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  1. Re:Airbnb profiting on illegal activity on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 1

    Fun you should ask. It seems there is detailed law covering just that case. http://www.childcarelaw.org/do...

    Or were you being sarcastic?

  2. Re:Airbnb profiting on illegal activity on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 1

    It's a fraudulent contract. How would that not be a crime?
    It's an unlicensed hotel. How would that not be a crime?

    White collar crimes are still crimes.

  3. False Premise on Fifty Years Ago IBM 'Bet the Company' On the 360 Series Mainframe · · Score: 1

    Slashdot was never good.

  4. Catch 22 on Will Living On Mars Drive Us Crazy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have to be crazy to go. If you are crazy, they won't send you.

  5. Re:Spinning Space stations on Astronauts' Hearts Change Shape In Space · · Score: 1

    Or you could send a robot and save on spinning spacecraft, food, water, air, and fuel to provide/propel all the above.

  6. Re:Stupid "battle" on Facebook, Google Battle To Bring Internet To Remote Locations · · Score: 1

    They both have a common goal, to get locked in as the de-facto monopoly.

    FTFY.

  7. Re:rm -r * on Lasers May Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox · · Score: 1

    mv -f * /dev/null

  8. No on 3D Printing: Have You Taken the Plunge Yet? Planning To? · · Score: 1

    I have zero need for additional paper weights, door stops, and ash trays. I might be more interested when they (a) provide isotropic materials, (b) provide better precision, and (c) provide (a) and (b) at a lower cost.

  9. Re:Model Worship on Mathematician Gives Tips On How To Win $1 Billion On NCAA Basketball · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spooky. That is exactly the ratio of tau to pi.

  10. Re:"LONG extinct"? Hah. on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 1

    Still off by a factor of almost 400 years. If you read the referenced paper, there is no mention of hunting large land animals or of mammoths at all. Sounds like original research (unsupported by facts, no less) on the part of the Wikipedia author.

    Furthermore of all the radiocarbon dating, the most ambitious date is 1750 BCE. Still 400 years too early for J. Random Eskimo to stick a harpoon in his side. Do you have anything that suggests earlier humans or later Mammoths?

  11. Re:Hah on Lego Robot Solves Rubik's Cube Puzzle In 3.253 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Since most solution algorithms are a database attack, I imagine it will kick out as a non-valid position (i.e. not in the database).

  12. Re:"LONG extinct"? Hah. on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 1

    While there appears to be broad agreement that Mammoths did exist on Wrangel as recently as 2000 BCE (4000 years ago), I cannot find any scholarly research to suggest that they co-existed with humans; or if they did, that they were hunted by those humans.

    Can you offer more recent research?

  13. Re:Because the economy isn't growing on Is Traffic Congestion Growing Three Times As Fast As Economy? · · Score: 1

    Why has Government spending as a % of GDP taken a nosedive?

    Might want to check those talking points, they appear to be about four years out of date.

  14. Re:Mick Jagger of physics on The Higgs Boson Re-Explained By the Mick Jagger of Physics · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure either. I suppose it might be because he can't get no satisfaction. Or perhaps he is a man of wealth and taste. Maybe he wants it painted black. Or all of the above.

  15. Re:Employed on Are Bankers Paid Too Much? Are Technology CEOs? · · Score: 2

    Steve... Steve.... The name rings a bell. Wasn't he the guy who earned one dollar a year? What a fantastic counter example you have found. Clearly more companies need to follow this philosophy.

  16. Re:Maxwell? on NVIDIA Launches GTX 750 Ti With New Maxwell Architecture · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good to the last drop.

  17. Negative on Are You a Competent Cyborg? · · Score: 1

    I am a meat popsicle.

  18. Re:boycott? on Facebook Analyzes the Impact of Love On Their Business · · Score: 1

    Post volume seemed to be the same last week as it was the week before and this week thus far.

    There was significantly less bitching about beta.

    I still recommend alterslash.org for all your slashdot skimming needs.

  19. Re:Ob. Cars on Can Electric Current Make People Better At Math? · · Score: 1

    Wrong approach. You need to get your car's engine to throw monkey wrenches. Reverse the polarity of the monkey wrench beam, if you will.

  20. Re:Who cares? on Mozilla To Show Sponsored Links To First-Time Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    Remember when you trusted Google more than Microsoft or Apple?
    Remember when you trusted Apple more than Microsoft?
    Remember when you trusted Microsoft? (I kid, I kid (perhaps))
    Being worthy of trust in the recent past does not grant anyone a blank check for current or future actions.

  21. Re:Enough with the euphemisms on NASA Now Accepting Applications From Companies That Want To Mine the Moon · · Score: 2

    They will not harm the whales. Only the petunias.

  22. Re:Come on on Layoffs At Now-Private Dell May Hit Over 15,000 Staffers · · Score: 1

    Dude. We don't read TFA, what makes you think we read the summary? Even if we do, we are only looking for misspellings, grammar errors, or somesuch.

    Pffft. Content. Who comes to /. for content?

  23. Re:Longevity will be an issue on Facebook Puts 10,000 Blu-ray Discs In Low-Power Storage System · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Y'hear that Midwest? on Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive · · Score: 1

    Good grief.

    The "all" in this case is describing the extent of "fault", not the extent of "y'all". The test is if we replace "y'all" with some other noun. "It's all Fred's fault." Clearly we are not referring to some multitude of individuals as "all Fred", rather we are assigning all the fault to Fred.

    Similarly, it is not too much to expect that appending an apostrophe and "s" could create a possessive form of "y'all".

    Finally, there is the "you" (for second person singular), "y'all" (for second person plural), and "all y'all" (for second person collective). I suppose if the GP really wanted to yank your chain, the post could have been written "It's all all y'all's fault." I agree that would sound odd.

  25. Re:nerdgasm on World-First Working Eukaryotic Cell Made From Plastic · · Score: 1

    Activities that do not involve /.