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  1. Why buy the cow when you already got the milk?

  2. Re:Misleading Summary! on Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    What? What's that "factually correct" you're talking about?

    Now lemme get back to invent... researching news articles.

  3. Re:But what if the customer is lying? on Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    What? Did they flip that around now, too?

    Back when I was young, the rule was "who accuses has to prove guilt". When did that get turned around? I mean, we're just talking about poisoning and killing people, not raping anymore.

  4. Re:Oh please... on Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you need a reason to be outraged? Look, if everything fails, be outraged at yet another law being passed and that soon we won't be able to be law abiding anymore because there are too many laws.

    Kids these days...

  5. Re:Oh please... on Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    At least post the relevant one.

  6. Re:Play Audio on Linux? on Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What if they are used as a music server?

    I think both server admins using Linux that way know about this flaw...

  7. Re:Which is it? on Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    If you post how you got ripped off by the car dealer named "Honest Jim", you are in no position to complain about people executing their first amendment right of ridiculing you for buying from someone who calls himself that.

    Or something like that.

  8. Re:Which is it? on Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    If I say on your property something you do not agree with, you are allowed to shut me up.
    If I say not on your property something you do not agree with, you are not allowed to shut me up.

    You are not required to support me in my attempt to execute the first amendment rights. You are not required to give me a platform. You are not required to support me. But you are also not allowed to keep me from choosing a platform not under your control or gain support from someone else.

    Do you understand the difference?

  9. Re:And on January 21... on Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    How long have you been in that country? You pinko commie, what's your problem with capitalism?

  10. Re:MMR Virus on Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Linked To Autism (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as people avoid MMS they should be fine.

  11. No need. IoT is already a product for dummies.

  12. Re:Misses the big points. on John Glenn, First American To Orbit The Earth, Dies At 95 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And that makes him a bad astronaut?

    Same logic as getting a blowjob makes a bad president...

  13. Re: That it matters, means that they've failed on Apple Warns Of Counterfeit Power Adapters and Batteries Following Lawsuit (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Want to bet that those "counterfeit" products come from the same assembly line as the "genuine" ones?

  14. Warning! on Apple Warns Of Counterfeit Power Adapters and Batteries Following Lawsuit (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Buying those counterfeit products could endanger our profit!

  15. Considering the traffic jam during the last hurricane, by that metric she could qualify as a natural disaster as well.

  16. Mainstream TV has reports and documentaries about the IoT now. If anything is an indicator of a trend being over, this is.

  17. One of the first things you turn off after getting infected with Windows 10.

    Ponder the outcome of Siri and Clippy having a child after a very drunk night and both of them denying having anything to do with it.

  18. Re:Money? Pfft. Power. on If You Get Rich, You Won't Quit Working For Long (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd only have to ask any of those 100+ million people if they'd work a normal 9-to-5 job, despite the money they have?

    I don't think you'd find a single one. It's not about money. It's about an ego trip.

  19. That's what you're surprised about?

    My surprise moment was already "Beyonce is considered a celebrity?"

  20. Money? Pfft. Power. on If You Get Rich, You Won't Quit Working For Long (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Who gives a shit about money once you reach the level where you have more than you can spend?

    What makes these people continue working is the, perceived or imagined, power their "employment" gives them. You think they'd continue working for someone with that kind of money? Or in any real job, for that matter?

  21. How geeky? on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Geeky like me? Get him an assortment of tools and all the cardboard, construction paper, popsickle sticks and rubber bands you can find. Hell, if I hadn't run out of that earlier I would still be in the basement building my own toys!

    Then I turned 30 and my dad said I'm too old ... other story.

  22. Re: My favourite gifts as a child on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? · · Score: 1

    Electricity is the stuff that comes from the sockets in the wall and tastes ouchie!

  23. Re:Best Gifts for Children on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, murrica. Merry Bangmess.

  24. Re:go with the classic option on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? · · Score: 2

    It's a nukular technical term.

  25. What will rather happen, since they can neither enforce nor control this sensibly and at a reasonable cost, is that they will simply include a clause in their contract that allows them to cut you off if they notice any harmful traffic coming from you.

    With "harmful" being "you using more bandwidth than we want you to", of course.