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  1. Re:Polite pretense on Pentagon Ups Hacking Accusations Against China · · Score: 1

    What I don't get is why is hacking so damn easy?
    Why would any computer with sensitive information on it be connected to the internet?

  2. Re:Dreamspark etc. on It's 2013, and Windows Activation Is Still Frustrating · · Score: 1

    I talked to a guy in India. He asked me a couple of simple questions, dictated an access code to me, and that was it. His English was excellent.

  3. Re:What year is this? on Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs · · Score: 1

    And the rest will do what they need to do to get by.
    And there is no reason to think that it will be legal. For example, sell drugs to your kids or take your cheap beachfront property at gunpoint.

  4. Re:What year is this? on Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs · · Score: 1

    And when there is no work to be done, what do you propose all those people should do ?

    Starve, commit crimes, revolt.
    Unless the rest of us provide a way for them to make a reasonable living without being employed.
    This will happen. It doesn't matter whether you like it.

  5. Re:Remember on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    Every "fair tax" that I've seen would raise my taxes by a considerable amount, and I'm certainly not in the target zone for the hated wealthy

    No, but you are in the zone for the hated stupid.
    And by the way, Obfuscant, no one has every chosen a more appropriate user name.

  6. Re:Remember on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    Investing in your own country's businesses is fine. Investing in foreign tax shelters isn't.

  7. Re:Remember on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    Trouble is, those statistics that you quote are based on reported income, not actual income. The two are very different, which is the whole fucking point of this article.

    And yes, many of the tricks used to hide wealth are legal. The point is, they shouldn't be.

  8. Re:It will always be here, but.... on Interviews: James Randi Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should try applying that alleged critical thinking to JREF.

    Well, if you have a specific criticism of Ranki's methods, let's hear it. Otherwise STFU.

    Fools gotta be fooled.

  9. Re:Faith healing needs to stop on Interviews: James Randi Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I've personally seen and done things which require explanation as the rational explanation doesn't work, but I've got no interest in going to him to see what's going on. I'm not interested in it.

    Terrified of him bursting your fantasy bubble, aren't you?

  10. Re:Topsoil-based fuels are wrongheaded in every wa on 'Energy Beet' Power Is Coming To America · · Score: 1

    Does it have electrolytes?

  11. Re:kids are as good as the parents make them on Code.org Documentary Serving Multiple Agendas? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm amused when educators and politicians proclaim that current schooling is out of step with the 20th century.

    I hope they would be. That was 13 years ago.

  12. Re:Are you seriously serious? on Take Hands-Free 360 Degree Panoramic Photos With an iPhone (Video) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck you.

  13. Re:What's the point? on Technology To Detect Alzheimer's Takes SXSW Prize · · Score: 1

    Now insurance companies can figure out who will get it, so they can make sure they don't get stuck with you.

    Only in America. Civilized countries don't allow this.

  14. Re:So.... on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Actually I know quite a few catholics. They are the same as everybody else. Everybody.

    So everybody else is Catholic? I didn't know that.

  15. Re:76? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    And thank God for that, since young men are universally idiots.

    Well, you certainly were. And still are.

  16. Re:76? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    The Church will never have a female priest.

    People change but the laws of God do not.

    What laws of God prohibit female clergy, but are OK with pedophillia?

  17. Re:76? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    That's funny, because those four rights are specifically about "I want to live but want to make sure I have no responsibility to let the next generation live".

    What in the hell are you talking about?

  18. Re:numbering each slashdot joke on Did Steve Jobs Pick the Wrong Tablet Size? · · Score: 2

    And goatse was my father, you insensitive clod!

  19. Re:That is what they're for... on The Patents That Threaten 3-D Printing · · Score: 1

    On the internet!

  20. Re:fucking great? on Australian Federal Court Rules For Patent Over Breast Cancer Gene · · Score: 1
    None of which has anything to do with the central fact of this case, namely that:

    Anyone who engages in behaviour that could be considered foolhardy or reckless in nature is 100% responsible for the outcome.

    Not 90%, not 99%, but 100%.

    So is holding a cup of steaming coffee between your legs foolhardy or reckless? I certainly think so.
    This means that MacDonald's was not in any way culpable, and the "facts" that you state are entirely irrelevant to this case.

  21. Damn 1- on John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way To All-Digit Dialing, Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    You know what pisses me off?
    To dial long distance, I have to dial "1-" first (which is OK, since I don't want to call LD by accident). But if I do dial "1-" and then a number that isn't long distance,
    it says "BEE-BEE-BEEP Your call can not be put through as dialed. Please dial again."

    Knowing what is long distance and what isn't is very complicated around here. If I start the number with "1-" it means "I don't care if the number is long distance".
    If I don't care that the number is long distance, I certainly won't care if it isn't.
    So annoying.

  22. Re:Agreed on What Will The Expanding World of ChromeOS Mean For Windows? · · Score: 1

    He didn't say "algorithms that run only on Windows", he said "apps that run only on windows".

  23. Re:Past performance... on Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the Person of Interest machine.

  24. Re:Sentience without a soul? on The Human Brain Project Receives Up To $1.34 Billion · · Score: 1

    If one perfeclty replicated a brain simulation would it be sentient?

    1. Nobody knows.
    2. Nobody ever will know.

  25. Re:CNC machine on A Robot With a Chainsaw! · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sucks to be a pedant who can't spell. Must sting.