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  1. Samsung's patent lawyers will tear them a new one for so blatantly infringing on their IP.

  2. One can only imagine the length of stay when you drone strike someone's whole village into a pile of dead bodies and rubble.

    *Voice stage right*

    What's that? Increased funding? Oh - OK.

  3. Re:Why not a fake account? on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    With the partial zero-fill being obvious evidence of you attempting to exert your existential right to privacy in a climate of intrusive violence-backed 'authority.'

  4. Re:Mandatory on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    Better still, move to a civilised country (where they hack in to your phone remotely and don't trouble you with Nazi-themed reenactments.)

  5. Re: Mandatory on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    It turns out making everything illegal so that people have no freedom is a thing too, as are the exchanging of one's integrity and the trust placed in your office by the people in favour of maximising kick-backs (however indirect) from the prison industry.

  6. Re: Mandatory on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    15 minutes is actually a pretty good response time when you consider the logistics involved

    1. Walk back from coffee machine
    2. Finish box of donuts
    3. Look around for uneaten donuts on nearby desks
    4. Check the box on the captain's desk whilst he's not looking
    5. Check for emergencies which need immediate response
    6. etc..

  7. Re: Mandatory on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    For example: 1337 is the panic code, 1338 is the chilled code. Same number of digits.

  8. Re: The poor in the US get ObamaCare... on WHO Issues a List of 12 Most Worrying Drug-Resistant Bacteria (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Welcome to healthcare as practiced in civilised countries. It's probably quite a shock.

    Meta-comment: stating uncomfortable truths != trolling.

  9. So what's the answer? on WHO Issues a List of 12 Most Worrying Drug-Resistant Bacteria (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe genetically engineering a meta-virus which will modify those in the wild?

  10. ...will have a video of 'will it blend' with humans in the spotlight - *every week*

  11. Re:So, TRUMP wrote this? on Fasting Diet 'Regenerates Diabetic Pancreas' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Meta-complaints about Trump are also blocked - I'm blocking myself!

  12. Re:They did it to themselves on The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But in the bigger picture, people fixing things as a business have other costs to consider that have to met by their labor charges. There's no such thing as pricing a labor job based solely on the time to do the primary repair. The *process* takes longer and that process is necessary to run the business and that cost has to be covered. Your personal repair speed isn't the basis of a business process.

    So, in summary, it's better for everyone if manufacturers outsource repairs to their customers? :D

  13. Re:Not sticky: ethically obvious on The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    only rights that are being managed are those of the publishers. The rights of the consumer are being roundly trampled. It's appalling, really.

    Setting aside the belief that we all follow the law because "it's the law", I find it somewhat ironic that the law is given gravitas by the threat of a punishment which may be meted-out to those daring to demonstrate free will in a direction contrary to "the law" - a punishment enacted by cross-discipline teams of individuals from the same group as those being victimised by these laws in the first place. Divide and conquer FTW.

  14. Re:MS used to ban people for useing there own hdd' on The Videogame Industry Is Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps someone will go after them retroactively to recover deliberate damages (substitute appropriate legal term) on behalf of all those gouged ?

    I find it pretty distasteful that there's so little appreciation shown towards customers who appear to be seen as a necessary evil.

  15. Paperz!! on 'Social Media Needs A Travel Mode' (idlewords.com) · · Score: 1

    I was tempted to say that you need new laws which protect your right to privacy but maybe technical solutions to government nosiness are the way to go.

  16. Great idea on Microsoft Calls For 'Digital Geneva Convention' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    or paraphrasing: "digital black ops teams and false flags for the win" wait - that's what we already have.

  17. Are we grown up enough to read through the bias if presented with multiple points of view?

    N = B (n) + A(n) + R (n)
    Solve for n. B, A are R vary depending on n.

    This represents 84% of the total marks.

  18. Cyanide might have some slight nutritional value.

  19. Also, I ommitted "fr!5t p50t suckas :P"

  20. Potatoes have nutritional value.

  21. Ummm on Netflix Geoblocking Loosened Under New EU Law (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely the customer is umm... the customer and so their location is irrelevant?

    General question: are there any examples of businesses looking after their customers' needs without there being a regulation 'requiring' them to?

  22. I've found (in my laboratory of off-the-cuff thought experiments :-) that "if you all complain in unison, you'll receive more pay for less work" is a motivator for staff as is "gaining a well-placed lever over the internal running of a private and profitable business" to union bosses. Just saying...

  23. It's a who's-the-slipperiest-weasel contest :D

  24. "VTOL -- short for vertical takeoff and landing" long for "vertical takeoff and landing"

  25. Re: Blocked in Northern Ireland on Movie Industry Wants Irish ISPs To Block Pirate Movie Streaming Portals (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not express your absence of support by ceasing to give them money? Support businesses who behave in a manner you agree with.