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  1. Re:Achievement on Tensions Between Archivists and 'Occupy' Protesters Over Preserving the Movement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "In the future they wont even be a foot note, just a bunch of spoiled brats with no goals or directions running around creating havoc and tearing stuff up."

    sounds like our current government.

  2. Re:It's all about an unimpinged right to choose on The Politics of the F.D.A. · · Score: 1

    "You are entitled to your own opinions"

    Not in any professional world I know of that requires licensing.

    Example: Medicine. If you're not qualified to give medical advice, you're not entitled to any opinion. You don't even have the title in the first place which would give you legal authority to that opinion.

  3. Re:Standing on Apple Is Forced By EU To Give 2 Years Warranty On All Its Products · · Score: 1

    Umm, except my battle against EA has been publicized here on this very site.

    I wonder if a term exists for being fatally inept, because you sure meet the criteria.

  4. Re:Standing on Apple Is Forced By EU To Give 2 Years Warranty On All Its Products · · Score: 1

    Standing isn't a major prerequisite.

    Same way I took Electronic Arts' ass out over Spore.

  5. Re:As An American... on Apple Is Forced By EU To Give 2 Years Warranty On All Its Products · · Score: 1

    That doesn't stop us non-Apple users from bringing suit against Apple for violations of the law. It's still a crime against ALL consumers, and since I didn't sign away shit, I am quite free to sue on the side of the people.

  6. Re:Why so few Vista clients? on Researchers Say Kelihos Gang Is Building New Botnet · · Score: 1

    Because Vista was so shitty that even malware crashed before being able to execute.

  7. Re:The battle now begins. on Teacher's Aide Fired For Refusing To Hand Over Facebook Password · · Score: 2

    I would think it only permissible in the case of a clear conflict of interest.

  8. Re:Revolt! on PlayStation 4 'Orbis' Rumors: AMD Hardware, Hostile To Used Games · · Score: 1

    If you actually worked at a Gamestop, you'd know your highest margin earnings (both used and new/peripheral) come on release nights.

    Hi, I used to manage one in Memphis.

  9. Re:Revolt! on PlayStation 4 'Orbis' Rumors: AMD Hardware, Hostile To Used Games · · Score: 1

    "Gamestop makes the vast majority of its money off of used game sales."

    You've never been to an actual release night at a Gamestop, have you?

    Even in the tiny town I was living in, Red Dead Redemption release night had a line going across half the mall's parking lot. That's not a small lot, either. Easily a thousand people.

    Imagine that across the country.

  10. Re:what on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 4, Funny

    You'd have better luck just sitting on a corner, well-dressed, holding a sign saying "Wife won't let me spend my own money on beer."

  11. Plenty of sustainability to be had on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    Go NFT/vertical farming, use SEA-90 and some minor chemical supplementation of nitrogen, and teach the people how to operate the system.

    Disclaimer: I design these kinds of systems - here's one of them featured on BBC's CountryFile.

  12. Re:Quickly! on New SimCity To Require Constant Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    Given North America's current 23% packet loss and multiple core pipelines out I think your sarcasm isn't warranted. That's not including the rest of the world, just my native area.

  13. Re:Is it that mind blowing? on Particle-Wave Duality Demonstrated With Largest Molecules Yet · · Score: 1

    This is being done with molecules made with more than one type of atom, not just pure-carbon buckyballs. That's the other part that got me.

  14. Re:Movie on Particle-Wave Duality Demonstrated With Largest Molecules Yet · · Score: 1

    That is absolutely nuts. Thanks for the link.

  15. Holy Hell that's large on Particle-Wave Duality Demonstrated With Largest Molecules Yet · · Score: 3

    Imagine, we previously thought this only happened with quantum particles, such as photons. This is being demonstrated on MUCH larger (relatively) scales, on a molecular level.

    This is mind-blowing. Not only does it not have to be in the EM spectrum, but it can be done with (again, relatively) massive particles.

  16. Re:Why Video? on Slashdot Asks: How To Best Record Remote Video Interviews? · · Score: 0

    To read body language, for one.

  17. Re:Undisclosed? on Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Apple's got enough money to just sink Micro Systemation. I have the feeling if Apple wanted this thing closed, they'd have done it long ago.

  18. I'll take the offtopic mod - fuck Beats on Murdoch Faces Allegations of Sabotage · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just bought a cheap-ass pair of Hype cube headphones. Comfy, responsive, and very lightweight. $2.50 on sale at Walgreens.

    Not quite as good as my MDR-V150s, but pretty close. I haven't pushed them through a serious amp yet, but that will happen tomorrow.

  19. Re:Violation of Facebook ToS on Senators Ask Feds To Probe Facebook Log-in Requests · · Score: 1

    Yes, Yes, Tortious Interference.

  20. Re:Prohibition on Red Wine and the Secret of Superconductivity · · Score: 3, Informative

    Again, your links suck. Especially with a SELECTED SAMPLE GROUP OF TEN FUCKING PEOPLE.

    Do you know how studies with reputation work? It isn't with a shitty sample that small.

  21. Re:Prohibition on Red Wine and the Secret of Superconductivity · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your go.com link is bullshit - "They acknowledged some limitations, including the use of self-reported data, the lack of adjustment for a family history of psychosis, and possible bias from selected recall" - that much doubt means it's not even worth considering. When they eliminate all those doubts and get within 6-sigma I'll consider it.

    Ditto your sciencedaily (which is about as reliable as the Daily Mail) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360494/ - in fact there are hundreds more reliable studies than the crap you're posting, which aren't even from reliable sources.

  22. Bah, Pi. on Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable · · Score: 1

    Real composers would use Avogadro's Constant!

  23. Re:I'm not going to make the tablet mistake again. on New iPad Jailbroken Already · · Score: 1

    Amplitube, what a piece of crap. Came with my Tracktion sotware. Pure garbage.

    And no, my built-in mics are just fine. Software for tuning typically doesn't come with a Harmonic Graph to see what's distorting the signal to the mic.

    Luckily, there's free stuff that's old and still works with Windows 7 - Like this one.

  24. Re:Stops us getting inside? on iFixit's Kyle Wiens On the War On DIY Electronics · · Score: 1

    You don't have an invention, sadly. We use something quite similar disassembling all-in-one desktops that are held together using the nearly same adhesive, and even some of my LED panels use similar thermal adhesives.

  25. Re:Stops us getting inside? on iFixit's Kyle Wiens On the War On DIY Electronics · · Score: 1

    Guitar picks come in many different thicknesses, and their shape lends to their utility in separating bezels.

    But of course, a guitarist, like myself, would find a guitar pick naturally easy to use. Tortex .73 Medium would be just fine for me and a 600w heat gun to rip through the iPads.