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  1. Re:Get rid of... Parking Meters! on "Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "The summary complains that it would cost $84 to park in some of these places for 24 hours. That's the point! To prevent people from doing that so that the street parking spots are open for convenient access to businesses and city buildings."

    Nah, that's the excuse. Parking is a revenue generator for the city, a lot more so than resource allocation issue. The city would much rather have more tickets issued than people swapping out frequently.

  2. Re:In unrelated news... on First European Provider To Break Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Might as well. It seems to me, their real problem is they oversold their bandwidth, and the proper thing to do is to reprice bandwidth usage. Stop bullshitting the customers with promise of bandwidth they can't deliver.

    Yeah, that would suck in marketing aspect. Again might as well. If a company actually uttered a truth, it just might shock some of us into death by heart attack.

  3. Re:Close the borders on Developing World's Parasites, Diseases Enter US · · Score: 1

    We already did, for buncha bananas no less.

  4. Evil Hollywood plot on Developing World's Parasites, Diseases Enter US · · Score: 3, Funny

    to jack up the rating for House MD. Pathetic, really.

  5. Re:I can do the opposite on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    What kinda tits? How many?

  6. Re:Gender isn't sex. on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    You know, if the question comes down to semantic, it's good sign that the premise is out-of-whack.

  7. Re:M*U*L*T*I*N*A*T*I*O*N*A*L*S on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    Really, I mean, it's named IBM, not USBM or ABM.

  8. I can do the opposite on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you ever posted here, you know you are not a REAL female. You may even look like one, but you know, deep inside, you have big question mark lingering. Don't you!

  9. Re:Something something something dark side! on New Logitech Dark Field Mice Operate On Glass · · Score: 1

    Why yes, sounds suspiciously like the evil HHGG v2, the bird...

  10. Re:Migt want to learn before your job goes to Indi on Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays · · Score: 1

    *P Yeah, thanks for the career tip. Kind move out of this green patch.

  11. The names on Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Programming, I've been doing this for living for two decades, but I have no clue what those things are. Well, except for Rails I did read a bit about.

    Probably all for the best, I'd guess.

  12. B*lgium on New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny" · · Score: 1

    An appropriate tag if there ever was one.

  13. Telepunch on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Or telekick, with auto nut aiming.

  14. Bummer on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    That's a bummer, man.

  15. Re:GPL good for business on The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker · · Score: 1

    You have to admit, though, most are hardware/service firms, and very few (any?) software firms, as was expected.

  16. Re:Yo Dawg on Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Yo Dawg, we put a device on your device so you can download while you download...

  17. Re:speaking of paypal..... on "Hidden" PayPal Fees Inciting Community Unrest · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't know the reach of eBay, but those of you who feel they are forced to deal with PayPal, you know you deserve this for dealing with them, don't you.

  18. Re:Yse on Is Typing Ruining Your Ability To Spell? · · Score: 1

    You're suffering the progressive Slavism.

  19. They should... on Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, they should, like, totally port that to ARM. ;-)

  20. Re:Problem? on Smarter Clients Via ReverseHTTP and WebSockets · · Score: 1

    If we can only figure out how to store the damn logs so that it can be retrieved after a reboot...

  21. Problem? on Smarter Clients Via ReverseHTTP and WebSockets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought dumping the load on the server was the desired design feature. What is the problem they are trying to solve? Good old rich client model has been around for some time now.

  22. Fools! on Looking For a Link Between Sci-Fi UFOs and UFO Reports · · Score: 1

    Fools! Plot the sighting with aluminum foil sales!

  23. SOL Vista user on XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sucks for those who bought Vista - service pack used to be free before.

  24. Suck it out on No Social Media In These College Stadiums · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hope this sucks the money out of college sports so the schools go back to teaching.

  25. Re:A few words... on Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Perfectly decent planes, although I wish they stop letting all them chickens and goats onboard. Are you listening, Aeroflot? ;-)