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  1. Re: How hard can that possibly be? on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 1

    Except the question as stated was sort of 5 ? Cup 6 = whole.

  2. Re: How hard can that possibly be? on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 1

    The question gets so much simpler when you realize that there is no cup.

  3. Re:Amazon on Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 2

    Amazon on occasion has posted different prices for different customers.

    As I remember they got in trouble for doing that, so I think you're right, they probably don't still have a way of handling it.

  4. Re: Government vs. Corporations on NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You lost me at

    by law the NSA can't

  5. Re:The Star War's influence on The Pentagon May Retire "Yoda," Its 92-Year-Old Futurist · · Score: 1

    It appears that he lied about his age by about a factor of 10â¦.

  6. Re: Applies to any field on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1

    Except perhaps for writing editorials. That appears to require no discern able skills at all...

  7. Re:Arthur C Clarke strikes again! on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 2

    What part of humor don't you understand?

  8. Re:Employment Contracts for stellar peformers on Anti-Poaching Lawsuit Against Apple, Google and Others Given the Green Light · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because if you are truly a stellar employee, you can put in the contract what YOU think your raise should be and not be beholden to what the company thinks your raise should be.

    It balances the concept of salary negotiations, however, there is a risk that if you are not a truly stellar employee, the company will not want to renew your contract.

  9. Re:News for Liberals on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    Perhaps.

    I concur with all the others that feel this article is not really what this site should be about.

    Tech Articles pleaseâ¦.

  10. Re: Credibility gap on German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not just optimism and self deception, theres a great deal of narcissism and megalomania there too.

  11. Re: It's NOT going to happen on Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    I will eagerly look forward to buying the epic tome on software engineering that will finally reveal to us all (after over 40 years) how to really get it done....

  12. Re: Is anybody surprised? on Nuclear Officers Napped With Blast Door Left Open · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shall we play a game???

  13. Re: You're an idiot... on Scientists Say Climate Change Is Damaging Iowa Agriculture · · Score: 2

    Screw you. Unaware that weather is not climate...

    I freaking state that in my post!!

    The trend, from a climate perspective is for the start of the growing season to get earlier. This means that on the trend line for that variable, last year's value will be an outlier in the overall climate trend.

    I'm getting sick of chaos being used as the trump card to invalidate any measure that doesn't meet the expected values.

    A large portion of North America last March and April were unseasonably cold. Where I live, we had 20 days in April with snowcover on the ground (the first 8 being some of the days without snow). It was unprecedented weather for that time of year (i.e. unseen in my lifetime). The icing out out lakes in the area set records or were close to the records for lateness.

    I am not disagreeing with global warming or that it can cause anomalous patters in weather. But all predictions and forecasts were opposite to what actually happened. This can not be waved away by your two points. I can only be factored in by making better and more reliable models.

    It can also be factored in if the same thing doesn't happen again for a long period of time. Then the data from last year is just like what I said it might be and is an outlier from the trend. But in that case the trend has to move back to a general earlier data for the start of the growing season, like the models predict.

  14. Re: You're an idiot... on Scientists Say Climate Change Is Damaging Iowa Agriculture · · Score: 1

    The irony about this issue with regards to Iowa growing seasons is that one of the driving trends of global warming is the movement of the start of the growing season earlier in the year. This last year the unseasonal cold in March and April pushed the start of the growing season way back.

    The extra spring rains may be a global warming related trend, but the later start of the growing season is not something that is expected due to global warming, it fact is is counter to the expectations and the trend.

  15. Re:Amazing on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 1

    I think the most difficult thing the author of the article had to deal with was making a list of thing that could be represented by a block of text, be represented instead by a stupid slide show that isn't loading correctly right now....

  16. Re:Fortunately we still have Google. on IsoHunt Settles With MPAA, Will Shut Down And Pay Up to $110 Million · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's the reason for the $110 million settlement.

    That number is orders of magnitude greater than what ISOHunt can pay.

    The reason the settlement number is so large is that the MPAA is looking for how much they want to charge google for enabling people to search the internet.

  17. Re: Meh. Do people think before they write this ju on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    As for the financial aspect, it shouldn't have caused anyone hardship to have their paychecks delayed a bit. You should have at least a few months saved up to pay bills. Any bills that arrived during this time should have already been planned for. The only financial hardship would be for those who aren't financially responsible, and in that case, it's the irresponsibility that is causing the hardship.

    I just want to note that while this example is rolled out all the time to chide people for not doing enough economic planning, the government at the core of this dispute doesn't operate that way at all or even come close. This is evidenced by the fact that the other part of this debate dealt with the government being allowed to borrow more money to pay it bills and pay the interest on its past bills.

  18. Re:What about the humidity? on A Thermoelectric Bracelet To Maintain a Comfortable Body Temperature · · Score: 1

    Damn, wish I had mod points....

  19. Re: I wonder if on Lessons From the Healthcare.gov Fiasco · · Score: 1

    They didn't shoot themselves in the foot, the GOP blew their whole fucking leg off!

    I have never seen more inept, pathetic, and idiotic political posturing in my whole life.

    Obamacare is in full implode mode and the Republicans fight to get rid of it is actually going to help it survive!

    The Republicans in the house are fucking morons!!

  20. Re: Solution to the Problem on Broadcasters Petition US Supreme Court In Fight Against Aereo · · Score: 2

    The problem here isn't that aero is using their signal for free, it's that the broadcast channels think they're entitled to money for retransmitting their signal over another medium. The FCC should make it illegal for broadcast companies to charge cable companies to carry their signal.

    I'm quite pissed that when their deal with my local cable company expires the fucking broadcasters have the gall to run ads asking me to demand my cable company caves to their extortion so that I can have the privilige of a higher bill.

  21. Re: Shoot first on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 5, Insightful

    His opinion is dangerous. ANY argument based on the concept "it's good for the whole of society for this individual to cede his rights" is just plain evil. If that end justifies the means, then you are a short way away from handing the authorities a police state.

  22. Re: How I see it... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    They agree with the provisions.

    In other words they agree with the stated goals of the ACA.

    I'm sure the polls are different when their asked to respond to the side effects of the ACA.

  23. Re: Liberal strategy on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm really having a hard time lately with people arguing that the government should be doing Christian things like help the poor.

    It could prove to us that it's worthy of taking our money to help the poor when it stops monitoring everything on the internet, tracking all our cell phone calls, and randomly bombing people to death in countries we are not at war with.

  24. Re: I don't know if Obama planned it this way... on Are Shuttered Gov't Sites Actually Saving Money? · · Score: 2

    The same government that did all those good things also monitors everything you do on the internet and tracks all of your cellphone calls. Plus as an added bonus, it nearly randomly bombs people in countries we are not at war (or even kinetic action) with.

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Don't believe me? Compare Senator Obama's statements to Emperor Obama's statements. He quickly learned from Bush that an imperial administration is aided by being at war.

  25. Re: If I were a betting man... on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, reports are indicating that the driver/shooter was female. Yet again initial assumptions are wrong this time, but just wrong in a different way.