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  1. Re:Queue the screams of hysteria on The Fjord-Cooled Data Center · · Score: 3, Funny

    Won't someone please think of the norwegian blues?

  2. Re:As others have said... on Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? · · Score: 1

    That's a waste of money. He wants a camera.

  3. Your question is underexposed. on Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? · · Score: 1

    What type of pictures do you want to take? Close up or far away? In sunlight or in the shadows? Subjects standing still or in motion? What's your budget?

    Photography is both an art and a science but each aspect covers a wide spectrum of technological requirements.

  4. Is this really good news? on Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers · · Score: 1

    This description from Wikipedia makes it sound like they're just moving Flash into a bigger container.

    Adobe Integrated Runtime, also known as Adobe AIR, is a cross-platform runtime environment developed by Adobe Systems for building Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, and Ajax, that can be run as desktop applications or on mobile devices.

  5. Eliminate all Chinese imports on US Military Trying To Weed Out Counterfeit Parts · · Score: 0

    Let them fuck over some other country. Their substandard shit is ruining us. They don't give a damn if we spend hundreds/thousands/millions repairing machines that fail due to a $1 counterfeit part they sold us. They don't care if people are injured or killed. They treat their own people like shit so why should they give a damn about us?

    Every product sold in this country that contains any Chinese component should be boldly labelled as such, denied UL approval, automotive safety inspections, etc.

    When and if they become a democracy and start respecting human rights, we can reopen the doors.

  6. Re:I am pleased to say... on Vim Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    +1

  7. Re:I hate vim and emacs. on Vim Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    If use vim as your editor then you might as well use bash's vi mode.

    set -o vi

  8. Re:Shock Horror on Facebook: Your Personal Data is a Trade Secret · · Score: 0

    Don't waste your time explaining it. Let 'em post. Let 'em get facefucked.

  9. Re:Junkyard Gap on Cold-War Missile Launches Military Satellite · · Score: 1

    I don't remember watching any of the series, just the pilot movie which was apparently called "Salvage". There are a few clips of the movie and the series on youtube.

  10. Speech on Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science · · Score: 1

    NPR and PBS are the best mass-media expression of USA democracy I've seen in my half-century of existence. Unfortunately, cunts like Rupert Murdoch can afford to jam their signals.

  11. Re:Explain on Microsoft Disables Kelihos Botnet · · Score: 1

    It's their idea of a bug fix.

  12. Junkyard Gap on Cold-War Missile Launches Military Satellite · · Score: 2

    I'm just playing on one of my favorite films,

    Dr. Strangelove

    And one the silliest made-for-tv movies,

    Slavage 1".

    Actually maybe old Jed really did know a good cracker when he tasted one. MMM, MMM!

  13. Disturbing Epitaph on Doritos Creator Art West Dead at 97 · · Score: 1

    It's people. Nacho Cheese is made out of people.

  14. Re:SUA is pants on SUA Deprecated In Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    I think it's another indication that anyone who trusted MS to support functionality that didn't directly benefit MS was a damned fool. When it comes to Microsoft, the only way to win is to not play. i.e. Don't buy their stuff, ever.

  15. Re:Windows itself seems close to being deprecated on SUA Deprecated In Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    That's like taking off in an airliner with holes in the wings and hoping that the stewardesses will pass out parachutes.

  16. Re:Microsoft up to its old tricks on SUA Deprecated In Windows 8? · · Score: 2

    "Should be a rule that you dont' create a model that depends on Microsoft."

    If you make an application that runs on Windows, then it depends on MS. How many people had their Netscape installations disabled by MS updates of IE? How many application vendors were unable to compete because MS was the only one with access to undocumented APIs? You do remember that the DOJ eventually found them guilty of unfair trade practices because of these tactics.

    Or what about workalike operating systems like DR-DOS. MS applications had explicit code to disable them if the user tried to run them under a competing vendor's OS.

    "All of the above would have happened without Microsoft's sabotage. I'm far from denying that any of the sabotage happened. I'm just saying that it wasn't very consequential. It was just stupid and immature in my view."

    Yes, your honor, I shot those people and they died. It's OK though, because they were weak and they would have died anyway. I didn't murder them. They committed suicide.

    MS should be shut down completely. Their unfair trade practices have taken a huge toll on both consumers and vendors. Now that they have completed their "slap on the wrist" sentence, they're right back out there, as bold as ever, mugging everyone they can.

  17. Re:And in the event.. on Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight · · Score: 1

    And in that event, Canada would have to consider itself a casualty of a continental war fought between two halves of a superpower nation. That would be very sad.

    I hope that we in the U.S. can settle things more locally by destroying the bastards who have taken control of our fine nation. We all know who they are. *

    * Contentious. IMO it's the two major political parties, the scumbags on Wall Street and the clowns in Hollywood.

  18. Plumbing on Ask Slashdot: Best Second Major For a Mechanical Engineer? · · Score: 1

    Our country will facilitate the off-shoring of any skill it can. Engineers in the USA are doomed to the same fate suffered by factory workers in the last 60 years. By the time the assholes in D.C. and N.Y.C. are done trading you, your hard work and expensive education won't be worth a shit.

  19. Re:Only 27 more years until public domain on The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream' · · Score: 2

    It's not fine that copyright can extend into eternity. It's a crock of shit.

    The fast moving nature of modern culture should mean that copyright terms are reduced, not extended.

    King fought long and hard and then made the ultimate sacrifice for an opportunity to be heard by society at large. I find it incredibly ironic that MLK's family should take such a position.

  20. Re:Ugh, God, seriously China? on China Removes Cyberwar Video, Denies Everything · · Score: 1

    What's worse is that even though communism has long been a boogeyman to America, Dick Nixon made it ok for us to deal with red China.

    FUCK CHINA. They are our enemies. We're just sitting here letting them take us apart bite by bite. It's time for us to shut them out. We should close our ports to their ships, deport their people and refuse to pay their bills. What are they going to do? They're already at war with us.

    Force them to step it up. We still have plenty of ICBMs we can launch that aren't yet infested with bogus Chinese components.

  21. Re:It's a CAT-2 storm, for god's sake... on Hurricane Irene Prompts Unprecedented Evacuation of NYC · · Score: 2

    OTOH, NYC is about 100 years overdue for an enema.

  22. Re:We're not shaking in our boots. on Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's ok. We think of Texas as a part of Mexico.

  23. Re:I wonder how many times... on DHS Creating Database of Secret Watchlists · · Score: 1

    And then they invented television and mass-media. 1/3 of the world gets their news from Mr. Rupert Murdoch. We, collectively, don't have a choice. Oprah fucking Winfrey got Obama elected and Rush fucking Limbaugh did the job for Bush. HELLO!?!?!?

    The players from both parties profit from everything that happens. It's like WWF. It's a circus show. The only losers are the 99.99% of us who are spectators.

  24. April 1st? on Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook · · Score: 1

    LMAAO at the headline.

    This is just some new video game for Xstation DCLXVI, right? The new Genesis?

    This place is fucked. Best wishes.

    -ab

  25. Re:What? on Law School Amplifies Critics Through SLAPP Suit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cooley, a law school I've never heard of, claimed to be the 2nd highest rated law school in the country. They got pissed when someone called BS. They hired lawyers from a couple of well-known law schools and sued the guy. This lead to us average joes hearing about it.

    In other words, a bunch of scumbag cunts are writhing around like snakes in a pit trying to kill each other and a crowd is gathering.

    Real Americans should pitch in by gathering up other cunt lawyers and throwing them into the same pit. That way we can burn them all with less impact on the environment.

    I am not a lawyer and i would be very offended if anyone claimed that i am.