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  1. useful on Adult Dating Site Hack Reveals Users' Sexual Preference, Extramarital Affairs · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Our government is out of control anyway, anything that allows blackmail, removal from office, misery in their lives. etc is a good thing

  2. not significant on ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula · · Score: 0

    300 cubic kilometers of ice is nothing compared to the volume of the ocean, it is no different than a bucketfull.

    Meanwhile antarctic ice is increasing overall.

  3. Re:Sudden? on ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula · · Score: 1

    Wrong pole, pal.

    We are not talking about the Arctic (which melts every summer by the way), but the Antarctic

  4. Re:Minimum Wage on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    Maybe the question is rotten.

  5. Re:Minimum Wage on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    Or at least phone spell checker ware writers are overpaid...

  6. Re:Hmm... on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    No, there are also those of us who can make many times minimum wage with skills we devoted years to honing

  7. Re:Bye Bye California! on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    Nah they'll just hire more illegals

  8. Re:Hmm... on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1, Troll

    We get things from large corporations. That computer you are typing on is one. What do I get from lazy morons?

  9. Re:Minimum Wage on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of us can perform work that is work $100 an hour or more. Some people cannot perform any task worth even $5 an hour. Life is unfair.

  10. Re:Let me know on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    I'd like to test Rule 34 involving walnut cracking via female comic heroines using various parts of their anatomy, but I'm at work

  11. Re:*sigh* on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    you are confused, males want fanservice type females in their comics

  12. Re:Really? on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I've had to do it for graduate course (on a Vax of all things); I just what to see if AC is blowing smoke

  13. Re:Really? on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I've been doing systems / kernel coding for over three decades on mainframe (what'd you call Z/VM and Z/OS now), VMS, Unix, BSD ....bring it on

  14. oh? what bottlenecks would NOT be common to long distance by fiber compared to microwave in air

  15. Re:Careful betting on future technology on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    And 20 years ago if I said people would be talking into their mobile phones for automated search and directions you'd say

    "I don't. The cellular phone machines we have are incredibly crude right now..."

  16. Re:Cursive on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    that's a hoot considering where a ton of phishing, fraud, and telephone scams originate

    or did you mean diligent crook work ethic?

  17. Re:Typing will be with us for a long time on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    I could see QERTY disappearing within two decades. Machines reading (a small simple portion of ) mind already a reality.

  18. Re:I don't understand.. on Microwave Comms Betwen Population Centers Could Be Key To Easing Internet Bottlenecks · · Score: 2

    That was first proposed in the 17th century by monk Francesco Lana de Terzi.

    The elasticity divided by square of the density would have to be about 4.5 that of diamond. Such a material might be made someday

  19. sorry pal, speed of light in fiber is much slower than in air, roughly c divided by cladding index which might be 1.4 or so

  20. Re:I don't understand.. on Microwave Comms Betwen Population Centers Could Be Key To Easing Internet Bottlenecks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Speed of light in fibre is about two-thirds that of vacuum.

  21. Re:"6.41%" on Schools That Ban Mobile Phones See Better Academic Results · · Score: 2

    6% of a standard deviation is essentially zero

  22. Re:Affirmative Action on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 1

    You dumb-ass, slavery and caste are in Asia too.

    Quit saying one particular group gets a blanket pass for sub-par performance, or higher crime rates, or to get handouts because of their ancestor's troubles.

  23. Re:Affirmative Action on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 1

    X is bad when used against anyone; we're not a "color-blind" society yet

  24. Re:It's a PR campaign on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "No pilot would be so reckless as to crash a jumbo jet into a mountain." "No doctor would be so reckless as to implant an unpreserved long-dead black market donor organ into a patient"

    You are silly

  25. Re:What next? on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    and if they use keypunch it'll fit on a punched card