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  1. Re:If you're poor on The Cognitive Cost of Poverty · · Score: 1

    It's not the plural, but it is the antiderivative.

  2. Re:Notify Xerox First on Xerox Confirms To David Kriesel Number Mangling Occuring On Factory Settings · · Score: 2

    Soylent Green is people too!

  3. Re:TED talk explains how the OSS philosophy applie on Open Source Drug Discovery Prompts a Fundamental Heart Failure Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    The traditional way is append the word "herbal" onto anything to avoid having to disclose the contents.

  4. Re:What is the reason for this tax? on Massachusetts Enacts 6.25% Sales Tax On "Prewritten" Software Consulting · · Score: 1

    1. Declare laws to be software
    2. Problem reduces to an existing one
    3. Profit

  5. Re:Any moment on Biologists Program E. Coli To Patrol For Pathogens · · Score: 1

    I take it you've experienced Taco Bell firsthand.

  6. New Technology? on Apple Files Trademark For "iWatch" In Japan · · Score: 0

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy 1946 called, on their technology.

  7. Re:network ignorance on U.S. Army Block Access To The Guardian's Website Over NSA Leaks · · Score: 1

    How else do you have thought-crime if you don't allow the maintained "classified" nature of information that's public?

  8. Re:network ignorance on U.S. Army Block Access To The Guardian's Website Over NSA Leaks · · Score: 2

    And now if you ban the freedom of the press, only former employees can have freedom of the press.

  9. Re:Really on YouTube Removes Video of Reactions To Being Videoed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The solution is to purchase music videos of Prince and have them playing clearly visible by the police monitoring. It's illegal for them to make copies, and it's not illegal for you to display the content within your home... for now.

  10. Re:Misread negotiating position on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    Actually, if we now have a control group of the management without the union, we can now observe whether it's management's fault if/when there's another round of borrowing too much followed by another bankruptcy.

  11. Re:Yes, that'll work on Introducing the NSA-Proof Crypto-Font · · Score: 1

    But then the magical incoherence of TFA kicks in and deciphers any attempts at crypto on the fly.

  12. Re: Cease and Desist letter on Pro Bono Lawyer Fights C&D With Humor · · Score: 1

    I think this is the ideal case to reply using "mille sabords".

  13. Re:How about a friggin' HATE button? on Facebook's Complaint Process Is Arbitrary — But So Is Campaigning · · Score: 1

    After seeing that "like" crimes happen in the absence of a "hate" option, I'm left unconvinced.

  14. Re:factoid on Birthday Song's Copyright Leads To a Lawsuit For the Ages · · Score: 2

    The maintainers of Upton Sinclair's estate would like to have a few words with you.

  15. Re:Obligatory Quote on Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free · · Score: 1

    Which is why humans went extinct before the invention of arms.

  16. My two cents on XP's End Will Do More For PC Sales Than Win 8, Says HP Exec · · Score: 1

    The impending end of support for XP has done quite a bit for the small business I work for already. For most residential customers that still have a working XP era system, Linux Mint has been an easy transition. The difficulties have been few (support for older Brother and Lexmark printers, out of box suspend not working with some hardware configurations, multi-monitor support although improved still needs more work, lack of easy options for iTunes pruchasing/updates, and Netflix subscription). Things have looked better in each of the standard releases, but we're sticking with the Mint 13 (Maya) long-term service release for ease of support. I have introduced customers to some of the other options (Redhat, Ubuntu, and in a few cases ArtistX) but most customers have opted for Mint.

    With the nature of driver support, older, pre-Vista era, systems have required fewer tweaks (Broadcom firmware for wireless for one example, although searching in synaptic for b43 makes that easy enough to fix). Even learning when to use nomodeset or the various ACPI options for finicky hardware has been easy compared hunting for drivers when they either aren't present (I'm looking at you Lenovo and Toshiba) or haven't been updated since the machine stopped being under extended warranty (*cough* Dell *cough*), or the driver is listed under the wrong operating system more than a few times (HP/Compaq and Dell again).

    Reinstalling XP on 10 to 20 machines a month, I've gotten a glimpse of why the companies wouldn't want to put the time and effort propping it up any more. Much like Vista, XP still works fine until something requires you to reinstall (such as hard disk failure) or to move on (oh, you wanted to transfer your existing licensed software onto that brand new system? *snicker*). Transitioning from one version of a software program voluntarily makes for happier customers than if they find out there's a looming need to switch.

    I think XP will probably be fondly remembered as one of the better operating systems overall, but enough technology has continued to happen since it was released that it's time for some other contenders to enter the ring.

  17. Re:Leave my late pet hamster out of it! on Linus Torvalds Promises Profanity Over Linux 3.10-rc5 · · Score: 1

    Semprini

  18. Re:Wink? on Google Patents Frowns and Winks To Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    I'm a blind horse you insensitive clod.

  19. Re:Oracle is stupid... on Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where it's headed is Motorola, Intel, and the other processor manufacturers would have a field day asking Oracle for their API usage royalties.

  20. Re: It's easier to exploit. on Ask Slashdot: Is GNU/Linux Malware a Real Threat? · · Score: 1

    2003 is calling? Don't forget to warn them about Vista and Windows 8!

    They've had plenty of forewarning by 2003.

  21. Re:Paypal did him a favor on PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug · · Score: 1

    According to TFA the reason for denying him the payment wasn't in the fine print.

  22. Re:But it's java on Java Developer Says He Built, Launched Basic Open Source Office Suite In 30 Days · · Score: 2

    This sounds like an ideal case to use python, and possibly also the programming language.

  23. Re:More Coors is always better on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Offers 2,304 Cores For $650 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But then you have to drink something to forget you were drinking Coors.

  24. Re:Better yet.. on Hollywood Studios Use DMCA To Censor Pirate Bay Documentary · · Score: 2

    I wish I could issue a DMCA takedown notice on Phantom Menace.

    Admitting you have a problem is the first step, Mr. Lucas.

  25. Re:I can haz memes? on Warner Bros. Sued By Meme Creators Over Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    I look forward to seeing 4chan's for-profit commercial offerings.