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  1. Re:What an idiot. on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 5, Funny

    He will learn what we all have learned: opting out doesn't work.

  2. Re:Answer your own question, Slashdot! on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    Well, that sucks.

  3. Re:Answer your own question, Slashdot! on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    That's what I tell your mom.

  4. Nothing New on Swarm Mobile's Offer: Free Wi-Fi In Exchange For Some Privacy · · Score: 1

    Whenever I connect to a free wifi hot spot at a major retailer, I do so fully accepting that they are sniffing the traffic. This is why I only use it to price check online. Let's them know that their customers are keeping track of them in that way.

  5. Beg to Differ on Copyright Takedown Requests to Google Doubled In 2013 · · Score: 2

    without recourse, naturally, since only lawyers are people nowadays

    My experience with lawyers has really been contrary to this statement.

  6. Brown chicken, brown cow on Research Suggests One To Three Men Fathered Most Western Europeans · · Score: 1

    Seriously, that's all that they had, so procreation was the only entertainment.

  7. Too Bad on New Windows XP Zero-Day Under Attack · · Score: 2, Funny

    Too bad Windows XP won't be supported much longer. Once that happens, it would be a...shame if something were to happen to that PC. If you upgrade to Windows 8, Microsoft will surely protect you.

  8. Torn on Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache · · Score: 2

    I don't want Snowden captured, but I do want to see this cache very, very badly.

  9. Re:Not the only state with this law on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    Shut up and take my civil liberties!

  10. Re:As a Safari User... on Google to Pay $17 Million to Settle Privacy Case · · Score: 1

    ...or 200,000 boxes of cookies for the homeless.

  11. Re:USA and Belize have an extradition treaty on One Year Since John McAfee Fled Belize · · Score: 5, Funny

    They probably got a false positive on McAfee. Not the first time.

  12. 1981 All Over Again on Cadillac Unveils Pricier Alternative To Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    When GM came out with their first diesel car engine back in 1980-81, they basically took a gas V8 and did some minor tweaking to create the 1981 Old Toronado diesel. This car is widely considered to be one of the 10 worst in automotive history.

    This reminds me of that.

  13. Pause Before Pitchforks and Torches on Underwater Sonar Linked To Whale Deaths · · Score: 1

    Before anyone declares that we need to boycott the local Exxon / Mobil gas stations, let's remember that they usually are not owned by Exxon / Mobil and get their gasoline from the same source as the competition down the street.

  14. Re:where are these tight ones? on NVIDIA Begins Releasing Documentation For Nouveau · · Score: 3, Funny

    The sensitive women are who you are looking for, for what should be apparent reasons.

  15. Re:Some people... on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 1

    No kidding. I'd love to bury a crowbar into the soft gray matter of that nonsense. Do it over and over and over again, and then defile the corpse.

  16. Not Needed on Big Jump For Tablet Storage: Seagate Intros 5mm Hard Disk For Tablets · · Score: 1

    Seems like Seagate is merely trying to breathe some last breaths into a dying technology. I cannot fathom the need to have a half gig of storage on a smart phone at this point in the technology, and when it does potentially become necessary flash memory will still be the better option.

  17. Re:Asking them nicely will stop help? on Time For X-No-Wiretap HTTP Header? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Somewhere along the line you were given the incorrect information that the US House and Senate have complete oversight of NSA, when in reality it's more accurately the other way around.

  18. Re:Thank you Edward Snowden on NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry · · Score: 5, Informative

    You're in luck! By posting to the thread after moderating it, you get your mod point back!

  19. Open Source Android on NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are there any projects within the Android realm that can combat this? Given the open nature of the OS, it'd be nice if we could somehow adequately firewall such things.

  20. Borrowing Technology on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the gunshot triangulation technology from the earlier rhinophant poacher story can be used here as well.

  21. Oh Dear on First Asteroid Discovered At Uranus's Leading Trojan Point · · Score: 5, Funny

    That headline caused the heads of many a troll to explode.

  22. Old News on Public Facial Recognition Is Making Gains In Surveillance · · Score: 3, Funny

    CTU showed this technology like two years ago. Even works on vending machine reflections.

  23. Maybe Someday on Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years · · Score: 2

    I'd like to believe that someday we will get to a more enlightened part of our evolution and realize that Bradley Manning's actions were the start of a more transparent government, and that the Internet took on the role of government overseer that the media long ago surrendered to the very same government. Maybe then he will be released, pardoned, and seen as the hero that he is.

  24. Re:Bush on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Changing the puppet doesn't not necessarily change the puppeteer.

  25. Handhelds on Software Development Employment Rises 45% In 10 Years · · Score: 2

    I would venture to guess that without the smart phone market taking off the way it has, that we wouldn't see as good of recovery in the software development sector. Thank goodness something came along. Oh, and here's the full article on one page.