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  1. Coming to this site for around a decade.... on WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and this is the first time in a long time that I have ever seen the first 10 or so upvoted comments.... all in almost perfect agreement. It seems everyone is finally working out that Julian is nothing by a narcissistic troll, who took a good idea, and destroyed it with his ego.

  2. Not enough money in the world... on Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After Email Note (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ... that could convince me to compromise my life enough to work at Amazon. Worst company I know to work at. They take exploitation to new levels.

  3. Re:How a tyrant & dictator on Vladimir Putin Is Replacing Microsoft Programs With Domestic Software (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nicely said!

  4. What are these ads you talk about? on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    My Adblocking plugin doesnt let me see them :)

  5. Re:Infrastructure? on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    I have been using Linux since the 90`s. I must have missed the "golden age of FOSS documentation". If anything, its better now that its ever been. I speak from experience when I used to compile packages with 0 information on them or their dependencies. Sometimes I would get lucky and there would be documentation... but they normally came in strange scandinavian languages.

  6. Re:This is the future Republicans want for all of on Google Receives Takedown Request Every 8 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    They are actually not the same. Thinking they are is part of the problem

  7. Google don't be evil on Google Receives Takedown Request Every 8 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    They should charge money for each take down request as it uses up man hours. They`ll become the richest company in the world if they do that :D Or have a manual process. Where you have to go into a google office and submit the links and no more than 10 links allowed to be submitted by any one person at one time. Hire someone who retired years ago but needs the extra cash to manage the very long queue that will form :D

  8. Re:MATE or Cinnamon on One Week With GNOME 3 Classic · · Score: 1

    Im a long time power user. I LOVE gnome3. Best desktop ever. Very happy with it.

  9. Re:Need Clarity on Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released · · Score: 1

    In South Africa we pronounce it: Lie-nix . I notice most of the rest of the world pronounces it Lee-nix. I heard Linus said "linux is pronounced "lee-nix". He confuses all of us with that strange sounding "I"

  10. Who cares? on The First Fully 3D-Printed Gun Has Been Successfully Test-Fired · · Score: 1
    Mr I-hate-mr-bad-evil-government libertarian can build a shitty plastic gun. Wow... that rocks my world! Not. Dude, they got instructions on how to build powerful devastating weapons of mass destruction already on the internet. In a world where the instructions on how to make crystal meths through to how nuclear bomb works... I dont under stand why anyone give a fk about a plastic gun.

    This is just libertarian attention whoring.

  11. Re:Speculation on Drug Site Silk Road Says It Will Survive Bitcoin's Volatility · · Score: 1

    Except that fiat currencies are actually based on the value of the economy of a country (ie, its stock markets, agricultural output, etc etc). Where bitcoin is based on nothing but the value you speculate at. You cant compare them with a straight face.

  12. Irony on MasterCard Forcing PayPal To Pay Higher Fees · · Score: 1

    Didnt Paypal buddy up with Visa and Mastercard to bully Wikileaks? Irony is a bitch Paypal.

  13. I just discovered the pilot! on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1
    Picture of the pilot to fly this Iraninan jet fighter:

    http://goo.gl/F3mpt

  14. Re:And nothing of value was lost on Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? Zynga Shuts Down PetVille, 10 Others · · Score: 1

    Geeks would cry a different tune if it was their Wow account that got deleted.

  15. Re:Gridlocked with No Way to Prime the Pump on Vast Bulk of BitCoins Are Hoarded, Not Used · · Score: 1

    Complete rubbish. We left the gold standard because countries hoarded it, and it lead to a stagnation in the economy called The Great Depression. Countries that left the gold standard later than others took longer to fix their economies. Instead of judging the worth of a country on one metal. It is now based on a whole host of factors like stock market, value of all currencies, farming production, etc etc. This is the fiat system.

  16. Re:Don't hire union workers on The Truth About Hiring "Rock Star" Developers · · Score: 1

    75% of people on welfare are too old and too young to work. Stop with this silly myth that welfare makes people lazy.

  17. Somewhere in the world... on Iranian Players Blocked From World of Warcraft Due To Trade Sanctions · · Score: 1
    VPN sales just shot up.

    Iranians should roll a new president.

  18. Slashdot got it wrong on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot got it wrong. The easiest LAMP server to setup is not Ubuntu, its not SuSe and its not Debian. Its ClearOS. Its very easy for a noob to configure. Has a nice web browser based configuration panel and is piss easy to setup.

  19. Re:Not fear - disgust on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 1

    I come from a continent of child soldiers here in Africa. Your words have less meaning here.

  20. Seriously? on Anonymous Launches a WikiLeaks For Hackers · · Score: 1

    Im surprised anyone is taking this site (that looks like it was developed by a 5 year old).... seriously. I certainly cant.

  21. Re:Well... on Threat of Cyberwar Is Over-Hyped · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Not to

  22. Re:Only if on Is Going To an Elite College Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1

    Having gone to an elitest college I not enjoying it at all, I can say the best thing about it is the "old boys" business club.

  23. Sad right on Former Student Gets 30 Months For Political DDoS Attacks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Its really depressing how far right some of the posts here are. I always thought nerds were smart :(

  24. Re:Let's Not Get Ahead of Ourselves Here on "District 9" Best Sci-fi Movie of 09? · · Score: 1

    Sorry typo I cant edit.. "its not really about Apartheid"

  25. Re:Let's Not Get Ahead of Ourselves Here on "District 9" Best Sci-fi Movie of 09? · · Score: 1
    As a South African I can say the film is not really about South Africa, but more in touch with our xenophobic (another word for racism) attacks that swept South Africa.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia_in_South_Africa