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  1. Re:Ye gods no! on Student Wants Science To Name 'Hella' Big Number · · Score: 1

    You'd get your ass kicked for using either of those terms in New York.

    FYI.

  2. Re:Like how in the 80's Prince was hip... on Prince Says Internet Is Over · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Really? There are a lot of cars from the 80's and 90's that sell for top dollar. You're just not thinking outside the box, kid. You're comparing rare muscle cars from the 60's to generic crap boxes from the 80's. Ignoring the obvious fact that classic value increases with age and you have a 20-year difference in your comparison, here are a few winners:
    • Toyota Supra
    • Mazda RX7
    • De Lorean
    • Lamborghini Diablo
    • Any Ferrari
  3. Really? on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How about just suck it up and deal with it. Unless you need to look up "Tiananmen Square" every 10 minutes, it really shouldn't be a problem. They filter state secrets and political opinions, not your twitter traffic.

  4. Re:Hypocrisy on Wikipedia To Unlock Frequently Vandalized Pages · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Parent raped and killed a girl in 1991.

    Citation is self evident

  5. Re:I thoroughly enjoy the Joomla on Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, that works great if you want a blog. If you want to create anything other then that, Joomla becomes one giant headache to customize.

    If you need a book to understand a CMS, you have defeated the purpose of a CMS. You might as well pick up a book on PHP, you'll end up reaching your goals faster.

  6. Re:Mod parent on Hacking Vim 7.2 · · Score: 1

    ... You moderate by posting a comment

  7. Re:Why? on Google Acquires BumpTop Desktop · · Score: 1

    The truth is, all windowed OS's are multi-dimensional in abstract, you just don't realize it. Every dimension is just displayed as a new window. I know this doesn't look like the "cool 3D" system on Jurassic park but it's definitely a much more efficient way of displaying multi-dimensional data on a 2D screen. Try to figure out how to display 4 dimensions on a Jurassic park system and you'll see the problem.

    Hate to burst the bubble.

  8. Re:You may have heard of this thing on Does HP + Palm = Facepalm? · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of this thing called "poaching talent"? It's a lot cheaper than buying the entire company at face value. Heck, it's what Wall Street did with Lehman employees. You dump the baggage and take the goods.

  9. Re:Stop wasting my energy, dreamers! on SETI To Release Data To the Public · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why don't you stop wasting our precious watts by posting on slashdot.

  10. Re:this is not unexpected on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 1

    You're missing a key point. The American tax payers paid for the majority of broadband cable laid in our country through enormous government subsidies. The ISPs have no right to turn around and charge us extra to use our own cable.

  11. Re:Worst summary ever on Iran Hacks US Spy Sites · · Score: 3, Informative

    OK... and Fox News is the mouth piece of the Republican Party. The fact that Rupert Mudoch's media machine is openly against a democratic administration is not surprising to anyone. My analogy is not flawed, I merely alluded to the fact that the opinions put forth by both Fox News and Fars News are decided well before the facts are divulged. They are equivalent propaganda machines with heavy ties to one political party. Neither one can be considered a respectable "news" organization by any journalistic standards.

  12. Worst summary ever on Iran Hacks US Spy Sites · · Score: 4, Interesting
    • A website is a passive entity that serves content; there's no such thing as a proactive-espionage-"attack" website. Grow up.
    • They were Iranian human rights websites. The article says (in quotes) that the Fars news network drew a tie to US intelligence with no details to back up that claim.
    • Fars news somehow linked this incident to other US funded groups that were arrested on a different occasion? with no citation.

    First off, Fars news is the equivalent of Fox News in the US. They decide the news before it happens. Second off, the only thing worse than this crappy article with no references is CmdrTaco's poor summary of it that insinuates that the US was funding these sites even though the article says nothing about that being true.

  13. Re:Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier on The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Um, I've been in many bar fights.

    Never once has there been a full beer anywhere nearby.

  14. What's the point? on Detecting Anonymously Registered Domains · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is the dumbest thing since lawn darts. I can tell you who is listed anonymously just by looking at the standard whois database. There's only a handful of privacy companies that represent the majority of anonymous domains. If you could find their contact information then that would be useful.

    Congrats, you are the proud owners of a text parsing machine.

  15. Re:Just SOP on Independent Programmers' No-Win Scenario · · Score: 1

    People make this argument about corporations vs. people all the time and it makes no sense. Where did this originate? Fox News? If you disallowed "corporate" campaign funding do you really think that would stop corporations from buying politicians? The CEO of a major corporation could just as easily donate funds under his own name with a little post-it note asking for laws that help his corporation. How does that solve anything?

    Public campaign funding is the underlying issue, not corporations acting as persons.

  16. Re:News to me on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 3, Informative
    Most hospital physicians still use them for a few reasons.
    • There are no dead zones
    • They are easier to page than a cell phone (any nurse can pick up the nearest land line, no need to text)
    • They don't interfere with medical equipment (which is becoming less of a concern lately)
  17. Kids... on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 1

    Use a freaking pencil and paper man. It might be nice to be able to "sort" and "categorize" them for shits and giggles on the weekends but when you're taking a test I doubt you're going to be able to use a "search" system on your computer. Most professors don't require you to memorize giant formulas but they expect you to be able to recall the general uses of certain formulas from memory and be able to apply them out of context to solve larger problems. If you ever work in a mathematical field you will all also need this ability later in life, you might as well start building a "mental" search system now.

  18. Mandatory on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    Windows Vista?

    - I hope

  19. Re:Dmritard96 on Pain-Free Animals Could Take Suffering Out of Farming · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have you tried heroin?

  20. Re:It's sad, really. on One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You ever walk through East Harlem at night, kid?

    Sometimes street lamps are a little more important than allowing New Jersey to have un-obstructed view of the stars.

  21. Twat? on Guatemalan Twitter User Arrested For "Inciting Panic" · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He should have been Tweeting through TOR.

    What a Twit.

  22. I've already reached the threshold on IE Losing 10% Market Share Every Two Years · · Score: 1

    In the past 6 months, firefox users have already surpassed IE users on my own sites, up to 45% now (32% IE).

    I admit though, I probably attract a more liberal crowd...

  23. Re:Hahahaha. on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No. It means a bunch of drunk drivers will be on the streets free to run whoever they want over.

    Ever heard of innocent before proven guilty?

    The point is, these people may not be drunk drivers at all but rather the victims of a cheap, inaccurate black-box device that would probably rate you intoxicated after a sip of NyQuil.

    I hope that the next time a software company doesn't want to disclose it's bullshit algorithms under the "trade secret" claim that it's your wrongfully convicted ass in handcuffs before a judge with your life and reputation is on the line. Maybe then you'll get the point.

  24. Log Normal Assumption on Computer Models and the Global Economic Crash · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of financial models (including the dreaded CDO models) use stochastic calculus to predict price movement by setting up individual security prices as random variables. By doing this, you are making a very broad primary assumption that the markets for these securities, as a whole, are log-normal.

    Right there, from the beginning of all these models, you are making a broad assumption. No one has ever proven that any of the financial markets are actually log-normal.

  25. Damn on NFL's First Broadcast In 3-D, Still Has Work To Do · · Score: 1

    Too bad this technology wasn't working in time to catch Ryan Clark's hit on Wes Walker last week.

    We could have visualized pain in three dimensions.