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  1. Lovely on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a perfect solution that balances the public wish for appearance of freedom, with the government and corporate wish for the appearance of security.

  2. Gene Therapy? on New Virus Jumps From Monkeys To Lab Workers · · Score: 2

    Unlikely. It will be weaponised for more desperate, enormous profits.

  3. Re:This can't be!! on Watch Out Linux, GNU Hurd Coming · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I first waited for this, back before FTP distribution was possibe. Stallman sent GNUsletters on xerox paper. With stamps.

    GNU emacs was distributed in source. On QIC-02 tape.

    And CMU Mach was to be the centrepiece of a system with the few GNU utilities.

    Was that 1988? I think so.

  4. Re:No rage, just a lost customer. on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 1

    Well,

    I stuck the McMansion label on the exec, not the customer... :-)

  5. Welcome to the Prison of Life on App Uses Facial Profiling To Identify Perps · · Score: 2

    You have your number.

    But don't bother waiting for a turn...

    Somehow, I don't think that any of this is compatible with the classical conception of a representative, parliamentary republic.

  6. Re:No rage, just a lost customer. on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 2

    Scrooge McDuck? Is it really you?

  7. Re:Marie Antoinette on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 0

    Mr. Swasey, that is the sound of me dual-booting... Your arse, mate!

  8. Re:No rage, just a lost customer. on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let them drink Latte...

    My god! The stunning arrogance of the McMansion aristocracy.

  9. Re:Justification? on Build Your Own Time Capsule Work-Alike For $200 · · Score: 1

    Not paying anyone.

    Download, install, go.

    They do have Internet or "Cloud" services you can optionally pay to use. I'm sure that this cloud-mirroring and whatnot are clever web-service adaptors in front of Amazon S3.

  10. Re:first post on Sub-Centimeter Positioning Coming To Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    Sub centimetre? Now they'll be able to zero-in on where youve geo-cached your Johnston.

  11. Re:Justification? on Build Your Own Time Capsule Work-Alike For $200 · · Score: 2

    Try this, instead:

    http://www.amahi.org/

    Amahi is a Linux appliance that will run on plug computers or nettops. It rocks for these applications. Like Timecapsule on steroids - cos you can add media streaming servers, whatever.

    I like the disk pooling. It's like volume management for all the little drives you have scattered about the house.

    http://www.amahi.org/tour/disk-pooling

    Yes, it handles backups for Mac, Win and Linux - slicker than the setup in this article.

    http://www.amahi.org/tour/backups

  12. Re:Important questions: on Researchers Build "Squishy" Memory Device · · Score: 1

    "Oh, 'cause it's a computer you think it's made of spiders webs and magic? It's just a metal box Jez, they're indestructible."

  13. Re:Yep, a committee. on McCain Asks For Committee On Wikileaks, Anonymous · · Score: 2

    "For the worst thing that could possibly happen, this is actually going extremely well."

  14. Re:Don't really know on The Best Unknown Open Source Projects · · Score: 1

    Wait, are you saying they are "unknown the best" as in more obscure? Or do you mean, they are "best unknown"? You know. Let sleeping dogs lie, and all that...

  15. Re:Repub? on McCain Asks For Committee On Wikileaks, Anonymous · · Score: 1

    It's DemoCretin and RepugnoCrat.

    I been sayin' so, since Ross Perot was up to his arse in Alligator excrescence.

  16. Re:False Flag Working! on McCain Asks For Committee On Wikileaks, Anonymous · · Score: 1, Interesting
  17. Re:Yep, a committee. on McCain Asks For Committee On Wikileaks, Anonymous · · Score: 2

    "I truly believe the only way to ensure the protection of sensitive and valuable information from tampering or dissemination by unauthorized persons is a Select Committee,"

    YEAH! ROCK ON OLD MAN!

  18. Re:WHAT!? on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 1

    The Indigo^2 with MaxImpact boards makes a terrific forced-air space heater, too!

  19. Re:This just in! on Samsung Chromebook Series 5 Review · · Score: 4, Funny

    "feels more like a proof-of-concept project whose time has not yet come"

    Welcome to the GoogleDome.

  20. Re:Uhh... on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 2

    Proper sign of respect for a pat-down?

    Uncontrolled urination, in all directions.

    They'll wish they had more than blue gloves...

  21. Reinvent the Toilet? on Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just open your big mouth, Billy!

    The world will fill it with nearly as much crap as you ejected from it, over these past 30 years!

  22. WHAT!? on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 2

    You mean that posting to Slashdot from my R4400 SGI Indigo doesn't count?

    Netscape Navigator has a wonderful time with the CSS.

  23. Re:Ummm...what? on Chris Dibona On Free Software and Google · · Score: 2

    Heh. And support Google. Right.

  24. Re:Ummm...what? on Chris Dibona On Free Software and Google · · Score: 4, Insightful

    O.K., Chris. You prolly don't remember the chat we had at LinuxWorld 2000. You used to be an advocate and supporter in the community. It's too bad you've been captured by the corporate machine of Google. You know this is what they are, right? Despite the image they present as just a big, happy dev-lab with a $450 stock price.

    The DREAM that I think we shared for 20 years was of open, free systems, freely available and modifiable. NOT that of a corporation building a successful, billion-dollar division on the promise of such a system. This is SUBVERSION - not SUCCESS.

    DiBona FAIL - Google FAIL.

    Give me Posix or give me nothing at all. It is demostrably true that the apps that proliferate on the Android platform form a festering cess-pit of useless apps, or borderline trojan-ware.

    Now, when do we get to hear Doc Searls cheerlead for Facebook?

  25. Re:Its been done before on Facebook Helps Israel Blacklist Air Travellers · · Score: 2

    Bullshit. The jewish community in Iran goes back to Esther - and have no real restriction to speak of. Many are millionaires, and wouldn't leave Iran - and it's ski slopes or Riviera seaside to go to Israel, where they'd be ghetto-ized by Ashkenazim scum from New Jersey and Gdansk.