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  1. Re:No one at Apple listens to that Steve anymore on Wozniak Calls For Open Apple · · Score: 1

    The older people who were paying attention to the personal computer revolution remember the Woz. But you're right, 30 years will tend to obscure lesser figures/events. There was even a time when /. loved Apple, believe it or not. Time passes, things change.

  2. Great step forward! on UK To Give Peer-Reviewed Science Libel Protection · · Score: 1

    There will probably be some wrinkles that will need to be ironed out down the road, but at least it should prevent things like the silliness that enveloped the whole chiropractor incident from a few years ago. Hopefully.

  3. Re:National Science Tests on Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pass National Science Test · · Score: 1

    42?

  4. People pay for Photoshop? on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's news.

  5. Does this include the TSA? on FDA Cracking Down On X-ray Exposure For Kids · · Score: 1

    N/T

  6. I've seen the light! on DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings · · Score: 1

    I was such a bad, naughty person before, but now I will bow to be spanked by the MPAA and the government!

  7. Wonderful, just a different type of delay on Controlling Bufferbloat With Queue Delay · · Score: 1

    From TFA-
    "...the longer delays are not excessive and permit link utilizations to be maintained at high levels."
    So we're adding another layer of management and still have "not excessive" delays. Awesome, sign me up.

  8. News for nerds. on GOP Blocks Senate Debate On Dem Student Loan Bill · · Score: 1

    Has totally been shitted out of the house at this point. Sure it matters, but it would be nice if tech stuff actually out-numbered political articles. This place has gone to shit since Taco left. And no, I'm not leaving, 'cause I'm an ass who also wants to spew his own garbage.

    Stop fighting over "which party is better!" They are the same, just with different names and PR teams. And the second they are elected everything they said is out the window. I'd love to say go 3rd party, but that's as likely as humping a goat to the top of Mt. Everest.

  9. Can we just get rid of... on Homeland Security: New Body Scanners Have Issues · · Score: 1

    ... this freaking DHS + TSA clusterfuck already? Have they done anything better than what was done before without being completely moronic, stupid, and wasting money. As for post 9/11, all you had to do was coordinate the then-existing agencies together better. (I actually was working on a project for that, until the DHS was launched) It's madness. You know what "hope and change" what could have been? Get rid of this crap.

  10. Sounds like a winner! on Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop · · Score: 1

    How can you go wrong with a simple and extremely stylish laptop? Dell, the future of retarded computing. "Huh, what's that? They're already there? My bad."

  11. Re:Speaking as a hipster on Google Patents Using iPhones To Kill 'Free Bird' · · Score: 2

    Why was this modded funny? This is exactly the type of stuff I've heard hipsters say. It's like watching those poor kids who have to wear helmets because they're so dumb they bang their heads against the wall constantly. It's a verbal enema from a sloth on meth and or prozac. Having my dong slammed by a car door is less painful than listening to them. I thought the ultimate in stupid was the liberal arts majors who would spout "world changing" strategies while forgetting that it's already been tried 14 times. It's like my 40 year old self running around a mall shouting "I'm motherfucking Jackie Chan" while repeatedly kicking myself in the balls. On a tricycle.

  12. Re:Bad enough I pay for microtransactions in MMO's on Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack · · Score: 1

    Semantics. Ever heard of a hackintosh? Christ, reality and "official" never meet each other except when it's time to bash Apple or sometimes MS. Linux stuff can just fucking make wholesale bullshit up and get modded to "Awesome."

  13. Re:Home Warrenty on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    As always, read the small print on it. Also, many contain deductibles per year. When a tree fell on my parents house, they still had to pay $300 on the repairs. Of course, considering it was a 45 foot or so pine onto the roof, that's not bad.

  14. Interactive laptop porn games on Microsoft Creates Kinect-Like System Using Laptop Speaker & Microphone · · Score: 1

    Now you'll be able to fap, fap, fap away until you beat level 32. And don't try and tell me someone won't try this.

  15. Hey, look at us! on Methane Producing Dinosaurs May Have Changed Climate · · Score: 1

    We made up some math problems, and it says stuff. We can't prove any of it, but it has the words "climate change," "methane," and "dinosaurs" in it, so we must be awesome. Right? Can we have more money now?

  16. Who cares, we'll just lease on U.S. In Danger of Losing Earth-Observing Satellite Capability · · Score: 1

    We'll just buy the info from other countries at $3 billion a year. 'Cause the US government is just that stupid. (Either party)

  17. Re:And once it's connected to US military networks on America's Next Bomber: Unmanned, Unlimited Range, Aimed At China · · Score: 1

    Nah, it going to be a troop of ninja monkeys with backpack nukes.

  18. And sell 1% of those 5% on Ubuntu Will Soon Ship On 5% of New PCs · · Score: 2

    That is all.

  19. Re:Bad enough I pay for microtransactions in MMO's on Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack · · Score: 0

    So what you're saying is that you could install it no matter what, but in your mind it's an upgrade. I've done clean installs on all 4 of the last OS X versions. Guess that's an upgrade. Christ, what a bunch of anti-Apple idiots on here.

  20. Re:Bad enough I pay for microtransactions in MMO's on Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack · · Score: 1

    Shut up, you idiot, those are actual OS prices. How do I know? I bought them. And they weren't upgrades. Dear Cthulhu, Apple hatred is off the charts recently.

  21. Re:Toddler Groping is Better than Rand Paul on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    Wow. Where do you keep you tin-foil hat?

  22. Weird on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The British can show boobs on TV, but they want to actively block porn. In the US, you can't show boobs on TV, but everyone says porn in fine. And don't get me started on Japan.

  23. No shit on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    Two 250 pound men running into each other at roughly 20 miles per hour and cracking skulls. What do think is going to happen, petunias popping out of their asses?

  24. Re:They're acting like they're in trouble! on IBM Offers Retirement With Job Guarantee Through 2013 · · Score: 1

    Would have be great to be a fly on the wall when the executive in charge of that decision found out what happened. And then when his boss found out what happened.

  25. Re:Hello Mr. Troll on German Court Grants Motorola Xbox and Windows 7 Sales Ban · · Score: 0

    Umm, wow, that was somewhere between bizarre and awesome(?)(!)(.)