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  1. Perhaps they mixed up in-coming mail with the outgoing mail. Sounds like angry customers.

  2. Re:Prove it! on There Is No "You" In a Parallel Universe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Show me one other alternate universe.

    Fox "News".

  3. Re:Damn!!! on There Is No "You" In a Parallel Universe · · Score: 2

    There goes my alternates chance with Kate Upton.

    worse, you've been rejected 482,360,237,103 times.

  4. Re:Marketable? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Engage 5th-8th Graders In Computing? · · Score: 2

    Toddlers must be profitable!

  5. Simple: on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Engage 5th-8th Graders In Computing? · · Score: 2

    "Look how you can get a spreadsheet to do your boring repetitious homework for you."

  6. Re:next daft question on How Gaseous, Neptune-Like Planets Can Become Habitable · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    at the current rate of increase of smog production, Earth is going to transform into a gas planet

    Fitting: Uranus created by your anus. Or perhaps rename it Ouranus after we fuck our planet up.

  7. Re:Old idea on How Gaseous, Neptune-Like Planets Can Become Habitable · · Score: 1

    The general concept is one thing, doing the math and science to show it's naturally feasible is another.

  8. Re:An X-Ray baked hellscape sound perfect on How Gaseous, Neptune-Like Planets Can Become Habitable · · Score: 1

    What makes you say they are targeting Mercury-like planets?

  9. How convenient on How Gaseous, Neptune-Like Planets Can Become Habitable · · Score: 2

    Notice how the article used Neptune instead of Uranus as an example.

  10. Re:Still not good enough. on FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband · · Score: 1

    Here are a few acronyms that most citizens hate: IRS, NSA, CIA, DHS ....

    I hate dental visits also, but I still go. And citizens generally prefer "protection" from foreign threats. Whether it's all warranted or not is highly debatable. DHS wouldn't exist if not for the 911 attacks. The pendulum of public opinion on such seems to swing back and forth, depending on attacks.

  11. Re:you're a well populated area? on FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband · · Score: 1

    flea problem

  12. Re: What are the practical results of this? on FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband · · Score: 1

    Rather than argue with them, bet them money. If they are so certain of the quote, let their stubbornness make you richer. Mine stupidity. And slapping them with their own wallet my wake them up. 2 benefits.

  13. Re:Still not good enough. on FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband · · Score: 1

    history has shown over and over and over again that big government is very bad.

    Too much of anything is bad. Some water is good for you, too much and you drown. Some big company influence is good for us; but too much and we get corporate fascism and/or corporate communism (which may degenerate to regular communism).

    The slippery-slope fallacy can be used to justify any position.

    Overly-influential banks already had a big hand in crashing the world economy recently and almost got us into another Great Depression. (True, gov't mistakes contributed to it, but run-away greed was the main cause.) I thank Big Gov't for having prevented another Great Depression...in this case.

  14. Re:Still not good enough. on FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband · · Score: 2

    What conservatives often fail to grasp is that "less government" and "more competition" are sometimes at odds. We need referees to enforce a competitive environment. It's too easy for big co's to buy away competition. We want them using their resources to make better & cheaper mousetraps, not to keep out other mousetrap makers.

  15. Re:Still not good enough. on FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband · · Score: 1

    Most voters don't know the difference. They don't know what they are missing in order to get a "smaller gov't". They hear the oligopoly viewpoint because the oligopolies pay a lot of money to get their view out there and to get politicians to mirror their view.

  16. Re:That doesn't sound bad on FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband · · Score: 1

    So 87% of Americans have Microsoft Access. Thanks for clearing that up :-)

    Technically 100% of Americans have potential broadband access; it would just cost an arm and leg to get it in many places. For example, a billionaire may have high-speed satellite connections if their mansion is in a remote area. Having access is not a "Boolean value".

    If one wants a practical formal definition of "having access to broadband", then one may have to apply a price threshold.

  17. Re:Still not good enough. on FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is true those countries are more compact, making economies of scale easier, BUT even well-populated areas of the US still have limited, unreliable, and gimmick-heavy choices. I'm one. Thus, population density is not the full reason. We are doing something wrong in the US.

    It looks and smells like oligopoly-based crony-capitalism controlling the strings, but you are welcome to present alternative explanations.

  18. Re:How is maintenance performed? on Former NATO Nuclear Bunker Now an 'Airless' Unmanned Data Center · · Score: 2

    Do staff go down with O2 tanks for maintenance, cleaning, server work, etc?

    No, just red shirts.

  19. Get off my organic green carpet! on One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects · · Score: 1

    They changed "mainframe" and "server hosting" into "cloud", "client/server" into "rich client", "statistics" into "data mining" and "big data", the original Mac look into "Shading-free GUI's" or the "flat look", and "embedded" into "Internet of things". It's not the new technology I have trouble keeping up with, but rather the new names for old shit.

    Next you know the young whipper-snappers will take "variables" and call them "dynamic constants" and rave about the New Way of Programming.

  20. Tsk tsk tsk on Snowden Documents: CSE Tracks Millions of Downloads Daily · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How USA of them

  21. Re:It depends on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Great Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of this spoof: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?Ayn...

  22. Re:Saturn pulling Jupiter on We May Have Jupiter To Thank For the Nitrogen In Earth's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    The total angular momentum of all solar system objects remain the same, correct? So if we ignore those flung out of the solar system for now (assuming it's not a signif. factor), if Jupiter increases its angular momentum (moves "outward"), then a good many objects will lose angular momentum to counter. Where did it go? Do many "long orbit" objects that once had a semi-circular orbits now have highly elliptical orbits (as many comets do)?

  23. Re:Up next, automatic intelligence rating... on Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away · · Score: 1

    But readable code is often preferred over clever code by team members.

  24. Re:Not my Frankencode... on Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... a patchwork of open-source freebies.

    So, what's it like to work for FaceBook?

  25. That explains it on Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away · · Score: 2

    I suppose all those "// damn U bill gates!" comments gave me away