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  1. Re:Amazing on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All theories are essentially models.

    Nothing like being lectured to by someone who is completely ignorant of how science works.

  2. Re:Amazing on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Someone who managed to get Russia, China, France and Britain to sit down and negotiate with Iran, even while Russia and the West are embroiled in a mini Cold War.

    That's the kinds of things historians will take notice of, not some asshole who talks about female journalists having blood come out of their "you know where".

  3. Re:Blind squirrel finding an acorn on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    Biden never had a chance. He's as close to the Oval Office as he's ever going to get.

    The Democratic nomination might as well be Hillary Clinton's coronation.

  4. Re:Amazing on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And that's the real issue. Trump makes a lot of claims and promises that would require Congress to cooperate, and looking at how Trump scores on the whole "get along with other people" index, it suggests that his Presidency, rather than being some great revolutionary change, would be four very long years of him shouting crude abuses at Congressional leadership.

  5. Re:Amazing on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    You mean a set of scientific models that indicate large increases in CO2 in the atmosphere is causing more heat (and henace, more energy) to be trapped in the lower atmosphere, as well as CO2 reacting with the oceans leading to greater acidity and altering oceanic ecosystems?

    Sure, it isn't "doom" in the respect that lots of things, including people, will survive, but it will represent significant changes, and many not for the better for many people.

  6. Re:approval on Georgia Aquarium Battles Federal Government Over Belugas · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Indeed. They should shut all the facilities down, euthanize the animals that have no hope of being reintroduced to the wild and outlaw the importation or breeding of whales and dolphins.

    Oh, and fuck Sea World's investors.

  7. Re:Silly Person on Ask Slashdot: How To "Prove" a Work Is Public Domain? · · Score: 1

    And then some an IP legal firm can just come along, blanket declare it theirs whenever they feel it, and he's buggered anyways.

    Take it from me. Unless your worth a few billion bucks, your ownership and right to dispose of IP as you please is long gone. We have new lords and masters, and we will do what they like, or we'll get the hose again.

  8. Silly Person on Ask Slashdot: How To "Prove" a Work Is Public Domain? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh you silly person. There's no such thing as Public Domain. It's a theoretical construct at this point, and might as well be considered as mythical and unlikely now as unicorns and a third party POTUS.

    Believe me, within 20 years, Homer's and Shakespeare's works will be owned by Walt Disney or Sony, and anyone putting on a production of Hamlet will have to pay royalties. This is the world that evil lawyers and culpable, retarded politicians are creating.

  9. Re: Don't worry! on Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean · · Score: 0

    Changing rain belts that will pretty much wipe out large areas of arable land. How's that for a start.

    You really are a fucking moron.

  10. RSAT on How Microsoft Built, and Is Still Building, Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    With all this building and rebulding and rebuilding the rebuilding, could Microsoft please fucking release a functional Windows 10 version of the RSAT tools?

  11. Re:Don't worry! on Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean · · Score: 5, Informative

    The oceans are already measurably warmer and more acidic, you fucking idiot.

  12. Re:Oracle's monopoly? on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because J2ME was such a brilliant mobile platform.

  13. Re:There are Ads and then there are Fucking Ads. on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What's even worse is ad content in the main body of the document that spends about five to ten seconds after a page load changing its size, so that the text of the document is bouncing all over the place as AJAX-loaded images size themselves to whatever is viewed as the correct size. If you don't basically walk away for about thirty seconds, you'll end up trying to click on a link, click on the wrong link and end up in some other page than you wanted.

    The sheer incompetence of web design, even on major sites like the Guardian's website, just amazes me. We literally have taken the latest web tools, and found a way to make the web experience even worse than it was during those purgatorial days of Internet Explorer 6.

  14. Re:The next chapter on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 2

    I have a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse that I've connected to both my Nexus 5 and Nexus 7. On the nexus 5, the small screen real estate makes it pointless, and even on the 7" tablet I find the inadequacies of the interface and the still pretty small screen real estate do not translate into a pleasant experience for editing documents and spreadsheets. I'm sure larger tablets ameliorate this problem, but there comes a point, at least for me, where the screen size gets large enough that I'd rather just buy a notebook. I have a nice 14" HP touch screen notebook that works very well as a mobile word processing and spreadsheet development unit. I keep my Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 for document review when I'm somewhere where the notebook doesn't make sense, but if I have to start bundling Bluetooth peripherals to make a pseudo-laptop, then I'd rather just use a laptop.

  15. Re:The next chapter on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 1

    Or I could just pull out my laptop.

    I think being able to read documents, and possibly even do minor edits, is useful functionality on mobile devices. But there's a point at which the interface, even with a mouse and keyboard, simply falls down.

  16. Re:The next chapter on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 1

    There's nothing I could imagine being better than reformatting a nested bullet list on my Nexus 7. Ah, what bliss that would be!

  17. Re:It's the base assumption that its invalid on Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice · · Score: 1

    If I write a confession to a crime in a private cypher, I cannot be compelled to decrypt it.

  18. Re:Blackberry not compatible with anything on BlackBerry Denies QNX Was To Blame In Jeep Cherokee Hack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Find another job soon. BB is going to go under in the next couple of years, and you won't be getting any money for shilling for them.

  19. Re: One Mississippi on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    It's called being a self-entitled ass clown. It's the same kind of marginal intellect with narcissistic tendencies who likes to do road shows on residential streets at 2am or makes their motorbike idle at 200 decibels. You know, the kind of person who views the rest of the world and everyone in it as a sort of amusement park.

  20. Re:Seems like stockholders... on Google Is Restructuring Under a New Company Called Alphabet · · Score: 2

    It probably also goes some distance to protecting Google's product development from any threats against its advertising business by cranking regulators.

  21. Re:Yeah 22 seconds? on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 4, Funny

    John Candy: It's a BB gun.

    Chevy Chase: Don't try me. I could put an eye out with this thing.

    John Candy: You couldn't even break the skin with that thing.

    Chevy Chase: Oh, I could. I could. I could break the skin, put a little lodge under the skin, and cause a very bad infection

  22. Re:One Mississippi on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Drone operators view spying on other people as a civil liberty, and if you complain, you're some sort of evil bastard.

    Go read some drone forums. You'll see every manner of justification for being a perverted peeping Tom.

  23. Re:Deliverance? on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 0

    "I'm masturbating now. Going faster... faster... Applying more lube... Oh yeah... Oh shit, no, I haven't finished yet.... Nooooo!!!!!"

  24. Re:I'm torn.... on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    I think when your only real significant objection to any science is that it fucks up your political or economic ideology, left, right or other, then I think your rejection is at best spurious, and at worst a sign that you're probably mentally ill.

  25. Re:I'm torn.... on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know, is Conservative kool-aid still built with a large dose of "the universe owes my preferred economic system a free pass from the laws of physics"?