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  1. The packets go through the NSA routers before it can reach China.

  2. Re:So if it were violence against white men on Australian Target Stores Ban GTA V For Depictions of Violence Against Women · · Score: 1

    >>It would not be a problem, would it?

    Generally, no.

    If it was *sexual* violence against white *men* (as the people who signed the petition believed: "incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get 'health' points") then I challenge that it would indeed be a problem.

    A lot of male gamers would likely be turned off playing a game where a character that looks like them is the subject of sexual violence.

  3. Instructions on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? · · Score: 2

    Did you RTFM?

  4. Shameless Plug on ChickTech Brings Hundreds of Young Women To Open Source · · Score: 1

    Also see:

    The Ada Initiative.

  5. Oblig. StarWars on Harvesting Energy From Humidity · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What I really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators."

  6. Tax Credit on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 2

    1993 average gas price: $1.16.

    Since the current national average gas price is $3.675, an increase of $2.515, it would seem only fair that instead of a gas tax increase, they should propose a tax credit of $2.331/gallon ($2.515, less the 1993 tax rate of $0.184).

    Just sayin...

  7. Boycott on Got Malware? The FBI Wants It · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please post this to new articles if it hasn't been posted yet.

    On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design.

    Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system.

    If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this [slashdot.org] in a new tab. After seeing that, click here [slashdot.org] to return to classic Slashdot.

    We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.
    We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott [slashdot.org]

    Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
    Commentors - only discuss Beta
    http://slashdot.org/recent [slashdot.org] - Vote up the Fuck Beta stories

    Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.

    Captcha: fuckbeta

    http://developers.slashdot.org... [slashdot.org]
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  8. Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 1

    What to do?

    Know your algorithms.

  9. Mondelez says on Grocery Store "Smart Shelves" Will Identify Customers, Show Targeted Ads · · Score: 2

    Mondelez says the software will only use and collect aggregate data, and will not record any video or photos."

    Yet.

  10. Action on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    >>No it won't. It will do nothing. The voter has to learn to resist propaganda, and think critically. Check the records, not the campaign speeches. Campaign 'reform' is a bullshit shell game, just like term limits. They will find another way to launder the money.

    Rather, "and think critically, and waste no time to take organized action with reason and empathy based on conclusions attained by evidence."

  11. Re:Ugh on Microsoft To Add Ads To Smart Search · · Score: 2

    Perhaps they will offer a super premium ultimate for workgroups edition that comes with this awesome feature unbundled.

  12. Think of the guppies!

  13. Re:Its like 2 steam car manufacturers... on In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad · · Score: 1

    or, perhaps, like 2 plow manufacturers, once the graphing calculators from TI and Casio get flexible like our smartphones will soon be.

  14. Yummy Bacteria on Around 200,000 Tons of Deep Water Horizon Oil and Gas Consumed By Bacteria · · Score: 1

    How soon can we harvest the bacteria to fuel our cars?

  15. In other news... on Slackware Documentation Project Begins In Earnest · · Score: 0

    hell freezes over.

  16. Look the other way on Does RIM's "Huge Loss" Signal Wider Handset Market Deterioration? · · Score: 1

    RIM's loss is simply another symptom that we are accelerating toward the singularity. Nothing to see here, as everything is obsolete the moment you see it, so move along...

  17. Re:Mermaid tears on Pirate Party Gains Another Seat In EU · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please mod parent insightful. Tear extraction from mermaids may be the correlative catalyst that explains why the number of pirates is reducing global warming!

  18. Ether on 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online · · Score: 1

    Are we sure that cold fusion isn't possible from extracting economic sustainability and financial stability through the ether? I think that's how Rossi got it working.

  19. Re:I fire up the Apple II+ on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 1

    Ahh Sneakers! Now there is a blast from the past for me - remember how you could hide right at the right hand edge in that metor mode and only have to dodge about 2 of them?

    ...though it's safer to blow up the two small meteors than to try to dodge them, and you get points. Still, the rest time during meteor mode is the only reason I haven't developed carpal tunnel from playing the game. My copy of Twerps is really buggy; otherwise I'd have mastered that, too.

    ~psybre

  20. I fire up the Apple II+ on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 1

    and make shape tables (or just play Sneakers)

    ~psybre

  21. Save the Rover on Final Attempts To Contact Mars Spirit Rover Fail · · Score: 1

    C'mon - lets just go there and get it! What's the hold up? I'm ready right now.

  22. Re:That's Pioneer 10 and 11 on Rosetta Fly-By To Probe "Pioneer Anomaly" · · Score: 1

    Then, at encounter in September 1979, we'd pick the tape, mount it on a teletype, and send the data out over the NASA deep space network, then anxiously wait to see if the instructions worked on Pioneer 11.

    Wooooooh, how do I get access to the deep space network?!!!

  23. Re:Go! on Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they should just use the name "Goo" for their programming language. Just switch all 1s with 0s (oops, I mean !s with os).

  24. Re:N00b thing? on Geocities Shutting Down Today · · Score: 1

    Aah, what a time. Back then IBM WebExplorer was a decent browser and MSIE was not even in planning.

    But unfortunately Spyglass developed a browser called Mosaic, and hence Microsoft was able to license and create MSIE...

  25. Re:Not working for me. on How Much Is Your Online Identity Worth? · · Score: 1

    LOL Are you sure your browser wasn't pointed to symantec.crkr4u.nl?

    ~psybre