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  1. I find it astonishing on USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age · · Score: 1

    That all the postal services have been so slow to get into parcel delivery. We all order on line these days and surely it would have gone some way to offset the impact of reduced post.

  2. I think I see what the problem was on Swiss Canton Abandons Linux Migration · · Score: 5, Funny

    Delays in the implementation, immature software, half-eaten staff,

  3. Re:What an amazing breakthrough! on Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2009 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfavorable reviews to the original classic

  4. Re:Linux installation on What To Cover In a Short "DIY Tech" Course? · · Score: 1

    Have you been in a coma for the last 5 years? Its all about works out of the box now, the infrastructure is utterly irrelevant apart from a small minority. Its all about what your imagination can build on top of it now and how quickly you can get it on app store.

  5. Re:bah humbug! on In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science · · Score: 1

    I lost my leg and an eye in a drunken shark fight. It was pissed and I was winning but a couple of his pack buddies jumped in and long story short I lost some body parts.

    Several doctors told me that was it, that I had to learn to live with it cope with the disability and move on with my life. I said no and went to a chiropracter who changed my life completely. He gave me a wooden leg and a seeing eye parrot with 40/40 vision.

    This not an anecdote, it was front page national enquirer news.

  6. Re:Proof of absence on In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science · · Score: 4, Funny

    e.g prove there is no god

    Babel fish.

  7. Re:and in other news on Oracle Ends Partnership With HP · · Score: 1

    I think you will find the EU are doing more than blinking their eyes in Apples direction recently on the anti-competive front

  8. It must be called SciBo on In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science · · Score: 1

    It fits better with the new Britain's Got Talent naming conventions.

  9. Re:Was there a risk assessment? on Parallel Processing For Cardiac Simulations Using an Xbox 360 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am guessing that using the XBox as a parallel programming platform is pretty easy on your game disks.

  10. Re:Switzerland not in EU on Red Hat Challenges Swiss Government Over Microsoft Monopoly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Way to go. Drag in a populist /. rara argument to support your bias. Are you privy to the requirements of th Swiss govt? Do you have any evidence or logic for that matter to prove your opinion?

  11. Re:When your lawyer withdraws, you're probably gui on Jammie Thomas May Face RIAA Trial Alone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the case is an embarrassment to the RIAA and a stern rebuke to their moronic legal theory

    I have never expressed any opinion about the underlying case; I am not familiar with the facts of this particular case.

    So which is it?

  12. Re:Energy is not a Technical problem, one of Will on Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sweet, we can just give all the waste product to you to dispose of in a safe, cheap and environmentally viable manner since you seem to have all this figured out.

  13. First Bonus Post on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what do I get? A ferrari? week in Tahiti?

    Does the geek cred I gain by posting on Slashdot mean I automatically become CTO?

  14. Its a predator planet! on Exoplanet Found In Old Hubble Image · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its camouflage just broke for a minute!. I say we leave it well alone!

  15. First teleported comment on Scientists "Teleport" Quantum Information One Meter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I posted it in the origial thread and it appears in the dupe thread.

    BTW I am patenting 'Teleposting' as I like to call it.

  16. Re:Holy shit, it's a proto-Firefly! on Reaction Engines To Fly Reusable Spaceplane · · Score: 2, Funny

    I dont see the resemblance. Anything else I can help you with?

  17. Anyone RTFA? on Entire Transcript of RIAA's Only Trial Now Online · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its way too long for me. Can someone sumarize please using the medium of dance.

  18. Re:Orbital? on TAAS Company Presents New Orbital Space Plane · · Score: 3, Funny

    You idea of storing valuables in a cigarette for safekeeping intrigues me. Perchance you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?

  19. So Jedi should really be called Jedi Doctors on Surgeons Weld Wounds Shut With Surgical Laser · · Score: -1

    because lightsabres cauterize the limbs they chop off.

  20. Re:Where do Swedish dudes find the time... on Gaming In Sweden Bigger Than Football and Hockey · · Score: 1

    Having had the pleasure of working in Stockholm I refer to Sweeden as Walk into Lamppost country because of all the head turning women.

  21. Re:Value on Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You need to add more value to what you sell.

    This only goes so far, then you need to start looking at other markets where there may be already entrenched players or other barriers to entry.

    If other people start selling those same perks, then what you are facing is basic business competition

    In this case they are just giving it away, traditionally businesses have regulations to prevent this soft of behaviour as in many cases it's deemed anti competitive and ultimately detrimental to the customer.

    I think Open Source is well on course to polarizing the software markets now. Its tending more to favour corporate giants who offer the full one stop range of services and very small niche players that carry on under the radar of Open Source. Medium sized businessess are gradually being erroded as they are usually the ones most vulnerable to revenue loss as comparable Open Source offerings improve in quality.

  22. Re:Criminal on A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You must be criminally inclined if you think setting up a system to steal from others would be fun.

  23. Re:Mooo on EU Wants Removable Batteries In iPhones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unbelievable isnt it. $85.95 to have your paid for and under contract toy taken away from you for 3 days and have the data wiped while you get the battery replaced and have to re sync everything. How have Apple managed to persuade people this is what passes for "it just works" in this day and age?

  24. Re:What about telecommuting? on Landing IT Work Overseas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you are young and single but cant be bothered to actually travel and experience the culture then you are most likely not the sort of candidate european companies are looking for.

  25. Re:Positive Changes on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A really positive move would be to ban all advertisements targeted at kids. It traps parents into a neverending spending cycle many can barely afford in the first place. Why should marketing experts be allowed direct their expertise in manipulation at the most vulnerable members of society.