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  1. Will others switch to this? on An Iowa ISP's Metered Pricing: What Will the Market Bear? · · Score: 1

    Most likely they will watch and see how this turns out, or even more likely they are all in it together and this is the test.

  2. Re: click-throughs on Google Removes "Search Nearby" Function From Updated Google Maps · · Score: 1

    You lost me here, don't they already have that in spades?

  3. Still... on Rare Exoplanet Found In Star Cluster, Orbits Sun's 'Twin' · · Score: 1

    It's a boring trip even in a Very Fast Picket OU.

  4. Buy one on Phil Zimmerman Launching Secure "Blackphone" · · Score: 1

    And you're added to the "list".

  5. Re: My cynical take. on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 1

    I believe they are all corrupt, so I included the information on Wheeler (the head of the FCC) showing ties to an industry that would rather it was not neutral or open.

    A U.S. Appeals Court just invalidated the FCC's net neutrality rules that would've made it illegal for telecom companies to favor certain types of traffic over others. The court ruled that the commission lacked the authority to implement and enforce such rules which were embedded in a complicated legal framework.

    The entire FCC ruling was irrelevant, and so it was pandering and the court decision is what the market players want.
    It is a conspiracy, that's what the sort of lobbying Wheeler did is, conspiracy.

  6. My cynical take. on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 5, Informative

    The FCC won't fight back, in fact this result was probably the intention along.

    Prior to joining the FCC, Chairman Wheeler was Managing Director at Core Capital Partners, a venture capital firm investing in early stage Internet Protocol (IP)-based companies. He served as President and CEO of Shiloh Group, LLC, a strategy development and private investment company specializing in telecommunications services and co-founded SmartBrief, the internet’s largest electronic information service for vertical markets. From 1976 to 1984, Chairman Wheeler was associated with the National Cable Television Association (NCTA), where he was President and CEO from 1979 to 1984. Following NCTA, Chairman Wheeler was CEO of several high tech companies, including the first company to offer high speed delivery of data to home computers and the first digital video satellite service. From 1992 to 2004, Chairman Wheeler served as President and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA).

    http://www.fcc.gov/leadership/tom-wheeler

  7. OK on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    Don't use wireless, if you have the luxury to build it form scratch, have everything hardwired with a forward looking attitude (so fiber).

  8. Re:Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High Schoo on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    But the only way you would know that is if they told you or showed you a picture, you sure they aren't messing with you? (a joke)

  9. Re:Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High Schoo on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    Still running as AC eh?

  10. Re: Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High Scho on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    Again AC, I advocate nothing do I?

    If you haven't got the balls to post with your name, don't bother me with your lack of reading comprehension again,.

  11. Re:Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High Schoo on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    I'll take social pressure due to unconscious bias

    But it isn't "unconscious" is it? People can clearly see that a boy is a boy, and a girl is a girl, so they consciously act in a manner according to gender.

    willful counter pressure advocated by "well-meaning" ideologues

    Am I advocating something? Please point out where I am advocating anything, I am pointing out the obvious.

    Besides your theory doesn't seem falsifiable

    It isn't "my" theory, you actually believe I alone came up with gender bias starting at birth ? (actually before now that you can know the sex) I'm flattered, but you're wrong.

    Why don't you Google it a bit, it seems to me new ideas may be more palatable to you if you discover them yourself.

    Besides your theory doesn't seem falsifiable Any evidence of the contrary is seen as proof that social pressure is so prevalent people have become blind to it.

    So it doesn't seem "falisifiable", but if it was. it would be wrong any way.

    Why don't you point out

    social pressure is so prevalent people have become blind to it

    to a gay person, point it out to anyone that doesn't "fit in".
    And most certainly I am not blind to it.

    You didn't write this post to me, it isn't a reply to me, it's an internal dialogue you're having with yourself.

  12. Re:Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High Schoo on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    How many other parents do that? Why are frilly pink things what see for sale? Boys get guns girls get dolls, Think about it, you know, without the defensive attitude.

  13. Re:They foraged for 2-3 hours per day on Extinct Species of Early Human Survived On Grass Bulbs, Not Meat · · Score: 1

    With that diet I imagine they had to graze all day long, very little time for anything else.

  14. Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    It starts at birth, when they parents put pink clothes on the girl, and blue clothes on the boy.

  15. Re:Pot? on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 1

    But either way, liquid or powder (crystal) it's potent.

  16. Laugh on Tweets and Threats: Gangs Find New Home On the Net · · Score: 2

    Not the sharpest tools in the shed are they.

  17. Re:Pot? on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 1

    First isolated in 1964, in its pure form, by Israeli scientists Raphael Mechoulam, Yechiel Gaoni and colleagues at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,[7][8][9] it is a glassy solid when cold, and becomes viscous and sticky if warmed.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THC
    So yes THC has a crystal form, it can also be chemically bound to another substance for stability.
    And of course there is Marinol.

    But either way, liquid or powder (crystal) it's potent.
    And this is an interesting read. http://www.cannabis-med.org/data/pdf/2001-03-04-7.pdf

  18. This + tablets = even lower PC sales.

  19. Re:Well, for your second problem... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    None of which you can do if it's Facebook, or any other popular site.

  20. Re:Skewed Results on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 1

    You got a link for that? It better not be rense.com.

  21. Pot? on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some of these guys are smoking high quality oil on titanium nails, that shit is potent (having smoked it myself) I stay away from it because it makes me useless, and then it makes my tolerance so high I can only get a buzz eating a 500mg 5150 bar.

    Just wait, someone is going to get it down to a THC powder, and then...

    I quit smoking not too long ago, I had sweats, irritability, and sleeplessness for ~2 weeks, this isn't 1960's pot.

  22. Re:Me too on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    Oh and Google needs to admit they fucked up and fix it, I'm pretty sure that guys info I got could lead to some sort of law suit.

  23. Me too on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    They can't reply or get your reply because they can't log in, I went so far as to track one person down via an ad sent to them, I have also received someone's complete information, SSN, etc.
    In the end I just drag them to the trash.

  24. Re:Hmm on Dell Joins Steam Machine Initiative With Alienware System · · Score: 1

    I guess, it strikes more as "The punters like shiny things".

  25. Hmm on Dell Joins Steam Machine Initiative With Alienware System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we stop putting unnecessary lights on everything, it's gotten tiresome.