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  1. Re:Go Green on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You misunderstood. "Go Green", as in mining bitcoins, each worth 75 greenbacks.

  2. Learn historical magnitudes on Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year · · Score: 2

    > 'Those communications are being used for criminal conversations,' he said."

    "Boy, I'll say," said the Founding Fathers.

  3. Re:Upcoming supreme court case on You Don't 'Own' Your Own Genes · · Score: 1

    God damn it, this meme won't die!

    The Supreme Court stated this ruling derived from the rights of individuals grouping together, and that Congress had no power to censor groups. People don't lose their rights grouping, whether that grpup is the Sierra Club, a religion, the Boy Scouts, or a corporation.

    It has zero to do with corporate personhood, which has to do with a quick-and-dirty way to make laws apply to corporations, i.e. a corporation can violate laws, and be fined. You could repeal all laws about creating corporations and this ruling would not be affected.

  4. > "I believe the right to be forgotten is an overstatement," said Hustinx."

    It's also philosophically questionable. Other people have a right to remember you and blab about you, theanks to freedom of speech.

    It is correct to focus rather on procedures to force addressing of inaccuracies. If the data is accurate, oh well.

    Eh, wait until AI analyzes posts.

  5. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    A person with a fucking twat is, by definition, a heterosexual female.

  6. Hellbent for leather on No "Ungoogleable" In Swedish Lexicon, Thanks to Google · · Score: 1

    Government Ministry of Silly Words

    I say it, not you! *I* say what a word is!!!

  7. It's slow. on Ask Slashdot: Getting Apps To Use Phones' Full Power? · · Score: 1

    I have 384 MB of RAM on my Droid Charge. Task Manager reports 368 total, so some has disappeared.

    Of that 368, 236 is taken up by the OS and Verizon bloatware which, if I kill it, gets restarted.

    I don't need 30 things sucking up 5 meg each.

  8. Oh come on! on Yahoo Buys UK Teen's Smartphone News App · · Score: 2

    This pisses me off more than a nerd who gets a girl! >:-(

  9. Re:Hmmm on Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String · · Score: 1

    The purpose of custome extensions was to get people dependent on them so they wouldn't switch to other browsers. In this it is much like many other quasi-os-related things.

  10. Re:Harmonising the tax standard ... on Massachusetts May Try To Tax the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Exactly -- they'd keep both. Oh, they'd reduce income tax to almost nothing, and that only on the rich, but they'd keep it.

    The incom tax started as a tiny fraction on he rich. It will grow back again.

    These are the same politicians who scream we are spending at the absolute minimum level to keep people dying, regardless of whatever that level is.

    Proof?

    1. Increase spending 33% in 2 years.
    2. Suggest reducing that spending 1%.
    3. Observe as they call you a baby-raping mass murderer.

  11. I'm sure his chart would show this, ironically. on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    Numbers don't lie.

    There is no increase.

    There is no increase.

    There is no increase.

  12. Re:more than 50 per cent full = fail is bad on Matthew Garrett Has a Fix To Prevent Bricked UEFI Linux Laptops · · Score: 2

    We've put error logging in our products, and had an upper limit on how much data it could write, then started a circular buffer, then beat the hell out of it to make sure it ran fine.

    So, too, for basically any data storage. This was just sloppy on somebody's part.

  13. Re:UMG has screwed me out of 2 jobs. on Veoh Once Again Beats UMG (After Going Out of Business) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's a plant from UMG to scan their hard drives.

    Say...where are you working currently, pal?

  14. Re:Sad on Veoh Once Again Beats UMG (After Going Out of Business) · · Score: 1

    One would think "being reversed on every argument over and over at each level" would be a sufficient condition.

  15. Re:Sad on Veoh Once Again Beats UMG (After Going Out of Business) · · Score: 1

    It's questionable whether loser pays will slow large corporations down at all, or even larger patent trolls.

    It will, however, make small inventors and so on have a much harder time of it.

  16. Re:somebody refresh my memory... on 9th Circuit Affirms IsoHunt Decision; No DMCA Safe Harbor · · Score: 1

    That's a lotta words for "I don't wanna hafta pay for Britney songs! >:-( "

  17. Don't sell! on Canadian Man Wants To Trade Home For Bitcoins · · Score: 3, Funny

    Canadian Man Wants To Trade Home For Bitcoins

    Dude, you can get weed legally in several US states now! Pack up your poutine machine and come on down!

  18. Anyway on Man Accused of Selling Golf Ball Finders As Bomb Detectors · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People are dying in wars because of reliance on these devices. He needs to go to jail...or the gas chamber.

  19. Insert witty subject here on Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News · · Score: 1

    Let's just summarize the hundreds of Slashdot posts.

    Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News

    But Fox News is propaganda!

    But MSNBC sux!

    But Fox News is propaganda!

    But MSNBC sux!

    But Fox News is propaganda!

    But MSNBC sux!

    Hmmm. Apparently Slashdot has issues with nested blockquotes. Slashdot sux!

  20. What could possibly go wrong? on US Gov't To Scan More Civilian Infrastructure Traffic · · Score: 1

    If the banks request it, good.

    If they don't, bad. As in Hitler bad.

  21. Re:Fox is Propaganda not Opinion on Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News · · Score: 1

    I just read this several posts above, except some of the names were changed to different networks, parties, and power-hungry officials.

    Can't you write something original? Is it "air dirty laundry of theories" day?

  22. Re:I love working with PV cells on Bosch Finds Solar Business Unprofitable, Exits · · Score: 1

    You "spend it, US government!" types realize that even if someone in the US makes a technical breakthrough, they'll still be manufactured in China, right?

    Some manufacturing is moving back to the US, but only because engineers have automated enough of the process very few unskilled labor is needed. There's always that to look forward to. I guess we could stop this by adding taxes to things made this way, even if domestically. Sound like a plan?

  23. Re:I love working with PV cells on Bosch Finds Solar Business Unprofitable, Exits · · Score: 1

    Coal, Gas, and Oil are known to be horrible for society. If you have doubts, please go purchase a cheap plot of land next to a plant or refinery and take up permanent residence

    Ignorance.

    The correct comparison is living next to a coal plant, compared to living in a country without coal plants. And don't say you have wind or nuclear, because those wouldn't exist without industrialization, which required coal.

    So, what's the average lifespan living next to a coal plant compared to in a forest somewhere?

    Well?

  24. Re:I've been waiting for this... on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 1

    You'd think Europe would have learned the dangers of forcing smaller groups of people to knuckle under to the whims of larger groups of people.

    The yabbering is smoother, but merely addresses the previous go-round of evil. Hating Jews lead to evils in WWII; therefore we shall hate the hating of Jews.

    Join with me and hate the hating of Jews!

    Presumably after the next dictatorship disaster, people will then try to outlaw the hating of hating of Jews, and maybe Europe will finally learn to just let people be free to shoot off their mouths.

  25. Re:I've been waiting for this... on Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users · · Score: 3, Funny

    At that point, it almost sounds like kidnapping for ransom...

    Ahh, grasshopper, you only think there's a difference. You have taken your first step.

    Learn how memes rule the world -- how they are about getting large masses of people adopting them, in order to force themselves onto still more people.

    The content is irrelevant from this viewpoint.

    In one -- kidnapping for ransom, people who want money seize someone until they get it. In the other, people who want money seize someone until they get it.

    One thinks of themselves as dirty and rotten, the other as good-hearted and pure. The mechanism and end results are identical.