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  1. Re:Well, it depends on the type of classes. on Ask Slashdot: Ideal High School Computer Lab? · · Score: 1

    The silly typing courses many high schools have--

    Typing is taught in 1st grade. You are really out of date.

  2. Data tracking on In-Car Video Chat and 4G Streaming From OnStar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In a press release teasing the appearance, OnStar said the system will offer such features as cloud-based streaming of information and entertainment...

    ...directly to local law enforcement.

  3. Re:yumm? on Quantum Dots Will Make Flexible Displays · · Score: 1

    The ice cream of the future is tasty.

  4. Re:More detail on North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights · · Score: 1

    Actually, the symbol of the evergreen tree for winter solstice worship existed before Christians.

  5. Re:Uh... on Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad · · Score: 1

    I got internet on a 28.8kbit line in 1996.

    You couldn't get 128kps ISDN?

  6. Re:Clearly something is wrong here... on PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives · · Score: 1

    I got lucky as well.

    I just happened to have finished over the past year buying 2TB drives during various $69-$89 Fry's Electronics specials.

    I'm currently using ten of them. :-)

  7. Re:Exciting! on Huge Tesla Coils Will Recreate Natural Lightning · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We're now stuck with rubbish like Eureka.

    Eureka has been canceled.

    You are stuck with rubbish like Ghost Hunters.

  8. Re:I agree on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' · · Score: 1

    The previous T-Mobile spokesperson was Catherine Zeta-Jones from the UK, has very nice curves and isn't obese.

  9. Re:So let me get this straight. on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' · · Score: 1, Informative

    Mod parent up.

  10. Re:I agree on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' · · Score: 0, Troll

    T-Mobile has a banging-hot chick in their advertisements.

    That anorexic chick needs a few cheeseburgers before she hasn't any curves and reaches the level of "banging-hot"

  11. Re:Intel on Sources Say Apple Originally Planned AMD Chip For MacBook Air · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At least AMD doesn't build hardware level backdoors into their CPUs.

    That you know of.

  12. Re:4g on Ask Slashdot: Updating a Difficult Campground Wi-Fi Design? · · Score: 1

    Some people take their retirement money and buy an RV and live cheaply and travel around in their old age.

    There's nothing CHEAP about an RV.

  13. Re:iPhones win by default on Army Plots Its Smartphone Strategy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Also Apple is very unlikely to agree to make custom military units with whatever requirements the military has. It's just not their thing.

    Apple already makes custom builds of laptops without cameras per 3 letter agency security requirements.

  14. Re:High school doesn't prepare you for college on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to remind you that many students in high school can barely handle Algebra III/Precalculus (whatever you call it).

    My high school didn't even have algebra or calculus.

  15. Re:I agree. on Netflix Loses 800,000 Subscribers After Qwikster Gaffe · · Score: 1

    And their library is still not even *close* to Netflix's to boot. They're a joke. Not sure why anyone in their right mind would subscribe to them. About the only thing they have going for them is some NBC and Fox shows' more recent episodes. Whoopty-do.

    "Some" more recent shows? The best thing about Hulu is they have a lot of current content which sure isn't available on Netflix.

  16. Re:I learned the value of money by paying as I wen on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    I don't want to be "that old guy" -- but I didn't qualify for student loans in the 80's & early 90's because my parents were in that bracket where they were supposed to be able to contribute, but just couldn't.

    Same here. Same time period. No financial aid of any kind. 2 jobs.

  17. Re:They better stop advertising it as "unlimited". on Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Smartphones still are and will be unlimited for the foreseeable future..

    until next week?

    until next month?

  18. Re:Still unlimited for phones on Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans · · Score: 2

    Normal smartphone use is still unlimited.

    For how long?

  19. Re:Ice Cream Sandwich? on Nexus Prime, And Ice Cream Sandwich, Go For a Video Tour · · Score: 1

    My guess is that somebody very, very hungry developed the naming system.

    And diabetic.

  20. Re:Maybe on purpose? on iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out · · Score: 1

    And why not? Better to sell out than to make so many that you end up dumping off excess inventory in a landfill.

    Somewhere there is a new island made of Microsoft Kin and Zune.

  21. Re:Steve Jobs - Marketing Genius on iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out · · Score: 1

    Release iPhone 4S... die the next day

    Well, someone had to fall on their sword for not having the redesigned iPhone 5 with LTE support ready for this year.

  22. Re:Perhaps to one's surprise? on iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a surprise to all those people who wrote articles saying that few people would by the silly "upgraded" iPhone 4S and would wait for the "revolutionary" iPhone 5.

  23. Re:Alcohol would help sales on One More Thing For Apple Stores: Food? · · Score: 1

    I have the unfortunate distinction of owning a 17" MBP. Wasn't my idea, but part of my job is mobile app dev, and I needed a new laptop anyway, so I let my boss buy me the dumb thing.

    A developer who can't handle UNIX?

  24. Re:iPhone 5 may be a Sprint exclusive on Sprint Bets Big On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    That would be a very huge load of cash, to compensate for all the lost sales.

    A big assumption on your part. Apple has had no trouble selling iPhones so far.

  25. Re:iPhone 5 may be a Sprint exclusive on Sprint Bets Big On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    but I don't see what Apple would get from such an arrangement

    A load of cash from Sprint?