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  1. Re:How Long Have You Got on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Whilst a bad pun is its own pun...ishment.

  2. Re:This guy over here.... on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He called it a hard-drive, not a hard-disk. Honestly, we're splitting hairs about shit literally no one that does not frequent technology blogs gives a crap about. This is especially true because the HDD/SSD distinction has no bearing on the merits of his suggestion.

  3. Re:It's not about the phone... or the crime on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In this case, the suggestion is (perhaps accidentally) correct in that it is the FBI's job to discover evidence in their own possession, not Apple's. The burden of cracking the phone should be on the agency.

  4. Re:Then why get a console? on Microsoft To Unify PC and Xbox One Platforms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem for me is that when it's time for me to upgrade (I can't run the latest and greatest at max settings) the PCI Express slots are all out of date for the new graphics cards. That means a new mobo, and THAT means a new CPU and RAM, etc. I have only managed to keep the case and power supply through the last 4 iterations.

  5. Re:They are? on SCO Is Undeniably, Reliably Dead (fossforce.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you're to blame for systemd. Damn you, Revek, damn you!

    And will you please, for the love of God, fix the video drivers?

  6. Re: In North Korea Moon Landing was in 2012 on South Korea Plans Moon Landing By 2020 (examiner.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, the "moon" is capitalist imperial propaganda. What we call the moon is actually the glimmer in Kim Il Sung's heavenly eye, watching upon us and guiding us on the path of Juche.

  7. Re:Does AT&T own the poles in question or not? on AT&T Sues Louisville Over Google Fiber (wdrb.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    THus why in most states you need to be certified to do any sort of pole work.

    We better head over to the gentlemen's club and make sure the dancers are properly credentialed.

  8. Re:Does AT&T own the poles in question or not? on AT&T Sues Louisville Over Google Fiber (wdrb.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The poles are under the jurisdiction of the state Public Service Commission. In other cities, Google has met with the commission and AT&T, with the end result of Google Fiber using the same poles as AT&T. In this lawsuit, AT&T is saying they want the city council to follow the same procedure followed in other cities where Google Fiber exists currently.

    This post is not a defense of AT&T's prior anti-municipal broadband tactics; just playing devil's advocate against a bloody red meat summary.

  9. Re:The duck quacked on DoJ Wants Apple To Decrypt 12 More iPhones (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't 6 digits mean pre-2000?

  10. Re:They would need a lot of them to do much on Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza · · Score: 1

    For the intended purpose, it would only have to be used once. :/

  11. There's a term for that on Linux Virtual Ethernet Bug Delivers Corrupt TCP/IP Data (vijayp.ca) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Cutting off your nose to spite your face."

  12. Re:Uber does not seem to be involved... on Alleged Kalamazoo Shooter Picked Up Uber Fares During, After Killing Spree · · Score: 1

    Slashdot has a strange obsession with Uber. They post literally everything Uber related. I just don't get it.

  13. *whoooosh*

  14. Re:Why are corporations... on Virgin Galactic To Unveil New Version of SpaceShipTwo (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because they don't have to ask your permission? And why is "space" in quotes? Do you think it's really just a big black tarp with some holes poked in it?

  15. Justin Bieber Darth Vader and Pocahontas Jedi.

    ...but enough about the prequels.

  16. Re:Where do they side? on Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand On Encryption? (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking for myself, I am tired of politically savvy candidates.

  17. You have to factor in the fact that centuries of calculated ethnic cleansing had left large swaths of Poland as ethnically German, especially in the north, and it was these people who were the lion's share of Nazi sympathizers in the country. The Poles purged the Germans after WWII (itself a controversial act, but I digress); how much should they still have to answer for acts committed by former Poles of German descent, who were then exiled back to Germany?

  18. Re:Preaching to the choir on Congressman: Court Order To Decrypt iPhone Has Far-Reaching Implications (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You joke, but many people there are actually saying things like this. I see comments calling for Tim Cook to be charged with treason, saying Apple shouldn't be able to do business in the U.S., etc.

    To be fair, you see these same exact comments on Slashdot; just for different reasons.

  19. Michigan just banned sodomy despite the fact that have a whackton of real and devastating problems that are costing people their lives.

    This is false.

    They went so far as to produce fraudulent footage of planned parenthood just so they could open an investigation.

    This is false. People said inconvenient things for PP.

    It has been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, repeatedly, that they they lied and cheated in order to accomplish what they wanted

    This is true! Also, unclear on the concept of an undercover expose (with the accent mark; thanks for being there when I need you, Unicode).

    Women are now dying because of various medical issues that would have been trivially prevented by Planned Parenthood, because they either didn't have, or didn't know they had, options.

    You could mean two things with this, and both things are false. First, if you're referring to the much ballyhoo'd mammograms, it would be helpful here to mention that PP doesn't perform them anyway, and never has. Second, if you're referring to women somehow not being aware of the fact that abortions exist, and need to be counselled on it's existence, then that simply stretches credulity.

  20. Re:Wow on Indonesia Moves To Ban Same-Sex Emojis On Messaging Apps (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not like "yarg, teh batshit crazy Muslims" is any different from "yarg, teh batshit crazy Christians".

    I know right? Refusing to bake a gay wedding cake is literally and exactly like dragging them into the street and stoning them to death. It is, as you say, "the exact same fucking thing."

  21. Geez, it's like clamydia on SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    SCO is never going away. Fifty billion years from now, long after the last human is dead, alien successors-in-interest will still be suing each other over it.

  22. Re:What's up with lawyers lately? on AWS Terms of Service Offer a Break If Zombie Apocalypse Occurs (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the Turing Test was discredited as a proper test of sentience? They could still just be clever Eliza programs now.

  23. Re:Important Stuff (For the discussion) on Carly Is Out · · Score: 4, Funny

    Notice what isn't on the list of "important stuff"? Carly's presidential run.

    Next.

  24. Isn't CVT more fuel efficient than even manual, though? And with new models, the old lag problem is solved; or at least, it isn't an issue on my Honda Accord.

  25. Re: Can't have a opinion anymore on Anti-Malware Maker Files Lawsuit Over Bad Review (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    We Europeans are fine with this. There are thoughts that society is frankly better off without. Orthodoxy and conformity is safety.

    You don't see this attitude as at all sinister in its implications? It's positively Orwellian.