  6. Re:What took so long? on 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the armchair analysis. It was so obvious to you, that you just never bothered to speak up for the last several decades, because you figured everyone knew, right?

  7. Re:Or maybe the young folks just hate meetings? on 20-Somethings Think It's OK To Text and Answer Calls In Business Meetings · · Score: 1

    This approach works perfectly in companies where software is a high priority. Not in companies where it's seen as a cost center.

  8. Re:True on Bill Gates: Internet Will Not Save the World · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, it's more complicated than that. But his perspective seems to be one applying a humanistic vision in conjunction with empiricism. The fact that it's an unusual approach to charity is what's really baffling.

  9. Re:Or maybe the young folks just hate meetings? on 20-Somethings Think It's OK To Text and Answer Calls In Business Meetings · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but then you have "stakeholders" complaining to your manger that you're not reporting to their meetings, where they ask you one yes/no question after 30 minutes of talking about things unrelated to your job. If you got a choice between getting things done and not getting fired, you're going to choose the latter.

  10. Re:Ideas vs. Implementation on Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders · · Score: 1

    Since I'm really confused by your statement, I'll address it as literally as I can. With regards to your literal "first statement"
    "Hardware implementation and use" isn't a novel idea, it's just what programming is. I kind didn't even parse that as a meaningful thing to say.

  11. Re:Ideas vs. Implementation on Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders · · Score: 1

    What goalposts? What the hell? I'm not trying to set a threshold of acceptance for something.

    Claiming a fallacious argument for an argument that isn't even happening is moronic.

  12. Re:Ideas vs. Implementation on Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders · · Score: 1

    I was talking about how people's talent was being wasted today, not the pre-doubleclick history of google.

  13. Re:Energy buybacks have their problems on Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign · · Score: 1

    Not that I strictly disagree, but your whole post is a bare assertion of a future narrative, without any sort of substantiation.

  14. Re:Ideas vs. Implementation on Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Larry and Sergy aren't google. Google is a collection of some of the best software engineers in the country(with most of their talent being wasted on getting more people to click ads).

  15. Re:Are they really safe? on Twitter Marks Clean Sites As Harmful, Breaks Links · · Score: 1

    It was a joke at the expense of our poor community. I don't really think there's any connection between actual insight and mod score though.

  16. Re:Ideas vs. Implementation on Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they had one idea of their own that launched Google. That's links-as-metadata idea of indexing. It was a good idea, but nothing since then has been "from the top".

  17. Re:Are they really safe? on Twitter Marks Clean Sites As Harmful, Breaks Links · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually, I've found not being stupid is a good way to get modded down. You gotta be careful to be utterly inane if you want karma.

  18. Re:But how much do they have stockpiled? on Syria Completes Destruction of Chemical Weapon Producing Equipment · · Score: 2

    And (this is speculation, not my speculation, but speculation nonetheless) because the weapons were apparently used without Assad's consent by a general in his armed forces. He's worried that the civil war will be breeding grounds for a coup, and ditching the WMDs actually consolidates his power to an extent.

  19. Re:Are they really safe? on Twitter Marks Clean Sites As Harmful, Breaks Links · · Score: 2

    It's worse than that, I've seen people assume a site was safe because it was a blog that validated their personal biases.

  20. News item: Piece of software flawed on Twitter Marks Clean Sites As Harmful, Breaks Links · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If we report it every time any website doesn't work right, like Obamacare or Twitter, we'll be here all day constantly reading about bug on random website X.

    Software breaks, it's only really newsworthy if it breaks in novel or spectacular ways.

  21. PR departments can pay cash monies to help disseminate positive stories to boost the reputation of companies. I can't present evidence that happened, but it's certainly not out of character for slashdot these days.

  22. Re:My question on David Craddock and Two Blizzard North Co-Founders Answer Your Questions (Video) · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, sorry. This is new Slashdot, where content is spread across 2 videos for more ad impressions, and to make it easier to interlace ads with normal content.

    If you want in depth text with discussion of text news, go back to the 1990s.

  23. Re:really? on Book Review: Stay Awhile and Listen · · Score: 1

    Oh, no doubt that there are positively excellent games that are not teenage male power fantasies(and even some parts of some games that are that do quite well). I was just being annoyed at the GGP for being a whiner of the "how dare minorities encroach on my media slightly" sort.

  24. Re:funny on Artificial Blood Made In Romania · · Score: 1

    Triduum of All Hallows is a (Roman) catholic holiday starting today. I see no reason why that might not have bled over. Regardless of origin, once it's part of Catholic tradition, it tends to get around a bit.

    (I'm aware that romania is mostly orthodox)

  25. Re:Hm. I am not so sure about the two games. on Book Review: Stay Awhile and Listen · · Score: 0

    Nethack does no such thing as diablo. New game=new dungeon. Continue game, same dungeon(multiplayer excluded due to natural restrictions).