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  1. Re:But I'm awesome at what I do... on You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All the best programmers I know AREN'T ON SOCIAL MEDIA AT ALL. So I don't see this working very well, unless it's for sales droids.

  2. Re:Remind me on You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles · · Score: 0

    Seriously mods? This is hilarious.

  3. Re:Bad news. on Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible For All — Except the Feds · · Score: 1

    The obvious answer is that it will result in the Feds seizing the entire account just like they did at Silk Road. Anyone who puts their coins into such a mixer is not very smart.

  4. Re:Deceased owners on Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible For All — Except the Feds · · Score: 1

    I don't see any way the number of Bitcoins could be increased (they don't need to be as they are divisible to 8 decimal places already).

  5. Re:Tory from Mythbusters was there on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 1

    He tweeted it and they contacted him. He was as surprised as anyone.

  6. Re:Running your own server on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    That's really it. The spam filtering on GMail is so far ahead of everyone else in the world it's really hard to beat. I actually had my first false positive (had to retrieve it from the spam folder) in over 2 years of use! That's amazing! I'll keep using it, even though I miss iGoogle (switched to ustart.org which imported everything from iGoogle painlessly).

  7. Re:iGoogle Disaster was overblown on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 4, Informative

    I used it. I switched to ustart.org which imported the whole thing flawlessly.

  8. Re:Telco oligopoly on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 0

    Because in New York, you have to pay union workers that have to pay off the mafia.

  9. Re:duty to assist law enforcement agents?? on ACLU: Lavabit Was 'Fatally Undermined' By Demands For Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Churches don't have free speech rights when it comes to politics. If they try, they can get stripped of their non-profit status.

  10. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    Just use 10 robot guns that hit from all directions. There's no way they all miss. And they can be synced up to fire at exactly the same time. And then you don't have to worry about European suppliers, since you can just use US guns.

  11. Re:The process is the punishment on UK Police Seize 3D-Printed 'Gun Parts,' Which Are Actually Spare Printer Parts · · Score: 1

    See!?! That's why we've outlawed grenades in the US!

  12. Re:Unintended consequences on The Boss Is Remotely Monitoring Blue-Collar Workers · · Score: 3, Informative

    As someone who writes software for this, do you really think the data doesn't make it 100% obvious who is doing this? Believe me, if you are doing this, they can find out easily.

  13. Re:I knew Bruce Springsteen was up to something on The Boss Is Remotely Monitoring Blue-Collar Workers · · Score: 2

    Lee? or Wayne?

  14. Re:How did Saturn do it? on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 1

    My wife's cousin's husband owned a Saturn dealership, so I can assure you they were privately owned.

  15. Re:Texas means oil on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 3, Informative

    Christians are told to ignore Leviticus (except for sexual stuff mostly). It's in Acts 15 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2015&version=NIV if you would like to be enlightened.

  16. Re:Another way to get a few more dollars from on Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile · · Score: 2

    That's because they don't know how to pump their own gas... :)

  17. Re:It's called an "odometer," you fascist assholes on Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile · · Score: 2

    So allow people to save gas receipts from other states as an offset. Most people that drove less than 1000 miles out of state wouldn't bother.

  18. Re:Can someone please explain ... on Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In California, we use it for smog reduction, to ensure that cars haven't become polluters.

  19. Re:This is why I'm keeping my truck for forever on Oregon Extends Push To Track, Tax Drivers Per Mile · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since when is it the "religious right" that wants to track people...in OREGON. I was recently told (on Slashdot) that even religious people in Oregon are careful not to identify themselves as religious. I can assure you that if this is coming from Oregon, it's more likely to come from Greenpeacers.

  20. Re:Pre-Check on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    Well, it's a good thing there's no such thing as time bombs or cell phone activated bombs then. What he's saying is that if he wanted to do something, he easily could.

  21. Re:Muslims on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: -1, Troll

    Have you seen some of those atheists? Hitler, Stalin and Mao make Muslims and especially Christians look like rank amateurs. And, quite frankly, I don't know of anyone who actually believes that Kony is a Christian, despite the name of their army.

  22. Re:However... it passes ACID 1, 2 and 3 on IE 11 Breaks Rendering For Google Products, and Outlook Too · · Score: 1

    Sites are so used to IE being broken and having to code around it that they have a ton of code that does that. Microsoft is trying to improve by removing MSIE from the browser string, but now it's broken because everyone is so used to it being broken.

  23. Re:Not all is inadvertent on Open Rights Group International Says Virgin, Sky Blocking Innocent Sites · · Score: 0

    So having London bombed to toothpicks in WWII doesn't count?

  24. Re:Internet democracy on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And you have situations where a moderator will simply leave out information. For instance, the article on catapults (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult) insists that catapults were invented by the Greeks, despite them being listed in the Bible much earlier (2 Chronicles 26:14-15):

    14 Uzziah provided shields, spears, helmets, coats of armor, bows and slingstones for the entire army. 15 In Jerusalem he made devices invented for use on the towers and on the corner defenses so that soldiers could shoot arrows and hurl large stones from the walls.

    Now, you may or may not believe the miracles in the Bible, but historically and archaeologically it's a VERY accurate book. If it says that Uzziah had catapults in those days then he almost certainly did. But the moderator has purposely excluded this clear reference rather than letting people decide for themselves. Hope you like censorship, because that is what power-mad moderators are increasingly turning Wikipedia into.

  25. Re:User Manuals on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 1

    I never understand why companies want developers to write documentation when a good tech writer could do it better at 2/3 the salary.