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  1. Re:Not quite on Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bill Gates has never "given" anything to the world.

    Sorry, Gates may be a dick in many ways, but his charitable foundation is quite big.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates_foundation

  2. Re:Is this some kind of uprising? on More Details On Drug Cartel's Clandestine Communications Network · · Score: 1

    Sad but true.

  3. Re:Is there a real need for "open source" guitars? on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source License For Guitar? · · Score: 1

    Stuff like Steinbergers or Parkers have not "catched on" by any stretch of imagination with guitar players.

    Maybe if you had mentioned Ovation clamshell back acoustics I would have conceded a point.

  4. Re:Is there a real need for "open source" guitars? on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source License For Guitar? · · Score: 1

    This. Most guitars parts and accessories already use either the Fender or the Gibson specs.

    Also, musicians are notoriously resistant to change and, since Leo Fender died, not many innovations in electric guitar design have catched on.

  5. Re:Solution to US debt problem on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 0

    [golf clap] Well done!

  6. Re:Or you never visualized them in the first place on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    You also need to teach them how to grammar the right way.

  7. Re:Worried on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 3, Informative

    And it seems that we will go back to the days of unfettered capitalism where children will be forced to work and stop being "such a burden on society". Read Charles Dickens for examples of such a Libertarian paradise.

  8. Re:nuclear battery on Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised · · Score: 1

    I'd like to avoid testicular cancer from having a nuclear device so close to my balls...

  9. Re:Why India and the Philippines? on Philippines Call Centers Overtake India · · Score: 1

    There's tons of call centers in Mexico, specially for the tourism industry. I should know, I work in one.

  10. Re:Legal liabilty on Philippines Call Centers Overtake India · · Score: 2

    What makes you think someone at an overseas call center is more likely to steal your identity than someone in the US?

    Disclaimer: I work for a call center in a country other than the US.

  11. Re:If they're going to do this shit anyways on Mexican Cartel Beheads Another Blogger · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a Mexican, I say: THIS. A MILLION TIMES THIS.

    However, legalization of drugs in Mexico wouldn't work. The USA would have to legalize at the same time.

  12. Re:Netflix on Microsoft Killing Silverlight? · · Score: 2

    Wizards of the Coast use Silverlight to power their Dungeons and Dragons online tools.

  13. Re:Of course... on Man Has Nokia Phone Embedded In False Limb · · Score: 1

    The real missed opportunity was not using an Android phone for it...

  14. Re:Inexpensively? on Storing Hydrogen At Room Temperature · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah. But cars nowadays are designed to work for five-ten years more or less...

  15. Re:duh??? on Storing Hydrogen At Room Temperature · · Score: 2

    Palladium

  16. Re:Whole lot of nothing? on Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Just like Palm, Blackberry slept on their laurels and now they are desperately trying to catch up and add the features they should have pushed years ago.

    Meanwhile, those of us who were at one time loyal users have moved on...

  17. Re:iMessage, or whatever it's called on AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan · · Score: 1

    Exactly

  18. Re:I forget: is tiering good or evil? on AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan · · Score: 1

    I am on vanilla Froyo and it does allow you to set it to "2G only"

  19. Re:Just like when IBM sold off their consumer line on HP Spinning Off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Business · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That's because Apple has somehow brainwashed people into overpaying for perfectly normal hardware. I doubt HP could pull it off.

  20. Re:I'm confused on Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half · · Score: 1

    If you think Bose is "high definition", I have a bridge I want to sell you...

  21. Re:I request a champion.... on Notch Asks For Trial By Combat · · Score: 1

    But you'll have to settle for Bronn... Don't worry, he's your kind of fellow...

  22. Re:Give me a break on 27,000 South Koreans Sue Apple · · Score: 0

    Revenge for Apple going after Samsung. Apple is probably not too popular right now with many Koreans, I bet this lawsuit will have legs right now just due to sentiment.

    This.

  23. Re:Wouldn't it be cool if... on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah, say what you will about Bill Gates, but at least he's using his money for realistic philantropic efforts, not this egotistical libretardian bullshit.

  24. Re:Modified, Harmless HIV Used on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 1

    if i would need to make choice between:
    - being able to screw around until i die
    or
    - being unsafe to screw with for the rest of my life
    please, i'll take two cancer portions;)

    I can't believe no one has responded: "You are a slashdotter, you have never had sex in your life, and never will, so take the HIV option!"

    Because, it's like, a meme and stuff...

  25. Re:The op is a... The author is an idiot on Old Arguments May Cost Linux the Desktop · · Score: 0

    Also: The old "Fragmentation will doom Linux, like it doomed Unix" argument??

    Really, Slashdot editors?