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  1. Re:Fix Wikipedia first on Wikipedia Founder Releases Personal Appeal · · Score: 1

    What retard modded this up? Seriously.

      - Chris

  2. Re:Firefox? on Google Default Search For Opera Mobile · · Score: 1

    That's not strictly true. Google was the default search in both the browser and the search bar even back when Mozilla was still an AOL project. A deal certainly developed afterwards, but the primary reason is one of quality. Not everything is about the benjamins.

      - Chris

  3. Re:The only major KDE distro? on Shuttleworth's Commitment to Kubuntu and KDE · · Score: 1

    It's a pity that these comments will probably be overlooked because you're an AC, but both this post and its grandparent are spot on. Thank god there's some sense in this thread.

      - Chris

  4. Re:Must-have KDE apps on Shuttleworth's Commitment to Kubuntu and KDE · · Score: 3, Funny
    These apps don't have any gnome equivalents that are nearly as useful and feature-rich:

    Really. What features does Kaffeine have on top of Totem?

    What's that Lassie? The boy is making things up?

      - Chris

  5. Re:The user should not have to care on Shuttleworth's Commitment to Kubuntu and KDE · · Score: 4, Insightful
    And nobody should have to pay for health insurance


    It's interesting that you have this in the "impossible utopia" column. I don't have to pay for health insurance.

      - Chris
  6. Re:European users can lend support. on Shuttleworth's Commitment to Kubuntu and KDE · · Score: 1

    Could whatever KDE fanboi modded this up hang their head in shame, please? GNOME is about as lacking in i18n support as I am lacking in toes.

      - Chris

  7. Re:Iran? China? on VeriSign To Control .com Domain Until 2012 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oooh, lovely cracky mods this evening. HE DISSENTS! SEIZE HIM!

      - Chris

  8. Re:Iran? China? on VeriSign To Control .com Domain Until 2012 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You have been trolled. Well done. Did you vote Republican last November to stop Ward Churchill from being installed as President?

      - Chris

  9. Re:Not Necessarily Open Source on Florida DUI Law and Open Source · · Score: 1

    Maybe if the Open Source movement had succeeded in preventing their brand from being diluted to nothingness by the "technical" press and subversive third parties you'd have a point, but "open source" these days means nothing more than "the source is visible". For guaranteed rights to use that source, you're wanting Free Software (two doors up on the left).

      - Chris

  10. Re:Should all government software be open source? on Florida DUI Law and Open Source · · Score: 1

    What utter bullshit. So government servers shouldn't run Apache or use published crypto techniques in the name of "security"? You have been fooled.

      - Chris

  11. Re:One comment and slashdotted! on Open Source AJAX Webmail · · Score: 1

    TFA clearly states that postgres is supported, so it might be worth clicking the link at some point.

      - Chris

  12. Re:Pot, meet kettle. on The Princess Bride Musical · · Score: 1

    The one some ten-year-olds did with a zero budget. It was on here about four years ago.

      - Chris

  13. Re:Movie vs. Book on The Princess Bride Musical · · Score: 1

    Personally I found it rather shallow and pedantic.

      - Chris

  14. Re:Am I on the right site? on The Princess Bride Musical · · Score: 1

    You are. Gothdot is two doors down. Goodbye.

      - Chris

  15. Re:OK I have to Admit it on The Princess Bride Musical · · Score: 1

    This is probably the most divisive article I've seen on Slashdot this year. I can't believe that those losers who haven't actually heard of TPB are so vehemently denying that this article has a place on the site. Although I'mnot surprised that most of them joined after me.

      - Chris

  16. Re:Remeber this? on The Princess Bride Musical · · Score: 1

    keep using that abbreviation. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    Yay!

      - Chris

  17. Re:ObIndy on Shuttleworth on Ubuntu's Direction and Intent · · Score: 1

    I've had mod points coming out of my ears for months, and now's the time I don't have any?

      - Chris

  18. Re:Professional Addition on Shuttleworth on Ubuntu's Direction and Intent · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu runs in this mode by default. No mp3, no Quicktime, no DVD.

      - Chris

  19. I only just discovered you could killfile editors on The Fracturing of the Internet · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's Zonk officially plonked. The only possible reason for duping your own story within the working day and adding a bleeding disclaimer at the end is to show off how pretty Politics is.

    For those who haven't discovered it: It's in your home page prefs next to the topic ratings radio buttons.

    Politics really is pretty though.

      - Chris

  20. Re:{app} Running on {platform} on KDE Running on Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    I {disadvantage}, you insensitive clod!

      - Chris

  21. Re:Stardate 7234.1 on Pentium 4 Overclocked to 7.1GHz, Sets World Record · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whoever modded this funny should take a long, hard look at themselves. And never tell jokes again.

      - Chris

  22. Re:just makes me wonder on GPL Violations of Miranda IM · · Score: 1

    You seem to think that the people involved in this kind of work are at least as talented at hiding their plagiarism as 20-year-old CS students. They are not.

    See further up-thread, where StarMessenger loads its adware using some fifteen-year-old deprecated 16-bit function call. These are not kernel hackers.

    - Chris

  23. Re:On the bright side on Revenge of the Sith Easter Eggs · · Score: 1

    Errr, no. Serenity might very well be the best thing ever created, but it's not on a small budget. Part of the reason Firefly was axed was that it was extremely un-cheap to produce.

    - Chris

  24. Re:Go see it in theaters on 'Sith' Already Found Online · · Score: 1

    You're obviously not really in the UK. Theatre? Those are things with live actors, dear.

    I'm getting the torrent. If the film's as good as Kevin Smith is being paid to say it is, I'm sure I'll have no problem shelling out to watch it again at the cinema.

    - Chris

  25. Re:In a way I agree on Firefox Lead Engineer Scolds KDE Project · · Score: 1

    This is idiocy. KDE is a great many things, but usable is not one of them.

    KDE exists to be a superset of all other projects ever created. With the release of version 8, Opera finally has a sane UI, which leaves Konqueror roughly as usable as Mozilla Seamonkey. Less if you have to change any prefs.

    I wish there was a "kool-aid" moderation category. There's no real way to reply to this except "you don't know what you're talking about, please try stepping outside for a few days", but I'm not going to pussy out and mark it Overrated.

    - Chris