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  1. Re:damage on Amazon Offers To Return Pulled Orwell Ebooks · · Score: 1

    Paper copy is still the best option.

    Uh huh...

  2. Re:swapping one exploit for another on Mozilla To Protect Adobe Flash Users · · Score: 1

    perhaps when they get tagged as badware and spyware their behaviour might change...

    Can't remember where I read it, but one of the adware/antivirus removal companies was being sued by a junkware creator. I guess they didn't like being tagged. Shades of Gator(CLaria).

  3. Re:Automatic updates on Mozilla To Protect Adobe Flash Users · · Score: 1

    That is really the only way to keep them up-to-date.

    Well, yeah. If you trust automatic not to break something, or load your machine with junkware like the Adobe Download Manager(which seems unavoidable no matter how you install it)... In my case, just like in that old headache commercial, I'd rather do it myself.

  4. Re:Backwards on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, the "administration" is the sea of embedded bureaucrats who have held their position for 40 years or more.

  5. Re:About the Editorializing on "Violent" Video Games To Be Banned In Venezuela · · Score: 2

    I do not believe this has been scientifically proved or disproved.

    Of course their behavior is affected. Just look at how the politics of an adult is driven by what they see on the TV over and over. They never vote, or even discuss beyond what's being spoon fed to them. Propaganda works, whether it's intentional or not. "The Game" can be a very useful tool.

  6. Sign the Balloon Protest Petition on High-Tech Blimps Earning Their Wings · · Score: 0, Troll

    Moon the Balloon!

  7. Get a patent! on High-Tech Blimps Earning Their Wings · · Score: 1

    High tech! With a computer!

  8. Re:The truth isn't just relative on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    See? Obama is better. What took Bush eight years, Obama will almost match in four!

  9. Re:Windows XP? on China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy · · Score: 1

    No, but it would cut heavy into Vista/7 sales. Those "pirates" will remain untouched. For now

  10. Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    Battle of Midway to be specific, especially the long shot from the emperor's window.

    The whole movie was a John Wayne WWII flick. Even had Princess leia as Maureen O'Hara. German storm troopers, great "naval" ships, the works. Who could've missed it? And listen to the effects in Episode 1 or 2, can't remember, near the beginning, where the four engine "airline" transport ships are on final approach. They sound just exactly like the old Connies and DC-7s. Very cool, and funny. A little like what they did in "Airplane".

  11. Re:Free speech and democracy? on Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You must be signed in to see this content.

    Oh well, screw that...and screw them.

  12. You mean on How To Build a 100,000-Port Ethernet Switch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't just go out and buy 33,334 d-links and turn off DHCP on all but one of them?

  13. Re:Stop the insanity! on XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance · · Score: 1

    Don't know about Ubuntu, but I can still pick up a version of Slackware from 1999. I can use any version between then and now that's most appropriate for my hardware. Which ain't so bad. My laptop is 12 years old. It can run 10.2 and probably even the current version. With Windows? 98. 133MHz is just a bit too pokey for 2000 and newer.

  14. Stop the insanity! on XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance · · Score: 1

    This constant upgrade crap has to end. Christ! Imagine having to change the compressor on your fridge every 5 five years or less, then finding out the new compressor won't fit in the old refrigerator. This whole thing is planned obsolescence at its very worse. "polishedturd" was the best tag so far. Who's gonna put up "lipstickonapig"?

  15. Re:Legalize Cannabis, not Cocaine! on Up To 90 Percent of US Money Has Traces of Cocaine · · Score: 1

    You don't understand. Prohibition is an industry in and of itself. In some places, the entire law enforcement infrastructure would collapse for lack of funds. I would guess that a full 20% of the world's economy is off the books because of contraband, including hookers and blackjack. The racial issue of marijuana in particular should be obvious to anybody remotely interested in the subject. And its legalization will not generate the very optimistic expected tax revenues, as its value will decrease dramatically(drastically?). Those who benefit from prohibition will tell you it's far from broken. The last thing a smuggler wants is legalization.

  16. Re:Summary doesn't make it clear... on Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt" · · Score: 1

    ...those who do not contribute...

    So I guess you seem to believe the actual work they perform in unsafe, below minimum wage conditions for an employer who pockets the money that would go for the guys taxes and FICA is completely worthless? From what do you base "fair share"? Some bureaucrat's spreadsheet? So easy to condemn from the authentic Naugahyde La-Z-Boy.

  17. Re:It's their own fault on Wikipedia Approaches Its Limits · · Score: 1

    Anyone know if there is a meta-wiki somewhere that keeps a list of wikis?

    I don't know. Have you tried Google?

  18. Re:Surprised? on $18M Contract For Transparency Website Released — But Blacked Out · · Score: 1

    I wonder where the $18M is really going.

    Ringo's singing lessons.

  19. Re:Surprised? on $18M Contract For Transparency Website Released — But Blacked Out · · Score: 1

    Money has no power. It is the love of money that weakens and corrupts us.

  20. Re:Private property. Keep out on Tesla Motors Turns a Profit For the First Time · · Score: 1

    ...rather than trying to submarine them...

    Nothing a little eminent domain couldn't cure. I mean, if they can take my house to build a mall...

  21. Missing option on Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans · · Score: 1

    Why are fart jokes still funny?

  22. Re:Impressive light curve! Kepler reboots? on NASA's New Telescope Finds Exoplanet Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    ...intermittent gaps in its observations!

    That's the CIA covering up the aliens looking back at us.

    Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
    Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
    We do! We do!

  23. Re:Hot Jupiter, yawn on NASA's New Telescope Finds Exoplanet Atmosphere · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will she be naked?

  24. Re:Not another one of these on Microsoft Patents XML Word Processing Documents · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shill.exe - 98%

    End Task!

  25. Re:Sue who for what now? on Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like the problem is the pointy haired boss. We gotta convince people they are the fools. Instead of us worrying about being taken seriously, let's ridicule them and laugh them off the face of the earth. Show people how they are the ones who work so hard to make life as miserable as they can.

    Saw this in somebody's post:
    Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand - Mark Twain

    Let's us have the last laugh.