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  1. This may present another problem.
    If the insurers rate projects differently and offer different insurance rates for each project, this insurance rate would effectively become an endorsement of sorts.
    Also, I don't think there's anything preventing individual kickstarter campaigns to offer such an insurance if they want.

  2. Re:FEO on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1, Troll

    One the other hand, this will be the end of all religious websites.
    After all, I think we can all agree religion isn't factual, right. Right?

  3. Re:No win situation on Facebook Puts Users On Suicide Watch · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, I think we can all agree the Un-Beta looks like shit.
    It's quite... fascinating how a site for nerds can't seem to get the most basic CSS1 right.

  4. Re:When will slashdot follow? on Facebook Puts Users On Suicide Watch · · Score: 1

    Facebook has just turned 11 years old a few weeks ago.
    Most people who joined facebook in their teens are no longer be teens.
    How can it still be called a "teen phenomenon"?

    If you seriously don't know what the moderation system of Facebook looks like, you don't get out much.
    It's demonstrated on pretty much every website, on TV and radio commercials and shows. Even paper media will tell you how it works.

    Go back to your hipster coffeebar and don't come out until you've grown your own opinions.

  5. Re:Bugs in Win 7 UI on Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Atleast getting the delete file error is quick.

    I continue to be amazed by the slowness of some other common file operations,
    1. Select a lot of files and directories.
    2. Drag them to another folder to start copying.
    3. Wait a few seconds and cancel.
    4. Wait 15 minutes while a window shows "Cancelling...", during which you can't really do anything.

    Why does it take so long to cancel file copying? It has to delete a single (partial) file at most.

  6. Re:get to work on Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course · · Score: 1

    Hey! I've had that signature way before those books were a mere itch in their authors' belt-beaten bunghole.

  7. Re:get to work on Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course · · Score: 1

    Damn him for putting his money where his mouth is!

  8. Re:Not Censorship on Google Knocks Explicit Adult Content On Blogger From Public View · · Score: 1

    Most people simply don't have the technical skills to maintain a website, even if it is a modern CMS.
    Wordpress.com has an anti-porn clause. So do pretty much all hosting providers. Those that do allow porn (usually on dedicated accounts) charge a lot more to do so.

  9. Re:Not Censorship on Google Knocks Explicit Adult Content On Blogger From Public View · · Score: 1

    "Be your host" is just not within reach of most people.
    Even more so for adult content.

  10. Re:good on Lenovo Hit With Lawsuit Over Superfish Adware · · Score: 1

    More likely it'll cost the plaintiff twice of what she earns in her lifetime.
    Lenovo is a rich company and the court is in the US; she doesn't stand a chance of winning.

  11. You mean "slippery slope fallacy drugs"?

  12. It's a movie on The Imitation Game Fails Test of Inspiring the Next Turings · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a movie. It's message was "Give us your money".
    Any message beyond that is just to get people to give their money more readily.

  13. Re: Wait ... on A123 Sues Apple For Poaching Employees · · Score: 1

    Who says they didn't get that compensation?
    When the employees signed the contract, they sure as hell thought it was sufficient compensation.
    This isn't some non-compete for a totally different joy; these employees are basically doing the exact same job, but at a competitor.

  14. Re:Wait ... on A123 Sues Apple For Poaching Employees · · Score: 1

    This is one company suing another company for not having to invest in plain employees to make them look attractive to another employer.

  15. Re:hmmm... on Carnegie-Mellon Sends Hundreds of Acceptance Letters By Mistake · · Score: 2

    I guess that's Carnegie-mellon's luck then, that they're unlikely to get sued.
    7 hours is plenty of time to both recieve multiple acceptances and send back replies politely turning them down.
    With hundreds of people, there are bound to be a few.

  16. Re:"Difficult to install" == "Difficult to compete on Google Faces Anti-Trust Probe In Russia Over Android · · Score: 1

    "Difficult to install" = "Difficult to give hardware manufacturers a reason not to install".

  17. Re:New research find's water wet on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 2

    In an ideal world where everything always works, you could easily ditch 90% of your code that deals with exceptional situations, none of that is core code.
    In the real world however, that 90% of extra code isn't nearly enough to catch even half the poop the monkeys will throw at it.

  18. Re:Fills me with confidence on Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video · · Score: 1

    Samsung's not going to care about any of that.
    You should finish with "Hey look at the cool television. I was planning to buy a new one anyway, so I'll just take this one instead". Cops will be at your door faster than you can say "There's a matching soundbar too".

  19. Re:Extortion on Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock · · Score: 1

    *I* wasn't paid for *my* time!

    Yes you were. You were paid with content you wanted to see.

  20. Give and take on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    If he thnks government can force children upon unwanting parents, it's only fair he allows those parents to slowly and painfully kill chose children afterwards.

  21. Re:OMFG .. I just read TFA on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 1

    depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.

    To be fair, The specific illustration is kinda hot: https://leonsmom.files.wordpre...

  22. Re:This is Texas! on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 1

    It's kind of mind-boggling, isn't it?

    This tells me the principal at this school is quite possibly a complete fucking moron who is too stupid to hold this job.

    For pretending he'd use his magic powers he gets suspended? Amazing.

    Imagine what this principal would do if God truely existed and Jezus went to this school, threatening to turn water into wine and such.

  23. Re:This is Texas! on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 5, Funny

    what next? He might bring in a book on evolution.

    Don't be silly. This is Texas; simple behaviour cannot turn into more complex behaviour without divine intervention.

  24. Re:I don't know enough about this stuff on MIT Randomizes Tasks To Speed Massive Multicore Processors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Results don't come in out-of-order. Imagine two variables, A and B, each undergoes a number of calculation steps which don't refer to the other variable. I.e. A=A+5/2*13-29 and B=B*B*3+12/N, then finally adding them together as Z=A+B. Normal execution would first do all the calculations for A then all the calculations for B, then finally Z. Out-of-order execution would calculate both A and B simultaneously, wait for both to finish, then calculate Z. Out-of-order execution involves a lot of this type of waiting, but since it's waiting for just the slowest calculation instead of the sum of both the slowest and fastest calculation it ends up being done sooner. If things cannot be calculated like this, an out-of-order capable processor will simply do things in-order.

    At least that's how I understand it at a very abstract level.

  25. Re:More ambiguous cruft on The Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know · · Score: 1

    It's still an interresting list, since on average most respondants would be scientists in other fields for any given question.
    It shows the attitude of the general population and scientists with regards to subjects neither have expertise in.