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  1. Re:Anthropometrics on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 0

    Because, you complete fucking genius, not everyone is 5' 2'' tall and of medium build. Why, if you are 6' tall, are you penalised with having to buy a more expensive ticket?

  2. It's not what it is on Getting Into College the Old Fashioned Way: With Money · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...a college-admission consultancy founded by Steven Ma, and largely catering to ambitious Asian immigrants like Ma, and their offspring

    but its not racism. Racism is only practiced by white people.

  3. Perfect! Let's build the perfect startup garage... on Willow Garage Founder Scott Hassan Aims To Build a Startup Village · · Score: 1

    ...slap bang in the middle of the most expensive real estate in the US.

    Brilliant!

  4. Is there any way to stop auto-play? on Facebook Blamed For Driving Up Cellphone Bills, But It's Not Alone · · Score: 1

    I use Chrome and Firefox and autoplay is driving me nuts. Is there an auto-play killer out there?

  5. Re:ITT... on Uber Now Blocked All Over Germany · · Score: 2

    +1 Informative

    The hype around Uber and the low prices is based on not paying for proper insurance, permits, qualifications or ensuring the maintenance of the cars. It's unfair competition by undermining businesses by purposely ignoring laws passed by the democratic will of the people.

    It's called "anti-competitive dumping" and its purpose is to drive lawful services out of the market.

  6. My moot question on Interview: Ask Christopher "moot" Poole About 4chan and Social Media · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Are you a psychopath or did you just provide the world's greatest support group for psychopaths by chance?

  7. It's the tipping point! on Study: Antarctic Sea-Level Rising Faster Than Global Rate · · Score: 1

    Local sea level has risen 2mm around Antarctica in 10 years. Everyone run to higher ground!

  8. Now the shuttle program has gone.. on NASA's Competition For Dollars · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...perhaps NASA can do some serious exploration.

    Except we still have the flying boondoggle from the Reagan administration, the ISS, sucking money away from exploration and giving it to the Russian government to launch and retrieve people and stuff from LEO for profit.

    The return on investment for the ISS has been pathetic.

  9. Re:And the Mac Pro is now obsolete or soon will be on Intel's Haswell-E Desktop CPU Debuts With Eight Cores, DDR4 Memory · · Score: 1

    That's just nonsense. Just because there are taller buildings doesn't make the Empire State Building any smaller.

  10. Re:***Big intake of breath*** on Intel's Haswell-E Desktop CPU Debuts With Eight Cores, DDR4 Memory · · Score: 1

    I'm almost going to buy one. But only if I can get better performance that makes the extra money worth it.

    At the moment - naaaah!

  11. Re:Nice on Intel's Haswell-E Desktop CPU Debuts With Eight Cores, DDR4 Memory · · Score: 1

    I have a similar spec in a laptop workstation where I run cloud software in VMware workstation. For most people 24GB of RAM and a quad-core i7 is not going to make their wordprocessing or browsing any better, so for most people tablets are more convenient and useful.

    Cores matter in virtualization of course, but at the moment, the slowest component is the hard disk.

  12. Re:Obligatory on Intel's Haswell-E Desktop CPU Debuts With Eight Cores, DDR4 Memory · · Score: 1

    No you'll have to wait for the upgrade with the industrial cooling unit bolted on. Then you might get it usable.

    YMMV

  13. ***Big intake of breath*** on Intel's Haswell-E Desktop CPU Debuts With Eight Cores, DDR4 Memory · · Score: 1

    But does it run Linux?

  14. Re:Travel trailers have dual use. on Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake? · · Score: 1

    This is interesting stuff. Where do you recommend buying this equipment?

  15. Re: Jurisdiction 101 on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We've never had freedom of expression in the UK. Or Freedom of Speech. Or Government by the consent of the people.

  16. Re:"Hard redirect" on Rightscorp's New Plan: Hijack Browsers Until Infingers Pay Up · · Score: 1

    and all music "wants to be free"

  17. There are denier neighborhoods? Clusters of deniers who live together to plot the destruction of the earth while taking huge amounts of money from fossil fuel companies?

    What an amazing fantasy world you live in.

  18. Re:Quit whaling on Jimmy on Wikipedia Gets Critical Reception from UK Press at Wikimania 2014 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wikipedia is one big link farm, cultivated by idiot slaves to further Jimbo Wales's other businesses like Wikia. And your point was?

  19. But what about open source? on NFL Players To Use Tablet Computers During Games · · Score: 0

    I mean, can Linux do this?

  20. Re:American football on NFL Players To Use Tablet Computers During Games · · Score: 1

    'Cause in Oz, it's all about rooting for your favourite team

    Most Aussies root because they can and they must.

  21. PANIC! on US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Zombie Apocalypse is nearly upon us! Run ! RUNNNNNN!

  22. Re:And Greenpeace runs its ships on pure sunshine on Greenpeace: Amazon Fire Burns More Coal and Gas Than It Should · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually Greenpeace is about the white middle-class telling everyone else that they can't develop because they will cook the planet. And every argument they make about the cooking of the planet is couched in ad hominem attacks against people who disbelieve everything that comes from their mouths.

    What exactly does Greenpeace do running these ships? It ain't useful to the planet that's for sure.

  23. And Greenpeace runs its ships on pure sunshine on Greenpeace: Amazon Fire Burns More Coal and Gas Than It Should · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...although that sunshine was 100 million years ago which was then coverted into fossil fuels.

  24. Re:Uncertainty/fear? on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 0

    Congratulations on managing to fool Slashdotters who think you're serious. Kudos.

    You win the Internet.

  25. Re:TrueCripled to be released late 2014 on Auditors Release Verified Repositories of TrueCrypt · · Score: 1

    How will we tell?