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  1. Re:Lets talk about unfunded wars on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    Raising taxes reduces government revenue? Woah.

  2. Re:Bad Idea on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    Bullshit and buggery. If the government doesn't profit whatsoever, how does it grow to meet future demands of a larger populace? You are saying the government must operate on debt, just for the fuck of it.

  3. Price Pfister? on Breakthrough Toward Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    I hear Price Pfister is releasing a breakthrough new design in Commodes, called the Qmode!

  4. Re:From the department of... on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    Hey now, not all of us experienced life pre-internet.

  5. Lol on The Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Inclusion of functionality from untrusted control sphere != missing authentication for critical function != input validation error?

    Same fucking difference.

    My favorite is attempting to prevent access by not printing the link / form control, and then doing no validation.

  6. News? on LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' · · Score: 1

    LSD and Psilocybin have been known for decades to be the most effective treatments for cluster headaches as well as migraines. You may be familiar with previous headache drugs like Imitrex. This family of drugs are in fact all analogs of the aforementioned hallucinogens.

    Now if the motherfuckers would just let us take the effective form, rather than a shitty derivative that I immediately develop resistance to, I could avoid spending 72 hours each month in horrible pain, vomiting away my teeth and cardiovascular health.

  7. Cool Story on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    I'll brb, manually wiping the save slot on my Mercenaries 3D game.

  8. Re:Otherwise known as... on Passcodes Prove Predictable · · Score: 1

    Man, Slashdot is really down the drain. I expected Benford's law to be mentioned in the summary. If not there, one of the *first* comments. I also expected the first mention to be accurate!

    Now almost any article is like... "Wait what, they didn't mention [relevant science/math detail]!" Search for a mention in the comments... and the first one is halfway down *and* requires correction.

  9. Re:Faulty Premise on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 2

    Playing memory games. Doing the crossword. Making an effort to speak with a more varied vocabulary. Doing math problems. Practicing for the IQ test increases your IQ.

  10. Re:If your Content Management software.... on Book Review: Drupal Web Services · · Score: 1

    Called "Wordpress". Head and shoulders above Joomla/Drupal in usability. No ridiculous "Oh, you want [basic functionality]? That's in a community-supported module. That is out of date and broken. Have fun!"

  11. Re:So tell me on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    BUT YOU HAVE TO LEARN FUN-DA-MENTALS FIRST! HOW CAN YOU LEARN TO SOLDER W/O KNOWING HOW TO SPELL?!? BLAAAAH

    But anyhow... I went through hell in math curriculum because I was bad at doing arithmetic tables (learning disability in terms of calculation skills) and therefore "wasn't fit" to move through all that algebra curriculum (that I already fucking knew).

  12. Re:Did your congressman do his duty? on Senate Passes 4-Year Re-Up of Patriot Act Provisions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Over time we'll get a picture of how rapidly power corrupts them. Then we can determine how quickly we need to swap them out with a new group. Problem solved.

  13. Re:Did your congressman do his duty? on Senate Passes 4-Year Re-Up of Patriot Act Provisions · · Score: 1

    Dissenting to save face when you know it won't have any effect is not the same as protecting our rights. You don't expect a fucking filibuster when it comes to something like, oh, continuing to suspend our rights in spite of a total lack of terrorist attacks against us?

  14. Re:Did your congressman do his duty? on Senate Passes 4-Year Re-Up of Patriot Act Provisions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    However, they've recognized that the only way to impact politics on a meaningful level is to join the existing two party system.

    Am I the only one who noticed that the Tea Party was co-opted and neutralized by the Republican party? It wasn't without huuuuge expenditure of time, effort, and money that the Tea Party was redefined from "radical splinter group in opposition to the Republocrat system" to "militant wing of the Republican party".

  15. Re:Did your congressman do his duty? on Senate Passes 4-Year Re-Up of Patriot Act Provisions · · Score: 1

    I've got one. Let's start a political party founded on the premise that parties are terrible at policy and issues, and should focus on the *party* aspect.

    "We are firm believers in personal politics. That is why we, as a party, have no platform. Vote for someone you fucking agree with, not someone who totes the party line."

    Then, throw the fattest parties of any party. I'd call it the Purple Party.

  16. Re:Yawn. on Senate Passes 4-Year Re-Up of Patriot Act Provisions · · Score: 0

    Or, as Buckminster Fuller would say, it falls in. In towards the center of gravity. I'm gonna go take the stairs out to the second floor.

  17. THE solution lies in the UI on DNS Heavyweights Raise Concern Over DNS Filtering · · Score: 1

    We simply need a new URI scheme. Let us link to a name that is not in the "central root" of the DNS.
    dig:nameserver.example.com;http://mywebsite.lol

    Use the normal DNS root to bootstrap names of nameservers.

  18. Re:Quantum Theory is not relevant on Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness? · · Score: 1

    Everything has to make decisions, and once the decision making becomes complicated enough, we draw an arbitrary line and call it consciousness?

  19. Re:Quantum Theory is not relevant on Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness? · · Score: 1

    Within the realms of observation, consciousness clearly supervenes upon QM, as everything we see and call conscious is made of matter! And QM principles of uncertainty are what excuse of from problems of determinism versus free will. But clearly, that which you study functions at a much larger level, such that QM is only important because chemistry supervenes on it.

    Does that sound right?

  20. Re:Funny Thing on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    Everyone loves to say "blah blah blah you aren't wise enough to make those judgments." What makes them think they are? The fact that they are in line with prevailing wisdom from a system that is going completely to shit? -_-
    Anyways, +1 fictional mod point.

  21. Re:Because nobody with a degree ever had an idea? on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    No, he is not talking about the fact that a few people buck the trend of failing at life after dropping out. He is talking about a different trend: that extreme successes tend to be dropouts. I think the folks with degrees who have ideas tend to give over the fruits of their success to the corporation that hired them out of school, rather than to their own organization they formed.

  22. Re:Neat! on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    *VC scene

  23. Re:Neat! on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    You continue to presume they are trying to satisfy VCs by creating fads. You also seem to think that somehow going to school gives you more time to learn. That is the opposite of the truth. You also imply that somehow the knowledge for those fields is not available outside of universities. To think that is to be ignorant of the existence of the internet.

    Why do you think these people are going to be "in the VS scene"? If you read the descriptions, most of them are going to be in their private labs, enjoying total autonomy. Furthermore, most of them demonstrated the capacity to give themselves advanced educations from very young ages already.

  24. Re:Neat! on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    *isn't a $100k VC investment

  25. Re:Neat! on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? Read more than the fucking summary, asshole. Essentially all of the people in this batch of 20 are gifted researchers doing R&D in the hard sciences. This is a $100k VC investment by any stretch, this is making it so people can get of the ground without having to support themselves with a day job. Nobody is starting hip websites here.