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  1. Re:Piracy = Theft Analogy on Pirated iOS App Store Site Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    As it has no comparison to walking into an actual department store, fancy or otherwise, and stealing, the point is far more valid than your attempt to troll.

  2. Re:Our universe is doomed! on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 2

    No sir, the universe is fine and the planet earth is happily looking forward to the extinction of the human infestation. If all the insects died tomorrow, all life on earth would die out within 3 months... but if all humans died tomorrow, life on earth would thrive.

  3. Re:Not the "freedom" thing ... on Egyptian Government To Adopt Free Software On Larger Scale · · Score: 1

    Please tell me what foreign currency they are changing it into because I cannot think of one that is not in danger. The best one at the moment seems to be the Yuan.

  4. Re:A Mature Local Machine Product vs Immature Clou on Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am a teacher and everything I do involves collaboration. With Gmail Docs, I can have a document open with both the student (at their home) and myself looking at the same doc at the same time and I can even see where the student has their cursor. It is the dog's bolox. I never dreamed that such a perfect solution would arrive so soon.

    Does that mean that I think that it is the best office suite? No, of course not. Why do all these articles overlook the simple fact that what is the dog's bolox for one person is just a dog for someone else. My friend runs his business on an Excel spreadsheet that has an incredible macro that requests all the information that the person taking the first call needs to ask the customer, receives that data and provides a quote and work sheets for the guys that do the work and then invoices and accounts etc. Complete package in one, I think he is mad but he thinks he has God in software form. I know that Google Docs is really God in software form.

  5. TVs on Has 3D Film-Making Had Its Day? · · Score: 1

    More to the point, why are people paying so much to buy 3D TVs? What a complete and utter waste of your hard earnt money...

  6. Re:No harm done on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 2

    I used to make explosives when I was a kid and this does not remind me of anything that I got up to unless that is sugar and he has put the potassium chlorate in liquid type containers. I did not grow up to become a terrorist even though I enjoyed blowing things up. I agree that it is a dangerous hobby and he should be questioned etc, but enough of the witch hunt already.

  7. Re:No harm done on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think we had better close down all the schools in farming districts where people have large amounts of potassium chlorate and also have sugar in their kitchen...

  8. Re:And on UK Government Changes Tack and Demands Default Porn Block · · Score: 2

    The Sun will have to shut down its web site, that will be a great loss to society...

  9. Re:And on UK Government Changes Tack and Demands Default Porn Block · · Score: 2

    Anything that the government does not like. If it is anti government, it is obviously offensive and therefore pornography. Look at the things the US gov has done under the anti terrorist legislation to get an idea of how this will go. You accessed a web site that had once been used by someone that is now in the army, you are a terrorist... You looked accessed a photo of someone with a naked shoulder, you downloaded pornography!

  10. Re:Pics on Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years · · Score: 1
  11. Re:10 years does not fit the crime on Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years · · Score: 1

    He should have burgled the houses, and raped the nannies while he was at it, to steal physical photos... He would have got less time. He could have even murdered a couple of guards and got less than 10 years.

  12. but when it came to torrents... on UK Internet Porn Blocking Rejected · · Score: 1

    ...no survey, just an order to the ISPs to block it. No real threat to people, just big money heading towards politicians pockets...

  13. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the UK we had strong gun laws introduced each time a crazy did something like this but the truth is that each of those crazies had done lesser crazy shit before they went postal. The guy who did the Hungerford massacre in 1987 had take a gun into work to threaten someone and the police had not taken his guns or his license away from him. It should have been the police that were looked at for not enforcing the law as it was rather than introducing new laws. New laws will not make things better. Teachers should not be carrying guns, that is more stupid. Do you really think that teachers never go crazy? I am one and I often want to kill a student. We should have more steps to look at who, good or bad, has a gun. It should not be right, it should be a privilege that can be revoked.

  14. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 0

    How many innocent children can you kill with your computer? Guns kill people and only arseholes can think otherwise.

  15. Re:Yay on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Gun laws are an oxymoron. Criminals, by definition, do not abide by the laws. So it is only the good people that do not have guns in gun free zones. I do have strong feelings about gun laws but I do not think that this is the time to air them.

    My thoughts are with those unfortunate parents whose grief must be too hard for anyone to bear

  16. Re:Golly - The internets are a' changin'! on The SEO Spammers Behind Online Infographics · · Score: 2

    Nostalgia is not what it used be...

  17. Re:Dupe on Electrical Grid Hum Used To Time Locate Any Digital Recording · · Score: 1

    If only they could apply their amazing technology to matching slashdot posts against ones that have already been posted in the last 7 minutes.

  18. Re:O_o on Electrical Grid Hum Used To Time Locate Any Digital Recording · · Score: 2

    Release this fart...

  19. Re:What is "Syberian Post Office" ?? on Japanese Police Offers First-Ever Reward For Wanted Hacker · · Score: 1

    Errr, get out that old dusty book that you used at school called an "Atlas". If you look at Japan you will see that there is a large chunk of land next to it called Russia. The part of Russia that is nearest to Japan is called Siberia. In Siberia they have places that are used for communication including sending letters (they sell stamps) etc. as well as using the internet.... If you want to use the internet anonymously you can use this service like you would a library in the US.

  20. Re:Misleading title on original article on The SEO Spammers Behind Online Infographics · · Score: 1

    ...but by writing this article for /. he has got far more clicks and his SEO has gone through the roof - win!!!

  21. Re:Unauthorized export resale? on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    or even better, taking them back to where they came from... we do not want the people who made them to know how they did what they did.

  22. Re:Not all of Europe on Researchers: PATRIOT Act Can 'Obtain' Data In Europe · · Score: 1

    ... or even Moscow, which is also in Europe.

  23. Re:Same applies elsewhere? on Researchers: PATRIOT Act Can 'Obtain' Data In Europe · · Score: 1

    China is a bigger market and American companies are just as prepared to do business there regardless of the implications. The more we extend our laws the less argument we have when someone is arrested on a business trip to China* and put in some hell hole for something that they did not realise was illegal.

    *For China, also read Saudi, Russia etc.

  24. Re:good on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    Wrong, it IS the government's job to protect children from their parents when the parents pose a threat to the well-being of the child. Teaching stupidity will seriously threaten the future well-being of the child. We have Social Services etc. that are spending all their time making sure that parents do not raise their children in a way that will not be in the best interests of the child. Remember, we are talking about the UK here and not the US... The rights of the child outweigh the rights of the parents.

  25. Re:Store your data someplace else on Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds good to me :-)