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  1. Re:Am I the only one here... on Comcast Customers Urged To Opt-Out of Settlement · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile in Sweden and Finland, people enjoy their 10Mbit or 100Mbit connections straight to their homes. And their monthly bill is cheaper than what you're paying, too.

    Sweden: 53.3 people/sq mi
    Wyoming: 5.4 people/sq mi

    Yeah, I can see the relevance of your statement.

  2. Re:I'm conflicted on Will Adobe Sue Apple Over Flash? · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't so much that the iPhone/iPad shouldn't be running Flash due to performance/battery limitations, it's that Apple changed the rules without telling Adobe.

    So it's nothing to do with Apple losing Store revenue from people watching TV/Films for free on tvlinks or wherever?

    With Apple pushing html5 as a wrapper to H.264 content, the answer to that is "no, it has nothing to do with Store revenue".

  3. Re:wrong spin on Google Preparing iPad Rival? · · Score: 1

    They'll trade twenty or thirty hours of work for an iPad, but not take that time off to spend with family.

    When has spending time with family made anyone happy? At best, its tolerable. At worse, it makes you unhappy.

    Hey, are you spending time with my family?!

  4. Re:I AM ANONYMOUS COWARD! on Groklaw Will Be Archived At Library of Congress · · Score: 1

    I AM SPARTACUS^wAnonymous Coward!

  5. Re:Little Nerdy, but hey THIS IS SLASHDOT. on Multimodal, Multitouch Gaming Gaining Traction · · Score: 2, Funny

    This IS Slashdot right, I mean here people try to get DOOM to run on ancient ATM hardware.

    Why would you run Doom on an old Sonet card?

  6. Re:RPGs/interaction games on Multimodal, Multitouch Gaming Gaining Traction · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about we give it a nice grahpical interface where I can see my character fighting alongside my friends? Ooh, and then give the monsters a little AI so that the GM has less work to do still?

    It would be pretty.... Well, all I can say is:

    WoW!

  7. Re:Satire (not troll) on iPad Progress Report · · Score: 1

    There was a gleam of it here and there, but on balance, it was just a little too close to 'accurate portrayal'.

  8. Re:Always-on lifestyle on Ubuntu One Gets iPhone App For Contact Sync · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with "socializing" or whatever you're rating about, it's syncing between your apps/devices.

    I think he just hates Facebook because his HS girlfriend wouldn't agree to be his friend there a decade later.

  9. Re:Beware the key term there: on Memory Management Technique Speeds Apps By 20% · · Score: 1

    Why limit yourself? With enough overhead from the memory management, you could get it to go some negative amount faster.

  10. Re:Context? on Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings · · Score: 1

    I work for CNN, and we're all back here in the newsroom jacking off to this video. As soon as my boss shoots his load, it's going on the air!

    You're putting the video of the military incident on the air, or your boss's load? Or maybe you'll do a split screen kinda thing? That'd be pretty cool.

  11. Re:Disregarding core competencies always ends badl on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 1

    Thanks you for posting this. I felt slightly dumber just as a result of reading the gp.

  12. Re:Listen to the police on Chicago Debates Merits of ShotSpotter Technology · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But don't take it out on *all* cops.

    The troublesome 99% of cops sure do make the rest look bad.

  13. Re:Help in TFA? on Songbird Drops Linux Support · · Score: 1

    That's your problem. You need to be cool enough to have a larger music collection. Just a little Apple tax for nerds that slipped in through the cracks.

    (Yeah, yeah, I've got around 9000 songs. couldn't care less how much ram it uses, especially since I'm at work.)

  14. Re:Better to warn everyone else. on Will Your Car Tell You To Put Down the Phone? · · Score: 1

    Might have taken a few days, but I'm glad there are a few people here with a slight touch of reading comprehension.

  15. Re:What about Flash games and other stuff? on Adobe Not Worried About the Future of Flash · · Score: 1

    I never had a problem with this one. Yes, you have to have an X server installed.

  16. Re:Better to warn everyone else. on Will Your Car Tell You To Put Down the Phone? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uhhhhh - will that clamp also grasp a labia? Or will that be a specially fitted option?

    Is this in lieu of or in addition to the chain to keep her attached to her stove?

  17. Re:Have they shown that hands-free devices help? on Will Your Car Tell You To Put Down the Phone? · · Score: 1

    I think we could interest a great many more people in scientific endeavours if we instituted a "three tries then blow it up" sort of system.

  18. Re:I've got chills on Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Accepts Razzie · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but are they . . muliplyin?

    Not only that, but I'm losin' control.

  19. Re:Force Their Hand on Opera Mini For iPhone Submitted To App Store Today · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And they'd sell about a dozen of them before the rest were remaindered through woot.com.

  20. Re:sounds risky on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    And Jon Lithgow.

  21. Re:This technology is very spooky on Quantum Film Might Replace CMOS Sensors · · Score: 1

    It's actually both until you watch it.

  22. Re:Just enough for on Verizon Set To Launch Mobile Payment Service · · Score: 1

    Even better: 25 $1 hookers...

  23. Re:Is PDF "user friendly"? on Bill Would Require Public Information To Be Online · · Score: 1

    So flipping the evil bit is a user configurable option?

  24. Re:Funny thing about "common-sense exceptions"... on Bill Would Require Public Information To Be Online · · Score: 1

    A mod point, a mod point, my kingdom for a mod point.

    Quite the convocation of pod people, the private schools are, transcended in oddity only by the home schooled. When is the last time someone with 'special needs' attended a private school?

  25. Re:Incontinence or Death on The State of Robotic Surgery · · Score: 4, Funny

    If we had two, I'd never get any typing done.