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  1. Re:forget it on Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle · · Score: 5, Informative

    What you really want is a tablet PC running Linux if you are concerned about DRM. Any product where you don't have control over the operating system or environment will always be suspect to the whims of corporate lawyers.

  2. Re:Since when does McDonald's want 'sticky' custom on McDonalds Free Wi-Fi Users Soak Up Seating · · Score: 1

    what do you call a Quarter pounder in Chile?

    Yesterdays burrito.

  3. Re:That's just fiscally stupid. on Microsoft Raises $3.8B in Bond Sale · · Score: 1

    One highly educated idiot or 48 highly educated idiots - you still have that many idiots.

    For [citation needed], see recent global economic cluster fuck/meltdown.

  4. Re:define define define on A Look Back At the World's First Netbook · · Score: 1

    Definition of "Netbook": "Toy laptop" or "Toy notebook" - pick one.

  5. Re:Mine Mine on IBM "Invents" 40-Minute Meetings · · Score: 1

    The reason for 40 minute meetings is so that the other 20 minutes can be brain dead corporate advertising - just like 'hour' long TV shows!

  6. Re:twitterverse? on Apple Rumored To Want To Buy Twitter · · Score: 1

    Twitter Lexicon

    Person that uses Twitter: "Twit" or "Twat".

    Group of people that use Twitter: "Twits" or "Twats".

    Collective of 'tweets' posted via Twitter: "Twatter".

  7. Re:Not the programming on The Problem With Cable Is Television · · Score: 1

    When the one of the most popular is 'American Idiot', I mean, 'Idol', what does that say about modern society?

  8. Re:so lest get this straight on The In-House Decency Patrol At Facebook · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine that. I've also heard that there are people who get paid to MAKE porn!!

  9. Re:In Soviet Russia on No Russian Operating System, At Least For Now · · Score: 1

    Hate to break it to you, but "Soviet Russia" ceased to exist last century...

    Or is this simply a case of /.'rs beating a dead meme into the ground through to China?

  10. Wow! on Controversial Web "Framing" Makes a Comeback · · Score: 1

    Next they'll be telling us they're using HTML tables to do layout...

  11. Re:Google Ads on Disney-Hulu Deal Is Ominous For YouTube · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not enough ad revenue to offset the bandwidth charges?

    Ding! Ding! Ding! You've won the jackpot. Google subsides IdiotTube from other sources of ad revenue. Google's business model is 99% based on ad revenue. Once that dries up, they're fraked.

  12. Re:Print Link, The 25 in a list on Microchips That Shook the World · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They completely missed the 74XX series of chips. So much stuff was built with them back in the day...

  13. Re:I would just love to see... on Microsoft Releases Super-Secure XP to US Air Force · · Score: 1

    and finally, "Format C:"

  14. Re:What a bunch of Drivel.... on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    Wireless 802.11 is great when you have less than a handful of machines around the house within 50-100 ft of the access point. And less than a handful of access points around you. Wireless 802.11 is a really bad joke when you have tens of machines and tens of access points. Wireless is also a total joke speed-wise when you try to transfer large files between two wireless machines.

    In a business, or a corporate environment, wired is the way to go with a few access points for the whiny upper-managements types and their laptops/notebooks/netbooks.

  15. Re:Other News on Google Planning To Serve "High Quality News" Passively · · Score: 1

    Funded by advertising revenue. Never, ever forget that those of the 'Google is Great' cult.

  16. Re:Very useful on Elderly To Get Satellite Navigation To Find Their Way Around Supermarkets · · Score: 1

    Make fun of them now, but you ain't getting any younger - in other words, you will be "they" sooner or later...

  17. Re:Ummm.... on What Kind of Data Center Can You Build With $500M? · · Score: 1

    Invest the $500 million with Madoff for a year. At 1% per month, you'd have $60 million more the next year to build even a bigger data center!

  18. Re:A big one on What Kind of Data Center Can You Build With $500M? · · Score: 1

    Simply hand over $400 million to the chuckleheads at Google and keep $100 million for yourself.

  19. Re:So how much for AOL? on Time Warner To Spin Off AOL · · Score: 1

    I have a peso lying around here somewhere...

  20. Re:Synergies on Time Warner To Spin Off AOL · · Score: 1

    "monetize" it...

    ...on Twitter.

  21. Re:Didn't XP ship with 6? on IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nuke it from orbit

    Why? The chances of missing from orbit are much greater than anything else.

  22. Re:Wow. on Apple May Bring a Non-iPhone To Verizon Wireless · · Score: 1

    "A Non-iPhone"

    AKA "Jesus Phone".

  23. Definition of "no" on Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps · · Score: 1

    there are no monthly limits

    How long before Cablevision changes the definition of the word "no" as other providers have changed the definition of "unlimited" in the past?

  24. Re:Well... on Town Fights Cricket Plague With Led Zeppelin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "rap" 75% of the word "crap".

  25. Re:Difficult on Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic · · Score: 1

    "Twatter".