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  1. Won't make any difference. on Vint Cerf Says Fix the Net With More Pipe · · Score: 1

    ... because usage expands to consume all available resources, then we're back to whining about lack of bandwidth again.

  2. "Palin Fans" on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 1

    Maybe, maybe not.

    Could be anti-Palin types doing the dirty work to smear Palin supporters.
    Such tactics are certainly standard fare for the "community organizer" crowd.

    Whatever.

  3. Zynga has already conquered on Zynga Aiming To Conquer Mobile Next · · Score: 1

    .. my will to play any Zynga games ever again.

  4. In other news, Slashdot NOT linked to divorce. on Facebook Linked To One In Five Divorces In US · · Score: 0

    Mainly because the typical Slashdot reader has no hope of ever getting married in the first place.

  5. But I thought on Chrome Throws Flash Into the Sandbox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that Chome was "as good as dead"?

  6. Re:Doh on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a "Cap and Trade" on obnoxiousness! Only we wouldn't really "cap" anything, we'd just sell indulgences for excess obnoxiousness.

  7. Re:The most useless on Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts · · Score: 2, Informative

    But likey farm links aren't apps, though. Your only choice is to hide the user, or report it as spam.
    Which actually sounds like good idea, now that I think about it.

  8. The most useless on Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... posts are those stupid likey-link-farm "likes". You can't comment on them, and you can't hide them unless you hide everything that your "friend" posts.

  9. Customers? on SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block · · Score: 1

    What customers?

  10. A wearable kombucha SCOBY? on UK Designer Grows Clothes From Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Sounds slimy to me.

  11. Re:Hold them accountable? Who? Congress? on Why Counter-Terrorism Is In Shambles · · Score: 1

    We could call it the Ministry of Love (or MiniLuv, for short).

  12. Re:What do you expect... on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's already a "Palin Effect."
    Except it's usually called, "Palin Derangement Syndrome" (PDS).

  13. Re:This is my First Amendment Right of Free Speech on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 1

    Time to refer this person to miniluv for room 101 treatment.

  14. Re:Attention People of California on Car Glass Rules Could Impair Cell, GPS and Radio Signals In CA · · Score: 1

    The US still has a constitution?

  15. Re:Why is this news? on Facebook User Arrested For a Poke · · Score: 1

    No you don't. You can poke anyone who has made their profile publicly viewable.

  16. The poker on Facebook User Arrested For a Poke · · Score: 1

    .. was put in the pokey for poking the pokee?

  17. Let's over-react, shall we? on Massive Phishing Campaign Hits Multiple Email Services · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this is the reason that sometime during lunch, my employer (A well known NNSA National Laboratory in New Mexico) blocked access to all things Google, including Gmail, Blogspot, and the Google search engine itself?

  18. Dazzler? Nothing new. on Hardware Hackers Create a Cheaper Bedazzler · · Score: 1

    We had those way back in 1977! Two circuit boards, lots of TTL chips.

  19. Re:Look out .. on Secret GPS Tracking Now Legal In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    You mean, look out for more "car theft" now.

  20. Re:Fraud or stupidity on Insurance Won't Cover Smartphones, When Pricey Alternatives Exist · · Score: 1

    Yup.

    Food is an even more basic necessity than health care.
    Imagine if we only paid a minimal co-payment and the supermarket filed a claim for reimbursement with an "insurance" company every time we bought food.

    Our current employer-provided health care benefits system is no less ridiculous.

  21. Re:Health Insurance: Broken Incentives Abound on Insurance Won't Cover Smartphones, When Pricey Alternatives Exist · · Score: 1

    > 1. Hospitals must publish a public domain price list for services. It must be posted in an obvious manner. The
    > hospital is not allowed to charge different customers or insurers different rates.

    The problem with this is that insurance companies demand a discount from participating physicians.
    The physicians compensate by overcharging non-insurance patients, so that the insurance company receives the required "discount," which is no discount at all, really.

  22. Re:Morons! on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 1

    But radio waves are radiation! And everone knows that radiation is dangerous stuff!

  23. Re:Who is the joker who tags every story "story"? on Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold · · Score: 1

    God Hates Tags.

  24. Re:in MY day! on Texting Toddlers, How Young is Too Young? · · Score: 1

    If you want to use more than 140 charcters, you need Woofer, not Twitter.
    No 140 character maximum, but there is a 1400 character minimum!

  25. Re:Any age is fine as long as parents do their job on Texting Toddlers, How Young is Too Young? · · Score: 1

    "... a child learning how to text will have a head start over his friends at becoming a spoiled little twat."
    There, fixed it for you.