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  1. Introducing Comrade Murdoch, Commie and Neo-Con on Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content · · Score: 1

    Rather than engage in such whiny and wimpish behavior, it would be more useful to join the Chinese Communist Party to gain the favors one needs in what used to be referred to as a 'Commie' country, as in communist, not comedy.

    Imagine that, the owner of several neo-conservative media outlets become a communist. Oligarchs will do whatever it takes to gain wealth and power. Unfortunately for Murdoch he will never be allowed to achieve what he did outside China, in China.

  2. Wikileaks Leaked on Wikileaks Plans To Make the Web Leakier · · Score: 1

    This has caused me to wonder what will happen if Wikileaks itself has a leak of it's own. Would that be a recursive leak? Will they treat it just like any other leak or zero out the bits?

  3. Re:No. on Who Wants To Be a Billionaire Coder? · · Score: 1

    On a national level, both Japan and the US have tried this approach and failed.

    As trillionaires, we the United States citizens decided to get or blow up Japan after they decided to get or blow up Hawaii, notably, both islands, and notably both wealthy nations with plenty of idle time to think about such things instead of mowing the yard.

    When they wouldn't sell, we threw a gazillion little and two huuuuuge bombs to blow it up - didn't work - so we got ready to do it with a gazillion huuuuuger bombs until the Soviets said Niet! Then we poured money into the Island and still didn't end up owning it.

    Instead we sold Hawaii, while retaining mineral rights, and recently, close to everything we had in Financial Services in their part of the world. We also decided to sell our 'freedom' by borrowing a trillion dollars from them. Man we are good - at shooting ourselves in the foot.

    They felt sorry for us and decided to build the PS3 to get even more out of us - while we bicker over how to reduce ourselves further.

  4. Google Translate Extended on Python Converted To JavaScript, Executed In-Browser · · Score: 3, Funny

    Announcing onelanguage dot com, an extension of Google Translate, ushering in an era where programmers need only learn one language and have it converted to another language of choice.

    FAQ:

    Q. How accurate is it?
    A. Same as Google Translate. You have to learn the output language to know which parts of the language you already know result in garbage-out. We suggest you use our new Pidgin versions of Python, PHP, Java, and Ruby.

  5. Open Source Browsers RIP? on Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chrome is also open source so by this logic it will very likely suffer the same fate and be dumped. Rather than go back to IE I have decided to retire.

  6. Slashdot Is The Only News You Need on Google To Offer Micropayments To News Sites · · Score: 1

    /. is free.
    /. is all you need to know.
    /. is god, 'er 42.

  7. Signalling the end of Slashdot tags on Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code · · Score: 1

    Oh dear, /. is in violation. Imagine that, /. without tags.

  8. Re:Guaranteed to work on Mozilla To Protect Adobe Flash Users · · Score: 1

    Need tech support from the son but can post /.? Awesome. Can he help me get my great-grandmother to post?

  9. Cheaper Option on 30,000-Lb. Bomb On Fast Track For Deployment · · Score: 1

    Don't need a huge bomb, Hit the ventilation and entrance shafts, as well as communication links with existing 500 pounders vs. 5,000+ pounders.

    Otherwise useful for mining coal.

  10. Re:What? on 'Vanish' Makes Sensitive Data Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    I think he is speaking in Japanese gibberish. The translation reveals he said "The majority of my messages the empty is the queer word which starts. Did not need that you dispute ahead!"

  11. FieLinux Distribution with Firefox Desktop on Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    Boot into a newfangled FireLinux distribution using Firefox as the desktop, cloud resident data, and Java to run whatever you want, given the FOSS emulator to do so.

    Then write a Java emulator for Java to run Java within Java within Java within Java ...

  12. IBM's IMS is a Hierarchical Database on Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed · · Score: 1

    IBM has had a hierarchical database called IMS since 1966 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Information_Management_System

    It holds and manipulates data in a hierarchy accessed and manipulated with the DL/I query language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Language_Interface

    Now, if the venerable IBM would please grow up and Open Source IMS we could have the best of both worlds.

    Better still, reverse engineer the thing from IBM specs, dropping all the legacy fluff accumulated over 40 years, and call it MyHQL.

  13. Patenting Stupidity on Licensing Issues Shut Down Pandora Outside US · · Score: 1

    aw, crap. Please don't tell me we've patented stupidity.

    Many have tried only to stumble when their own stupidity is found to be in violation of their own patent, rendering it invalid.

  14. turnOffAutoPilotWhenEnteringStorm(); on Investigators Suspect Computers Doomed Air France Jet · · Score: 1

    Hold the outsourcer accountable - the method name invoked is in a local dialect which stymied European developers. They believed "A330.greenDam()" meant "turn on auto-pilot when entering storm", instead of "turn off auto-pilot when entering storm".

  15. Investigate HCL for EEOC Violations? on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an investigation of HCL is due. If his hiring mirrors what is being said, HCL may be in violation of EEOC laws by discriminating against Americans.

  16. Re:store it on the HDD! on The Future Might Be BIOS and Browsers · · Score: 1

    And what do you do when the cloud goes down?

  17. Re:Question on World's First Battery Fueled By Air · · Score: 1

    Attach an oxygen cylinder and you can take it anywhere.

  18. Ban email, allow snail mail on What Should Be In a Technology Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    Eliminates spam, idles mail servers, reduces bandwidth utilization, while providing the opportunity to actually have time off while the snail mail winds its way there and back, making you a top performer.

  19. The secret location is elsewhere on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    The fact that he revealed it means the secret location is elsewhere.

    The communications equipment is for YouTube and Netflix.

  20. What about the chiggers? on Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants · · Score: 1

    Will the flies outdo chiggers in laying eggs in animals? Does this mean we can wear shorts in the Texas countryside?

  21. Re:So instead... on Bloggers Impacting the World of Litigation · · Score: 1

    .. the law lobby will try to make it illegal for the "proles" to discuss case law.

    That includes lawyers, politicians (who are lawyers), lobbyists (who are lawyers), judges (who are lawyers), district attorneys (who are lawyers), doctors (who try to become lawyers when medicine exhausts them), special interests (who hire lawyers), as well as regulators and law enforcement (who do the bidding of lawyers).

    That leaves the rest of us at the mercy of natural selection instead of creationism.

  22. Attention Deficit on Why Text Messages Are Limited To 160 Characters · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Most people lose their attention after 160 characters.

  23. Re:Great news! on IBM Doubles Rewards For Ditching Sun · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have four SPARCstation4s in my attic.

    Tough machines. Temperatures can swing over 100 fahrenheit up there, not to mention birds nesting in enclosures, rats feeding on cables, snakes feeding on rats, and Bear Grylls feeding on snakes.

    Make sure IBM guarantees the same level of durability.

  24. Re:overpaid? on Pentagon Lost Billions, Pennies At a Time · · Score: 1

    $6/hr in 1969 is equivalent to $34.78 today. I read it on the internet, so it must be true!

    Which is $34.80 or +$0.02 in truthiness.

  25. Re:Hungry for breakfast . . . on Flu Models Predict Pandemic, But Flu Chips Ready · · Score: 1

    make me hungry for bacon & eggs.

    bacon => pig => swine => swine flu => pig => bacon
    egg => chicken => bird => bird flu => chicken => egg