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  1. Re:Ludicrous on German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Or if he left his gun rack unlocked. Or if he didn't have his seatbelt fastened. Or if he failed to wear a helmet while operating a motorcycle. Or...

  2. Reading comprehension fail on German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    The court said that he wasn't found guilty for copyright infringement, which would be analogous in your example to being found guilty for aiding a criminal. You would be charged with failing to secure your residence, much in the same way that he was charged with failing to secure his wifi.

  3. Re:Star Trek predicted this one.... on Researchers Build Evolving Brain Computer? · · Score: 1

    That's not what I learned from "11001001".

  4. Re:In Soviet Russia the circuit evolves you! on Researchers Build Evolving Brain Computer? · · Score: 1

    or at least that makes nice sounding techno-babble.

    Nice sounding techno-babble is the source of continued funding. Don't mock their press release where they throw around relevant and timely buzzwords!

  5. Re:Title is a goddamn sonofabitch phony on Amazon Is Collecting Your Kindle Highlights & Notes · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suggest hacking this. Get a whole bunch of people to download some really obscure free book and then highlight words which suggest some deeply disturbing pathological behavior. Get enough people to do it and you'll have Amazon highlighting some sicko fantasy.

  6. Re:Too Salty on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 1

    Or add lime and tequila.

  7. Re:What could on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 1

    Oh, I'd really.

  8. Re:Don't see the growth... on 13 Open Source Hardware Companies Make $1+ Million · · Score: 1

    I don't really see the growth factor for open source hardware.

    What? You mean corporate management teams aren't convinced by this article? Nintendo isn't considering open sourcing the Wii hardware and software and letting all their competitors undercut them with identical systems that will play the same titles? I'm shocked!

  9. Re:More to the point on Microsoft's Free, Online Version of Office To Premiere This Week · · Score: 1, Informative

    Dude! Repeat after me: "<p> </p> and <br /> work on Slashdot". Geez!

    Hitting [ENTER] works well too, and Slashdot will auto-convert it to the appropriate HTML for you. Choose your message options as "Plain Old Text" which also allows you to insert links, style it bold or italic, quote text, insert ordered or unordered lists, and so on. Who the hell manually enters paragraph or line break tags on Slashdot anymore?

  10. Re:Of course it's hype, just SHARPer :-) on Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? · · Score: 1

    Well whoosh right back at you. Of course you weren't being serious, which is why I had fun with my reply.

    And tomhudson claimed the viewing angle was up to 178 degrees. Thus, 179 degrees being outside the range. Of course, it sucks to have to explain the joke, but there you go.

  11. Re:Of course it's hype, just SHARPer :-) on Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? · · Score: 1

    You watch your TV from behind???

    That depends on the reference point for the specified number of degrees. I'll give you two guesses as to what I was using.

  12. Re:Just under three thousand people would disagree on 9/11 Made Us Safer, Says Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    And all the people who died in car accidents prior to the mandatory installation of seatbelts would disagree that we are now safer?

  13. Re:Of course it's hype, just SHARPer :-) on Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? · · Score: 1

    Far wider viewing angles than those of LCD (up to 178);

    Screw that. I like watching my screen at 179 degrees.

  14. Re:Good news, I suppose on Crackdown On Counterfeit Networking Gear · · Score: 1

    You know, the RIAA has nothing to do with this case.

    That would be why it's better. Reading comprehension is a wonderful thing.

  15. Re:False dichotomy much? on Choice of Programming Language Doesn't Matter For Security · · Score: 1

    Or to paraphrase Orwell: "All languages are insecure, but some are more insecure than others."

  16. Re:Duh on Choice of Programming Language Doesn't Matter For Security · · Score: 1

    C...

    Oh cool, is C ellipses the new C sharp?

    No, it's just another form of object notation in the next version of Objective-C. sigh ...

    I take it that was an objective sigh?

  17. Re:The internet wasn't always unlimited. on CRTC Approves Usage Based Billing In Canada · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Agility on CBS and CNN Could Be Making News Together · · Score: 1

    CNN used to care. I remember when it was THE source for information about the first Gulf war. It was a serious station with a great format. These days, whenever I see CNN on TV somewhere it looks like what happens when a reality TV show gets knocked up by an infomercial.

  19. Re:But will IE accept the new font files? on Font Foundries Opening Up To the Web · · Score: 1

    The original "Calson" font mentioned in the article is at least 200 hundred years old, yet there are a number of Calson offering, like from Adobe, costing some $45 bucks.

    Wow! That's 20,000 years old. No wonder it costs forty-five dollars bucks!

  20. Re:More is good, but on Font Foundries Opening Up To the Web · · Score: 1

    Can I nominate a second in Papyrus???

    Technically, you can, but I'd be very annoyed with you for using the awful Papyrus to nominate the font you want banned.

    Pro tip: stop setting Papyrus as your default browser font.

  21. Re:Surely you understand the difference on BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most normal people simply say, "just a sec, I got a message on my phone." What wierdos call it a blackberry?

    The same weirdos who ask for a Kleenex instead of a facial tissue? Or who ask "Would you like a coke?" when they're asking if you'd like a carbonated beverage? Or who ask for an Aspirin instead of a tablet of acetylsalicylic acid?

  22. Re:Count the misses, not just the hits. on BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla · · Score: 1

    He did not predicts Blackberry,s computers, of much of anything digital.

    And the article talked about playing songs to someone else, so clearly he's talking about the iPhone and had already envisioned the iTunes Music Store.

  23. Re:I thought that JP Morgan was the evil one on BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not only did J.P. Morgan suppress Tesla's most revolutionary work (by halting the flow of money)...

    That's like saying the lead investor suppressed Pets.com by halting the flow of money to it.

  24. Re:make all wall street traders own stock for 1 da on Robust Timing Over the Internet · · Score: -1, Troll

    These jokers want time more accurate than NTP can provide but I'll bet most of them still believe time is a universal invariant. They don't need time more accurate than NTP can provide, they need to be hit in the head with a hammer until they stop moving.

    Obligatory XKCD

  25. Re:Ridiculous on Robust Timing Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    I fully support the rule that you can't sell stock when you bought the same stock less than a day earlier, unless the current stock price is more than 10% lower than when you last bought.

    Let's have the government regulate everything. You can't return a product to the store that you bought less than 1 day earlier. You can't delete a file on your computer that you created less than 1 day earlier.