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  1. Re:Five months? on Textbooks With EULAs · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess this could be considered some sort of student idiot test. 'Hands up who purchased the DRM -Book for our 4 year course?'

  2. Five months? on Textbooks With EULAs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And just what happens when you need to revise for exams? This sounds like a very badly thought out idea that someone didn't want to work.

  3. Re:Waste on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >> Lots of real estate that is completely devoid of terrorists.

    True, until someone decides to become one. Or do you have a way of spotting them?

    Funniest thing I've seen all week.

    Mods, please mod parent +1 DickHead.

  4. Re:Waste on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Again I'd have to agree with you.

  5. Re:Waste on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    I think since we are talking shuttle here you can assume that I was talking about the shuttle.

  6. Re:Waste on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Mode parent up. Really with people starving in this world it's just immoral to be spending such huge sums of money or basically worthless trips to space.

  7. Re:Lunchen budeget for CIOs. on Linux Feels Growing Pains · · Score: 1

    I could make the same comparision with Google knowing knowing about Advertising as it is an IT company.

  8. Re:Lunchen budeget for CIOs. on Linux Feels Growing Pains · · Score: 0

    Comparing against Google is not very fair, is it? Google spend VAST amounts of money on their IT - their IT is their Primary business. Lets compare apples with apples please.

    And lets face it, I would hazard a guess this man is a lot more successful and knows how to build a more profitable company than you? So lets respect his views and use them as input into the next generation Linux Distros.

  9. Re:Who pays??? on Getting Open Source to the Dialup Masses · · Score: 1

    Don't confuse a lack of demonstration of an ability with the lack of that ability. (Ask someone to explain if this confuses you.)

    I fail to see how you could come to the conclusion my Geography and History were lacking from that article? Obviously you should exercise your reasoning skills a little more.

  10. Re:Who pays??? on Getting Open Source to the Dialup Masses · · Score: 1

    I see, funded by a charity or something.

    I admit I didn't realise this was Africa where charity rules the roost. My comments we about having this kind of think in the first world.

  11. Who pays??? on Getting Open Source to the Dialup Masses · · Score: 1

    Who pays for the hardware for this?

    Who pays the rental for its location? No point placing it where no one can find it? Need to be in a mall or something.

    Who insures it against all thrid party risks? If this is in a public place then it need insuring.

    Who maintains it?

    Who designs it?

    etc.

    Pipe dream people. Move along.

  12. Re:I hope the shuttle comes home safe... on Space Shuttle to Receive Emegency Repairs · · Score: 1

    Bollocks!

  13. Re:useful space work? on Space Shuttle to Receive Emegency Repairs · · Score: 1

    In other news the US goverment has admitted they spend $2 Billion a year on research into sticking hot pokers up peoples arses. They added they don't have to justify the benefits to tax payers on this one.

  14. Re:This IS a surprise though. on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    >> prevent emulation

    Please explain, I've missed this one

  15. Those evil bastards on Google Patents RSS Advertising · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Oh wait. Does not compute..... Brain is going to explode

  16. Re:"Acceptable Risk"? on Space Shuttle One Step Closer To July Launch · · Score: 1

    I someone will give me 12-1 I'll put £100 on it not coming back in one piece.

    Seriously, this is one mother of a complicated thing, it can never be 'safe enough'

  17. Re:Moderation might help, but it won't happen. on eBay Starts Open-Source Community · · Score: 1

    I used their live help for exactly the same situation. Small time seller of 30 itmes all of a sudden gets into the High Performance BMW business. That user account was suspended within 5 mins. Worked well for me.

  18. Re:My guess/hope on Google CEO Confirms Online Payment System · · Score: 1

    That's my bet. Could be *huge* if they get it right. It could replace the Advert driven model another story here is reporting on.

    Imagine '2 cents to view this site for 24 hours, would you like your google account debited?'

    And once it is huge, then attack the low life blood sucking wa***king mother f*****g c***ts called PayPal. I shall enjoy reading about their slow and painful death.

  19. Utter crap on Another Dot-com Boom? · · Score: -1, Troll

    To get people to read your crap just get out an old story that haunts people and associate your with it.

    Wat next, Gold Rush is back?

  20. First poke??? on Nerds Make Better Lovers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    blah blah

  21. Take over from MS? on Apple/Intel Speculation Running Rampant · · Score: 1

    Lets see:

    1. Apple stops using PPC and uses Intel - majority of users will notice very little since Apple will provide good emulation technololgy to smooth the transission.

    2. Few years down the line OpenOffice gets good enough to replace MS Office.

    3. Apple releases version of OSX that runs on standard Intel boxes.

    4. Windows users flock to Apple who for a limited time is offering free upgrades to anyone who have a copy of Windows (and by chance this upgrade reuses their old version of Windows to provide a Windows session like VMWARE).

    Total world dom?

    Oh, and...

    As OSX becomes the defacto standard operating system Virus writers start to Target OSX leaving people looking for ways to migrate to the Windows Underdog.

  22. Re:That isn't what the Zombie Meter says... on Europe Home to Majority of Zombies · · Score: 1

    No it wouldn't. It might suggest that a small country such as Monaco has the larest spam problem.

  23. Re:Slashdot becomes a shill for google on Google Launches Summer of Code · · Score: 1

    Or we could just call it cheap PR/Advertising?

  24. Re:Unsupported assertions on Coming Soon, The Google Translator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Look pal, you said something about Google that could be taken a negative. Here on Slashdot that is only slightly better that saying something good about Windows. But thank your lucky fucking stars you didn't decide to disparage the immortal being that is Linux. That's worse than flushing the original Koran down the pan.

  25. Re:The GPL isn't all that on VX30 Ad-Stats Code Online · · Score: 0

    haha - I know shit! I should have RTFGPL bagain before I posted.

    I need coffee and lots of it.