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  1. Re:I think we can all agree.. on Graphene Conducts Electricity Ten Times Better Than Expected · · Score: 1

    And you are associated with those ugly smelly nerds from the 1970s. But you have lower self-confidence and have to post from behind AC shroud. Fuck beta.

  2. Example of things to come on Russia Bans Bitcoin · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you can't get "Close and don't show me again" right, then you shouldn't be coding a whole new Slashdot. I see that fucking notice every time I come here and click "DON'T SHOW ME AGAIN" each time. Oh, yeah: FUCK BETA.

  3. Corporate bullshit generator translation on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sum it up: changes are coming, a polite fuck you, we are culminating a new audience by sending 25% of unauthed users whi may have never heard of slashdot before, another polite fuck you, classic slashdot is still going away, we the corporate assholes are slashdot and not the community. The whole summary amounts to a colossal polite "fuck you guys."

    Im assuming there's a young punk-ass web developer who made a righteous bullshitty pitch to the suits at Dice to make a new slashdot. It sold them, but he didn't add it would likely destroy the entrenched user base. But that isn't his problem. His problem is trying to get these suits to come out of the dark slimey wet putrid hole they all live in to throw cash at him for a shiny new website.

    Screw this. I'm gonna go make my own news for nerds aggregator. With black jack. And hookers! In fact, forget the news aggregator...

  4. Re:Option to turn off advertising on NASA Pondering Two Public Contests To Build Small Space Exploration Satellites · · Score: 1

    I'm still seeing it at the top of classic slashdot.

  5. Beta is to Slashdot as Windows 8 is to MS on NASA Pondering Two Public Contests To Build Small Space Exploration Satellites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nuff said. You're just pouring gas on a fire with your base. Slashdotters are apparently happy with the site as is and appreciate its familiar usefulness. Beta fucks it up. FUCK BETA.

  6. What could possibly go wrong? on Government To Require Vehicle-to-vehicle Communication · · Score: 1

    There's enough unpatched Windows XP desktops up for grabs on eBay and yard sales to make this happen. Worked for utility companies.

  7. Leaving a trail on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    A big fucking trail. I mean, I'm no computer forensic investigator, but I believe the new owner of @N did it.

    Why is this being looked at like he will get away with it?

  8. Superbowl??? on Superbowl Means Time For Spy Cams, Hazmat Squads and Bomb-Sniffing Dogs · · Score: 0

    What the fuck is a superbowl? Is that like the Super Bowl?

  9. Life for many... on Facebook Is a Plague That'll Burn Out In a Few Years, Says Study · · Score: 1

    ...is moving from one social network to the another.

  10. Re:Amazing how times change. on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    The RMA process I received from them was more complicated than simply RMA and ship. Made me feel like I was in the wrong. Had to pay for shipping, too, which I'm not about if I bought a product in good faith it would work.

  11. Re:Amazing how times change. on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    Seagate's warranty claim process is an absolute joke, too. It's easier to just go buy a competitors drive and fucking never do business with Seagate again.

  12. Plugola on Microsoft Paying for Positive Xbox One Coverage on YouTube · · Score: 1

    Gotta do something when it ain't selling. A guy I know working at GameStop has told me they can't keep the play station 4s on the shelf and can't get the Xbones out the door.

  13. Obviously... on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    He was texting on the shooter's ground.

  14. Step 1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    They need to get their heads out of that warm, dark place and realize my laptop and desktop ARE not and never will be tablets.

  15. Favorite AOL Profile on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 2

    Don't pick on me for using AOL. We were all new to the internet once and had to start somewhere. Anyway, John@aol.com had the quote in his profile "I get a lot of wrong-number email."

  16. Re:Cheap on Security Experts Call For Boycott of RSA Conference In NSA Protest · · Score: 1

    How does that equate to us working class? A $5 whore?

  17. Cut out the middleman on Even After NSA Leaks, Government Still Trusted Over Private Firms · · Score: 1

    When the government can force a company to release data or just steal it clandestinely, cut out the middle man and just hand it over to them.

  18. I can verify it with my dog on Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I take pictures of our dog pooping and send them to my wife has pranks. "Hey, look at what the baby's doing. :dog shitting picture:" So, I went through them and sure enough she's either facing north or south in the backyard pinching a loaf. She maybe off by a 10 degrees, but never east or west with the same margin.

  19. Re:Cloud != Backup on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Dropbox and even BitTorrent sync has versioning support. Better than nothing.

  20. Yes! on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To the disgruntled NSA employees: you feel this way because you know what you're doing would have our founding fathers rolling in their graves! Take a stand, dammit. While easier for me to say than you to do, quit your job if it sounds wrong and send a clear message that this violation of privacy and more is wrong and you won't have any party of it. I bet then you could sleep better at night about your professional life, but maybe not as far as paying your bills.

  21. Too much data? on First Images of a Heart Injected With Liquid Metal · · Score: 2

    I'm relatively new to the cath lab, but Iodine-containing agents typically get the job done as far as diagnosing coronary blockages. In my lab, we do nuclear scan for evaluating perfusion even before we decide to do an angiogram (albeit we sometimes do it anyway, but that becomes an insurance battle). A worthwhile advantage would be lower risk of renal failure (not mentioned in the article). While few patients with healthy or even mediocre kidneys end up having problems, it's always a concern with those of less renal function and will sometimes mean not doing an elective cath.

  22. Face it: death is a part of life on Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad · · Score: 1

    We spend a lot of money fighting it and a lot of emotions denying it. I used to work in an ICU and man the stuff I'd have to do to people who were in agony and just wanted to die sleeping on a cloud of Ativan and morphine. So many families wanted grandpa kept alive for 3 more days so they could come in and see him one last time. The response I wanted to have for that is: "You not being here isn't grandpas fucking problem. If you had such a good relationship, then it makes no difference who is here. Yet if you have grief, that's your own damn problem and they shouldn't suffer further so you can sleep better at night."

    But seriously, it's a part of life just like birth, marriage, and having your own kids, but we (and I mean the voting majority, because I and others disagree) just don't want to see it that way. Put your big boy/girl rational pants on and get ready to die; it's the one thing we all have in common.

  23. I need therapy on Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 · · Score: 1

    I'm really depressed over this. I've been using Winamp for about 14 years. It's one of the best software purchases I ever made. I still use it today over iTunes and I'm an idevice owner. A fellow geek recently laughed in surprise and nostalgia when he saw I still use Winamp. I'm no fan of AOL already, so it's an understatement for me to say I hate them for not open sourcing it.

  24. Does throttling really hurt? on Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services · · Score: 1

    You're watching a streaming video. Unless you want to watch it at high speed, then what's wrong with throttling the traffic to a speed just fast enough to prevent buffering? There's no need to stream an entire 90 minute movie in 10 minutes to whatever device you're watching it on. So let them throttle you so I can download my pirated Hurt Locker at 20mbps. K thx.

  25. It's cool, but do we really need it? on Lockheed Martin Developing Successor To the SR-71 Blackbird · · Score: 1

    I thought part of the rationale behind grounding this plane was it's cheaper to use a spy satellite nowadays. If it's truly a multirole aircraft, say a bomber, then it could have its uses.