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  1. Re:Everyone loves watching a car crashes on SEC Calls For Review of Facebook IPO · · Score: 2

    Zuckerman testifiying in front of the house banking committee will be fun.

    Wonder if he'll wear a suit, or 'keep it real' in his hoodie and sneaks?

  2. Re:Everyone loves watching a car crashes on SEC Calls For Review of Facebook IPO · · Score: 1

    But it's always bad when someone gets hurt.

    . . . it depends on who is in the car . . .

    My ex-wife and her lawyer? Pass the popcorn!!

    /aol

  3. Re:When Zuckie himself is selling shares on SEC Calls For Review of Facebook IPO · · Score: 1, Troll

    It seems that neither you nor the other posters get it. Or have had a girlfriend or spouse. He just got married. You have any idea how much it costs to keep them around?

    And if you really want your mind blown, wait till you see how much a divorce costs. OTOH, whereas an overpriced wedding ceremony is overpriced, a divorce is worth every penny.

  4. Re:Ballot Box, Soap Box, Ammo Box on DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years · · Score: 1

    .... What?

    Red Dawn reference, junior. Get off my lawn.

  5. Re: Apple's closed system on Researchers 'Map' Android Malware Genome · · Score: 1

    unmod

    That works better when you don't post AC.

    I haven't tested it, but I've read reports that while you do not get the warning if you post AC to a discussion in which you have posted, it will still remove said moderations.

  6. Re:Steeling an old Jobs line. on Another Raspberry Pi? $49 ARM Single-Board Computer With Android · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a re-appropriation of Gloria Steinham's 1979 quote: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"?

    The irony that that old cow never figured out is a bicycle doesn't need a fish either.

  7. Re:Worse? on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 2

    Unopened beer? You tree huggers come up with some insane ideas.

  8. Re:His ex-wife got the planet on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Successfully Reaches Orbit · · Score: 1

    I would be happy to leave the planet if it meant I never had to deal with my ex-wife again.

  9. Re:Ballot Box, Soap Box, Ammo Box on DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years · · Score: 1

    Wolverines!

  10. Re:The BSA should sue the BSA on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    So in other words we should have the Boy Scouts go all WWF on the BSA?

    The real BSA would have to shoot those little kids. Then ride away on motorcycles.

    The real BSA is a motorcycle.

    Replied to wrong comment, didn't read my comment, or didn't read the link?

  11. Re:The BSA should sue the BSA on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 2

    So in other words we should have the Boy Scouts go all WWF on the BSA?

    The real BSA would have to shoot those little kids. Then ride away on motorcycles.

  12. Re:Public domain? on Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright · · Score: 1

    And you have confused your comment with wit. Care to add anything to the conversation, or did you just forget to tick the 'Post Anonymously' box?

  13. Re:The Supremely Stupid Court on SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal · · Score: 1

    Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) has a number of very important cases either just finished or in the pipeline regarding RKBA.

  14. Re:You know when a law is too strong when... on Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright · · Score: 1

    Plus they would open themselves up to a retaliatory lawsuit for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

  15. Re:A week? on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    And given how crazy Nick Stahl has been of late, I don't forsee us finding out what happened between him and Sophie.

  16. Re:It's stupid to compare to Facebook's profit on Facebook IPO Stumbles Out of the Gate · · Score: 1

    I've been calling him Zuckersperg, although that might be offensive to my friend who are Asspie's...

  17. Re:You know when a law is too strong when... on Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but these are works that have no commercial value.

    Gigli has no commercial value. It wouldn't prevent the MPAA from suing for a copyright violation.

  18. Re:Public domain? on Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright · · Score: 1

    While one could use that logic, a Copyright issue is by definition a civil issue. I'm not sure how a government could bring a civil case against a citizen.

    Happens all the time. Ever get a speeding ticket?

  19. Why is this appropriate? on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why is this appropriate for Slashdot, for the math, or for the obesity?

  20. Re:Too bad, really on Mac Clone Maker Saga Ends As SCOTUS Denies Appeal · · Score: 1

    So wait, it's "shifty and illegal" for them to take code from open source projects and pass it off as their own without attribution in violation of those licences, but it's somehow ok for them to ignore Apple's software licence?

    The logic is "fuck Apple! Steve Jobs touched me in a private place and I've never forgiven him. At least I think that's what happened."

  21. Re:OS X R&D paid for in TWO ways... on Mac Clone Maker Saga Ends As SCOTUS Denies Appeal · · Score: 2

    Apple trusted people and got burned. How often have we heard "if companies would get rid of serial numbers, phoning home, blah, blah, blah and offer software at a reasonable price, we'd buy it"? Well, Apple did all of that, and people still want to find a way to fuck over Apple. For all the erstwhile nerds around here, they never seem to understand TANSTAAFL.

  22. Re:Not related on Mac Clone Maker Saga Ends As SCOTUS Denies Appeal · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Same as a book. You can do what you like with the book but merely owning the book doesn't give you the right to copy it. Making a photocopy of the entire book without the permission of the copyright holder is illegal.

    Even better: just like GPL software. When I buy a copy of the source code, I can do whatever I want with it, including modify and redistribute with no strings attached. If it's ok to piecemeal ignore Apple's license, I can piecemeal ignore the FSF's, right? (I'd post directly to jedediah, but frankly, I'm not in the mood for his BS tonight)

  23. Re:Already being done on Photographers, You're Being Replaced By Software · · Score: 1

    Already being done, I know from friends of mine who work in IKEA PR-department that they have been constructing scenes in 3D modelling software instead of photographing for at least 3 years already.

    That's only because nobody could figure out how to put the real furniture together to actually take a picture of it.

  24. Re:Take that Ayn Rand lovers! on An 8,000 Ton Giant Made the Jet Age Possible · · Score: 1

    You're misapplying Ayn Rand's lesson.

    She started it.

  25. Re:FTFA: More military spending on An 8,000 Ton Giant Made the Jet Age Possible · · Score: 1

    I'm not a big fan of dumping more money into our science budgets when young women can't get free contraception.

    Just say no or buy a rubber. There problem solved. Pass the ammo. (And here come the dipshits with the corner cases that these two solutions don't solve)