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  1. Re:Ick. on FCC Gets Go-Ahead For Plan To Expand Rural Internet Access · · Score: 1

    v The people that feed you

    Sir, we do NOT grow Cheetos! If someone want to do unnatural things with corn, well, as long as it's off the farm first then that's their lookout... Everyone knows trolls are covered in Cheetos dust and Doritos crumbs, but they didn't get it from us!

    I'm pretty sure Monsanto was involved in some way.

  2. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    Because budget and schedule aren't really the be all and end all of planes. I don't see how you can put the F-35 Lightening II in the top 10 worst planes ever (Over 110 years of planes).

    How about worst for the money? It could be the best plane ever made and still qualify.

  3. Re: Who is "we"? on Google Fiber: No Charge For Peering, No Fast Lanes · · Score: 2

    In addition to being another line item to gouge you on your monthly bill.

  4. Re: GMO Mammoth Burgers! on Efforts To Turn Elephants Into Woolly Mammoths Are Already Underway · · Score: 3, Funny

    But they are all several thousand years past their "Best if used by" date.

  5. Re: So how to report an actual problem? on The 69 Words GM Employees Can Never Say · · Score: 2

    This is the auto industry so they are typically about 5 years behind on technology matters. So it should be "with a mobile device".

  6. Re:Is this a big deal? Don't we want it? on The Big Biz of Spying On Little Kids · · Score: 2

    Some people say if you were at Woodstock, you never really returned from it... dude...

    On the other hand if you remember being at Woodstock you probably weren't there.

  7. Re:Sounds like IT incompetence on Emory University SCCM Server Accidentally Reformats All Computers Campus-wide · · Score: 5, Interesting

    SCCM is pretty good. It makes my desktop techs jobs significantly easier to deploy assets company wide. In this case, it sounds like someone pressed some buttons without being 100% clear as to what was going on. Unfortunate someone will not be working in IT ever again.

    Or perhaps someone decided that having a testing environment for deployment packages was an unnecessary expense combined with personnel who aren't properly trained. Just think how much money they saved by eliminating training and a test environment!

  8. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Ask Slashdot: Easy-To-Use Alternative To MS Access For a Charity's Database? · · Score: 2

    LibreOffice's Base fulfils the same role as Access. just as good, not as expensive.

    Talk about damming with faint praise...

  9. Re:Oh no on Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP · · Score: 3, Funny

    What excuse will all the conspiracy theory lunatics use to explain rainbows now?

    Military Unicorns.

    Only North Korea has militarized unicorns.

  10. Re:more pseudo science on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 0

    You've come up short when challenged to justify your denial. Let's try another angle. The person you are contradicting is a professor of Physics at McGill university. What's your qualification that makes you equipped to contradict?

    But I heard something that contradicts this on the Glen Beck show so obviously this guy is wrong.
    That's how Science works, right?

  11. Re:And so this is Costco's fault? on Million Jars of Peanut Butter Dumped In New Mexico Landfill · · Score: 1

    Sounds like someone trying to justify piracy. Why are you trying to pirate peanut butter?

    You wouldn't pirate peanut butter would you? I mean if you already have the peanuts, salt, sugar, etc. and mash them up by yourself you are stealing money from the huge peanut butter conglom, er, I mean hard working peanut factory workers.

  12. Re: Hack it to add American names like "John Smith on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    Too late. Ted Kennedy somehow got on the no fly list. I don't think it took 8 hours to get his name removed, although it was probably due to him being one of the highest ranking senators. Good luck if you don't have the clout to call the director of the DHS directly and chew him out though.

  13. Re:Easy stats to pull on More Than 1 In 4 Car Crashes Involve Cellphone Use · · Score: 1

    Given that driving using a mobile phone seriously inhibits your ability to concentrate on driving and that the main cause of accidents is driver error, its a very good assumption.

    wait, you're using your phone to drive? what is that, an app or something?

    I downloaded Google Drive, but it is apparently incompatible with my car.

  14. Re:It was not misspelled on TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database · · Score: 1

    I doubt having them type names in their original script would help matters. Cyrillic is easy, but how many DHS agents can input Arabic? Chinese?

    English?

  15. Re: Good on Owner of Nortel Patents Sues Cisco For 'Immense' Patent Infringement · · Score: 2

    Except for three lawyers. They all go home with big fat paychecks.

  16. Re:Trivially accomplished on Neovim: Rebuilding Vim For the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    for those who wonder how Stallman could flounder around for 35+ years and not produce a viable OS, look no further than his "editor"

    It's a fairly complete OS but needs a good editor.

  17. Re:There's only one way to make biz with Sym "smoo on Symantec Fires CEO Steve Bennett · · Score: 1

    At least Ballmer has the decency to sometimes attempt things in-house, Symantec is more like watching the MS acquisition of Danger/Sidekick all the time, at a slightly smaller scale.

    You mean like the MS acquisition of Nokia?

  18. Re:There's only one way to make biz with Sym "smoo on Symantec Fires CEO Steve Bennett · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately, Symantec seems to have a bit of the reverse Midas touch going on: they aquire a formerly promising company, it turns to shit, much less any attempts at internal development.

    Imagine a merger of Symantec and CA. (shudder)

  19. Re: Insanity on Aussie Attorney General's War On Encrypted Web Services · · Score: 1

    No problem: This photo exhibit on environmental damage caused by oil spills is sponsored by Exxon and BP.

  20. Re: abstract wacky name on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    No, but there was Louis Chevrolet, James Holden, and Ransom E. Olds (Oldsmobile)

  21. Re:Sour grapes on Sons of Anarchy Creator On Google Copyright Anarchy · · Score: 3, Funny

    You illustrate my point. The suits at Disney responsible for lobbying and litigating IP rules are not the people creating characters and animating stories. And the fact that the company takes creative content (e.g. new stories) and uses their copyrighted character to act them out does not make them creators of content. It makes them thieves.

    If Disney keeps on extending copyright, someday they will run out of public domain material to form the basis of new movies.

  22. "Unsavory" Web Content To Be Removed? on UK Government Wants "Unsavory" Web Content To Be Removed · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They can start by banning all UK based cooking web sites. Few things are as unsavory as English cuisine.

  23. Re:Safe From Radicals on UK Government Wants "Unsavory" Web Content To Be Removed · · Score: 1
  24. Sooter? on Transformer-Style Scooter Lets You Ride Your Briefcase To Work · · Score: 1

    I want a flying car that folds into a briefcase like George Jetson.

  25. Re:Heart of the matter on Target Ignored Signs of Data Breach · · Score: 1

    Well, there you go.

    We don't know the whole story here but it looks like Bangalore was a 1st tier center that escalated this issue to someone in US for further investigation. Sounds to me like the problem was in US.

    Target is most likely using a 'Follow the sun' model, so if the alert happened at night (in the US) the Bangalore security team would have been monitoring at the time.