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  1. Reality =/= Spin on Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install · · Score: 1

    But no! Microsoft! Evil! Bill Gates Kills Kittens! Don't you see? This is yet more evidence that M$ (I replaced the S with a $, lol) doesn't care about its own users! How dare they not release a perfect product in Beta. Why can't they be like Google?

  2. Finding Easter Eggs in the Legal Code on Harvard Law's Nesson Says P2P Is "Fair Use" · · Score: 1

    Honestly, this just sounds like he's torturing the concept of "fair use" until it suits his purposes. If I look cross-eyed at the tax code for long enough, I wonder if I'll find a way to have the government give me millions of dollars. Or maybe I'll just see a 3D sailboat.

  3. Re:This is a violation of my privacy. on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Privacy rights are trumped by funny April Fools jokes!

    Ha ha, I'm just kidding, April Fools!

    Or am I????????

  4. Re:wow on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 2, Funny

    Our three weapons are Fear, Surprise, a Fanatical Devotion to the Pope, and Ammonium--wait, that's four.

    We'll just come back in

  5. One Minute Rule on Gmail Adds 5 Second Send Rule · · Score: 2, Informative

    I personally added a "Delay Sending by One Minute" rule into Outlook at work. It saves me a lot of embarassment when I hit send without adding my attachments (happens a lot). I wouldn't mind a similar gmail holding pen.

  6. Re:Treason on Kentucky Officials "Changed Votes At Voting Machines" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Executing corrupt pols is always a popular choice, but we should really consider public humiliation. Bring back the stocks. Seize all their assets, all their family's assets. Then, after a month or two of leaving them in the town square, throw them in federal PYITA prison, and let them rot for all eternity

  7. Re:What the hell? on Suspect Freed After Exposing Cop's Facebook Status · · Score: 2

    As the officer himself said, "I feel it's partially my fault...It paints a picture of a person who could be overly aggressive. You put that together, it's reasonable doubt in anybody's mind." If your judgement and demeanor are key to your job, don't go immortalizing your idiocy to the entire planet. If you're a cop who wants to be taken seriously, don't make public statements attached to your Real Name in which you discuss the "proper" way to punch a handcuffed subject. This case isn't all that different from folks who want to interview for jobs while their Facebook profile picture is them doing a bong stand that act surprised when they don't get the job.

  8. Re:Skimming article text on Darkfall Set For Launch · · Score: 3, Informative

    So you didn't get to the part of the second article where the author wrote, "what I experienced in the world is still the worst example of an online community I've ever encountered, without question?" That sort of sums up a lot of the game, I think.

  9. Re:Oh, I'm sure that this will last. on Facebook Reverts ToS Change After User Uproar · · Score: 1

    There's more to life than money. Some of us want to do something useful or important with our time here on Earth.quote> You got a lawyer canned. You more than did your fair share of benefiting the human race. If the other 6-7 billion of us did the same, we'd start to make progress in controling the lawyer population. Remember, kids, have your lawyers spayed or neutered.

  10. Re:One way to get more registered voters on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? American voters have a tough time just marking ONE name on the ballot. I can't wait to examine 2 or 3 hanging chads to figure out which one got punched first.

  11. Is the site getting a new tagline? on Is Google Silently Removing Posts? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot: Wildly Speculative Realms of Unfounded Rumor for Nerds. Stuff that Could Conceivably Matter if in Fact True.

  12. Re:Consider it ammo on Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are they cutting 5,000 jobs to free up chairs, or are they down 5,000 chairs so they need to cut jobs?

  13. Re:Cya You Tube on YouTube Muting, Removing Videos Involving Warner Music · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And that place will be great until Warner threatens them and sues them out of existence. Youtube's playing by the rules set forth by copyright law. Copyright is the problem, here, not a silly video site.

  14. Re:Minsc says.... on 10 Years of Baldur's Gate · · Score: 1

    Squeaky Wheel Gets the KICK!

  15. Re:Will it still run on '386 machines on Slackware 12.2 Released · · Score: 1

    A million monkeys on a million typewriters will eventually crack your super-encrypted password

  16. Re:Nothing new on Game Makers Accusing Innocent People of Piracy In the UK · · Score: 1

    Now that you mention it, Weather Forecasting actually has a higher success rate than Copy Protection! I'll take 25% over 0% any day of the week.

  17. Re:thieves standing around on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The summary is trying to make this about "un-witnessed searches," but this is about dishonest transport employees. Lazy employees have been stealing random valuables being transported from the time that the first wagons and boats got invented.

  18. Re:Holy cow on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? He's not going to be worried about his income for a long time...he's about to own a bar! I wonder if he'll call it "Shooters"

  19. Re:So. on Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    As Mozilla seems to be replacing their old EULA with a new Licensing agreement for end users, you are correct. It may be a while.

  20. Re:People seem to like AIM better than Second Life on Are We Headed for a Virtual Winter? · · Score: 1

    Your reply is pretty much the point of the article. People seem to prefer interacting with one another through e-mails, chats, blogs, whatever instead of logging onto a "virtual world." Your statement that you're too busy is probably a big reason why people prefer FirstLife.

  21. People seem to like AIM better than Second Life on Are We Headed for a Virtual Winter? · · Score: 2, Informative

    To reiterate: People seem to like AIM better than Second Life

  22. Re:Good ridance on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 2, Funny

    After all, what do we do to people who say video games make us violent? WE KILL EM!

  23. Re:misread it on Swiss Man Flies With Jet Powered Wing · · Score: 1

    Mine goes to eleven...

  24. Don't spoil it! on The Science of Iron Man · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, no spoilers! The movie isn't even out yet. Next you'll be telling us some other important plot point, something like him rising from his grave to kill the people he once saved. Have some respect.

  25. Re:Why do people continue to give them money? on SCO v. Novell Goes to Trial Today In Utah · · Score: 1

    But who could possibly
    Imagine such a strange world where someone infuses
    Large amounts of
    Liquidity into an otherwise immoral company without expectation of return?

    Give me
    A nickle for every
    Time that we
    Enter this kind of discussion related to
    SCO!