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  1. Re:Availability and Supply controls on Are DVDs Inconvenient On Purpose? · · Score: 1

    +100. Article submitter is incredibly myopic and parochial.

  2. I find them much harder to discern on Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results · · Score: 1

    Have been caught several times by that damn firefox re-packager when searching for the mozilla firefox download. Their ad looks very similar to a legit search result and is at the top.

  3. Re:Interesting history and tech, but... on Bugatti 100P Rebuilt: The Plane That Could've Turned the Battle of Britain · · Score: 1

    Don't go introducing facts about WWII on an American forum, you know they won WWII all by themselves, leading the fight from the very beginning.

    There was no world war before Pearl Harbour.

    USA! USA!

  4. Re:Great to hear! on Portal 2 Beta Released For Linux · · Score: 1

    I feel your pain :) 19 hour download for me as well - Thanks Turnball! I was scheduled for fibre last year.

    The user generated maps seem to work well under linux. Overall the experience has been flawless, despite being a beta. It downloaded, it worked, simple as that. Well done Valve!

    This should keep me entertained for a while.

  5. Re:Great to hear! on Portal 2 Beta Released For Linux · · Score: 1

    Do you know if the custom maps/mods for Portal 2 work on linux? I had no luck with them for Portal 1.

  6. You can do exactly the same with Asterisk on Microsoft Lync Server Gathers Employee Data Just Like NSA · · Score: 1

    Full call details can be logged from a asterisk server. Its pretty much std features for any PABX. Complete non story.

  7. Re:Classiciations on Psychologists: Internet Trolls Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic · · Score: 1

    I was quite serious. Ideologues of all stripes tend to categorise disagreement as trolling.

  8. Classiciations on Psychologists: Internet Trolls Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic · · Score: 0

    Trouble is, way to many people classify trolls as "People who disagree with me".

    This is particularly prevalent on feminist boards.

  9. Re:DRM on Ask Slashdot: E-ink Reader For Academic Papers? · · Score: 1

    Swindle! so clever and witty! right up there with M$ and Microsucks.

  10. Can't see comments on beta on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    I haven't been able to see comments on beta for several days now, just get that javascript loading bouncing ball, then a purile little error message.

    "Shazbot! We ran into some trouble getting the comments.
    Try again... na-nu, na-nu!"

    NB: Can see the comments when there is only a few of them, such as "Bitcoin Plunges after Mt. Gox Exchange halts trades" which ony has 2 comments. Someone neglected to see if it scaled on slow overseas connections (Australia).

  11. Re:NZ - insecurity issues? on New Zealand Spy Agency Deleted Evidence About Its Illegal Spying On Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    Any kiwis care to comment?

    Yeah, kiwis, like Ozzies, pretend they are independent frontier types, but the reality is closer to parochial and authoritarian.

  12. Re:Flying to the moon might turn out to be easier. on Israeli Group To Attempt Moon Landing · · Score: 1

    > Which religion were you referring to?

    The one that advocates global jihad and a caliphate.

    It's like the Tea Party but with different hats.

    Keep drinking the koolaid and spouting that hasbara.

  13. When will Wayland contain this essential feature? on X11/X.Org Security In Bad Shape · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cue hord of posts demanding that Wayland must die as it can never replicate the mass security violations that X11 contains.

  14. Re:If you believe in evolution you support genocid on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    You're confusing evolution with eugenics.

  15. Re:Xmas bonus on Australian Dept. Store Chain's Website Crashes and Can't Get Back Up · · Score: 1

    Bwah! our bonus this year was myer gift cards (for a decent amount). We went into myers to spend it, didn't even consider the online sales.

  16. Re:Hard to believe on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 1

    I've heard of good results for pass through GPU with Xen for gaming, though haven't tried it myself.

    Don't think KVM is quiet there yet though.

  17. Re:"Average American was given nightly tutorials o on How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why? Is Europe's location somehow significant to average Americans?

    And there is the proof of the OP's implied statement

  18. Whatever on Gunman Opens Fire At LAX · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Another shooting in the USA ... yeah yeah whatever. I really don't care anymore. You guys shoot yourselves up and scream about the 2nd amendment to your hearts content, sure as the sun rises tommorrow there will be another shooting soon and you won't do shit to change it

    One thing for sure kiddies - it ain't news for nerds or stuff that matters, if it was, something constructive would be done. After all this time we have to conclude you idiots like it this way.

  19. Re:That is what you get... on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    Brain Fart! Yes Larnach Castle is in Dunedin (Where I went to University). I meant Edinburgh Castle.

  20. Re:That is what you get... on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    Interesting .... could easily see that happening, it can all be quite confusing at the scene. Years ago when I moved to Edinburgh, Scotland I got lost in the streets and ended up driving up the Royal Mile into Larnach Castle. Got politely but firmly redirected by a pair of squaddies with machine guns. That could have gone pear shaped if I'd been distressed /paranoid and the soldiers trigger happy.

  21. Re:Don't worry on Poor US Infrastructure Threatens the Cloud · · Score: 1

    The FTTN they are promising won't fly - the copper network is just not up to VDSL except in limited areas. If they do proceed with it, it will be a disaster.

  22. Don't worry on Poor US Infrastructure Threatens the Cloud · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here in Australia we just elected in a right wing government, they are intent on fucking up our Broadband network as well to protect entrenched interests such as Murdock and Foxtel, so you're not alone.

  23. Re:obligatory on The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a job for Nortons.

  24. No backups on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And all the corporate client data gone ...

  25. Re:A tie? on Java API and Microsoft's .NET API: a Comparison · · Score: 1

    Easy. Mono + Apache. Have done it with our vertical market product.