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  1. Re:Totaly agree on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 2

    * study's

    Sorry.

  2. Re:As a dev: Safari doesn't exist. on Apple's New Safari Technology Preview Browser Is Aimed At Web Developers · · Score: 1

    Chrome on iOS is Safari with a different skin. So is Opera and Firefox. Because they are all using the same WebKit under the hood, that is what is reported in stats.

  3. Re:Safari on Windows? on Apple's New Safari Technology Preview Browser Is Aimed At Web Developers · · Score: 1

    Given the absolute abortion that was Safari on Windows, I for one don't want it back. Even dealing with IE's idiosyncratic bullshit was more fun than debugging that panful of arse gravy.

  4. I'll bet you a dozen 19 year old hookers I can be at least twice as skeptical as you...

  5. Re:Not on Slashdot... on Mass Surveillance Silences Minority Opinions: Study · · Score: 2

    This is something that meta-moderation was supposed to counteract, precisely because dumbasses suddenly granted power decide to treat things they don't agree with as a scourge that must be removed from existence.

  6. Re:TFS could be a little less obscure on 'My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT' (pinboard.in) · · Score: 1

    Pfah. Real real men use clay tablets, a pointed stick and a firing oven.

  7. Re:It is inevitable on Volvo Wants You To Ditch Car Keys For Its New Smartphone App (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why you have a manual gearbox. At least you can bump start those.

  8. Re:That's what Apple did wrong... on Pow! With Supreme Court Rebuff, DC Comics Wins Batmobile Copyright Case (newsoxy.com) · · Score: 1

    "Batty man" has a different meaning this side of the pond...

  9. Yeah, but will it scale?

  10. Re: What a crock on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a fishing expedition. The FBI *thinks* there *might be* some other information on that phone. Given the amount of time that has passed, I *think* that this information, if it even exists, *might be* out of date and useless.

  11. Re: What in the fuck? on Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Only a belief that you own a right (or a belief that those you are acting for own a right) is required. This is how a royalty free public domain student's thesis video containing the word pixels that was updated to Vimeo years before the Adam Sandler film was made got taken down. DMCA is an unjust law where proof of a negative is required.

  12. Re:So on UCLA Creates Super-Strong, Super-Light Metal (ucla.edu) · · Score: 1

    Or what the Predator blades are made from.

  13. Re:Commercial gain vs Copy Right infringement on UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And copyright infringement (if that has even happened here) is a civil, not criminal offence. But we can't have that, so we'll tack on some other bullshit claiming a commercial interest (though there is none) to make it criminal. Then use a "police" force whose authority, not that I recognise it, doesn't extend outside a commercial geographic area to enforce it.

    That's three strikes against, which is three more than is necessary to deride this action.

  14. Re:SIKHS ARE NOT MUSLIMS on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting the only reason people don't know anything about foreigners is because that knowledge only comes from invasion?

  15. Re:SIKHS ARE NOT MUSLIMS on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    The entire population of the UK knows that Sikhs aren't Muslims and has known for over two hundred years. Why is the population of your country so fucking ignorant?

  16. Re:They already won. on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    12 year old Sikhs don't wear turbans. So what does his religion have to do with it as it isn't immediately obvious what religion it is? The only thing that was "known" for sure is that it wasn't Christianity and that was only because he isn't white.

  17. Re:quite likely "intelligence" is monitoring on Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Like no USian ever uses "we" to denote a people of whom they are a member. You might not have dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, but "we the people" did.

  18. Re:quite likely "intelligence" is monitoring on Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If you mean allowing the destruction of Coventry, we destroyed Dresden in revenge for having to keep secret the fact the codes were broken and we knew it was coming. And we were subsequently painted as the bad guys for doing it by revisionist shitheads.

  19. Re:I have no debt and a hefty savings account on Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    People already share their income with the government. It's called your tax return.

  20. Re: Really? Quicktime? Seriously? on Apple Usurps Oracle As the Biggest Threat To PC Security · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No one uses Safari on Windows. Few used it even when it wasn't abandonware.

  21. Re:It's a business opportunity! on Apple Usurps Oracle As the Biggest Threat To PC Security · · Score: 2

    Another problem is that they are bug ridden heaps of crap that can't even be bothered to follow application guidelines that everybody else was capable of following for over a decade but instead force their own ideal of an interface that only looks good in one OS.

  22. Re:Do you know how far bullets fly? on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    "Aww, grate! Prezzies!": Worms with Angry Scot voice setting

  23. Re:one big barrel of worms on Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution (coloradoan.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's the difference between a "personal" Facebook account and an "official" one? Fuck all.

  24. They aren't interested because 5Mbps RADSL is the best you're going to get; in their eyes there's nothing to fix. Unless your cabinet is also yonks away then they can do better than 15Mbps for FTTC. My exchange is 2.7k away but the cabinet is 300m do I get theoretical max of 35Mbps. Of course there's no point in you getting Infinity as you're on cable which is faster anyway...

  25. Re:English is not Spanish on An Algorithm For Better Password Checking (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    In written English what was written was grammatically correct. To a native English writer, using an allowed spoken form as the measure of grammatical accuracy shows you're an American.