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  1. McDonald's... on Americans Support Mandatory Labeling of Food That Contains DNA · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...can finally advertise as 100% DNA free!

  2. Even with HAL on The Dark Side of Amazon's New Pilots · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've installed HAL in my Arch box just to see if it'll work, and nope, it still doesn't.

    Not in Firefox with the last supported Flash for Linux that uses NPAPI (11.2.202.280), nor on Chromium, with Pepper Flash (11.6.602.171). hald is running and everything.

    Why don't these guys learn from Steam? Make an effort, and they get some of the most loyal, most vocal platform zealots money can never buy; shun them, they get the most rabid haters.

    I seriously hope Amazon reconsiders this move. I was this close to actually paying for an Amazon Prime subscription, but since I won't be able to stream on my PC (which solely runs Linux) nor on my phone (Android 4.1), they just lost a potential loyal customer to piracy (I downloaded Zombieland and Alpha House through TPB).

  3. Re:Twighlight. on The Twighlight of Small In-House Data Centers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because Twilight is too mainstream.

  4. Mod this properly! on Pierre Deligne Wins Abel Prize For Contributions To Algebraic Geometry · · Score: 1

    Why is this not modded insightful??

  5. Re:Canonical swirling down to irrelevance. on Canonical Announces Mir: A New Display Server Not On X11 Or Wayland · · Score: 1

    Pulseaudio is still a piece of hell on earth though

  6. Re:Canonical swirling down to irrelevance. on Canonical Announces Mir: A New Display Server Not On X11 Or Wayland · · Score: 1

    I really don't get that hate for systemd that much. I've been using it on my box and some of my company's dev servers and I like making units for it WAAAAY more than scripting an initscript.

  7. Modifiable! on PC Designer Says PC "Going the Way of the Vacuum Tube" · · Score: 2

    The day I stop buying PCs is the day we can easily build laptops and tablet from easily available consumer-grade parts. Probably not even then.

  8. Re:Soviet gamification in mines on Gamification — Valid Term or Marketing-Speak? · · Score: 1

    The miners are also given launchable inflaters as weapons against those pesky smurfs and their pet dragons.

  9. Re:Much better anyway on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    Not really sure about the difference in functionality but mysql has geospatial stuff too. Never had a reason to eevn try it out, though--I just remember skimming this section in a reference manual.

  10. Re:Not the really big news yet on Computer Marries Texas Couple · · Score: 1

    At least the blender won't be worried about the husband cheating.

  11. $112MM on SFPD Arrests Suspect In Airbnb Rental Trashing · · Score: 1

    $112 Mega Millions is a lot of money...

  12. Revenge! on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 1

    After years of frustration while reading incomprihensible English instructions from Chinese products, it's time for revenge!

  13. Re:Cold dead hands on Nokia - No More Symbian Phones After 2012 · · Score: 1

    Me and my classmates used to play catch with a 3310. The thing often fell on a hard concrete floor from about 7 ft off the ground as a result. Surprisingly, it would still turn on, and even more surprisingly, still work, every time we put the casing back together.

    It had a few scratches here and there, but for all 6 years I had it (2nd hand by the way) the phone worked like a dream. The only reason I don't have it right now, is because someone nicked it from my pocket along with my wallet some concert.

    It still doesn't mean that the latest generation Nokia phones are as hardy as the black-and-white stuff though, maybe the recent ones already have some planned obsolescence built-in...

  14. Re:Tsumami? on Further Updates On Post-Tsumami Japan · · Score: 1

    Exactly, it's the Mother of all Tsunamis

  15. Receiving spam from username@users.sourceforge.net on SourceForge Down After Attack [Updated] · · Score: 1

    I just received SPAM mail from my sourceforge account

    username@users.sourceforge.net

    Look at this girl who wants to get married and what people write about her on the forum http://pro-dota.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=370

    The hackers at least got hold of the users' details. There must be better places to get that info. Wonder what else they've gone through

  16. Re:Social media: overrated on The Wrong Way To Weaponize Social Media · · Score: 2

    Shirky would get confused I guess, since Philippine media at that time, kept reporting that the Philippines was the "text capital of the world" during those years and kept attributing Estrada's downfall to our text-happy countrymen.

    Apart from the noise and the wasted electrons, did it result in her fall from power?

    Fall from power isn't the only goal. People benefit from the transparency of government brought by additional info. Election is influenced by the amount of data the people get. What uncensored Internet brought the Philippines is that additional information—the things often omitted by news reports once Malacañang gets wind of it.

    All that noise and attention brought by Social Media pushed favor away from people even slightly related to Gloria Arroyo. From the onset, her party's candidate Gibo Teodoro was really low in the ranks until he slowly distanced himself from her. Manny Villar's multi-million Peso campaign was derailed after Twitter reports came in that he received money from Gloria's side.

    Aquino won this previous election more or less because of the noisy Filipinos on social networks. Well, I mean other than the death of his mother.

  17. EA Games 'Finished,' Says Single-Game Player on Single-Player Game Model 'Finished,' Says EA Exec · · Score: 1

    Though if they finally resolve the issue of making a proper multiplayer game with a definite ending, I might actually bite. There are a group of people (myself included), who still prefer, single player games with a definite ending.

  18. Re:I can see the historians now on China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan · · Score: 1

    Speaking as a Filipino, I know most of the country's been brainwashed thoroughly by American propaganda. The entire "We're the heroes" illusion is well received here. Until relatively recently, most people still think the Americans really demolished the Spanish in the local Spanish-American war, instead of an act to hide the Treaty of Paris.

    Japan's goal in WWII was basically a unification of Asia so it could be independent of Western "superiority". Also anecdotal evidence (mostly from my grandparents) says that the Japanese themselves weren't the ones raping and killing the captured population, just the Koreans who worked for them.

  19. Cri-Cri on Smallest Manned Electric Plane Flies · · Score: 1

    or death by Cri-Cri??

  20. Re:Wonder on Inmates Escape As Guard Plays Plants Vs. Zombies · · Score: 1

    Too bad nobody pays for software in the Philippines.

  21. Re:well, that's a new one on Inmates Escape As Guard Plays Plants Vs. Zombies · · Score: 1

    All western people know about Filipino jails is that they occasionally dance to Thriller.

  22. Re:well, that's a new one on Inmates Escape As Guard Plays Plants Vs. Zombies · · Score: 1

    Taga pilipinas ka ba talaga? Parang di ka pa nakotongan ng pulis a?

    For one thing, there's this place called Greenhills where you can get network unblocked phones for usually lower than what the carriers offer.

    Considering his being a policeman, it could be that some other policeman friend of his could've just sold him a unit confiscated from a snatcher in Cubao.

    Or it could be a more bland explanation, like being in the pay of someone. Corruption here in the Philippines is pretty in-your-face. If it surprises you that a low-income government employee can get expensive things, you might not be really from around here.

  23. Re:It was predicted in Revelations... on 1-in-1,000 Chance of Asteroid Impact In ... 2182? · · Score: 1

    Shh quiet, Roland Emmerich might hear you!

  24. Resistance is Sarcastic on Open Sarcasm Fighting Copyrighted Punctuation · · Score: 1

    I got the font from the SarcMark's site and it turns out, SarcMark uses U+03A9 Greek Capital Letter Omega dressed up with a font.

    Makes sense because no one uses that character for any application. Ever.

  25. iPood was iPeed on Apple Doesn't Appreciate Toilet Humor · · Score: 1

    by the iPod... hehe damn that was corny