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  1. Re:equal protection? on German Law To Make Google Pay For Snippets · · Score: 1

    Is this what you mean?
    (1) All persons shall be equal before the law.

    I don't see how this is relevant here, though.

  2. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    North Americans / South Americans? I don't think we need an extra term for "someone from either North or South America".

  3. Re:What about the parents? on School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    Sort of like how in English we call Germans Germans rather than the more appropriate term.

    That term being...?

  4. Re:Kids have little context on Ask Slashdot: Do Kids Still Take Interest In Programming For Its Own Sake? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the work experience did exactly work experiences are supposed to: show him what kinds of jobs he enjoys.

  5. Re:Good marketing on Hackers Nab Unreleased Michael Jackson Tracks From Sony · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if those where the only copies, and the hackers deleted them. But they'll probably chase after the hackers and force them to re-upload the tracks to their servers in either case.

  6. Re:Really? on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 1

    She has a PhD in physics so I'm fairly sure that she isn't stupid. Just evil.

  7. Re:Measurement Error on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 2

    I agree with you, democracy is an -- albeit weaker -- form of freedom. On the other hand, I don't actually want stupid people to participate in making decisions that affect me.

  8. Re:Not smart Enough? on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 4, Funny

    Politicians are not smart enough to vote against a bill labeled "Protect the Children From Internet Pornographers Act"

    Yes, they are. They'll read, '"PCFIPA"? That's not even an acronym! There's no way I'll vote for that.'

  9. Re:I want a backseat DVR. on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    And even better, you'll teach them that mass punishment is a good and right thing! You could also install cameras everywhere they go, if you prefer to teach them not expect a right to privacy in the future.

  10. Re:Well written on Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    What strange kind of goatse troll is this?

  11. Re:Politicians are only experts at getting re-elec on Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell, he has never written any code that people actually use.

    fetchmail and bogofilter are written by him.

  12. Re:What could go wrong? on Google Working On Password Generator For Chrome · · Score: 1

    Shift-Insert

  13. Re:Why not put this energy into public transport? on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    A) Swilling mass of germs. Yuo will get sick more often on a bus

    Get used to them and you will stay healthy.

    C) Bus shakes and moves to much for serious reading.

    You can't read while driving either.

    E) Expensive.
    F) Very Inefficient. Every one on a bus driving their own high mileage car would use less gas.

    True, but only if the bus is nearly empty. If the bus is filled near capacity, it is much more efficient than cars. Also, if more people used the bus, there could be more and more direct routes.

    The only reason busses are less efficient than cars is the fact most people don't use them.

  14. Re:You know... on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. I have ADD, and I can easily focus for hours on a video game, a book or an interesting problem. I don't have much difficulty following an interesting lecture. But if a lecture is boring, the length of my attention span drops to less than two minutes.

  15. Re:head if itunes on Steve Jobs Awarded Posthumous Grammy · · Score: 1

    if itunes; then
            head
    fi

  16. In that case... on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 4, Funny

    In that case, fuck the children.

  17. Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck? on Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution · · Score: 1

    So you're that guy with 50 years experience as a Windows admin?

  18. ...FREEEEEEDOM!

  19. Re:What? on Facebook Details Executive Salaries, Bonuses · · Score: 2

    She earns $2 a year? Wow, her boss ist a bastard.

  20. Re:ScanSnap on Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home? · · Score: 3, Funny

    (I cut the books)

    You, sir, are worse than Hitler.

  21. Re:Free??? on Google's First Employee Departs · · Score: 2

    You have the RIGHT to an educaton.

    You have the RIGHT to PAY for that education.

    You do NOT have the right to free education.

    Poor people have the right to education. Poor people are not able to pay for education. Therefore, poor people -- at least -- have the right to free education. QED.

  22. Re:Some help with "Morgen regnet es" in TFA on If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language · · Score: 1

    I'd use "Morgen soll es regnen". ("supposedly, it will rain tomorrow" or more literarily translated: "It shall rain tomorrow").

  23. Re:LibreOffice can't connect to Exchange? on LibreOffice Developer Community Increasingly Robust · · Score: 1

    Unless your corporation would lose the ability to do business if they couldn't click on 'File - Send - Document as E-mail' in MS Office?

    LibreOffice has that menu entry, too. There is a public API for sending email with the default mail client.

  24. Choices.... on Nokia CEO Blames Salesmen For Windows Phone Struggles · · Score: 1

    Are we supposed to agree and bash the marketing people or disagree and bash Microsoft here?

  25. Re:We should already have this. on Gates Paying Murdoch For System To Track U.S. Kids' School Progress · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not that all are bad; I've known some very good teachers, and we lobbied with the Principal to get our children into their classrooms

    You're a bunch of bastards for denying the other children the good teachers.