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  1. Re:How is that a response? on Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nate Silver predicted Obama's win as far back as September in 2008 to within a few electoral votes. I am keeping an eye on him again this year....if he is accurate again then his model will have some strong validation.

  2. Re:If you want accuracy on Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate · · Score: 1
  3. Re:If you want accuracy on Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate · · Score: 1

    seriously?

    Intrade is garbage for prediction.

  4. Re:Well thats a relief. on Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate · · Score: 1

    ummm....It didn't split into two....

    Democratic-Republicans was the Thomas Jefferson founded opposition party to the Federalists.....and then against the Whigs, but by then they changed their name to just the Democratic party under Jackson. The Republican Party was a brand new party formed by a bunch of Liberals to fight against slavery.....no relation to the Democratic-Republican Party.....then, because of its popularity in the north, the Republican party was taken over by the big business fat cats and its platform started to include crazy economic ideas like Laissez Faire Capitalism....then in the beginning/middle of the 20th century it added crazy anti-socialism to its platform because that was a threat against capitalism......then the southern Democrats came over to the Republican party in the late 40's through the late 50's because of the Democratic party's support of Civil Rights, turning the Republican Party into the party we see from the 60's to the late 70's.....then came the nut job Christians....who....as Barry Goldwater said are impossible to work with, the "Tax cutters" then joined in on their insane plan to cut taxes to ZERO and we have the Modern Republican party.

  5. Re:Well thats a relief. on Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate · · Score: 1

    it is not that you should not bother...it is showing that given current sentiment from all available polling combined that your presidential vote will not generate a win for Republicans.

  6. Re:Interesting Algorithm on Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate · · Score: 1

    If Unemployment is the reason to dump presidents, FDR would not have won reelection.

  7. Re:Interesting Algorithm on Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate · · Score: 0

    He is Conservative.
    This is science and mathematics... dealing with observable facts and drawing probable results from those facts....

    Are you surprised he thinks it a load of garbage against his gut?

  8. Re:Interesting Algorithm on Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A quote from Reagan: "I....I....I where am I?"

    A quote from the Secret Service Men right after: "the Oval Office Sir"

  9. Re:Interesting Algorithm on Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate · · Score: 1

    Biden? Hillary is up next for the Democrats.

  10. Re:How is cutting anything being a Democrat? on Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate · · Score: 1

    fivethirtyeight.com

  11. Re:Fuck you Apple your phone sucks! on Apple Adds Samsung Galaxy SIII To Its Ban List · · Score: 1

    when iCloud works.

  12. Re:Fuck you Apple your phone sucks! on Apple Adds Samsung Galaxy SIII To Its Ban List · · Score: 1

    you really think that the device management of an iPhone is easier than an android or windows phone?

  13. Fuck you Apple your phone sucks! on Apple Adds Samsung Galaxy SIII To Its Ban List · · Score: 1

    Seriously.... The iPhone sucks....yes it is popular but it is a pain in the ass to use for people who are not super computer literate. I told my mother-in-law that she needs to get an android phone. She will have all her games but she will never need to connect it to her PC and worry about a bunch of weird pop-ups asking her to import her pictures or back up her apps, etc.

    Fuck Apple.

  14. Re:Tmobile wifi calling solves this problem on T-Mobile Returns To Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    and they are in turn using their network to connect to the traditional phone system/other carrier networks which they pay to access.

  15. Re:Be as nasty as you want to the Baby Boomers... on Astronaut Neil Armstrong Has Died · · Score: 1

    Baby boomers never gave a shit about spending money....why do you think we are in this financial mess?

  16. Re:Excellent News! on Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP · · Score: 1

    A jump list uses the GPU? no it doesn't. Neither does the superior start menu that Windows 7 has.

  17. Re:I dont see the point, yet on Sources Say ITU Has Approved Ultra-High Definition TV Standard · · Score: 1

    I say screw progressive frames if you are going to compress the signal... 1080i looks way better than compressed 720p and requires half the bandwidth to deliver than 1080p

  18. Re:Excellent News! on Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP · · Score: 0

    you are a bastard for doing that. jump lists on pinned programs is a HUGE productivity enhancement. you just fucked over your workforce... Good job asshole.

  19. Re:T-Mobile iPhone this fall? on T-Mobile Returns To Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Apple needs to put LTE in there anyway and to get that to work well in more than teh US, they will need to operate on many different frequencies. Getting t-mobile set up with a special radio is nothing.

  20. Re:Tmobile wifi calling solves this problem on T-Mobile Returns To Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    since you are actually placing calls using their network when on wifi calling, why should you expect anything less than to be charged minutes?

  21. Re:Like everywhere else it's been tried... on Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because Reagan signed that law into being in the 80's.

  22. Re:SimpleMobile on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? · · Score: 1

    50 bucks get you unlimited talk, text and web.

  23. Re:It won't kill FB on Facebook Faces High-Level Staff Exodus · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. AOL is around because they own lots of popular media properties that they did not rebrand.

  24. Re:I've been uxing Xubuntu on Debian Changes Default Desktop From GNOME To XFCE · · Score: 2

    OS X has been getting an iOS makeover for nearly 2 years now. Every update they add more and more iOS-isms to the system....Mac Appstore, Reverse the scroll behavior to match the swipe behavior on a touch screen, etc.

  25. Re:Trend setter! on Debian Changes Default Desktop From GNOME To XFCE · · Score: 1

    So, you have a "thin" client that requires active cooling?

    Why not go with an ARM solution with no active cooling? Heck, now the Raspberry Pi is out, you don't have to spend more than 35 dollars for that.