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  1. Re:And this, kids ... on Ask Slashdot: Finding Work Over 60? · · Score: 1

    After being out for 3 yrs and presumably not going under financially...perhaps he doesn't HAVE to work at 60 to get by, but he would LIKE to work to feel productive and to improve retirement?

  2. Re:Dealing with Management on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Ha, for doing this the goal should get management high and laid back. Treat the problem at the source.

  3. Re:Eh it all comes down to moderation on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Will Google and Apple supply it along with their other campus freebies? :)

  4. Re:Mmmmnnn... on Discovery of Early Human Tools Hint at Earlier Start · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they had their own substances before Alcohol came along...I'd imagine that people have been getting high/drunk for at least a few hundred thousand years if not longer.

  5. huh? on James Bond Film Skyfall Inspired By Stuxnet Virus · · Score: 2

    The "brave new world" is "smartphones" (and tablets, wifi, etc.)

  6. healthcare on Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force · · Score: 1

    Not so...

    If you're poor and get medicare, you're far better off than a middle class person who can't afford $10K/yr in health insurance or is being refused by insurers. It's a life and death matter. I'd rather be alive and poor than middle class and dead.

    We need universal healthcare for all.

  7. Re:Just happy to see a Republican supporting scien on Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force · · Score: 1

    I bet you'll want us to get off your lawn next? You suffered...therefore everyone else should?

    Most students do have trouble paying off their loans, and when they're saddled with $100K to $200K in debt at 22 yrs old with an engineering job paying $60K/yr if they're lucky it can be pretty debilitating. But these are perhaps the lucky ones...the real tragedy is all the students that don't enter school to begin with for financial reasons.

    Georgia, California, and Texas offer completely free college/university. If Florida doesn't have the funds to do this (which I think is the best option) then allocating the money it has based on needs makes sense.

  8. accountability... on Internal Bug: Code Flaw May Lead to Wrong Dose From Infusion Pump · · Score: 2

    Seems like there ought to be multiple third party code audits and product testing before these go to market. How liable is a company for software bugs that cause significant damage or kill? To what degree to third party audits remediate the level of liability? Scary stuff.

  9. Re:So...um... on NASA Working On Refueling Satellites · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a single refueling robot that can top off several satellites and reposition a few more is cost effective enough to justify a one-time refueling satellite? Long term, we could imagine that such robots will be refueled via space based resources (asteroid mining, etc).

  10. Re:I'll bet it has writing on it that says on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 1

    Don't think Russia has active rovers on any planet...let alone Venus.

  11. Re:I'll bet it has writing on it that says on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    No. We have 3 rovers on Mars. 0 on Venus.

  12. bring the jobs back to the USA!! on Will Your Next iPhone Be Built By Robots? · · Score: 1

    ...and give them to robots

  13. Re:CT scan on For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive · · Score: 1

    ...yes...but what will I wear to my CT scan? And can I eat before it?

  14. Re:Ian Malcom from Jurassic Park on For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive · · Score: 1

    I started wearing rival team t-shirts to family events just to poke fun at the idea of caring about a pro sports team...but my sarcasm is lost on them.

  15. Re:it worries me on For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive · · Score: 1

    I pop my clothing off a stack...it's last in first out.
    And yes, there is a stack of clothing on my floor where clean clothes gets dumped.

  16. Re:it worries me on For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive · · Score: 1

    Although there were clothes being stored in the Wardrobe. It's only once you moved past all the stored clothes that you entered the portal. It was very novel for its time...a hybrid closet and portal.

  17. Re:Complicate? on Apple iPad Mini Could Complicate Things For Windows 8 Tablets · · Score: 1

    I was with you until the last sentence. Let me help you out.

    I would argue that it does considerably more than simply complicate things. The iPad mini will show that Apple can create and expand upon a range of high quality devices on what is essentially a single platform. It's all about the ecosystem that you can buy today vs. Microsoft's ever persistent promises of a better tomorrow. While that may be an oversimplification, most end users just want something that works, looks great, and makes their lives easier. Currently, I don't see that with Windows.

  18. Re:Who fucking cares? on Apple iPad Mini Could Complicate Things For Windows 8 Tablets · · Score: 2

    Actually, if you replace the X with "Apple" and the Y with "Microsoft"...they seem pretty connected. You can't throw me off with your skillful use of variables in quotes!

  19. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    But do you know how to AVOID the NOID?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoid_the_Noid

  20. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    I wanted to include sharks with lasers...but alas...there's no water.

  21. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    Rather than helmets,US bikers would wear anti-personnel mines that trigger on impact, then cars and drivers would provide them with plenty of space on the road. Or perhaps have them tie hornet's nest to the bike so that it opens on impact. Or perhaps put some killer rabbits in that attached wicker basket so that they can get out if the bike falls over.

  22. Re:The fear of ceasing to exist if not on the phon on Why It's Bad That Smartphones Have Banished Boredom · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I think we as humans can't stand to be alone with ourselves doing nothing...so we call people for the social contact. In the old days, this need was satiated by writing letters and sending them off....despite the obvious latency. On the flip side, my commute is often the only time of the day/week when I have time to make personal calls...so all my relationship maintaining calls get crammed into an hour or less each day when I'm commuting.

  23. marketing spin... on Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This new ver of Windows introduces many new features. So many, in fact, that we're still finding and counting them.

  24. Re:very simple lesson from this on NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes · · Score: 1

    The US could learn a lesson or two from NZ. Impressive. Now NZ should compensate Kim for his business/personal losses.

  25. Re:Oh! "We're Very Sorry"?! on NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes · · Score: 1

    not multi million dollar company...but BILLION dollar company...according to some valuations bf the incident