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  1. Re:32MB? on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    I was doing the same thing, but on a Univac 1108. As I recall it also had a 4K drum (not disc) for cache.

  2. Re:Rocketboard on Ask Slashdot: Whiteboard Substitutes For Distributed Teams? · · Score: 1

    In my own (quite extensive) experience working in distributed teams, you're almost never going to find the entire team using OS X; it's a near certainty that all OSs will be represented, so a single-platform solution is a non-starter, no matter how good it may be.

  3. Re:Why bother? on Mozilla Backtracks On Third-Party Cookie Blocking · · Score: 1

    Ghostery plugin is your friend here.

  4. Re:Nice! on EU Court Holds News Website Liable For Readers' Comments · · Score: 2

    down-voting bad comments and up-voting good ones.

    Oh how you made me laugh!

  5. WTF??? on US Forces Undertake Two African Raids, Capture Embassy Bombing Figure · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jesus Christ, what the fuck does this have to do with tech news? Newsfornerds??? You gotta be kidding!

  6. !newsfornerds on HHS-Run Website Hacked To Hawk Boots, Perfumes, and NFL Jerseys · · Score: 0
    At what point do we get past every cracked website being "news for nerds, stuff that matters"? It's not. It's either a criminal matter or it's a story of negligence or incompetence. This might have been a story in 1999, but today it certainly doesn't qualify as the slightest bit interesting in any technical way. Similarly, news about US government employees and websites,... it's not news for nerds. It may well be important to many /. readers who live in the USA. It might even have some significance as World News. But "stuff that matters" to technically-inclined people? Not so much. Post it to Reddit, then, but it doesn't belong here.

    *sigh* I guess I want my /. of 2005 back. Now get the hell off my lawn.

  7. Re:Would probably be found on Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux · · Score: 0

    As it should be.

  8. Re:A relevant link: on Facebook To Overhaul Data Use Policy · · Score: 1

    I made mention on /. that I disabled my account 4 years ago but it wasn't, I went through the motions but it claimed I could revive my account by logging in again. Someone replied to me how to really delete your facebook account. I logged in with my old info and there it was -my account I closed out ages ago; hopefully it's gone now.

    It would be useful if you would detail the steps you took to "really delete" your Facebook account. Others might benefit. ;)

  9. MOD PARENT UP on Report: By 2035, Nearly 100 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Be Sold Per Year · · Score: 1

    nmp for me

  10. Colour me confused: duplicate the S much?

    SUSA?
    USAS?
    USSA?

  11. Re:Postapocoliptic Nightmare on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1

    Much as I loathe Monsanto and all they do, I hate to have to inform you: Wheat is, under norm circumstances, a self-pollinating species.

  12. Re:It's still under investigation on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's not how it's spelt!...

  13. Roast on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1, Informative

    We all get to roast in the human-induced Global Climate Change that results form dumping all that C into the atmosphere. More realistically, we get to starve as our crops and farming methods fail to cope with the variability implied by climate change, aggravated by the terribly, dangerously narrow genetic diversity in agricultural varieties in use because we've allowed major corporations to "patent" and "exclusively license" the genestock that feeds us.

  14. Oblig /. on From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car' · · Score: 1

    My car doesn't have a computer, you insensitive clod.

  15. In a poll by Peak Oil For Climate Change... on 71 Percent of U.S. See Humans On Mars By 2033 · · Score: 0

    74% of respondents expected to see no humans on Earth by 2032.

  16. Bullshit Headline Again on Judge Invalidates 13 Motorola Patent Claims Against Microsoft · · Score: 5, Informative
    The patents were *not* invalidated.

    Some claims within the patents were invalidated.

    Go RTFA.

  17. Re:Correction please. on Man Fired For His Online Customer Service Game · · Score: 5, Funny

    From his twitter, he said he was fired ... but isn't able to talk more.

    140 characters. Didn't stand a chance.

  18. Who? on Steve Jobs Threatened Palm To Stop Poaching Employees · · Score: 2
    OK, so Apple threatened Palm... so why is there a Google logo on the front page???

    /. eds have completely jumped the shark.

  19. Re:The typical answer on Ask Slashdot: How To Collect Payments From a Multinational Company? · · Score: 1

    4b) Insurance companies are banks, too.

  20. Win 9? Seriously? on VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App · · Score: 0

    You really think there's ever going to be a Win 9? I think we're witnessing the early signs of MS nerve death. And it can't come soon enough!

  21. Re:Cost on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 1
    I am in my 50's, you insensitive clod!

    And not at all offended by nipples, nudity, whatever. But then I not a Merkin...

  22. Re:Does the food chain end with gators? on Google's Server Cooling Plan Produces 4ft Alligator · · Score: 1

    Don't know about Alligator, but Crocodile is delicious!

  23. Ob /. response on Microsoft Makes Skype Easier To Monitor · · Score: 1

    I am a grandfather, you insensitive clod! And I'd be happy to drop my POTS for something less 'controlled'.

  24. Re:No shit sherlock on Are Indian High Schoolers Manning Your IBM Help Desk? · · Score: 1

    You're missing the educated part. If the call centres were staffed by graduates of the US high-school system, you'd be stuck with all the lack of quality that implies. At least Indian high-schoolers graduate having received a decent level of actual education.

  25. Re:What about Non-Americans? (Legality) on Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email · · Score: 1

    Uhhh.. Gmail never, ever adverted iteself to be "private" iirc. I use gmail lots. I take it as read that the US spooks have all my emails regarding my bomb-building, personal messages from Allah, trips to San Diego, plans for shoe explosives, etc., etc.