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  1. Re:Absolutely spot on on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    To which I say "my table" not "by table", "over-engineered" not "over engineered" and it's either "sense is" or "senses are" but not "sense are".

    Damn you meddling kids. I wood've gotten away with it if you hadn't of stuck your knows in where it didn't belong.

  2. Absolutely spot on on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd become evil in an eye blink. Deep within my lair I would tie people to by horrendously over engineered table and unfold my nefarious plots to educate people about how bad their sense of editing, spelling, grammar and story selection are.

    "No Mr Samzenpus, I expect you to learn"

  3. Re:The Picture in Question on Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains · · Score: 1

    Thank God for the USA, where the right to bare arms is enshrined in the Consitution.

    I thought it had to do with hunting and Bear arms?

  4. Re:The Picture in Question on Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Values are completely different today, and no where is it more prevalent than religion.

    Except that even within religions the accepted morality varies by geographic region. For example the morality of followers of Catholicism is widely different between such areas as Brasil, the US, Italy and Ireland. And thats not even getting into other branches of Christianity. That is why I said region and deliberately chose NOT to say Religion.

  5. Re:The Picture in Question on Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, that's the point. Cultures that think pictures of women who are "clad" (which is just a fancy word for "wearing clothes") are very probably suppressing their women.

    And people from Brasil look at what the US norm is and shake their head. I have a female friend from Brasil, who after a business trip to the US she told me how she brought her normal Brasilian bathing suit and felt weird wearing it around Americans. The next trip she borrowed her mothers bathing suit because it was more modest and fitted in by US standards. So by your definition and her experience the US is suppressing its women. And dare I mention Prairie dresses?

  6. Re:Different culture, different opinions on Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A lot of folk howled with laughter in Europe when middle America made a fuss about Janet Jackson

    Actually to be fair a lot of people in the US also couldn't understand what the problem was. However those who complained about it had the louder voice.

  7. Re:The Picture in Question on Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wouldn't even call her 'scantily clad'

    While not being an expert, Islam in general expects at least modest dress for women that includes not having bare arms. So the definition of scantily clad is region dependent.

  8. Their rules, their game on Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seems fine to me. You don't have to play on their turf

  9. Obviously on China Becoming Intellectual Property Powerhouse · · Score: 1, Funny

    Patents are for communists. If you love patents then you love communism and we don't want that kinda love in the ol' capitalistic US of A ..... oh wait

  10. Next year on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    I bet a lot more people pay their Fire protection bill - nothing like a public demonstration of "Nice property you have there, it'd be a pity if it caught fire"

  11. Re:What Android needs... on Many More Android Apps Leaking User Data · · Score: 1

    Not only the ability to display what permissions an app requests, but the ability to deny the use of those features on a per feature basis for each app.

    So the phone needs a decent firewall now?

  12. Re:Why? on ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's the point of selling gold in a vending machine when no one is going to take a gold coin as currency?

    The idea is to make money .. for the people who make the gold dispensing ATMs. Its nothing more than a capitalistic response to a fear based environment.

  13. Re:35 bullion? on ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America · · Score: 1

    It's spelt billion.

    Never spoken with a Kiwi have you?

  14. Re:No he won't on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 5, Insightful

    or with a penguin in the arctic.

    If its a penguin in the Arctic then I'd be really surprised

  15. In other news on The Ancient Computers Powering the Space Race · · Score: 5, Funny

    My car uses 100 year old internal combustion technology.

  16. Re:B-2 Stealth on The Ancient Computers Powering the Space Race · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is the point of this article?

    I think the point of this article is to show the disconnect between the "oh-look-new-shiny-shiny" crowd who have to download and install their latest favorite application from nightly builds vs the "if-it-fucks-up-someone-gets-hurt" crowd who actually have a clue about reliability.

  17. Re:Wow! Amplitude Modulation! on Digital Radio Mondiale, a Better Standard Than US-Adopted IBOC? · · Score: 1

    Liberal Talk Radio is on there as well.

    There's Liberal Talk radio?? Not from what I hear in VA. Here they even repeat weekly live conservative talk radio shows on the weekend as if no one notices.

  18. Re:not very technical on Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime · · Score: 1

    Correct link to technical details:

    Sounds like someone didn't do any testing or that their testing is in adequate.

  19. Re:Salesmen promising too much on CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code · · Score: 1

    I meant cool down from the march... relax, enjoy your break

    please accept my apologies, i am worst than usual with words and people today

    No worries .. I am wired after a month of 14-18 hour days, 7 days a week, a couple of all nighters and now I am hanging on hearing back from tech support on a Friday afternoon when they seem to have t no clue that they product is causing a problem.

  20. Re:Salesmen promising too much on CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code · · Score: 1

    Hey I am cooled down .. you didn't see any "all-caps", not a single exclamation mark and nary a swearword! And I got the humor.

  21. Re:Salesmen promising too much on CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code · · Score: 1

    stop posting on slashdot you lazy sob. And go back to your march.

    The reason I *am* posting is that we have hit an issue with a third party system and I am waiting for their tech support to get back to me with a solution to the problem that their system causes. I thought I was going to be done with this project last Monday.

  22. Re:Because it must be linked: on CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code · · Score: 1
  23. Salesmen promising too much on CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    And sub contractor steadfastly saying that they can't deliver production ready software in the given time fame.

    Where have I heard that before? .. ah yes .. the current death march project that I am in the middle of!

  24. Re:They Can't Be That Stupid... on Stuxnet Worm May Have Targeted Iranian Reactor · · Score: 1

    Why in the Hell is Iran connecting their nuclear reactor to the Internet???

    Where have you been hiding out. There has been uproar in the US over recent months with public awareness of how much of the US infrastructure is connected to the internet. This is not anything new.

  25. Re:Why not link the source? on Canonical Designer Demos Ubuntu Context-Aware UI · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why does the summary not link the actual blog post at canonical.com instead of some ad-encumbered summary?

    Because then the submitter wouldn't get his cut?