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  1. Re:Kiddie pron? on School District Hit With New Mac Spying Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    It also doesn't leave any sticky residue on the lens.

    Tape a black piece of cloth over it. Or anything else dark.

  2. Re:Huh. on Bitcoin Used For the Narcotics Trade · · Score: 1

    Ads pay for porn as well.

  3. Re:Google www services are shit on Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers · · Score: 1

    I'm using the latest (11.11) Opera right now and Gmail, Calendar, Reader, Documents, and Reader all work fine, with no warnings or errors. Which services are broken?

  4. Re:excellent PR by Google on Google Uncovers China-Based Password Collection Campaign · · Score: 1

    Giving up your password

    I really hope you don't use only 1 password.

  5. Re:Calm Down, It's Only Group 2B on World Health Organization Says Mobile Phones May Cause Cancer · · Score: 2

    Did you know that America and practically every first world country ships and sells a more dangerous radioactive substance as food? They have much more radiation than coffee, and this substance is even fed to some animals, especially monkeys.

    Hint: bananas have more radiation than almost every other food available, yet nobody wants to pull bananas from the market because it's the only good source of potassium.
    Double hint: you get the same amount of radiation from a banana by just lying near someone.
    Triple hint: take everything you read with a grain of salt.

  6. Re:IO.com ? on A Piece of Internet History Lost: IO.com Sold, Services To Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Yeah, kind of like the Japanese that lived in America that were jailed and sent to camps during WW2. Didn't happen because you never heard of it too right? Protip: it's called history and archiving history is important. Your childish views that if you never heard of it it doesn't exist or matter is awful.

  7. Re:The AllBrowsers service on Rapid Browser Development Challenges Web Developers · · Score: 1

    Goatse link.

  8. Re:microwave on What's Killing Your Wi-Fi? · · Score: 2

    Mod parent up interesting. I knew that light bulbs light up in the microwave, but I never put it together so you could test leaking microwaves with it.

    Also if the microwave is leaking hard, the light bulb may explode (as if you put it in the microwave), but this takes a lot of energy or time, so turn it off immediately when a positive leak test result is found.

  9. Re:Software Patents. on HTC Is Paying Microsoft $5 For Every Android Phone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How do you think Larry page & Sergey Brin would have fared against Altavista and the like had their PageRank system not been patent protected?

    Better because of the need to hire less lawyers and less payouts.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google Count how many times the word court appears.

  10. Re:Sure, its possible to fix it in Linux.... on Skype Issues Software Fix For Windows and Mac Users · · Score: 1

    I know, but misinformation is still misinformation, and the solution is nice to know if you use Skype on Linux.

  11. Re:Sure, its possible to fix it in Linux.... on Skype Issues Software Fix For Windows and Mac Users · · Score: 2

    That's a lie. You just have to delete the shared.xml file just like the manual fix in Windows or Mac, except it's in ~/.Skype/shared.xml

    So just rm ~/.Skype/shared.xml

  12. Re:Stop It! on Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go · · Score: 1

    It's not like you can't find alternatives.

  13. Re:This is against God's will. on Human Astrocytes Developed From Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    I wonder if you'd still want to say that when you or a loved one gets dementia or Alzheimer's.

  14. Re:No on New Bill Would Require US ISPs To Retain User Info · · Score: 2

    filming their children

    In the bath. I forgot to add that. fuck.

    Give me a law or police order that will remove all child pornography forever, and I'll find you a parent filming their children in the bath in jail as a sex offender.

  15. Re:No on New Bill Would Require US ISPs To Retain User Info · · Score: 1

    Give me a law or police order that will remove all child pornography forever, and I'll find you a parent filming their children in jail as a sex offender.

  16. Re:Gnash anyone? on Adobe Rolls Out Privacy Controls In Flash Player 10.3 · · Score: 2

    Pretty sure there are loads of greasemonkey scripts that make it an embed movie.
    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771
    Like this one.

  17. Re:Vorbis or AAC? on Google Launching Music Service Without Labels · · Score: 1

    Do you expect Google to transcode all uploads between Vorbis and AAC?

    Actually, yes. They are doing it with Youtube, even if it's slowly, but converting audio is a lot faster than converting video for obvious reasons.

  18. Re:Cue Linux hipsters! on Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years · · Score: 1

    It's an inaccurate statement, but Ubuntu is a good first dive into Linux (usually, rarely hardware config fucks things up).

    I moved to Arch after Ubuntu.

  19. Re:One right here! on Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu's default install sucks for something like that. An XFCE minimal install with Arch would probably suit you much better.

  20. Re:Not bad. on Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years · · Score: 1

    Can you point to a single Linux game that has even remotely that many sales nor as much revenue generated from sales? Right, you can't.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Bundle#List_of_games_offered
    US$1.8+ M For 1

    Oh wait, you want something not humble bundle?

    http://greyviper.com/1400/amnesia-dark-descents-sales-figures-dwarfed-developers-dream-estimates.html (date Jan 10th 2011)

    200,000+ sales. OK, it's not half life sales but if the price was on average around $13 because of sales that's $2,600,000.

  21. Re:Not bad. on Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Even if you take into account the humble bundle all that shows is the average linux person is willing to spend a whopping 2 dollars for a game (average of about 11-12 bucks for a 6 game pack).

    http://www.humblebundle.com/

    Average Purchase: $4.97
    Average Windows: $3.91
    Average Linux: $11.82

    Stop lying out your ass, that entire post was troll. Nevermind the Linux version of Neverwinter Nights and UT running fully.

  22. Re:One right here! on Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years · · Score: 2

    You can count me out, with Unity/Gnome3.

    Also I prefer Arch anyway :3

  23. Re:They should team up with Google on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    When the only difference is legality who gives a shit.

  24. Re:DO IT on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    Subjective, citation needed isn't correct, it's probably original research.

  25. Re:New Business Plan on Tech Experts Look To Help Save the Postal Service · · Score: 1

    Google should just buy the USPS.

    I keep on hearing this all the time. "Google should just buy X" for X problematic company on Slashdot more and more. Isn't this disturbing to you at all?