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  1. i-cann haz rhyme on ICANN Raffle Sets gTLD Processing Order · · Score: 4, Funny

    The gtld was raffled, everyone was baffled
    100k required, everyone perspired
    germans won .apple, google won .snapple
    no one thought it funny, but ICANN sure made money!

  2. Re:We Won't Sell YOUR Photos on Instagram: We Won't Sell Your Photos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    'it is not our intention to sell your photos' is not the same as "We won't ever sell your photos". History make a note before this is erased from yourself.

  3. Re:Dolf Lundgren wants to what? on Zoe Lofgren Wants To Slow Down Domain Seizures By ICE & DOJ · · Score: -1

    Drago: "I must break you. I defeat all man."

  4. Re:hot firmwarez on Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys · · Score: 2

    How's that cloudy, autoupdatey, monitorey thing workin for ya?

    We bought Linksys products without question for years, and enjoyed implemented great mini-features like site-to-site vpn or protocol filtering, forwarding, masking etc for all of our clients.
    As soon as they became a Cisco product, the quality, engineering and overall security of the products became questionable, and we started moving our soho/consumers to other brands, even though we liked them even less.

    I simply could not see any good coming out of selling hardware which would monitor our clients behavior without their explicit consent.

  5. credible on Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple's latest gadget sucks, it is easy to tell based on the number of buttons. bit.ly/spam

  6. Something Lost, nothing gained on The Web We Lost · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sounds like what happened in Television from the 50's to the 80's. Nothing but crap for years on end.

  7. Re:aussie pm isn't the only one on Australian Prime Minister's Spoof "Apocalypse" Speech Goes Viral In China · · Score: 1

    I bet what happened is some aussie DJs calledd the country that Kim Jong was staying at and after learning of the spoof the whole country committed suicide.

    I bet that's what you wanted to happen.

  8. Apparently backlinks don't translate either. The link to the sexiest man alive article at huffpost doesn't even include a linkback to the original onion spoof.

  9. Re:Ok, for starters: on Ask Slashdot: Facebook, Twitter For Business, Is It Worth the Privacy Trade-Off? · · Score: 1

    5. Photography and Videography as a profession are pretty well toast. When a fucking phone takes better video than a $100,000 camera did 30 years ago, the Gig Is Up. Content creation is trivial and a short ride to the poor house, unless you move to LA and suck enough dick to get into the film industry.

    Content creation is trivial; good content creation just as hard as it was 50 years ago.

    6. If you will notice most of the most famous and popular photographs of the past year were taken by amateurs on crap gear.

    Many of which are lucky shots. And with a million amateur shots to every professional shot, the amateurs do have an advantage to get lucky and catch that unique moment just because they happen to be there.

    Further, an actual professional photographer is worth every penny. The horrors and nightmares some people have gone through as a result of hiring their friend or relative to "photograph" their big event which was as good as not hiring anyone at all (Oh Jenny is soooo good with a camera, and you don't have to spend $3,000!). Only stupid people think that photography is something that anyone with a megapixel can do.

  10. Re:robot workers on Schmidt On Why Tax Avoidance is Good, Robot Workers, and Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    You don't have to pay nasty payroll taxes to robots.

  11. Re:Oh, please. on Jammie Thomas Takes Constitutional Argument To SCOTUS · · Score: 1

    In order to properly enforce IP, we need to rebang the universe (or multiverse, even)

  12. Re:Most folks don't understand... on Urbanization Has Left the Amazon Burning · · Score: 1

    Best of luck changing things. Fines and arrests are frequently made for the processing of illegal lumber at small plants, the largest clearing houses are those owned by government officials, either as developers or loggers. The "people" are doing what they are told or at least paying for it. Those in charge escape all prosecution.

    For more on this and other plights of our changing world,. check out Urbanization (yes it's on Netflix)

  13. Re:Samba Slashdotted on Samba 4.0 Released: the First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server · · Score: 1

    Slashdot does it again....

    I have a feeling that Microsoft slapped them with RIAA, MPAA and a few federal agents before anyone could finish downloading. What a shame, I got cutoff at "Active Director ".

  14. Salty Prisoner on John McAfee Collapses At Guatemala Detention Center · · Score: 5, Funny

    There once was a man from Belize
    Who suffered from heart disease
    When offered revivial
    He'd cry for survival
    "Not in front of the press, please!"

  15. A few items on Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here's all the components I can think of using in the 80's, and what their function or lack thereof would be today:
    3.5" floppy - still used for some driver diskettes
    5.25" floppy ?? have not used one of these since 1995
    Keyboards - usable with adapters
    Mouse - same as above
    LPT Printers - DB-25 still shows up on many new motherboards
    Serial DB9 - I can still make these by hand! Definitely useful for many console RS232 equipment ports
    IDE Hard Drives - useable if you really had to, but why?
    IDE CDROM - same as above
    10Base-t Ethernet - 10 MB back in the day, but still compatible (although they might be only half-duplex)
    Cat3 Cable - good for phones, digital or analog, or 10base-t
    Cat5 Cable - Good for home PC or connecting internet-facing equipment
    Modems (v21/v22) - Doomsday is sure to come, always have a tinfoil hat, and dialup number at the ready

  16. Re:Hey! Now we know on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Pundits have been asking how we can overcome the deadlock in congress, and finally get things done.

    Let them keep breeding without vaccines. Things will get done even faster when they die off.

  17. Re:I used Amazon for most of my shopping on Cyber Monday and Amazon's Online Dominance · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fine, but your best bet for Twinkies is still ebay.

  18. Re:Whatever happened to freedom of speech? on Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas · · Score: 2

    It was the shot heard round the world, the start of the censored revolution.

  19. the 'activation' component on Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In order to get to the point where you can request the Media Center license, you first have to activate using a command line and kms server (internal or external)

  20. Yes, I read /. on Saturday on Two FreeBSD Project Servers Hacked · · Score: 5, Informative

    This was already submitted two days ago.
    New article link merely references the material already posted by freebsd on Nov 17th.

  21. limkerickz on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 5, Funny

    There once was a man from Belize
    Who neglected his bribery fees
    Accused of a murder
    He became a sheepherder
    Fighting for refugees!

  22. bsd updates for the linux challenged on FreeBSD Project Discloses Security Breach Via Stolen SSH Key · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you run on freebsd, examine your tar and tar.gz
    Access via ssh key, someone may have changed the tree
    If you only use base release, power down and anti-freeze
    For package add post 9/16, SVN and confirm you're clean

  23. Re:If it's too puny for a car... on Old Electric-Car Batteries Put Into Service For Home Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    Not to mention they may burst into flames when flooded with water, not too comforting if you are preparing for the next storm surge.

  24. Re:No! on Brain Scans of Rappers and Jazz Musicians Shed Light On Creativity · · Score: 1

    That rhyme was terrible, yes, completely unbearable.

    Bowlfuls of ceral, writing down my serial
    key code delirious before I got serious

    Punk tried to rhyme at me, I said "why you got ipad3?"
    "I got the gingerbread, mounted to my head"
    Looking at my headrig, a gglass and he dig
    Dropped it in his twitter, ostensibly a quitter.
    Says he wrote for debian, suddenly he's rubian
    I qu8ked his shorthand, blinked twice beforehand
    A screen shot "delete me" oh how obsoletely

    Now you work for no man, lost in Homer hole land
    Missin Disney Star Wars, crying for a lost cause
    Watch your damn Jarjar, I'm off to the pod bar
    Sipping social media, donatin Wikipedia
    huntin Pinnipedia, signin off
    - Acedia

  25. Run on Twinkies? on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 5, Funny