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  1. Re:The lesson here isn't about free speech on Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Look up the Lautenberg Amendment of 1996, I believe.

  2. Re:$40 figure is bullshit on Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax · · Score: 1

    No, they keep claiming $40 per paycheck. Most people are paid every other week. Which maths out to $1040 annually.

  3. Re:Everybody's Looking at That Phone-Thing on Analysis of Google's Motorola Acquisition · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you are mistaken. Have a look. Since the split, Mobility is responsible for all of the consumer electronics.

  4. Re:Tax junk food on Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax · · Score: 1

    Your second and third sentences are factually inaccurate. Carbs from many vegetables are not only allowed, but recommended (I admit I haven't seen a recent revision of the plan, so I can't say "required" anymore). Within certain specified limits.

    As I recall, fruits start to come back in after the first 2 weeks.

    I might agree with the first sentence, though.

  5. Re:Responding professionally to bad customer reque on DSL Installation Fail · · Score: 1

    "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

  6. Re:Klingon on A Klingon Christmas Carol · · Score: 1

    It has been said that a good thing is capable of selling itself.

  7. Re:The amounts are outrageous on Jammie Thomas Hit With $1.5 Million Verdict · · Score: 1

    Would you have the government outlaw libraries, then?

  8. Re:Dark Ages on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 1

    It's the same issue.

  9. Re:Video on Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings · · Score: 1

    How is your statement related to the price of tea in China?

  10. Re:This would have worked... on Stalker Jailed For Planting Child Porn On a PC · · Score: 3, Funny

    if someone broke into your house and swiped your car keys, then sent them along with an empty whiskey bottle to the cops, accusing you of DUI

    How can I DUI? I don't have my car keys.

  11. Call for unity on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 1

    Why don't all of the like-minded Slashdotters gather their friends, everyone pitch in a few bucks, and collectively buy off a congressman or a senator?

    It works for everyone else...

  12. Re:What a Tragedy and No Charges? on Accidental Wii Suicide · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Kurt Russell.

  13. Re:Big Battle on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 1

    there was this site that compared Bing/Google/Yahoo and had you pick your favorite and then told you what it was, don't know the URL at the time

    http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

  14. Re:Typical! on Comcast Pays Out $16M In P2P Throttling Suit · · Score: 1

    A point, followed by a counterpoint, followed by a rebuttal, countered by a request for citations, and actual citations given.

    You, sir, have won Slashdot. Congratulations.

  15. Re:-1: Strawman on Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget · · Score: 1

    Why should things be any different? As I recall it, the standard excuse for the last 8 years was, "It's Clinton's fault."

  16. Re:For the love of God... on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I decided to read a couple of articles about the situation after reading the parent post. That's led me to believe that IT admins everywhere should be supporting this guy wholeheartedly. When you get down to the point of it, this is a guy getting shafted as a result of sticking to the documented policy.

    I realize that it's a long-running joke around here that people don't RTFA. RTFA.

  17. Re:High profile target and popular CMS' on White House Website Switches To Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Proper firewalls do more than simply block ports.

  18. Re:BS on Postmortem for a Dead Newspaper · · Score: 1

    I suspect that your intent is sarcasm, but some would agree on those points.

  19. Re:HIPAA - SHMIPAA on Spyware Prank Exposes Hospital Medical Records · · Score: 1

    A decently competent IT department should be able to come up with several different ideas that would, if implemented, be a tenable solution to this issue without impacting the medical staff's workflow. The response you got from the grandparent post is probably the result of a mind that has been blown by the story. There are a number of things fundamentally wrong with whatever process that allowed the situation to even be possible.

  20. Re:Fans are disconnected on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 1

    "Moms and dads and people who don't normally care" probably *still* don't care. Trek is a brand. If you're not into the brand, the fact that someone retooled it isn't going to matter.

    How many people are going to see this film, just because it's titled "Star Trek"? Plenty.

    Conversely, there are a bunch of people who won't see it because it's "Star Trek".

    If you didn't care before, you probably still don't.

    If you were averse before, you probably still are.

  21. Re:A victory for sanity. on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 1

    It's unfortunate that no one modded this "interesting".

  22. Re:Humor? Entertainment? on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    Says you.

  23. Re:Feh to the new UI on In-Depth With the Windows 7 Public Beta · · Score: 1

    Windows 2000 was the OS Slashdot decided they would like.

    There was a good reason.

  24. Re:Not even close. on In-Depth With the Windows 7 Public Beta · · Score: 1

    I would have said this may be Windows XP to Vista's ME. Which is to say, ME had an extremely short life, and most people skipped it.

    XP was the most direct successor to ME, not 2000. Cairo was NT4. By most accounts, 2000 actually worked comparatively well out of the box.

    I would also go so far as to say some people had no choice but to move to XP when they found that new games wouldn't install at all under 98, and required a little hacking to install under 2000. Not a problem with the game, but the installers doing a version check.

  25. Re:Riot on Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    You would be surprised at how many low-income homes have cable.