User: ThatsNotPudding

Re:And then...

On: Obama Picks Net Neutrality Backer As FCC Chief

If Obama follows the Constitution, that would be the biggest change seen in many years.

So that's why he voted to protect the telcos that illegaly wiretapped US citizens!

Naturally

On: Safari Beta Takeup Tops Firefox, IE and Chrome

deploy your browser in the same manner as a trojan (as part of a Quicktime 'update') and the uptake will be pretty high. Perhaps they should whip up a 'Pro' version that skims the users' credit card info as well: AppleCare for all!

Hah

On: Jobs On Track For June Return

"...when several stockholders stood to sing 'Happy Birthday.'" You can't tell me it's not a for-profit cult. Just be happy they don't sell Kool-Aid in the Apple stores. ...then again.

Ironically,

On: UK Government Boosts Open Source Adoption

they intend to use it to keep track of all their surveillance activities.

Re:well we're f*****d

On: NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails

Exxon-Mobil seen slowly walking way, hands in pockets, tunelessly whistling and avoiding eye contact.

Nice ad placement, Slashdot

On: EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What?

"Install Google Chrome" Not that Adwords is a monopoly too. No, that's silly.

Re:Good Joke

On: Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs

Everybody here should write to both of their Senators and their Representative ..

I would if I had any that even remotely cared about such trifling things as freedom and privacy.

/Sad Kansan

Re:I'm Confused

On: Microsoft Says No Profit In Vista-XP Downgrades

Does buying a PS3 give you a free PS2? Yes?

Provided that stealing underwear is one of the steps.

Re:Yep, Its true

On: One Broken Router Takes Out Half the Internet?

Since folks on Slashdot seem to like car analogies, I'll just mention that Red Cars Go Faster and assume that the same law applies for routers.

Yes, but it pales in comparision to rubbing cheetah blood all over it.

Re:Few stories back...

On: One Broken Router Takes Out Half the Internet?

That is actually correct. The sub shop in Bremerton (West Coast port for Trident Ballistic Missile Submarines, SSBN-726, etc.) sells the Trident Nuclear Submarine Sandwich with an extra serving of horseradish somewhere in the middle of it...".

...there were no survivors.

And on the Eighth Day

On: Does Your Vendor Issue Gag Orders?

the Good Lord made Wikileaks.

Re:A DRM ban clause should be added as a constitut

On: Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7

Now tell him about HDCP.

In other words

On: Drug Giant Pledges Cheap Medicine For World's Poor

no more than 25% of the levels in the UK and US

The UK and US is about to receive a 75% price increase.

Or, to put it a differently

On: Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown

"Windmills do not work that way!!"

Re:Culture

On: China Aims To Move Up the Food Chain

Jeez, calm down! Can I interest you in some Opium?

We need a DA

On: How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure?

with nuts big enough to have 'frank and candid discussions' with those Certified Microsoft Professionals and then doggedly climb on up the chain of lies.

Obviously

On: Hadron Collider Relaunch Delayed

it won't start up until 2010. Little-known fact: most particle physicists are Mayan.

I suspect an inside job

On: Kaspersky Customer Database Exposed

Little Johnny Tables strikes again.

How about a patch of dirty space?

On: Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter

Project back where the solar system was at the year in question and let Hubble take a peek for anything odd.

As I understand it

On: Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More

the correct way to pronounce Starter is 'starter-rer-rer...click'. The last bit is more of a glottal stop.

Further Proof

On: Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers

every 'religion' is merely a cult that reached critical mass.

Alternate Spelling of Karma

On: Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy

Safari

Re:Childish

On: Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban

Imadinnerjacket is just a puppet of the Ayatollahs; he does what he's told. Just like Bush.

Re:Chinese controls

On: FDA Testing Artificial Liver

AKA Student Dissidents.

Re:this geek is clearly breaking the rules...

On: Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon "Batleth"

"Watch out for your cornhole" doesn't count?