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  1. Re:It's one way to deal with rogue ISPs on Google Wiring New York City's Chelsea For Free Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    No matter how superior the service offered Google would be compared to rogue ISPs who can't even deliver YouTube videos properly...

    Especially after Bloomberg regulates packet size.

  2. Re:with my laptop in hand, on Google Wiring New York City's Chelsea For Free Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    With lack of Pringles, the Hostess products going away, and limits on soda, the corner stores in Manhattan are going out of business. Think of the fat children!

    Little Debbie for the win.

  3. Re:prices on Kingston Introduces 1TB Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    Do they? I think you may be thinking of Australia there...

    The Norse is strong with this one.

  4. Re:Trusted Foundry on US Nuclear Lab Removes Chinese Tech · · Score: 1

    They will most likely be replaced with equipment provided by vendors who are on the U.S. military's "Trusted Foundry" schedule. It doesn't matter if half the chips in those "Trusted Foundry" switches are manufactured in China - as a result of careful research, you can be "reasonably" sure they don't contain backdoors or malicious code.

    "Reasonably."

    They put a quark in it.

  5. Re:Win8 Clippy, the next generation on Now You Can Control Any Win 8 Kit With Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    Hey there!

    It looks like you're pissed off at the new interface! Can I:

    1) Tell you to use it anyway
    2) Not tell you about alternatives
    3) Not show you how to install a different window manager
    4) Offer you a paid upgrade to Win9

    I like the sound of WinTen.

  6. Re:cross-eyed on Now You Can Control Any Win 8 Kit With Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    How do you double click the "mouse."

  7. Re:Seeing as this is Slashdot... on What 'Negative Temperature' Really Means · · Score: 1

    ...It'll have something to do with Australia.

    Everything on Slashdot has something to do with Australia, now.

    It has less than nothing to do with ...

  8. Re:Slashbloat on John McAfee Explains How He Milked Information From Belize's Elite · · Score: 1

    We need some kind of heuristics, or some other method of inoculating us against bad antivirus jokes.

    How about some good innocuous ... oh, never mind.

  9. Re:If you're assassinated in a video game... on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you're assassinated in a video game, what happens to your assets? I can totally see a new a career here. First, I play video games all day long and get really good at them. Then, I offer to assassinate other players with the stipulation that I get to keep all their goods. So I get real world cash for the hit and virtual world goods from the person I just wiped out. And all while sitting on my ass playing video games. Hmmm I think I need to take this idea to a good VC firm before Zuckerberg steals my idea and integrates it into Facebook.

    He'll make a killing.

  10. Re:Why in Texas? on Brewing Saké in Texas for Fun and Profit (Video) · · Score: 1

    Why do they grow rice in Texas (a drought state)? There's always a big hubbub in Austin when the LCRA releases water to the south Texas rice farmers when we're in the middle of a drought.

    Don't grow rice in a desert!

    You can grow rice without flooding the field; however, you save a lot of pesticide if you do. Water is a green pesticide.

  11. Re:Ubuntu Mobile ... on The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Kindle is amazon's fork of android.
    I am sure google would rather have them on vanilla android.

    Is vanilla a flavor of Ice Cream Sandwich?

  12. Re:Wow on Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing video games will get blamed for this.

    Of course. That and milk.

    And Twinkies.

  13. Re:Wow on Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access · · Score: 1

    She drugs her parents to surf the web......... I'm guessing video games will get blamed for this.

    Is this a video game yet?

  14. Re:Third fastest in 2008, huh? on Supercomputer Repossessed By State, May Be Sold In Pieces · · Score: 1

    So I guess that makes it almost as powerful as my iPad mini.... lol

    It would whip the cobbler out of your Apple.

  15. Re:Automate! on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 1

    Impossible on massive corporate codebases, with low standards to begin with.

    Implementing something like this would be asking your developers to clean the Augean Stables.

    Divert a river through it; anything less will be overwhelmed by the problem.

    The proper functioning of a chain of command is a thread running through a lot of this :

    The boss needs to be personally aware of the problems, and not be informed by the chain. (thereby avoiding intrigues)

    He needs to issue orders by the chain, and not break the chain. (leaving structure and order in place)

  16. Re:Assault Rifles on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    Same thing as the "Right to bear arms" --- you think with your pissy little semi-automatic assault rifles you can fight the army?

    America is no longer the land of the free - although there are still a lot of very brave people living there.

    An assault rifle can be set for fully automatic operation. A semi-automatic rifle that looks like an assault rifle is pissy as you say.

  17. Re:They're worried on That Link You Just Posted Could Cost You 300 Euros · · Score: 1

    Someone will steal their Lucky Charms.

    More like Lucky Charms got baned from the lunchroom as discriminatory to Irish.

  18. Re:In theory, yes on Open webOS Adopts Apache Cordova for Hardware Access · · Score: 1

    "With the release of Cordova 2.2, Enyo 2.0 is now supported on webOS up to version 3.0.5, which includes the Community Edition"

    I didn't manage to score a touchpad during the firesale, so I can't confirm.

    Try eBay.

    http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=touchpad&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=hp+touchpad&_sacat=0

  19. Re:Law on Antivirus Software Performs Poorly Against New Threats · · Score: 1

    We should just outlaw malware. Then we wouldn't have to worry about it anymore! >_>

    Like outlawing guns?

  20. Re:FAKE on World's Oldest Fossils Found In Australia · · Score: 1

    Again with this billion years shit! ROFL

    It doesn't smell a day over a million.

  21. Re:In theory, yes on Open webOS Adopts Apache Cordova for Hardware Access · · Score: 1

    "With the release of Cordova 2.2, Enyo 2.0 is now supported on webOS up to version 3.0.5, which includes the Community Edition"

    I didn't manage to score a touchpad during the firesale, so I can't confirm.

    Try eBay.

  22. Re:provide closure on Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? Zynga Shuts Down PetVille, 10 Others · · Score: 1

    If I where the game designer, I'd at least provide an ending for the players. Have all the pets die of a illness common to that pet, have all the mafia characters get caught in an unwinnable gunfight.

    The West Coast Division has got to go. Make it look like an accident.

  23. Re:Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? on Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? Zynga Shuts Down PetVille, 10 Others · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the cloud!

    The cloud came in on little pet feet.

  24. Re:C strings strike again! on EFnet Paralyzed By Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    This is the problem you get when your strings don't know their allocated size like in that ghastly language Pascal.

    At least in the case of Turbo Pascal, there is an allocated size and an actual size (length) for string variables.

  25. Re:blood! on Panda Blood May Hold Potent Assailant Against Superbugs · · Score: 1

    Blood blood! I will suck their blood!
    --chupacabras

    Do you mean chupapandas?