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  1. mixing for vinyl on Sony Will Start Pressing Vinyl Records After 28-Year Hiatus (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to compromise the mix to keep the needle in the groove. So, yeah, perhaps 8-track would give you a more accurate representation of what's on the master tape. I'll take CD over vinyl any day, provided they didn't just get lazy and put the lp master on the CD.

  2. Is there a systematic bias? on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's called Socialism. It distorts market prices and thus causes misallocation of resources. Don't look to Keynes or Krugman for your economics.

  3. They're kidding, right? on Senate Bill Draft Would Prohibit Unbreakable Encryption (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    All encryption is breakable. The recipient has to be able to read it, right? You just have to factor the product of two very big prime numbers to break public key encryption.

  4. Federalist #10 was WRONG! on 2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors · · Score: 0

    Those who think MOAR government is MOAR better (including Comrade Sanders) have another think coming.

  5. Dunning-Kruger poster children on Most Americans Support Government Action On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    "The trouble with ignorance is that it feels so much like expertise." We Are All Confident Idiots

  6. It's what they do, dammit! on Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service · · Score: 1

    The reprobates at Network Solutions re-enable auto renew every couple of months, forcing me to log in and turn it off again. Someone should write a Firefox add-on to do that automatically. The cretinous chimps have also been guessing the new expiration dates on expired credit cards in order to charge those auto renewals.

  7. No, it might not on Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux · · Score: 5, Insightful
  8. Re:Thorn on Man Campaigns For Addition of 'Th' Key To Keyboard · · Score: 2

    Use the "Y" key for the thorn. Didn't you RTFW?

  9. I just can't wait for the malware! on Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon · · Score: 1

    I wonder what my electric bill will be like when my light bulbs are mining bitcoins for China?

  10. Out of print? on What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't · · Score: 1

    If an intellectual property isn't worth keeping available for sale, then the copyright owner should lose their exclusive copyright. Copyright is to promote the progress of science and useful arts, not facilitate their abandonment and loss!

  11. Re:oh boy ! on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: 1
    You really are the beneficiary of a Progressive Education of you believe that class warfare is the GOP's plan:

    Class Warfare: The Mortal Enemy Of Economic Growth And Jobs
    The Communist Manifesto

  12. 8-inch floppies... on Ask Slashdot: What Were You Taught About Computers In High School? · · Score: 1

    Eight-inch floppies that booted the UCSD p-System on a Western Digital Pascal Microengine. I wrote a 3-D tic-tac-toe game in Pascal.

  13. Re:Standard Procedure on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 1

    There ya go thinkin' again. It's unconstitutional to arrest or detain a congressman traveling to or from congress (article I, section VI).

  14. Irresponsible content producers on RIAA Lawyer Complains DMCA May Need Revamp · · Score: 1

    Responsible content producers don't produce content they can't afford to protect.

  15. Stop!! on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    Stop turning food into fuel!

  16. F.A. Hayek's "The Fatal Conceit" on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Learn About Game Theory and AI? · · Score: 1

    Central planning doesn't work nearly as well as decentralization of knowledge does.

  17. Artificial Intelligence 2012 on Can AI Games Create Super-Intelligent Humans? · · Score: 2

    The gold farming bot that can pay off a $14.8 trillion debt has my vote!

  18. Re:The only "nasty consequences" require courage on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    Your "honest" people don't seem to have a problem with the theft that is income taxes and sales taxes and for some reason they never consider good private services that compete to keep prices down. "The socialists believe in two things which are absolutely different and perhaps even contradictory: freedom and organization." - Élie Halévy

  19. Re:From TFA: "entirely voluntary" on White House Releases Trusted Internet ID Plan · · Score: 1

    Probably more like EDIPI: .

  20. technology thought leadership on Eric Schmidt Out, Larry Page In As Google CEO · · Score: 1

    I'd like to get paid to sit around all day and just think about technology. I'd send Google my resume, but the technology I'd think about is over thirty years old.

  21. Powerhouse on Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law · · Score: 1

    Raymond Scott's Powerhouse should be mandated by law to play from all electric/hybrid vehicles.

  22. Stunned... No, I'm not. I lied. on ChromeOS Laptop-Smashing Ad Equation Solved · · Score: 2

    How long, exactly, did it take Google to re-invent the X-terminal? Good thing they aren't hiring old-farts like me, or they'd fire me for laughing at their history-repeating ignorance.

  23. Re:What World Does He Live On? on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    It's news when it toes the party line of the Democratic Socialists of America.... Duh!

  24. is anyone surprised? on Android vs. iPhone 4 Signal Strength Bars Comparison · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm quite sure that AT&T and Apple have always been aware that their phones were fudging the signal quality indicator on their product... Reality is hard to sell when your competitors fudge their numbers, too.

  25. Oh, God, please, no... on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    I really think I've had my fill of Frankie MacDonald and his California earthquake predictions on YouTube.