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  1. They are just trying to avoid a repeat of the I-Openerdebacle, I assume.
    http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/mirrors/www.i-opener-linux.net/

    If you don't like their terms, don't use or pay for their service

  2. My Boss . . on Pedagogical Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For Educational Software · · Score: 1

    Is afraid it contains pictures of underage boys and girls.

  3. Improved performance? on KDE Plasma Active 3 Improves Performance, Brings New Apps · · Score: 0

    Now 'merely' slow instead of 'really' slow, so it's an improvement.

  4. This is only a problem on Proposed Posting of Clients List In Prostitution Case Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is only a problem because powerful men have their names on that list. If it were blue-collar workers, teh list woudl already have been released.

    These guys want to pay to fark some hotties who likes to make videos of her masturbating with a popsicle? The law says that their names will be published since she was arrested for prostitution?

    Let the law be the same for everybody here. Perhaps the powerful men will learn a valuable lesson.

  5. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    Biden is the best reason for not voting for Obama. Really, would you want Biden as President? (Not that we'd actually want any of them).

  6. Re:Oh dear ? on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Is that "oh dear" enough to land a person to jail?

    What is the Great Britain trying to prove?

    That one can't make no joke no more?

    I know - and almost everybody else know - that Great Britain is famous for its "stiff upper lip", but isn't this going way overboard ??

    As a Yank, I had to Google "Mark Bridger" to learn that he is accused of the abduction and murder (and I'm guessing rape based on the joke, but they haven't found her body) of 5 year-old April Jones; he's a sick man.

    The joke is tasteless and crass, but hardly rises to the level of a criminal act. To do so trivializes actual crime and actual crime victims and makes a mockery of any expectation of justice for April Jones.

  7. "multiple cosmetic surgeries for his girlfriend" on Verizon Tech Given 4-year Federal Prison Sentence For $4.5M Equipment Scam · · Score: 1

    Boob job, nose job, vaginoplasty?

    Probably all three. She should have to "return" them as well if she knew about the fraud or spend time in jail.

  8. Re:Better than MOOC on ROSALIND: An Addictive Bioinformatics Learning Site · · Score: 1

    The whole meme of "tech will fix education" is tired, obsolete, and needs to go away.

    It started after WW2 when "overhead projectors" were going to revolutionize education.

  9. No and here's why on Scientists Want To Keep Their Research Work Out of Court · · Score: 1

    Given this
    http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/10/02/180226/misconduct-not-error-is-the-main-cause-of-scientific-retractions
    it matters.

    If the scientific community wants freedom from post-facto scrutiny, then do more honest work and the problem will take care of itself..

  10. Re:Ok, ok, question on Linux 3.6 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As a Linux noob, how do I learn what all of those words mean? The only one I even vaguely recognize is TCP and i don't even know what that is. Until someone responds, I'll be at Google.

    Which is how it is done.

  11. It's a win32 app? on AMD Partners With BlueStacks To Bring Android Apps To PCs · · Score: 1

    So does it run in WINE?

  12. Beginning with RedHat 5.1 on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 1

    RedHat 5.1, Mandrake-all, FedoraCore-up to 4, Mandriva-up to 10.2, Mageia-2 (currently in use).

  13. And by 'cheaper', on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    we don't mean less expensive.

  14. Hubble can see better on The Deepest Picture of the Universe Ever Taken: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field · · Score: 1

    than an NFL referee. Glorious, glorious science.

  15. 'Big Money Interest Groups' on Chicago Teachers Rip 'Big Money Interest Groups' · · Score: 2

    Like teacher's unions?

    I'm fine with that.

  16. Most nerdworthy of all. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Found Calculators? · · Score: 1
  17. 10 years ago on Torvalds Takes Issue With De Icaza's Linux Desktop Claims · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ten years ago in an editorial in LinuxFormat I called Miguel de Icaza a "sell-out" and have yet to be proved wrong. His Quisling-esque career would be resigned to the /dev/null of Linux history except for all the damage he has done. Now he serves as a cautionary tale.

  18. Re:Microsoft BOB on Ask Slashdot: Is the Rise of Skeuomorphic User Interfaces a Problem? · · Score: 1

    Why has nobody mentioned the penultimate in skeumorphic design, Microsoft BOB?

    Some things are best left unsaid, that's why.

  19. really? on Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    What about all the other, arguably more offensive comments in the kernel?

    This is so stupid.

  20. Boondoggle on Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps" · · Score: 1

    What a waste of money since it is little more than window dressing and will not solve the problem of the failure of the school system.

  21. If only on IE10 Will Have 'Do Not Track' On By Default · · Score: 1

    If only they would have the "Do Not Exploit With Malware" option turned on.

  22. Re:Lessons learned the hard way. on Mono Abandons Open Source Silverlight · · Score: 1

    Everyone tried to tell you this, that Microsoft would stab you in the back, Miguel, but you wouldn't listen.

    Exasperating fact: smart people often do blatantly stupid things.

    He does not seem so smart now, does he?

  23. Re:Am I a bad person? on Mono Abandons Open Source Silverlight · · Score: 1

    Absolutely Not.

    I was actually kind of giddy when Facebook shares started dropping the first day out.

    I just head they are predicting $25 by mid-summer.

    By mid summer?? It's $28 and falling TODAY

    Facebook has invented time travel !

  24. Color Me on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    Not Surprised

  25. So Miguel . . . on Mono Abandons Open Source Silverlight · · Score: -1, Troll

    After you sold out to Microsoft years ago, how does it feel to be treated like the whore you were?