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  1. Re:Historically, all politicians like to impose ru on Iran Plans To Unplug the Internet, Launch Its Own 'Clean' Alternative · · Score: 1

    Well, you have e.g. Green and Communist parties, but they are insignificantly small on a national scale.

  2. Re:Patents? on Facebook To Buy Instagram For $1 Billion · · Score: 2

    No, I have at least five others on my iPhone: Hipstamatic, Plastiq, Infinicam, Lo-mob and Fusioncam. Instagram's claim to fame was the (largely Facebook-driven ironically) community functions.

  3. Re:Wonder how iPhone idiots will react to this? on Facebook To Buy Instagram For $1 Billion · · Score: 0

    Android users aren't snobby. When they tell you that the fix for your issues with a given Android app on your handset is to "buy a Nexus" they are just being friendly.

  4. Re:Inside the Evil Empire. on News Corp/NDS Forces DocumentCloud To Take Down Emails · · Score: 1

    Drug lords in South America also have "commercial success". Just saying.

  5. Re:$575? Seriously? on Google Earns $2 Per Handset; Apple, $575 · · Score: 1

    exclusive mass-market

    Okay, enough with the contradictory terms!

  6. Re:Yoda says.... on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    Since it is observed in 1500 species, I guess there is a function to it. E.g. if some adults do not have children of their own, there are more adults around to guard the children, thus increasing their chance of growing into adulthood and continuing the species.

    (Where in evolution do cars fit in? Stop driving this instant!)

    You are trying to treat evolution as a religion, and applying it to "post-evolution" humans. Why? Is it important to you that every human on the planet should have heterosexual sex?

  7. Re:Yoda says.... on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    Does it need to be "normal"? Should everyone behave the same "normal" way all the time? What next, Mao-style uniforms so that your clothes are "normal"? Should this "majority" of yours dictate everything?

  8. Re:I for one.... on Coming To a War Near You: Nuclear Powered Drones · · Score: 1

    Not if you bring it down in a controlled fashion, then you are in possession of radioactive material you can make dirty bombs out of. (Then again, so much radioactive material is on the black market that if terrorists wanted to make a dirty bomb they would have by now.)

  9. Hey White House on The Politics of the F.D.A. · · Score: 2

    The A in FDA stands for Administration. If you do not want them to administer the areas of food and drugs, just shut them down already.

  10. Re:Someone is going to create the ultimate social on Instagram Debuts On Android · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well you can take your character limit and sho

  11. Re:Sigh on Minecraft Creator Announces Space Sandbox Game Mars Effect · · Score: 1

    What, the translator droid is in their ears like a babel fish or something? Is there a scene where a droid is actually translating anything except for the Ewoks in the third movie? Luke/Jawas scene: No translating. Han/Greebo scene: No translating. etc.

    Star Wars is just a war/samurai hybrid set in space. But then again, westerns was what fueled much of Star Trek.

  12. Re:Im a mexican ex-resident on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 1

    The Zetas would be nada without the lucrative market driven by the 40-year-old American War on Drugs. Drugs go north, guns go south (because of the American "freedom" to sell guns to criminals).

  13. Re:canada and the porous border on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 1

    Not that porous: They did after all catch that dirty American who had a Japanese manga that was legal in the US but considered child porn in Canada. Into the slammer, eh?

  14. Re:If not A'Fools, airpace may be the key word on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Flying over US airspace. on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 1

    Heck, bombing only one of the security lines would cause a panic and shut down the entire airport for a long time. If you really wanted to cause economic damage and terror, stopping 100 flights is easier than stopping 1...

  16. Re:Flying over US airspace. on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 1

    Hey, in case you completely missed the point, this is about airline passengers. The screening of car drivers would then apply to airplane pilots. Can you get into a taxi without a security check? Yes. Can you get into a bus? Yes. A train? Usually, yes. For the passenger, the airplane is just a bus with wings on it. Or rather, it can be, if it weren't for the Simon Says game of security theater where T-shirts with images of guns are confiscated.

  17. Re:April fools? on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 1

    You mean NAFTA? Since when did that free trade agreement include Cuba - a country the United States have a trade embargo against?

  18. Re:The US will enforce this on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 1

    Yeah, those religious nuts of foreigners arriving on the Mayflower should have been summarily executed to set an example...

  19. Re:Emigration vs Immigration control on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 2

    Ah, the great trans-Atlantic train tunnel from Wales to Cuba...

    Passenger ferries across the Atlantic became unfeasible when air travel prices became low enough for the average traveler; who would want to spend days on board instead of a few hours in the air? These days only cruise ships ply the old routes, and they are way more expensive than flying.

  20. Re:In related news ... on Global Online Freedom Act Approved By House Committee · · Score: 1

    It joins the (now license-requiring) hacking tool "strings"...

  21. Re:Orwellian naming schemes. on Global Online Freedom Act Approved By House Committee · · Score: 1

    Why are you a sycophant for the entertainment industries' quest to mutate copyright into a business tool and rape the public culture?

  22. Re:Yeah yeah on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is that global warming deniers who have problems accepting conclusions from scientific studies have no problems believing crackpot theories about "overpopulation" or "islamification".

  23. Re:Please stick to "news", Slashdot on Independent Audit Finds Foxconn Violates Chinese Work Rules · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this amassing of wealth is anti-socialist. There should be a limit to how much money companies and people can make without giving it back. Spread the wealth around please!

  24. Re:Please stick to "news", Slashdot on Independent Audit Finds Foxconn Violates Chinese Work Rules · · Score: 1

    Why don't you Apple haters direct your bile at Foxconn's 20+ other clients as well? Are you against people having menial labor in factories? Are you such a fucking over-educated academic that you cannot fathom that Foxconn work is an improvement over the life they led before starting to work there?

    Double standard fucktards are also fucktards. "Oh, I refuuuuse to buy Apple products because they force people to take paid work instead of starving, people really should take a higher education and get paid big bucks for writing Powerpoint presentations, like me. I only buy HP computers and Cisco routers... oh you meanie you are going to say the dirty words about those being made by Foxconn so I'll go LALALALALA!"

  25. Re:Please stick to "news", Slashdot on Independent Audit Finds Foxconn Violates Chinese Work Rules · · Score: 1

    Yeah, people should be provided with whatever they need while pursuing whatever career they see fit, like in the United States.

    Oh wait, Americans also are wage slaves.