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  1. Re:real socialism on GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses · · Score: 3, Insightful
    We the people give permission to people/corporations to operate profitably amongst us, and in return expect to have a contribution towards providing the infrastructure needed for them to operate (which included educating potential employees in sufficient numbers that their wages do not get over-inflated, and keeping them healthy by curing other people who might otherwise infect your employees and make them sick). In civilised countries, there are steps taken to avoid the terminally greedy stealing from the weak - at least partly to avoid the weak deciding that they would be better off if they went out burning and looting as an amusement..

    Most of us, unlike Karl Marx, do not believe you need to own something to control it - the evidence is that it is quite possible to alter the volume on someone else's stereo, or drive a stolen car. The man was an idiot.

    Scumbags like you think that the object of life is to be "greedier than thou".

  2. Re:PDroid on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 1
    why can't I be the one who decides if I can have root?

    Because your carrier thinks you might use it to avoid intrusive advertising.

  3. Re:Too little too late. on YouTube Expands Live Streaming To All Channels · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately, Twitch does not have any content (apart from games).

  4. Re:Time to Scale back on Computerisation on Air Traffic Control "Telephone Glitch" Delays Hundreds of UK Flights · · Score: 1
    Also, without the internet paedophiles wouldn't have easy access to kiddy porn.

    Without the internet, how the hell would anyone know what they had access to? There was something called privacy before the Internet came along.

  5. Re:Pork, pork, pork, pork on Secret New UAS Shows Stealth, Efficiency Advances · · Score: 1
    Fortress of Eviltude to be somewhere where it's always cloudy.

    Manchester?

  6. Re:At what cost? on Secret New UAS Shows Stealth, Efficiency Advances · · Score: 2
    Pretty much no elected official wants to be seem as "soft on terrorism".

    True - most seem much happier to appear "soft in the head".

  7. What could possibly go wrong? on In Three Years, Nearly 45% of All the Servers Will Ship To Cloud Providers · · Score: 5, Funny

    In a three years, nearly everyone will send their own data to the NSA without even having to be asked!

  8. Re:Happily parked? on With Burning Teslas In the News Ford Recalls Almost 140,000 Escapes · · Score: 1
    if ford never heard of a fuse either.

    Ford know about fuses: they cost 2c each. If you sell 140,000 Escapes it all adds up!

  9. Re: Where's the outrage?! on CyanogenMod Installer Removed From Google Play Store · · Score: 1

    Are there even 97 mobile malwares in the whole of history? (Not counting those known only to Make-a-fee)

  10. Re:Why such low specs on Jolla's First Phone Goes On Sale · · Score: 1
    Then why would they need /.?

    FTFY

  11. Re:Aging workforce on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Actually, its as simple as no one wants to hire someone lder than themselves - they would feel uncomfortable giving orders

    combined with no one wants to hire someone that obviously knows more than they do.

    Yes I know its a recipe for a train wreck - have you not watched any large projects lately (cough @&#4care).

  12. Re:Anyone remember bus radio? on Researchers Build Covert Acoustical Mesh Networks In Air · · Score: 1

    That was standard practice on the PDP8 in the 1970s. There were even compilers to produce music that way. There was always a radio ontop the computer so you could tell if it got in a loop (constant frequency). Some people even knew which loop by the tone! (Cue Newton-Raphson agorithm approaching solution with a recognisable whine!)

  13. Re:Blow to NoSQL movement on NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox Database Choice · · Score: 3

    I once worked with a major multinational who did government contracts all the time. They said the exact same things (but you failed to mention the brown envelopes filled with banknotes).

  14. Please use MY tax for that - its way better than most of the stuff that tax gets used for! (On condition that it is a unisex toilet).

  15. Re:Not just young folk... on Aging Linux Kernel Community Is Looking For Younger Participants · · Score: 1
    You only want the features you want, I only want the features that I want.

    In which case, *BSD is the answer to your prayers. You only get the featues you actually ask for, and once you have got them, they stay got!

  16. Re:Fake followers - fake profits on Twitter's Fake Followers Watching IPO Closely · · Score: 1

    Market hypesters only care about commission. If it goes broke they get a percentage from the people selling, and make some on shorting it.

  17. Unfortunately, we even have to import the bananas.

  18. Re:Yes, but... on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 1

    You sir, are assisting the terrorist by revealing this. Go directly to Jail. Do not collect £200.

  19. Re:What else would you expect! on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 1
    "Think of the pebbles!"

    (sorry)

  20. Re:May they burn in hell. on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 5, Funny
    The average UK citizen will accept, or in fact welcome ...

    The average UK citizen does not believe a word the politicains say, and is far to busy looking at page 3 to give a shit.

  21. Re:Damn poop detector is going off again on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 0

    You will never make it as a conspiracy nut job.

  22. Re:I read this on Techdirt: on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might also want to read up on J Edgar Hoover.

  23. Re:Flagrant Flatulism Posing as Reporting on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    On COntraire - I conplain frequently about Tomtom trying to insist I drive over a footbridge, or down some stairs (I did do it one in a 4x4, but the local residents were very annoyed).

  24. Re: Flagrant Flatulism Posing as Reporting on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 0
    Try driving a car (or HGV) we may be aware that a bike is there, but it is completely impossible to predict what crazy stunt they will pull next.

    "Keep to chevons from the vehicle in front" applies to bikes too, even when the chevrons are not painted on the road, It is a training device to encourage safe driving. If you are the biker who was riding 10" behind the car in front of me last Friday, and then fell over cos he didn't see a manhole cover because he was too close. DONT DO IT AGAIN!!!!

    If the road has a 30MPH limit, we are not looking for bikes doing 90MPH. It is just not practical to do so, given that we have to look for other things too. That is why the road ahs a 30MPH limit.

  25. Re:The numbers on Researchers Use Computer-Generated 10-Year-Old Girl To Catch Online Predators · · Score: 1

    Think of the pixels! (perhaps you better not - it could lead to a lengthy jail sentence).