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  1. Re:"Over the top" on Apple Said To Be Working On a Pay TV Service · · Score: 2

    Oh. I thought they were gonna turn their baseball cap around so you knew they meant business. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

  2. Re:Gentoo works for me on Greg KH Favors Rolling Release Distros · · Score: 2

    I may be a masochist, but I feel kind of sad when I do an "emerge -uDp world" and nothing comes up. I start feeling like should install more stuff.

  3. Re:Here's a great idea... on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 2

    And while we're on that, we'll form another missing words committee to figure out why the heck I can't speak English today!

  4. Re:Here's a great idea... on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great idea! We'll form an exploratory committee put together a schedule for forming survey planning committee. We'll need funding through... say... 2018?

  5. Re:How long before everybody does it? on New Chinese Regulations Require Real Name On Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure with a few more suicide bombings they could have gotten closer.

  6. Re:Ditch iPhone on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 2

    The word "orthogonal" grew out of its strictly geometric definition 500 years ago. Get with the times, learn the language.

  7. Re:Don't even bother asking on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 4, Informative

    He's not asking for a non-WebKit browser. He's asking for a browser that blocks ads and pop-ups, of which there are many for iOS. And yes, they all use WebKit. That has nothing to do with the question asked.

  8. Re:Ditch iPhone on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can not get an alternative browser on iPhones, it is not allowed,

    Yes, you can.

    all the "alternative" browsers on iPhones are just reskinned Safari because Apple does not allow alternative browsers

    All iOS browsers use WebKit. That's completely orthogonal to the original question: are there iOS browsers that block ads and pop-ups? The answer is yes, there are.

  9. Re:Ditch iPhone on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 3, Informative

    GP means all browsers on iOS use WebKit, which is correct; even Chrome for iOS does. That being said, there are a number of WebKit-based browsers for iOS that block ads and popups.

  10. Re:Don't even bother asking on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 4, Informative

    In an attempt to actually answer the question, try the Mercury browser. Basically Safari + AdBlock. The others are usually crapware/adware. https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...

  11. Don't even bother asking on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All you'll get on Slashdot is "neener-neener" posts from Android fan boys telling you you deserve it for buy the Phone That Shall Not Be Named. What you should have done was ask Google, and it would have taken you to a number of browsers available for iOS that block banner ads. Question answered, no psychopathic schadenfreude.

  12. Re:Cue the libertarian fucktards on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    Well, if this was high school debate, you'd get a point for that. Meanwhile, in the real world...

  13. Re:Oh God, not again on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    Ehhh, as gaffe-prone as Bachmann is, I think that you have not accurately reported her statement.

    Having read the article that you linked to, it says that Bachmann said that she "had been approached by a mother who claimed her daughter suffered from mental retardation from complications due to the vaccine." That is very different from claiming that "the HPV vaccine would make kids autistic."

    During the debates, she alluded to his mystery mother several times, and made it clear that Gardasil was a mortal threat to every concerned mother. She was frothing at the mouth about it. The consensus among GOP viewers at the time was that she either the "concerned mother" was full of shit, or Michele Bachmann was.

  14. Re:Oh God, not again on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    Also, Michelle Bachman did in fact claim that the HPV vaccine would make kids autistic.

  15. Re:Oh God, not again on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    I know. Tardisil was a joke name for it at the time, for it's autism-inducing magic powers.

  16. Re:Makes sense on Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader · · Score: 1

    Surely you mean a Lithp interpreter...

  17. Re:Makes sense on Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just wait. One of these days I expect to read, "Systemd to get Emacs editor."

  18. Re:Rand Paul said something similar ... on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    You can't go by that. Christie has been pretty vocal in his disdain for just about everyone.

    Point taken.

  19. Re:Rand Paul said something similar ... on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 3, Informative

    Vaccination rates are highest in red states. Vaccination exemptions are highest in the west coast, New England, MI, and WI. If he's courting the evangelical vote, he's doing it wrong. But then, Christie has been pretty vocal in his disdain for conservatives.

  20. Re:I present: the party of Stupid People on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/previe...

    Check out the deep south and mid-west (AKA "Jesusland"); as regions, the have the low vaccination exemption rates compared to more liberal western and northeastern states. 7 of the 8 most vaccinated states when to Romney in '12.

  21. Oh God, not again on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yet again, we get a GOP primary debate circus solely around Tardisil and the merits of encephalitis over autism. Fuck this party, I'll go Liberta--what's that, Mr. Paul? Oh. You're one of them, too. Shit.

  22. Re:Too early to be discussing the contents on Obama's 2016 NASA Budget Status Quo, Funds Europa Mission · · Score: 1

    Republicans representing their constituents interests? Yeah, that's going to happen.

    I'm pretty sure their constituents don't want them signing it, either. Fucking democracy, eh? There oughta be a law...

  23. Sorry for the pedantry... on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 2

    ...but shouldn't that be "I don't support XY-gender-doesn't-count programs?"
     
    /duck
    /run

  24. Re:the joy! on Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been running internet-connected Windows desktop for 20 years, and have never gotten a virus. Surf smart, lock your door, and don't click on the damn .scr files.

  25. Re:No elaboration? Is it a cubesat? on State Television Says Iran Launches New Satellite Into Space · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's an X10 camera on a USB stick for some advanced Iranian space photography.