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  1. Re:ITT... on Uber Now Blocked All Over Germany · · Score: 0

    No, protectionism is all about "profit uber alles", just not fer them damn ferner's. And Europe in particular is a little chauvinist in this regard.

  2. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    *cough* *cough* [UID needed]

  3. Just wait on DoT Proposes Mandating Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications · · Score: 5, Funny

    Soon there will be a mod so you tell the guy who just cut you off, "fuck you, you fucking fuck, right in the fucking fuck-fuck-fuck" at max volume using their cabin speakers. I'll probably hear it a lot.

  4. "Unwisely" on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Understatement of the year. This is a sad case of a stupid law intersecting with an incredibly stupid person.

  5. Re:Sad Puppy Slate on The 2014 Hugo Awards · · Score: 1

    So the Hugo awards are a popularity contest.

  6. Re: Unfortunately on Iceland's Seismic Activity: A Repeat Show for Atmospheric Ash? · · Score: 1

    That would indicate to me that you are unfamiliar with either.

  7. Unfortunately on Iceland's Seismic Activity: A Repeat Show for Atmospheric Ash? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only way to save the planet from the volcano is to pronounce its name backwards. Correctly.

  8. Re:You have to understand on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 1

    Doesn't quite fit, does it? In that show/comic, only southerners survive.

  9. Re:I wouldn't mind reinserting the wowcrack needle on World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Launches Nov. 13th · · Score: 1

    You're in luck! You only have to buy MoP, as everything up to Cataclysm i snow included in the base WOW package.

    Now, push that needle in. Everything's gonna be ok. Just a little prick and then you get the goody.

  10. CYA on Ask Slashdot: Corporate Open Source Policy? · · Score: 2

    I'd do some research and find out what other projects have had issues with. In particular, make sure you actually own the copyrights or have a distribution license for everything you intend to open source. All it takes is one lazy cowboy coder and Google to screw your whole project. Also, understand the license you intend to distribute under, and what licenses are incompatible with it.

  11. My Apple-phobic Samsung-fan friends are going to have an aneurysm over this.

  12. Re:This is a shining example on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 1

    I am not in favor of hiding government largess by contracting it out. At that point, the "private" enterprise is merely an unofficial extension of government, isn't it?

  13. Re:This is a shining example on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 1

    At least we can unelect them, if stirred enough to do so. Eric Cantor illustrates that point.

  14. Re:Wow - good thing on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 1

    Umm, or you could have accepted and still spent your time surfing Slashdot.

  15. Re:This is a shining example on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They assume that small government would be staffed with highly qualified and highly motivated people

    By no means! A small government will attract the same sorts of people; the difference is the evildoers can't hide in the massive, inscrutable cogs of the machinery. Accountability is easier when there are fewer places to pass the buck.

  16. Re:This is a shining example on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 1

    Or at the very least pared back to their original usage.

  17. This is a shining example on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 3, Insightful

    of why small-government types are not completely out of their fucking gourd.

  18. Re:Can't beat the Micro$oft Machine on Digia Spinning Off Qt Division Into New Company · · Score: 1

    This is probably subjective; I found the barrier of entry for Qt pretty significant, while mastering .NET seems almost trivial. Or maybe I'm just broken inside; all possibilities must be considered.

  19. Re:Why not just use FreeBSD then? on Facebook Seeks Devs To Make Linux Network Stack As Good As FreeBSD's · · Score: 2

    If they've done a lot of work already on a custom kernel, it may not make sense to try porting all that work to completely different kernel architecture. They may have done a cost benefit analysis and decided that the cost of improving their current architecture is less than retrofitting FreeBSD. Not saying this is the case, just posing a possible scenario where this would be the better option.

  20. Re:Can't beat the Micro$oft Machine on Digia Spinning Off Qt Division Into New Company · · Score: 2

    I think I heard something like this 15 years ago when I first started using KDE. That's a pretty slow death, don't you think?

  21. Re:What is "Arsoe" (in the first sentence) suppose on Ex-Autonomy CFO: HP Trying To Hide Truth · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hi! Welcome to Slashdot!

  22. Re:Poor Israel on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1

    I feel like there's a Billy Joel song here...

  23. Re:So China is going to do on Chinese Government Probes Microsoft For Breaches of Monopoly Law · · Score: 1

    So, non-free dependencies? Not on my watch!

  24. Re:Good... on Unesco Probing Star Wars Filming In Ireland · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is that Hayden Christensen was actually an upgrade. :/

  25. Re:5thed is irrelevant on How Gygax Lost Control of TSR and D&D · · Score: 1

    On difference in 5E is the feats are sparser and bigger. Instead of a 5-level feat chain to make two-weapon fighting, you spend one of your rare feats to get the whole kit n' kaboodle. Feats are less incremental improvements, and more paradigm shifting.