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  1. actually not gone on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Steps Down · · Score: 1

    he's just going to sit on top-level strategy and stuff as CEO. as long he doesn't get his damn plane landed during sleepytime any more, that's a good thing. the evil will continue.

  2. medium tech and low tech solutions on Ask Slashdot: Remote Support For Disconnected, Computer-Illiterate Relatives · · Score: 1

    medium tech: an Etch-A-Sketch.

    low tech: a legal pad.

    if they're clicking everything that crawls over the door or chews through the wall, they should not have a computer at all. before long, they won't have a space left under the nearby bridge either, weasels will take that also.

  3. Bastard ATT. let's make this real simple for them on AT&T Proposes Net Neutrality Compromise · · Score: 1

    so they can understand. MONEY CANNOT AFFECT THE PRIORITY BIT. you can sell Netflix all the 10-gigabit ports you want. but the priority bit stays at 1 or 2, just like all the other basic internet traffic on your network. just like the packets you send to the home customers.

    understand it now?

  4. the text app is still there, folks on Browser To Facilitate Text Browsing In Emergencies · · Score: 1

    why much it up with browsers and stuff?

  5. no, that is the point on Canon Printer Hacked To Run Doom Video Game · · Score: 1

    one page per screen, the bad guys are gonna get you early. but it sells a lot of ink, so Canon doesn't mind.

  6. those are not your albums and songs, either on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    only weasel lawyers, it seems, own music. you at best own a limited-rights use license for personal gratification, and one physical or electronic copy of the work. if you don't want it, mark it "do not push" so it doesn't get on all your devices after syncing.

    could be worse. could have been Slim Whitman. or Shatner Sings the Hits. that's what would have been a freebie on the Zune.

  7. always keep the analogs on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: 1

    analog media is cleverly resistant to flaky format changes, bit rot, drive death, one too many cycles of use on a flash drive, and system obsolence. as long as there are any tinkerers around, there is a way to pull off one more pass of an analog media item.

  8. from library standpoint, it's like US "fair use." on Top EU Court: Libraries Can Digitize Books Without Publishers' Permission · · Score: 1

    doesn't necessarily meet the US standards for personal owner fair use, where I can have as many damn copies in as many damn formats as I like... as long as I only use one at a time, and never get rid of the original source, which is considered the licensed version.

  9. only one way to deal with evil trolls on Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes · · Score: 1

    lure them out of their cave as the sun rises

  10. oh. so nobody's actively managing them? on Mozilla 1024-Bit Cert Deprecation Leaves 107,000 Sites Untrusted · · Score: 1

    hackers, start your engines...

  11. data everywhere just wants to be free on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 1

    the alternate punchline might be "close the outer door, Hal..."

  12. how about "Stack Crap, We Goofed Again..." on Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen · · Score: 1

    that screenshot was the Microsoft company song.

  13. they only had dialup in 780 AD, so stay there on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    so thinks the Assahola.

  14. apparently now legal to text and drive in CA on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 1

    after all, the cops do it, even after they kill somebody. so LOL everybody

  15. they were spending too much time on the night job on Software Error Caused Soyuz/Galileo Failure · · Score: 1

    cracking US banks.

    so their day jobs, launching rockets and calculating how far Russia could go in subjugating Ukraine, suffered.

    we all know how that works...

  16. maybe we'll finally get a judge with guts on US Government Fights To Not Explain No-Fly List Selection Process · · Score: 1

    logical response from the bench would be to enjoin the no-fly list.

    that means shit-can it, for folks who haven't hung around the courthouse steps

  17. I would argue relief is takeover on Google Wins $1.3 Million From Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    "you, troll, die! all assets to the defendant. if this is not effected within 5 business days, this court will personally come after your sorry ass with an Elfin sword."

    something like that.

  18. Hi, I'm WackoHacko in a Clippy mask! on DoT Proposes Mandating Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications · · Score: 1

    I see you want to make a left turn. I think you better start spinning donuts on that flying bridge instead, with the engine at full-tilt boogie.

  19. which is fine light reading, but not a reference on Free Law Casebook Project Starts With IP Coursebook · · Score: 1

    you can't cite this book in a courtroom, because it's not a recognized reference. those are achingly reviewed and certified by state (or federal, as the case applies) courts.

  20. especially like the wallet integration part on Predictive Modeling To Increase Responsivity of Streamed Games · · Score: 1

    you are chasing a wooly mammoth buck-naked with a fork. we determine you need titanium toe rings with 6-carat blue diamonds. why? hell, just because. your credit card on file has been decremented ten million dollars. now your avatar jingles as you run.

    perhaps you want an elephant gun now? please enter a new valid credit card number...

  21. they've been doing this with CD for 30 years on Facebook Experimenting With Blu-ray As a Storage Medium · · Score: 1

    they had cold-storage CD jukeboxes at (well-known HVAC) back that far for old catalog crep. heck, they had rooms full of videotape carts in TV stations back that far... take your pick, VHS pro or Beta Pro. robotic storage is way old, just the medium changes, depending on what you are used to in your industry.

  22. total security for the IoT... on Securing Networks In the Internet of Things Era · · Score: 2

    don't plug toasters, TVs, fridges, etc into the Internet. the geniuses behind them don't even finish the software they're loaded with at the factory.

  23. slashdot already tagged this stuff on When Customer Dissatisfaction Is a Tech Business Model · · Score: 2

    long time ago, a slashdotter cut right to the chase when he posted "Microsoft is not a software company. they are an abuse company. they utilize software to inflict their abuse." somebody tore down the copy I had hanging next to the copier, so alas, I cannot credit the statement properly. easily 10 years ago, and it hasn't changed since.

  24. Simple conclusion.... brain implants work. on Students From States With Faster Internet Tend To Have Higher Test Scores · · Score: 2

    the Borg is more cohesive with faster Internet. we are closer every day to domination.

  25. so, moving left, the Helium-Cycle Battery? on How Argonne National Lab Will Make Electric Cars Cheaper · · Score: 1

    "Hell, Dr. Fred, if we put enough energy into the damn stable thing, just think how big an instantaneous charge we can drain out!"

    where's the Kickstarter link?