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  1. Re:Georgia on To Fight Currency Mismatches, Steam Adding Region Locking to PC Games · · Score: 1

    Name? No. Recognise as a country? Yes.

  2. EEE on What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? · · Score: 0, Troll

    What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve?

    To extend and extinguish, of course.

  3. Re:Energy Efficiency? on Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud · · Score: 1

    incentives choosing inefficient hardware.

    The hardware choice is down to the company, not the person getting the benefit from the heat.

  4. Re:This isn't scaremongering. on Scotland's Independence Vote Could Shake Up Industry · · Score: 2

    If they vote yes it'll be Venezuela on the Clyde. I can't wait.

  5. Re:This isn't scaremongering. on Scotland's Independence Vote Could Shake Up Industry · · Score: 1

    with lots of self-government combined with a net financial income from the rest of the UK

    Which is why, as an Englishman, I sincerely hope that Scotland votes yes.

  6. Daily lethal doses on Long-Lasting Enzyme Chews Up Cocaine · · Score: 2

    Daily lethal doses? What a way to go...

  7. Re:Opera on Opera Releases a New Version For Linux · · Score: 1

    Are you me? Because I could have written exactly the same thing. I was also there from 4.x, it's one of the few bits of software I ever paid for as a penniless uni student. So disappointing to be abandoned like that.

  8. Re:Mod parent up. on Opera Releases a New Version For Linux · · Score: 1

    You should see what they've done to the mobile version of Opera. I'm still bitter about the whole thing.

  9. KSP ARM on 3 Former Astronauts: Earth-Asteroid Collisions Are a Real But Preventable Danger · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No need to worry, we're busy training up the populace with the Asteroid patch to Kerbal Space Program.

  10. Re:Private sector and efficiency. on Why the IETF Isn't Working · · Score: 1

    Yes, we've known this since Adam Smith and yet somehow it still works better than any other system tried. What's your point?

  11. Warez on Why the IETF Isn't Working · · Score: 1

    If you think the IETF is bad, you should look at the pace of change of warez standards. They're only reluctantly abandoning 8.3 filenames.

  12. Re:Here's What Will Happen on Engine Data Reveals That Flight 370 Flew On For Hours After It "Disappeared" · · Score: 1

    All subsequent critical thinking is conspiracy nut batshit tinfoil hat wearing wacko pluck-your-banjo-with-your-single-tooth teabagger loony.

    Maybe if that wasn't actually the case, the "critical thinkers" would get a bit more respect.

  13. Embedded player on Getty Images Makes 35 Million Images Free For Non-Commercial Use · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Getty Images will serve the image in an embedded player

    Yuck...

  14. Re:Exposure .... on How Japanese Scientists Are Monitoring Fukushima Babies For Radiation Exposure · · Score: 0

    Your optimism is a triumph, it really is.

  15. Re:Cometh on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    "of course"... fucking autocorrect.

  16. Re:Cometh on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    No, it's "what's grey and comes in buckets." The answer, of cause, being "Ron Jeremy".

  17. Cometh on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Mammoth Cometh

    I'll get the mop.

  18. Lucky on Using Google Maps To Intercept FBI and Secret Service Calls · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's one lucky bastard to get away with that. A less forgiving agent would have had him in custody for months, "just in case".

  19. Re:This Hotel in Belgium Is Shaped Like a Giant An on Belgian Barrels Reveal History of Human Gut Microbes · · Score: 0

    Sufficient fibre in the diet and a regular, open minded sexual partner.

  20. Re:Take pictures, press charges. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Assuming your device survives the experience.

  21. Misread on Meet the Developers Who Want To Build the Next Snapchat · · Score: 1

    I misread the first sentence as "Our lives online come with penis", which given that they're talking about snapchat would have made more sense.

  22. Re:finally on Another Possible Voynich Breakthrough · · Score: 2

    I can't even think of any other comparison similar to this.

    How about Piltdown Man?

  23. Re:World of Tanks anyone? on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    Yep, I love WoT. I've got nine tier X and I'm saving up credits for number 10 while it's on special.

  24. CN on IBM Employees Caught Editing Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Funny

    "(if less entertaining)" [citation needed]

  25. Re:Umm, guys... on Para Bellum Labs Will Attempt To Make the RNC a Political-Analytics Player · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Ante bellum" was just a bit too obvious so they went with something a bit obfuscated.