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  1. Re:$805M budget on Smithsonian Using Kickstart Campaign To Save Armstrong's Moon Suit · · Score: 1

    Every time the US has stopped babysitting Europe they have bombed themselves into rubble and then demanded assistance from others. What makes you think that this has changed?

  2. Re:Feels weird agreeing with scientologists on Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I wish I too were mentally retarded. It seems like life must be simpler that way. Unfortunately, I am not. Nor does anything I have ever said insinuate that I am religious or even remotely concerned with mythical beings. Like I said, it must be nice being retarded.

    Anyhow, you are not smart enough to warrant any more time. You are dismissed.

  3. Re:WHUT on There Is No "Next Great Copyright Act", Remain Calm · · Score: 1

    I could see my way to agreeing to a 20 year copyright, a 15 year patent, and trademarks being in perpetuity as long as the company exists and the trademark is defended. I say this as someone who has worked with all three professionally and someone who has never assumed copyright in my private life - anything I code I give away, with no strings attached, for example. However, what I do with my private creations is my choice. I believe in allowing others to choose as well.

  4. Re:Shocking. on There Is No "Next Great Copyright Act", Remain Calm · · Score: 1

    It has been the final death blow since Windows ME. XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and not to forget the many variations such as CE, Itanium, and Tablet, have all been the death blow to Microsoft. I do not typically use their products but, I must say, they have not died yet - and I am glad for that.

  5. Re:Illumination wavelength on Bringing Back the Magic In Metamaterials · · Score: 1

    Hooking up with strange chicks is going to be tougher to stomach. Hell, I may not even want to shake hands (never mind exchange saliva) with them if I can actually see the various viruses that they have on them as a matter of existence and no matter how clean they are. I'd either be in the shower, pretty much constantly, or I would just not wear something like this.

    Also, with all these different sized objects... How is the pupil going to react? There is a finite amount that we can pick up so it seems the lens would have to move to refine images still.

  6. Re:You know what else is 'aggravating?' on Why Certifications Are Necessary (Even If Aggravating To Earn) · · Score: 1

    Should you have used the word "like" as the start of your second sentence?

  7. Re:disgusting on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    That is one way to ignore the observations. Anything that helps you justify your rage, I suppose.

  8. Re:They do their homework on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    It helps the reader not have to worry about such rather than expecting others to conform to their behavior. Control your inputs and outputs. This is not a difficult concept. There will always be some moron who wants to post in monospace format. You can not change them. You can change you.

  9. Re:Here's the article text (it's slashdotted) on Affair Site Hackers Threaten Release of All User Data Unless It Closes · · Score: 1

    That may well be the answer. Pathetic, really. Unless the cougars are not cheating? I have no clue nor any desire to educate myself on these sites. I am comfortable being willfully ignorant on these matters. ;)

  10. Re:Something is fishy on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    It makes me think of Mel's Robin Hood of Loxly. I now present to you, Bagel and Loxly...

  11. Re:They do their homework on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    Alternatively: Control your browser. You *do* have control over your browser, right?

  12. Re:Holy Jebus on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 2

    In a koan:

    Eventually, every young engineer realizes "wait, we're a vendor too", and... the young engineer is enlightened.

  13. Re:Holy Jebus on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, you can pay attention when you install stuff and untick the box that adds on extra crap. You should be paying attention anyhow.

  14. Re:Holy Jebus on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    A fairly recent show on one of the History/Discovery or some such channels was about trains. Oddly, the engineer on the show was from Maine and we have pretty much no trains here, comparatively speaking. Anyhow, I watched one of these shows online and have no idea what the title was. As he was from Maine, I went and searched for a few more episodes. In one of those episodes there was a person banging away at the wheels for just that reason. The show was fairly modern so I am assuming that they still do that. I do have a train engineer in the family but she went batshit crazy (she is an in-law) and I would ask her but she went crazy, learned to drive a train, and is now living somewhere that I do not know and I have no way to contact her. So, that is all the information I have... You can do with it as you wish.

  15. Re: Holy Jebus on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    Somehow, I suspect you are actually pretty good at debugging and troubleshooting.

  16. Re:Holy Jebus on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a fine summary. I write diatribes and novellas. I do not submit to /. because of this. I am afraid that it just would not work.

  17. Re:disgusting on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    Something tells me that you would have been just happy as a clam if the decision had gone the other way...

    Something also tells me that you are mentally unstable and willing to use this guy's death as an excuse to further your agenda. Good luck with that.

  18. Re:28 is a dangerous age on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    You can consider it as having come out of my mouth if that helps. I have the same sympathy and echo their sentiment. Odd, really. I am not usually all that empathetic but this one just seems to be the one that makes me so. I do not control my feelings (nor do I let them control me). So, yeah, have some empathy or at least be civil enough to keep your opinion to yourself. We do not always have to be assholes.

  19. Re:no surprise on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    That really has to suck. No need for you to explain, really. I just know it must suck. I can not possibly imagine the pain it must be like to lose a child. You're supposed to die before that happens. I am not sure what I would do if it happened to me. I honestly do not know. I may well off myself because I am unable to deal with the pain. I simply do not know. Shit, it is hard to think about even.

  20. Re:Dead at 28, no apparent signs of foul play... on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    Lots of coke in Florida. Lots of cheap pills too - often benzos or opiates. But, really, scads of coke in Florida. Like street prices of $50/g type of amounts. It is usually pretty good comparatively. There is lots of meth but that is mostly up in the northern parts and out on the panhandle.

  21. Re:Dead at 28, no apparent signs of foul play... on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    As an IV drug abuser... I prefer my fentanyl personally extracted and without the nasty heroin in it. Heroin is for wimps.

    I no longer use opiates (or alcohol but that stopped a few years ago - opiates were more recently ceased). No, I am not going to go into the details of how to extract Fentanyl from mylar or jelly patches. The sublingual pills are easy enough but rare as hen's teeth. As always, feel free to do drugs - they are a lot of fun and you can have a great time with them. Practice safe use - you can put more in but you can't take them out. Well, Narcan helps.

  22. Re: No Foul play... on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    So they lost money on every sale of soda? That is not a good argument.

  23. Re:Coke or Pepsi on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Update Your OS? · · Score: 1

    Wont... 'Cause I want to split hairs.

  24. Re:Screws with users on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Update Your OS? · · Score: 1

    You are supposed to figure that stuff out before you put the vehicle in motion.

  25. Re:Apple Watch is for cows. on Apple Watch Still Waiting On App Developers · · Score: 1

    I think you mean iCows.