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  1. Privacy? on Google Launches Web Traffic Analysis Service · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So now Google can read my e-mail, track my searches, track my social network, and track which websites I go to with one cookie? All of these were opt-in until this one. Interesting...

  2. Don't forget Africa (seems everyone has) on A Flu Pandemic? · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to the World Health Organization 34.3 million people in the world have the AIDS virus

    24.5 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
    Nearly 19 million have died from AIDS, 3.8 million of them children under the age 15.
    5.4 million new AIDS cases in 1999, 4 million of them in Africa.
    2.8 million died of AIDS IN 1999, 2.4 million of them in Africa.
    13.2 million children orphaned by AIDS, 12.1 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
    Reduced life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa from 59yrs to 45yrs between 2005 and 2010, and in Zimbabwe from 61yrs to 33yrs.
    More than 500,000 babies infected in 1999 by their mothers most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

  3. Re:SONY's modest proposal on Sony's EULA Worse Than Its Rootkit? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your sig sucks.

  4. Re:There's another, more interesting aspect of thi on Apple Files Patent for "Tamper-Resistant Code" · · Score: 4, Funny

    No worries mate, it worked out pretty good for OS/2 Warp.

  5. Re:This was a cruise dimwit. on Pirates Thwarted by Sonic Weapon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Excuse me, but I believe the barbarians are the pirates attacking the cruise ship in the first place! It would be pathetic if you took the ramblings of a 14 year old Slashdotter who played too much Counter Strike to use as a stereotype for all Americans.

  6. Re:Congrats on British Teen Cleared in "E-mail Bomb" Case · · Score: 1, Funny

    lol, omfg ur funny

  7. Re:Yep on Capitalizing on Melting Polar Ice · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "U.S. Senate unanimously passed by a 95-0 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98), which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory ... "

    "If Clinton commanded a congress with a dominant Democrat majority, as Bush commands a Republican majority, the Kyoto protocol would have passed under his administration."

    Please explain to me this contradiction. Or are you saying that there was 95 Republicans in the Senate and 5 Democrats?

  8. Re:A conundrum on Bugzilla Delivered to the Desktop · · Score: 1

    I hate to think how you performed pipelining...

  9. OH Great on HP to Install Netscape on all new PCs · · Score: 1

    Netscape is still a piece of shit. Install Firefox for god's sake or at least Mozilla. Yuck.

  10. Re:One day... on Sorry, Wrong Wiretap · · Score: 1

    Right, cuz the FBI makes sure to beep everytime they tap a phone.

  11. Re:Like I'm modding that up on U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet · · Score: 1

    I don't think the UK is better or worse off, but do you have a bill of rights addressing individual freedoms?

  12. Re:Speed and memory consumption on KDE 4 Promises Large Changes · · Score: 1

    You think windows pages better? WTF? I have a gig of RAM and XP decides that once I minimize Firefox I must be "done" with it and starts paging the sucker out, even though I have hundres of megabytes of free RAM. I don't consider this very smart at all.

  13. Revolt on Flash, Meet Sparkle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When are the application makers going to start realizing that anything they develop on Microsoft's platform is eventually going to be copied and forced into the collective? Seriously, is there any piece of software running on Windows that Microsoft isn't in the process of making thier own version of?

  14. Re:Maturity on Interview With Reiser4 Author Hans Reiser · · Score: 1

    Jeez dude, what are you doing that you've lost data on so many file systems?

    I've lost data on ext2, and well there was that time that I wrote a movie to my friend's /dev/hda instead of /dev/hda1. Oops.

  15. Re:You think it's funny on Keyboard Sound Aids Password Cracking · · Score: 1

    Am I missing something? AFAIK, access to the ATM requires both something you have (the card) and something you know (the pin). You would still have had to steal the card to access his cash, correct?

  16. Re:What apple should do now on Ars Technica's iPod nano Dissection · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I got rid of my eyes in favor of two RJ-45s.

  17. Re:In other news... on Windows Incompatibilities Frustrate D.C. Schools · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Solaris is pretty stable.

    Or did you mean that big ball of geek burning light?

  18. Re:Cant WE mop up some of the CO2? on Earth Releasing More CO2 Than Originally Thought · · Score: 1

    Yeah its amazing how there were no hurricanes before 1900.

  19. Re:No Patch? Skipped a month? on Microsoft Skips Patch Tuesday · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always suspected people were getting fucked by Microsoft, but this isn't quite what I had in mind.

  20. Re:There's always a silver lining..... on Wi-Max Deployed in Katrina Disaster Area · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So far as I can tell, most of the copper and other wiring underground was built to be flooded and probably doesn't require huge repair.

  21. SYN/ACK! on Adult Swim To Offer Streaming Video Option · · Score: 1

    N/T

  22. What a tool. on ESR Gets Job Offer From Microsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd rather work for Microsoft than have anything to do with someone who writes an e-mail like that and is proud of himself after doing so.

  23. Re:Misleading title. on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did someone named "DysenteryInTheRanks" just criticize someone named "ScuttleMonkey" for not being dignified, and is somehow surprised that someone threw poo at his head? :0

  24. Re:Global Warming on Ice-Free Summers Coming To Arctic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe if you actually pointed us towards some peer reviewed research papers instead of saying, OMG TEH HURRICANE OMG WE GONNA DIE!

    Cuz like, what you are spouting isn't science either my friend.

  25. Trek Dreck on Walter Koenig Reprises His Role as Chekov · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I can barely stand to hear the words Star Trek, I can't imagine how he can.