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  1. Re:You got it backward on Ask Slashdot: Intelligently Moving From IT Into Management? · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, in context that's bad advice. He explained he was better suited to management in the first place.

  2. Re:Also in the budget: on MIT Bitcoin Project To Create Cryptocurrency Ecosystem, Give $100 Per Student · · Score: 1

    It was intended as a joke. I'm not sure how it's insightful, nor am I sure how it's off topic.

  3. Also in the budget: on MIT Bitcoin Project To Create Cryptocurrency Ecosystem, Give $100 Per Student · · Score: 4, Funny

    Giving every student a fedora and trench-coat.

    Unfortunately there was no money left for the "enough razors to shave neck-beards" initiative

  4. Re:Ass time on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    Since you're the only one to hit on it at all, I'm gonna respond to you. Advertising is 95% of the problem. We pretend we're completely responsible for our own actions, then at the same time ignore pervasive placement of mind control tactics throughout our society. If advertisement didn't change behaviors from people would find most rational for themselves, it wouldn't exist.

    And the most advertised things are among the worst in the ways this article outlines.

  5. Re:Also, this means... on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Stress and lack of pain are both associated with adrenaline, so I'd say that's a totally plausible thing.

  6. Re:Still waiting to see 3 things on Google Using Self-Driving Car Data To Make Cars Smarter · · Score: 2

    I think a fallback behavior of stop safely and pull over before [confusion situation] is well within algorithmic acceptability.

  7. Re:Of course he is on Anonymous's Latest Target: Boston Children's Hospital · · Score: 2

    I hate "common sense." Detest the phrase, detest the use of it as a justification for anything, detest the people that embrace it. No, the people who are douchebags on slashdot are engaged in good old fashioned is/should fallacy, a world-wide human favorite.

  8. Re:Of course he is on Anonymous's Latest Target: Boston Children's Hospital · · Score: 1

    Now, now, it's quite literally blaming the victim of the crime for the crime. That's what's going on here.

  9. Re:FTA commented, not approved on FTC Approves Tesla's Direct Sales Model · · Score: 1

    That just reads as incredibly tenuous logic. Which almost certainly means it's universally accepted jurisprudence in the US.

  10. Re:If you're just beaming it down to earth anyways on How Japan Plans To Build Orbital Solar Power Stations · · Score: 1

    Or a network of satellites that can transmit to eachother, and the nearest ones transmit to ground.

  11. Re:FTA commented, not approved on FTC Approves Tesla's Direct Sales Model · · Score: 1

    So... states are denied that power. Which is what I said.

  12. Re:FTA commented, not approved on FTC Approves Tesla's Direct Sales Model · · Score: 1

    Specifically in response to your sig: you get modded down a lot, because you make unfounded statements that are clearly antagonistic. Hope that helps.

  13. Re:FTA commented, not approved on FTC Approves Tesla's Direct Sales Model · · Score: 3, Informative

    But states are explicitly denied the power for that regulation, by the de facto interpretation of the 10th amendment.

  14. Re:Difference between erratic & erotic on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 1

    Not to put too fine a point on it, but I don't spend a lot of time debating the meaning of fiction in various languages. It's literary esoterica.

  15. Re:About time! on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Windows supports IPv6. You know full well it's ancient machines and switches that cause all the problems.

  16. Re:No, That's incorrect... on In the US, Rich Now Work Longer Hours Than the Poor · · Score: 1

    I don't know, how about we use my magic objective data-wand and find out... ...

    Why didn't that work?

  17. Re:About time! on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 0

    Yeah, now we can start complaining about how we can't run servers anymore for actual lack of IP addresses.

  18. Re:Except on In the US, Rich Now Work Longer Hours Than the Poor · · Score: 1

    Oh, you misunderstand, I think the social climbers and rich investors are crowding out an genuine, functioning capitalist economy.

  19. Re:No, That's incorrect... on In the US, Rich Now Work Longer Hours Than the Poor · · Score: 2

    That number, of course, lacks the context that 1/5 of Americans admit to using illegal drugs. That's a tiny number.

  20. Re:money on Face Recognition Algorithm Finally Outperforms Humans · · Score: 1

    I don't think conspiracy theories are needed to allege feature creep, though.

  21. Re:Difference between erratic & erotic on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 1

    No, say what you want, but "created in 7 days" is explicitly what that book says. You might interpret it differently, and you're free to do so, because, you know, it's just stories, but there's no interpretation required for the book to say that.

  22. Re:No, That's incorrect... on In the US, Rich Now Work Longer Hours Than the Poor · · Score: 1

    In NYC, $300 of rent will get you 1/6th of a studio apartment. I will believe literally any statement about New York rent, no matter how extreme or contrary to my political views.

  23. Re:No, That's incorrect... on In the US, Rich Now Work Longer Hours Than the Poor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Throughout history, the defining characteristic of the powerful versus the powerless has always been "works to earn a living" versus "Has others work to earn a living for them." I'm always hesitant to bring up that distinction in political discussions, because some disingenuous asshat will be inclined to pretend the meager(and temporary) social safety net the US provides is a living, which makes it impossible to actually discuss that separation.

    The key is, once your lifestyle is secure, you can fully focus your efforts on expansion, rather than maintenance, letting you play social climber, investor, or entrepreneur with much greater freedom. And that last one is a good thing, as long as the first two don't represent a rent-seeking upper class that threatens to topple the entire social structure of the nation.

  24. Re:above the law on Administration Ordered To Divulge Legal Basis For Killing Americans With Drones · · Score: 1

    So your solution to injustice... is... arbitrary detainment(and implied execution)? Well... okay.

  25. Re:above the law on Administration Ordered To Divulge Legal Basis For Killing Americans With Drones · · Score: 1

    Sure, without amendments, even though 13 and 14 are specifically about that.

    (And a lot of jurisprudence about non-discrimination come at some level from 14)