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  1. 1984 on YouTube Removal Highlights Media Self-Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Kind of has that feel, doesn't it?

  2. Disraeli had it right on The U.S. Falling Behind In Broadband? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

  3. I'm sorry to see him go on Rumsfeld Stepping Down · · Score: 1

    I think he's made great strides in transforming our military, against a massive entrenched beaucracy.

    Being independently wealthy, he didn't need the job, and was free to say or do what he felt was right.

    As SecDef, he's right up there with Cap Weinberger.

  4. This is a great idea! on An Indian On the Moon By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Next think you know, the US, China, Russia, and India are going to be staking claims on the moon.

  5. Yah! on Every Vista Computer Gets Its Own Domain Name · · Score: 1

    And ven ve know your ICBM address, ve vill be able to drop single kiloton nukes on your software-stealing ass.

  6. Zaurus vs. This on A Truly Open Linux Phone · · Score: 1

    I own a Sharp Zaurus, and aged as it might be, it pretty much keeps pace - absent the GSM bit.

    Of course, I will buy.

  7. Brilliant news on AIDS Can Fight AIDS · · Score: 1

    I think this is *BRILLIANT* news.

    I have the good fortune to be middle-aged. Because of this I'm old enough to have seen people die from AIDS with no possible help. My wife still cries massively when we meet with parents of our dead frinds.

    Again, brilliant news.

  8. Dinner. on The Dolphin With Leftover Legs · · Score: 1

    How does vestigial-legged dolphin taste?

  9. Wild Pigs on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    Where will we get the herd of wild pigs to carry out the sentence?

  10. You mean Bush *didn't* lie? on U.S. Publishes Guide To Building Atom Bombs To Web · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Heavens to betsy! The NYT drops a November surprise, and it benefits the *Rethuglicans*?!?!!!?!

    The article may well be spun that Stupid Bush Gave Iranians The Bomb, but it was actually the US Congress that had the material put up, and Clinton gave the Iranians trigger technology over a decade ago.

    The big news here is the Iraqi WMD program.

    I'm laughing all the way to a Rethuglican victory this coming Tuesday.

  11. Hold your own phone... on iPod Owners Not As Loyal To Brand As Mac Owners · · Score: 1
    http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/52362.html

    Apple will fix iPods that are no longer under warranty. However, the repairs can sometimes cost about as much as a new iPod, according to the Web site everymac.com. Several calls to Apple were not returned.
  12. Well, duh! on iPod Owners Not As Loyal To Brand As Mac Owners · · Score: 1

    - No repair service. (You dropped your $400 iPod and broke it, well, buy another.)
    - Battery expires after 18 months (See repair service comment above)

    I mean, Apple's telling you that you've got a short-lived device, so naturally people will look for alternatives.

  13. Say what!?!!?!!?!!! on Viral Fossil Brought Back To Life · · Score: 1

    I'm mostly frozen retrovirus genome?

    (OK, I don't know how to continue from here....)

  14. Goodbye Cynthia McKinney! on E-voting State By State · · Score: 1

    As I was saying, they worked just fine in DeKalb County, GA.

  15. 535? on Vista Gets Official Release Dates · · Score: 4, Funny

    Surely there's a numbering system where this reads "666".

  16. Let's face it on $100 PC Pledges Fail To Meet Minimum · · Score: 1

    Almost nobody gives a crap about the developing world.

  17. Hi Hani! on Microsoft Partners With Zend · · Score: 1

    How's married life treating you? I haven't seen much out of the Bile Blog recently, but here's hoping!

  18. After Visual Basic... on Microsoft Partners With Zend · · Score: 0, Troll
  19. The hole in the wall over your head behind you.... on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    Is a Simpsons reference going right over your head.

    Go look up what happened when Marge was sent to jail.

  20. Oh my. on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    I remember the US when Jimma was President. He gave us the best of both worlds: high unemployment, and high inflation. He'd decided the decline of the US was inevitable, and ruled accordingly. And when we, the citizens of the US, objected, he got on TV and told us all this was our fault, and we'd better just get used to it.

    No wonder Reagan won in a landslide.

    Since leaving offive, Jimma's showed himself to be a typical small-town Southern politician: small-minded, and with a mean streak a mile wide.

    Jimmy Carter: History's greatest monster.

  21. The UN? on Will the U.S. Lose Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    For the life of me, I can't think of a single decent thing the UN's done recently. The ineffectiveness and corruption start right at the top. And the UN wants to givern the internet? I am gobsmacked.

  22. OK. OK. I get it. on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 1

    America is the cause of all the world's problems. *And* we don't pay enough in taxes.

    Gotcha. Thanks. I'll go flagellate myself immediately.

  23. Thank God for GWB! on North Korea Returns To The Table · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When Bill Clinton was in power, Jimmy Carter took it upon himself to give the Kim Family Country nuclear power plants, food, Chivas, porn, etc. Hence the current state of North Korea.

    With GWB in power, the gargoyle's been left empty-handed. With any luck, we'll see the people of North Korea do a Mussolini on him. I, for one, will welcome the day.

  24. If the Republicans don't lose in November... on Opening Diebold Source, the Hard Way · · Score: 0, Troll

    That is, if the *Rethuglicans* keep control of the House and Senate, I fully expect Diebold to be given the blame.

    (I mean, everyone I know (on /.) votes Democrat!)

    I almost hope this happens, just for the cries, shouts, rending of hair, gnashing of teeth!

    Oh the humanity!

  25. Conservative Groups? on VDARE Fights Blocking By Censorware · · Score: 1, Funny
    I loved this bit:

    ...without including conservative groups that might file a First Amendment lawsuit if their sites were blocked from public school computers.

    I mean, it's the American Left that gets its way via the courts, since it can't achieve anything at the ballot box. Well, apart from Diebold conspiracy theories.

    Oh, and as a refection of the Slashdot demographic, I fully expect this post to be modded -1000000, Offtopic.