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  1. Oddly, Mine is a Lenovo W540 on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    Trackpad aside. It has the power to do most computing chores, from CAD, to video and photo editing, watching movies, etc. .

    If I had my way, I would have a smoking fast dual-core, and a good Nvidia GPU, in a thinkpad yoga form.

  2. Nobel is an Misogynistic Organization on Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Criticizes Role of Women In Labs · · Score: 1

    Earned his Noble stamp of approval!
    Did you think that Nobel-anything would respect women?

  3. Does it consider cleanup, storage, and accident? on Cool Tool: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Cost Calculator · · Score: 1

    Does it consider cleanup, storage, and accident, or just the raw price of the fuel.

  4. Cinnamon Is Great! on Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements · · Score: 1

    Cinnamon is clearly the best Linux Desktop.
    Thanks for working on it.

  5. You fools! on The Patriot Act May Be Dead For Good · · Score: 1

    You screwed up the anthrax shipments we were supposed to use in the flag operation, so we can get the Patriot Act renewed. Now what are we going to do?

  6. Shit! on Live Anthrax Shipped Accidentally To S Korea and US Labs · · Score: 1

    Now we can't use it for false flag operations : (

  7. Ross Ulbricht: More Reason to End The War on Drugs on Murder Accusations Hang Over Silk Road Boss Ulbricht's Sentencing · · Score: 1

    Most of us have learned a lot about drugs in the last two decades, but sadly not our government.

  8. K1100M, Not Enough on Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation Packs Thunderbolt 2, Quadro, IGZO2 Panel · · Score: 1

    K2100, Not quite enough.

  9. Idiots on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Offer no benefit for saving gas, are they out of their F'n minds?

  10. Wake up, the Drug War is Over on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    What a waste of time and money, jailing people $40,000/yr.
    Do you want to pay for that?

  11. Save Space, Switch to ODT on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Open Document Format? · · Score: 3

    I've written several books. Because ODT's have standard compression, they are usually much smaller. For a 109,683 word book, with styles and formatting:
    ODT: 271,090 bytes
    Docx: 300,057 bytes
    Word 97: 1,379,328 bytes
    PDF: 1,050,788 bytes

    If bytes cost money to store ODT rules.

    Imagine yourself sticking with Word 97 because it's a reliable standard: imagine buying three times as much storage, as well as the backup for the storage,

  12. Viri: good luck removing it.

  13. Who will be the first person to die from a driverless car?
    Think your lawyer can stand up to Google and DARPA?

  14. Bad Idea on Ask Slashdot: What's the Future of Desktop Applications? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Stuff like this is marketing people's dream: dependence. Though, seen through the eyes of marketing people, they only consider the small select applications they use, but those office applications are only a small part of what people use.

    Applications like CAD, Design, Bitmap Editing, 2D vector art applications would run terribly slow over the net.

    The things people use to make your stuff would become more expensive as it is starting to happen, and those costs will be passed onto you.

    It would be a bad computer world where would could not afford a company to throw the switch, and discontinue your product in one day with no warning.

    If there was a disaster or real war (on our soil), no one would be able to work, at all, because there would be concentrated central points of failure.

  15. No! Faster laptops, please. on Fastest 4.5 Watt Core M 5Y71 In Asus T300 Chi Competitive With Full Core i5 CPUs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am getting tired of Volkswagon Beetle laptop computer. Intel is just now making a U-series processor as fast as an 4-year old M.
    Are we heading into the computer dark ages?

  16. James Comey: Quit on James Comey: the Man Who Wants To Outlaw Encryption · · Score: 1

    You fail to realize that peaceful democratic political change sometimes happens behind closed doors, like hopefully, the firing of you.
    Read the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and check again to see if what you are doing agrees, or if you should go somewhere else.

  17. For those who can read... on US Appeals Court Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Not Authorized By Congress · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Amendment IV

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

  18. Like to Know Required Taxi Insurance on Massachusetts Governor Introduces Bill To Regulate Uber, Lyft · · Score: 1

    How much coverage do cab drivers have to carry?

  19. Um, Tell the Male Engineers.... on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1

    Tell the Male Engineers not to be cocky assholes?

  20. Thank God on US Successfully Tests Self-Steering Bullets · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Someone might have lived.

  21. Just An Excuse on New Privacy Threat: Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection · · Score: 1

    No on gives a rat's ass about the U.S. Constitution anymore.
    What country are they working for?
    Not this one.

  22. Tired of Gforce / Quadro Marketing Crap on NVIDIA Quadro M6000 12GB Maxwell Workstation Graphics Tested Showing Solid Gains · · Score: 1

    The triangles shouldn't care if they are being rendered for a game or cad.
    With Nvidia, you have a choice of a workstation card that cannot cool itself, or a a gaming card that has been intentionally crippled for CAD.

  23. Link for Mint on Ubuntu 15.04 Released, First Version To Feature systemd · · Score: 1
  24. More Blowjobs? on Comcast and TWC Will Negotiate With Officials To Save Their Merger · · Score: 1

    Let's see if they have any more backbone than the FTC.

  25. Benefits Don't Outweigh Liver Damage on Acetaminophen Reduces Both Pain and Pleasure, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    I just don't take Acetaminophen anymore. I can't say that it ever helped pain for me. Besides, it kills cats.