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  1. Re:I don't recall... on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    obligatory xkcd response. Pretend the gentlemen in the right panel are cops.

  2. ALL CAPS? on Dropbox Releases Revised TOS · · Score: 1

    Is there a legal reason that SOME PORTIONS OF A TOS/EULA/FINEPRINT ARE IN ALL CAPS? Like, are there laws that require them to make those portions all caps? Or is it just the lawyers screwing with us?

  3. "Internet death penalty" on Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    blocking websites vs killing people. That comparison is a little over the top.

  4. Re:a deliberate ploy... on Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents · · Score: 1

    Whoosh.

  5. Why do people always ignore... on Why Are There So Few Honeycomb Apps? · · Score: 1

    ...the possibility that you *can* write an app that works well on a phone or on a tablet, without a special release for different devices?

  6. Paid internships on Calling BS On Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    If you have technical skills, you should seek paid internships. They are not hard to find. Laugh in the face of people that offer you an unpaid internship; you are worth more than that.

  7. a deliberate ploy... on Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents · · Score: 2

    ...to get another news headline on Slashdot? Well it worked.

  8. Re:I did it at Apple in 1991 on BitTorrent Chat Demystified · · Score: 1

    Playing the good ol' "regurgitate what they said but slightly differently" trick:
    Difference is that the theorized tech is limited to a single planet. The new new stuff got a potential universal reach.

  9. Re:Isn't this is worse then 4 days? on World of Warcraft Goes Free With Starter Edition · · Score: 1

    The 14-day trial (or 7-day or whatever it was) was also capped at lv20. Basically they took off the day restriction, but the trial level cap has always been there.

  10. Re:Yeah, but they gimped it so bad it's worthless on World of Warcraft Goes Free With Starter Edition · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the FAQ. Grandparent commenter made it sound like there was absolutely *no* chat. Below lv 20, do you really need anything besides say/party/whisper?

  11. Re:Depends on your definition on Spamming Becoming Financially Infeasible · · Score: 1

    Details: CAN-SPAM

  12. Meta spammer on Spamming Becoming Financially Infeasible · · Score: 1

    So this guy, back in the 90s, spammed people to sell his spamming services. (insert yo dawg joke here)

  13. Honest question on Another Android Device Maker Signs Patent Agreement With Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Has Microsoft taken legal action towards non-Android devices? BlackBerry or webOS (Palm), for instance? Do android devices really use special software components that *happen* to fall under MSFT patents which other mobile OSes *happen* to not use?

  14. Re:Fuck that, I've created Upsilon! on Happy Tau Day · · Score: 1

    4/3 * pi * r^3

  15. Re:These are great and all, but on 30 Creative 404 Error Pages · · Score: 1

    Only "really hard" for those people who don't know what their server is doing. It's dead simple to check with a simple script.

  16. Re:Webcache... on 30 Creative 404 Error Pages · · Score: 1

    Where are my mod points when I need them? Thank you.

  17. Re:Github on 30 Creative 404 Error Pages · · Score: 1

    Tempting to make a project with that name just to mess up your link.

  18. Re:Sigh... on 30 Creative 404 Error Pages · · Score: 2

    I heard u like 404 errors, so I put a 404 in ur 404s so u can err whilst u err.

  19. Re:not quite correct summary on Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics · · Score: 1

    Yes, mentioning KDE specifically was just to stir up some extra slashdotter nerd rage.

  20. Re:This is going to seem really funny in in 5 year on Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics · · Score: 1

    It's easy to forget that MySpace, and before that AOL, was all the rage at one point in time. Now they still loom about like monolithic shells of their previous glory. Facebook will probably suffer the same fate.

  21. Re:Fuck that, I've created Upsilon! on Happy Tau Day · · Score: 1

    Pi * r^2. Tau that.

  22. Re:Blackberry is the corporate standard on Developers Defecting From BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    a much better OS

    Thanks for the tautology.

    higher quality devices

    [citation needed]

    availability of applications

    Now this is legitimate. BB suffers a downward cycle in this respect, due to the topic of TFA.

  23. Re:Blackberry is the corporate standard on Developers Defecting From BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    Like many products, it became a standard even though a new and better product took it's place.

    Not that I'm a BB fan, but what exactly makes iOS/Android that much better?

  24. Re:Just an expansion on Wikipedia Adds "WikiLove" For Newbie Editors · · Score: 1

    Why exactly is this modded funny? Did I miss the joke? Sounds just plain informative to me.

  25. Re:Encouragement on Wikipedia Adds "WikiLove" For Newbie Editors · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of reverting, but most of it is reverting popular misconceptions that have no citation, or ideologically driven edits (usually creationists, again with no citations).

    85% of slashdotters complaining about how their edits got reverted fall into this category.