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  1. Loyal Opposition on NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes · · Score: 1

    Where is the party opposite (or even an alternative such as a Pirate party) that should be shouting to the televised heavens: "They broke the law but claim to be above the law!"?? Seriously; the copy writes itself!

  2. Related headline on NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes · · Score: 1

    PM Shocked (Shocked!) to Hear There is Gambling in Casa Blanca.

  3. Otellini quote on Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    One of his quotes was: "Windows 8 is one of the best things that ever happened to Intel", meaning to this wag that Win8 is a bloated, CPU-sucking pig that will need every possible clock cycle thrown at it, requiring a new computer or at the least a new CPU and motherboard for yet another new proprietary socket and RAM spec. Profit!

  4. Op cit. on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 1

    We are not required to give free speech to citizens of foreign nations who leak diplomatic confidential communiques and battle plans.

    CITATION REQUIRED

  5. The fastest on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 1

    I need to know which one installs the fastest - and where I can get some concrete blocks. http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/09/26/0526231/linux-forcibly-installed-on-congressmans-computer-in-act-of-terrorism

  6. Exemptions on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Californina and Florida have added a retroactive exemption for large Cadillacs driven only by wizened knuckles and the tops of bouffant hairdos.

  7. Heh on Stanford-NYU Report: Drone Attacks Illegal, Counterproductive · · Score: 2

    Imagine you have a country governed by warlords.

    I don't have to imagine. USA! USA! USA!

  8. Re:PPA's on Microsoft Pollutes To Avoid Fines · · Score: 1

    Along with lying about shoddy gas pipeline welds and re-designing nuclear steam tube bundles that rattled so hard they eroded holes in themselves within weeks of installation.

  9. Compromise on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Okay, GOP; we'll agree to un-ban incandescents - if you agree to get out and *stay* out of womens' uteruses (as most would definitely never invite you in).

  10. Ren Hoek on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 1

    "You IEEEdiots!!"

  11. Related conundrum on Goodyear's 'On TheGo' Self Inflating Tire · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of millions of tires go from fresh, deep tread with the tiny mold fingers to terrifyingly bald and that volume difference goes... where? Click n' Clack never could come up with an answer; maybe someone here knows.

  12. USAians on Plans For Widespread Monitoring of Communication In Europe Revealed · · Score: 0

    Perfectly content to live their entire lives in government prison - provided they're allowed shitty network TV and guns (that are useless against this type of prison).

  13. Huh? on Goodyear's 'On TheGo' Self Inflating Tire · · Score: 1

    I don't see how his would help with blowouts...

    The side wall on under-inflated tires is flexed more per revolution by orders of magnatude than at proper inflation. It is akin to bending a paper clip.

  14. On a clear day on Iran Blocks Google, Moves Forward With Domestic Network Plans · · Score: 2

    On a clear day, you can see the Tower of Babel from Tehran.

  15. October Surprise on Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN · · Score: 0

    Follow the money; I'm betting this idiot (who should be prosecuted for manslaughter at the very least) got money and support from the GOP, albeit hidden under several layers of shell organizations. It greatly benefits the Right Wing if it looks like the entire Muslim world is about to rise up and destroy Jebus, NASCAR, and college football.

  16. THIS on Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN · · Score: 2

    it's a feeble God who needs armed men to defend himself.

    Can we get a Kickstarter going to fund this writ large in geosynchronous orbit, please?

  17. Podcasts on Shuttleworth: Trust Us, We're Trying to Make Shopping Better · · Score: 1

    About every podcast I listen to now has a pleading about supporting them by going to their website and clicking on the Amazon banner ad so they get their beaks wet. Now the OS wants to do it too? Pass. I never to remember to do the link thing when shopping on Amazon anyway.

    I already switched to LMDE when the Unity debacle started. Ubuntu is rapidly becoming the MySpace of distributions.

  18. Patton Oswalt on Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN · · Score: 1

    'Hey, you gotta respect their beliefs...' "No you don't. I have an uncle that believes in Sasquatch; we do not believe him, nor do we respect him!"

  19. Scoff all you want on NZ To Investigate Illegally Intercepted Data In Dotcom Case · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is a well known fact that foxes are very scrupulous and self-critical during any henhouse investigation.

  20. Re:Who cares? on Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    I realize it's much easier to just pretend this is an Apple problem, though.

    Absolutely. Apple never puts on airs about it and its' customers being hipper, sexier, smarter, cooler, and never, ever more enlightened than everyone else.

  21. Re:Wink Wink Nudge Nudge? on The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link Sold To Its Members · · Score: 1

    The purchase price was $20 million, IIRC; hope you know how to make it rain big time.

  22. EU connector mandate on iPhone 5 Teardown Shows Boost To Repairability · · Score: 0

    I thought the EU mandated all new phones to have the same USB connector to end the huge e-waste of discarded chargers with proprietary connectors.

    Wait, let me guess: Apple got some sort of bullshit waiver for being totally cool and tubular.

  23. Yah on Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing · · Score: 1

    I gave DDG a fair shake for a few months but ended up with a lot of spammy results a lot of times and didnt find what I wanted all the time.

    Yup. Even DDG seems to know this, as they provide links to other search engines with their results. DDG is now even advertising on a rather shocking website, but the point is probably Moot.

  24. Lede on Calif. Man Arrested For ESPN Post On Killing Kids · · Score: 1

    I love how the article points out that "several guns were found", implying that it is somehow out of the ordinary for an American citizen to legally own firearms. See? He owns guns, so obviously he must be a violent psychopath.

    No, no; you missed the buried lede. He's a non-white male, therefore not a rights-defending Patriot, but a gun-wielding murder machine - and an unscrutable one, at that.

  25. The real 3D printer lawsuit on MakerBot Going Closed Source? · · Score: 1

    The lawsuit I have no doubt that is coming down the pike is an automotive or consumer electronics corporation suing the end-user, printing service (if involved) *and* the 3D printer manufacturer for theft of IP and 1000% profits for the 'copying' of some cheap-ass, proprietary - but necessary - part.

    If Vegas was offering odds, I'd but $50 down it will happen within two years. Hell, it's probably already codified in the ongoing Top Secret trade pacts that all our wonderful governments are negotiating on our behalf.