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  1. Re:Don't watch it on Thousands of Muslims Protest 'Age of Mockery' At Google's London Headquarters · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Your honor, I object!"
    "Why?"
    "Because it's devastating to my case!"

  2. Re:offensive on 520-Million-Year-Old Arthropod May Have Had the First Modern Brain · · Score: 3, Informative

    Note to mods: the above is a reference to famous sci-fi Starship Troopers.

    Would you like to know more?

  3. Re:Anonymity on Why Are We So Rude Online? · · Score: 1

    There's a problem with that theory of yours. People on facebook tend to have their real names on their accounts, so the stupid/offensive things people say on there can be traced back to them very easily.

    The thing is that people say both stupid and offensive things all of the time, but if you actually say them to another person, there won't be a paper-trail of it, nor does it have a potential audience of millions. As an example all of the people who say "my boss is a dick", only to have that shared by a colleague who has their boss as a facebook friend. Whoops. You'd probably say that to that colleague to their face, who might agree with it, but neither would say it to your boss' face.

  4. Re:Attack against Microsoft on Linux Forcibly Installed On Congressman's Computer In Act of Terrorism · · Score: 2

    [..] they suspect a member of the radical Penguinite cult [..]

    Not those splitters again!?

    -- The Penguin's Front of Linux

  5. Re:I have an idea on Schneier: We Don't Need SHA-3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You must be new here..

  6. Re:Fly naked on TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's been tried. Apparently it doesn't even qualify for indecent expose if you claim it's a protest..

  7. Re:Why a Microsoft phone? on Yahoo Excludes BlackBerry From Employee Smartphone List · · Score: 1

    Is that because those happy customers got their phones for free, courtesy of being Microsoft/Nokia employees?

  8. Re:The specific ruling: on Dutch Court Rules Hyperlinks Can Constitute Infringement · · Score: 3, Informative

    [..] FileFactory.com, a cloud service to store files and share them with others. However, these files canâ(TM)t be found through search engines, only users with the exact URL have access to the files.

    Wrong. As some other posters have already shown, google happily indexes and searches FileFactory.

  9. Re:The specific ruling: on Dutch Court Rules Hyperlinks Can Constitute Infringement · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're appealing: Dutch link

  10. Re:it's too fast on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    So basically what you're saying is that the stock market should be a game of Civilization.

  11. Re:first! on AMD64 Surpasses i386 As Debian's Most Popular Architecture · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh dear, you must've been posting from a 32 bit Debian install.

  12. Re:Huh? on Samsung Beats Apple In Tokyo, Itching To Sue Over LTE Patents · · Score: 5, Informative
  13. Re:What incredible workmanship on Meet the Very First Rover To Land On Mars · · Score: 1

    Yes, but aside from all that, what did the Soviets ever do for us?

  14. Re:You Game Like You Eat on Are You Gaming For the Right Reasons? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You try to preach the virtues of healthy eating and then proceed to advocate Subway "sandwiches"? Oh boy, wait till you learn about this thing called fruit!

  15. Re:pr0n on 'Smart Fingertips' Pave Way For Virtual Sensations · · Score: 2

    Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat..

  16. Re:Stanislaw Lem on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    One could almost say they're poles apart...

  17. Re:She is not a good person after all. on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There are Jews in the world.
    There are Buddhists.
    There are Hindus and Mormons, and then
    There are those that follow Mohammed, but
    I've never been one of them.

    I'm a Roman Catholic,
    And have been since before I was born,
    And the one thing they say about Catholics is:
    They'll take you as soon as you're warm.

    You don't have to be a six-footer.
    You don't have to have a great brain.
    You don't have to have any clothes on. You're
    A Catholic the moment Dad came,

    Because

    Every sperm is sacred.
    Every sperm is great.
    If a sperm is wasted,
    God gets quite irate.

  18. Re:Does grammar matter? on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Isn't it:

    I helped my uncle jack off a donkey.

    vs

    I helped my uncle, Jack, off a donkey.

  19. Re:Blizzard distributes patches via Bittorrent on BitTorrent Usage Increases In Europe, Following the Pirate Bay Blockade · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't be silly, we do have summer in England. Remember that hot and sunny day in May?

  20. Government and Internet don't mix on UK Considering Automatic Web Filtering For Adult Content · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The blocking is so easy to circumvent, it's ridiculous. More legislation from politicians who don't have a clue how the Internet works.

    How can we show people how stupid this whole "won't someone think of the children!?" argument is?

  21. Re:Unnamed Sources? on Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot. We don't need evidence if the story confirms our prejudices.

    [citation needed]

  22. Re:What's the robot for? on Japan Readies Robot For Work At Crippled Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1, Funny

    I see that it can carry about 130lb. [..] What is the real purpose of this robot?

    Carrying out the dead bodies?

  23. Chopsticks on The Leap: Gesture Control Like Kinect, But Cheaper and Higher Resolution · · Score: 1

    Very considerate to show that you can play Angry Birds with chopsticks. I look forward to being able to play an alternative "Angry Birds" with my single chopstick..

  24. Re:Don't blame Amazon on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Yes, your honour, don't blame me! She was asking for it, wearing a short skirt and everything..

  25. Re:Gobsmacked... on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    Want an example of an industry that "gets it"? Porn.

    Isn't it ironic that it's the porn industry that isn't trying to screw their customer base?

    It's like ten thousand spoons..