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  1. Re:Good for on Why the US Keeps Minting Coins People Hate · · Score: 1

    My wallet's enough of a mess without the bills all being different sizes.

  2. Re:Your children? on Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies · · Score: 1

    Parents get to make lots of decisions for their children, including pretty much all of the important ones. This is not a decision that the child should be left to make.

  3. Re:Disco Stu disagrees on The Fashion Industry As a Model For IP Reform · · Score: 1

    I prefer to quote Tony P. "Disco is not dead. Disco is life!"

  4. So the Robinsons finally made it home? on Lost Ends · · Score: 1

    Or did Dr. Smith screw things up again?

  5. Re:What's with the asterisk, Slashdot? on ACLU Sues To Protect Your Right To Swear · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows that f*ck means fuck. If you're offended by the word fuck, you will also be offended by the word f*ck. All f*ck does is bring attention to the word. LOOK HERE, I'm SWEARING. F*ck is just as inappropriate for work as fuck.

  6. Re:A bit too much sensationalism even for Slashdot on Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Passport Confiscated · · Score: 1

    They gave it back to him, but they said it will be canceled. So, he has a passport that will soon be worthless. How is that different from not having the passport at all?

  7. Re:Just a few points... on Stanford Robot Car Capable of Slide Parking · · Score: 1

    Exactly, I don't feel any danger to my masculinity by saying that I hate parallel parking as much as anyone. It was not a necessary skill where I grew up (parking mostly in driveways and parking lots) and I never learned to do it well.

  8. Re:HP Hurricane? on HP's Slate To Be Replaced By WebOS Tablet? · · Score: 1

    Nah, I think they got it about right to catch all the hypersensitive idiots that they don't want using their product.

  9. Re:I can already see them working at it on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    There are no fees or interest associated with credit cards if you use them properly. You make charges on them throughout the month, at the end of the month you pay off the entire balance.

  10. Re:They pay the bills, so STFU on Website Mass-Bans Users Who Mention AdBlock · · Score: 1

    I am annoyed by the number of cookies all the ad-servers try to set. I'm sure my cookie blacklist is filled at least 90% with ad-servers.

  11. Re:Password aging isn't in touch with the real wor on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 1

    But expiring passwords just adds one more thing for users to be bugging you about (I forgot my password after I changed it for the 3rd time this week...). Yes, you're torturing your users, but is the extra pain you have to go through as a result worth it?

  12. Re:Great Literature != good read for most on Amazon Reviewers Take on the Classics · · Score: 1

    So what's wrong with idle entertainment?

  13. Re:The Real Issue on Amazon Caves To Publishers On eBook Pricing · · Score: 1

    I was at the movie theater recently, and at the concession stand, they had a number of "Combos", listing for example 1 Large Soda and 1 Large Popcorn. Or 2 Large Sodas and 1 Large Popcorn. Curiously, they had no prices attached to the combos. Sure enough, when the price came up, the price for Combo 1 was exactly the same as the price for 1 Large Soda plus the price of 1 Large Popcorn.

  14. Re:Particular Taps, Not Entire Program on Judge Finds NSA Wiretapping Program Illegal · · Score: 1

    What else can you hope for, though? Everything's legal if you don't get caught.

  15. Rescued? on Boy Left Stranded In Tree Because of Health and Safety Policy · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say she rescued him. The boy didn't want to come down, there was no indication that he needed help getting down. Trying to forcibly get a child out of a tree when he doesn't want to leave is definitely dangerous, and instead deciding to observe and wait for him to come down himself isn't an outrageous way to handle it.

  16. Re:That's very nice Opera on Opera Sees "Dramatic" Rise From Microsoft's Ballot · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a Big Red O! There's no stopping the Big Red O once it gets rolling. It'll roll right over your lowercase blue e. It'll roll right over your rat clinging to the blue egg. It won't even acknowledge Safari, because it doesn't remember what its icon is. Beware the Big Red O! It's the Future!

  17. Re:prevent discrimination? on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who has said that collecting from everyone who is arrested is fair?

  18. Re:No Mention of the Size on School Putting Autistic Children in Fenced Enclosure · · Score: 1

    We had a fence, but it wasn't enclosing. I guess it was intended to stop balls and things from flying out into the road, but the kids could still walk around it if they wanted (and often had to to recover whatever was hit OVER the fence.

  19. I'd rather pay on Power To the Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    If I was going to make regular use of a proxy-site, I would rather pay a modest subscription fee and not be hit with obnoxious advertising. Especially since you know these new ad techniques will be moving out from just the proxy sites to the rest of the wild west web.

  20. Re:Answers on The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer · · Score: 1

    Apple picked AT&T as their dedicated carrier. They were waving an attractive new phone for AT&T's exclusive use, they had power in that negotiation, but instead they let AT&T forbird tethering. Yes, it's Apple's fault.

  21. Re:Double trademark trolls! on Fujitsu Readies Lawsuit Over "iPad" Name · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you'd read the story, you'd see there is a Fujitsu iPad, so sounds like they've got a chance.

  22. Re:Pavolvian Response on The Cell Phone Has Changed — New Etiquette Needed · · Score: 1

    I hope you at least hit the button to silence it. Having your phone continue to ring while I talk to you would be FAR more irritating than having you check the caller and turn off the ring. I expect most people to be able to do that much while still paying attention to the speaker.

  23. Re:first rule on The Cell Phone Has Changed — New Etiquette Needed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So complain about the issue that actually bothers you. You're annoyed by LOUD PEOPLE, not by people on cell phones.

  24. Re:Obsolete on Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    There must be SOME sharing of addresses/numbers there, or the first person can't contact the second person so they can add them to address books. You're right, though. It doesn't have to be memorable, though it helps when I can remember my own phone number, which is tricky some days...

  25. Re:Why would you want to keep the telephone number on Dragging Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    I assumed "Dragging Telephone Numbers into the Internet Age" meant something like replacing numbers on phones with some other form of id. Apparently, I was wrong.