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  1. Re:What Are You Talking About? on Seinfeld-Windows TV Ad Anything But 'Delicious' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Irony can be informative if you recognize that it is irony...

  2. Re:This is not how you stop riots... on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    On their way out? As if it wasn't fishy enough... This wasn't a drug raid. They need to show it up front unless the want to incite trouble. Law enforcement should know better than to flaunt their power.

  3. Re:iPhone on A Hardware Mashup Device Running Linux · · Score: 1

    "programmable" but not Open.
    See Openmoko for a truly open phone.

  4. Re:Not true... on Too Easy For Bank Accounts To Spring a Leak · · Score: 1

    I have no moral dilemma calling it either. But I think the legislature changes the tax code do they not?

    I'll brake it down like this:
    Tax loop holes are incentives that you have lobbied for.
    Other incentives are there for the government to try and control people, specifically targeting people who make money.

    I don't like either.

  5. Re:Old Story on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    Steve Franklin for President!

  6. Re:Not true... on Too Easy For Bank Accounts To Spring a Leak · · Score: 1

    Accountants are also good at finding tax loop holes. That's how they generally justify what how much they cost. The security benefit is just icing on the cake.

  7. Re:Try Arduino, or build your own on A Hardware Mashup Device Running Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    And if you need more than what the Arduino has to offer check out the Gumstix

  8. Re:I don't. on Pitfalls of Automated Bill Payment · · Score: 1

    Safety vs. Security?

  9. Re:Tech support. on Quebec Govt Sued For Ignoring Free Software · · Score: 1

    That's true. But the people who call the shots think stupid.

    I couldn't let that one go. Had to fix it.

  10. Re:Tech support. on Quebec Govt Sued For Ignoring Free Software · · Score: 1

    Bureaucratic policy maker in the government and intelligence? Isn't that a bit mutually exclusive? Maybe a person could be intelligent and willfully ignorant so they could feel okay about collecting a pay check...

  11. Re:Scary thought! on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yea because making bureaucracies bigger has worked out more often than not.

  12. Re:Agreed on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 1

    Don't forget they need to make people who receive welfare work on the building the infrastructure.

  13. Re:I'll admit, I'm a bit confused on Newegg Defies New York Sales Tax Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good thing all the mega corporations don't think it's fair either... They will end up fighting it instead of individual citizens.

  14. Be careful what you wish for. on Software Quality In a Non-Software Company? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that once you have a process, it will be implemented my some person who has no idea what software is all about, and you'll end up with something that hinders you rather than helps. The best way to solve your problem is from the ground up, that way you get something that is easy to work with and solves your problems, not make new ones.

  15. Re:So what? on Linux Not Supported For Democratic Convention Video · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but what do I know?

    If you have to ask someone else you may never know...

    But on the other hand the fact that Microsoft might think Linux running on the same hardware that Windows generally runs on is a bigger threat than over priced MAC hardware running OSX is interesting enough for me.

  16. Re:Not useful in 30 years on If Linux Fails, Blame Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1

    So we aren't still using the Von Neumann Architecture for most computing? News to me. Maybe you should submit that story to Slashdot.

  17. Re:Who gives a flaming fuck? on A Look At Joe Biden's Tech Voting Record · · Score: 1

    I'm a worker, have no aspirations of managing any one but myself, and I would never unite under any kind of socialist revolution. And IHBT... But I couldn't resist the bait...

  18. Re:like me on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    No one's asking you to waste your time here. Go waste it somewhere else if you don't like the colors.

  19. Re:Who gives a flaming fuck? on A Look At Joe Biden's Tech Voting Record · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your an idiot. Or a troll. Or an Idiot-Troll.

  20. Re:Not useful in 30 years on If Linux Fails, Blame Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1

    You gotta bring it back to cars for every one to understand. And when you get down to it the model T had an engine, a steering wheel, gas, brake, and four wheels. Not much has changed in cars when you look at it like that. But there has been a lot of incremental changes that have vastly improved cars on a whole. What makes you think that OS development is any different?

  21. Re:Econ 101 on In-Game Gold Farming a $500M Industry · · Score: 1

    You mean a gold farming class?

  22. Re:it's not really a stupid tax on Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat · · Score: 1

    I like to build hobby robots, which actually helps my job performance and was a motivating factor in my last raise.

  23. Re:Well said... on Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat · · Score: 1

    Your assumption is that an honest man wants to help every one he can. In the literal sense an honest man wouldn't tell a lie, how does that have anything to do with charity?

    Some of the most honest men I've known would't raise a finger to help someone they didn't know.

  24. Re:it's not really a stupid tax on Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat · · Score: 1

    ... and hope for unearned wealth.

  25. Re:dumb people lose money, not freedom on Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat · · Score: 1

    Instant classic!