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

    Pretty usually usually. Cool story bro. Also, glad you had an experience that differs from many.

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

    But you made spelling errors! SO THERE!

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

    It can also get you an irrational but cocksure way of thinking. And it can also give you a broad but shallow knowledge of many subjects that many people you will encounter will have deep knowledge of and be frustrated by your constant stepping on their toes with your 'educated stupid' commentary. Hooray for being well-rounded through terrible quality GEs!

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

    Does the degree even establish much anymore? I seem to be hearing from many sources on the grapevine / interblag that a portfolio of real output is much more useful in judging an applicant than a CSBS. Articles are surfacing saying "don't even pay attention to degrees, they are useless for judging a candidate."

  5. Re:Totally Overated Pseudo Research on 16-Year-Old Discovers Potential Treatment For Cystic Fibrosis · · Score: 1

    The other 10% that isn't nut job parents instilling their nuttiness in their kids is actually just sending them through the same academic channels out of sequence. A lot of homeschoolers just go to community college or get curriculum from a homeschool group.

  6. Re:Totally Overated Pseudo Research on 16-Year-Old Discovers Potential Treatment For Cystic Fibrosis · · Score: 1

    You are wrong in your understanding of science. Nobody came to a conclusion without using almost entirely information from elsewhere. For example, how did the researchers discover the mechanism of action of the drugs? Did they try random things and then investigate what worked, or did they synthesize known facts about how the systems worked into an engineering feet that acted upon those facts? You've described the only possible routes for science, and then called this kid somehow unimpressive or unmeritorious because he used them.

  7. Squelch him! on 16-Year-Old Discovers Potential Treatment For Cystic Fibrosis · · Score: 1

    We have barriers to entry for a reason! Think about the guys who actually spent 8 years in academia in order to get to work on this problem!

  8. Re:What's your problem on Book Review: Using CiviCRM · · Score: 1

    Get 'em under payola laws.

  9. Re:The quiz lumps different things into one class on Easily Distracted People May Have 'Too Much Brain' · · Score: 1

    Actually they seem like indicators of opposite behaviors. Being preoccupied so as to fail to see your surroundings is the opposite of what one usually thinks of in the case of ADD.

  10. Re:a new excuse for feckless behavior. on Easily Distracted People May Have 'Too Much Brain' · · Score: 1

    Fuck off. How about "I can't pay attention because I learned this 4 years ago and am thinking about much more advanced topics?" It's been 'an excuse' forever. Now it is backed by science, and you 'conventional thinkers' can SHOVE IT and go dig a ditch.

  11. Re:And...? on Easily Distracted People May Have 'Too Much Brain' · · Score: 1

    Thank you! Dull witted folks running the world continue to fuck over the more intelligent students. How about we respond by NOT FUCKING DOING THAT ANYMORE?

  12. Re:This is good. on Google Allows Carriers To Ban Tethering Apps · · Score: 1

    You don't know what you are talking about icebike. We are all bombarded with these agreements on a regular basis because NOBODY USES AUTO-AGREE PROVISIONS. I'll bet you can guess why too.

  13. Re:How about a mapping tool for WM6 C# .NET? on Developers: MS Hopes To Lure iOS Apps With API Mapping Tool · · Score: 1

    "whose apps are now worthless" You say that as if they had worth at one time!

  14. How to? on Developers: MS Hopes To Lure iOS Apps With API Mapping Tool · · Score: 2

    So let's see, what's the API to pop up the Apple App Store on Windows 7 phones? xD

  15. Re:Operating system on Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser? · · Score: 1

    Firefox just tends to be leaky; I've never heard of a Firefox build that didn't gradually consume all the memory if left running long enough.

  16. Why not Chrome? on Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser? · · Score: 1

    Seriously. Chrome is too resource intensive for you? I'm not sure you're gonna find a better option. Maybe (*maybe*) Lynx will work for you.

  17. Re:Firefox 4 on Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser? · · Score: 1

    Regardless of what you do about tab use, FF will still be a bloated resource hog. Careful use of tabs doesn't change the fact that the whole UI is interpreted XUL scripts. Extensibility comes at a cost.

  18. Common Carriers on Mediacom Using DPI To Hijack Searches, 404 Errors · · Score: 1

    ... are obligated to abide by the international standards of operation for their industry. Breaking the protocol stack intentionally should make you no longer a common carrier.

  19. Re:That's all fine and dandy, but.... on Next-Gen Low-Latency Open Codec Beats HE-AAC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lol what? You're crazy. I suppose it is never worth inventing a new codec ever, since everyone uses old codecs! /fail argument

  20. Re:Reasons for it being consistent? on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    Ultimately, faith in the veracity of historical records is the core of science. There is no fundamental reason to find "things have always fallen to the earth" to be more trustable than "humans have always driven automobiles", except for the shear volume of historical accounts validating the first and denying the second. You may say "they haven't found a fossil of a car", but guess what - that's a historical record, silly!

  21. Re:Welcome Back... on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page · · Score: 1

    tl;dr:
    In 48, a tiny handful of powerful countries told the Palestinians that their homeland was no longer theirs.
    The Palestinians didn't comply, and therefore brought everything that followed on themselves.

    If they had been smart they would have followed the "4 step plan to international politics":
    1) Get order to cede homeland to Jews
    2) Comply with order
    3) ???
    4) Profit!

  22. Re:Welcome Back... on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page · · Score: 1

    Oh! Good to know that any political movement forming via social networking can be quelled simply by inserting a couple flamebaiter sockpuppets. That sounds like a great policy for the continued freedom speech and political expression in the world.

  23. Re:With a smidgen more intelligence... on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1

    The real trolls are all of us. We shouldn't even be *visiting* /. anymore. When was the last time you saw an article and didn't find something awful about the editorial process used? Boycott this terrible news site.

  24. Huh? on Lone Iranian Claims Credit For Comodo Hack · · Score: 2

    This message is sort of retarded. First he tried to solve prime factorization, and then he was like "maybe I should hack a CA instead"? And later he will do us the favor of "proving it is not possible" to come up with a prime factorization algorithm?

  25. Re:It'll be obsolete by then... on As HTML5 Gets 2014 Final Date, Flash Floods Mobile · · Score: 1

    As a matter of fact, there really isn't all that much inconsistency to begin with.