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  1. Holy form factor, Batman! on Smartphone-Style Touch Sensing On an 82-Inch Screen · · Score: 1

    How the hell are you supposed to fit something that big in your pocket? ;-)

  2. Re:Yawn, says OSX. on Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall · · Score: 2

    People still use Windows?

    Yeah, about 90% of the computer users in the world still do.

  3. Re:The Road Ubuntu is on... on Synaptic Dropped From Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    in assuming users can't possibly know enough to be trusted with a powerful tool.

    Unfortunately, for 99% of people this happens to be true.

  4. Re:Get rid of the penny? pff on Canada Rolls Out Plastic Money · · Score: 1

    Not quite. I had a gun pointed at my face over rounding rules when they first came in...

    A guy came into the petrol station where I was working after having got $30.02 worth of petrol. Paid for it on his credit card so i charged him the $30.02. He fucking cracked it, demanding that i should have rounded it down to $30 etc threatening to kick the shit out of me. He left drove off in a screaming hurry (got the rego dumbarse) and came back 30 minutes later with a rifle demanding that i give him his 2c. Fuckwit.

    They got him obviously, video, rego, cc# but still........

  5. Re:Now I gotta give it up on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    OI!

  6. Re:Correlation? on US Citizen Visiting Thailand Arrested For Blog Posting · · Score: 1

    wtf can he get done in Thailand that he can't get done in the US

    Affordable Surgery?

  7. Re:hmmm on Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software · · Score: 1

    Well I'm never going to let you down am I?

  8. hmmm on Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software · · Score: -1, Troll

    Anonymous Submitter: check
    Subject is Microsoft: check
    Posetd by Timothy: check
    Pathetic snype at Windows: BINGO!

    Seriously man, that's just fucking sad. If you hate Micro$oft (see what i did there?) so much, perhaps you shouldn't be an "editor" on a technology site.

  9. Re:Slavery on 8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers · · Score: 1

    Those bastards!
    In the west, we leave it to the private sector to do that!

  10. Re:someone else on Newt Gingrich's Amazon Book Reviews · · Score: 1

    The perfect political candidate!

  11. Re:This is very bad design on VMware Causes Second Outage While Recovering From First · · Score: 1

    Looks like someone finally found the Any key.

  12. Re:something something Dark Side, something someth on Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't care what the faceless "agencies" know about me because I have nothing to hide from them

    I do. I have a lot to hide from them.
    I want to hide the stuff from them that's NONE OF THEIR FUCKING BUSINESS.

  13. Re:Awesome on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    Chances are that you would be prosecuted for sexual harassment if you did such a thing.

    What, and grabbing my cock isn't sexual harassment?

  14. Re:Oh, Sir. Branson on Richard Branson Announces Virgin Oceanic Submarine · · Score: 1

    I hope not.

  15. Re:NSA on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 1

    Easy, buy these books. The Making of the Atomic Bomb and the follow up The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

    He goes into amazing detail about the history of how they did it, and along the way describes in excruciating detail the physics behind them and exactly how they are constructed. The end result will be that you know how to make a nuclear weapon.

    The major problem is then finding the several billion dollars and several tons of uranium ore needed to do it and not get caught.

  16. Re:All time low? on P2P Music Downloads At All-Time Low · · Score: 1

    yeah. Piracy was rampant back then..

    Yarr!

  17. Re:75 trillion on Limewire Being Sued For 75 Trillion · · Score: 1

    If it was me, (thankfully it isn't) i just wouldn't turn up in court. That would effectively force the judge into issuing the entire $75 trillion as a default judgment.

    And then just leave them trying to figure out how the fuck to collect it...

    =)
    I can just imagine the silence in the court room as the judge says "I hereby order the defendant to pay the sum of seventy five trillion dollars to the plaintiff"
    HAHAHAHA

  18. Re:Seriously? on Study Shows Technology May Inhibit Good Sleep · · Score: 0

    To paraphrase: Going to bed wired makes it hard to go to sleep.

    Can I get a grant please?

  19. Re:result of bad parenting on Should Cyber Vigilantes Be Cheered Or Feared · · Score: 1

    Who are you referring to here? Anonymous or HBGary?

  20. Re:New rule for Slashdot on Why You Shouldn't Reboot Unix Servers · · Score: 1

    They exist to sell ads by writing articles with grabby headlines and little substance.

    Just like /.

  21. Re:Museum Fight! on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 1

    That soft spot is actually the brain damage you get from using COBOL :D

  22. Re:Why do they call it the Xbox 360? on The 5-Year Console Cycle Is Dead · · Score: 1

    At which point you would bump right back into the 360.

    Which means you'll be facing the right way to see that joke go flying right over the top of your head :-)

  23. Re:Entirely predictable. on A Peek At the National Opt-Out Day Numbers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if that isn't the very definition of Tyranny, i don't know what is.

  24. Re:Yeah, right. on Pirate Party's North American Debut · · Score: 1

    but now you're in possession of stolen goods, which is illegal pretty much everywhere and has penalties associated with it

  25. Re:False flags abound on Chertoff Advocates Cyber Cold War · · Score: 1

    You sign on to ACTA or we'll say you DDOSed an airline reservation system and null-route your entire country until you do.