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  1. Re:Touch Server on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 4, Funny

    Server core... that's sort of like some braindead version of the Unix CLI, right, with a bizarre "object oriented" shell with stunningly long command names like "Dump-Exchange-Mailboxes-Into-Trash-While-Converting-All-Excel2007-Files-To-PDF", right?

  2. Re:He was threatened with six months in low-securi on The Internet's Own Boy · · Score: 1

    Prison would have only been part of the punishment. It's likely that his parole conditions would have pretty much destroyed his career.

  3. Re:No, they're replacing. on If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap · · Score: 1

    There was a war started by the US for the express purposes of stealing Mexican territory. We can dicker all day, but that's where it stands.

    I'm enjoying the discomfiture of Republicans as Latino numbers swell, as demographics accomplish what Mexican soldiers couldn't.

  4. Re:No, they're replacing. on If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should give them first dibs because you stole half their country.

  5. Re:No, they're replacing. on If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap · · Score: 0

    If you can't trust a hyperpartisan think tank that produces reports to orders for their ideological fuckbuddies, then who can you trust? HMmm? Who can you?

  6. Re:Lah de dah! on Human Language Is Biased Towards Happiness, Say Computational Linguists · · Score: 1

    Indeed. "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" doesn't exactly seem like a happy positive message to me.

  7. Re:Clarke says... on Astronomers Discover Earth-Sized Diamond · · Score: 0

    You haven't been modded up yet? There is indeed no justice in the world.

  8. Re:And guess how many vacation days we Americans g on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thanks for proving wage slaves don't exist, John. I was all worried that many people are economically stick in crap jobs, but your anecdotal story has proven how wrong I was.

  9. Re: work life balance is a myth on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 2

    Thank goodness you're taking a reasoned opinion and not oversimplifying and overgeneralizing.

  10. Re:That's going to be embarrassing... on Programming On a Piano Keyboard · · Score: 1

    If it can't pump out Java byte code, I'm not interested.

  11. Re:Or Change the Theory on Evidence of a Correction To the Speed of Light · · Score: 2

    Or it could be a badly written summary and article that completely misrepresent what is being stated.

    If every science journalist on the planet were to spontaneously combust, not only would it introduce a whole new physical phenomenon, it would cause the average IQ of the planet to jump by at least 5 points.

  12. Re:Great deal! on Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 1

    And a huge tablet like a Surface 3 isn't clumsy?

    My Nexus 7 and 15" notebook both fit nicely in my case, and combined cost at least a couple of hundred bucks less than the Surface 3. If I was to spend that much on a laptop, I'd get a helluva better unit than this underpower device.

    If it works for you, great. Myself, I consider it an appalling waste of money.

  13. Re:NOAA, please shut up. on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 1, Informative

    Because regional conditions represent global conditions.

  14. Re:It's about time on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Telegraph and a denier's site. Yes, so very convincing.

  15. Re:It's about time on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 0, Troll

    How many times does this cherry picked claim have to be posted. Warming did not stop for 15 years, for chrissakes, and you're either a liar or a moron for restating it.

  16. Re:Slashdot editors owe me a new keyboard. on Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 2

    Look at it this way. Now that they've found the Atari 2600 ET cartridges in a New Mexico landfill, there's plenty of room for all the Surfaces (all variants) that Microsoft can't sell.

    It's amusing watching the mighty Redmond Emperor with his clothes off; a whole product line and who knows how much R&D and marketing cash dumped into it, that almost no one actually fucking wants. It's so bad that they can't even get their OEM network to build the fucking things and they have to put them under their own brand name as they try the final futile stunt of acting like they're Apple.

  17. Re:Great deal! on Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's an expensive piece of hardware whose performance doesn't justify the cost and whose size makes it a terrible fucking tablet. I could buy a Nexus 7 and a tolerable decent notebook for less than a Surface 3 and have the best of both worlds.

  18. Re:This is telling on Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 3

    No, the mere fact that Microsoft built the Surface tablets demonstrates they don't have the foggiest idea what tablets are used for.

  19. Re:224 miles round trip on Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If Microsoft wants any uptake on these promotions it needs to find religion and begin praying for a miracle, because the group of people you can almost guarantee are the least likely to switch to Microsoft products are Apple owners.

  20. Re:Misleading title on Make a Date With Fraud · · Score: 1

    That would have been a much better article.

  21. Re:"science" on Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools · · Score: 1

    The mean temperature of the Earth has been rising for three centuries due to CO2 emissions. A testable hypothesis that has been demonstrated to be valid.

    Any other brain dead Koch-funded quotes you want to feed into this? Let's be blunt, you know fuck all about science.

  22. Re:"science" on Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools · · Score: 2

    Yes there is. There are literally thousands of published papers in this field.

  23. Re:Evolution isn't science on Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools · · Score: 1

    Your moral courage and intellectual rigour are an inspiration to us all.

  24. Re:Now they have to ban PARENTS from talking about on Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools · · Score: 1

    Then you can demonstrate one such statute.

  25. Re:Science is not consensus on Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools · · Score: 2

    No I won't take anthropomorphic climate change as an example, and you trying to assert it isn't science is no different than a creationist claiming evolution is a religion.