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  1. Re:Because, on Why Internet Pirates Always Win · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just delete all the virtual eye patches and peg-legs. Then the internet pirates would look stupid and quit.

  2. Re:Bad analogy. on University Receives $5 Million Grant To Study Immortality · · Score: 1

    Number of bits moved to post this post: 42,424,242

    Number of brain cells lost reading this argument: 42,424,242 / 42 (or for those of you with fewer than me) 1010101

    Being modded up 5 (funny): Priceless

  3. Re:Bad analogy. on University Receives $5 Million Grant To Study Immortality · · Score: 1

    Yet we find that people who do horrendous things without realizing it feel remorse and sometimes even pain even though logically it didn't affect their brain. Counseling can help them get over it, but any brain altering meds will help them cope temporarily, yet once off them return them into a state of depression.

  4. Re:Ok... but why? on Mac OS X Mountain Lion Gets Three Million Downloads In 4 Days · · Score: 1

    Smart enough? don't you mean dumb enough?

    Seriously, it can't tell if I got a file off a network share on my intranet or via a download from a browser. To make it worse, it propagates this flag to all files created from this file too.

    So, if I download an installer that copies 60 files to various parts of my drive, and try to run the program it bombs. Why? because all 60 of those files are flagged. Finding and removing the flag from all of them is impossible, so I'm left with uninstalling and re-installing the application to make things work (hoping that it's uninstaller doesn't leave behind a settings file somewhere that's still flagged).

  5. Re:Got to look at the data as a whole on NASA Satellite Measurements Show Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt · · Score: 1

    Please stop breathing. Your CO2 is messing up my beach-front property!

  6. Re:No more DVD rentals? on Latest Netflix Earnings Report Mixed · · Score: 1

    On /. you manage to mention Scrubs and Futurama, but you fail to include Star Trek?

  7. Re:No more DVD rentals? on Latest Netflix Earnings Report Mixed · · Score: 1

    I would never use anything more demanding than ssh over dialup.

    Whoah! SSH over dialup? You're a very patient person. I won't hardly use SSH on anything less than a full 3G connection!

  8. Re:Classy on Jack Daniels Shows How To Write a Cease and Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    Much better than trying to drink aether. That stuff is light!

  9. Really? on Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    Maybe all of us that are married are a lot more careful, so we don't get caught? Ideally if they're catching teen and younger twenties hackers, that simply leads me to believe that the older ones are... better. Not a big reach, but then again I'm not a psycologist.

  10. Re:You're a company on Verizon Claims Net Neutrality Violates Their Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    Soylent Green is Corporations!!! It's Corporations!!!

    It just doesn't sound right, so no they're not people.

  11. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 1

    @shutdown -p now:

    Once you get done rebooting (again), please reply with your point to the post above.

  12. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 1

    So Ford's one feature (Sync) is similar to Apple, but in all others ways they are dis-similar. Mainly due to the fact that the feature set of one is provided primarily by hardware, and the feature set for another is provided primarily by software (granted it runs ON hardware). So the original analogy is flawed.

  13. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 1

    ON the contrary. Apple is releasing a new version of maps in ios 6. My old iphone will get this retrofitted to it no problem. Ford on the other hand never even bothered to reply when I told them their suspension was crap.

  14. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 1

    The analogy sounds good on paper, but there are some differences. Apple continues to add new features to devices they've already sold. I'd LOVE it if Ford would come swap out the Air-Ride suspension in my Explorer because they came up with a better one. FORD! Are you out there? Please REPLACE THIS!

    ---
    BTW, Jesus wasn't a liberal... He was perfect (left, the flaming begin!)

  15. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 1

    If you'd ever used a smartphone before the iphone, you'd know that the "slide to unlock" was sufficiently different and notable. Prior work was (IIRC in Windows Mobile 6) Power Button followed by "*". Very different and Notably easier...

  16. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 1

    Nothing Wrong with creating a browser??? Did you ever USE Internet Explorer???

    Fanboy's feel free to comment below.

  17. Re:How about... on Google Trying New Strategy to Fix Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    Not the same, just sort of close. I use HTC HD2, which is a phone that originally came with Windows Mobile 6.5. It runs the latest Android quite well, if a bit slow. It also runs Linux and Windows Phone.

    <Sarcasm>First off. Android AND Linux! I didn't think that was possible </Sarcasm>

    Secondly, no way that thing performs "quite well". Perhaps with only one app running at a time (or if using a CLI interface).

  18. C11???? on A New C Standard Is On the Way · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's great! I'm still using C4, and every time I compile my code blows up!

  19. Re:Extradition? WTF? on Jimmy Wales Calls UK Government To Halt O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 1

    You've never heard of a fiberglass axe handle? We're past that proverb now :)

  20. Peacetime? on How the Militarization of the Internet is Changing Warfare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We have been at ware since early 2000's. It's not peacetime.

  21. Re:Duh - Who else would have done it? on US, Israel Behind Flame Malware · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mis-spelled "centers".

    P.S. Please mod this funny

    P.P.S. Please do NOT mod this Informative... You'll look stupid.

  22. Re:Not Intended to be Industrial Grade on Samsung Galaxy S3 Face Unlock Tricked By Photograph · · Score: 1

    Harder to get a would be.... To get...
    If we want your phone, we'll get the pics necessary :)

  23. Re:But /. said Linux don't get malware? on Six Arrested Over Japanese Android Porn Virus · · Score: 2

    Correction. There are two ways to be infected by a trojan:

    1. Buy condoms that aren't sealed (of the Trojan brand of course).

    2. Buy a cheap hooker in Troy

    Either one could work fine for you right?

  24. Re:The specs are reasonable, for the price. on The $45 Windows Laptop · · Score: 1

    64K? We had 32K, and most of that was reserved for other things so we couldn't actually use it.

    32k? We had 1k and most of that was used by the OS and the video RAM.

    1k? We just had an infinitely long roll of tape.

    Long roll of tape?!?!?

    One word... Abacus!

  25. Re:START USING PERIODS NOW on The $45 Windows Laptop · · Score: 1

    I think they haven't figured out that commas are not preiods, In the current iteration of the english language we use periods, Perhaps in some former incarnation the comma.... Oh I can't do it anymore. It's bugging the CRAP out of me!!!