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  1. Re:Magic the Gathering Online Exchange on Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades · · Score: 1

    beta version that they have tried to force inside everyone. I don't know what could possibly have caused me to think of that

    It's completely obvious to everyone you're referring to Opera being rewritten into a Chromium clone with all the features that made it special or even usable removed. The classic version is still available but if you go to the Web site, you'll likely be directed to the shitty new beta version, which runs on fewer environments than it used to. We, the users, put up a stink but they told us to go fuck ourselves.

  2. Re:Labview on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    it would get so messy and stringy that at some point I'd just say 'fuck beta' and wrap up everything in a module (I forget what it's called). A nice looking little box with a few inputs and outputs that hides the horrible mess I'd made.

    Maybe it shouldn't have allowed me to pull such dirty tricks.

    It's about as dirty as wrapping some code into a function or an object.

  3. Re:Surely on Skinny Puppy Wants Compensation For Music Used in US Interrogations · · Score: 1

    Beta doesn't have genitals—it's been neutered. Beta can only suck.

  4. Re:Idiocy. on David Cameron Says Fictional Crime Proves Why Snooper's Charter Is Necessary · · Score: 5, Funny

    DC is America's thermal exhaust port. It's where all the hot air comes from.

  5. Re:what's "interesting"? on It's Not Memory Loss - Older Minds May Just Be Fuller of Information · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its hard to dig up a single nugget from under under that pile of tailings I've accumulated over the years.

    It's okay; you can blurt it out in three or so days when the article is re-posted.

  6. Re:Not even close on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1

    So it has crunch...it's sort of like Windows 8?

    That should be the new marketing slogan—"Windows 8 has crunch!"

  7. Re:All I Have To Say Is on You Might Rent Features & Options On Cars In the Future · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're just jerking your knee cause when it comes to automated technology, that is the "fashionable" thing to do these days.

    Knee jerking has recently been automated.

  8. Re:NoScript on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    1.- Make ads first party, 2.- Make them text or basic images

    Yeah but that removes most of the incentive to block ads so—wait a minute.

  9. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Windows Media Center before it was turned into the Start Menu.

  10. Re:The correct way to "inform the authority" on Australian Teen Reports SQL Injection Vulnerability, Company Calls Police · · Score: 4, Funny

    [Premature enunciation]

  11. Re:What's with all the consolodation? on Google Begins To Merge Google+, Gmail Contacts · · Score: 1

    It's their misguided attempt to jump start The Singularity®.

  12. Re:Slash!dot Beta on The Biggest Tech Mishap of 2013? · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a good Python script you got there. Unfortunately, Slashdot is written in Perl.

  13. Re:Wouldn't someone think of the children? on Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School · · Score: 1

    OTOH a banana panic would lower the price of one of my favorite fruits

    Do glue sticks count as fruit?

  14. Re:What an idiot. on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 2

    Banks have Get Out of Jail Free cards. He probably found a stack amongst the moneys.

  15. Re:girlfriend stops speaking to you... on Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Has Been Found · · Score: 1

    Nah, he just took a break but then lost motivation in his sentence under the burden of the ongoing refactoring of the code.

  16. Re:It's not the updates, it's the cloud sync on Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? · · Score: 1

    It's not just any cloud; p2p is cumulonimbus. Huge swarms of nodes all over the world and you don't have to care where they are to get what you want. Also, some of its usage may be legally cloudy. Cloud cloud cloud!

  17. Re:DRM the only long-term answer. on DRM Has Always Been a Horrible Idea · · Score: 1

    Let's extend this logic to other things. PC sales are more numerous than Mac sales, therefore Macs are being pirated. Right? Is Game of Thrones in theaters? Do you get HBO for free?

    Did your forget Don't copy that floppy, or do you think copy protection wasn't yet invented in the days of physical media because it was somehow buttmagically not copyable?

  18. Re:No Sympathy on Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, then good news! Windows XP is just four months away from being perfect.

  19. Re:Time to switch gears on Facebook Tracks the Status Updates and Messages You Don't Write Too · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, that's probably the one function emacs doesn't have.

  20. Re:And google will retain that info exclusively. on Google Makes It Harder For Marketers To Collect User Data · · Score: 2

    They'd have to hit the server with the unique name before they could find out if the data is in cache.

  21. Re:espresso? on Engineering the Perfect Coffee Mug · · Score: 2

    Urine coming out at over 140 degrees may be a health concern.

  22. Jinx put Max in space on Coolant Glitch Forces Partial Space Station Shutdown · · Score: 2

    They should check for kid-friendly robots lurking about.

  23. Re:Submarine cable provided by the NSA. on New Baltic Data Cable Plan Unfolding · · Score: 3, Funny
  24. Re:Nom nom nom, that's some good Eagle! on US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The luxurious seats are stuffed with eagle down and the dashboard inlaid with the beaks of a thousand eagles. Also, there are some eagles under the floorboards."

  25. Re:Interesting on King James Programming · · Score: 1

    Probably because they'd have to pay the algorithm more than the marketing team.