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  1. Re:Not hoverboards on 15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom (nationaltradingstandards.uk) · · Score: 2

    Prior art! Jefferson Airplane

  2. Re:The Smithsonian in Washington D.C. on Museum of Political Corruption Planned For New York (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    +1 On-The-Nose

  3. Re:Meh... on California Votes To Ban Microbeads · · Score: 2

    Not the OP here. Anonymity was not his/her point. An audit trail was the point. You can read all of Kamashock's "record." That would be their previous posts. AC on the other hand...oh wait, did I just throw a crust of bread under a bridge?

  4. I'm not surprised at all on That U2 Apple Stunt Wasn't the Disaster You Might Think It Was · · Score: 1

    In some act of Quantum Physics, worthy of a Douglas Adams story, I'm pretty certain that this is why Zoo Station, one of the most amazing U2 Tribute bands will be performing at McTeague's Saloon on St. Patrick's Day from 8pm. (1237 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA, 415-776-1237)

  5. Re:Good grief... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    If you made it through the program and failed to learn it and didn't have an issue with that, I still put a large value of fail on you.

  6. Re:Good grief... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Many of them don't even understand how computers actually work.

    Now that's actually depressing. If you get through a CS program without learning how a computer works, then your CS program failed you.

    If you got through a CS program without learning how a computer works, then you and the program failed...

  7. Re:Cat and mouse... on Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates" · · Score: 1

    Can he/she get an insightful?

  8. Re:Cat and mouse... on Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates" · · Score: 2

    To be fair, OP never connected those two dots the way that you did... Rereading... Nope.

  9. Re:3-digit /. UID? on Manufacturer's Backdoor Found On Popular Chinese Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    It Still Does Nothing

  10. Re:One of the cornerstones on Dr. Dobb's 38-Year Run Comes To an End · · Score: 1

    Firstly, this is an underrated post!

    Secondly, thank you! I just spent three hours reading magazines from my younger days.
    I'll be back in a few years when I'm done reading and reminiscing.

  11. Re:Back in the day... on Ask Slashdot: Best Software To Revive PocketPCs With Windows Mobile 5-6? · · Score: 1

    Loved the Libretto back in the 90s. Paperback book sized portable workstation. Had a Ricochet Wireless modem hooked up. Road Warrior stuff! I remember running the Windows NT 5 Betas and then 2K on it. I even had it dual boot into BeOS. If memory serves, the trick around the proprietary floppy issue was that we used a PC Card controller hooked up to an external portable CD-ROM drive to install alternate operating systems.

  12. Re:Why? on Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X · · Score: 1

    NeXT couldn't keep up with Intel and by the time Jobs caved in and went with his dual-architecture 68K/Intel binary format, it was too late.

    Whilst Apple did have hybrid 68k/PPC binaries back in the 90s, and they did have hybrid PPC/Intel applications during the transition to Intel CPUs,.."68K/Intel binary format"?

  13. Re:Cable channels killed it and the OTA stations on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 2

    Many cartoons WERE infomercials.

  14. Re:Speaking for myself on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 2

    In the mid 1990's the government mandated that children's programming be educational.

    Did they really? I was under the impression that they mandated a certain amount of Educational/Informative Children's Programming be shown per week. Hence the Sunday morning cartoons in the time slot when the network didn't have any sporting event or important programming to show.

  15. Re:Not answered in review on iOS 8 Review · · Score: 3, Funny

    C) If you are loosing application on a iDevice, then you must be pretty dim.

    Mr. Pot, there's a Mr. Kettle on line three for you.

  16. Re:Boom in the EU = Boom in Redmond on City of Turin To Switch From Windows To Linux and Save 6M Euros · · Score: 1

    Nowadays you don't get that with those big fancy Apple monitors, people have to use non-maximized windows.

    Wait, what?. Running my shell full screen, corner to corner, requires one button press on my big fancy Apple Terminal Window...

  17. Re:Why such paranoia ? on Smartphone Kill Switch, Consumer Boon Or Way For Government To Brick Your Phone? · · Score: 2

    baloney coolaid.

    Worst flavor of Kool Aid evar!

  18. http://www.theglobeandmail.com... First thing that sprang to mind...

  19. Re:question: does IE support adblock and noscript? on Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation · · Score: 1

    Is it petty of me to think back to the 90s and the naughties and find some pleasure in those particular tables having been turned?

  20. Re: Call it Web? on Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation · · Score: 2

    I checked the rules...he absolutely does not owe you a new keyboard!

  21. Re:Reasons not to switch? One word: on Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development · · Score: 1

    Forever-ever? Forever-ever?

  22. Re:This is just evil. on Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text · · Score: 1

    Whew! I thought you were going to say hosts file. Thank heavens for that. Uh oh...

  23. Re:Where? on Fugitive Child Sex Abuser Caught By Face-Recognition Technology · · Score: 0

    Russia, they obviously don't extradite American Criminals or Snowden would already be home.

    Forgive the troll feeding, if that's the case. Snowden was convicted of what?

  24. Re:We Are All Under Suspicion Now on Fugitive Child Sex Abuser Caught By Face-Recognition Technology · · Score: 1

    > For over a century we've had passports without such unspoofable methods and without significant problems.

    I'd call for a citation, but based on that incredibly broad statement and all the passport games that have been played over said century and change by spies, criminals, freedom fighters, terrorists, martyrs and evildoers...not to mention others, I think I'm just going to call shenanigans. Or BS, if you prefer.