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  1. Re:most transparent administration ever on The Cloud: Convenient Until a Stranger Nukes Your Files · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's some real transparency for you.

  2. Re:Opt Out! on Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising · · Score: 1

    Bell are a monopoly in all the small markets. You only have other options if you live in Montreal, Québec city, etc.

  3. Re:Then users will switch to their competitors... on Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising · · Score: 2

    for now. Smartphone users are being used as beta-testers.

  4. Re:Why is iPad so much better than iPhone? on Apple Announces iPad Air · · Score: 1

    The S model is just a spec bump?

  5. Re:Incompetent Press on Apple Announces iPad Air · · Score: 1

    This has to be the most on-topic, relevant and yet funny post about 64-bit processors.

  6. Re:Why is iPad so much better than iPhone? on Apple Announces iPad Air · · Score: 1

    The new iPad mini retina will have the same 2048x1536 pixels in a 7.9" display.

  7. Re:Why is iPad so much better than iPhone? on Apple Announces iPad Air · · Score: 3, Informative

    Backward compatibility with what, exactly? Do you expect iOS to run Windows software?

    Keyboards? You can use a bluetooth keyboard with any current iOS device and a lot of previous generations too.

    Behind the curve? Only a small percentage of Android phones and tablets are using cutting-edge technology for both hardware and software. It doesn't matter if there's 10 times more Android hardware if 90% of it is brand new yet low-end stuff that cannot even run the latest software.

  8. Texas means oil on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is that how free market is supposed to work? Corrupted government?

  9. Re:Ballooning as space launch vehicle on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    And I'm curious if this idea was ever researched and what were be the reasons for rejecting it?

  10. Re:30Km isn't space on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    I have a better definition: if somebody can hear you scream, it's not space.

  11. Not as important as decades ago on Scientists Induce New Hair Growth In Balding Men · · Score: 1

    Patrick Stewart, Bruce Willis and all the other bald or shaved head actors - Thank you.

  12. Re:Idiocracy on Scientists Induce New Hair Growth In Balding Men · · Score: 1

    Actors and directors don't work in the science field, making movies does not reduce the number of scientific researches.

  13. Of course on Connecting To Unsecured Bluetooth Car Systems To Monitor Traffic Flow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    County officials note that they are stripping out part of the MAC (of course they will), and the system is intentionally designed not to be useful for law enforcement to locate specific devices (of course it won't).

  14. Re:go ahead.... on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 1

    It's choice, Jim, but not as we know it.

  15. Re:It's all just a show on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh yeah, "just in case". Never mind the fact that we Canadians had robotic moose and beavers for the last 150 years and we've been using them to spy on you since the late 1200's.

  16. Re:Mod question... on Are Cable Subscribers Subsidizing Internet-Only TV Viewers? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wernstrom!

  17. Re:Mod question... on Are Cable Subscribers Subsidizing Internet-Only TV Viewers? · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's why I wear a Diamondium hat.

  18. Re:Estimation on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 1

    Real nerds use the "Scotty Principle".

  19. Re:Estimation on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 2

    "Real assembly programmers hear shift-left when you say shift-left."

    I don't get it.

  20. Taking showers.

  21. Re:I used to be a Scientologist on Scientology's Fraud Conviction Upheld In France · · Score: 0

    but then I took an arrow to the knee.

  22. Re:11 parts sugar, 89 parts lard on No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine · · Score: 1

    See reply from rubycodez, above.

  23. Grindfest on Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you think World of Warcraft is a grindfest you obviously never played Final Fantasy XI.

  24. Re:Mom sez... on No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the laugh.

  25. Re:11 parts sugar, 89 parts lard on No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It cannot be lard as Oreo cookies are one of the very rare commercially-made treat that also happens to be vegan except maybe the white sugar in it, if you're an extreme vegan.