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  1. Re:Get what you pay for on "Lawful Spying" Price Lists Leaked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah. Forget about it. It's impossible to verify. That doesn't make impossible to sell to the nearest sucker though.

  2. Re:Mafia wars on EFF Wants To Know If the Feds Are Cyberstalking · · Score: 1

    Believe me, It'll go nowhere

    Help us, IRS! You're our only hope

  3. Re:So... what you say is ... on Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU? · · Score: 1

    Yes, well, most of the time, the system idle process has a real need for speed.

  4. Some choice quotes from the most recent article on Royal Society Releases Historic Science Papers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "... our ignorance of the Earth system is overwhelming and intensified by the tendency to favour model simulations over experiments, observation and measurement."

    "We could find ourselves enslaved in a Kafka-like world from which there is no escape."

    Could?

  5. Ceaseless quest... on Royal Society Releases Historic Science Papers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    For what? More funding based on dubious data?

  6. Re:Kind of Fitting on Are Ad Servers Bogging Down the Web? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You got it backwards. The purpose of the article is to get you to see the ad. Nobody cares if the article gets read or not.

  7. Yes on Are Ad Servers Bogging Down the Web? · · Score: 1

    That's why I'm blocking ads right here on Slashdot, amongst many other places. If they ever fix it, I'll be more than happy to let them through.

  8. On call on Should You Be Paid For Being On Call? · · Score: 1

    I should be paid for any time I am required to remain sober for company purposes.

  9. Let me guess... on Calling Video Professor a Scam · · Score: 1

    He works for Claria

  10. This was over six years ago on Two Senators Call For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    And the result from this is what exactly? Did it "save" the economy? Did it do anything besides create great drama?

  11. Re:Most insightful department ever on Two Senators Call For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    If a person is required to obey the law, then obviously (s)he should have some say in the process.

  12. Re:ROFLCOPTER on Two Senators Call For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    Free people and free nations...

    Are as illusory as pink unicorns shitting gold bricks.

  13. Re:A way to solve tsunamis problems on Earth ? on STEREO Satellites Spot Solar Flare Tsunami · · Score: 1

    ...anticipate when a CME or radiation storm will reach Earth

    It'll be at least eight minutes..

  14. Hope... on Google's Reach Hits Your Tivo · · Score: 1

    Yeah, look where that's gotten us.

  15. Re:that's nice on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, wake me up when they start to vote out the politicians that authorize it.

  16. Hatch? on Senators Ask EC To Let Oracle-Sun Deal Go Through · · Score: 1

    I don't know what he has to say,
    It makes no difference anyway,
    Whatever it is, I'm against it...

  17. Re:But you have to admire on UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows that FOX news and Rush Limbaugh are to be compared with the National inquirer when it comes to news.

    Yeah! All three outsell the competition... Or is that the Star?..

  18. Re:What the bets the first release will be... on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    It was originally a three DVD set

  19. Re:Delusional? Let's hope so. on MPAA Asks Again For Control Of TV Analog Ports · · Score: 1

    There is always an alternative. We are dealing with the subject of entertainment. A little perspective is due.

  20. Re:How does one renovate and recoup the lost trust on Recovering the Slums of the Internet? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ... never lies, and is always right

  21. Re:Delusional? Let's hope so. on MPAA Asks Again For Control Of TV Analog Ports · · Score: 1

    When have consumers ever given consent for any of these restriction technologies?

    Every time they buy such a device.

  22. Re:Maximizing copyright != maximizing producers on MPAA Asks Again For Control Of TV Analog Ports · · Score: 1

    The freedoms we enjoy today came from lawbreakers, and lots of 'em, not martyrs.

  23. "used sophisticated hacking techniques" on $9 Million ATM Hacking Ring Indicted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Want some coke?

    Um, okay..

  24. Re:On the plus side! on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 2, Funny

    If my source is correct, we did.

  25. Re:Bah! on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    I challenged your notion that oil isn't "expensive" enough to justify exploiting domestic resources.

    It's not his notion. It's an economic fact confirmed by the oil companies as they were capping perfectly good working wells not that many years ago. Might still be doing it now.