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  1. Re:you'll probably hear the telcos' screams on Google Floats Balloons For Free Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point. Telstra and Optus have got away with selling patchy, over-subscribed and under-performing services in Tasmania for years. They obviously consider it non-viable given the population base, despite their widely advertised claims. I experience this at first hand, since although I only live 30 minutes drive from what passes for a major town here, I can't get any kind of wired broadband to my home, and the closest cell tower I can access is 35km away.

    Tricky. What's the NBN status there?
    Missing the point or not, I wouldn't hold my breath for Google loonies. If you do have direct line of site with somebody you can trust and closer to the node, you may consider P2P long range WiFi. It's not that unusual.

  2. Re:you'll probably hear the telcos' screams on Google Floats Balloons For Free Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    you'll probably hear the telcos' screams

    Telcos? Who give a (sexual intercourse) about telcos, just imagine the scream at NSA when the traffic suddenly stops going through a backbone they control.

  3. Re:Google need to slow down on Don't Panic, But We've Passed Peak Apple (and Google, and Facebook) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thankfully, if you Google for me, you come up with nothing.

    Oh? About 3,410,000 results (0.19 seconds)

  4. Re:Am I the only one? on Robot Dominates Air Hockey, Adapts To Opponents' Playing Style · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who can see that the robot missed a puck at the end of the video? I can clearly see the puck hitting the back border!

    Many times actually, but not inside the goal area.

  5. Re:Robot vs Robot! on Robot Dominates Air Hockey, Adapts To Opponents' Playing Style · · Score: 4, Funny

    3... 2... 1.. Fight!

    (sound of crickets in the background: each of the robots waits the other's action to have something to react to).

  6. Forgotten? on POTI, Creators of the Songbird Media Player, Call It Quits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but their contributions to the world of open source software are appreciated, and won't be forgotten.

    While I appreciate a contribution to the opensource, to remember something one needs to know about it first.

    ~$ sudo apt-get install songbird
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package songbird

    (translation: debian/ubuntu has nothing to remember).

  7. Re:Onion Pi ... should've called it... on Onion Pi — Make a Raspberry Pi Into a Anonymizing Tor Proxy · · Score: 2

    Pitor and the snow dog :D

    Nah... doesn't strike any chord. With an Onion Pi, I could cry a river.

  8. Re:Hold it... on Confirmed: CBS News Reporter's Computer Compromised · · Score: 1

    ...why say DOJ? It could be the Chinese.

    (when looked at with the "common sense eyes", both of them behaves in a totally "alien" way. So, what's the difference?)

  9. Re:what was the law change? on Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    Just curious, what change in the labour laws happened?

    Part of the answer

  10. Re:Easy Explanation on Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit · · Score: 2

    The US believes Kim is a hobbit-ual criminal....

    And... is this a reason to dragon the suit forever?

  11. Re:Fonts on Red Hat Confirms GNOME Classic Mode For RHEL 7 · · Score: 1

    [serious comment which TL,DR]

    If you thought my comment was serious, you clearly didn't read it.

    My apologies... the cross-diagonal reading and the reference to Win8 made me (too hastily) dismissive.
    (Now that I corrected that, back to exercising up that CTS of mine).

  12. Re:Wanna earn $200K+? Two words... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    physics?? physics... how does? why?

    To grok system modelling and grasp the fact those damn'd schemes are just a model before it's too late (even when sound, they are as valid as the assumptions; like perfectly elastic spherical horses moving through vacuum to predict the winner of a horse race).

    Besides physics is to maths as sex is to masturbation (alt of the comic; hover the mouse over it)

  13. Re:Fonts on Red Hat Confirms GNOME Classic Mode For RHEL 7 · · Score: 1

    [serious comment which TL,DR]

    Hint: after looking, I can see nothing right either.

  14. Re:Fonts on Red Hat Confirms GNOME Classic Mode For RHEL 7 · · Score: 1

    The fonts are a mess on that screenshot. How does that not hurt anyone's eyes?

    I looked... and I can see nothing wrong with them!

  15. Re:so many things on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? · · Score: 1

    A valid solution for the problem of spare time: a second job will bring back those 12+ working hours that are so direly missed.

  16. Re:so many things on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? · · Score: 1

    Assuming the necessary condition are met: find yourself a mistress and arrange a "leak" about her to your wife; the life will become a lot less boring (a lot more screwing?)

  17. Re:to be expected on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 2

    WTF? to crack down on 3D printed guns? Is gun 3D printing so pervasive already?
    I'm yet to hear/see/read reports of self-injuries/deaths cause by exploding plastic guns, and the very existence of the Darwin awards shows that stupidity in not as rare in this world as one (still Bloomberg?) would like us to think.

  18. Re:I agree with Lewis Black on Dmitry Itskov Wants To Help You Live Forever Via an Android Avatar · · Score: 1

    You verbed stylish!?!?

    Yes, I did. On purpose.
    You see, to my mind, there's a difference between to style and the action exemplified by the linked article (a pretentious way to make someone's life harder, costlier and still have the victim proud of being abused and willing to ask for more) - the term came naturally.

  19. Re:I agree with Lewis Black on Dmitry Itskov Wants To Help You Live Forever Via an Android Avatar · · Score: 0

    Good news! With android avatars, the asshole port is optional.

    You reckon? I think it just got replaced with a mini-USB one.

    Even when some other choose to stylish it, it's still the same shit

  20. Re:Stop watching TV on The Trajectory of Television: A Big History of the Small Screen. · · Score: 1

    We've got the Internet, so why dumb yourself down by passivly staring at ...

    Future generations of smart televisions (like coupling an Xbox One w/ Kinect into a TV set) will allow you to yell at the screen, for your rants to get transcribed in real-time and automatically added to the multimedia transcript so various users can...etc

    You forgot (or omit) mentioning NSA as an entity that will be enjoying your reactions...
    U still want to do anything else but to zone-out in front of your TV?

  21. Re:Dangerous!! on Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens · · Score: 1

    I have an uneasy feeling with this.

    Hook up the NSA Prism into this, that will keep the aliens away.

  22. Re:Awesome on AMD Making a 5 GHz 8-Core Processor At 220 Watts · · Score: 1

    Just because it was built by Samsung doesn't necessarily mean it has the Downs.

    Whatever it has, whether you say Smart Fridge, burrito please or say nothing, it still goes.

  23. Re:Awesome on AMD Making a 5 GHz 8-Core Processor At 220 Watts · · Score: 1

    They do, I have one. It's not a smart fridge

    Of course it's not, it goes without saying.

  24. Re:Glad to see some real pushback on Google Asks Government For More Transparency, Other Groups Push Back Against NSA · · Score: 2

    Soooo... In other words, we should trust our government.... to always be doing bad in everything they do

    Not necessarily. The healthy position is: never trust a government to do the right thing - always keep them in check. This is how the democracy works and the only chance to maintain a working democracy (this is why govt secrecy is bad). If you think it's expensive or dangerous, you are welcome to try the lack of democracy.

    Note the difference to: always trust them to do the wrong thing - so let's throw a riot or a revolution every time they do something/anything.

  25. Re:Whisky Tango Foxtrot? on Greek Government Abruptly Shuts Down State Broadcaster · · Score: 2

    What's the rest of Greece's commercial broadcast media like?.

    There you have it