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  1. Re:So... on Gaming Clichés That Need To Die · · Score: 1

    OK, how about Mila Kunis?

  2. Note to all governments on Amazon To Pay Texas Sales Tax · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about stop spending more money than you have?

  3. Re:Companies do this all the time on NY Times: Microsoft Tried To Unload Bing On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Teachers, dude. Teachers!

  4. Re:Evil, with a capital E on Steve Jobs' Idea For an Ad-Supported OS · · Score: 2

    You'd be rebooting at least once a day with MacOS 9, even at the best of times you'd get memory fragmentation that resulted in not enough contiguous free memory to use. A real PITA, but it's what we had back then.

  5. Re:It's about time on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books · · Score: 2

    I doubt your 8 bit monitor was 3.5" across.

  6. Re:In TSA's defense on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 3, Funny

    An ugly bag of mostly water?

  7. Re:biometrics are not that much better and don't t on Microsoft Says Two Basic Security Steps Might Have Stopped Conficker · · Score: 3, Funny

    Severed and sheared? Your workplace sounds way too violent.

  8. Re:Sometimes I Like the Ads on North Carolina Threatens To Shut Down Nutrition Blogger · · Score: 1

    "Nutritionist" is not a protected employment category in most places, since there is no qualification needed to become one.
    "Dietitian/Registered Dietitian" is a protected class, licensed by governments with actual education requirements.

  9. Re:Gearing up for IPO.. on Facebook Purchases 650 AOL Patents From Microsoft · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Once FB goes public they will be lawfully required to turn a profit by any "lawful" means necessary

    There is no such law.

  10. Re:Nothing new? on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cool, so everyone should be a manager? Then what happens when the true fat is cut in an organization and all the middle managers are laid off?

  11. Re:Why? on Europe Agrees To Send Airline Passenger Data To US · · Score: 1

    All cops in Canada are named Gord and have mustaches.

  12. Re:Don't host in the U.S. on FBI Seizes Server Providing Anonymous Remailer Service · · Score: 1

    I remember using anon.penet.fi back in the 90s for posting to Usenet, since my university at the time didn't allow posting for non-CS majors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer

    Lesson: don't mess with Scientologists or retarded newspaper editors.

  13. Re:London bias on Millions of Brits Lose Ceefax News Service · · Score: 1

    It's in Southern Ontario, thank you very much!

  14. Re:Conversely on CIOs Dismissed As Techies Without Business Savvy By CEOs · · Score: 1

    CEOs are only paid too much because of the short-sighted mentality that started in the 70s, focusing on the value of the share and receiving compensation in share options, as opposed to trying to build a profitable company, The Boomers simply took that to the next logical step in the 80s, where CEOs wanted to be treated like rockstars and become rich & famous.

  15. Re:Free? on Ellison Doesn't Know If Java Is Free · · Score: 1

    He might have known a hell of a lot at the time leading up to the acquisition, but it's been a few years. I'm sure other things have been occupying his time between then and now. No one can possibly remember every detail forever.

  16. Re:This case suddenly became a lot more important on Oracle and Google Spar Over Whether Programming Languages Can Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    how long until /. fixes commenting on Chrome?

    Seems to work fine here.

  17. Re:ERROR on US Unhappy With Australians Storing Data On Australian Shores · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pretty much.

    US to World: Drop your tariffs! Embrace free trade (that our farmers are good at)!
    World to US: OK, you first.
    US to World: No! We have to think of *our* farmers first! (US goes off and complains to WTC)

    It's how the World Bank wields so much power, using economic terrorism against poor countries.

  18. Ever heard of on Hanging Out at Sun Studio, Where Rock and Roll Was Born (Video) · · Score: 1

    Plato? Aristotle? Socrates?

    Morons!

  19. Re:Front runner vs. the Competition on Nokia 900 Being Given Away Due To Software Glitch · · Score: 1

    As well as show that all other smartphones at the time had the exact same problem with antenna attenuation.

  20. Re:Ska should be rightfully split on SKA Might Be Split Between South Africa and Australia · · Score: 1

    Orange County, California should get some credit for the third wave.

    At least we know who to blame for that crap.

  21. Re:Sony's war on their customers on Sony Projects Record Losses of $6.4 Billion · · Score: 1

    What's a PS4?

  22. Re:Russian altruism? Suuuuure... on Apple Snubs Security Firm That Spotted Mac Botnet · · Score: 2

    Apple, its employees and its users are legendarily arrogant.

    Unlike, say, Linux...

  23. Re:One time... on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as "reverse racism." Unless you actually believe that non-whites cannot be racist.

  24. Re:How American. on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    What? A former Medium (now Small (GRRR don't even get me started on that debacle)) in Ontario is $1.34.

  25. About time! on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    This should have been done 10 years ago. I don't hoard my change, I always keep it in my wallet and spend it as I go, often clearing it out completely every 2 months or so. This is probably the only thing Harper's done right since he got into office.