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  1. This is an excellent choice on MPAA Bans Google Glass In Theaters · · Score: 1

    Since someone wearing Google Glass will probably lead to me having a fistfight with them.

  2. Re:Frequent contributor Bennett Haselton ... on We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello · · Score: 1

    Best method is to both metamod and to downrank the posts in the wayahead machine.

    And use the Overrated tag. or Redundant.

  3. Re:Frequent contributor, frequent disappointment on We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello · · Score: 0

    He's the new JonKatz.

    So we're going to need an Ignore Bennet checkbox too?

  4. Who is this We you are referring to? on We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello · · Score: 1

    Look, just because you want something doesn't mean we want something.

    Feel free to build your own, but don't be surprised that all the cool kids choose Ello instead.

  5. So far it's pretty fun on Ello on Ello Formally Promises To Remain Ad-Free, Raises $5.5M · · Score: 0

    If you don't like it, you probably shouldn't be on it.

  6. Re:Dear Canada.... on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 2

    let's not get all excited there. Gosh is a bit strong of a term to use.

  7. Re:Dear Canada.... on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    Canada is a multi-cultural society and darned proud of it.

  8. Re:Why on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    Canadians will never live in Fear.

    Ever.

    People who think they will have no idea who Canadians are.

    Stay strong.

  9. Re:Why on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    Maybe this guy was distraught because he couldn't find any maple syrup? You KNOW how Canadians can become if they don't have their maple syrup...

    Hmm. Good point. Syrup d'erable is a national treasure.

    But more likely a shortage of Tim Bits.

  10. Re:Why on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    Let me say this again, since it deserves repeating. Time and time again, posters on Slashdot talk about the 'fictitious' threat of terrorism that government uses as the excuse for encroachments on perceived liberties. You, the posters are the reason why an actual coordinated attack within a 'safe' democratic country is news on Slashdot.

    I should point out this attack disastrously failed, due to Canada's strong gun laws and steadfast courage under fire.

    Notice the lack of actual panic, and how bystanders did what they could quickly?

    And a really cool Sergeant-at-Arms. Kudos.

  11. Re:Why on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    Because Canada invented the Telephone, the Communications Satellite, Justin Bieber, and Astronauts Singing In Space.

    OK, one of those was bad, but the others totally rocked.

  12. Video has 9 shots, 3 before, 2 perps on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 2

    A lot of the video is echos, only heard 9 actual. At least 3 at memorial.

    Have only heard of 2 possible perpatrators, one is down.

    Be safe, remember Canadians will never live in Fear, be strong.

    (and to you in America, Canadians do know what to do)

  13. Re:CDC does disease control, NIH does research on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    all three are relevant research studies. gay marriage is legal in most of America, obesity is a known problem (it's Health), primates are our nearest analogs, and the latter choice might not be your cup of tea, but you'd be surprised what people do.

    face it, you just love Russia and want America weak.

  14. Re:All the movies had women in business on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Don't you remember The Breakfast Club?

    Teens. I said women.

  15. Re:unless you recently went to Africa on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 2

    or you were a health care worker caring for Duncan. Or happened to live in the apartment complex where Duncan stayed. Or you happened to be on a flight from Texas to Ohio. Or on a flight from Ohio to Texas. Or one of those within 2 degrees of separation of any of these.

    Read what I said.

    Billions of people on this planet. Hundreds of millions in the US.

    More people die from heat stroke in Texas than are even remotely considered "at potential risk".

    It's like you worry about being attacked by Martians while crossing a busy highway.

    Pay attention to the cars and trucks in the highway.

  16. CDC does disease control, NIH does research on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 2

    The funny thing is it's the cut in NIH funding that means we don't have vaccines, not the cut in CDC funding, which only manages it after it spreads.

    CDC means Center for Disease Control

    NIH means National Institute for Health

    That and the cut for health care in Texas that increased the risk factors.

  17. You are at greater risk of polio on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    If you're a kid and you haven't had a polio shot, you're at greater risk of that.

    Especially if you're at a school for rich kids.

    If you're an adult, your best advice is to get a flu shot.

    Early symptoms of flu are similar. If you get a flu shot, you won't be put in isolation until we know you don't have Ebola.

    That said, you really shouldn't worry about Ebola if you live in the US. Unless you recently went to Africa.

  18. Re:All the movies had women in business on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    Um. No.

    Some of us learned to program in the 70s.

    I think you mean the 60s movie depictions.

  19. Re:All the more reason to get an antenna. on Your Online TV Watching Can Now Be Tracked Across Devices · · Score: 1

    Most of those channels are religious and Spanish channels.

    In case you haven't noticed, there are a lot more Hispanic people than non-Hispanic people in many US states.

    And people like me who like watching soccer games and Hispanic music videos.

  20. All the movies had women in business on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As I recall, it was more that, in movies and TV, women found romance working in business, and rarely in computing.

    Computing meant anti-social. Business meant meeting attractive men in business suits with lots of money and power.

    Geeks only had time travel in bad looking vans.

  21. Welcome to 1984 on Your Online TV Watching Can Now Be Tracked Across Devices · · Score: 1

    I like most people, prefer my constitutionally guaranteed right to Privacy, and Freedom, to Slavery.

  22. Ice lines are a social good on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    And as the founder of the Ice Rustlers of the Open Playa, who helped lead deputized hobby horse riding citizens (many kids) to defend the Ice Bank from the Ice Rustlers of the Open Playa riding their hobby animals (unicorns, giraffes, and other creatures) with their wild and crazy hats, I remember fondly the agonized death scenes (perhaps a bit too overly dramatic) as they were stopped from stealing ice.

    Seriously, you guys are way too serious. Lines are part of the fun.

    If you want convenience and order, what the heck are you doing in the desert, you spoiled brat?

  23. Re:Fission is Dead on Fusion and Fission/LFTR: Let's Do Both, Smartly · · Score: 1

    sorry, had to mock fission reactor locations first, throw in a Pacific Rim 2 reference.

  24. Re:Fission = bad, but not super-bad on Fusion and Fission/LFTR: Let's Do Both, Smartly · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of cheap solar is in fact passive solar, and solar heating/coooling, not solar panels per se.

    Comparing construction accidents for anything done on top of buildings we find they're no more risky than roofing in general.

    Same applies to fusion reactors. The main problems are with radiation shielding, which is the part that becomes radioactive over time. Because it's doing it's job.

    You still have to dispose of it the same way you do with fission reactors, and the materials used in modern fusion have some "salts" that are very unpleasant if not kept separate, and the method to create them can be a bit controversial at times. But all forms of energy creation have negative consequences.

  25. Re:Fission is Dead on Fusion and Fission/LFTR: Let's Do Both, Smartly · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm sorry, you racist European, you forgot Japan.

    You know, Japan where two of their fission reactors are too close to an active volcano that will probably make them explode within ten years.