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  1. Re:Noooooooo on Facebook Wants To Buy Skype · · Score: 1

    I really hope not as well I would have to ditch skype completely I refuse to use facebook if this proves true I'm deleting my skype details immediately.

    Me too. Time to learn torchat or something.

  2. Re:Awesome on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    You insensitive clot! I have a thyroid problem!.

    You insensitive clod! I'm a hemophiliac.

  3. Re:PaperPort? Xnview? Lucion? eDoc Organizer? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home? · · Score: 1

    The only positive for digital docs is that you don't have to shred them at some point, which takes a little time.

    But you should probably encrypt them and/or digitally shred them when you're done. That also takes a little time.

  4. Re:Bureaucrats on Department of Justice: FBI Too Focused On Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Children can't give consent. Ask any therapist-- any of them.

    The logical flaw in your argument is that all therapists are adults.

    That's like saying "Women can't drive, just ask any man".

  5. Re:Smart on Computer Opens Unmanned Store For Holiday · · Score: 1

    there is nothing other than greed/tight-fistedness which makes people illegally download music instead of paying for it. If a business sells its product for $x and you think that is too expensive, you don't fucking buy it.

    Sorry, but people don't download stuff without paying as a political protest.

    The price is irrelevant if you want to obtain the product anonymously... you can't buy songs from itunes anonymously. For some people, it wouldn't matter how cheap the product is selling for; If they have to hand over personal details or register on some crappy database or use their credit card, that's the deal-breaker, not the price.

  6. Re:Been there done that YMMV on Why People Should Stop Being Duped By the 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    You can't fix these problems

    Never is a long time. It's conceivable that one day screens will be able to track the exact location and orientation of our eyeballs in real time, and direct light to them accurately using directional laser light instead of the current diffused light, therefore being able to catering for multiple viewers at the same time.

  7. Re:The format on White House Releases Trusted Internet ID Plan · · Score: 1

    You mean like 078-05-1120?

  8. Re:Time for Bitcoins? on Local Currencies To Replace Dollar For 5 Countries' Dealings · · Score: 1

    21 Milion Bitcoins isn't really going to cut it for running a global economy, let alone running a small country.

    Which is why it was programmed to have far more than 21 million units of divisibility.

  9. Re:I cant help but think..... on Comcast's 105MBit Service Comes With Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Do packages like this encourage piracy?

    So basically what you're saying is, only small files are public domain and once a file gets large enough it automatically starts violating someone else's copyright.

  10. Re:only good thing on XXX Goes Live In the Root Servers · · Score: 1

    a straight up non-starter

    The definition of an oxymoron in the porn world.

  11. 8 megapixel sensors on Sony CEO Lets Slip That iPhone 5 Will Have 8MP Camera · · Score: 1

    Lucky only 8 of these megapixel sensors have been delayed. The other 10 million of them will be delivered on time.

  12. Re:At the risk of my nerd card... on Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? · · Score: 1

    And she was the second-hottest chick in it.

    She has nice eyes, but what's with the chin putty?

  13. Re:Bitcoin is good, but problematic. on Google Engineer Releases Open Source Bitcoin Client · · Score: 1

    I've just installed and am trying to source my first BTC... I have LR to offer in exchange, however I haven't yet found an exchanger for LR-BTC.

  14. Re:Appholes on Apple Sues Amazon.com Over App Store Trademark · · Score: 1

    The Apple App Store opened in March 2008. If you do an Internet search for the term "App Store" prior to that you have a very hard time finding any legitimate results.

    By the same argument, Coca-Cola must have been invented in 1995, because if you do an internet search for the term "Coca-Cola" prior to that you have a very hard time finding any legitimate results.

  15. Re:Publisher's attitude is for you to bend over... on Best-Selling Author Refuses $500k; Self-Publishes Instead · · Score: 1

    She'll try to pull 'They can each marry the opposite gender' crap...yeah, just like white and black people can each use their own different water fountain. Or men and women can go to their own different colleges.

    Or men and women can go to their own different toilets, bath houses and locker rooms... 'Seperate but equal' does have it's place sometimes.

  16. Re:Uh... on Mirah Tries To Make Java Fun With Ruby Syntax · · Score: 2

    I don't even want to know what you think bisexuality is if an interpretation based on half-ness makes sense to you...

    Bisexuality is being half homosexual and half heterosexual.

    I know a guy who is 'semisexual', but he's taking tablets for that :)

    But seriously I agree with you on 'bi' vs 'semi'.

  17. Re:You couldb't fit the disclaimer in a tweet on Why UK Banks Don't Tweet · · Score: 1

    Banks couldn't fit their required legal content [...] in a tweet

    There are a lot of things that don't fit in a tweet, that's why people use URL-shortening services and include links.

  18. Re:Not sure what their priorities are. on Further Updates On Post-Tsumami Japan · · Score: 1

    Fly it in using what exactly? A pumper truck weighs in at 20+ tonnes. There's no helicopter that will lift that much. Not the Tarhe (9T), not the Chinook (12.7T), not even the Super Stallion (14.5T).

    Does this count as a helicopter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-12 (40 tonne lift).

  19. Re:That's almost twice as much as 26%! on NASA Satellite Snaps Rare Cloud-Free Ireland · · Score: 1

    Means... half of the time, it has 90%+ cloud cover. I honestly don't get why people can't grasp this concept.

  20. Re:The whole thing on The Quake Through Eyes of Slashdot Japan · · Score: 1

    No deal. Facebook login required.

  21. Re:Easily CSI on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    Also in NCIS, pretty much EVERYTHING is done using the keyboard, never a mouse. Oh you want me to fast-forward the video and zoom in on that guy's face? *tap tap tap*

  22. Re:$1.2 million worth of Microsoft Points on $1.2 Million Worth of MS Points Taken After Hackers Figure Out Code Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Ask for a gas can in the UK and you'll most likely get a propane gas bottle.

    Which is a gas.

    They make the bottles out of gas now? And here I am using the old-fashioned metal ones like a sucker.

  23. Re:At $0.99, it's not worth pirating on Crime Writer Makes a Killing With 99 Cent E-Books · · Score: 1

    Piracy is not just about money though. Not having to have a credit card or give out your details makes things worth pirating, even if it were priced at $0.01.

  24. Re:Why start being correct now? on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    How about lazy jackasses and fat ugly elephants instead?

    How about giant douches and turd sandwiches?

  25. Re:Roald Dahl called this 50 years ago... on Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? · · Score: 1

    "parsing long contracts with fixed logical rules"

    Sorry, legal law is random, arbitrary and full of amiguity

    GP must have been talking about illegal law.