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  1. Re:Verizon is correct on Verizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think you mean "private" cables bought with public money as part of public improvements. Except in those areas where the ISPs basically told the cities that they were only allowed to have one ISP's cables in the city, and that ISP was it.

    Public is public, and monopolies are (supposed to be) illegal. So what is their standing again?

  2. Re:Here's my model on Michigan Governor Wants 'Open Source' Economic Model · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain you are infringing on the model used by many powerful businesses that patent such models. I hope you like being a revenue source.

  3. SOmthing I have come to expect: on World of StarCraft Mod Gets C&D From Blizzard · · Score: 1

    Blizzard will make the UI changes available in the options menu of the inevitable expansion without crediting the people they obviously got the idea from. If questioned about this, they will claim that the team stole the idea to make StarCraft more like WoW from them.

    Sometimes, I hate how cynical I am. Then I surf to /.

  4. Breaking news: on Cosmological Constant Not Fine Tuned For Life · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here at /. News, our top story is "An uncaring universe does not care about humanity". News at 11.
    Following this we will have more videos of cats being catlike.

  5. Obligatory on 34,000-Year-Old Organisms Found Buried Alive · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I, for one, welcome our new ancient salt-loving bacteria overlords.

  6. Re:Wrong on Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go · · Score: 1

    It is defined for people who are rich enough. This is due to the fact that poor people lawyers are congenitally incapable of making the same arguments as rich people lawyers.

  7. Le Gasp on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    You can buy computer time to compute things! What will they think of next!

  8. Re:Welcome to 1994... on First Ceiling Light Internet Systems Installed · · Score: 2

    How does the light get outside without windows? Inquiring minds want to know.

  9. Wait - on First Ceiling Light Internet Systems Installed · · Score: 1

    My office's ceiling lights started flickering recently. Have they been upgraded with this system, too?

  10. Is this important yet? on Mozilla To Release Firefox 4 Next Month · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when the final build comes out.

  11. Re:Of course on Sony Says PSP2 "As Powerful as PS3" · · Score: 1

    The wireless controllers have to work somehow.

  12. Re:100 "Does"? on Sony Files Lawsuit Against PS3 Hacker GeoHot · · Score: 1

    They are 100 people to be named later when Sony figures out who they are. You know, the ones who were harder to identify before filing the lawsuit.

  13. Predicted EU response: on ISPs Warn Europe — Website Blocks Don't Work · · Score: 3, Insightful

    EU: You say it's impossible? Pick one: do it anyway, stop being an ISP, or go to jail. Also, you get to work out the implementation and we get to determine if you're doing it right.

  14. Desired future news: on 'SMS of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sending the "SMS of Death" has become common practice at theaters in order to finally force people's cell phones to stop ringing.

  15. Predicted future news on New Cars Vulnerable To Wireless Theft · · Score: 1

    Wireless communications are vulnerable to spoofing, news at 11.
    Also, cloned cell phones!

  16. There was an old cartoon that had this on Swedish Firm Proposes City Buildings On Rails · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't remember if it was Felix the cat or Betty Boop, but it sounds a lot like this. The buildings were all on rails and moved around as needed, and people got on a stationary "train" car while the buildings came to them in a strange inversion of normal travel methods

  17. Re:BLADE on US Begins Sophisticated Wireless Jamming Project · · Score: 1

    Behavioral Learning for ADaptive Electronic warfare, and yes, even a bureaucracy can learn to avoid being embarrassed in public.

    Besides, this is the DoD - they want an acronyms that sounds like a weapon anyway.

  18. Predicted future news: on Google's Next Challenge, Spam Results · · Score: 1

    Google changes the rules to close old loopholes, spammers start gaming the new rules. The media is shocked that a massively profitable business category is capable of changing to meet the new challenges, unlike the *AA groups.

  19. Predicted future news: on Why Digital Newsstands Stink · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People continue to prefer not paying for things. Also, most people like having privacy in their lives.

  20. Re:not the first on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 1

    We're talking about Uhura, not the Orion slave girl.

  21. It will continue in silence until on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 2

    they start censoring things people can defend without sounding like perverts. People generally don't want to be known for defending these things, it hurts their chances of achieving high positions.

    I can just imagine how the defenders would be described in the news - defenders of (fictional) incest and gay rapists. They won't mention the fictional part, of course.

  22. Ticking PC scare on Tales From the Tech Trenches · · Score: 1

    One time, I got a call because a computer was ticking loudly, like someone stuck an alarm clock in it and had to go down and deal with that. It was quite tempting to say that was exactly what it sounded like, but it was just a defective CPU fan Dell gave us.

    It was fixed easily enough, but luckily the user didn't panic at hearing the traditional "this will blow you away" noise the computer was making.

  23. Predicted future news: on Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough For Feds and WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Nepotism and corruption remain major factors in business decisions the world over.

  24. Predicted future news: on German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs · · Score: 1

    German Kindergartens told to pay copyright fees for every song, regardless of copyright status or ownership. Failure to do so will be fined on a level that makes stealing Humvees look cheap.

  25. Predicted future news on 4chan Has Been DDOSed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    4chan was taken down when a bunch of /b/-tard script kiddies handed over control of their LOIC programs to some Anonymous person on the internet, not realizing that 4chan was the target.