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  1. Re:You're wrong about addons on Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling · · Score: 1

    Use bondo, and if that doesn't work use duck tape and baling wire. At the very least, that will put it back together. Getting it to start may be a little difficult.

  2. Re:You're wrong about addons on Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling · · Score: 2

    You are thinking like a nerd, not a computer user. I did not know this information, so I was one of those 90% people until today. And you would be surprised how many people are using FireFox but could not possibly do this. Yes, even with step by step instructions.

    "I refuse to believe that 90% of car owners cannot change their own oil." That statement makes as much sense as yours. Maybe they could, but they won't, and don't think they should.

    Lots of people wiped their parents/friends/neighbors computers because of their inability to understand anything at all, getting viruses and popups and toolbars and whatnot. And they put Firefox on, and said "there, use that, that's the internet." Those people will click any update box, any OK button just to "make the damned thing go away." They will not update a text file inside a zip, or if they try they will not do it correctly.

    "Just associate .zip files with WinZip" you say. I wish we had known when we set people up to use Firefox that this was coming, or we might have.

    Its more like saying "I refuse to believe that 90% of car owners don't know how to set the correct gap on their spark plugs."

    Car owners know that they the oil in a car can be changed. Car owners know that the oil in their car should be changed. Car owners may even know that some of the steps involved in changing oil include removing old oil and pouring new oil in, but may not know the precise amount or that the filter should be changed as well.

    Some car owners don't even know what a spark plug is, much less were they are or how to pull them out. And very few of them know that the gap can matter, much less what it should be and how to set it.

  3. Re:Pointing at someone else's problems... on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    No, but you can't put up a website visible to everyone in the world except the one person who you are defaming in your website.

  4. Re:Great News! on Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police · · Score: 1

    Yea, besides that, in that case the plain clothes officer jumps out of his unmarked car and shoves a gun in the guys face and starts screaming without identifying himself as an officer. That was not an understandable mistake at all. The motorcyclist and any nearby witnesses would have been well within his rights to respond with lethal force and that would have been an "understandable mistake".

  5. Re:I really really hope this is appealed on Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police · · Score: 1

    wait, you actually think they only monitor transnational phone calls?

  6. Re:well actually... on 'Instant Cosmic Classic' Supernova Discovered · · Score: 1

    Everything a photon experiences is happening right now from the photons frame of reference.

  7. Re:No worries here... on Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets · · Score: 1

    This hurricane obviously won't make it over the Appalachia mountains, it isn't even headed that way.

    But a really strong gulf hurricane can affect places that far inland, causing thunderstorms and tornadoes. Hurricane Camille or Katrina for instance.

  8. Re:AGW on Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate · · Score: 1

    Water vapor leaves the atmosphere rapidly enough that it only has a marginal effect on long term climate, CO2 does not. The reason water vapor is such an important greenhouse gas on venus is that the temperature got high enough that it didn't leave the atmosphere rapidly enough.

  9. Re:The precedent needs to be set on EFF Takes On Cisco's Role In China · · Score: 1

    Especially since the method of execution is strapping them to a wheel that is on fire.

  10. Re:Succession plan? on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Grammatical Eros sounds kinda fun.

  11. Re:This is why! on Samsung Cites 2001: A Space Odyssey In Apple Patent Case · · Score: 1

    Don't forget about the story of a guy who invented the engine that runs on water and got run over by an Exxon truck on his way to the patent office.

  12. Re:Wow... on More Schools Go To 4-Day Week To Cut Costs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They tried that with me. I had a chronic medical condition and was officially disabled and unable to attend school regularly. So even though I did all the homework and aced every test, I got failed in a clear violation with the law regarding disabled students. When I was 16, they told me that even if I had perfect attendance from then out, I would not graduate high school until I was 21. I was also not allowed to take a GED until I turned 18. We were not able to sue to allow me to graduate because they threatened to arrest everyone for truancy and child neglect.

    Your idea is fucking retarded.

  13. Re:Obvious on Using Tablets Becoming Popular Bathroom Activity · · Score: 0

    so lousy in fact, why bother?

    The ancient wisdom that "bad sex is still better than no sex" still holds true today, if one understands that "bad sex" is not the same as "batshit fucking loco crazy bitch sex partner".

    I spent 8 years with her. The relationship sucked, but believe me, the kink was almost worth it.

  14. Re:Laptops on Using Tablets Becoming Popular Bathroom Activity · · Score: 1

    Whats better is taking the bluetooth headset from your xbox or PS3 while you take a piss between games.

  15. Re:Dr Bob? on After Rick Perry's Stem Cell Treatment, Misplaced Enthusiasm? · · Score: 1

    He beat you by 5 minutes.

  16. Re:Rick Perry says... on World's Oldest Fossils Found On Australian Beach · · Score: 1

    How is Obama worse? He is a really good republican president. I can see why the liberals hate him.

  17. Re:Rick Perry says... on World's Oldest Fossils Found On Australian Beach · · Score: 1

    We can hope this is the end of the republican party. But I am not that optimistic. Even if it is, I doubt that it will result in a 1 party democrat system. There is division among the democrats between the conservatives and moderate progressives, that could form the basis of new and better parties.

  18. Re:Pointless on Chinese Researchers Propose Asteroid Deflection Mission · · Score: 1

    But paper covers rock. That is a much better proposition than sending a pair of scissors.

  19. Re:FTFY on DARPA To Sponsor R&D For Interstellar Travel · · Score: 1

    I owe the credit card company twelve thousand dollars. So why don't I skip buying insulin to keep myself alive and turn off my phone service even though I am expecting a call about a new job with a twelve thousand dollar signing bonus?

  20. Re:Slashdot is advertising thermal imaging cameras on How To Steal ATM PINs With a Thermal Camera · · Score: 1

    Google context sensitive advertising at work.

    They probably also advertise ski masks on stories about bank robbery.

  21. Re:Only as "free" as your ability to defend it on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1

    Laws prevent you boss from having you shot for daring to strike. Laws prevent your boss from deciding to arbitrarily pay you less than you agreed to work for.

    Libertarianism is about being able to fuck over and exploit everyone weaker than you.

  22. Re:Only as "free" as your ability to defend it on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How does libertarianism PREVENT a huge disparity in wealth? Its a god damn cause of it.

  23. Re:Only as "free" as your ability to defend it on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You can use an insider, just bribe someone to set off a bomb. In a purely libertarian society beyond the rule of law and with no weapons restrictions, it wouldn't even be illegal.

  24. Re:asking undefined amount of people to meet on Essex Police Arrest Man Over Blackberry Water Fight Plan · · Score: 1

    State organized propaganda spectacles of course.

  25. Re:Read related links on Cisco, US DOJ Fire Another Salvo At Peter Adekeye · · Score: 1

    I wasn't really considering extradition issues, which I probably should have considering the topic.