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  1. Re:Shift+Delete on Ask Slashdot: Is the Recycle Bin a Good GUI Metaphor? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. i haven't used the recycle bin at all this decade.
    Shift+Delete and im done.

  2. Re:This is hilarious on Perelman Urged To Accept $1m Prize · · Score: 1

    Why does he have to take the money in order for it to be given to charity? If he doesn't want it why can't the Clay Mathematics Institute just donate it directly to charity?

  3. private ownership of Cars on MIT Tracking Campus Net Connections Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    is something that impinges on my freedom. in the form of assholes driving around implements of death on my streets.

  4. Re:capabiliy on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 1

    We've known this for a while now...

  5. Please Stop on Blizzard Shows Off Diablo III Archivist Class, WoW Dance-Off · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Enough already. Its April Fools Day, we get it, you can stop now.

  6. Re:FOOL on Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability · · Score: 1

    ...and another.

  7. Re:NYCL on Music-Swapping Sites To Be Blocked By Irish ISPs · · Score: 1

    *blushing furiously* (at being caught not RTFA)

    ...or the title.

  8. Re:FWIW... on Ricardo Montalban Dead At 88 · · Score: 1

    You're both wrong. It was "soft Corinthian leather"

  9. Re:oblig. on Hikers May Have Found Fossett Items · · Score: 1

    *face-palm*

  10. Re:I understand running away from prison... but on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Usually, people don't care too much about people they don't know.

    I think your base assumption is flawed. If this was true then the Red Cross wouldn't exist, neither would other charitable organizations that receive money from everyday people and disperse it to others in need. If people didn't care too much then they wouldn't give too much. But the fact of the matter is that the people of this world care very much about the well being of others. I'm sorry that you don't, but I think I'm speaking for the majority of people when I say that I do.

    If people usually cared about people they don't know, there would be no need for the Red Cross and other charitable organizations to exist in the first place.

  11. Re:The Obvious on What Shall We Do With the Moon Once We Get There? · · Score: 1

    Actually, you don't need a laser to turn the moon into a weapons platform; a mass driver (or anything other capable of shooting things down to Earth on a high velocity) would be enough, since the kinetic energy of the impact is more than sufficient to destroy a lot of things. Orbital bombardment should be pretty effective, since it's WAY harder to defend yourself against those than against ICBMs. Also, with the upcoming new forms of warfare involving satellites, the moon will possibly become pretty effective against them as well, although I don't know if it isn't more cost effective to just shoot up anti-satellite-missiles.

    Laser beams and sharks together are still awesome, though. "...we'll throw rocks at them"
  12. Re:English grass on French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 1

    You surely know that tofu burgers at fast food resturants are about as common as new cars sold without engines. And please don't tell me that I'm wrong just because your notions of what the free market should provide don't match the reality of what the free market does provide.
    So Again, why shouldn't I sue McDonalds after I get a Big Mac and find its been installed with meat instead of tofu?

  13. Re:English grass on French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 1

    So in France people HAVE to buy computers only from Asus?? Why didn't this guy just buy a computer from somewhere else if he didn't want MS crapware preinstalled and Asus wouldn't/couldn't meet his demands?
    Can I sue McDonalds for not selling me a tofu Big Mac?

  14. Re:Worst. Name. Ever. on David Pogue Gushes Over the Chumby · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rule 37: There are no girls on the internet....ever .

    perhaps you mean Rule 34?
    Rule 34: If it exists there is porn of it. No exceptions.

  15. Get the RIAA involved... on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1

    If they download the entire contents of a laptop and said laptop is full of MP3s, wouldn't they be guilty of pirating RIAA material?

  16. Re:Absolutely not. on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    Can you agree that your thoughts are the most real thing in this universe? More real? Are you serious? There aren't degrees of reality. Its an 'either or' situation: something is real or it is not real, there is no in between.
  17. Re:Please explain on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    (1) If you make divine attribution to your material, you de facto cede the copyright to it, because you've admitted you are not the actual author. Without a legal document signed by God, you just don't have any grounds to restrict it. What does God need with a starship...err, I mean copyright?
  18. Re:More pro-piracy bullshit on Florida Judge Smacks Down RIAA · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why does a deaf guy need headphones?

  19. off topic on Dan Geer On Trusting PCs In Botnets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    mod me off topic if you must, but I for one just cant bring myself to ever trust someone with muttonchops like that.

  20. Re:No problem on UK Police Cracking Down on Broadband Theft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I take your bike, I am denying you the use of your bike for however long I have it.
    That isnt the case with wireless access.
    Whoever came up with the water fountain analogy above was right on the money.

  21. Virtual games... on MMORPG Used to Model Real World Disease · · Score: 1

    ... as opposed to 'real' games?

  22. Re:Media believes it is above the law ... on Dateline NBC Mole Outed At DefCon · · Score: 1

    ...Guglielmo Marconi, the guy who invented wireless radio...

    Let the Marconi/Tesla flame war begin!!
  23. ummmm... on Using Face Recognition Instead of a PIN Number · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...what about twins?

  24. Re:Don't fear the email on Kids Say Email is Dead · · Score: 1

    I need more cowbell baby!

  25. Re:Existence does not imply functionality. on NASA Backs Quantum Computing Claim · · Score: 1

    Thats the beauty of a quantum chip! You can't observe it working or you effect the results.