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  1. Re:Banned from Google? on France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets · · Score: 1

    So, why does Google have a news section? What's in it for them?

    Loss leader driving traffic to general search pages.

  2. Re:Coulnd't add to it if you wanted to on Wikipedia Is Nearing "Completion" · · Score: 1

    The real irony is that gmhowell's a troll with several different registered user accounts on slashdot.

    Name three.

  3. Re:Word on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 5, Funny

    i code with a battery, a resistor and hit the cpu pins with it

    Still haven't mastered butterflies, n00bz?

  4. Re:So we have to choose? on CodeWeavers Announces Flock the Vote Software Giveaway · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yes, an OS that can only be used with overpriced hardware, made by the largest company in the world, is clearly socialist.

    Limousine liberals are not a new invention.

  5. Re: loss of focus on Dragon Capsule Heads Home From ISS · · Score: 1

    Hey look, they did an article about you today.

  6. Re: loss of focus on Dragon Capsule Heads Home From ISS · · Score: 1

    At this point, it would be completely irresponsible to put fertile men and women on a long-term trip. Chances are the woman and her baby would die.

    Any chance we could put (say) one man and twenty or so fertile, attractive women on a long-term trip? If so, where do I sign?

    You have to prove you are more worthy than the president, Dr. Strangelove, and Buck Turgidson for the honor.

  7. Re:Probability and magnitude are both relevant on Paintball Pellets As a Tool To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Things that happen after I die aren't important. I don't know why people keep railing on about this "environment" nonsense either, somebody wasted my time with his "endangered species" prattle just this morning - I could eat nothing but Ethiopian wolf every day for the rest of my life. That's not a shortage.

    Millions of years have ensured that the surviving genes are the ones that do things to ensure the survival of their offspring.

    You, sir, are an evolutionary dead end, so I guess the problem takes care of itself.

    Given his preference for young boys in the Dominican Republic, I'd say you hit the nail on the head.

  8. Re:Called it on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 1

    The next apology will hopefully run something like "The persons responsible for the previous apology have been sacked."
    Also, a moose once bit my sister.

    Is she ok? M00se bites can be very nasty, you know?

  9. Re:Um... on Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung · · Score: 1

    Ran afoul of CPS and have proof of incompetence and/or corruption by courts? Lemme guess, you're a father?

    I also notice mister "I have lots of lawyers in my family" hasn't yet replied...

  10. Re:Coulnd't add to it if you wanted to on Wikipedia Is Nearing "Completion" · · Score: 1

    Create an account?

    Oh irony.

  11. Re:Violations of Wikipedia:Ownership on Wikipedia Is Nearing "Completion" · · Score: 1

    I would sooner consider drilling my brain out with a power drill.

    There's some relevant info here.

  12. Re:Need to seperate off-label from non-prescribed on Is Non-Prescription ADHD Medication Use Ever Ethical? · · Score: 1

    Read some of his comments in his journals. Despite generally being left wing, he goes absolutely batshit, any government action is ok if it supports the war on drugs.

  13. Re:Power users are the worst user on Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    That's a quality Ttuesday comment if ever I saw one. Kudos sir.

  14. Re:3 year olds don't do that much. on Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    You're nothing unless you were shitting your pants daily up until a few weeks ago.

    cheers,

    Some people think Reagan was the greatest president the US has ever had, despite having Alzheimer's while in office.

  15. Re:Why choose to be unhappy? on What To Do With Those First Generation Photo Frames? · · Score: 1

    I don't have anything with the pentalobe screws. Last time I looked was shortly after they came out when the drivers weren't well sorted out. I'm sure it's different today.

    FWIW, I didn't link to iFixit as an example of 'non-repairability' but exactly the opposite.

  16. Re:Why choose to be unhappy? on What To Do With Those First Generation Photo Frames? · · Score: 2

    I thought this was Slashdot. This should be the home of people hacking devices and breathing new life into them.

    ... Sorry, not since 2004 and the release of the ipod mini. Here, we praise the almighty apple, and their policies of less-than-user-repairable designs.

    Looks like you need to get a better Rx on your bifocals or perhaps a stronger magnifier (not an affiliate link). Plenty of instructions and parts here and elsewhere for 'less-than-user-repairable' designs. Let me guess, you think you can't change the oil on a modern car, either?

    I've delved into a couple of iPods and my brother has repair at least three iPhones. No tougher than replacing bits on a modern laptop, and only slightly more involved than replacing bits in a modern tower PC. Had you mentioned the glued in batteries on the MacBook Air or the pentalobe screws, maybe you would have had a point, but 2004 iPod mini? That's a stretch.

  17. Re:24th Century on Huston Huddleston Wants You To Help Save the Star Trek TNG Set · · Score: 1

    That makes you a cat and means we should ignore you just on general principles.

    Ignore pussy? Dude, most of us aren't gay.

    Not that kind of cat. More like this one.

  18. Re:24th Century on Huston Huddleston Wants You To Help Save the Star Trek TNG Set · · Score: 1

    You're slipping. There are at least a few of my posts you haven't wasted time replying to.

  19. Re:The economy matters now? on How Patent Trolls Harm the Economy · · Score: 1

    A) Anecdotes are not evidence
    B) Sounds like one of many TX problems.

  20. Re:tumour due to mobile phone usage on Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link · · Score: 1

    Yet another name by the water-industrial complex to cover up the danger of hydrogen hydroxide. I'm pretty sure the hydrogen is related to that found in nuclear weapons, but the man will never let you know that.

  21. Re:The smartphone & tablet bubble on Salesforce.com's Benioff Disses Windows 8, Oracle · · Score: 1

    There are many financial tools that will let you back up your rhetoric with cold, hard cash. I am curious about which one(s) you are taking advantage of in light of your contrarian views of the market.

  22. Re:24th Century on Huston Huddleston Wants You To Help Save the Star Trek TNG Set · · Score: 1

    I wore Orion on my belt, which will be the style at the time.

    That makes you a cat and means we should ignore you just on general principles.

  23. Re:The economy matters now? on How Patent Trolls Harm the Economy · · Score: 1

    Malpractice lawsuit trolls raise the cost of health care, which is bad for the economy.

    Keep repeating it, maybe it'll turn true someday. While you wait for that day to come, read about how the state with the harshest anti-tort rules still has expensive healthcare (in McAllen, TX, healthcare spending per capita was higher than income per capita at the time of the article).

    tl;dr: When a doctor says "I have to run these tests or else I'll be sued if I miss something!" what they really mean is "I get $50 for each test I order. Ka-CHING!!" Yeah, Texas's doctors' malpractice insurance premiums went way down. What did they do with the savings? They bought X-Ray machines and other testing equipment so they could run MORE tests.

    Haven't read the article you linked to (relax, it's in another tab, and I'll get to it in a moment) but if that is the takeaway, it's hardly worth the effort. An internist ordering a $50 test doesn't get the money for the test. He also doesn't buy X-Ray machines. There's more, but I'll save the balance for after a read of the New Yorker article.

  24. Re:finalise? on Below-Expected Earnings For Google Posted Early, Trading Halted · · Score: 1

    Don't even try... I'm a German, I just thought it would be fun to 'take the piss' out of you guys

    You Germanians and your scat porn...

  25. Re:What are we really talking about here? on Reiser4 File System Still In Development · · Score: 1

    Meds wearing off early this month?