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  1. What a dumb statement on How Red Hat Decides Which Open Source Companies To Buy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You don't really buy an open source company — since the tech is all open.

    What a dumb statement. Buying an open source company is buying their copyrights, possibly any patents they hold and getting to acquire their people.

  2. Re:Strange move by Assange on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    Or he'll just be kidnapped while in Ecuador and with it being a pretty common crime there especially with foreigners no one within the country will think twice about it. It's not like Ecuador has any power to stop it from happening anyway.

  3. Re:Well ok. on Fastest Growing US Export To China: Education · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Dreadful summary on Opa 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes. Google Docs is terrible at anything but basic tasks and laggy to boot.

  5. Re:Interesting timing... on AMD To Open-Source Its Linux Execution & Compilation Stack · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Since when was Linux "the hand that feeds" NVIDIA? If it weren't for CAD and scientific computing people using Linux there would be no Linux drivers. And those groups mostly give fuck all about the drivers being open source.

  6. Re:Stfu, troll on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 0

    He has a sense of humor and you don't?

  7. Re:Irony on 2 New Social Networks With Very Different Political Twists · · Score: 0

    Like the names of the informants against The Taliban they leaked? Oops...

  8. Re:In other news on EFF Announces New Patent Reform Project · · Score: 2

    You mean more like nearly 100 years ago, right? The ACLU has been active since the 20s.

  9. Re:NFC has been on others for a while now on Samsung Galaxy S III Launched, Hands-On Testing · · Score: 2, Informative

    It says 'haven't seen on many', not 'any'. As, in only a few phones have already had it which is true.

  10. Re:Lock Out on Locked-Down Tablets Endanger FLOSS For End Users · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple doesn't ban giving out the source code. I've downloaded the source to numerous iOS apps in Apple's store.

  11. Re:Give my personal informatino to wikileaks? on 2 New Social Networks With Very Different Political Twists · · Score: 1

    But...but those are just government secrets! Ignore the fact that a number of the leaks contained such personal information like the names of informants against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

  12. Re:New social networks? on 2 New Social Networks With Very Different Political Twists · · Score: 1

    It mostly became a moot point once Israel was formed.

  13. Re:if they care about it so much on Microsoft Wins Congressional Backing For Do-Not-Track Default In IE10 · · Score: 2

    No, more like enabling it by default will undermine their revenue stream from Google. There is no good reason why being tracked should be the default other than to please ad companies.

  14. Re:The Actual List on Is Oracle Really Offering 100+ Cloud Applications? · · Score: 1

    It's not news. It's just an underhanded way to get people to view the SlashBI/Cloud sections of Slashdot that no one cares about. They probably noticed that those sections get near zero hits.

  15. Re:What about state budget cuts? on Bloomberg, WSJ: Student Aid Increases Tuition · · Score: 1

    It's not a subsidy when you and/or your parents are paying taxes to the state that fund the colleges.

  16. Re:And? on Bloomberg, WSJ: Student Aid Increases Tuition · · Score: 1

    Colleges don't make student loans. It was private banks doing the loaning with a portion of the loans having their interest subsidized by the government along with maximum interest rates being set. It was only very recently that the private banks were cut out since they were actually raising he costs over the government doing it itself. But nice try, though.

  17. Re:What about state budget cuts? on Bloomberg, WSJ: Student Aid Increases Tuition · · Score: 0

    You expect a Rupert Murdoch-owned news source to care about facts? Perish the thought!

  18. Re:Ron Paul said this.. on Bloomberg, WSJ: Student Aid Increases Tuition · · Score: 1

    Duh? Because people thought the aid was for less people to get educated?

  19. Re:All this trouble. on Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador · · Score: 1

    Why? He's already been globally discredited and made countless enemies of past associates and allies. The US or Sweden gain nothing by continuing to try to push phoney charges since he already as been punished and the message has been sent. Last time I checked no one else has taken his place so it seems the message has rang clear.

  20. And? on Bloomberg, WSJ: Student Aid Increases Tuition · · Score: 1

    Isn't the whole point of the aid to allow them to go to better schools than they could otherwise afford? It's not as if low income people would be able to afford MIT today without aid had the Pell Grants been cut in the 80s anyway.

  21. Re:All this trouble. on Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador · · Score: 2

    He's already long since burned all his bridges. They would have ceased caring by this point if it was all nothing but phoney charges. Outside of the loon fringe cheerleaders, no one even still cares about what this guy says.

  22. Re:All this trouble. on Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador · · Score: 1

    Don't you know this is all a global conspiracy against him? This is all a plot by the US Government, The Reptilians and probably the Rothschilds and Bilderberg Group trying to kill him.

  23. Re:how is he going to leave the UK? on Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador · · Score: 1

    Of course they can stop the car.

  24. Re:Who cares on StatCounter Blasts Microsoft's Claim About IE Still Being the Number 1 Browser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It matters to the people who like to use these stats when they show negative things about Microsoft. But when the same source publishes stats that show Linux has less than 2% marketshare they decry the source as being untrustworthy.