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  1. Nothing new on Material Possiblities: A Flying Drone Built From Fungus · · Score: 1

    Drow and Dwarves have been doing it for millennia.

  2. Doublespeak on Court Orders Uber To Shut Down In Spain · · Score: 2

    It is funny that a service that allows anyone who wants it to enter a closed market represents unfair competition.

  3. Re:America, land of the free... on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 1

    Not so many as people believe. I think it is 3 that take it away outright. The rest either suspend it until your debt is paid and probation is over, or revoke it for the same period and have a process to regain the right.

    Trivia- this is called the KKK law because it was the KKK that lobbied the states to pass the law in an effort to reduce black voters.

  4. Re:LOL on Displaced IT Workers Being Silenced · · Score: 1

    At least once. I had to defend my separation pay because I stated the factual reason for my dismissal, and the company called to verify employment and reason for dismissal. they sued. It cost me half my separation package to keep the other half.

    Reason for termination was the company was taken over in a hostile buyout, and the new owner replaced all upper management with his own people. New owner did not want it to be general knowledge that the buyout was hostile.

  5. Re:Doesn't matter even if the publishers win... on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    Before they learned how to make the page load stop and wait on the ad, it popped in when it finally finished- meanwhile you have been reading the content you came for that loaded 10 minutes ago.

  6. Re:Doesn't matter even if the publishers win... on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So much agreed here. And they LOVE to code the site so that it fucking stops loading to wait on that TRS-80 ad server that handles all of the western hemisphere from a dialup link.

  7. Re:Doesn't matter even if the publishers win... on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    That some would do so does not mean that all, or even a majority, would do so.

    For a while, yes- they have lost all trust and have to earn it back. But when it is again non intrusive and well behaved, no one will care. No one cared for a decade that web pages had ads in them- because they were simple banners or footers or link rings. But when they started making noise and asking you to punch the monkey they started the ball rolling to where it is today.

  8. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    Citation needed. Since classrooms are universally overcrowded, I call bullshit.

  9. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    Or simply give no reason.
    the ironically named "Right To Work" states allow you to fire without giving a reason. A blatant effort to sidestep anti discrimination laws.

  10. Re:huh? on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 1

    "Fuck this asshole. Watch me fuck up his vette!"

  11. Re:Does it matter? on Google Quietly Nixes Mandatory G+ Integration With Gmail · · Score: 2

    Makes you wonder if they notice Google+ accounts named "Fuck off, no means no!"

  12. Re:Corporate taxes on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 0

    The corporation has a profit margin or they would not be taxed. if that profit margin is so large as to require massive taxes, there is plenty of room to wiggle. Maybe they would pay less in taxes if they stoppped conspiring to artificially drive wages down, or hired US employees that are readily available and fully skilled for the job instead of claiming there aren't any and bringing in cheap H1B workers.

    You know, quit the bullshit they do to pad their profits, and instead be a decent and ethical part of society.

  13. Re:Corporate taxes on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 1

    The laffer curve is a fictional construct of corporate greed.It is laughed out of any conference of economists for it's absurd leaps of faith and lack of supporting evidence.

    https://www.princeton.edu/~rvd...
    http://scienceblogs.com/goodma...
    http://business.time.com/2012/...
    http://www.theguardian.com/bus...
    http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/L...
    http://economistsview.typepad....

  14. Re:Special email addresses ... on Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues · · Score: 1

    Group mailboxes are a thing, and very useful for such as this.

  15. Re:Black hole? on Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues · · Score: 1

    1) Uh. No, there is no such law.
    2) If there was such a law, it would not require the email address listed to be read by a human being.

  16. Perfected with on It's Time For the Descent Games Return · · Score: 1

    Descent to Undermountain. I cried salty nerd tears of lust when that came out.

  17. Re:Cops do whatever they want on Texas Sheriffs Crash $250k Drone They're Not Supposed To Be Flying · · Score: 1

    How did they lose it in a lake if it was observing police activity on the ground?

  18. Re:The Obama on ObamaCare... on Hackaday Offers Trip Into Space For Best DIY Hardware · · Score: 1

    hint: They aren't going to pay you your shill money if the post is off topic. you are supposed to try to blend in like a dissenting opinion- not like a ham fisted Nigerian spammer.

  19. Re:way to over simplify the issue win the summery on SCOTUS Ends Novell's Anti-Trust Cast Against Microsoft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Thomas is corrupt, a total money shill that votes the way he is told, and pushes the rest that way. His wife makes millions as a Koch lobbyist, yet he never recuses himself from cases that involve the people that pay his wife millions.
    Relevant example (there are many many more like this):
    http://crooksandliars.com/karo...

    Scalia is also a corporate shill. He attends the Koch right-wing money events, and consistently votes the way the Koch brothers tell him to.
    http://www.politicususa.com/20...

    Roberts, Alito, and kennedy are less corrupt, but do not hesitate to take tremendous pay for "speaking engagements" at the right wing events and vote consistently with Koch interests.
    http://www.politicususa.com/20...

  20. Re:way to over simplify the issue win the summery on SCOTUS Ends Novell's Anti-Trust Cast Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the SCOTUS did not hear it then, did they. Today is April 28, 2014. today's Novell is what matters.

  21. Re:Experimental science vs narrative science on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 1

    The only ones who disagree with human caused global warming are those paid by energy companies to do so. All others agree.

  22. Re:You are going to see that where Science conflic on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 0

    Until the Christians quit forcing me to fight tooth and nail to keep their lies and bullshit out of my kids schools, I will remain this "ignorant twit" that you seem to see before you.

    Don't get pissy when someone learns to distrust a group that kicks me in the nuts every goddam time I fucking encounter them. Go leash your own radical fuckwits and the Senators they have bought and watch how much the hate dies down against the whole group.

  23. Re:mental illnesses aren't seated in the brain on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 1

    No, mental illness is rejecting reality in favor of your fantasies- whatever the source of those fantasies.

  24. Re:"Fully Half Doubt the Big Bang"? on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The age is constantly revised as the ability to measure increases. usually it is given an "at least" age- the technology and methodology sets a minimum date that the universe cannot be younger than. Sometimes the method gives a range, as the 12-16B one did. Now we are at 13.77B, the next may narrow it down to a date and time...

  25. Re:Hmm on The US Public's Erratic Acceptance of Science · · Score: 1

    True, but until we educate them, creationists will operate from the fervor of religious fanaticism.