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  1. I see what you did there on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Welcome to AT&T. Let me see if I can help you get to the right place.
    Just say what you are looking for.

    Terms of Service
    Did you say Enforce Archaic Rules? I thought so. Now tell me how I can help.
    Privacy
    I'm not sure if I heard that right, did you say Please Let the Government Have Access to All My Data?
    Bandwidth Usage
    I'm sorry, you are over the limit. Goodbye!

  2. You broke your little ships... on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Asian children have become lazy Americans, so I have had them diagnosed with temporary learning disabilities.
    Needless to say they are performing much better than their teachers expect of them, and have won countless awards for bravery in the face of their intellectual blight. Some parents even donate food - so now I don't have to pack any more lunches!

  3. Brilliant Folly on Brainstorming Ways To Protect NYC From Real Storms · · Score: 0

    Truth be told, most of those ideas aren't worth the canvas they were painted on.

  4. Patent Sherrif on Judge To Review Whether Foreman In Apple v. Samsung Hid Info · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hon. Koh: Ooowee! You shifty juror, they said you was hung?
    Hogan: And they was right!

  5. Re:Statistics on Google Patents Guilt-By-Association · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So,they've managed to patent using statistics?

    No, they patented labeling every teenager as a marijuana user - by association of course.

  6. i see what you did there on Staff Emails Are Not Owned By Firms, UK Judge Rules · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Having seen the content of several hundred thousand emails between employees, you do not want to own the content. It is 90% non-sense, 10% work-related and 33% "I can't wait until 5 O'Clock!"?

  7. Re:Math on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This. People need to learn that statistics and polling are sciences. Like all sciences they are inexact, with a margin for error; but the chances of the poll averages being wrong in this case were incredibly small.

    Or This. Pundits and Statisticians are about as far apart as Republicans and Climate Scientists.

  8. Re:Spice on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    THE SLEEPER HAS AWAKENED

  9. I do not advocate on Ask Slashdot: Extreme Cable Management? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I cannot ask you to view cableporn as it is very addictive.

  10. Re:Oblig. Handsome Jack on Volcano Power Plan Gets US Go-Ahead · · Score: 1

    Not to mention it's "Vulcan energy" so it even sounds cool - maybe it comes from Spock's home planet!

  11. Re:Add to that, NYI... on NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy · · Score: 1

    100 William and 111 Eighth Ave have both been planned for the worst quite appropriately. All the equipment at Telx and Level3 datacenters in both buildings are operational, though I did see some minor outages during the storm as systems switched over.

  12. Re:Hell, here we go again: on Irked By Cyberspying, Georgia Outs Russia-based Hacker · · Score: 1

    I am amazed that anyone would see Russia as non-provacative in this situation. The region, Ossetia which is in Georgia, is separated by the equivalent of the Himalyas from Russia. This region is called The Caucas Mountains, as in Caucasian where most fair-skinned people get their classification. These are tall, year-long snow-capped mountains, that the Russians walked over with a few troops of tanks. The UN concluded that Russia's goal was the succession of Ossetia and Abkhazia as an attempt to force Georgia into a "peace" agreement where they recognize these territories as independent.

    You know how that works with people like Putin in power right? Shortly after these territories gain their independence, they sign an agreement to "join" the USSR, thereby cutting old Georgia in half. If anyone could implement a diabolical peace plan that starts with tanks it would be these guys.
    That's what I call "passive-aggressive"..

  13. Re:I knew cisco was expensive on Cisco Pricing Undercut By $100M In Big Cal State University Network Project · · Score: 0

    You could argue the same for why buy Unix and Oracle when there's Microsoft Server and SQL. The answer is because the expensive one actually has some features.

  14. Re:Violations of Wikipedia:Ownership on Wikipedia Is Nearing "Completion" · · Score: 1

    in the time of Whiskey where pedantry was relegated to nerds' basements and we were safe to carouse about drunk on ignorance and were correct-ish in our retelling of history! 'Tis a far far better fate than to let senior editors revert our edits to some snobbish central repository.

    I like the whiskey part.

  15. Re:Just Apple.. on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 0

    The only thing that's clear is that you are quite angry.

    You insensitive clod!

  16. Re:Violations of Wikipedia:Ownership on Wikipedia Is Nearing "Completion" · · Score: 2

    ... now I know why they continually destroyed the Library of Alexandria.

    I was confused earlier. Now more so.

  17. Re:Just Apple.. on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 0

    All of which, at this point, is just a load of crap from either side. Ahole doesnt hate Shitsung anymore than I hate my mom for throwing away my charcoal sketch of Bill Clinton that I made when I was 12. WHO FKNG CARES. Both companies need to have their legal arms fall off.

  18. Re:Violations of Wikipedia:Ownership on Wikipedia Is Nearing "Completion" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not all Wikipedia editors are as obtuse as you claim. Let me reiterate the comment I made on the submission: If particular editors are violating Wikipedia's policy against ownership-like behavior by not allowing a consensus to form after discussion of a reverted edit on an article's talk page, consider using the various dispute resolution means in the Wikipedia community.

    Exactly what a Wikipedia editor would post.
    But seriously, when you try to argue with a senior editor know what everyone tells you? Read the 20 awesome Wikipedia entries that validate their statements, however unjustifiable they are in real arguement.

  19. Coulnd't add to it if you wanted to on Wikipedia Is Nearing "Completion" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not for nothing, but Wiki editors are so obtuse and didactic, that attempting to add anything of relevance has become a chore unworthy of its meritlessness.

  20. I have switched my vote... on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To "Don't care" about Ahole vs Shitsung

  21. Can you score higher IQ? on Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ Scores In the Twenty-First Century · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Despite being exceptionally bright, I never scored higher than 125 on the IQ tests they made you take in high school. Some years later I decided to try to get a high IQ to qualify for Mensa. After studying for only a month, I scored 145 on math and 132 on English. Can anyone make themselves appear smarter? Yes, despite the fact that many claim we can't.
    Disclaimer: I may have been stoned to the bejezus when taking some of those high school iq tests.

  22. Re:Still Free on What an Anti-Google Antitrust Case By the FTC May Look Like · · Score: 0

    It's funny how quickly people forget history. It wasn't just that they bundled a browser; it went something like this:

    - Netscape creates what becomes the standard internet browser and publicly states that they believe it will make the desktop OS irrelevant. MS is afraid of this. Netscape was freely downloadable, but they nagged you to pay them $25 or so to license it. - MS creates IE, and charges for it, but no one buys it because it sucked. - MS, still wanting browser market share, starts giving away IE for free. People continue to use Netscape.

    So far, nothing of relevance.

    - MS bundles IE with Windows and forbids OEMs from adding an alternative browser.

    Oh, that's mean.

    - Some people switch to IE because it saves them the download step. MS creates Front Page, a WYSIWYG HTML editor which was bundled with Office, the already dominant office suite. - MS creates IIS and ASP, technologies which only worked on Windows. - With Java applets gaining popularity, MS makes applets created with Visual Studio only runnable on Windows. - MS starts adding features to Front Page which make the generated HTML non standards-compliant, only viewable by IE and only servable by IIS. - MS add features to Word to allow it to export to HTML which could only be viewed in IE. - MS adds ActiveX control integration, making IE the only browser which supports it. - MS muscles ISPs like Earthlink to place ActiveX controls on their main web pages so that they are only viewable by Windows machines running IE. - People start switching to IE because Netscape doesn't render Front Page pages properly, so they think IE is a better browser. - Netscape can't make any money and folds, opening the source to their browser, blaming MS's antitrust behavior for their demise. - Netscape source code is picked up by the community, but can't support things like ActiveX due to wanting cross-platform feature parity. - With Netscape dead and IE5/6 being used by nearly every web surfer on the planet, MS stops development on it, hindering web innovation.

    and back to irrelevance.

  23. Re:No, they didn't print an engine on 3-D Printing Enables UVA Student-Built Unmanned Plane · · Score: 1

    "printable products" soon to be everywhere, everything.

  24. Re:who will get the most use out of this? on Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map · · Score: 2

    Okay that's fine, but why do all the hackers seem to live in Aachen (DE)?

  25. Re:Strange Anniversary on Below-Expected Earnings For Google Posted Early, Trading Halted · · Score: 1

    What if advertising costs and revenue drops are the result of Panda/Penguin and other updates intended to weed out spammers and drive better CPC results?