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  1. I can't wait for the homies to shoot at it on Blimps To Help Protect Washington DC From Air Attack · · Score: 0

    And then of course the 'black leadership' to claim it's spying on all the 'urban' people.

  2. What about Europe on Richard Stallman's Solution To 'Too Big To Fail' · · Score: 1

    France, specifically where most of the large companies and industries are owned in part or in whole by the French government? Seems like you're putting a statist barrier in place to lead the way for mass nationalization of everything. And we've already seen where the CCCP wound up.

  3. MS will lash Office to Win 8 on What Will The Expanding World of ChromeOS Mean For Windows? · · Score: 1

    Naturally if anyone creeps up on their market share they'll lash Office tighter to Win 8. In corporate environments they do that by default through AD and Sharepoint.

  4. I hope all EU official Macs on Apple To Discontinue Mac Pro In EU Over Safety Regulations · · Score: 1

    are promptly discarded and crushed. Any Mac Pros used in any EU official government function should be destroyed ASAP for safety purposes.

  5. Ask Netflix or Time Warner on Ask Slashdot: How Long Do We Give an Online Service To Fix Issues? · · Score: 1

    This year Netflix was down 30 hrs and Time Warner had a 39 hour outtage. That seems about right to burn their offices down and kill them all.

  6. Newspapers arrogant and bad at security? on Washington Post: We Were Also Hacked By the Chinese · · Score: 1

    Next thing you'll be telling me sometimes the government lies.

  7. Maybe you don't give them a free education? on Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? · · Score: 1

    If you're worried that you're giving them all sorts of skills for free only to kick them out of the country - - - maybe the key is not to give them all sorts of free skills in the first place? In my state they want to give instate rates or even FREE college tuition to illegal aliens.

  8. I'm waiting for Huffington Post and Salon on Jonathan Coulton Offers Some Gleeful Turnabout · · Score: 1

    To scream and warble like zoo animals that he's now officially a homophobe.

  9. Let's review on Microsoft Blames PC Makers For Windows Failure · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 is a bust. Windows 8 phone is a bust. Surface is a bust. Surface RT is a bust. Vista was a bust. Online Office in the cloud is a bust. Bing is mediocre. Xbox has never made money. More than a quarter of Windows desktops are still XP. If it weren't for Office, SQL server and Windows Server Microsoft would no longer exist.

  10. The Chinese govt owning all that security on Lenovo Could Take Over RIM · · Score: 1

    I can hear thousands of corporate and government accounts bailing when China and by definition the Chinese government and army get their hand on all the secure data and transmissions that RIM has. BB's are in fact the only handset allowed in many US Federal agencies because of the security. Not anymore.

  11. France is mad it's not a public utility on French Telecom Claims To Have Forced Google To Pay For Traffic · · Score: 1

    What they want is a quasi-nationalized scheme like 70% of of the business in France where they can dole out specific industries to politically connected unions. They did this with rail, autos, electrical power, nuclear and others.

  12. And Beyonce can only sing 3 notes on Scrabble Needs a New Scoring System · · Score: 1

    We need to redefine 'music' as those 3 notes. Oh wait, stop allowing all those crazy bullshit words in Scrabble in the first place. Qi? Really?

  13. Bravo, sir, Bravo on Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing · · Score: 1

    I love stories like this.

  14. So as games become more like real life on The Science of Game Strategy · · Score: 1

    They become less predictable because of the large number variables behaving in increasingly less predictable ways? You mean you've never heard of tertiary and quaternary derivatives?

  15. And which default setting are we talking about? on Remote Linksys 0-Day Root Exploit Uncovered · · Score: 1

    That would have been semi helpful. Some inkling. My WRT110 has a little setting called 'allow remote admin'. I hope we're talking about that non-issue.

  16. Cheaper but not in dividual case on Health Care Providers Failing To Adopt e-Records, Says RAND · · Score: 1

    It might be cheaper to the nation but in each individual medical stand up it's an enormous investment.

  17. Why? it's a fad that's why on Instagram Loses Almost Half Its Daily Users In a Month · · Score: 2

    It was bound to crash. How long does making your picture look like it was taken on a 1969 Instamatic keep being interesting? Especially when everyone is doing it. I mean does anyone think taking picture of yourself in a mirror in your underwear is a business model? Because Instagram is like that.

  18. Re:Nope Nope Nope on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1

    To say nothing of the obligatory shrieking from CNN with a story about how touch screens are going to kill your baby with contact germs and chemicals. You know that's happening.

  19. Luckily there's Sprint! on Smartphones: Life's Remote Control · · Score: 1

    So you're always safe and secure. Sprint's data network is a Fisher-Price fake network that works in maybe 3 cities in America so you're always assured of complete security.

  20. Nope Nope Nope on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My company would rather go to Lenovo or Toshiba and pay them more for custom built machines that have stripped down functionality to give to the drones than hand out laptops that could be perceived as having features that directors and executives have. Like the 'pilot project' we're running for iPads for higher middle managers and executives while Corporate has ALREADY announced that iPads don't meet Corporate security standards.

  21. GO Norway. EVERYONE is a criminal on Norway Tax Auditors Want To Open Source Cash Registers To Combat Fraud · · Score: 0

    I hope they imprison and fine people and THEN worry about the random trial and such, afterwards.

  22. What do you think MSNBC is? on Vietnam Admits Deploying Bloggers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Seriously, are you awake?

  23. A truly disposable phone but the 'activation fee!; on Chinese Smartphone Invasion Begins · · Score: 1

    A $5 phone that lasts about 3 months and then I can bring it in get another one. The key problem isn't the phone it's the 'activation fees' they charge. The upside though is that finally Sprint would get a garbage phone as terrible as their service.

  24. Re:Google isn't a public utility on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 1

    So in Europe when you buy a cell phone is the vendor required to push every other brand at you particularly the ones they don't sell in the name of fairness? How about when you buy an airline ticket? Is the airline required to highlight all the OTHER airlines tickets ahead oi their own? If yes then that's fine.

  25. All service providers have these covenants on GM CIO Says HP Hiring Probe "Not the Best Use Our Legal System" · · Score: 1

    Because it's a conflict of interest to bid on a deal for a customer and then 'magically' go to work for them. It smacks of a payoff.