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  1. He must be the the guy from the credit card ad... on EU Ministers Seek To Ban Creation of Hacking Tools · · Score: 1

    "Read My Lips: No New AXES"

    Seriously. Banning the creation of 'hacking tools' will only stop the 'cybercriminals' who obey the law.

  2. Re:Solution? on Italy Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Actually I'm a firm believer in (Douglas) Adams Law: "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

  3. Re:Solution? on Italy Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    It was meant to be another check on the mob to keep them from electing some populist bimbo

    I'm in favor of anything that keeps Sarah Palin out of public office.

  4. No mention of Les Paul? on Google Guitar Doodle Song Gallery · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Google Doodle was in honor of Les Paul, who would have been 96 yesterday. For the handfull of slashdotters who don't know Les Paul was one of the inventors of the solid body electric guitar, multitrack recording, and many other inventions still used in the recording industry. And if that weren't enough he was an excellent musician as well.

  5. Why should the police be worried? on Court Case To Test Legality of Recording the Police With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 2
    If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide.

    At least that's what the police tell me.

  6. Re:I Can Has Subject Title? on Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now · · Score: 1

    Pardon my ignorance, but can anyone say what "23,322 Filesharing Does" are?

    Doe: A deer. A female deer.

    I guess lawsuits against the bucks can proceed. Who would have figured that a lackluster action film with over-the-hill actors would be so popular with woodland creatures...

  7. Re:Sun on Dispute Damages Would Exceed Android Revenues · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they didn't think far enough ahead and thought it would be no big deal for Oracle to have it.

    Of cousre Oracle has been in the business of screwing people for a long time so their interest in SUN should have been the first clue bad things were possible.

    True, but it's usually their customers that Oracle screws.

  8. Re:Gunna hate this BUT on Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm working on a sharepoint add-on to allow paper documents to be processed in the same manner as electronic documents. In it's current form it's a paper shredder with a Sharepoint logo taped to it.

  9. In the words of Ghandi on How To Succeed In IT Without Really Trying · · Score: 1

    (paraphrased) "There are two kinds of people in this world, those that do the work and those that take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition"

  10. Re:Kevin Bacon has played many roles in his career on X-Men: First Class · · Score: 1

    There's just not enough breast foddling in 2010 movies.) ;-)

    For that you need to watch award shows now...

  11. Re:five years for 10 viewings? on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    >>>.....the fact that it is a felony. >>>Anyone else just getting tired of this crap?

    I am well past "tired". I am angry.

    Jefferson had the right idea when he proposed this amendment: "Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding ___ years, but for no longer term, and for no other purpose." He suggested "19" be inserted into the blank.

    The Disney version of this story says he sugguested '19,000,000,000,000'

  12. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on North Korea Training "Cyberwarriors" Abroad · · Score: 1

    (cyberwarior to Kim Jong Il): You pull back on the slingshot, and hurl the bird over to knock down the pig's fort...

  13. Re:Love this ... on Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled · · Score: 2

    The rest of us download a fucking Brittany Spears song and they want to sue us for eleventy trillion dollars.

    Isn't listening to Brittney Spears punishment enough?

  14. Re:a national OS called... on In Censorship Move, Iran Plans Its Own Internet · · Score: 2
    Iran Online (IOL)

    Every mailbox in Iran will soon be spammed with installation CDs with 30 day free offers.

  15. Re:Don't sign dumb deals on HTC Is Paying Microsoft $5 For Every Android Phone · · Score: 1

    Assuming this is correct, it's because HTC chose to sign the deal. That sounds to me as a spectator like a dumb business decision, but it was HTC's to make.

    actually it was probably a good business decision. The $5 per phone HTC pays is probably nothing compared to the cost of a lawsuit, even if they were too win. And if by some chance Windows Mobile 7 phones were to become popular it would put them in a bad position with Microsoft. (I suspect that part of the deal includes HTC supporting Windows Mpbile phones for a certian amount of time.)

  16. Re:Are there other secret bases? on Under Soviet Satellites, How Area 51 Hid (And Invented) Secret Craft · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's hard to hide secret airbases in downtown Manhattan.

    Not according to that documentary I saw several years ago. You know, the one with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.

  17. Re:"from an on-board library" on American Airlines Expands Streaming In-Flight Movies · · Score: 2

    Expect to pay $39.95 to watch a movie, and have a smaller and more out of date selection than your average Redbox kiosk.

  18. Re:does anybody really use hyper-V? on Microsoft To Support CentOS Linux In Hyper-V · · Score: 1

    With KVM can you move running guests from one host to another? You can do that with Hyper-V (with the addition of System Center Virtual Machine Manager) or VMware (with the addition of VSphere).
    So yes you can keep your Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V host fully patched (Typically monthly reboots at most) and still maintain multi-month or even multi-year uptimes on your guest OS.

  19. Easy answer on Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, but monitors are cheap and programmers time is expensive. A second monitor will usually improve productivity at least to a small degree so it should pay for itself pretty quickly.

  20. Re:"Prove", ie. "Patch Apache"? on Japan Says No To PlayStation Network Restart · · Score: 1

    I wonder what sort of Powerpointology Sony will be needed to prove worthiness

    Slide 1 - Intro slide
    Slide 2 - Previous configuration - Insecure (include at least 4 bullet points, include lots of buzzwords)
    Slide 3 - New configuration - Secure (include at least 6 bullet points, include even more buzzwords)
    Slide 4 - Conclusions/Q&A

    Remember, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

  21. Re:Corruption on FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist · · Score: 2

    Corruption just seems to be getting more and more visible and obvious, and nobody with the power to stop it gives a damn.

    Correction: Those who have power to stop it are generally benefiting from the situation.

  22. Re:Apple? on Google Launching Music Service Without Labels · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Of course, anywhere Apple or Google goes, Microsoft has to follow. Poorly. Many of the most brilliant minds in the industry work at Microsoft. Too bad the upper management has a bad case of Apple/Google Envy and spends all their time chasing the latest shiny object instead of defining the future of computing.

  23. Re:Hardly secret or surprising on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 1

    If this were secret technology a second special ops team would have been dispatched to retrieve or destroy the helecopter the moment that it crashed.

  24. Re:Rights on Sony To Offer Free Identity Theft Monitoring · · Score: 1

    And like training a dog, unless you catch them at the moment they squat the discipline is completely useless.

  25. Re:Derp on Anonymous Denies Sony Claims of Disruption, Credit Info Theft · · Score: 1

    Police! Arrest Lysander7! He is Anonymous, the proof is in the parent post.