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  1. Re:it's all about accountability on Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School · · Score: 1

    So...your plan is to, what? Make sure each and every child has a college education?

    Heh. That was pretty much the policy of the Labour government in the UK.

    (don't go down that route, by the way. We're in the shit now an there are dramatically too many graduates compared to the number of graduate jobs, and graduates with huge debts too.)

  2. Re:Poor solution on 'Leap Seconds' May Be Eliminated From UTC · · Score: 0, Troll

    choosing to standardize the internet on UTC and then complaining it is too hard to do the programming right is a little like buying a house next door to a turkey farm and complaining about the smell.

    Or complaining about Sarah Palin interviews.

  3. Re:Nope on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 1

    So why aren't we that sure whether North Korea has nukes?

  4. Attourneys General? on The Story of Dealing With 33 Attorneys General · · Score: 1

    Seriously, can we stop with the French throwbacks, and say things the English way? What's wrong with General Attourneys?

  5. Re:American Football is not Football on What Happens To a Football Player's Neurons? · · Score: 3, Funny

    And while there's contact all the time, soccer players are too fast/agile to do much damage.

    Not really, it's just that football players are miraculous creatures, their bodies heal amazingly fast. Have you seen the number of times Ronaldo has had a fracture and been rolling around the ground in pain, and been up and running a minute later? Amazing.

  6. Re:Sneaky, yes. Lies, not quite. on ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds · · Score: 1

    They said "up to" not "averaging" so anyone who speaks english and has an iota of mathematical sense should know that they aren't going to see those speeds.

    We're talking about Americans, so unfortunately neither of those is likely to be true.

  7. I are in ur brainz on How the Internet Is Changing Language · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... changing ur langwigez!

  8. Re:Hypocrisy Isn't Free on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Except this has absolutely nothing to do with freedom, but rather good taste and a little sensitivity

    Funny, that's almost the exact argument about whether to allow the mosque to be built next to Ground Zero... and Obama came out and supported it.

  9. Re:Unlimited Content on Rupert Murdoch Plans a Digital Newspaper For the US · · Score: 1

    So it's difficult to see how this slight re-working of an old model is going to work in a world where the game has changed in such fundamental ways.

    With the appropriate amount of legislation to back it up, it could.

  10. Re:And this is why you buy unlocked/unbranded on Vodafone Backs Down In Row With Android Users · · Score: 1

    And it takes the price of a smartphone through the roof.

    (Disclaimer: I always try to buy unlocked)

  11. Re:Wrong on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I wonder how much this has to do with programming, and the fundamentally different nature of the meaning of = in that and maths? Yeah, you heard me Americans, maths plural.

  12. Re:What does slashdot say? on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    We have bigger problems in the world than "one space or two" ... for example, people's atrocious speling.

    Oh come on, your being rediculous.

  13. Re:So much for freedom of speech on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    We aren't responsible enough as a society at viewing all that information fairly to be trusted with it indiscriminately.

    So the Pentagon and the US Administration are more responsible? Or should stuff be hidden from them too?

  14. Re:Cue 'speeding' jokes - here's #1 on Online Forum Speeding Boast Leads To Conviction · · Score: 1

    They were just trying to make the car innards as practical as the Ferrari itself.

  15. Re:Can't sleep on The Brain's Secret For Sleeping Like a Log · · Score: 1

    If you should die before you wake... hahahaHAHAHAHOOHOHOOHAHAHAHA!!!

  16. Re:He actually reads those mails? on MP Wants Official Email Address Kept Private · · Score: 1

    We don't have a two-party system, so this can easily happen

    Technically, the US doesn't either... though it's easy to forget. ;-)

  17. Terminology error? on Some LA Coffee Shops Are Taking Wi-Fi Off the Menu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lots of customers appreciated a wireless cup of joe at the Downbeat Cafe, a popular lunch spot in Echo Park. 'People come here because we don't offer it. They know they can get their work done and not get distracted.'"

    It was wireless before. Do you mean 'connectionless' or something? :-)

  18. Re:sweet! on Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" Frozen · · Score: 1

    It gets in the areas where different peoples' rough edges would otherwise rub and create friction, and it costs nothing to be polite.

    Not necessarily. Continuing to be polite to an arrogant, mean-spirited oaf costs you self-respect and dignity... and may well exacerbate the problem by giving them feedback that their behaviour is OK. It's certainly worth trying to be friendly at first, but after a while if I feel I'm not getting anywhere I will lose patience and tell them a few home truths about people skills.

  19. Re:KGB it! on 5 Trillion Digits of Pi — a New World Record · · Score: 1

    f(infinity+1) ... where f is the computation algorithm.

  20. Aww. on 5 Trillion Digits of Pi — a New World Record · · Score: 1

    When I read the title, I thought someone had successfully memorized 5 trillion digits of Pi. They just computed it? What a letdown.

  21. Re:Risk Management on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    And if not a gun then perhaps you face a knife or sharpened screwdriver. That's much much better isn't it? Again, one needs only to look at the UK to see this occurring and the ever more silly attempts to stop it that infringe upon the privacy of those abiding the law....

    Don't worry. We're working on banning pointy knives soon, so you won't be able to use them as weapons because the government banning something makes all existing ones disappear. Soon we will have banned anything that can be used as a weapon and then we will feel totally safe. Feel.

  22. Re:Woof on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    How does Terri fare against a few rounds of .50's?

  23. Re: Barking Dog on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    Shame about all the dog shit, crotch licking, and the need for walkies.

  24. Re:a gun on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    Nah, this guy just got ass fucked by lawyers a lot and wanted to turn things round a bit.

  25. Re:Already #1 in the US market on Android Outsells iPhone In Last 6 Months · · Score: 1

    This would be significant if it was a 'Droid X outsells iPhone' headline. Instead, they are grouping a slew of hardware models together into one big group who happen to all use the same base OS, and then comparing them to a handset that only comes on a single piece of hardware from a single vendor.

    Isn't this VERY relevant for mobile app developers, though? No matter that those Android phones are with different vendors and different hardware, being Android, they should guarantee that an Android app will run on the phone... and that's what really counts.