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  1. Time but no money? on Entrepreneur On Yahoo/Tumblr: It's the Content Readers, Stupid · · Score: 1

    Why not both? I'm sure a majority of people who post on /. have both time and money.

  2. Re:What's worse on Eric Schmidt: Teens' Mistakes Will Never Go Away · · Score: 0

    In my world a single entry in an online forum identiofying him as a young earth creationist will eliminate him from the list of candicates for some tasks.

    Like geology, anthropology, evolutionary biology? Can't think of much else where it would play a role. Also, a single entry? So if someone misidentifies you as a young earth creationist will you expect to be excluded? If someone mistakes a post by a different "drolli" on a different website as a post by you, does that count? What if someone deliberately is posting as "you", using life details and mixing in religious phrases? One post on a random website -no matter the content- is woefully inadequate information by which to judge someone.

  3. "shouldn't be doing it in the first place" on Eric Schmidt: Teens' Mistakes Will Never Go Away · · Score: 1

    [Schmidt] said, "You have to fight for your privacy, or you will lose it." This is quite different from his infamous 2009 remark: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

    Explanation: Schmidt did something in the intervening time that he doesn't want anyone to know about.

  4. Re:bad day to be blind. on Predicting IQ With a Simple Visual Test · · Score: 2

    No no, that's a very good day to be blind. They're exempt from the societal rule of "look, but don't touch" because touching is their looking.

  5. Re:Too good? I think not on Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good? · · Score: 1

    Ultimately, your goal is to get paid. If you don't do what the customer wants, you have failed to achieve your goal.

    That assumes the only way to get paid is to do what the customer wants.

  6. Re:what's wrong with the command line on Google Code Deprecates Download Service For Project Hosting · · Score: 1

    Ugh, s/through/throw/
    What did I eat for lunch?

  7. Re:what's wrong with the command line on Google Code Deprecates Download Service For Project Hosting · · Score: 1

    You can always through the compiled binaries in part of the source tree. Stupid and ugly, but gets the job done.

  8. Re:The irony of this on Terrorist Murder In London Could Revive Snooper's Charter · · Score: 1

    Emperor-worship is emperor-worship, only instead of the Pope you have Jesus Christ the Super-White Son of God And Lord Supreme Of All

    So I get why the Pope is an emperor. He's clearly the ruler of a country. And clearly merely a man. Now Jesus, on the other hand: He's referred to as being
    1) merely a man, never a ruler of anything, and dead
    2) Divine, and worthy of worship
    3,4,5,6,7...) Any number of other things not germane to this discussion
    Non-Catholic Christianity, even if it's wrong about the nature of Jesus, doesn't believe Jesus to be an emperor in the sense of the Pope or Ramses. He's considered divine, an aspect of YHWH (as you just mentioned). So you're essentially saying that any and all religions which worship a deity are emperor-worship.

  9. Re:Ludicrous on House Bill Would Mandate Smart Gun Tech By U.S. Manufacturers · · Score: 1

    I'm going to bet the law would be drafted to only apply to civilian weapons. Government weapons would remain purely mechanical.

  10. Re:The irony of this on Terrorist Murder In London Could Revive Snooper's Charter · · Score: 1

    modern Christianity is nothing more than Emperor-worship a la Rome

    Modern Roman Catholicism is nothing more than Emperor-worship a la Rome. Perhaps you've heard of Protestants? Eastern Orthodox? etc?

  11. Re:Anyone else find it strange? on Terrorist Murder In London Could Revive Snooper's Charter · · Score: 1

    There's more: there was a woman who approached within arm's reach and engaged them in conversation. And now, just because they didn't happen to be killing randomly, there are probably people who think she "defused" the situation. If they would have been on a murder-spree, she'd be dead.

  12. Re:Forget the law on Terrorist Murder In London Could Revive Snooper's Charter · · Score: 1

    right to bare arms.

    What's that? The right to conceal-carry then briefly open-carry? "One Adam Twelve, One Adam Twelve: Reports of man flashing his 'piece' near 5th and Elm" "Roger, dispatch. We encountered the gentleman, and he was exercising his right to bare arms".

    Or maybe it's a right to wear no sleeves?

  13. Salt on 3D Printers For Peace Contest · · Score: 1

    Gandhi would have printed salt. Of course the machine would have required salt as an input, so he would have just taken the salt.

  14. Re:No, that is not what we mean. on Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed · · Score: 2

    Also, there wasn't really any foresight. TNG was started before the Internet was in the mainstream consciousness (especially Hollywood consciousness), and Encarta CDs were the "current" computer version of an encyclopedia, so scaling that up in Sci-Fi would turn into "a computer database that has everything pre-loaded".

  15. Re:No, that is not what we mean. on Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed · · Score: 1

    Every episode of Voyager. There was a significant time delay even with subspace communications.
    Also, in TNG: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/11001001_(episode)
    http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)_library_computer
    And in TNG, they traveled to far reaching places on occasion, with no failure in new data queries.
    And there was Data, who had the complete neural imprints and electronic records of every colonist of Omicron Theta embedded in his positronic "brain".

  16. Re:No, that is not what we mean. on Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed · · Score: 2

    Except in this case, the Enterprise computer cached the entire available knowledge of the Federation whenever it got the chance. It was like a souped-up archive.org with regard to data.

  17. Re:Vitamin C... on Scientists Find Vitamin C Kills Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis · · Score: 1

    Faith healers, Mormons and other kooks for years have said smoking was "bad for you". Did they have evidence?

    Yes. Smokers' Cough has been around ever since there have been smokers. It has very clearly been bad for your health long before anyone knew of any ties to cancer.

  18. Re:So... on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 2

    "workers with X" =/= "people who work with X"
    Workers is a collective noun, and the with modifying it means that X is something the collective noun possesses.
    I believe you're confusing "workers of X" and "workers with X"

  19. Re:So... on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 2

    The image what general population have of autism and asperger's is twisted

    To be fair, the general population only ever sees autistic people who are highly functioning, because baseline and severe cases are still "hidden away" by parents. No one wants to bring an autistic kid to dinner at a restaurant when they'll be freaking out and screaming all the time. That and Rain Man.

  20. No, that is not what we mean. on Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    'When we talk about how the Star Trek computer had âoeaccess to all the data in the known Universeâ, what we really mean is that it had access to something like the Semantic Web and the Linked Data cloud.

    The Enterprise computer was not hampered by being in another galaxy, nor was Voyager's computer hampered by being in the Delta Quadrant. They had local copies of all the data at all times.

  21. Re:job security: on Will Robots Take Over the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    Windows don't even stop elderly people anymore!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsCa_SdJuQc

  22. Re:Ludicrous on House Bill Would Mandate Smart Gun Tech By U.S. Manufacturers · · Score: 1

    Over here we are not so much obsessed with guns. But I understand that it is an important topic for US citizens. But fearing of EMP? Are you afraid that a burglar will come to your house equipped with EMP device in case you catch him with your gun in the hand? Come on.

    The Right to Bear Arms isn't about self defense. It's not about hunting or skeet-shooting either. Its purpose is to make certain that the citizenry has the means to forcibly remove government officials that refuse to relinquish control lawfully and peacefully (tyrants). Governments have the tech to cause an EMP, and mandating that everyone's guns be susceptible to EMP makes those guns useless for the purpose outlined in the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.

  23. Re:Almost there on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 1

    Leela: And that sandwich you're eating is made out of old, discarded sandwiches. Nothing just gets thrown away.
    Fry: The future is disgusting!

  24. To get UN funding on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 2

    Add insect powder.

  25. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    I've never heard of a rational murderer.

    For a homicide to be consdered a murder, there has to be evil intent, and for the person who committed the act to be guilty of murder, they have to have been rational. Every last convicted murderer was thus considered a rational murderer by the state. They may have been reasoning with faulty assumptions (justifications, belief that they wouldn't get caught coupled with sociopathic tendencies, etc), in fact, they may have been reasoning incorrectly, but that doesn't make them irrational any more than it makes someone who mistakenly falls for a logical fallacy.