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  1. Don't you mean... on North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 · · Score: 1

    ...the glorious Great Leader Kim Jong-Il sacrificed his life to the betterment of the great Democratic People's Republic of Korea? Actually, this kinda sucks in a selfish kind of way because I was hoping to eventually save up $3-4K to buy a touring package in North Korea during the Summer Games just so I can be one of the token few that's toured a Stalinist regime; now the country's gonna democratize & there'll be none left...

  2. I use Megaupload on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 0

    M E G A, upload to me today send me your file!

  3. Re:Where's the FTC in all this? on Judge Dismisses 'Other OS' Class-Action Suit Against Sony · · Score: 1

    I'll get right on overclocking it's big-bore kit with some cocaine.

  4. Where's the FTC in all this? on Judge Dismisses 'Other OS' Class-Action Suit Against Sony · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure a blatant bait-&-switch brakes some sort of law...

  5. Serves you right on Intel Revenue Dives $1bn On Hard Disk Shortage · · Score: 1

    If you hadn't (publicly!) conspired to kill off the netbook then everyone would have been more contempt with smaller SSD's & cloud storage.

  6. FUCK YES on Two Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found · · Score: 1

    While I hadn't gotten around to that 2nd serial, I've seen the first one from those douchebags at Loose Cannon that don't believe in public domain or digital copies (I've even seen them discourage OTHER restorers with absolutely no relation to them from releasing into the public domain at all!) This was one of my favorite lost serials, along w/ the Marco Polo one.

  7. Re:The 100k was a ripoff on 17-Year-Old Wins $100K For Creating Cancer Killing Nanoparticle · · Score: 1

    at least she'll get a career & probably at least an honorary degree or scholarship out of it?

  8. Re:Fixed* in two commands on GNOME Shell Extensions Are Live · · Score: 2

    Breaking everything else is what I'm worried about. It's bad enough using the prerelease channels breaks the little things just enough to warrant a / wipe every release cycle. (actually what I do is I use the beta & once it goes stable I wipe /)

  9. DAMNIT on GNOME Shell Extensions Are Live · · Score: 1

    Not compatible w/ GNOME 3.0-- I guess I'm waiting 5 months...fucking Shuttleworth...

  10. Dude on Italian Court Rules Web Editors Not Responsible For Comments · · Score: -1, Troll

    Post-Mussolini Italy is FUCKING AWESOME now!

  11. Re:Slightly OT, SSD for OS issues on Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Why would an update write to /users/? All that's stored there is user-specific configuration data...

  12. Re:Pointless, & here's why on Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Incidentally, I was doing some maintenance on a client's old DDR XP machine-- I substituted actual RAM upgrades with moving the pagefile over to a $15 CF card & fixing its size at max capacity. I guess this KINDA counts...I don't know why M$ thought it a good idea to have this on USB sticks though...

  13. Re:Slightly OT, SSD for OS issues on Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    If My Documents is still "My Documents", you'll have to symlink, otherwise there's a registry setting you can change to specify the /user/ folder. See below for more details I guess.

  14. Pointless, & here's why on Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    A dual-volume setup gets you better speed at a fraction of the cost. You put the OS on the cheapest SSD you can find & your user/home partition on a HDD. On Windows you can do this with a simple registry tweak & most other OSes support it out-of-the-box. The only problem I can find is the SSD filling up &/or killing off sectors thanks to Windows' shit temporary file management & organization, with the 12 or whatever temporary folders everywhere, as well as all the hotfix uninstallers, system restore points (this is a nasty chunk of wasted space), etc. At least M$ has a real opportunity to fix this with what I assume will be their first cross-platform & cross-architecture OS...

  15. You know you don't HAVE to use Sync right? on Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can tell Android's built-in Sync to not touch your contacts, appointments, email & then use the generic (& built-in!) calender & email applications that do exactly the same things over standard protocols...

  16. Re:Too much water is poison on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 1

    I was going to say the same thing

  17. Switch on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 1

    Here's what you do: split your key 'on' or starter switch lead (which should legally still be there) to a switch epoxied under the case somewhere, then wire that up to the horn. Problem, thieffags?

  18. This is what happens... on TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When we let fear control us into letting an "elected" official create a cabinet department called the Commission for State Securit--err I mean Department of Homeland Security, even though WE ALREADY HAVE A NATIONAL GUARD AND A CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. Seriously, did someone miss the possibility of alterior motives when it was announced we were reinventing the wheel?

  19. Iphone 4G? on Army Plots Its Smartphone Strategy · · Score: 1

    I don't think that 4 means what the United States Army apparently thinks it means...

  20. This isn't news on The Privatization of Copyright Lawmaking · · Score: 5, Informative

    The private elite have influenced western politics for at LEAST a century or three

  21. Re:What, no on Warner Brothers: Automated Takedown Notices Hit Files That Weren't Ours · · Score: 2

    If the computers did ALL the work then we wouldn't be paying CIA officials to screen them all.

  22. This is more akin to the phone company not being liable for using automated software to drop all calls that have words that sound like 'bomb'. (Fun Fact: the tech WAS implemented for international calls post-9/11)

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

    It'll just piss off Lulzsec more, who will cease doing it for the lulz & seek revenge...

  24. What the fuck man D: on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 2

    Why not simply water down the stocks like they did with Facebook's Chief "Financial" Officer?

  25. We've already had this article on Strange Places To Find Open Source · · Score: 1

    Seriously sometimes it's like slashdot's on a 365-day loop...