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  1. Re:Meanwhile on Former FCC Head: "We Should Be Ashamed of Ourselves" For State of Broadband · · Score: 2

    I'd rather have hookers - maybe they can spell, too

  2. Re:GIVEN to one of the lab employees. on 1958 Integrated Circuit Prototypes From Jack Kilby's TI Lab Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    Don't care - itstill sets my teeth on edge, don't know why

  3. Re:Call CDC on Canadian Court Orders Google To Remove Websites From Its Global Index · · Score: 0

    Whilst 'murica' would never try to force ITS ideology on another country/continent. FUCKWIT

  4. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA on Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings) · · Score: 1

    in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written

  5. Re:Buying new vs. keeping what you have on Are US Hybrid Sales Peaking Already? · · Score: 1

    Don't try this at home folks - CO poisoning is nota nice way to go

  6. Re:The why on SSD-HDD Price Gap Won't Go Away Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that is totally unintellegible

  7. I don't need this on Department of Transportation Makes Rear View Cameras Mandatory · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got eyes in the back of my head, you insensitive clod!

  8. Re:importance of being popular on XKCD Author's Unpublished Book Has Already Become a Best-Seller · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Says an even bigger ASSHOLE

  9. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    I can't help thinking of Charles Dickens' beadle in Oliver Twist. [JOKE]Clearly you need more gruel and less red meat! [/JOKE]

  10. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    Dude - take a chill pill!

  11. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 2

    I don't expect everyone to share my opinion. Where did I say that? My opinion is however, and I can and will defend this, is that there is so much more to food, flavors, cuisine and eating than a simple steak. To deny that is to deny centuries of culinary tradition and excellence. If you look, or taste, beyond the obvious, you may find the experience rewarding.

  12. Re:Just proves the anticensorship case. on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 1

    Not suggesting that is should not be taught. I was responding to the question, why is is considered more dangerous. Those reasons make it MORE important that these subjects are taught, more so than climbing trees.

  13. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 0

    '. Eating a juicy steak' Is this really your idea of culinary perfection ... how sad. Still each to his own, I guess

  14. Re:Just proves the anticensorship case. on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 1

    Unwanted pregnancy, emotional damage, STDs to name but a few

  15. Re: Why? on Asia's Richest Man Is Betting Big On Silicon Valley's Fake Eggs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Did someone else's life choice hurt your feelings?

  16. Re:Lifers? on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the UK it's paying for it with crippling student debt

  17. Re:..you'll be able to scream, 'fire the lasers!'" on Laser Headlights Promise More Intense, Controllable Beams · · Score: 4, Funny

    Release the coherent photons?

  18. Re: Response on Hackers Penetrate Top Medical Device Makers · · Score: 1, Troll

    You sir are a twat. And a troll.

  19. Re:Secret meetings: on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 1

    A paper with 'politics' is not a newspaper - it's a mouthpiece.

  20. Re:A reward on Ask Slashdot: What Does Edward Snowden Deserve? · · Score: 1

    I guess he'd rather have a Nobel prize?

  21. Re:rights on Cameron's IP Advisor: Throw Persistent Copyright Infringers In Jail · · Score: 1

    Doesn't your selective application of the law make you as bad as any criminal? The law is, in theory, decided by all of us, so you don't get to pick and choose, IMHO

  22. Re:Your data is in everyone else's hands on Security Vendors Self-Censor Target Breach Details · · Score: 2

    I suspect LT will not do NFC because Oyster is better for them. They get positive cash flow from the money you load onto the Oyster card. As an occasional Oyster card with a £60 balance, LT has my £60 until I use it (which might be never!)

  23. Quietly moved ??? on Target Credit Card Data Was Sent To a Server In Russia · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does moving data usually make a noise?

  24. Re:WW2 machiny and WW2 units of measurement on How To Make 96,000lbs of WWII Machinery Into High-Tech Research Platform · · Score: 1

    But US != world. Viol8 was pointing out that most of the world DOES have an intuitive feel for kilos, for example, as they weight themselves, their food etc. in kilos

  25. Re:Can't directly compare PC and phone sales ... on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    I'd don't agree with the point about laptops. Every office window I stare into (London and south east England, including the city), I see rows of desktops, many with dual screens. YMMV