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  1. Re:The bigger question is - on Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the registrar has an aversion to lawsuits.

    Assuming the registrar is run by right-thinking individuals it's more likely they have an aversion to porn featuring Newt Gingrich.

  2. Re:SQL too on Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least · · Score: 1
  3. Re:they want to patent all of this? on Microsoft Patent Aims To Curb Obnoxious Employee Behavior · · Score: 1

    Big deal. I'll just add using a computer to the end and it'll sail right through. Have fun gluing all those quarks back together by hand after they come out of your fancy manual teleporter.

  4. Re:EPIC headline on OpenBSD 5.0 Unleashed On the World · · Score: 1

    Welcome them? We've already got an entire Congress full of them!

  5. Re:My only question on Time Zone Database Has New Home After Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    STOP. Dibs on Hammertime.

  6. Re:This Article is Borderline Defamation on TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nah. If you kill somebody you get the benefit of the doubt. Because really who here hasn't taken the passenger seat out of their car full of blood and homicide books?

  7. Re:Damned if the do damned if they don't on Android Tricorder Killed By CBS · · Score: 2

    You don't. If you read the takedown notice it turns out CBS has some kind of PADD-themed Star Trek triva app in the Itunes store and they don't want competition. Which is sensible considering the comments make it sound pretty pants.

  8. Re:Next up: tiered pricing on Starz To Pull Content From Netflix · · Score: 1

    This would be much better than have to pay $70 and forced to get everything (i.e. like cable or directv)

    Which in itself would still be better than having to pay $70 and forced to pay extra for the things actually worth watching (i.e. even more like cable or directv).

  9. Re:I still call them Doom clones on German Ban On Doom Finally Lifted · · Score: 2

    Yeah Thief for example was really little more than MAP13 with all the guns taken out.

  10. Re:Clean cool crisp refreshing on C++0x Finally Becomes a Standard · · Score: 1

    Not really. The main advantage of objects is the loose coupling.

    No, the main advantage of objects is namespace hygiene.

    AMONGST our advantages are such elements as loose coupling, namespace hygiene, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope... I'll come in again...

  11. Re:Couldn't Google just pay for it? on Bletchley Park Finds a Saviour In Google · · Score: 1

    So if Google isn't going to make a large donation they shouldn't do anything at all? That thing at McDonald's raised twenty-five million dollars in quarters and dimes last year to room and board sick children, just FYI.

  12. Re:Having to jail break your own freaking phone on Guide To Building a Cable That Improves iOS Exploits · · Score: 1

    And remember, from Motorola's point of view, YOU ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER.

    That's okay. They lock down their phones and let telcos force an unlimited amount of useless crap applications on you. They completely abandoned the original Droid after only a year and left it running a slapdash version of Android 2.2. From my point of view I'm not their customer either.

  13. Re:On the same note... on Google Patents Censorship of "Annoying" Content · · Score: 1

    They're the kind of test you pass simply by not participating.

  14. Re:White Space Radio on White Space Radio To Be Tested In Cambridge · · Score: 1

    Because the only known safe way to dispose of country music is to dump it into the sun.

  15. Re:I'm calling BS on this list on "Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle": 30 Dumb Warning Labels · · Score: 1

    Maybe next week we can get a list of 30 Dumb Slashdot Articles.

  16. Re:Come on, it's PHP on 13-Year-Old Password Security Bug Fixed · · Score: 2

    What the fuck did you expect, excellent design practices and high quality code?

    Honestly? A second function named blowfish_real_hash_string.

  17. Re:Not sure on Senate Bill Could Make It Illegal To Upload Lip-Synced Videos · · Score: 1

    * designating April as "Distracted Driving Awareness Month"

    That sounds like a good idea to me. You could rent space on those hyperkinetic animated billboards advertisers put up everywhere to get the message out.

  18. Re:Apparently nobody told the new IP owner... on Ars Technica Review Slams Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 1

    I like it. We'll get Uwe Boll to direct and he'll blow it by making the most popular video game movie the world has ever seen.

  19. Re:Wait, so are they ripping off Android or this g on Apple Rips Off Rejected App, Says Wireless Sync Developer · · Score: 2

    I'm not a developer but software like this isn't created in a week is it?

    May 5th 2010 to June 6th 2011 is hardly a week.

    This is not a new or innovative function.

    That's not really relevant though. I see no issue with Apple copying something obvious and useful. But blocking third-parties from implementing it and then a year later announcing precisely the same thing seems clearly anticompetitive to me.

  20. In A.D. 2011 on MI6 Swaps Bomb Making Info With Cupcake Recipe On al-Qaeda Website · · Score: 4, Funny

    Al-Qaeda: What happen?
    Mechanic: Someone set us cup the cake.
    Operator: We get sprinkles.
    Al-Qaeda: What!
    Operator: Microwave turn on.
    Al-Qaeda: It's you!!
    MI6: How are you gentlemen!!
    MI6: All your bomb are belong to us.

  21. Re:Errr... on Apple Patents Keyboard That Knows What You'll Type · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the nice thing about Apple products though. If they don't do what you wanted, you can safely assume that what you wanted was just wrong.

  22. Re:Failed? on Vintage Collection of Tech Failures · · Score: 1

    I never said he wasn't labeling them as successes or failures, just that I don't think that's specifically the criteria he used for including them in his collection.

  23. Re:Failed? on Vintage Collection of Tech Failures · · Score: 2

    Overall Mr Buxton is really, really bad at evaluating the success or failure and the usefulness or not of many of the items he has in his collection.

    Perhaps, but my impression is he's not collecting them because they were successful or failures per se. He's collecting them because they're interesting. Honestly I think the real failure here is the submitter, whose only thought when he came across a gallery of 30 years worth of input devices was to point and gawk at the weird ones.

  24. PSN on Sony Running Unpatched Servers With No Firewall · · Score: 1

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  25. Re:Good. on Attachmate Fires Mono Developers · · Score: 1

    The patents covering the EMCA standards are part of the Microsoft Community Promise. If Microsoft decided to reneg on that promise and start suing people, do you think a judge would look favourably on that? No, they would be laughed out of court.

    I don't think I'd put much faith in any promise that had easy outs like this in it.

    Q: What if I don't implement the entire specification? Will I still get the protections under the CP?

    A: The CP applies only if the implementation conforms fully to required portions of the specification. Partial implementations are not covered.