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  1. Re:Some possibilities.... on How Do You Detect Cheating In Chess? Watch the Computer · · Score: 1

    For fucks sake, stop calling people mate.

  2. They had to have on US DOJ Claims It Did Not Entrap Megaupload · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There was no due process involved in that case. If the court was not misled, then the court is corrupt and had knowledge of what was going on when the warrants were issued.

    Atrocious.

  3. Being able to update without admin is not an advantage in a corporate environment. Sharing IEs proxy is also not an advantage.

    The only real advantage Chrome has is with the better private browsing mode, and the better security architecture. Still, as long as Firefox is kept updated and a workstation is sufficiently locked down, it isn't that much of an issue.

    Maybe when Chromes extension framework catches up to Firefox's, I'll give it another look.

  4. Re:Probably on Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? · · Score: 1

    It isn't racist if it's backed up by data. The question is, is it?

  5. Re:Insulting on The UK's New Minister For Magic · · Score: 1

    You're generally a reasonably smart guy, aside from the Apple bias.

    Why then can you not understand that a free account that takes no effort to get lends no credibility to a statement, and so people who realize that can't be bothered to make one?

    It's this idiot reasoning and trolling of yours that gets you modded down. FYI.

  6. Re:s/Social Security/the Military on Would You Pay an Internet Broadband Tax? · · Score: 1

    You realize the UK has similarly sized sodas at movie theaters, right? This attempt to mock the US is either poorly chosen, or hypocritical.

  7. Re:Price fixing by camera makers push me there. on Prices Drive Australians To Grey Market For Hardware and Software · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Price fixing by camera makers push me there. on Prices Drive Australians To Grey Market For Hardware and Software · · Score: 1

    I couldn't really tell Portland apart from Vancouver. The whole northwest is crazy misinformed hippies and/or students. Crazy protests, beliefs and good coffee. Oh, and homeopathy.

  9. Re:Price fixing by camera makers push me there. on Prices Drive Australians To Grey Market For Hardware and Software · · Score: 1

    No other continent is as small as Australia. Besides, it being a continent means nothing. New Zealand is also a continent.

  10. Re:Price fixing by camera makers push me there. on Prices Drive Australians To Grey Market For Hardware and Software · · Score: 1

    That hasn't been true for at least a decade

  11. How will APK react to this? on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 5, Funny

    APK's sole existence seems to be reliant on advocating the hosts file as a means of host filtering, despite more modern, flexible, easier, convenient and powerful alternatives existing.

    How will APK stay relevant with the demise of the hosts file in Windows 8? Stay tuned....

  12. Re:Does anyone realize the consequences? on Birth Control For Men Edges Closer · · Score: 1

    So semen without sperm won't have DNA? Even so, there is still RISUG.

  13. Re:Is this a genuine case? on MplayerX Leaving Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    Your response does not address my point in any way.

    How can he modify his code and have it work in the way it does currently? He can't. That's a problem with Apple's sandbox implementation, not him being lazy.

  14. Re:Real Cables on Cables Show US Seeks Assange · · Score: 1

    If they are free and easy to get, how does having an account make a shred of difference? I'm so tired of that idiot reasoning on slashdot.

  15. Re:No, just no. on Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist · · Score: 1

    The genes for religiosity thing is pretty speculative at the moment. No convincing evidence and given the problems in scoping religiosity it seems unlikely.

  16. Re:Is this a genuine case? on MplayerX Leaving Mac App Store · · Score: 2

    The app working correctly should not be dependent on where I keep my media.

  17. Re:Is this a genuine case? on MplayerX Leaving Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    No, he didn't. Apple being control freaks has noting to do with making apps in the app store make use of sandboxing.

  18. Re:Some things never change.... on Microsoft Picks Another Web Standards Fight · · Score: 1

    Errr, no. Skype is pretty easy to block, if you are an at all competent admin. A pain, sure. But it's no mystery.

  19. Re:Top ten Obama lies about Romney on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    I'm not ignoring reason, it's just that your "compelling reasons" are wrong. Keep thinking what you like, while a casual glance at the front page shows the international scope of the site.

  20. Re:Top ten Obama lies about Romney on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    Except most of the stories are not US Centric, they are international. With international stories and userbase, how is /. us centric? It isn't. It's just administered in the US.

  21. Re:The long-term problem for Apple. on Samsung's Comparison of Galaxy S To iPhone · · Score: 1

    An account means nothing. Stop looking for excuses to dismiss opinions.

  22. Re:Top ten Obama lies about Romney on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    US Centric as a term has nothing to do with where a domain was registered. Amazing, huh?

  23. Re:Top ten Obama lies about Romney on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    Chill. Never did I say that I have any problem with Americans running the site.

    I am simply saying it is not US Centric, and it isn't. A substantial number of users are not American and a number of stories are not US Centric. Just because it is operated by Americans does not make it US Centric.

  24. Re:The long-term problem for Apple. on Samsung's Comparison of Galaxy S To iPhone · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that a poster even has an account, which is not a reasonable assumption.

    AC bashing is killing slashdot far more than trolling as AC.

  25. Re:Top ten Obama lies about Romney on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1, Troll

    Slashdot is not a US centric site. They keep saying that because they want it to be true, but it isn't.